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if I buy a chocolate bar am I now a taxpayer? is that what people mean when they refer to a class of people as "taxpayer"?
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Dec 9, 2019 04:09
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they mean "property owners" usually, but depending on how hard up they are for approval they may expand that to anyone paying income tax
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Dec 9, 2019 04:10
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taxpayer is just the discursive opposite of welfare queen once you realize that there's no such thing as a welfare queen in real life then you realize everyone is a taxpayer
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Dec 9, 2019 04:18
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I hate "working class" for the same reason. It sounds like a bunch of good ol hardworking blue collar boys, but is usually deployed to include every rich person who's not literally living off a trust fund and exclude the poorest who are a step below working class (evidently because they don't work hard enough)
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Dec 9, 2019 04:33
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fisting by many posted:I hate "working class" for the same reason. It sounds like a bunch of good ol hardworking blue collar boys, but is usually deployed to include every rich person who's not literally living off a trust fund and exclude the poorest who are a step below working class (evidently because they don't work hard enough) buddy we only have two classes in canada, the middle class and those working hard to join the middle class
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Dec 9, 2019 04:38
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they wouldn't want to join us if they knew we only had $6500 left per year after meeting literally every need we have and also just about every material desire. this poo poo sucks.
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vyelkin posted:taxpayer is just the discursive opposite of welfare queen It recasts the relationship to the start as transactional. The taxpayer/welfare queen dichotomy sets up the idea that some people have earned the favour of the state while others have not. More fundamental to that, however, is that transactional model obviates any role the state may have as a guarantor of rights or dignity. This is to say that one of the points of talking about people as "taxpayers" is you're no longer talking about them as "citizens."
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Dec 9, 2019 08:16
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vyelkin posted:taxpayer is just the discursive opposite of welfare queen I’m on welfare but I pay taxes what does that make me
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Dec 9, 2019 09:57
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Every time I try to pay taxes they just get thrown right back at my face by the government. Please Sirs I want to join the lauded taxpayer class
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Arivia posted:I’m on welfare but I pay taxes what does that make me very confused
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Hand Knit posted:It recasts the relationship to the start as transactional. The taxpayer/welfare queen dichotomy sets up the idea that some people have earned the favour of the state while others have not. More fundamental to that, however, is that transactional model obviates any role the state may have as a guarantor of rights or dignity. This is to say that one of the points of talking about people as "taxpayers" is you're no longer talking about them as "citizens." It's also a way to use nicer language for the "striver/skiver" discursive divide that conservatives love (that's the language David Cameron used for it in the UK one election and I think it's the clearest demonstration of it). The idea is that material conditions don't matter, circumstances don't matter, and systemic advantage or disadvantage don't matter, the biggest divide is between people who just inherently want to work hard and succeed and get ahead and people who just inherently want to sponge off others and get stuff for free, and so policy should be built around rewarding the strivers and punishing the skivers as a way to force them into working against their will. That's why you cut the welfare state, that's why you cut taxes, that's why you appeal to hard-working "taxpayers" and try to cut their taxes, because the taxes are just going to feed the skivers anyway. It doesn't just recast the taxation relationships as transactional, it recasts the entire role of the state in wealth redistribution as fundamentally immoral because it's taking from working people to give to those who don't want to work. Needless to say this is all bullshit. Skivers basically don't exist and almost every example of someone supposedly skiving or gaming the system is either coming from a source that doesn't actually understand what life is like in poverty (e.g., every conservative complaining about poor people having smartphones as if a smartphone wasn't a necessity for life and work in the 21st century--try being a poor person and getting a job without one) or is such an anomaly that it's more efficient to behave as if the anomaly doesn't exist than to try and combat it (e.g., it being cheaper to just give welfare to everyone with no checks than to pay people to fight welfare fraud, because the cost of employing the bureaucrats to do the checks is more expensive than the cost of fraudulent welfare claims). But it's a really appealing and therefore really effective and therefore really poisonous discourse because everyone thinks they work hard and everyone knows they pay taxes because they see the deductions on their paycheque and they pay the sales taxes on things they buy and so on. So in this discursive framework every single person imagines themselves as the taxpayer/striver and whoever their most hated Other is becomes the welfare queen/skiver, which is how you see the exact same tropes about welfare queen skivers deployed in Canada to talk about indigenous people, in the US to talk about black people, in Mexico to talk about the southern poor, in Europe to talk about refugees, and so on, and so on, and so on.
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Dec 9, 2019 14:56
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all the fun of racism, none of the baggage
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upgunned shitpost posted:all the fun of racism, none of the baggage What are you talking about, I just got my Chanel luggage subsidized through Ontario Works
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https://twitter.com/ChalicothereX/status/1196648623347339264 https://twitter.com/ChalicothereX/status/1203396035323629569
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Dec 10, 2019 06:08
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man the Target canadian expansion was so inept it’s pretty incredible.
