MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
Haha yeah sorry I was struggling to convey that properly. US American here.
Like, after the paycheck comes in, and we pay all the bills, yeah having some 1000’s just left over to decide what to do with would be quite cushy.
We’re a couple that both work decently paying part times. Living with family makes that possible, but unavoidable debts (and climbing insurance rates) the last few years balanced it out.
So I mean, we live comfortably and we’re materially content. But also times are really scary where another 2008 could hit us real bad.
So it’s still weird imagining people just having lots of padding floating around. Lol
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
Which is still, just insane to think about.
Like holy crap I can hardly imagine seeing 4 dollar-digits of liquidity in my account. In my lifetime, and I think I work hard in a role in society like anybody else.
Something like that would require the most unlikely of windfalls. To think there’s people out there, somewhat “commonly”, going “Hmmm yerrs, let’s put $20k into these stonks. Indeeed…”
…and then they go on and start businesses with “risk” (but not much, proportionally) and then publish books about “quitting the rat race and following your dreams.”
And they might be a few zip codes away. It’s nuts to me. Incomprehensible, really. Just…damn.
I don’t wanna be rich, that sounds awful. I just wanna stop forever bracing against the next inevitable-but-untimeable calamity that threatens to throw us all out on the street.
- Comment on We work 40+ hours a week and they tell us we can’t afford insulin for our neighbors, but we can always afford another war 1 week ago:
I unironically recommend watching the gripping horror/drama that is “The Pitt” to understand how ERs work in the United States.
- Comment on The conservatives are calling basic Progressive policies "Communist". 3 weeks ago:
And drama queens.
- Comment on Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI - Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists 4 weeks ago:
Seriously though what grads are looking at any prospects besides bullshit-slinging MBAs, MAYBE some kinds of lawyers?
This economy isn’t even hiring nurses and IT people anymore. That’s when you know things are insane.
What, is everyone supposed to just be a senior engineer or neurosurgeon as their first job now, because AI allgedly took every rung on the ladder below?
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
Appreciate your perspective! Thank you so much for the reply! :)
- Comment on wiki workers united! 1 month ago:
Woah, this is a huge victory! That’s awesome!!!
- Comment on If you were looking for one image that explains the american economy, this would be it 1 month ago:
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
Whoops, I meant mint the cell service, but OpenSUSE mentioned let’s GOOOO!!! :D
Been hearing a ton about Cachy, gotta check it out! I’m trying to figure out a solid distro to put my less-techy gamers in the family on. It’s likely between Cachy or OpenSuse…slowroll or leap is the question. 🤔
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
And your entire civilization hasn’t collapsed from the weight of fairly paying all those unwashed workers?!?!? Absolutely shocking. Somebody should tell our policy people! They’ll be thrilled at this news! /s
Sincerely, happy for you though lol.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
And with how fast they’ve ramped up inflation doing as much stupid shit as possible, what should it be now, like, $47.70 or something? Lol
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
I agree. I’m on Mint getting like 2GB a month and never reach that because I barely use this stupid rectangle off WiFi.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
I’ll venture a guess: I’d personally define it as so called “gainful employment”, as in, if you’re not blowing all your money frivelously, you should be making enough to reasonably sandbag against disaster or improve your own circumstances by saving.
But everything sure is upside down. Assuming somebody makes enough to get by comfortably, savings accounts don’t outpace inflation, so if you don’t want your hard earned money decaying year over year (and faster, lately!) this forces you to put your money into the stock market, which is a whole complicated game with esoteric rules and a high possibility that your deposit might be worth way less if you need to pull that money.
So I guess “getting ahead” can be: “Still coming out relatively positive after various powerful and interested parties have coerced our funds into their pockets.”
- Comment on Dana White isn’t a fan of college athletes getting paid: “It’s a problem. Money ruins everything” 1 month ago:
Well, and university funding…which is used to fund the sports again.
- Comment on Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections 1 month ago:
They probably see this as “culling the weak.”
