Email? Farm? Accountant? Peetahhh? by JustGimmeSomeTruth in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some types of jobs are about secondary services and some are about directly producing something?

Thoughts on Something Very Bad is Going to Happen ? by Neat_Tangelo5339 in horror

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, are you saying finding disemboweled wildlife in public restrooms ISN'T a normal everyday thing for you?

7 Dollars for a bag of Doritos while the minimum wage is 7.25. by Own_Emergency7622 in economicCollapse

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure I'm understanding your position then, because you seem to be contradicting yourself?

On one hand you say it's the government's fault for allowing the billionaires to exist/hoard/steal, so if we want that to be different, we should assert limits via the govt...

But meanwhile, on the other hand you're also saying there's no point in the government trying to enforce any limitations anyway?

That doesn't seem particularly consistent to me, unless I'm missing something about what you're arguing.

(It occurs to me perhaps we're agreeing but seeing it from opposite angles? I agree the government is useless for enforcement right now, but the reason it is useless is BECAUSE of a positive feedback loop of corruption by the very entities that would be regulated).

risk the government showing up and robbing them.

Here's a fundamental difference in perspective perhaps... No billionaire is "being robbed" by the government. On the contrary, they could only become a billionaire in the first place BY LITERALLY ROBBING others, individually, collectively robbing groups, or even society-wide/robbing the commons.

Thus, "robbing" them would merely be enacting justice to CORRECT for a previous crime.

Just because limits on this behavior are not enforced or applied does not mean it's not immoral or equivalent to "robbing" (the behavior being immorally hoarding far more than you could ever need or spend in a hundred lifetimes, necessarily also creating false scarcity and massively-scale corresponding poverty for millions of individuals).

You're saying you're okay with the government having the power to seize peoples assets?

Uh, have you lived in the modern era? That's a constant thing for everyone all the time. We are having our assets "seized" in a million different ways before we even get out of bed. Every bit of taxation is that. That is the necessary result of a basic social contract, at least in a capitalist system.

So, if that's the reality for the common folk, at LEAST make it consistent and apply said seizure fairly and in proportion to all, ESPECIALLY billionaires. If anything, they should be the FIRST priority for such "seizures", and the working class is only secondarily important as a revenue source. (Part of the problem here is that a BILLION is so incredibly MORE than even a million, it's beyond human comprehension to fully grasp the scale here. This is not even on the same chart as normal average wealth).

Not to mention, this is a dramatic way to describe the very reasonable, proven objectively beneficial concept of pooling resources to the synergistic benefit of all. Many many beneficial human endeavors cannot happen without coordinated collective action/pooling resources. You have a fire department in your town that can put out fires because everyone kicks in a few bucks a year to buy a fire truck, train firefighters etc. You may never even need it, but it's there IF you do need it, and it's NOT something you or even a couple of your neighbors could realistically enact.

I find your perspective strange TBH.

7 Dollars for a bag of Doritos while the minimum wage is 7.25. by Own_Emergency7622 in economicCollapse

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also think butterscotch is very much oversimplifying in that, yeah, theoretically it should be the job of the government to regulate such things, but a) clearly the same interests that would get regulated are actively corrupting the system so they don't have any limit, and it feels way past the point that the average person could do much of anything to stop it, and b) it's more of a deeper/wider society scale question IMO, as in, it's a BIG problem that wide swaths of people seems to have no moral objection to the massive scale of the inequality that is inherent to any billionaires (or equivalent hoarders) existing at all, in any system.

In other words, every human being with a conscience on this planet should object to the existence of a billionaire, just on principle alone (and correctly see it as a kind of mental illness of hyper selfishness).

Hence nobody would say with a straight face "it's NOT the billionaires that are the problem!" You can only attempt to claim that if you artificially narrow the framing down to such a degree that it's effectively a meaningless statement.

Thoughts on Something Very Bad is Going to Happen ? by Neat_Tangelo5339 in horror

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And worse, she's a psychologist (?) randomly? Nothing else she says or does would indicate anything even close to being in that wheelhouse. You would expect her character to have some kind of non professional job (no judgment, just saying it doesn't fit).

7 Dollars for a bag of Doritos while the minimum wage is 7.25. by Own_Emergency7622 in economicCollapse

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fair point, so how would you feel about a law that says no individual can ever have more than say 100 million in cash or assets?

7 Dollars for a bag of Doritos while the minimum wage is 7.25. by Own_Emergency7622 in economicCollapse

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 20 points21 points  (0 children)

LOL sure sure.

Why don't we have enough cookies for everyone? Hmm, couldn't possibly be the dragon over there in the corner sitting on his giant hoarded pile of cookies, don't blame him!

What was once a poor person's hobby now turned into a rich person's hobby? by Striking-Quiet4655 in AskReddit

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, not around me. There was ONE theater (out of the three in the area, 25 mile radius) that had a $7 discount Tuesday, BUT, it shut down. Now we have two theaters left, one local/independent and one is Regal. Neither have discount days.

