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unwantedplatypus posted:I feel like people are mincing my words, or otherwise I am. I'm not trying to imply that use of racial epithets is okay, nor am i trying to delegitimize the feelings of others. I'll end this here in the interests of stopping the derail. The lesson is never try (to understand)
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KiteAuraan posted:I care because I don't want my friendly alien buddy dying. Again. just lol if you are not constantly in the EAT CANDY ZONE 
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Cut off the top of the image because who cares. 198 likes... Wonder what job this guy has that makes him work 70+ hours straight.
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Blind Pineapple posted:Cut off the top of the image because who cares. 198 likes... Wonder what job this guy has that makes him work 70+ hours straight. Studies show that this guy is probably not happy, nor is he getting a whole lot of sex these days
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Good God drat it, how about having at least a conversation about preferences and expectations before you marry someone? Want a wife who has a job? Marry someone who works! Don't want a kid? Marry someone who doesn't want kids! Want a husband who helps around home? Don't marry a guy who you met in a poo poo-filled apartment! Love someone enough that you'll marry them despite not having complimentary lifestyles? Then shut the gently caress up and deal with the gaps yourself!
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So this floated past me today.quote:
I found the original, there's a Lone Ranger joke here somewhere. 
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timp posted:Studies show that this guy is probably not happy, nor is he getting a whole lot of sex these days In his defense the only thing you can do after working 70 hours straight is die.
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Ok Fella posted:In his defense the only thing you can do after working 70 hours straight is die. Not so sure about the math but the logic is solid and once you realize that they are just masking inflation which is the real problem, it becomes a wacky and illogical idea.  Dats not fair and I don't think i'm smart enough or qualified enough to determine which businesses should operate under which set of rules but I do believe in general if a minimum wage is bad for small business it can be no better for big business and we do need both small and big business otherwise the cost of every item you ever buy will be through the roof
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Sep 20, 2016 23:10
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milk man lol get out of the 1950s, gramps
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That's like, fractally wrong. Where do you even start with that?
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Not so sure about the math but the logic is solid and once you realize that they are just masking inflation which is the real problem, it becomes a wacky and illogical idea. Agreed. Besides also chugging a gallon of milk a day, I recognize that under the law only one person may be involved with making each gallon.
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Depending on the industry, labor can be a relatively miniscule portion of cost on goods, and outside of like illicit prostitution it's obviously never 100% of it. Not that they won't gently caress labor regardless but raising the hamburger man's wage 50% does not mean the total cost to give you a burger goes up 50%.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Not so sure about the math but the logic is solid and once you realize that they are just masking inflation which is the real problem, it becomes a wacky and illogical idea. Xen Tricks posted:Where do you even start with that? I tried picking a point to at least write something, but wow. That's either willful ignorance, or kindergarten-level understanding of the issue. Also I think that we can all agree that the guy should have stopped here: Lottery of Babylon posted:I don't think i'm smart enough or qualified enough
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Otisburg posted:Depending on the industry, labor can be a relatively miniscule portion of cost on goods, and outside of like illicit prostitution it's obviously never 100% of it. There was a study done, that shows that if minimum wage increases by 10%, cost of food increases by at most 4%, and all other products by 0.4%. It's amazing how many assholes think that increasing minimum wage will destroy the economy and cause hyper-inflation, but I've yet to have found a single case of that ever happening in history.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Not so sure about the math but the logic is solid and once you realize that they are just masking inflation which is the real problem, it becomes a wacky and illogical idea. gently caress, I closed this tab a while ago and opened up Facebook and there it was. (From someone who's never held a job paying over $15/hr. in their life)
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quote:I don't want that raise because then I'll be in a higher tax bracket. TotalLossBrain has a new favorite as of 02:41 on Sep 21, 2016 |
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My favourite spam bots are the ones that refer to you as bONEr
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RNG posted:gently caress, I closed this tab a while ago and opened up Facebook and there it was. (From someone who's never held a job paying over $15/hr. in their life) He's just doing his civic duty to keep the economy stable.
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What's bizarre is that it's always the people making peanuts that spread this poo poo. I have an old classmate whose wife supports his manchild rear end+3 kids working at Starbucks and posted this. I probably make 4x as her alone (not to mention my wife makes another 25% more than I make) and we're all in favor of raising the minimum wage.
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Throwing Turtles posted:So this floated past me today. These people make T-shirts like that for basically everything imaginable and then spam Facebook with targeted ads like that about basically anything related to your interests. I've seen ones for my university, my home country, the country I live in, Breaking Bad, my last name, my football team. The worst thing is I've seen people actually wearing them.
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Panfilo posted:What's bizarre is that it's always the people making peanuts that spread this poo poo. I have an old classmate whose wife supports his manchild rear end+3 kids working at Starbucks and posted this. Honestly the symbol for the GOP needs to be changed to crabs in a bucket, there's really no better metaphor
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Panfilo posted:What's bizarre is that it's always the people making peanuts that spread this poo poo. I have an old classmate whose wife supports his manchild rear end+3 kids working at Starbucks and posted this. The people against minimum wage increases use the higher cost of living argument as a way to convince the people who would benefit most from the increase to vote against it.
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Intoluene posted:The people against minimum wage increases use the higher cost of living argument as a way to convince the people who would benefit most from the increase to vote against it. But it's the people that would benefit the most from minimum wage increases that are the most  about it!
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Panfilo posted:But it's the people that would benefit the most from minimum wage increases that are the most Only because of the bullshit that keeps getting fed to them about trickle down economics.
