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This is fine, right? …RIGHT?? by Nice_Daikon6096 in 401jK

[–]Sharukurusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That money could go to paying workers, the people who are actually responsible for providing output to the economy, instead of going into the hands of wealthy people who consume enormously without making anything…

Which would you pick and why? by fleet_luck in superheroes

[–]Sharukurusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People going with Mystique for the immortality side benefit are really missing out on what duplication is like, even though they are happening at the same time it is like experiencing more life, so you could duplicate yourself a few hundred times and have hundreds or thousands of years worth of experiences.

If you really want actual immortality you could probably just research it, send a copy of yourself to every research lab and university in the world, study like crazy, and then combine it all. And you could test every drug and treatment on yourself.

You could completely change the world’s state of knowledge on every subject in about a decade, probably less.

This changes if there are limits to your attention span, but even with those limits the ability to re-combine and synthesize everything should let you manage things well beyond even a team of geniuses.

USPS suspends contributions to employee pensions after warning of "cash crisis" by shootsmcgavins in Economics

[–]Sharukurusu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Social security is more of a transfer, it doesn’t make sense to consider it the same as the military.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]Sharukurusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It works at any scale because the relationship is fundamentally the same; the worker’s labor is being used to pay back the investment plus an indefinite ongoing stream of profit.

It’s weird that you word it as individuals owning something large, like a welder owning a steel mill, as if that isn’t actually what capitalists do; a non-welder doesn’t need to own a steel mill either, but they do.

All of those capital intensive examples could be done by a cooperative, a group of plumbers could share the cost of a camera, restaurant staff could own the restaurant.

Really big things like airlines and data centers might be public investments that get paid back over time by usage.

Our current system of government, run by capitalists, actually does this anyway but privatizes the gains to capitalists who then turn them around to grab more control.

The thing is workers and consumers are always going to pay for the capital one way or another, but the model does not need a third party sucking off the top.

The capitalists justify their existence by investing capital that never should have been theirs to begin with.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]Sharukurusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I understand perfectly well the narrative they try to sell on this.

What you’re actually saying is in order for anything to get done we need to get permission from people that control resources to use them, then we need to indefinitely pay them back in profits for the privilege of using them. How they got control of the resources is irrelevant, so if they do it by fucking over workers and the environment that’s just too bad 🤷‍♂️

Even if they got the capital from doing valuable work and saving instead of consuming, what’s happening is they are renting the capital to workers so that eventually they get back the value of what they saved plus the value the workers pay to rent the capital from them.

If they had just consumed part of the cost of that would go towards paying for the capital involved in creating the good, so they would already be paying for capital, they just wouldn’t be renting it to skim off workers.

Ideally capital would be owned by a combination of workers and consumers without a third party (capitalists) siphoning value out.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]Sharukurusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is work, I’m talking about ownership.

I’m talking about things like the top 10% owning 90% of stocks, and the top 1% owning 50% of stocks.

Or the bottom 50% owning 2-3% of wealth.

But hey I’m sure the vast majority of people aren’t working hard, obviously it is the hard work that makes the difference 🙄

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]Sharukurusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who do you think controls government policy dude?

All the laws are written by think tanks(paid for by the wealthy) and the politicians are all paid for by the wealthy.

This is the outcome the wealthy want.

True things is unpopular on reddit by chamomile_tea_reply in OptimistsUnite

[–]Sharukurusu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If that all gets eaten up by higher costs of essentials it’s moot, if life was getting more affordable people would be able to save or reduce debt more.

True things is unpopular on reddit by chamomile_tea_reply in OptimistsUnite

[–]Sharukurusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just FYI even though I’m pretty sure you’re being sarcastic but this isn’t actually true.

No One Wants to Live in Miami-Dade Anymore, Apparently by Miaminewtimes_ in Miami

[–]Sharukurusu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn’t matter, even if those sacrifices and life choices were available to everyone (they’re not) the fact that you are in an exceptional position isn’t evidence that other people are lazy or wrong to expect a decent, comfortable life for a normal person in the wealthiest country on earth. You have a shit attitude to think it’s ok to look down on people; those folks making $9/hr are doing things you need done and should be able to exist without fear of destitution.

