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FrozenVent posted:Ships are breeding ground for contagion, to the point where there is an internationally recognized three letters code for “the patient has yellowish feces with a consistency resembling rice water”. that poo poo will run right through a ship (no pun intended)
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the other reason stock buybacks are bad is because the alternatives either get taxed or actually improve the economy
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Jul 21, 2019 16:45
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I am impressed how everybody knows the end of socialism (communism) but don't understand that the end of capitalism is that the legal system is also traded in the free market so that the rich can get richer. I wonder if there's a reality where communists countries are trying to convert to some type of capitalism, but you have dissenters saying that it will lead to a huge wealth gap. colachute fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Jul 21, 2019 |
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Jul 21, 2019 16:59
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$1.1 trillion went into stock buybacks last year.
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colachute posted:I am impressed how everybody knows the end of socialism (communism) but don't understand that the end of capitalism is that the legal system is also traded in the free market so that the rich can get richer. Nah. Usually the true believers got purged as enemies of the state by the authoritarians way before things grind to a halt and they started looking at free market economics.
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MRC48B posted:Nah. Usually the true believers got purged as enemies of the state by the authoritarians way before things grind to a halt and they started looking at free market economics. RIP Trotsky
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:RIP Trotsky Trotsky was an authoritarian. Just ask the Kronstadt sailors to give one example. Plastic_Gargoyle fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Jul 21, 2019 |
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Jul 21, 2019 17:30
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Trotsky was an authoritarian. Trotsky was a counter-revolutionary fuckhead that got what was coming to him.
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Professor Bling posted:Trotsky was a counter-revolutionary fuckhead that got what was coming to him. An axe to the face?
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yeah, just bootstrap bitch
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Jul 21, 2019 18:15
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I struggle to believe that isn't a Photoshop.
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Jul 21, 2019 18:22
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“If I can do it anyone can” has to be taking the piss.
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Dwanyelle posted:I struggle to believe that isn't a Photoshop. It isn't. Google Now (or whatever the screen that gives you scores, news, etc.) keeps serving those to me as I constantly click them and send them to a friend who's dealing with medical and student debt. It is real fun, real fun Like everyone of those articles have either parents running a company, no student debt due to rich family buying a home to live in, parents helping them land 6-figure job straight from college. It is just a plug-n-play of 6 things
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Jul 21, 2019 18:28
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The only way I could see myself quickly paying off my very modest ~50k in student loans (that will be more like 65k when paid off, thanks interest) is to drop my cost of living down to practically zero , AND getting an extremely well paying job. Because if you don't do both of them, you're going to be paying those loving things off for a long time. If you live in the middle of nowhere, marry someone as equally financial frugal as yourself, or have assistance from family it's doable. I live in a high CoL area because I needed it to get a high paying job. Funny how that works. So after I pay off the rest of my credit card debt, the loans are next in line.
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Jul 21, 2019 18:51
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"just live a frugal lifestyle, silly millennial" also, "WHY AREN'T MILLENNIAL'S BUYING THINGS THEY'RE RUINING EVERYTHING"
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Proud Christian Mom posted:"just live a frugal lifestyle, silly millennial" "It's incredible, my house has quadrupled in value since I bought it! Ahh, I love this country." ... "WHY AREN'T MILLENNIALS MOVING OUT AND BUYING HOUSES RAAH MORAL VALUES"
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Dwanyelle posted:I struggle to believe that isn't a Photoshop. "These people who started off rich are still rich, so it's your own fault if you're poor" is definitely a thing in the media. Citations Needed did an episode on it: https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-77-frugality-fables-and-the-poor-shaming-grift-of-financial-advice-journalism
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The real question is are the writers just as oblivious as the rich they write about or are they purposely feeding us horseshit
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A little of both, most likely. Don't forget the publishers, editors and their sponsors all have a hand in it too.
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Eej posted:The real question is are the writers just as oblivious as the rich they write about or are they purposely feeding us horseshit Very everyone in the media is either rich or working for the rich
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU
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Eej posted:The real question is are the writers just as oblivious as the rich they write about or are they purposely feeding us horseshit I would wager nearly every professional columnist at this point isn't relying on their writing for income and survives entirely off inherited wealth.
