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Everyone crying that it won't work, I NEVER see them suggest an alternative to the cost of living crisis. Their plan is just to get slowly boiled alive like wtf.
LA put a mansion tax on homes selling over a certain value and I was told it would crash the market…spoiler it didn’t.
Kinda wish it would've crashed the market. Maybe then it'd slow folks getting pushed into the Inland Empire and crash the construction of housing tracts
The rich will always have a soft landing when there's a crash (many even profit from it). Best way to liberate their wealth from them is through taxation.
Because instead we should have high density apartment complexes owned by corporations and no one will ever own their own property and constantly be paying rent to the companies?
I have this debate all the time in the Uk pushing my leftist ideals and I’m always met with it won’t work rah rah rah. And I’m like well maybe we could try because for the last 42 years of my life of unfettered capitalism things have gotten worse and worse for most people so clearly this isn’t working so let’s just try something radical for 5 fucking years aye.
I’m not even capping but if the greens don’t get elected next election there’s a none zero chance i am going to throw my life away by murdering people of the elite class because the alternative is to just plod along and nothing changes.
I’m doing alright too. But I care about all people and we should judge our society on how we treat the poorest in it. I will fucking die on this hill, just depends how many I take with me.
That's what crazy to me. Ppl afraid of "radical new ideas" when the same old shit clearly isn't working.
I'm not gonna try and talk you down, everyones frustrated and fed up with the state of things. I would say be careful what you post online these days. We all just feel powerless to make any meaningful changes in the world around us :/
Truly boggles my mind.
I appreciate you looking out and honestly I’ve been trying to push the boundaries of what you can say online lately and seeing if I get any knocks on the door, although I feel this stuff would only be discovered after the fact, and I actually went postal. Rather than someone coming to check I’m not insane.
At some point though I do believe that violence is the only answer to an oppressive system and I would happily lose my freedom in service to my end goals. But let’s hope it doesn’t come to that and we can spread awareness about more progressive policies.
Their plan is "I got mine, fuck everyone else."
Who is crying that? I mean that isn't a corporate mouthpiece? Just adjusted for inflation, federal minimum wage should be like $35.
What? Anytime I see Mamdani posted on FB half the comments are saying NYC is gonna starve and communism doesn't work and rich people will just leave and we need the rich to create jobs etc etc
I specifically said excluding corporate mouthpieces.
Yes. If you surround yourself with chuds you are going to hear chud talking points.
Not sure why you are bringing them up here.
Probably because they are voters.
They are bringing them up as a direct response to someone asking about them.
Lol glad to see someone can read a comment chain.
Some people really seem to have trouble with it lmao.
I've met several people who buy into how minimum wage just leads to higher prices. They think they're smart because they're considering a consequence beyond just "people get more money", but they're not understanding that few workers serve many customers, so to give a fast food worker an extra dollar per hour you really only need to raise prices maybe like 1%, and then workers have more money to spend on luxury stuff like fast food, so business actually picks up as a result of paying people more.
I don't think they actually think they're smart. I think they're just selfish assholes.
Time and time again, I come across the argument that "it will make the price of everything to up because now businesses have to pay workers more."
Ok—so? Businesses are forced to pay workers to a standard that allows everybody to live without drowning in debt and inescapable poverty. Isn't it a good thing that people won't be suffering?
No, not to them. Their wages won't increase equivalently, and now they have to pay more to maintain their standard of luxury. It's wealth redistribution away from those who can afford excess towards the people who can't afford basics. They actively choose not to support that because it's a personal inconvenience to them.
It's an amazing demonstration of "equality looks like oppression to the privileged" and "fuck you, I got mine" attitude.
Everyone: What if we just throw people in jail for being poor or other behaviors associated with poverty? Surely nobody would choose to be poor then!