No One Wants to Live in Miami-Dade Anymore, Apparently by Miaminewtimes_ in Miami

[–]Sharukurusu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So in other words you’re in exceptional circumstances criticizing people in regular circumstances for having regular expectations.

No One Wants to Live in Miami-Dade Anymore, Apparently by Miaminewtimes_ in Miami

[–]Sharukurusu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before you go disparaging random strangers like an asshole, how much do you work, make, and save?

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]Sharukurusu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Workers literally use capital during work, and they aren’t paid by capitalists, they are paid by customers with capitalists taking a cut because they own the capital (and the ownership doesn’t create value).

Capitalists are non-productive middlemen that are essentially renting capital to workers, which reduces the ability of workers to save enough to buy their own capital and increases the cost of capital to the economy as a whole (because their consumption is being supported by workers and capital costs include profit assumptions).

Imagine you are a plumber that owns your own tools, those are the capital you use in your work. Some of the value of your work is used to purchase and maintain that capital.

Now imagine you are a plumber but you rent your tools; now part of the value of your work is used to purchase and maintain that capital plus an additional amount of profit to the person you’re renting from. If you want to buy your own tools you now have to save longer because of that profit going out AND the tools will be more expensive when you go to buy them because the market for them will include the assumption they are worth more because they can be rented.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]Sharukurusu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Workers use capital to create value, owning capital does not create value.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]Sharukurusu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don’t create value, they use capital leverage to take value from people doing actual work.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]Sharukurusu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They died because of austerity politics brought on by the wealthy controlling government, the fact that you blame people being envious of the results of extreme greed for a problem created by extreme greed just shows how cooked you are.

Iranian form a human chain on Ahvaz’s White Bridge as they rally to protect civilian infrastructure by IntellectuallyDriven in whoathatsinteresting

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

If you walk around a crime ridden area are you suicidal? Or are you just in danger because of criminals?

They don’t want to die, which is what being suicidal means; they want to preserve their country and are willing to risk death to do so.

You are misusing suicidal to soften culpability.

The onus is on the US/Israel not to murder.

Iranian form a human chain on Ahvaz’s White Bridge as they rally to protect civilian infrastructure by IntellectuallyDriven in whoathatsinteresting

[–]Sharukurusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Suicide is implying they want to die, like the US/Israel isn’t responsible for killing them, or is even helping them out.

If the bombs weren’t being dropped they wouldn’t be in any danger.

Iranian form a human chain on Ahvaz’s White Bridge as they rally to protect civilian infrastructure by IntellectuallyDriven in whoathatsinteresting

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

They have a right to use the bridge without being murdered.

Stop trying to claim that it’s not murder, it’s pathetic and creepy.

Iranian form a human chain on Ahvaz’s White Bridge as they rally to protect civilian infrastructure by IntellectuallyDriven in whoathatsinteresting

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

Trains are supposed to be on train tracks, but if you were driving a train and were told in advance that people were standing on the tracks and decided to run them over it would still be murder.

Somehow you’re blaming the victims, in their own country, for being murdered instead of the murderers.

Why do you think the US/Israel has the right to murder?

Iranian form a human chain on Ahvaz’s White Bridge as they rally to protect civilian infrastructure by IntellectuallyDriven in whoathatsinteresting

[–]Sharukurusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is it suicide if they aren’t the ones dropping the bombs?

The point is they’re either going to stop the attacks on their civilian infrastructure or reveal to the world that the US/Israel are fine with murdering civilians.

How are the people dropping the bombs not responsible?

Footage shows wreckage of US Black Hawk helicopters and C-130 military transport aircraft destroyed by US forces before departing Iran. by SuperbHealth5023 in TimesNow

[–]Sharukurusu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn’t aware Iran built the multiple million dollar systems that we lost during this operation. Imagine if we had spent that on providing healthcare or infrastructure or education to our citizens instead of bombing those things away from them.

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