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Good news is worth sharing, and that's a helluva milestone given that "special occasions" are commonly used as a hall pass. Way to go, Sean!

 

Not at all surprised. Look at what McD's did in Seattle when the dipshits forced a super high minimum wage.

The idealistic shit wits look at the profit margins of these huge companies and think that they can just carve some of that out for uneducated unskilled labor, but they fail to realize that the company is obligated to have those profits for their shareholders. The only way to no lose that margin is to have fewer of the uneducated unskilled labor. Increasing minimum wage just increases the cost of everything. It's part of the stupid inflationary practices that some are so fond of because of either their own entitlement or to buy the votes of their base through promises of "free" stuff and a "livable wage" for all.

Fucking idiots.

 

The voters do that, the ones in power know exactly how it will play out. It grants them power.

 

Car repos are up too.

 

2%

 

Damn. That's hot.

 

Stand down buddy, I'm a married man!

 

I’ve got mixed feelings here

The price of housing in any urban (even semi-urban) area is pushing 6-8x(+) what it was just 20 years ago. Groceries, utilities, other non-housing essentials are in the 2-3x range, and fuel in many places is 3-4x. Yet wages for most “working class” or lower skill jobs are essentially unchanged.

Does raising the minimum wage cause the price of services for everyone go up? Sure as shit.

But somewhere along the line we’ve seen a ridiculous gap chasm form between the “working wage” and the “cost of living” that has only allowed the rich to get richer and poor to get poorer. And somehow we blame it on the guy serving our 5G because he couldn’t afford college, guidance counselors weren’t steering kids toward building trades until very recently, and he’s trying to make enough money working two jobs to afford rent in a shoebox he’s sharing with three other people at fucking near what my mortgage payment is.

Pay the CEO no more than 5x the lowest paid employee. Raise the ceiling by lifting the foundation. Instead of one man buying a 450 million dollar yaught, every man, woman, and child in the US could have over $1mm set aside to provide for their welfare and care and still have nearly $120mm to go “fuck around” with if you really wanted to. And that’s just ONE of the bastards that’s just continuing to make more off everyone else.

I’ll stop there. No need to take a 30-day vacation, and I’m running on about eight hours sleep since Sunday morning with just a little stress…

 

That math doesn't work. 450M would let 450 people have 1M. Not every man woman and child. Also, a huge amount of the "money" that rich people have isn't actual money. It's assets or other non liquid things like stocks. Rather than pushing to raise minimum wage how about we push to go back to the gold standard and quit printing money causing a drastic devaluation of the dollar? People howl about minimum wage needing to be 15 bucks an hour. Look at minimum wage when the gold standard was removed. It was $1.25 an hour. You know what 5 of the actual silver quarters are worth today? Approximately $15. It has never been about minimum wage, but the predatory practices of promising "more" in exchange for additional power, because if you are powerful the inflationary actions do not impact you in a significant way.

Edit: I realize that saying all of this to you, Casey, is not providing any new info. You probably know more about it and have likely researched it far more than I have, but it bears repeating in case somebody might see it and decide to do their own research.

 

Sorry
Tired
Sleep deprived
Rummy
Aggravated

The concept is solid. The math was wrong.

 

We'll let it slide due to extenuating circumstances. Next time though....

 

One of the smartest investments to make.... They are NEVER going to make anymore of it....

 

The topic of the rich being to rich and the poor being poorer kicked another bit into my mind. I'll tread lightly to avoid the no-no zone of the forum.

Let's pay out a scenario here. What if the Robin Hood fantasy were to play out? The top 1% had their funds redistributed across the country's population. (Please note that this is NOT what Robin Hood was about. He was stealing form the corrupt government to give it back to the people, so he was more anti-tax than anti-rich. Now that we have that out of the way we'll follow the bastardized idea of it that is pitched all the time these days.)

Well, we need numbers.






For population that only goes up to 2020, and just in immigration we know there's been millions* more added, so lets go with an easy round 335 million people. If we take that whopping $38,700,000,000 and equally split it among the 335,000,000 people it's only $115,522.39 per person. That could be a lifechanging amount for some, true, but if broke people winning the lottery tells us anything it's that this will do precisely dick. In less than 5 years you'd still have it all heavily shift one way or the other. You may wind up with some moving up and others moving down the economic ladder, but it's not going to "fix" anything. There will still be rich and there will still be poor. Throwing money at it doesn't solve the problem.

 

99% true. They made some islands in Dubai, but I don't think I'd want to live there even if I could afford it. LOL

 

AMERICA

Folks purchased 24 acres with a small 3 bedroom cape in '64 and my dad sold it 40 years later for just under 7 digits; he had dam good

accountants handle the deal..


NH Riverfront holds its value to this day..

 

For sure. Real Estate is the one investment that handles inflation the best.

 

Except in Cali and New York state

 

Correct, and that is a direct result of going off the gold standard.

 

My wife and I could have rented our condos out instead of selling them when the market was down but we decided we didn't need the pain in the ass.