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Dec 10, 2019 06:37
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I want to believe. i want to believe it's real. I want to believe young Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg was pulling all nighters to patch together that absolute shambles and make it look good. and at the end was like: 'lol guys sorry we almost didn't have it ready in time, anyway here you go. target canada makes total business sense!' I WANT TO BELIEVE Juul-Whip has issued a correction as of 06:42 on Dec 10, 2019 |
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Dec 10, 2019 06:40
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i mean, either that or he was taking bread out of the mouths of poor Canadians. choose your own galactic brain Pete Bootyjudge adventure that makes you want to jump in front of a semi (& other ppl wish you would too)
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Dec 10, 2019 06:55
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the cuts they made to legal aid in ontario were pretty brutal for the people I know who relied on it, I can't imagine how bad the cuts they were planning to make would have affected things.
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Dec 10, 2019 09:12
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priznat posted:man the Target canadian expansion was so inept it’s pretty incredible. https://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/what-really-happened-at-target-canada-the-retailers-last-days/ this is an incredible read about how horribly inept business people can be sometimes
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mckinsey was not involved in target canada, but their hands are all over loblaws
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DariusLikewise posted:https://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/what-really-happened-at-target-canada-the-retailers-last-days/ it actually kind of pisses me off how the assumption seemed to be that canadian customers would just suck it up and be thankful for whatever garbage service they provided. It would have been nice to have had some actual competition to walmart and crappy tire but oh well.
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hmm... there's no direct canadian equivalent to our brand, so i know, let's completely undercut the one and only differentiating factor we have and instead aim to be zellers 2.0 we know how well they did because we're opening all our stores in their old locations
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infernal machines posted:hmm... there's no direct canadian equivalent to our brand, so i know, let's completely undercut the one and only differentiating factor we have and instead aim to be zellers 2.0 lmao hilariously accurate I’ve only been to Target a couple times in the states but they seemed nice, good prices with a bit of flair and well kept stores. we’ll never get anything like that now 
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Dec 10, 2019 17:49
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it owns that the gold standard system of accounting, data and inventory, SAP, can take two decades and several failed attempts to implement properly and never actually works properly. technology improving our lives and making things easier is the biggest scam of our lifetime
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Dec 10, 2019 18:44
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Dec 10, 2019 18:55
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every corporation ive worked for has had some weird mishmash of poo poo systems that they are terrified to move on from because everything is based on ancient terminal databases somewhere that no one knows how it actually works anymore. love to be in 2019 and still be using terminal emulators to run trains
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Dec 10, 2019 19:02
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basically that poo poo works and the only consideration is how to access those 30 year old systems with something modern. everything winds up being a hacky cludge, but if the alternative is another phoenix, well, yeah trying to rebuild from scratch a system with 30 years of fixes and iterative improvements is a very very expensive proposition, and people tend to seriously underestimate the amount of work involved.
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Dec 10, 2019 19:03
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i will say, i actually prefer the design and simplicity of most terminal and dos software. all the 'modern' corporate software ive used is clicking through endless loving windows where i can have like 12 things open at a time to complete one simple task
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Dec 10, 2019 19:14
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Dec 10, 2019 19:16
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pokeyman posted:if I buy a chocolate bar am I now a taxpayer? is that what people mean when they refer to a class of people as "taxpayer"? some people think I buy too many chocolate bars or I don’t pay my taxes
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you gotta be a special kind of ceo to suck harder than the dude who ran saan.
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DariusLikewise posted:i will say, i actually prefer the design and simplicity of most terminal and dos software. all the 'modern' corporate software ive used is clicking through endless loving windows where i can have like 12 things open at a time to complete one simple task that's the thing, those terminal interfaces are actually pretty streamlined and it takes a lot of thought and consideration to build a GUI equivalent without just making GBS threads check boxes and form fields all over the place, and absolutely no enterprise software ever does this
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Dec 10, 2019 19:32
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I miss CLI based software and Zellers.
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Dec 10, 2019 20:29
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:layers on layers. but my favourite part is “we are known for low prices. we don’t know why Canadians were expecting we would have low prices in our Canadian stores” real brain trust headscratcher there also gently caress you target yeah lovely prices on nonexistent merchandise was quite the biz plan. I worked in an office that was right next to the regional HQ for Target Canada and it was really lovely to see all these people lose their jobs due to constant fuckups by the higher ups until the inevitable throwing up of the hands and saying “welp I guess this market isn’t for us!”
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NumbersMatching320 posted:I miss CLI based software and Zellers. Boy do i have the store for you. Army and Navy department stores still exist in calgary, and resemble a 90s run down zellers store, right down to the smell of the disgusting cafeteria, even though there is no cafeteria in them.  Is this picture from 2019 or 1993? who knows!
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Powershift posted:
amazing truly you are blessed. it's like a biway with better lighting
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Powershift posted:
1993. the Army Navy close to me is half that full.
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