SabinStargem

joined 3 months ago
[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 12 points 5 days ago

I hope this petition succeeds. There are games and other digital media I want to experience, but corporations are dead set on just trotting out new things on their terms.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Apparently, Faux News calls him "Zohran the Destroyer". This is exactly the sort of name that I want with progressive leadership. 🤩

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 9 points 5 days ago

Wage theft. Seriously, it is the biggest drain of money from ordinary workers.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 7 points 5 days ago

I got lucky enough to live on benefits, a bit less than $15,000 annually. While I don't have to pay for housing, things like food, data, and car take up a good chunk of that money. Up until about 2 years ago, I was also able to regularly set aside about $300 a month for an ABLE account if I exercised restraint.

The economy continues to worsen, so I can't save money anymore. Plus, getting the gear and training for joining a militia takes a fair bit of coin. I am expecting the USA we knew to dissolve someday, and hopefully can support my state with my body if conflict breaks out. Don't really have anything else to offer society.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 44 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I hope Zohran gets a group of armed bodyguards. Sooner or later, ICE will try to disappear him.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago

RFK wants to send me to a wellness farm. Also, the black dude down the street, just because.

I think the choice to conflict has been made for me, and I should get ready to fight. That means training, and joining up with whoever else who wants to die on their home's soil. I am not going to El Salvador.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I would argue that having more hired staff on rotation would be more productive, even with fewer workdays by any one person. By having more people who have experience with a given task, should any one of them become unable to work, someone else can pick up the slack until things have returned to normal.

When a company relies on linchpin personnel, the loss of a person could be devastating, since the company will have to find a capable replacement to hire. That means interviews, introductory payment packages, hoping that delays don't cause further damage, establishing the new hire in the workplace, and so on.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 11 points 6 days ago

MAGA - Make America Gilded Again.

Disease, poverty, brutality, and mediocrity, all to haunt our people once again.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The police are traitors to America, and should be considered ICE collaborators at Nuremberg.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think a potential solution to CEO pay and inflation, would be to set absolute income tiers for UBI and jobs. Work as a waitress? You get $40k a year, no more or less. Don't work? Just $10k, plus everyone gets universal benefits such as free food packages, universal healthcare, and utilities. The highest paying job? $100k. This isn't considering taxes, which effectively turn the $40k to $30k, and the $100k to $60k. This essentially means that a CEO is only twice the income of a clerk, so the market will be forced to set pricing of goods and services to reflect that.

Of course, advocates of malicious capitalism would scream bloody murder, talk about how some people deserve 1,500x the wage of an average person, and so forth.

Bluntly, I hate the excessively wealthy and want their excess to cease existing. They are a distortion that destroys lives. If there are distortions, they should be the kind that benefit EVERYONE. Not just Bezos, Musk, or Trump.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago

Ah, the Geronocrats. Always been a disappointment throughout my entire life, before and after I became eligible to vote.

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