Ads being everywhere.
I want to block the ones irl. You know the billboard and stuff
Fuck billboards so very much.
I heavily support any gas station that doesn’t have fucking video ads blasting at every pump.
Homelessness, and by extension, rent
United Kingdom
Allowing to block public traffic just so you can perform you hobby.
Looking at you cycling races like the Tour de France.
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Must have been even more infuriating back when people could no longer do their hobbies because fast-moving, noisy, deadly pieces of metal got priority everywhere, owned by almost everyone, and roads and parkings carving up cities.
Why did we ever allow it to go this far? We should have made laws forbidding most cars inside cities. We could have focused more on public transport and kept streets walkable.
you can’t possibly be serious
Social media becoming advertising platforms, I think.
Yeah I think that’s where society has gone wrong. The early days of Facebook were actually not too bad.
To some degree literally all of it. My monkey brain was designed to handle at most 150 people, wandering around all day searching for food, unprocessed food, using my body, having a close community I trust, relationship with nature, extreme knowledge of a small amount of things, and an uninterrupted sleep cycle powered by the son.
My humanity is a poor fit for the world I am in.
Glad to see someone knows about Dunbar’s number (BTW its 148).
somewhat tongue in cheek answer:
people who think that our brains were designed.
In a way it designed itself over time. I am a collection of accidentally acquired traits that happened to survive more often in the world that used to be. Mercifully it appears that I am somewhat adept at living in this world, but damn does it feel like I am a fish out of water being in this world.
people who think that our brains were designed.
It was, just by forces that lack conscious motivation.
My current favorite is the federal reserve making policy to intentionally weaken the labor market. I am currently paying the fuckwads scheming to keep labor weak, docile, and dependent. What a blast.
inflation is evil, so we can’t raise wages!
//every company raises prices, so net result is more americans in poverty//
Can you elaborate?
Mainly just my absolute shock at the openness of saying “We really need to see a weaker labor market.” Seriously??? That is where we are at now. The complete and transparent assault on the worker by people I personally fund. Outrageous! At least lie to me about your motives like I might have a modicum of power over you. Now you just tell me to eat shit and die right to my face.
Raising interest rates to fight inflation works by reducing demand. Jobs get lost so people have less money. So they spend less, so prices drop to be more competitive.
Only poorer people obviously. Rich people are less affected, but still pay more in interest. The increased number of unemployed people means competition for jobs is higher so workers are cheaper to pay, increasing profits again.
High inflation is bad for everyone, but particularly so for the poorer, too. However, measures to fight it should be spread across society. Instead blunt tools like interest rate rises disproportionately affect the poor. They should be combined with higher taxes on business and high earners and high net worth individuals. Worldwide we only really do the first. I wonder who decides?
Especially because, as far as I can see, inflation isn’t being caused by demand for necessaries. And, these days, an increasing number of people are pretty much only able to afford the basics necessities (if even that) did to talk terms pay cuts as a result of inflation.
You didn’t even mention the funniest part. We know that raising the fed rates can hurt the poor by reducing their access to money, but we don’t actually have any compelling evidence that it reduces inflation. It’s literally the modern equivalent of the ancient Romans or Greeks sacrificing an animal for a bountiful harvest.
In addition, I could definitely go for enforcement and expansion of price gouging and profiteering laws.
I would like to see enforcement and expansion of profiteering guillotines.
I like the cut of your jib
It mostly works by forcing companies to pay back their loans rather than keeping them indefinitely, which pulls excess money out of the economy instead of it circulating continuously. When interest rates were near zero and the reserve requirement was dropped for banks, a shitload of this lending was done multiple times, so they’re hoping to effectively claw that back
I’m paying some guy’s mortgage but he gets to keep the house at the end.
I’m actually seriously considering selling and going back to renting to get my flexibility back. I really despise being tied down to physical location, and the constant threat of having to move for a different job makes it even worse.
Probably won’t sell in the current market, but when it makes a bit more sense.
As someone who had to move 5 times I four years due to landlords and am now in my seventh glorious year in my own flat, that sounds mental.
What would you do if you lost your job and couldn’t find anything in your current location?
In the current high-interest market I’d probably rent out the property and rent something else wherever the job is located. But then you have to be willing to be a landlord. Some people aren’t.
As I said to someone else Futher down, I recognise that I’m privileged to have been born and live near the capital of a very centralised country so I never really need to worry about moving for work as I’m already where the highest wages are. I just got so miserable as a renter moving so much and never feeling like I had an actual home I couldn’t go back to it now I’m settled.
