Mostly, I’d agree with you. I think it’s crap you can’t fix your own laptop, but the competitive need to constantly create faster processors and faster, better ram, has pretty much meant that hardware is moving way faster than software. At this point, you can get away with using some pretty low-horsepower processors…

Just curious, which Android phone and is the expected lifespan any longer? Been an iPhone user since the 4, and I’m having a harder and harder time justifying blowing 3 grand every few years on devices for my family.

I know, owning a rolex is a bummer! (don’t own one, yet)

This is a dumb perspective. Clearly the issue is systemic and everyone is on the take. They were just the unfortunate ones to get caught.

Net-net still less. Servicing one locally with a good watchmaker is 400 or less and usually once every five years and mine actually usually goes longer. In that time you’d be buying 2-3 Apple watches. 

Yep. If you buy a new one every few years you’d be better off buying a Rolex. It lasts for generations and holds value better. The longer I live the less attracted I am to the latest iteration of any of these gadgets. 

So since healthcare expenditure yearly is at 3.3 trillion, what you’re saying is that if we just took the money we use paying private healthcare, and re-allocated it, we’d only be a trillion short to fund all current social ideas? Neat. I think you’ve hit on the solution.

Median rents are median rents homey. The minimum wage is what it is if you’re born in Appalachia or NYC. I know the pushback is always “well they should move away,” but moving your entire family on a whim costs... you know... a lot of money. So basically you’re living in a city that’s too expensive, only if you stop…

Fair enough. What I meant though, was that there are a ton of ways for a company to pass along the additional cost of wages without raising prices. 

Stupid argument, again. There’s a chasm of difference between socialism, and making sure your capitalist society works. And you’re right, 15 an hour isn’t nearly enough, and even if they took it up to 20, Amazon and their shareholders would still be holding buckets of stock value.

Bezos is a shrewd businessman, but the “Amazon doesn’t make money” trope is dumb and tired.

If they’re living off of social security, then I feel for them and the government needs to do better. If they are living from their hard earned dollars and they put it in the right place, and they’ve been withdrawing based on the 4% rule, then their nut is growing right along with the economy and they’ll be fine. If…

You think shareholders give a fuck about their upper tier executives much more than their low wage workers? In most cases, not really. 

Lol, please get over yourself. No one is suggesting anything that would reduce company profits to zero. Amazon’s sudden raise is case in point. And even before then someone did an analysis of what the net cost would be of raising McDonald’s minimum wage workers to $15 dollars without changing current margins, and the…

Christ, really? Google it yourself. CEO earnings vs. rest of world isn’t exactly a new take.

A job is a voluntary contract for the employer. For labor in a lot of cases it’s take it or leave it. Capitalism works because buyers and sellers hit equilibrium. That happens because sellers collectively vote with their wallets about which competing product to buy. Key word being collective. It’s a lot easier for…

Except unlike trickle down theory, there are plenty of examples where that works. Pretty much any developed country with reasonable wage laws. Upper echelon executives in the US make ridiculous sums vs counterparts elsewhere. But the counterparts elsewhere are still rich and happy. 

Fine. Make a plan to do that. Then once it hits 15/hr. Tie the rate to gdp growth with a cost of living modifier. Here in Miami two bedroom rents are in the 1500 dollar range. And that’s on the cheap end with very limited supply. The COST for a one parent one child life here is 50k. So 15 ain’t getting you shit. 

And your solution is forcing society to subsidize costs for the already extremely wealthy so they can further line their pockets?

Uh.. actually. That’s EXACTLY what minimum wage was created for. You don’t even have to do much reading to figure that one out.