jokes on billionaires, because of your shitty greed there wont be anyone left to buy your worthless junk
They will be long dead before any of this matters, so I doubt they will care.
I think they have other plans like seeding mars with their semen, transporting their consciousness to a robot or cryofreezing themselves until infinite life becomes available to billionaires.
or cryofreezing themselves
I’ll help, I have a large chest-type freezer. I bet we can fit 2-3 billionaires in there. Probably a half dozen if we process them first, it’s a start!
And long dead ages before they’d run out of money even living a ridiculously lavish lifestyle…and yet profit and greed still somehow motivate them. Is it just the dick swinging thing about having the largest number on paper?
Is it just the dick swinging thing about having the largest number on paper?
Glances at Elon Musk
I think so, yes.
Shall I kill myself? I have obviously failed in life, so I’m not sure what to do.
Have you considered just smoking weed and playing vidya game all day?
I did but I ran out. Situation much worse now
Hey look! They’re talking about me!
GOP: “that’s okay, just trap them to have children and make abortion illegal.”
Remember JD Vance said that childless individuals “should not have as much of a voice.”
Remember JD Vance said that childless individuals “should not have as much of a voice.”
So the reasoning behind this is probably “childless individuals don’t have to think about the future as much”.
The natural extension of that reasoning is that older people should have their voting/political power diminished (since they won’t be around as long)
I gotta say, a part of me sees the latter as being worth the former… I know it goes against many principles of government, etc. etc. but it certainly is tempting. Any armchair political scientists want to chime in?
People who fuck couches should have less of a voice
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Oh god, the r/fluentinfinance spambot found lemmy and is now spamming their posts here too
I’m not a bot though.
That’s exactly what a bot would say
Bustin’ makes me feel goood
She ain’t lying.
BUT! The Dems have it covered. Just replace future American citizens with illegal immigrants.
The fuck drugs are you on?
Ohhh we’re causing it. Ok cool.
Life fucked me up. I’m not giving it fresh sacrifices.
After a century of telling people work, career, consumption and wealth are the most important thing in their life, business leaders are now shocked people will prioritize work, career, consumption and wealth over having many children.
Furthermore, after cutting programs for making child care, health care and education affordable, politicians are wondering why people don’t bring as much children into the world that need a lot of health care, child care and education.
When did we go from “baby boom” to “this is the correct population level we should sustain”. A boom eventually gets a correction
when it became clear that the people who “weren’t having enough kids” were white, it’s been white supremacy this whole time
Ignoring the elephant in the room called “Child Care.” Often that’s more expensive than housing.
*Happy post-soviet country noises*
Where can I get some of that $1200 rent that isn’t in the middle of some hillbilly backwater?
I had a 2 bedroom in Albuquerque for 1100 last year, with horrible noise pollution but still.
I’m stuck in my 2 bedroom townhouse apartment hybrid for 1125 because a studio around me is 1200 a month (or anywhere in range of my office). I live alone, and sleep on my couch, I don’t need the rooms, but I can’t leave.
Great job capitalism!
Lots of great smaller towns in the middle of the country. Usually pretty progressive too if you stay in town.
Name them
Fayetteville Arkansas, Salina Kansas. Ames Iowa, Birmingham Alabama. That’s a few. There’s plenty more.
smaller towns
Birmingham Alabama
That’s a fair sight bigger than a town. In fact these are all major cities in their respective areas.
Fair but much smaller than larger metros. Birmingham is definitely a bit large.
I lived in Ames. There’s nothing great about it. The local government hates the college, and passes laws that fuck up the town just to spite them. ISU students are more than 50% of the population of the town. All of the apartments rent from August to August. Get there any other month, and your lease goes until August. This means that everyone in town is moving the same day. Worst town I’ve ever lived in.
Get a lotta roommates.
Who cares, let population decline for a generation or so. Maybe we will stop producing so much shit and scale back
that’s not how capitalism works. if you’re not selling enough shit you find a way to make the same people buy more or pay more. line must go up. no scaling back. line must go up.
But, now hear me out…what if it doesn’t…
hahaha… haha… ok now that we laughed at that ridiculously absurd idea, let’s watch the line go up.
If line stays flat? Things kinda gradually get shittier for a while.
If line goes down? Economic collapse. Riots in the street. Civil anarchy. Homelessness and crime will skyrocket.
Those of you who have never taken an economics class think this is satire.
The problem is when corporate profits go up but wages stay flat or go down. Or when wages go up for some but not for others.
I don’t understand… Are you saying, line go down? I’ve never heard of such a thing
You’ve never seen my bank account …
let population decline for a generation or so
But that’s bad for the Big GDP Number
Not necessarily - less people means lower unemployment resulting in higher wages to attract people to your organization (income is directly linked to GDP). Phillips curve relationship.
Its a bitch for inflation though.
https://media.tenor.com/5F5B6IgfYWAAAAAM/game-of.gif
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Oh no, not the economy!
Anyways…
The Economy is kinda important, especially when the big Economy Computer starts telling everyone that a downturn in Brawndo sales means they’re all homeless.
Big Economy Computer? I didn’t know USSA already have built communism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People’s_Republic_of_Walmart
With the size and scope of modern American mega-corps, we’re closer to it than you’d think. Hayek’s economic calculation problem is functionally solved.
Would that be the worst thing in the world? Probably not
Yeah but the GDP per capita will skyrocket.
Transforming America into Monaco.
$1500? That’s mad cheap. A small 2 bedroom in my city goes for $2500 or so
$4/sqft/mo here. Pity me.
not sure what area the poster in the image is from but here 1500 is like a moldy run down piece of shit and the landlord lives upstairs in equally bad conditions with buckets everywhere for the ceiling leak. Or it’s literally just a room and shared kitchen and bath with other renters but you cant trust them not to eat your stuff from the fridge and the landlord doesn’t allow mini fridge in the rooms for hard to verify ‘insurance reasons’.
