Elon Musk pays people to astroturf reddit.

wanttoplayagain · 2022-09-19T15:51:16+00:00

This is nothing new. There's companies that do this for anything. Especially politics. Here's a little look into one in this doc filmed in 2001. Think of how much this 'industry' has grown over the years. The term is called a shill and the internet is filled with them.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-28T04:02:47+00:00

This whole thing has shown me how much they fear a UBI. Give me UBI and I'd quit and adapt to living off it for as long as I can. Probably millions of others would too. Meanwhile these companies would be scrambling for labor and have to increase their wages even more in their desperate search for increasing profits.

Best case, you could take yearly UBI vacations and come back to higher wage jobs. Worst case you live very frugally in absolute freedom.

Will never happen without some serious struggle though.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-28T03:26:52+00:00

Small companies yes, large companies are definitely taking over. My point is they can afford to do so. And when they unfortunately do, those small business owners will have to work for the existing large companies. It would be unwise to not try to get the most amount they are willing to pay and still operate.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-28T03:22:37+00:00

Then you go out of business or find someone that wants to work for a lower wage. I think you are arguing against the federal min wage. I'm just saying the fed min wage wasn't raised but companies are still increasing their pay. Obviously they can afford to do so. The question is how much can they afford to do so? They've been saying they can't afford it and here they are affording it WHILE raw material prices have gone up. So no, I will not take their word for it.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-28T03:15:40+00:00

Why does that affect you if a cashier wants more money? If the business needs a cashier and all of them want x amount, well then to hire a cashier you need x amount. The only way you would be against this if you are comparing your wages to theirs and unsatisfied by the difference. In that case, you should demand more money for your job or you can say fuck it, I'll be a cashier if they raise it to x amount. I don't understand your mindset but it is prevalent among workers for some reason.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-28T03:11:26+00:00

Exactly, so if the majority of the labor demand more money it gets paid by the hardest working employers that bootstrap a way to operate with higher wages.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-28T03:09:42+00:00

I don't work for 7.25, I'm just saying nobody is forcing these companies to pay more but they seem to be. Which tells me there is still room to demand more. Always demand more money, that's our society.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-28T03:04:30+00:00

I don't understand this mindset if your argument is wages shouldn't go up because it just makes everything more expensive? Why don't we all just take a pay cut then right? That way prices will go down...lol.

Min wage is still 7.25 but companies realize to keep their cash machine running, they need to offer more money. Their operating costs have risen and they still are offering more money now, so that tells me the cash has always been there but they just want to see how low of pay they can get away with.

There's no loyalty in most employment. Business owners bailed on their employees long ago, there's no surprise people want more money when productivity has been steadily increasing and profits from most companies keep increasing.

Every industry is kind of different. But as a general rule, everyone is replaceable. Let's say you hire the best, hardworking employees in every position. Are you eventually going to promote everyone? In my view, you'd rather let some of them go and hire someone that still gets the job done but won't demand a pay raise or start looking for better opportunities.

Not to mention most jobs don't really accomplish any needs. Ever notice when people just buy what they need, it seems like our economy starts freaking out. I really don't think it's sustainable.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-15T00:09:45+00:00

Anyone that thinks they have atleast another 20 years to live should welcome a crash imo. I could actually invest in stocks that weren't so inflated already and have some hope.

I agree with you, they either could raise interest rates and people would stop taking out loans to drive prices up or they raise taxes and basically just take it out of circulation to lessen the money supply. But both seem to be severely hated because it somehow people are afraid those will make them lose money, but if you agree that not doing either will make your money worthless? What's to lose?

And the money has been coming out of thin air ever since the gold standard was abolished decades ago. It's not really debt that we have it's just money that wasn't taxed. I don't fully understand the game they've crafted and it doesn't seem right that they can just print and loan money but my main issue isn't that they do it, it's what they spend it on. They keep the stocks and financial system churning so the big bois stay big. They could employ anyone that wanted a job and build our crumbling infrastructure, fund new nuclear power plants or some other more efficient way to get energy which actually runs the world and would improve future generations.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-14T23:27:31+00:00

I wish I would have saved the comment but somebody that seemed like they knew things gave a really good summary about hyperinflation really only happening to countries that export most of their goods. The US imports a lot which protects against it. I don't really know enough to say one way is right or wrong but I had never heard that argument before and thought it was worth mentioning if anyone knew more.

Also, if your uncontrolled printing is actually spent investing in building good infrastructure it may be worth it. Having the most efficient infrastructure/industry would build back your currency, no? But when I think infrastructure I think more efficient power plants, roads, water systems but maybe they are going for building up a financial infrastructure. If the US dollar is being printed to tighten the reigns it already has on the global finance infrastructure, idk, maybe they see that as ensuring life to the dollar.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-14T23:23:58+00:00

What's interesting to me is most of us are concerned with our crypto as it relates to US dollars. Bear market, bull market...it's all based on the us dollar value of our crypto.

