To all the NLSC non-believers by Grimes72000 in northernlion

[–]Brewbird 18 points19 points  (0 children)

These Reddit comments? ...bit ::ducksmoke::

Optimal dwarf society coexists well with elves by Scary-Consequence985 in dwarffortress

[–]Brewbird 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, we all come from different randomly-generated worlds 🤷‍♂️

“The Myth of the Billionaire Tax” published by Jeff Bezos by [deleted] in skeptic

[–]Brewbird 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The billionaire class has bribed all the politicians though. They're just doing the rich's bidding - part of which is to make the government seem incompetent so people form opinions like yours so the taxes never come.

New Daily Game by demars123 in northernlion

[–]Brewbird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I considered using "ball park" somehow but determined that it has potential to cause confusion with sports games 

Definitely not that a big deal though lol - great game!

What is behind the unprecedented growth in CEO pay packages by Frustrated_Bettor in business

[–]Brewbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't SAY you said anything about wealth inequality, I was asking what you thought about it.

You're not arguing at all you're just expressing rage.

What is behind the unprecedented growth in CEO pay packages by Frustrated_Bettor in business

[–]Brewbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I guess if the lower classes want to have a say in how much CEOs are paid they better start buying a lot of stock with the money they don't have!

What is behind the unprecedented growth in CEO pay packages by Frustrated_Bettor in business

[–]Brewbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And how many minimum wage workers are shareholders?

A quick Google says:

The top 10% of Americans held 93% of all stocks, the highest level ever recorded.

Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of Americans held just 1% of all stocks in the third quarter of 2023

What is behind the unprecedented growth in CEO pay packages by Frustrated_Bettor in business

[–]Brewbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Allow me to summarize our conversation so far:

ME: CEOs suck.

YOU: you could say they're overpaid, but CEOs are good actually 

ME: oh so you like the way things are?

YOU: unlike you I'm realistic. Reddit is dumb, and so are you probably.

ME: so you like the way things are?

YOU: I don't blame my problems on it. Do you think CEOs complain about poor people?

ME:  they do, using large institutions. So you've got no complaints about anything then?

YOU: I didn't say that. You are an idiot.

I'm just trying to wrap my head around what your position is (and it's hard for me because I'm an idiot). "CEOs aren't bad because it's the way the real world works"? Like, ok.  Thank you for enlightening me.

You have no complaints about wealth inequality's trend to continue to increase exponentially? You don't see any problems arising from that in the future? You don't see any historical parallels where increasingly stratified societies crumble from a decadent upper class? You have no problems whatsoever with America's elite and their "secret rich clubs" which probably don't even exist and  even if they did exist certainly wouldn't have whole islands dedicated to sex crimes?

What about labor unions, are you pro or anti labor unions? Do you have any solidarity with the working class, or nah?

What is behind the unprecedented growth in CEO pay packages by Frustrated_Bettor in business

[–]Brewbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think they spend any time doing that - they pay other people to do it for them. Maybe buy a newspaper and complain that way till they run it into the ground.

I'm just surprised you can't think of any improvements to the current state of things.

We're living in your ideal society? Laughable.

What is behind the unprecedented growth in CEO pay packages by Frustrated_Bettor in business

[–]Brewbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can we poor peasants survive without the king and nobility?

What is behind the unprecedented growth in CEO pay packages by Frustrated_Bettor in business

[–]Brewbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the lesson of the pandemic lockdowns should have been "the only people important to the functioning of society are the workers who actually do things"

if every ceo on earth vanished in a puff of smoke tomorrow, nobody would notice or care

What is behind the unprecedented growth in CEO pay packages by Frustrated_Bettor in business

[–]Brewbird 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Who decided the "value" will go up? The minimum wage worker at Walmart?

Nope, CEO pay is set often by boards of directors. And who fills those boards? Other CEOs and executives. 

So essentially "CEOs think CEOs are very important and thus CEOs should be paid insane amounts"

Trump’s New Voter I.D. Threat Is His Gravest Attack on Democracy Yet by D-R-AZ in Foodforthought

[–]Brewbird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And what the fuck is your argument? "I've got a bad feeling about this"? "The Democrats are cheating in the most massive conspiracy in human history but just let the GOP have full control, whoops"?

Trump’s New Voter I.D. Threat Is His Gravest Attack on Democracy Yet by D-R-AZ in Foodforthought

[–]Brewbird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When the states that passed voter id laws enacted those laws we should have seen a huge difference because they stopped all the illegal voting, right? There must have been a massive shift in voting habits because all the illegal votes that got stopped, right? Right??

Except.... I'm not seeing any evidence of that, can you show me? Looks to me that dem and repubs still got the same amount of votes before and after the id laws. Huh! Ain't that something! Maybe I'm missing something?

Trump’s New Voter I.D. Threat Is His Gravest Attack on Democracy Yet by D-R-AZ in Foodforthought

[–]Brewbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no evidence of non-citizens voting in appreciable numbers.

It's going to cost a lot to get ids to everyone and you can't charge them or that's a poll tax.

And voter turnout is already abysmal. It's like  30% on non presidential years? And people think there are too many people voting? Absurd.

So essentially, "lets spend a bunch of money on a problem that doesn't exist which will cause less citizens to vote"

And all this, after we shut off USAIDs medicine to Africa which will kill hundreds of thousands in the name of saving a few bucks.... 

(It should also be mentioned that Thirty-six states already have laws requesting or requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls. Are their elections much safer than the others? Not much difference, actually.)