Grand Theft Autobot posted:

It was equally shocking to learn that one of jrod's top thinkers, who candidly speaks about the constitutionality of racial segregation, and who thinks the Confederacy was great and abolitionists were extremist usurpers, is a founding member of the noted white supremacist hate-group The League of the South.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

It is extremely unfair and disingenuous to use such a loaded term as "shooting with guns" to describe a kinetically-applied market correction.

TLM3101 posted:

Same here.

Please be okay, Caros.

jrodefeld posted:

Even John Kenneth Galbraith, no libertarian or fan of gold, had it correct: “In the last [19th] century in the industrial countries there was much uncertainty as to whether a man could get money but very little as to what it would do for him once he had it. In this [20th] century the problem of getting money, though it remains considerable, has diminished. In its place has come a new uncertainty as to what money, however acquired and accumulated, will be worth. Once, to have an income reliably denominated in money was thought…to be very comfortable. Of late, to have a fixed income is to be thought liable to impoverishment that may not be slow. What has happened to money?”

jrodefeld posted:

until they were making $30 an hour or whatever they made as manager.

VitalSigns posted:

Okay the top 6 (upon more thorough checking every single one of the top 10) have universal health care so we should be libertarian like them and do the same right?

And I guess let only the richest executives of the biggest corporations choose the president so we can be number 1 like Hong Kong.

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

Igiari posted:

While Jrod is gone, and as this thread closes, those looking for a fix should just beat up the last boss of Metal Gear Rising over and over

Soviet Commubot posted:

That whole post he made about his "experiences" is just incredibly , especially as he thinks that it's more or less how things go for everyone. That may be true for middle class suburban white people but holy poo poo is it different elsewhere. My family is all rural poor and only a handful of us have ever made more than a dollar or so above minimum wage. My dad, who died several years back due to lack of health insurance or money, spent his whole life as a farmer never netting more than a thousand or so a month in 2015 dollars because he was illiterate and just really not a very smart guy. My mom has been bounced from minimum wage job to minimum wage job her entire life because between raising two children and helping my dad manage our lovely farm she never had any time, money or energy to take any classes in anything, and even if there were any it'd have been at least an hour drive to where they were. My siblings are pretty much all in the same boat, and both of them have been working minimum wage jobs since they were 16. They're all good, hard workers but that doesn't stop them from getting shitcanned every couple of years due to the instability of rural economies and they just don't have the money to pack up and move to a more thriving urban economy to compete with all those workers there for those jobs. Chances are they never will and will literally work in a rural shithole Walmart until they die.


Just look at this. He just assumes that a fast food manager makes $5,000 per month. That's literally more than twice what they make in a best case scenario. For most fast-food workers $5,000 per month might as well be $50,000 per month because they're both unattainable levels of wealth they don't even dare dream of. poo poo like this makes me wish we could somehow force all 18 year olds from middle class families to spend a randomized period of time living on minimum wage at 30 hours a week with no outside assistance or support so they could have some loving degree of perspective.

e: I've been lurking jrod threads for years and he finally got me actually angry instead of just disgusted.

e2: Also, for jrod's benefit, the realization that as bad as my family has had it how much worse it would be if we were black was one of the primary catalysts in my turning away from libertarianism way back when.

Dirk the Average posted:

Yeah, you really need a 4 year degree in a STEM field combined with both luck and work experience in field-relevant work (intern/temp positions) to land a $30+/hour job these days. They exist, but everyone and their mother are competing for them.

archangelwar posted:

Just to be clear here, Jrode believes that a fast food manager makes $62,000+, more than the median household income and nearly twice the median personal income.

E-Tank posted:

Still waiting for OP to explain why we should care about property rights.

Twerkteam Pizza posted:

The fact Caros said this makes me wonder if he is HBomberguy

Literally The Worst posted:

A goon who makes great videos mocking Dork Enlightenment types. Look up A Measured Response to the Sarkeesian Effect on YouTube

Who What Now posted:

^^^^^^
You did. I was in it. Or Paragon1 did, anyway.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYQo6LI3Y7c

Who What Now posted:

I think you should. I'd love to listen a podcast of yours at work.

Actually, speaking of the podcast, would any goons be interested in doing one this coming Sunday?

archangelwar posted:

This is a good point though, as there are many different types of managers especially at McDonald's because of their franchise agreement. Shift managers (depending on the size of staff you might have more than one around at a time) generally make a $1-$3/hour more than a standard employee, store managers (usually only a few per store, open the store and do the bank depositing) can be salaried but make something in the $30k range if they have been there 5+ years. Then you can get into managers that operate more as personal assistants to the franchisee and these can be per store or per store block (or regional). Ultimately these are bookeepers for the franchisee's business as well as coordinators for staff training, introducing new items, etc. They are not "store managers" in any real sense like shift or regular store managers, and these people can make a lot of money (they are to "manager" as accountant is to "cashier").