Do the math. They made over $18/hr on that check. That’s nearly double what retail, fast food, and back of house jobs pay. Servers, on average, aren’t hurting in the US. Besides trucking, they’re the highest-paid unskilled job. It’ll actually be interesting to see what happens if they got rid of tipping and ended up…

There are certainly some millennials that think like that. I’ve seen plenty of 20-somethings walking around with iPhones. Usually those are middle-class kids with parents heavily subsidizing their lives so that they can blow their money. In fact, I’ve employed several like that. However, I’ve employed even more millenn…

Nowadays, if you want to have fun rowing gears, then you get a manual. If you want to have fun winning races, then you get an automatic. Except in drag racing where that has always been the case.

I was partly joking about consumers being confused about everything because we regularly get asked the dumbest questions. Where I’m serious is that if the label got changed to “almond drink” then people will get confused and I’ll get to hear “is this the same thing as almond milk” for the next year or two. People get…

The US. The same nation that got caught hacking Angela Merkal’s phone in 2015. The same nation that funded Netanyahu’s 2016 campaign. The same nation that rigged the 2002 Bolivian election. The same nation where Hillary Clinton said “we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”…

It probably could, but wouldn’t, since the US does the exact same thing to everyone else. Of course, US hypocrisy is why we’ve always used false pretenses to start wars with other nations. We’re like the ultimate scumbag nation.

That’s not going to happen since it would mean that the US has committed acts of war against pretty much every nation in the world.

I’m in retail management. Consumers are always confused about everything at all times. I’ve worked in areas where half of the clientele can barely read, and I currently work in an area where a third of my customers have a Masters or above. Despite the vast education difference, they’re both equally stupid when it…

They’re at odds with Mao’s personal belief, but the actual economic system of Maoism basically means communism with a narrow focus on one group of society. Under Mao, it was farmers. Today, it’s factory workers. That’s just natural economic progression that every nation goes through. He’d hate China bringing in rich…

Mao wouldn’t have been fine with individuals becoming rich. He’d hate what China has become, as its philosophy is more akin to Neoliberalsim than anything else. In other words, the party favors your education level over anything. That’s due to Confucianism being reinvigorated after ending Mao’s agrarian focus.

With…

Calling yourself Marxist doesn’t make it so. Eventually an ideology changes to the point that it adopts a new founder of sorts. Look at the US. We’re capitalist, but we scarcely follow anything that Smith proposed. We heavily lean towards Say since his theories favor the rich far more than Smith. Technically, we…

I had a long replay typed up, but it was getting into essay-worthy lengths. I’ll summarize instead.

China was never “true” communism. It was Maoism. The difference is that Maoism focuses only on agrarian society while ignoring urban society. Marxism balances all parts of society. Maoism also adopts Stalinism’s…

I’d say that China’s version of communism is doing fairly well. It’s almost as economically as powerful as the US, and didn’t have to rely on half of the world getting destroyed. It just used the greed of capitalism against itself by selling the west the rope it needed to hang itself with. While the US was sinking…

Exactly, for a country to grow, it has to extract wealth from another country through a trade that isn’t mutually beneficial. The loser might feel it’s mutual since some superficial desire is met, but the cost is that eventually future generations will not be able to meet superficial desires. That’s exactly what…

Capitalism really depends a lot on inequality and the level of growth. Either way, there will be a loser, and those levels depends on whether you’re a loser in a tin shack or a loser in an apartment and where you started from. For example, the reason South Korea is doing well is due to extracting wealth mostly from…

YMMV, but it doesn’t change the fact that previous generations had it easier. Now, there was a minor recession in the ‘80s, which was actually a result of people making too much money and getting pushed into the highest tax bracket, but some couldn’t find work as employers sunk everything into existing workers…

I’m calling bunk. The average national rent in 1980, average, as in 1br, 2br, houses, basements, was $785/month adjusted, in 1990 it was $882 and that didn’t budge at all during the 1990s. It wasn’t as good as boomers had it in the 1960s, but you can’t even rent a refrigerator box for that today. Just face it,…

Then do it for a 1 bedroom. While a 1br is 2/3rd the price of a 2br, the average person makes about half of what the median income is due to nearly every household being dual income.

This isn’t exactly the 1960s when the average individual made the equivalent to $55k a year while the average rent was the equivalent to…

I’m not exactly sure where in NC that you can survive on $16.35/hr. Not at the recommended 30% of your income. Even a janky single-wide trailer hours from any urban area will run about $700/month. To make matters worse, even if you make over $16/hr, then you’re not likely going to do it in an area where you can live…

You could also get lucky by being on the winning side of a pump and dump, which is how most get rich in crypto.