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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:some people are really deluded about how capitalism works yeah that is super obvious here in the big middle flat part of the country when I was tending bar a regular was complaining about their retail job, about how so-and-so and whats-his-face did barely anything and they kept having to do all the work- but they blamed it on Obama and Millenials making the country more like communist Russia because "everyone gets paid exactly the same and so therefore no one works" = "socialism" in their minds thankfully thats not really a thing with most of the under-50s
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Bodyholes posted:Having worked in research in the public as well as private sector, I would take public 9 times out of 10 even with the lower pay. Same here. The DOE labs kick rear end for being chill as it can get while still working with dangerous poo poo.
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I make my own gamer goo
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I wouldn't mind putting my hand on that maid's tail if you know what I mean, yowza! 
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Boy if they think we're in the dystopian future already then they better buckle their seat belts!
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SpacePig posted:I imagine profit margins on sugar pills with a one in a million chance of having a single atom of the "active ingredient" in each box are through the roof. And just because research suggests they don't work doesn't mean they can't. I wonder if they even bother to do the "dilution" thing or it's just straight up sugar that's never even come into contact with hyper-diluted water with essence of duck liver or w/e. I mean it's not like anyone's ever going to check.
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ate all the Oreos posted:I wonder if they even bother to do the "dilution" thing or it's just straight up sugar that's never even come into contact with hyper-diluted water with essence of duck liver or w/e. I mean it's not like anyone's ever going to check. Can I sell regular sugar with a label that says it has all effects of Oscillococcinum for a fraction of the price? I doubt the company that produces sugar pills would want to dispute my claims in court.
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I love these arguments that somehow allowing price gouging would make people truck in more supplies in... the middle of a hurricane. They're always made by people who have clearly never actually experienced a natural disaster. If you've never been through a hurricane you might not fully grasp how everything society is built on shuts down for a day or two. All the electricity is preemptively shut off to most places, if you call 911 they tell you to stay in place and wait it out because emergency services aren't available until the storm's over, gently caress you can't even cross a lot of larger bridges since they're barricaded to keep people from getting blown off them. But no, clearly if we let gas go up to $10 a gallon it means people will R&D up some amphibious mad max gas tanker trucks for that sweet sweet chance of making a tiny profit off the few people left who haven't evacuated.
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Paladinus posted:Can I sell regular sugar with a label that says it has all effects of Oscillococcinum for a fraction of the price? I doubt the company that produces sugar pills would want to dispute my claims in court. I mean they seem like the sort of company that has good lawyers that are very good at staying just on the right side of the law and they'd probably scientology your rear end real hard
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You know what else would let people truck in supplies? A government
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steinrokkan posted:You know what else would let people truck in supplies? A government I mean they actually do their best to prevent people from being on the roads in any form and it's a crime to drive for non-absolute-emergency reasons, not that anyone will be there to stop you. However they definitely do get people to truck in supplies as soon as it's safe, and so price gouging usually can only happen in this tiny window right before a storm and right after it before the supplies start re-entering an area, which is why this free market solution is super ridiculous to me. They think there's gonna be some industry that pops up that requires massive capital investment to buy some sort of fuckin' stormproof amphibious vehicles to take advantage of the small amount of people who didn't evacuate and need help in this tiny sliver of time when normal methods can't help them.
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E: I see I guess it's time for Elon's iPod submarine to save people from hurricanes
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Governments don't get their money from taxes hth
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:a friend and i worked for a drywall company on a major job site. every other trade was unionized and made far more money with benefits. i told my friend I was considering joining the ibew but he was super opposed. according to him "unions make everyone get paid the same. if i work really hard then how will i get a raise?" I can draw you these here three lines on a napkin to show how unions are bad (literal quote from a Macroecon "professor" I had)
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caps on caps on caps posted:I can draw you these here three lines on a napkin to show how unions are bad I have no idea what this is referencing.
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Miftan posted:I have no idea what this is referencing.  Increase price? Decrease demand! Decrease price? Increased demand! Econ 101, so easy!
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if you don't like capitalism you need to Study Basic Economics™
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Miftan posted:Governments don't get their money from taxes hth Who gets/spends our tax money?
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Accretionist posted:Probably this one: we wouldnt want to lower the supply of low paying lovely jobs now would we
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Careful. If you're not profitable to a capitalist, you live in an alley and eat out of the trash.
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also there is a minimum number of workers a company needs so why would they hire more or fewer than that number regardless of the price of labor?
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:also there is a minimum number of workers a company needs so why would they hire more or fewer than that number regardless of the price of labor? Because shut up
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Accretionist posted:Probably this one: so if there are 1000 candy bars, the manufacturer will pay me $1.60 apiece to take them?
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:also there is a minimum number of workers a company needs so why would they hire more or fewer than that number regardless of the price of labor? it’s like when you buy an extra bottle of wine because the store is running a special. employers make their hiring decisions That Same Way
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Senor Dog posted:it’s like when you buy an extra bottle of wine because the store is running a special. employers make their hiring decisions That Same Way I buy an extra bottle of wine because capitalism is a two bottle problem
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Accretionist posted:Careful. If you're not profitable to a capitalist, you live in an alley and eat out of the trash. DID YOU PAY FOR THAT GARBAGE YOU loving PARASITE?! I DON'T RECALL YOU DOWNLOADING THE APP AND CHECKING IN, YOU KNOW THE RULES, GET OUT OF MY SHARED ALLEYSPACE UNTIL YOU SCRAPE UP SOME CAPITAL YOU WORTHLESS MAGGOT.
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:I buy an extra bottle of wine because capitalism is a two bottle problem
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:I buy an extra bottle of wine because capitalism is a two bottle problem same but my drinking problem
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:I buy an extra bottle of wine because capitalism is a two bottle problem
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:I buy an extra bottle of wine because capitalism is a two bottle problem Sherlock’s lesser-known brother Merlot Holmes
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 Homeless chic.
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That same shoe is hanging over by the gas station on power lines nice
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elmer chud posted:
whoever buys this poo poo should be institutionalized
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DACK FAYDEN posted:nobody has yet solved the three bottle problem I'd hope that they could sleep at that poin
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elmer chud posted:
I thought “derélict” was a parody
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Outrail posted:Who gets/spends our tax money? Sorry I should rephrase. The government does get your tax money, but it's not nearly where the bulk of their spending money comes from - that comes from central bank loans the governments takes out. The main purpose of tax afaik is to get money out of the economy so nobody can hoard it (lol) because hoarding is bad for the economy
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Americans need a huge extreme military in case Russia invades them and so they can keep the middle east destabilized forever and ever
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not a cult posted:whoever buys this poo poo should be institutionalized shoes are one of the things that reveals most about someone's financial status, that, and teeth this pair of shoes i regard as camouflage for predators
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We need to spend trillions on military tech instead of our people in case the aliens come or if the like, I dunno, italians get naughty? Who gives a poo poo shut the gently caress up, 15% of the federal budget will go to designing tanks that we'll never use
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