Slavery was about 99% of what drove the entire thing, so it makes sense to me.
This sounds high to most people, but if the minimum wage had kept up with its inflation-adjusted peak (1968), it'd be somewhere in the range of $31 to $32 an hour right now.
It never caught back up afterward, and has been severely harpooned in the years since, shifting unfathomable quantities of money to the wealthiest people. And it's not just minimum wage workers... when you sink the wage and salary floor, nearly everyone made less than they should have been.
To stay in compliance with weekly Lemmy AI image memes, here this is.
No, you're not imagining things.
It's security footage of Sailor Moon stealing from a Target whilst eating a fried spaghetti sandwich.
Yeah, we may be at checkmate. Unlike the end of the age of the robber barons, when we reformed capitalism in the late 1800s / early 1900s in the US... this time the capitalists have purchased enough politicians to stop reform completely and forever.
In order for us to vote for change, change has to be on the ballot.
Moreover, the ballot itself must change.
"I'm sorry, fairly-right-of-center Southern Democrats. You're not quite evil enough for me anymore, I need to spread my wings."
I'm getting major "I'm asking for a friend" vibes off of this post.
It's pretty amazing that a guy who has picked up several dozen felony charges in the last few months has this little idea of how the legal system works.
Oh, you've got a behavior there, but the wrong motivation.
I sit at home, but I don't sit on public toilets precisely because dudes have been whizzing all over the seat.
As someone living on the East Coast who is never within 2,000 miles of an In n Out Burger, I'll continue to do my part.
We'll say it again, for the people in the back: it doesn't matter whether you believe in potentially lethal threats or not.
They'll still kill you. And if you ignore them and pretend they don't exist, they'll usually kill you much, much faster than if you were actively trying to mitigate them.
"The free exchange of communication and ideas, unrestricted by capitalist interference? Can't have that kind of evil in the world. Surely it's my duty to shut this down, so that others may come to know the flavor of corporate boot leather as well as I have."
Something else to consider is that it's a wonderful social window if you have friends that you don't get to hang out with very often due to geography and life.
I have a couple of good friends who are too far away after I moved to another area. We play games online and have a nice social hangout for a few hours each Saturday. Voice chatting works great.
It's fantastic to be able to regularly spend time with them.