Yeah, because I’m sure there are enough well paying jobs for every working adult in the entire USA.
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There could be, but MBAs and CSuite leeches think "line go up" only applies to one goddamned line.
The poverty line?
The poverty line?
Why does America breed so many shit cunts?
Because we didn't punish the Confederate traitors hard enough.
Because Biden didn't round up Trump and all of his henchmen immediately after being sworn in, and ship them to Gitmo for extensive interrogation about their treason with Russia, and corruption.
That too
USA has always been scared of applying real consequences for fear of losing popular support. Jefferson and Adams knew slavery was wrong. Adams knew it was wrong and abhorred it. But couldn't do anything because of that reason and the need unite the States of a new nation. Same after the Civil War, healing a fractured nation and all that. Even leading to the Civil War there were Missouri and 1850 Compromises. And it goes on and on. United States of Compromise.
because they're trailing most developed nations in education
There are actually some pretty intelligent conservatives, but oligarchs intentionally funnel more money to dumb right wingers to afford bigger and louder megaphones.
"Benjamin Aaron Shapiro was born on January 15, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, ... His parents both worked in Hollywood. His mother was a TV company executive, and his father, David Shapiro, worked as a composer.[3]"
If you were not born to rich parents, it is a you problem. Die and reincarnate you silly.
Hm. Who has never worked a day of their life?
Completely agree.
My advice is, if you're feeling the pinch, then just ask mummy and daddy for a bigger allowance!! Don't be lazy, just get out there and ask for the cash you deserve. I believe in you. I know you can do it too!!!
This is weirdly almost a progressive mindset but somehow seems to miss the point and make it about blaming the victim.
It's basically how I feel about people that complain about taxes making it so they get paid less money. Take it up with your fucking boss.
"The problem is that the job doesn't pay enough!"
"Yes, exactly!"
"So that lazy POOR should've gotten a better one!"
"??????????"
It's amazing how conservatives miss the point so reliably. I imagine it's intentional for Bench Appearo, but many others are probably just genuinely that blinkered in their thinking.
Find out what poor-paying job that poor person holds. Now ask yourself, "if everyone with this job were to vacate, how would that affect me?"
See? See how you can still be selfish but slightly less stupid at the same time?
Seriously, so by Ben's argument, the best thing for poor people to do is either 1. Organize into a labor union to negotiate better wages, or 2. Use violence against the rich as a valid tactic to improve your wages.
But conservatives HATE those two little tricks...
His advice is technically correct, but very vague & not super helpful. He says you need to:
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Explore your talents, skills, strengths, etc. Identify them.
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Find an outlet or a need in society that plays to your strengths, skills.
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Make it pay a lot of money.
Technically not wrong. That's all easier said than done, and it can be hard landing a job that really pays.
Hard to do all those things without support. Student loans for example would allow someone to survive without a low wage job while developing more valuable skills.
What's the conservative position on those again? Checks notes... well fuck you too!
It allows them to feel an increased agency
Ben Shapiro is big on taking personal responsibility for everything. Your life, your fault. Essentially.
It's interesting when he talks about his family background, very solidly middle class & it involved his dad playing piano at hotels, clubs for tips? Between that & his mother I guess it was enough to pay the bills.
Because they grew up during a time when you could do that, and then pulled the ladder up behind them.
My step dad bought a farm and raced Ford Broncos for fun doing odds jobs out in a farming community. You'd be lucky to have a roof over your head and 3 meals a day doing odd jobs now.
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people just don't want to work anymore!
You're poor? Why didn't you choose to be rich instead? It's clearly a you problem.
It will be a grand day when I can wake up and not see this guy and his eyebrows ever again.
Ben "How much of a piece of shit do I have to be to be able to monetize this?" Shapiro telling it like it is!
See, it’s that simple!
What an asshole with zero understanding of what life is actually like for people.
He knows. He's just a disingenuous, grifting piece of shit.
In Ben Shapiro's world, no one is around to make his morning coffee and his morning breakfast burrito because no one works those jobs. Everyone only works jobs that pay enough to cover the modern cost of food and rent/mortgage
Red states learning or will be learning a lesson about this real quick when they can't find the slave wage labor to pick their crops because they ~~deported~~ imprisoned them.
They'll just use prisoners at that point.
And if there's a shortage, there will be an increase in arrests and convictions, justifiable or not.
Prisoners in the US are effectively slaves also I thought?
Yes, they can be used as slave labor, which would save farmers from even having to pay them directly (though they would have to pay that prison industrial complex).
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Red states do not have the capacity to learn lessons.
It’s in part because Sherman stopped burning, and we didn’t hang Jefferson Davis.
Just like when he told a college student concerned that global warming and sea level rise would displace people living near the coast that they'd just sell their underwater houses and move inland.
Sell their houses to who Ben? Fucking Aquaman‽
That’s the trap of capitalism these people take advantage of. Sure in theory vote with your supply and demand. Until one group of people create artificial legal pressures that prevent you from making the truly rational choice. If you don’t take the job that barely feeds you, you will go hungry, loose housing and be homeless.
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He knows all about " you" problems. He looks them in the eye every day when shaves
The height of pseudo intellectual stupidity .... every once in a while someone will show me one of his videos or podcasts and to the average person with an average intelligence, there are moments where he actually sounds intelligent .... which is the dangerous part. Most people fall for his message because it's peppered with pseudo intellectual babble, with a generous dose of reaffirming a selfish basic instinct of seeing the world without empathy and consideration of other people.
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