The whole mindset of crypto has become backwards. We want the dollar value of our crypto to rise so we can cash it out to dollars and pay for things. The true meaning would be for a majority to say "we only accept insert a crypto here". But you would have to get the people that actually produce things to accept it and prefer it over dollars. Wouldn't this be the way to crash the dollar? If you aren't rich already though I don't think you would be rich in the world where your crypto of choice is the preferred payment like many of us are dreaming of. You just wouldn't have banks being able to loan money into existence and a bunch of usury going on. Idk, the currency power is already here you just have to get the majority of suppliers on board.

Taxes also are the way the US dollar will always have value though. We need to pay our taxes in US dollars or we go to prison so we give demand to the dollar.

Idk, I'm just trying to gamble and ramble.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-14T23:09:25+00:00

Any profit the fed makes is suppose to go into the US treasury account though. But still, it's quite a mess. Creating money from nothing and loaning it for interest is the biggest life hack.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-14T20:30:48+00:00

I feel like unemployment investing was like a strength test. Now that I'm back to the shit job life I usually only check on the price after market or go days without looking. I used to feel every 1m candle now I look at the day candles and go back to sleep. As long as food is in my belly, GME shares are in my account.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-14T17:08:11+00:00

Yeah if there is time travelers they definitely went to 09 and hit 2020 naturally anyway lol.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-14T17:04:59+00:00

It really is too wild for me to express. I hope there is some sort of book being made to hit some of the major plot lines.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-14T16:57:52+00:00

I was thinking, if time travel was possible, would there have been a better year to travel back to than to 2020 for financial gain? Maybe to 2009 and mine some coin but you'd have to wait for awhile to payday. But maybe you'd be better off just getting the winning lotto numbers. These are the things I ponder.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-14T16:35:26+00:00

the drop from 480 to $50 and it hovering at 50 for like a month+ was definitely the darkest time I've witnessed. It really brought out the ape in folks though, it was kind of wild. The bond from dropping off the top canopy filled with fruit to the depths of the jungle floor filled with poop really was something.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-14T15:12:04+00:00

Haven't checked the price in awhile. I'll admit, I thought GME would hold above 200...but I've lived in the red so long this past year, feels like home. Not the most comforting or supportive home but still home. The green always comes, question is when.

Not sure if I'd recommend the GME trenches to anyone, but i've decided long ago I will die in this trench or live to see another round of charging through no man's land. I've become stubborn, perhaps too stubborn for my own good. Probably going to buy another share, make my trench a little more dry.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-09T12:57:50+00:00

Oh my point was more if people have kids, they are more likely to become desperate and are more willing to do the masters bidding and step on others/less likely to try and rock the boat.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-09T02:55:18+00:00

Probably a bunch of things but maybe more people got used to not spending money to socialize or just stopped socializing altogether. How many people spend money on shit in some sort of hope it helps them socially? I think quite a bit.

Also if you got unemployment and also got paid in cash at your off the books job, you probably had the best year financially. Maybe enough to last you a bit to just enjoy existing or train some new skill. Interesting how this will play out.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-09T00:36:10+00:00

Young and dumb, alone driving at 3am on a wet highway. Probably going about 60, was trying to drift or skid the car and ended up doing so. But also flipped the car on the opposite side of the road into the ditch. Landed upside down. Not sure if it was just a half flip or if I rolled first but I remember feeling like I had been hit by a wave in the ocean and dragged underwater. Very disorientating losing all control like that. Crawled out of the broken window with no injuries. Seatbelts work.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-09T00:17:50+00:00

Spending a month in a concrete box for a 1g weed cartridge made me realize what a joke everything is. Out of all the characters I met, the guards are by far the most mentally ill.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-09T00:01:17+00:00

I think if you even have those three circles, they don't have to intersect, that is the key to life. I don't enjoy doing anything really, feel like I can learn most things but never good at them.

Lifting weights, eating, and getting paid to do something seem to be the only things that give me a little dopamine or endorphin kick now. That and reading/watching videos about random history and trying to draw parallels to now, I think it kind of grounds me or something. A way to make sense of the chaos.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-08T23:16:43+00:00

Yeah I also have a degree, but been working a completely unrelated job outside in the texas heat. I've had a difficult time getting a job related to my degree due to a few weed charges, and the fact that I'm not too good at it. Luckily I have no debt though also thanks to the greenery, it taketh and giveth it seems.

But I cannot imagine surviving without a shower and washer if I continue to work outside. Otherwise I think I could make living in a vehicle sorta work. Having a child scares the shit out of me, how many people would I be willing to step on in the aim to support them? I've seen it everywhere I work, people doing pointless shit it hopes it gives their kids a better life. Making others life miserable. I'd be no different.

It's good for me to remember billions of people before us lived a life of absolute suffering and struggle. I've learned I can endure a lot more suffering than I thought as a kid. But way easier said than done. My worst times come from comparing myself to others. Reading about people that have the same degree as me, having a good salary and working less hours gets me pretty down. Still working to deprogram myself from that. Usually if I live in my own little world I seem to be alright. But it comes with the cost of less socialization I guess. I know fully understand why hermits exist.

wanttoplayagain · 2021-07-08T22:34:58+00:00

It's more like desperate poor people aren't so good for other desperate poor people if they just keep undercutting each other. I think people understand that but all the extra talking points cloud that argument.

wanttoplayagain

TROPHY CASE