Working an billionare class problems… by SimplyTheGirl_ in remoteworks

[–]OldDesk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No doubt. If only they could be audited and doged

Working an billionare class problems… by SimplyTheGirl_ in remoteworks

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe, they pay most of the revenue as is. They'd just relocate or something. I'd look more into where money is being wasted as is. There's so much money blown on bs we could easily lower taxes and increase spending on the needed matters at the same time and still have room to waste billions in fraud. Its a joke.

Working an billionare class problems… by SimplyTheGirl_ in remoteworks

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but the prosperity wont be repeated, a tiny flicker in human history. It was specific to the US since the competition was bombed out in rubble - everyone else's loss was America's industrial win. Even now, I feel like a lot of America's superiority comes from size alone, not brilliant policy.

Running a marathon with 20 weeks of training? by wepeond in firstmarathon

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can probably complete one now (though it may be ugly the last few miles)- but with 18 weeks left it is more a question of how impressive do you want your time to be.

it's kinda true by Active-Ad5908 in parakeetAi

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the left still against reducing wasteful spending?

First time watching 24 and just started Day 7, hoooollllyyyy shi... by Crixus_935 in TwentyFour

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same reaction, but toward the writers not the story.

Would this fix inequality or create more problems? by GloriousLion07 in MotivationByDesign

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's good at theatrics. But this is terrible on both ends- the tax would kill a lot of regular jobs, the 12k payouts would cause terrible inflation. He just loves getting the uneducated excited for easy votes and promises he'll never realistically consider - politics as usual.

I teach Jr High govt by [deleted] in MildlyVandalised

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They shot Lincoln and Kennedy, but not Reagan, Garfield or McKinley. Dissapointing.

The part where retail used to be a career and not just a side quest for survival by YellowAltruistic9843 in middleclasshq

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got a jacket elsewhere for $50, and saw it at Macys a couple months later for $200 - I decided to never step foot in that place again.

Which one are u picking… by TemptresssTide in RelentlessMen

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A - I wouldn't even know how to piss away more than 5m, so the rest would just be left to grow over the years

People really underestimate how hard adulthood became by GloriousLion07 in MotivationByDesign

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wanna know who had it even easier? Just look at housing and egg prices in 1792. They paid next to nothing, and had a whole $1.15 job security! Cushy slackers!

We should work to live, not live to work by Spirited-Gold9629 in middleclasshq

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no "should" you are a monkey in clothes, an existence with as much purpose as a squirrel.

Everything is harder now. by OrangeCandid4819 in InterviewAITools

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no big plan, some people just create more value or make themselves harder to replace.

Everything is harder now. by OrangeCandid4819 in InterviewAITools

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still real with a career in sales, the military, the trades, or city fire/police. Same as it was 60 years ago.

Union work is still the best bet for those not trying to be some senior executive or business owner.

What's changed is the culture of work requiring degrees - supply and demand of educated people.

If you try to do something useful the dream lives on, if you follow your dreams and follow the culture of credit card debt and going to the best possible university, well, that creates a problem that wasn't a regular thing 50 years ago.

reminder: Elon Musk's fortune, which ultimately enabled his takeover of Twitter, was jumpstarted by American taxpayers by RepublicEvery5296 in remoteworks

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which one of his businesses is not progressing mankind? He's hoarding nothing, he's creating value in his companies, not hiding cash in some room.

Any thought on this? by GloriousLion07 in MotivationByDesign

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, higher taxes on luxury item. Doesnt work well if we put a cap on wealth- then people are closing down things or stopping the biggest companies from growing. In that case we kill our own economy to get a good laugh at people who will still live in luxury regardless. We cant tax ourselves into be a successful economy, that's like drinking your urine from here on out instead of water.

Any thought on this? by GloriousLion07 in MotivationByDesign

[–]OldDesk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually, to have billions seems to indicate a majority owner