Sounds like California

I agree… What is it like 10% own 90% of the stock market, 1% own 50% or something like that? Major shareholders are the real evil oligarchy… CEOs are just shills they hire to take the bullet, same as politicians but paid better… I’d love to see some playing cards for the real oligarchy… But it’s pretty hard to really track them because they hide behind corporations and shit

You’re saying “won’t” when I think you mean “can’t”… As in, the number of people who have that much disposable income has dropped to a point where there just aren’t enough people with the ability to pay… And instead of fighting to raise the minimum wage (and all wages in general), or lowering their prices to a point most people can afford, they’ve chosen to make shittier stuff

I got messages from this one too… Kept trying to get me to switch to zangi to talk to it

Lower profits, pay workers more

Sounds like those 105 employees aren’t being paid what they should be. Pay them more. Leave this guy’s pay alone.

Personally I’d say, if top level CEO pay is $6.5m, and we set that as reasonable pay for that level job, and maybe we say the top should earn 20x the bottom, then the average pay in the US should be $325k. Which sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Stop thinking in terms of dragging the top down… Think in terms of lifting everyone else up. If the owners need to own less for this to happen, then so be it

CEO of a major company? Sounds like reasonable pay to me… The problem is that most workers are not getting paid what they deserve (assume this is correct pay for a top level CEO and adjust your thinking on what fair pay actually is accordingly) It’s not the CEOs (or doctors, lawyers, actors, etc) who are the root problem… It’s the kids born with a billion shares of fortune 500 stock who either grow up to be Trump/Elon or just do fuck all their whole life, but still get to rake in 90% of all “profits”. The people who inherited owning the whole world, they are the problem. The CEOs are just assholes willing to work for the people born into wealth… They still suck, and they uphold the shit system for their own benefit, but I don’t think they are hoarding the wealth, and I think the wealth being hoarded is the ultimate problem.

Mental health clinician… Worked Christmas Eve and Christmas (a lot of extra money), and got no calls so that’s nice. I took new years Eve and day off. In general we see a lot of kids leading up to the holidays. Sometimes a lot after too; can be hit or miss I guess. Our busiest times are at the changing of the seasons, spring and fall, when seemingly everyone becomes manic/psychotic.

Thanks for answering… Personally my thought is that anyone should be allowed to compete in any sport they qualify for… Just add more league levels. Don’t have to name them in a hierarchical way. Sort of like heavy weight vs feather weight… The competition is still going to be good because you’ve divided athletes by ability level, not something as arbitrary as sex or gender assigned at birth. If a woman or trans person can somehow compete with men (assigned at birth) in the NFL, I wanna see that shit. Sure you’d probably just end up with a league full of women, less talented men, and trans people, but at least they’d all be competitive in that league. Shit, maybe if there were some trans women or less skilled men in the “women’s” leagues people might actually watch them. Idk… I’m definitely talking out of turn; personally I think organized sports are as bad for society as organized religion.

I feel like there are very few people who are truly “pro-system” (mostly just the super rich)… Even in the pro system category I’d say the majority aren’t pro system so much as they believe the system is broken, they just also believe the system can be fixed while playing within the rules of the system itself.

Serious question… If you believe in social programs then, wherever you are, what makes you “right leaning”?

Nailed it

I immediately assumed the oligarchy (through US or Israel) had injected new life into the rebellion to stir shit up for their new never ending wars.

“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.”

Thanks… What did this guy do? Did he get to unilaterally make this call? (Serious, I have no idea how France works).

Buy secluded land and build a prep retreat/bunker just in case. Then take some time, hire a team, and map out a path to first taking over the Democratic party, maybe rebrand, then a path to taking over the government and updating the Constitution.

I’ve been thinking if I could ever afford it, maybe work with section 8 to actually buy the property for the “renter”. Sort of a lease to own, except section 8 pays. Once I’ve gotten my money back plus a small profit the home belongs to the tenant, and I build more housing, rinse and repeat. Would probably need to hire someone to help people manage that though. Some people don’t know how to maintain a home because they’ve always rented or because mental illness or whatever.

Just become president, problem solved

Ah…so they’re continuing with their support of the evil… They learned nothing… Are we sure they aren’t Democrats?

I’ll go treefitty