Bet they would taste delicious in a stew.
It would have a very rich flavor.
See, people keep saying to "eat the rich." I say "beat the rich." Not only is it more satisfying, you can do it repeatedly. You can only eat them once.
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The superior siege weapon.
You can eat them after you beat them. The tenderization helps.
The post above this one in All for me is the one about a guy inviting women back to his place for delicious stew. Now I want to know what the secret ingredient is.
That is exactly why I was thinking about stew
But a B-List actor told me it would trickle down half a century ago, so let's give them the benefit of the doubt and maybe we'll catch a dribble
And he was right. You get a trickle down. He didn't mention the industrial strength wealth pump going up with the business end stuck in your wallet.
The reason billionaires exist is because people like you and me are overcharged for everything we purchase so they can accumulate the surplus.
The reason why we don't do anything about it is because we evaluate that we get good value for our money in most situations.
What is that evaluation based on? Our past experiences...
But the only experiences we have to evaluate what our money is worth is us being charged enough that the rich people at the top accumulate an unreasonable amount of wealth.
We never have an experience where those leeches at the top aren't present to artificially inflate the price of things so we can actually realize how much we're supposed to be able to get for our money!
Overcharged and underpaid. They're dipping from both ends.
We wouldn't be underpaid if things were priced according to their actual cost because the actual cost of things is based on the low salary that people make!
Yet we produce more than ever per hour. So by that account either prices should decrease over time to reflect that, or our wages should be going up. :D
And we are paying taxes. The only money they give to the government is directly to the pockets of judges and politicians to make decisions against our best interest and to make them richer.
Just imagine the housing market...
Temu opened my eyes.
8$ for 4 sponges at Target, no more for me.
I've tried Temu a few times. The quality is such garbage even calling it Chinese crap doesn't do it justice. It's basically from doorstep to landfill.
Yeah I didn't think Chinese knockoffs could get any worse.
Many products on there basically copy photos of a product and replicate how it looks with the cheapest materials possible.
I got a few good deals but understand it's NOT going to be high quality tier stuff
So I buy things I'm willing to just toss if it's no good. I do a refund and they'll tell me to keep it. Then it goes into the trash.
6 for 75ct. Eurocent, so in USD it's a whopping 81ct. Tax inclusive. Available in both scratchy and gentle.
If supermarkets get away with charging those kinds of prices there's two things to do: a) Raid each and every HQ to see whether you can nail them for collusion, b) price controls.
Its a built in feedback loop. Under capitalism, resources are distributed based on capital. But capital is a resource. So its naturally going to concentrate.
We need hard caps on wealth
Not sure how you achieve that in a world with multiple nations though. Capital is naturally pretty mobile.
G20 is currently holding negotiations to start imposing a minimum tax on billionaires, guess which country is against that...
Vatican City? Please, please be Vatican City.
(I know it isn't)
Perhaps my first controversial post here. Hmm. No, I'll be decent. But seriously? Fuck the elites. Fuck them hard.
Up the butt or dick hole?
I was asking myself, how much money do you need to have, to be in the top 1%?
So for context, according to this article, you are in the top 1% worldwide, if your net worth is above ~872'000.-, that is 19 million US Americans.
With 94'000.- you are in the top 10%
What if your net worth is -$50,000? Asking for a friend...
The top 10% includes the majority of people in the western world. We have been lied to by the select few above us that we have more in common with them than we do with the bottom 90% in the rest of the world.
Nah but it's the poor woman and child fleeing crime & poverty from south of the border who is the problem!!! /s
what are they going to do with all that money?
hint:
This is old data. The well of souls being hoarded is inconceivable.
I think the idea of cryptocurrency is funny, since it's just "I'm not playing your make believe money anymore, so we'll pay our own make believe money since you are obviously rigging the system". Kinda makes sense if adoption keeps up and the planet isn't on fire
Thing is, the poor aren’t running bitcoin miner farms. Crypto doesn’t change anything but traceability of the funds, letting the rich get even richer.
Yeah riding the bubble let a couple of nerds and early investors maybe take advantage of a little economic mobility, like, incidentally. But those days are long passed now. Like you said, it's rigged in favour of entrenched capital, just like everything else now.
That's a common misconception. Most cryptocurrencies (except XMR) actually increase the traceability of funds compared to traditional payments. Bitcoin really isn't that great for privacy as some crypto enthousiasts say. It's one of those ridicolous "advantages" that prove that most are just hypemen with no idea about how it actually works.
Scrooge McDuck ass economy
Makes me hungry.
It's never enough.
Not good to see but not a giant shock.
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was the top domestic priority of President Reagan's second term. The act lowered federal income tax rates, decreasing the number of tax brackets and reducing the top tax rate from 50 percent to 28 percent.
Name and shame: Ronald Reagan
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