Robots. That's how.
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Oh hey princess privilege has an opinion on the poors.
America is just a big giant corporation, and a lot of citizens are those useless and heartless fucking bosses who would let you go no matter what happens to you after, just go die on the streets. They don't care, you're gone. I hate this shit
My job was basically deleted because I missed an email. That kinda crap shouldn't be legal.
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Nice now do landlords
Didn't even explain. Keep them struggling just because.
Someone play Devil's Advocate and give us a workable argument for a society where people can't live off any single job. I'm not one to shy away from arguments and perspectives I don't agree with. It's important to understand both sides.
A "functional" society is not the same thing as a society worth living in or supporting.
Corporatism with wage slaves working 80 hours a week in the most productive period of human history ever is functional, in that people are deliberately kept alive and productive as long as they don't get too uppity.
Sure, this makes the upper class obscenely wealthy at the cost of everyone else, but it does technically work. Lines do go up.
Just not the lines that should go up.
Devil's advocate argument... (I'm so going to get down voted for this)
It's simple math (on paper) you perform labor and split the value generated by said labor (not equally) with your employer. The value your labor provides isn't determined by your employer or people saying it should provide a living wage, but instead by the market (people buying or not). So if nobody is willing to pay $20 a cone so you can have that living wage then the market says it doesn't want to provide a living wage in exchange for that specific labor.
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I don’t think anyone says that the DQ person needs to be able to afford a standard of living that’s luxurious, but what they’re saying is that everyone needs to be able to afford basic necessities (shelter, food, healthcare, education etc.).
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So what she’s saying is that taxpayers should subsidize dairy queen, fast food, Walmart, etc?
Now what are the chances that this lovely lady supports a robust social safety net so that people can be paid too little to live?
It seems like a typical conservative viewpoint - complain and deny every possible solution. In fact, deny the problem exists. Why care about the suffering of unknown unseen people if ignoring it makes your taxes 3% lower?
And I think that is being generous, assuming that the cruelty isn’t the point. That’s not a given.
Then she complains that her medicare never covers anything.
I mean the answer is in the pudding, it’s just the quiet part
slaves
Bring back public beatings