Eventually they’ll have a workforce working for pennies on the dollar that can withstand high temperatures and don’t mind skipping breaks or something.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 1 month ago:
For us that just means putting 3 to 5 lbs of loose change in a thick sock. =\
- Comment on The uber wealthy arent leaving. Its a lie. 1 month ago:
Dammit, how are we gonna run them off now?! Lol
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 1 month ago:
It feels like the worst parts of Las Vegas and “Big Box Retail.” Everything is being parted out to private equity, and it’s not for us people (or even U.S people) anymore.
I use Vegas as an example because all of the fun family-ish attractions and locals’ incentives have all but been eradicated, replaced with celebrity-DJ’d highrise night/day clubs and luxury shopping that seem to pander to the most egregious ends of wealthy foreign money. (Probably where a lot of shady deals go down, too.)
The other end is conventions, of course. If you wanna woo a guy who knows a guy to give
youyour boss’s boss’s boss a government contract for kill-drones, it probably happens here.The majority of residents’ place in this new structure is as servants, hawking luxury goods and experiences they themselves couldn’t possibly hope to attain because they’re actively shut out.
Feels like the entire country is following this ruinous pattern.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 month ago:
The purposes they will be used for against the poor who will never be able to afford or control one.
I dunno, we might end up seeing them become commonplace. They’ll be on an “affordable” monthly loan perhaps, but you’re right, it would be like having a snitch and a cop in every home. That’s the only reason it’d be subsidized.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Ya got the lanky one, and ya got the stout one 1 month ago:
That top one would 100% freak most of us out big time if you caught it on an IR trail cam.
Let’s make a little deer skull hat for it one night just to keep the
horrormysterious wonder alive. XD - Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
“Heehee what rules? In this market you gotta move fast and hurt people!”
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 1 month ago:
That’s awful! :(
We’re pulling for you guys! Anyone will a brain here in the U.S looks up to and admires how fiercely the French people defend their rights. You don’t roll over and let the suits do as they please.
Please keep being that shining example to us all! The world is very dark for the working person right now. We need you!
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité! ✊🇫🇷
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 months ago:
Precisely!
It’s so weird how the “Communism is when the government gives people stuff” crowd just so happens to be concentrated in places where, were the surrounding states and federal government to stop subsidizing public services or industries or funding, they’d be almost completely destitute over night.
Like you said, it just wouldn’t be worth it to private interests to reach an already-poorer population in the middle of nowhere with services like hospitals, shipping, or telecom.
I really wish they could understand this. Not in a “See what we do for you?” kind of way, but more like “See? Things are actually better when we’re working together with government to take care of each other.” Kind of way…
If they succeed and all those benefits get pulled in favor of private parasites, they’ll be even poorer, even angrier, and still blame the Democrats.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 months ago:
It kinda feels like our postal service in the U.S.
They defund it, then complain about it, then start ranting that it “Doesn’t even make a profit” even though the whole point is that it’s supposed to be an affordable and accessible mail service.
They’re even doing the same thing with schools. The entire conservo-righty playbook anymore is to get rid of our public services so they and their rich buddies have more to gain at our expense.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 2 months ago:
- Comment on corporate America just posted record profits this week. The stock market is at all time highs. If your paycheck didn't do the exact same thing, take a wild guess why. Their record margins are literal… 2 months ago:
Since 2008 I’d be guessing, honestly.
…or the dotcom boom…
Or like the 80’s…
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
In an ideal scenario, other countries would see our prosperous age after taxing our billionaires, and they’d want some of that sweet stuff so they’d do the same.
All the billionaires would have to fairly pay back for the value people provided to make them so rich, or retreat to some uninhabited island somewhere.
Either way we’d totally win lol.
Then again, as an aside, did you know if you’re a U.S citizen and leave the U.S you’re still subject to income tax abroad? Isn’t that interesting?
I seriously wonder if all these asshats would actually revoke their citizenship en masse to avoid taxes.
…and then even if they did, we’d be rid of them so society would start to balance out again…
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
Lol right? Like seeing a kid getting beat up by a bully with an obvious born-with advantage and being like “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU SPECIFICALLY ASKED FOR THIS THO! YOU’RE SO STUPID AND AWFUL, KID!”
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
Or if that majority is powerless to do anything, then they should cry out that america is not democracy so loudly that other countrys couldnt ignore it,
Ok. And then what?
