We let corporations take over without limit or recourse.

Walmart pays a wage to people whose job it is to help other Walmart employees apply for government assistance. That's way cheaper to Walmart than paying people more. Then the government assistance comes from the lower 90% who do pay taxes.

Minimum wage hasn't been raised in decades. It has increased a bit only in a few places.

Over half (guesstimate) of prepared food workers do not have a steady income. They rely on a few customers to tip. And very rarely have any sick time or vacation time or health benefits.

You've eaten food that has been handled by someone sick with a fever because they were highly discouraged from staying home sick.

This is how societies have traditionally operated. Far from failing, they are correcting back to the exploitative mean.

With no more free real estate to conquer and no frontier to expand into, we're boxed in by limited resources and forced to choose between socialism or barbarism.

Since we categorically and unequivocally proved Socialism Doesn't Work back in the 1980s, that only leaves one option.

They're not assistance programs for people, they're basically a wage subsidy for corporations.

*stole

That's what i was looking for. Fuck these people. Tax the rich and put in beneficial social programs, not just programs for the rich companies to abuse.

And by "senior" we mean actually senior. Like, wrinkles, gray hair, liver spots; etc. Of course, if you're that old, you're too old to be a flight attendant, so sorry, you're not hired.

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said Ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

"What?"

"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"

"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."

Ford shrugged again."Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."

"But that's terrible," said Arthur.

"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”

― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

but every single election, you all insist to me that I have to vote for a capitalist as a moral imperative.

Have you ever had the choice to vote anyone other than a capitalist?

You have to vote for the lesser fascist

reagan, bush jr., trump. I wish that party could not win and election so that we could have the democrats as the conservative party and start making real progress on shifting left rather than their continual wins moving us right.

muricaaaaaa

Boomers aren't the productive people anymore they're now just leeches - Gen X and lower are the workers now and most of us actually give a shit.