When I was a kid, I wondered why it seemed like companies only ever either got bigger or failed. Wouldn’t it make more sense to get “big enough”, then either stay that way or even close once they’d made enough money and things started to decline. Why continue riding that line when it’s on its way down?
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The fact that people said “minimum wage jobs are just for teenagers, minimum wage shouldn’t be enough to be a living wage” despite every year after the 08 crash seeing more and more older people with families working low wage service jobs.
The conclusion then becomes “minimum wage workers don’t deserve to live at all” which makes no sense because they work hard, harder than all other PMC jobs.
And if they think those jobs don’t matter and those people deserve to die, who would make their Hardee’s burger? It felt like punishment for the sake of punishment; this job is useful enough to extract mass value and profit and labor from, but simultaneously not useful enough to allow the workers to live with some kind of safety and dignity. That shatters the illusion of meritocracy that capitalism likes to peddle.
Not to mention PMCs sit on their computers watching YouTube and making $80k while a slave breaks their back making lattes for 12 hours a day on their feet.
The fact that people said “minimum wage jobs are just for teenagers, minimum wage shouldn’t be enough to be a living wage” despite every year after the 08 crash seeing more and more older people with families working low wage service jobs.
this one was always confusing to me because, like, why is it a must that teenagers dont get living wages? why is that something that we want to avoid?
People blame people in poverty for not being financially responsible. If everyone was financially responsible and tried to save as much as possible it would decimate large parts of the economy.
This has been on my mind more and more lately. It really all boils down to whether or not you give a shit about other people. Somebody has to work at Walmart and McDonald’s or you won’t be able to go to those places, so why would it be so terrible if those people had a dignified life??
I watched this video once that was something like how to live comfortably off of rental properties. The whole thing was basically if you can convince enough rich friends and relatives banks to loan you several million dollars at low interest, then you can buy a bunch of properties and be a slumlord. Thanks for helping me win capitalism, dude, but I don’t think the system would tolerate everyone doing that.
As a young teen I’d wonder if oil is finite, what will we do when it runs out? And why does nobody seem to be the slightest bit concerned about that?
Relatedly, in terms of burning dirty fuel sources, who’s paying for all that smoke going out into the atmosphere? Or all that shit being dumped into the ocean?
I guess I had a very ecological view of things growing up.
