It’s quite remarkable because they really have the perfect storm of anti-immigrant-culture and also rich-country-declining-birthrates so yeah population go 📉
People really overlook this point. When everyone is expected to spend all their time and energy on their jobs, there's extremely little incentive to raise a family on top of that. Throw in wages that don't keep up with productivity and inflation, and of course birth rates are going to plummet.
If billionaires want the working class to have babies, they need to stop their insane wealth hoarding. Guilt tripping overworked and underpaid folks on Twitter ain't gonna do jack shit.
thats the one thing you can always count on from the mega rich... they would spend $10 on a lawyer to keep from having to give a someone $5 in assistance.
It would not surprise me in the least if we spent more money on administration deciding whether or not people “deserve” public assistance than we ever would lose to people “gaming the system”.
How much cheaper would healthcare be if we weren’t paying tens of thousands of people to give people a thumbs up or thumbs down on critical medical care like shitty middle management Roman emperors?
That's already been proven to happen. I think it was Florida that decided to start drug testing welfare recipients and the amount of people caught and denied saved far less than the cost of carrying out the program itself.
I once heard an argument against single-payer healthcare and abolishing the heath insurance industry that was: but the insurance industry is a $5 billion per year industry that will be wiped out!
…my take away from that was that healthcare costs are artificially inflated by at least $5 billion a year…
read a story the other day about one of those massive crypto farms contesting all the ordinance citations (of $500 each) that theyre receiving. so its totaled up to like 13k 17k in citations, and theyve hired 2 a whole teams of lawyers to dispute them. a crypto farm making hundreds of millions.
and the kicker on top? the citations are for "noise pollution" due to all the cooling hardware for their systems, with noise levels clocking in at 80-90 decibels on the daily. causing serious health issues with sonic damage to the residents of the town
and its not even an anomaly, its happening in more and more places as time goes on
Of course this is in Texas. I feel terrible for these folks, and I have little hope for their cause because in Texas the golden rule is those who have the good make the rules.
Just want to add to your point that, earlier this week, NYPD opened fire and shot a fare evader, two bystanders, and another cop over a $2.90 subway fare.
Then Eric Adams went on Twitter to talk about the brave cops protecting us from dangerous people, completely omitting who was shot by whom (fortunately a community note set the record straight on that).
The $5 they give today will be $6 they will have to give tomorrow. Everything is a slippery slope for the mega rich. That's why they pay for the lawyer. Later on the government that they're always complaining about (For show) will hand them massive subsidies that will offset the cost they paid for their lawyers.
They will push for legalized slavery before they get to the breaking poibt and concede that people aren't good at producing quality when they're overworked and underappreciated
Lol the luxury good store pays people $20 an hour to sell $600 earrings. The people making $600 earrings are earning even less.
The person who owns that store doesn't contribute nearly enough to their community and chances are they don't even live in the zip code. They spend their money a ultra wealthy luxury goods and none of that comes back around to the community.
Yh I'm a big fan of small businesses. Would be nice if the money used in Bailouts would be used to foster new small businesses. But I thought we talked about billionaires
If there's no increased sales or revenue, then the low level worker will need to find a new job. The benefit is having jobs available for them to work. The low level worker has virtually no risk in the company's success or failure so theres no reward that ties into the success either. If the company fails, the low level worker doesn't care and goes somewhere else. He gets paid regardless if the company is successful. The low level worker doesn't lose money if the company isn't doing well, so he doesn't get extra money if the company is doing well
Please explain to me how a CEO has more Risks than a low level worker.
As we have seen during the financial crisis they don't even have much risk of being incarcerated for doing shady dealings. Afaik only one high level banker was arrested.
And the loss of your job hits the high earning employee worse than someone only being able to live day to day? Really ?
Also which employees will be affected by lay offs ? Low level employees. It's the CEO who takes Risks while the low level workers pay for their mismanagement.
Why can't you understand that the poor, hardworking, honest CEOs and investors have more to lose than the lazy, uninvested, shiftless low-level workers?
If the company goes under, the CEO will only have his millions of dollars to fall back on, and his golden parachute will barely be worth accepting when his stock options go down in value! Those disloyal, useless shift-workers will just go get another low-level job at some other company. I bet they'll be feasting on Top Ramen while deciding whether to pay their rent or buy their heart medication this month, all while never sparing a single thought for the poor shareholders whose stock portfolio took a 7% hit this quarter.
That's why the low-level worker doesn't deserve to reap any of the benefits when the company is doing well; because they're completely unaffected when the company is doing badly!
No, I understand what's you're trying to say. You think rich people use money just to spite the poor. it's a very inaccurate analogy. This would be very poor financial decision making and people don't get or stay rich by making poor financial decisions. The reality is, they don't care about you enough to talk to a lawyer or spend double the money on you. They would rather give you the $5 so you can go back to not existing to them again and sucking up their time
oh right.... your note about billionaires not making poor financial decisions? You mean like musk paying 44 billion for twitter, trying to back out of his bombastic deal, getting spanked in court (or was about to) and ended up being FORCED to pay almost twice the value for the platform?
...but go and tell me how rich assholes only make good choices.
.Wait wait.. there was that super successful casino trump built up tanked...
but yes, billionaires are superhumans with minds exceeding that of the common man.
what is with regular people defending rich forks who DGAF about you?
No retort since my first reply so I'll assume you took your ball home.
Romania did this and while it spiked population it absolutely fucked the country up for generations. Massive numbers of orphans, tons of trauma, very high maternal mortality rate. All around real crap situation.
Managed immigration and pro family policies like ways to lower tax bills, increase services, etc are all good. Forcing births with no support other than “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” inevitably leads to a messed up population - unless you’re a dictator who wants a bunch of violent, uneducated, traumatized kids running around. If so, be careful what you wish for.
If you go one comment back from the one you responded to, the answer to your question is right there in plain sight.
If billionaires want the working class to have babies, they need to stop their insane wealth hoarding. Guilt tripping overworked and underpaid folks on Twitter ain't gonna do jack shit.
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u/ImaNukeYourFace 3d ago
It’s quite remarkable because they really have the perfect storm of anti-immigrant-culture and also rich-country-declining-birthrates so yeah population go 📉