MasterBlaster
@MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 2 days ago:
uhhh… lol? ooookklaayyyy, fella. have a day.
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 4 days ago:
Seems like rage bait to me. But I will say I’m a senior software engineer. Many people in my age group whom I know have been using computers since high school.
Less pay rings true - doesn’t mean that they can do it as well.
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 1 week ago:
Well done. Let’s see if it shuts him up.
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 1 week ago:
stop engging. he’s not interested in it. he is just arguing to get a rise. we have dropped enough evidence here for other people to see the truth if they care to look.
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 1 week ago:
that straw man you set on fire is nice and warm.
Only a moron or a dishonest debater would look back and not acknowledge the destruction of millions of steel, coal, manufacturing, furniture making, and textile industry jobs, the decline of unions, the shifting of tax burdens, or the elimination of public support. oh, lets not forget the drug addiction all over manufacturing towns throughout the industrialized states.
bravo!
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 1 week ago:
yeah… you are not seriously engging in search of truth. you are trolling. you will continue to find fult with every study, statistic or fact finding while holding fast to your own conclusions with a vice grip.
I’ll leave these here in case you decide to read them. i won’t wait. bye!
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 1 week ago:
The oldest Gen X cohort is 60 years old now. we’re not holding on to anything past retirement age… yet.
Note that there are many boomers who are poor and are working because they have no choice. Contrary to popular belief, most jobs were not that cushy over the last 50 to 60 years. pensions were steadily whacked, jobs were sent offshore. Maybe consider listening to the Billy Joel song called “Allentown”.
Gen X is cynical and never believed they were going to get retirement anyway precisely because they watched what happened to the generation before them.
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 1 week ago:
Someone else already got to it before me to show that ageism is really a thing. However, I still want to comment.
The dirty little secret about unemployment statistics in the United States of America is that it only counts people who are considered searching for work.
Searching for work means they’re receiving unemployment benefits. My benefits ran out six to eight months ago. I am not considered unemployed. Consistently, month after month, the percentage of the population that is in the workforce is decreasing. I believe that Vickie was called the workforce participation rate. This is why the unemployment rate is so low. Everybody who can’t find a job and finally gives up drops off the list.
I saw a figure that I can’t get the source for at the moment that states we have about a 14% rate of people who are unemployed who want to work.
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- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 1 month ago:
u.s. govt: we can’t? hold my beer.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 1 month ago:
true, but heaping hatred does not make us any beter. acknowledge the hypocrisy nd ork to end it. don’t waste enerfy in useless hatred.
i had a moment of satisfaction at his end, and felt bad because i let my anger for just a moment make me as bad as these horrible people. don’t become what we fight.
- Comment on Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints 1 month ago:
I don’t have any problems with people looking up video game skirts. It’s the hypocrisy I’m pointing out. The people who complain the most and try to take the rights away from other people are the ones who are most likely to be doing the bad thing themselves.
- Comment on Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints 1 month ago:
Ha! That’s right, only capitalists do that. Not
- Comment on Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints 1 month ago:
Or perhaps they just put up the original model which they couldn’t use because the marketing team thought it was too risky,
- Comment on Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints 1 month ago:
And if they did, they’d be the first ones to be looking up those skirts. That’s why they think everyone else is doing it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Back in the nineties, I advocated for “build on the most powerful system, test and improve on the least”.
I think it’s still relevant.
The idea of course is as developers, we need the best equipment to make the work bearable and more efficient, but the users rarely have that luxury. Make it work well on the least powerful reasonably representative equipment.
It’s easy to think your work is done on the dev box, but have a disaster in the real world.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
Most of them can save their own copies. 😏
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
Well, I agree that the wealth must be freed up somehow. I do not know how, but I also don’t want to set a precedent that could screw us all over.
Some kind of one time payment based on how much wealth you have lying around, due to an agreed upon need caused by extreme circumstances, like the fact that we are in so much debt as a nation, might make sense.
Whatever method is chosen, it needs to make sure it doesn’t make future normal saving and investing impossible.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
I don’t understand what you are saying. For one thing, I’m not fretting about taxing the rich.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
Yes, if no special cases are welritten into the law. Though there would be no way to outpace the tax as your wealth is being taxed not the money being added to the wealth.
Retirement accounts aren’t really a great example because they’re already supposed to be tax exempt or tax delayed. However the principle is the same. I just described what would happen to a emergency savings fund with a 20% wealth tax 8on another comment
Now, in reality no sane politician would put a blanket rule in. Instead it would be anything over x amount of money. While that may appeal to populism, it is still double taxation and an injustice.
A more just effect can be attained through better means, like actually enforcing progressive tax laws that take more taxes as the income gets progressively higher.
Here, progressive is not related to the political movement.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
Lol.that is all.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
“Mic drop”?
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
I’ve been fighting and calling out billionaires my whole life. I also want the rest of us to be better off, so I call out obvious bullshit like this for our benefit, not theirs.
I weary of bots and morons who can’t think reacting on pure emotional need to “own” someone else.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
What mulgrubs said, plus at least they had to work for it. Today, it’s just handed to them.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
Oooooh, I miss understood thought you were asking me what research is. You wanted me to do the work for you. Yeah, no. If you are older than 12, you should already know how to do that. If you don’t care enough to do it, that’s on you. I did.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
See, ad hominem attacks means you got nothing. Have a nice day, come back when you have a convincing counterpoint.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
Okay, I’ll bite. Other than going to a full-featured library, or contacting the nearest university with expertise on the desired topic, what does count as research for a layperson?
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 3 months ago:
Lol! You have zero clue. I’m close to the opposite of the on line spectrum. I learned how to be informed in the old days, when we were taught his to read and research.
When I don’t know something, I look it up. In discussion forums, I read the other comments before making my own, usually. If someone tells me I’m wrong, I go see what shows up elsewhere on the topic. Most importantly, I’m not immediately condescending or insulting.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 3 months ago:
I see your point, but disagree with the approach as a long term policy. We can limit the accumulation by taxing the profits. If we can’t do that, then the wealth tax won’t be any more successful as they will hide that, too.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 3 months ago:
That’s why we have the taxes we have. As you point out, business works with the help of society. However, taxing it as property is a completely messed up approach and will lead to there being little incente to to invest. That’s why we tax profit, not mere existance, as we do for property.