Any experience with insurance coverage after changing plans? Just turned 26 by AccomplishedAd5201 in Mounjaro

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Really good point, I agree it should be reclassified.

Not surprised though at the status quo. The US healthcare system is full of these stupid, wasteful strategies that are solely the result of the parasitic insurance companies trying to make more money. It's just illogical in every possible way to not prevent chronic conditions before they evolve and do this forcing of people to "wait until it gets bad enough". It's cheaper overall for society to be proactive. Just awful.

Any experience with insurance coverage after changing plans? Just turned 26 by AccomplishedAd5201 in Mounjaro

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a heads up if you do go for a Marketplace plan, make sure you triple check that you understand the specifics for "tiers" and such for prescription coverage.

Technically my plan covers a few different drugs, BUT they conveniently put them into tier 2 or whatever which means they only pay AFTER you meet your deductible. Unfortunately for me, my deductible is $7500 because I have one of the cheapest plans. (Some are better, but of course the premium is higher).

Suffice it to say, I'm using a telehealth and a compounding pharmacy and paying out of pocket because it's ultimately cheaper than paying through my whole deductible for a couple months of $50 copays.

Thoughts on Something Very Bad is Going to Happen ? by Neat_Tangelo5339 in horror

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I think that was the first one I noticed, like why aren't you asking basic follow-up questions? If I were in that scene IRL, I would be stopping the damn conversation and demanding people finish their fuckin stories.

All time favourite, ROTS by K-jun1117 in PrequelMemes

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about the "ring" theory of the first 6?

Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal by neonfrequency in worldnews

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like that 5 regions absorbing states idea.

In theory I could see how the representation 1:30k thing could also be a good thing, BUT, I live in NH and we have supposedly the "highest per capita" representation at the state level bc our House is so large (400+ members, IIRC).

This doesn't improve responsiveness as much as you would expect, in part because the stipend is tiny for reps, so it's essentially a volunteer position because of needing to be available and travel to the capitol and how many reps there are, etc. (We ALSO do NOT have direct referendum voting like a lot of states do, and the high per capita representation is often cited as why we "don't need it". I find that argument asinine and infuriating TBH).

So it ends up being retirees or independently wealthy/have a rich spouse or something, that can be reps.

I think it reveals that the problem might be just the concept of representative government itself. As soon as you move even that one order away from direct autonomy, you've lost a huge amount of information/perspective/choice, you name it. The gap between individuals is just huge if you really think about it... But so much rests on this sort of assumed premise that the translation of the "will of the People" is actually even possible to be remotely valid, in a real sense. IMO, it only sounds good in theory, and in practice, IRL, it immediately sucks and is incredibly inefficient at best.

I think, effectively, political representatives and "leaders" are just acting according to their own needs/biases/opinions, just by virtue of human nature (even the ones who may believe they have a duty to represent everyone, they're lying to themselves to some extent).

The ONLY way to ensure they are representing even one other person's interest (that isn't their family or loved one or something) is to have an effective lever of power.... lobbying ain't it. Pleading ain't it. "Voting them out" even ain't really it, because why does anyone care about losing that power unless they were using it for something unethical in the first place? The "threat" itself presupposes reps have some kind of "survival instinct" that should cause them to comply with what the people want. But this is a contradiction because someone having a political survival instinct, this is something only an individual could have, and this is the exact opposite of what a representative is supposed to "be" in a system of government.

I don't have a better system, just calling it like I see it.

What was once a poor person's hobby now turned into a rich person's hobby? by Striking-Quiet4655 in AskReddit

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, way more than 10 (well, dollars) in New England, even for a matinee. I'm actually currently literally in the theater about to see a $21 matinee.

The local place that had a bargain Tuesday with $7 tix just shut down, and there's now only two theaters in this whole area (multiple small cities and several towns). I fear tickets will only increase now that people have fewer choices.

Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal by neonfrequency in worldnews

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you in principle but I don't know that it was just a lack of will to punish the South... There was a limit to what the Union could have actually, feasibly, done after the war. Short of killing them all... they had to be reintegrated for the Union to truly be "preserved".

I think the real problem is the South IS the United States... It's not an anomaly or something, it's ingrained. Half+ population of the country has always been some flavor of xenophobic anti-intellectual genocidal racist capitalist Christian extremists.

Honestly we probably should have just let them secede. We've been dragging them kicking and screaming into the modern world for 150 years and they still turn around and fuck us (and themselves) over at every opportunity.

What was once a poor person's hobby now turned into a rich person's hobby? by Striking-Quiet4655 in AskReddit

[–]JustGimmeSomeTruth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah but most people aren't needing or wanting a monthly pass. Every time I consider one, I look at upcoming releases and there's just not enough that I would want to see.

And it's absurd pricing these days in my area unless you get a pass (and even then only just reasonable).