No, one of your fellow travelers offered to lick my boots.  Although I’m probably in a position to make his life better, there’s no reason for him to have to resort to boot licking.  It’s obviously something that American liberals think a lot about given how often it’s brought up when addressing their socioeconomic…

Not googly eyed enough, 3/10

Sure you are, kid.  At least you didn’t say Nintendo!  I’m well aware of what side of the class struggle I’m on.  The difference between you and I is that I don’t have to make up stories about it, and offer to lick people’s boots.  Whatever your kink is your business, have pride in it, but don’t project it onto others.

“Qualified” generally means a 4 year degree, not too picky in what field because experience says that they’re going to need to learn the job anyways, and there’s 12 weeks of offsite training in year one for that purpose. It’s super important to me that a candidate can read for context, and present their thoughts…

If you think ‘slim margin’ is nonsense, then you’ve never worked in the private sector. That seems likely in fact.   Lots of small & medium businesses work on thin margins, and increases in costs often drive them out of business.  I guess they’re not all galaxy brained experts like you!

Because minimum wage and inflation are two different things, with different pushes and pulls on them. It’s the same question as, “why don’t we have price controls so everyone can have a new Mercedes?” Price controls only ever lead to shortages, and subsequent stalinist accusations of hoarding.

Or, since you’re introducing the hyperbole of idiots, perhaps everyone should make a billion dollars an hour to sit around and whine about how terrible their lives are, while providing zero economic value to civilization

We’re not talking about Chuck Schumer here, please

Yeah the same guy that people on this site were losing their mind over, suggesting he should run against Trump.  About par for the course I guess!

Yes, my candy corn shape head causes all sorts of issues.

Why do you want to lick my boot?  nvm, i probably don’t want to know.  You’re definitely a supertough guy who is going to start a revolution any day now just as soon as your mom’s boyfriend stops stealing your allowance and give you back your guy fawkes mask

That’s not my experience at all. The company I work for (big multinational telco) is having a hell of a time finding qualified young people. We’re hiring right out of college paying 75k with good benes. In a lot of cases we’re having to hire people from less traditional background (at least for this industry) because…

Here’s a piece of information of which you’re clearly unaware; the taxes that support basically everything are paid by the rich and middle class. if you imagine the tiny amount of taxes generated by the sales tax that you and the rest of underclass pay amount to anything in terms of the Government budgets, you’re both…

That really did distort people’s expectations, didn’t it?  I still have mix CDs that were completely napster based

Yeah, i surf the web when I’m working but not actively engaged. Today it’s letting some training videos run in the background. It’s ok because i provide enough economic benefit to my employer that I don’t have pretend to be busy when I’m not. You’ll understand if you ever have a knowledge based job rather than…

Rent control is absolutely for the benefit of people already in place, and 100% hostile to newcomers and young people.  It also discourages investment in properties and results in a housing stock like the poor working class souls in NYC have to endure

We demand affordable housing!

Yeah, because I don’t work in retail, and I’m project based, i have a lot of leeway in my schedule. It’s a reward for working hard and being useful for the last 20 years. Being a professional complainer or victimization specialist doesn’t really generate economic benefit for anyone, and is closer to a grift than a…

In the US it is. It’s right there in the Bill of Rights. It’s the second one, in fact, important enough to only be behind Freedom of Speech. I realize the typical Splinter commenter doesn’t know much about history, and even less about the US Government, but the 2A guarantees the right to gun ownership. Obviously there…

Yes we should only glamorize transexual demiqueer otherkins and anti-vaxers of the sort that get blogging jobs and live with their parents