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Jul 21, 2019 22:50
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I graduated with 20 grand in student loans from a public university. I paid it off within four years. I got lucky because being poor as poo poo growing up gave me a ton of Pell grants and subsidized loans. And yet, I still think all student loan debt should be wiped and public college should be free. 
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Jul 21, 2019 23:00
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the idea of "we had to do this, so you should have to do it too" is so loving toxic
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colachute posted:the idea of "we had to do this, so you should have to do it too" is so loving toxic Yeah, whenever student loan forgiveness hits the national consciousness, I'm always horrified by how strongly my veteran friends come out against it. They did their time and had their degrees paid for by the GI Bill, and they feel as if student loan forgiveness would devalue what they went through to afford university. That's nuts. Crab bucket mentality. Hell yes we should make higher education wholly funded by taxpayers. Once the US military can't use "free" college as a recruiting, they'll be forced to make enlisting suck less in general if they want to keep their numbers.
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colachute posted:the idea of "we had to do this, so you should have to do it too" is so loving toxic My coworkers were whining about that in the context of wiping out other peoples' student loans: "well I paid mine off so where's my money?" For people who spent their 4 years nailing hookers in South Korea they sure do have some weird ideas about how hard they worked to earn their GI Bill. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Jul 21, 2019 |
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Jul 21, 2019 23:20
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Paying off school and/or having free university would in fact have a considerable impact on retention and recruitment. Big Army has basically given up the idea of recruiting out of any places that have a 15 dollar minimum wage, from a readiness perspective anyway. They'll still send recruiters out there to push that stone up the mountain one last time. Perhaps, and I'm just going out on a limb here, we shouldn't use the concept of a free or significantly reduced education (something that the rest of the civilized world has) as a carrot for our armed forces.
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Service guarantees* citizenship! *some restrictions apply
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I'm graduating next May with about $39k in hock to the Dept. of Ed, and I consider that the best case scenario. You don't even need to make college free, just make it low cost. I don't mind paying for college, and I don't even mind taking out loans to pay for it. Just make it cheap enough so that it's actually affordable, not $40k for a bachelors from a state school.
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i probably wouldn't have joined had the gi bill not been a thing
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colachute posted:i probably wouldn't have joined had the gi bill not been a thing As one of the only worthwhile benefits it's nuts when people don't use it. I'm getting two for one out of mine. TA my degree and give my wife two years of GI towards her master's.
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With the cost of tuituon alone the Army paid more for my degree than they paid me while I was in. Add in the living stipend and it just gets bonkers. Still a bullshit late-stage capitalist abomination that needs destroyed along with out health care hellscape of suffering, death and bankruptcy.
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As a fun bonus if you have multiple loans, go look on the FSA website and see how your money is distributed under the default settings. I had a loan for 600-ish dollars (it was a top-up of some other thing, I think) that by default had 8 dollars a month allocated to it. I paid it off over two months when I noticed that.
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Vasudus posted:Paying off school and/or having free university would in fact have a considerable impact on retention and recruitment. Big Army has basically given up the idea of recruiting out of any places that have a 15 dollar minimum wage, from a readiness perspective anyway. They'll still send recruiters out there to push that stone up the mountain one last time. I completely agree, but I think subsidized education was the only thing keeping the modern military from being 100% dominated by incompetent careerists and wannabe fascists. They'd probably need to reinstitute the draft or something to keep a standing army.
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psydude posted:I completely agree, but I think subsidized education was the only thing keeping the modern military from being 100% dominated by incompetent careerists and wannabe fascists. They'd probably need to reinstitute the draft or something to keep a standing army. The military in general would be better if college graduates were randomly drafted into service. It would force new perspectives into the organization that wouldn't otherwise be there and would have a liberalizing effect on it.
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psydude posted:I completely agree, but I think subsidized education was the only thing keeping the modern military from being 100% dominated by incompetent careerists and wannabe fascists. They'd probably need to reinstitute the draft or something to keep a standing army. You'd need a draft to keep the military at current manning level, but that level is far far higher than it needs to be.
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