the i dont care about politics anymore thread

[starkind]

Without consequences for being dead beat parents etc also ppl being idiots and selling out 2 the Chinese you can do that all you want.

Either they get lucky and go in the military or get through college long enough to go be middle management. Eventually AI is going to replace both avenues out of that situation.

And I garantee those kids parents aren't contributing to society in any meaningful way and are likely just some slut for McDs or Walmart.

Sadly tho. A lot of ppl are just rejected from the military or McDonald's itself hit it's quota of 17 yr olds on welfare for kickbacks.

I'm telling u it is fucking bleak and outa control unless you're ready to get into Valhalla. Most ppl don't naturally have what it takes. It's why people are so easily exploited.

[JurisDictum]

Originally Posted by starkind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why are essentially all subcontractors immigrants?

I'm actually very grateful these guys are safer here and have access to work. And I'm not anti-immagrant. I also can't afford megacorps XYZs maintenance subscription services. So when I find a real contractor, they'll usually subcontract. Even like a real trade, like electrician or HV/AC.

Tell me though. Why can't white people afford to do a job like painting a room or edging a flower bed?

People hire immigrants because they work harder for less money. Right now, it's those people. But I expect will be seeing a lot more scenes like this coming up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrMz0SyVqcY

[starkind]

Dante's Peak movie was my only experience with the USGS, that grandmother scene. Yikes.

Honestly, I just see algorithms dispatching big pharmaceuticals to welfare camps and anyone who doesn't own or write those algorithms goes to the camps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past...eep_Space_Nine)

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Applebees was for a generation where working class people had plenty of spending money to blow it on dinning at a place that serves unhealthy cafeteria food. It might hang on awhile but its days are numbered.

me when I read this for real lol

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[Whale biologist]

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That dog has a Mao hat on. It is a bad dog.

Sick endorsement of murder, toots.

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Capitalism in America is very much a system where you need to be able to sell a product or service to the public be able to be self-sufficient

If you can’t, it’s not as much of a question of whether you’ll starve. You won’t, you can get food stamps and go to food banks. It’s much more of a question of: “where you gonna sleep?” And the answer in a lot of cases is gonna be: outside

But the more accommodating you make your social safety nets, the more people you will find using them. Not even going to make any judgement as to how many or what % might be exploiting them who don’t need to be. Simply stating that if you put out food and bird houses out for the birds in the backyard, you gonna get more birds in the backyard

I think unpunishable vagrancy is a 9th circuit thing. Martin Boise.

[JurisDictum]

It's reasonable to point out that the same people that say communism doesn't work are extremely hawkish on China.

If your gonna define communism as "they call themselves that and use Marxist language" -- then you have to explain why the country set to pass the United States is communist -- despite extreme global hostility to their style of government.

I don't call it communism. I don't really think whats going on out there has much to do with what Marx wrote about. And its not because "they did it wrong." It was impossible for them to do it right because you need a highly advanced capitalist society before it even is supposed to work.

[JurisDictum]

To be clear -- the logic of China is they need to do this totalitarian state capitalism style government in order to achieve socialism. Ironically, it will probably make it impossible to get to socialism.

[Whale biologist]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's reasonable to point out that the same people that say communism doesn't work are extremely hawkish on China.

If your gonna define communism as "they call themselves that and use Marxist language" -- then you have to explain why the country set to pass the United States is communist -- despite extreme global hostility to their style of government.

I don't call it communism. I don't really think whats going on out there has much to do with what Marx wrote about. And its not because "they did it wrong." It was impossible for them to do it right because you need a highly advanced capitalist society before it even is supposed to work.

I think they liberalized their economy a bunch of years ago with "special economic zones". It once was just Hong Kong but now there's like 30 of them and they all get to taste the boot. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[JurisDictum]

Restaurants' Fragile Recovery Is Fizzling in the. U.S
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The industry is raising the alarm. Its main lobbying group this week called on Congress for more aid to help meet payroll and pay down debt, citing a survey showing that a majority of restaurant operators have seen business conditions deteriorate in the past three months. Like many companies around the world, food-service firms are also hit by supply-chain bottlenecks.

Underscoring the surge in expenses, a closely watched price gauge hit its highest since 1991 in August, driven by energy and food, the Commerce Department said Friday.
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“Our kitchen labor costs are up 20%, maybe more,” said Jeff Katz, partner at Crown Shy and Saga in New York City. “The question is, how much more can the customer handle. We haven’t raised our prices yet, but these costs are real.”

The rebound has been shaky and uneven across the country, even for national chains.

Darden Restaurants Inc., which has about 870 Olive Garden locations, said last week that sales bounced back slightly in September after falling off in August. Georgia and Florida have seen pressure from the delta variant in recent weeks, Chief Executive Officer Gene Lee said on a conference call. But California locations are getting better.

Large public-traded companies including Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. and McDonald’s Corp. are scheduled to report quarterly earnings in October. While the recovery in fast food has been stronger, with brisk sales via drive-thru and takeout options, costs and the lack of workers are eating into profitability.
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“The biggest headwind is pure availability of labor,” said Credit Suisse analyst Lauren Silberman. “That’s all weighing on margins.”

Socialism for the well off. Rugged individualism for everyone else.

Remember like a few months ago when everyone was all about "well this is a crisis so we have to spend money." It was literally the day after Trump lost that Fox turned on the dime and started talking about the debt again.

This connected. You continually bail out industries and expect people to respect of the sanctity of a balanced budget. They clearly don't think its going to cause all the bad things they are claiming it will -- or they would stop doing this.

Edit: One of the problems with an economy like the United States -- is it makes controlling expenses a very lazy endevor. When business is used to leaning on wage cuts -- they end up with no ability to increase profitability of the company once they can no longer do this. Somehow McDonald's is doing fine in Denmark with a minimum wage of $20 (and probably pays into healthcare). A Big Mac is like $1 more in Denmark.

[starkind]

Our government is literally bailing out monopolies and slave holders and destroying free enterprise and rugged individuals.

I don't know what is more communist.