why bail out the companies and not the people?

(/s, i was joking, of course in US companies value more than human life)

fair game IMHO. if you look at china as one big agent, then they can indeed act like that.

and also political dissidents, probably soon. considering that trump doesn’t care about the law, and has actively threatened to do so.

according to trump, all immigration is illegal.

Is it really antisemitic if a billionaire does it? /s

trump’s gonna die in office, one way or another

i don’t see him giving up power

like fear of flowing water

that depends on whether there’s still competence in the grocery market

Farm workers are chronically underpaid. Farm work could be good work if it was half as stressful and paid double.

What we need is a reform of the way that agriculture is done. Instead of relying on migrant workers who have no realistic chance of standing up and demanding a good treatment, the working conditions should be made attractive enough for americans to work there again.

Grocery value didn’t go up. Real wages went down. We should measure inflation based on cost-of-living.

Groceries don’t really get more expensive, because the methods for producing food don’t really get less efficient over time; if anything, it’s more efficient. So there’s no real reason for them to become more expensive.

Instead, wages declined. I’ve already commented many times that the labor market is a free market, that means it’s regulated by Supply and Demand. I.e., if prices for labor go down, as we can observe, then that can be interpreted such that supply of labor went up (women go to work too, offshoring labor to other countries, immigrants, …) or that demand for labor went down (automation, end of growth, …).

I honestly think that both cases are difficult, where the supply of labor could be a bit reduced by kicking out immigrants and home-shoring labor (and also, to a lesser extent, making it more difficult for women to work), which btw some advisers to trump are seemingly trying to do, but my honest opinion is that it won’t bring wages up to how they were in the 1960s. Demand for labor is shrinking too, due to the end of growth and now AI and other automation techniques. I guess we’ll have to face that.

edit: just to offer an optimistic outlook, i think that consumerism and therefore demand for consumer products could be stimulated by simply giving handouts to people. most people will spend most of the handouts immediately, and that stimulates consumerism. and that in turn stimulates the economy.

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these people quote whatever the fuck pleases them today.

the bible literally says to feed the poor and house the homeless and these fucks don’t mention it with a word

it’s literally just a way to manipulate lots of people in whatever way the rulers prefer

I suspect that’s where evolution comes in, as it is a strong driving force that’s pushing us in a direction continuously, so in that sense we evolved a sense of happiness or sadness.

Might become surprisingly relevant as fireworks and other explosives could be used in an attack on ICE vehicles and infrastructure.

actually yes, figuratively is the word that i should have used.

The article is well-written. I wonder how many employees will still be needed in 10+ years from now.

In case you haven’t heard about it, the labor market is regulated by supply and demand. That means, if there’s less demand, but supply stays equal, wages decline. That’s what people experience for the last decades. If this trend continues, demand for human labor might become very weak. That’s why people for one can no longer rely only on the incomes through the labor (wages), but need good safety nets (Universal Basic Income, UBI).

And also, demand for labor is another way of saying “how much are humans needed to perform tasks”. What if humans aren’t needed? Will people be ok with that?

You don’t need much of the things they market to you.

Today i learned i don’t need food …

exactly this. i suspect that in any parallel universe with god, there comes a time of enormous stress right before the eternal paradise that awaits behind it. that is because we have to be waken up, and that can only be done through a rough time.

so, in a certain sense, the current circumstances of long work hours aren’t so much avoidable as it is an unavoidable part of history that we have to go through. As such, “we” are the consciousness that carries us through these difficult times.

be glad you weren’t born on a desolate island surrounded only by sharks and inhabited only by poisonous food

point is, don’t compare yourself to the worst alternative. labor hours spiked around 1800-1900, but were significantly lower before and after that.

feminism: now women can get exploited too