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The only thing I can think of is the belief that your job and contribution to society is directly proportional to your wage. If you feel like you have a somewhat "important" job that pays relatively little, but then minimum wage goes up and burger flippers make more than you used to, your own job suddenly feels less special. I heard about a company where the CEO raised the starting wage of employees to a more reasonable rate and several employees actually quit over this, feeling like their own work wasn't as highly valued 
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Panfilo posted:What's bizarre is that it's always the people making peanuts that spread this poo poo. I have an old classmate whose wife supports his manchild rear end+3 kids working at Starbucks and posted this. This isn't bizarre. It's 100% by design. People who are at the razor's edge of poverty are the ones who are most vulnerable to the fear that if anything changes in the economic system, they're the ones who will get hosed. The weird cultural combination of beliefs in "trickle-down economics" and the idea that people who aren't rich just haven't worked as hard or wanted it as much as people who are, added to this fear, makes it really easy to persuade people that an increased minimum wage would be bad for them, not good for them. Put it this way: if you're pretty prosperous, your margin of error is pretty wide. If the cost of living goes up, you can probably afford it, even if you might not like it. Someone who's supporting a family of five working at Starbuck probably couldn't. So the people who are arguing that cost of living would go up are threatening your convenience and her survival; it makes a lot of sense that the threat has much more impact on her than on you!
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Panfilo posted:The only thing I can think of is the belief that your job and contribution to society is directly proportional to your wage. If you feel like you have a somewhat "important" job that pays relatively little, but then minimum wage goes up and burger flippers make more than you used to, your own job suddenly feels less special. The worst part about this argument is that those people who feel less special will ALSO receive the raise. That's why it's called minimum wage. If the minimum goes up, anyone who makes less then that, gets bumped up to that amount as well. It drives me crazy when i see those pictures of people saying that Mcdonalds workers don't deserve a raise because X job is so much better and makes less than $15 an hour.
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Baron Corbyn posted:These people make T-shirts like that for basically everything imaginable and then spam Facebook with targeted ads like that about basically anything related to your interests. I've seen ones for my university, my home country, the country I live in, Breaking Bad, my last name, my football team. The worst thing is I've seen people actually wearing them. "It's a [LAST NAME] thing, you wouldn't understand!" and "Just a [HOME STATE] guy/girl living in a [CURRENT STATE] world!" are the worst.
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VoidBurger posted:Boy, everyone's being an IoSM today. I love this analogy because it would have been more appropriate to say a few may give you food poisoning. And I'm sure everyone has gotten food poisoning from something they later kept on eating because poo poo HAPPENS. You don't just give up hamburgers because you got sick from it once. That the problem couldn't be the person making the food and not the food itself. But nooo, dem immigrants takin er lives.
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hissss millennials hisssssssssss http://heatst.com/culture-wars/beyond-a-joke-why-millennials-are-losing-their-sense-of-humor/ quote:“How about this for a novelty product? Obama flip flops. Walking metaphors for his positions. On the right sole we put his early statements, like ‘I will accept public financing,’ or ‘Jerusalem will be 100% Israeli…’ Stick in some of the real wild ones like ‘Nafta benefits all Americans…’”
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Dogfish posted:This isn't bizarre. It's 100% by design. People who are at the razor's edge of poverty are the ones who are most vulnerable to the fear that if anything changes in the economic system, they're the ones who will get hosed. The weird cultural combination of beliefs in "trickle-down economics" and the idea that people who aren't rich just haven't worked as hard or wanted it as much as people who are, added to this fear, makes it really easy to persuade people that an increased minimum wage would be bad for them, not good for them.
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Elblanco posted:The worst part about this argument is that those people who feel less special will ALSO receive the raise. That's why it's called minimum wage. If the minimum goes up, anyone who makes less then that, gets bumped up to that amount as well. It drives me crazy when i see those pictures of people saying that Mcdonalds workers don't deserve a raise because X job is so much better and makes less than $15 an hour. I think this is a big part of some people perpetuating class wars. They'll see certain service jobs and assume these are jobs reserved for the people that didn't have any ambition in life. So the idea that those losers make as much money as they do breaks their brain. Nevermind that they probably have more in common socioeconomically with that McDonald's associate than they'd care to admit.
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One of the big memes is about how EMTs make less than 15. It's pretty much "impossible" to pay the first responder/soldier type jobs what they are "worth" in society at large's eyes, not that in most cases we shouldn't pay a lot of them more. It was pretty eye opening when I realized the special tax-free bonus pay a soldier gets for actively facing combat amounts to what I'd rack up picking up like 10 total hours of overtime in my air conditioned cube farm over the course of that same month.
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What really bothers me about it is the attitude and thought process. "Someone is fighting for more money in their low-paying jobs!" "I only make x dollars, so they shouldn't do that those lazy assholes!" instead of, perhaps: "Hey, maybe I should fight for fairer compensation, too!" Nope. And if they don't feel they deserve fairer compensation to fight for, why bitch about somebody else's paycheck?
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Otisburg posted:One of the big memes is about how EMTs make less than 15. I've noticed several people claim that soldiers actually get like $3 an hour because they're on call 24/7.
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I guess by their bizarro logic, I'm the IOSM: My job has good pay and benefits, therefore I feel everybody should have a job with similar compensation.
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http://imgur.com/gallery/zAyDu Category: "Funny" Facebook friend posted this:  Rain Water sounds like STDH. Raw milk sounds like a good way to get really sick. And of course we should have freedoms to completely destroy a rivers ecosystem for your facebook image album. Because we know you don't fish to feed your family.
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It's almost like we learned in the past that letting everyone kill whatever they wanted was an actual bad idea.  I've been to unlicensed fishing derbies, where a small town will stock its lovely central lake with hundreds of young trout and then invite people out to fish for fun. People are loving savages, they just catch and catch and catch and just discard the still living fish in the grass as they go for another one.
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