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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago
[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, they all suffer from affluenza ok, it's a totally legit thing that allows them the freedom to roofy! /s because of poes law

[-] qualia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Poe's Law: originating from the term "Poorly Constrained* (cf: Poe Ly) which is a technical term used in physics, engineering, and mathematics for a system where there are more variables than available data points, making a single definitive solution impossible.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] qualia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Was using the real definition to generate my definition.

To clarify: Mine's fake in keeping with the concept of Poe's Law, self referentially.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

And my definition is also real

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Both of these things are new to me

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

As I like to say, every day is a school day!

[-] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Brayden, Kayden, Jayden, Hayden, and Blake

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You need a Sean in there

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Preston Popcollar is the one who took the photo.

[-] binarytobis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Kinda related: At some point I realized inflation is actually kinda good when you have no assets and large debt, because it effectively shrinks your debt. The problem is, I only thought about it well after paying off my debts and gaining some assets, so now I feel like the guys in the pic if I talk about it.

[-] pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

This math only maths if your income keeps pace with inflation. Otherwise you're getting priced out of living. Even if in relative terms your debt is shrinking, that doesn't make you better off on its own.

[-] binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, that’s where the kinda comes in. From experience, when you’ve got that much debt you tend to lowkey want to watch the world burn, so you’ve got that going too.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

... and just like that, you figured out what the FED is for, and that our world economy is based on debt, with inflation used to defraud the hordes of workers from adequate wages.

Once the inflationary economy crashes, banks buy up those previously inflated assets at rock-bottom prices, and the process begins anew.

[-] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

“It’ll make costs go up! It’ll cause inflation! It’ll cause a wage price spiral!”

NEWS FLASH! minimum wage hasn’t risen for over a decade and yet prices have risen faster than they did when we did raise minimum wage. Almost like, cheap minimum wages allows for more capital consolidation, and that in turn makes it easier for cartels, oligopolies and monopolies to form to enforce larger margins on low elasticity goods.

[-] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Got that first up against the wall when the revolution comes typa rizz

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Share and Enjoy ---> Go Stick Your Head in a Pig

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My hot take: Greedy rich companies and millionaires and billionaires will always try to take as much as possible from the consumer. Raising the minimum wage effects people that were making the minimum wage, and is less and less beneficial to those that were making more than minimum wage. If minimum wage jumped up by $5 to go from $7.25 to $12.25, anyone who was already making $12.25 isn't likely to get a raise to $17.25.

But because all these people are making more, the wealthy will up pricing of food and housing and utilities in order to keep making even more. This means inflation also rises faster. So while it helps things in the short term, it does nothing to help people in the long term, and it also hurts people closer to or already retired because the inflation will make their fixed incomes worth less.

So raising the minimum wage alone is a shit idea that only puts a short term bandage on things and the rising inflation means you'll constantly be "behind the eight-ball" and playing catch-up to keep trying to raise it as inflation keeps rising because the rich keep getting richer.

The real fix needs to be lowering the top. Not raising the bottom. Tax the shit out of the wealthy with higher taxes as money made grows. Close the tax loopholes that let them hoard wealth. Make it so that so much of their money beyond like $5,000,000 in cash or assets increasing in value a year would be pointless to try and make because it would all just go to taxes. This will cut the legs out from under the wealthy and stop the needless ripping off of everyone else. If they can't hoard money and increase their monetary value infinitely then the money will start going to the places it should. The inflation would stop, and upping the minimum wage could actually keep things livable.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If they can't hoard money and increase their monetary value infinitely, then their business will stop having any reasons to exist in the first place.

Also, many industries are only efficient at scale, and so putting any limit to that is going to hurt the economy (and hence, you) big time.

Capitalism, in any form, has this fundamental trouble where it either rips you, or has no reason to exist. Taxing the hell out of the rich is a step in the right direction, but ultimately even that is not sustainable. We need socialism, as in society/state owning means of production.

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't care about the minimum. I care about the maximum earnings allowed annually.

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Survival Of The Fittest, Bro! Let them fight for scarce resources. /s

[-] Solrac@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's ok. The employees can show them what happens when they don't pay enough for them to live ✨

[-] U7826391786239@piefed.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

remember when 'romphims' were the head-scratching "kids these days..." goofy shit of the day?

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This looks like the cast of Billy Madison 2, all dressed up for nudy magazine day.

[-] Newsteinleo@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why are they all playing with there junk?

[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Making sure it doesn't fall out of their shorts.

[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Aiden, Braiden, Jaiden, Haiden, and Okaiden, the penta-douche.

[-] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

I went to school with the 90s versions- Tucker, Sean, Brad, Brady, Donny, and Clay. Tucker killed someone in a DUI, Brady took over the car dealership, Donny and Brad washed out in their college football efforts and are real estate agents, Clay is 44 and owns a college-age targeted night club he uses to predate on women. Sean turned out to be a decent guy at least.

[-] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Jamie had a chance, well she really did. Instead she dropped out and had a couple of kids. Mark still lives at home cause he's got no job. Just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot.

[-] muxika@piefed.muxika.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

We just need some duct tape, rope, and a windowless van, and we're on Easy Street, fellas!

[-] Francislewwis@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

The confidence doesn’t match the argument at all 😭

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Buncha numpties

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

The a Federal Minimum Wage has been raised twice since 1997, the last time in 2009, for a total of $2.10. It currently stands at $7.25 an hour.

20 states are still at the Federal Minimum Wage, or LESS, with some at $5.15, and Oklahoma as low as $2.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 0 points 2 weeks ago

Oklahoma isn't $2. They don't use finite dollar amounts in their minimum wage law; it's tied to the federal minimum wage.

And Georgia only has the $5.15 for businesses with less than 6 people that don't do interstate commerce.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 0 points 2 weeks ago

There should be no circumstance that $5.15 should be legal.

There should be no circumstance where $7.25 should be legal, either.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 2 weeks ago

I completely agree.

[-] jbellows@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, I'd hang with them. It's the ones with the outfits AND the single unifying hair style that immediately mark them as chads. If you look, there's a guy who's asking himself why he agreed to this, and a dude who thinks this is both the dumbest but funniest thing they've done that week

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