Got it. That’s just not the situation of most people. They have to move for a job or live in a terrible situation. I’d move in an instant rather than live in crap.
People who worry about “flexibility” are aliens to me
How are you in a material spot to just bounce around because you want to?
This person admitted they won’t actually carry through with it, they just want to sound like a wealthy person.
They clearly are wealthy enough that their brain is half rotted, causing them to say things like “I’ve seen many people living in poverty because they refuse to move”
Absurd
Moving across state lines is simple. Just reserve a U-haul box truck and off you go!
Literally, when I told them they were detached from reality they responded “what? No I’m not, it’s not expensive I just rent a truck and move!”
I got a new job after the pandemic and got 3k in relocation compensation, and that didn’t even cover the most bare bones of a move.
It’s not that I necessarily want to. Jobs just usually end one way or the other after a while. In my experience, renting really opens up the job market. Move wherever the new job is. That’s a lot harder when you own.
I just can’t imagine leaving my community so easily for a job I guess, but I imagine plenty of folks must do it all the time.
congrats on having a community.
i hate it here get me out
Find a big queer city >:) even if you aren’t queer there’ll be plenty of fine folks and communists abound
Yeah, I guess everyone has different priorities. I just refuse to let myself or my family live in a crappy situation because I want to stay in a specific location. I often see people living in poverty because they refuse to leave a place to take a job elsewhere. Doesn’t make sense to me, but everyone has their own life.
Yeah I mean, I came from a very poor region and it was hard to move for me, but it was made easier because my family was beginning to cut me off for being queer anyway and I had the privilege of WFH too. I know lots of people who’d move out of their region if not for their family supporting them in some way they can’t get elsewhere (or they don’t think so, atleast).
People don’t live in poverty “because they refuse to move”
They live in poverty because they are stuck there, and moving to somewhere else is incredibly expensive and difficult
Your worldview is utterly detached from the reality of the common person
Not sure how that’s “detached from reality.”
I’ve moved a ton. It has never cost me anything other than the cost of renting a moving truck and sore legs for a few days. Certainly beats living in a place with no job or some random low-paying job.
I’m the same as you, but I recognise that I had the privilege of being born in the capital of a very centralised country so there’s little reason for me to move to better my lot. If I’d grown up in a deprived former mining town up north I’d probably have been long gone as soon as I could.
I like the flexibility too, I just wish I could have it without giving some leech half my paycheck.
Someone paying $800 a month for their rent is gonna have paid $470,400 by the time they retire. That’s like two fucking mortgages for the “service” of not being homeless.
It’s just restructured feudalism at this point. We’ve abstracted away the direct relationship between landlord and serf, but over half our labor is still going to some third party doing none of the work.
If you like your feudal lord, you can keep them!
If you don’t like your feudal lord, you also keep them!
The Maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most successful proletarian revolution resulting in almost perfect redistribution of land.
Fun fact, the benefits persist to this day. Nearly 90% of people in China own their home http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-05/15/content_15295765.htm
Feudal serfs got way more vacation days than us
Those were not vacation days, just days where they could till their own fields instead of their lord’s. For most people life then was full of backbreaking labour, illiteracy, disease and the constant looming threat of starvation. There is no need to romanticise feudalism.
Mowing lawns, screw you dad.
Having lawns also.
Is there a cheap low maintenance lawn substitute that you can walk on and doesn’t get obnoxiously tall and allergy inducing?
A lot of communities are seeing people install fake grass. Also, rock gardens or gravel lawns are an option. If you want green and natural, clover is a good ground cover that doesn’t grow too tall.
Rock is what I was trying to avoid for easy walking on. I really like the idea of clover though. Our yard is already about a third clover, so makes sense to do it fully.
Moss yards are pretty cool
That does sound cool! Does it take watering?
Even worse, watering lawns. Not only in many places there is water restriction during the summer season and people watering their lawn do-it illegally, but the only consequences is that you have to mow-it more often. If you want to have green-grass, go to Britain or Netherlands where it’s always raining and stop living around the Mediterranean
Trust me, it isn’t always raining in the Netherlands.
We too have had summer seasons where the ground water is so low, there are restrictions on watering your lawn.
Having opinions about other peoples gender, sexual orientation, private matters. Also legislating about that.
Well, I agree that it is absurd, but it is nothing new
hell yes. no government has any right to dictate our genders or who we love.
Tipping.
I feel like that’s a hard one. Whenever I argue against tipping with coworkers (we don’t currently work in the service industry) they will mention how they are all for it and mention how during peak times they made double their usual amount. I feel like it’s really been drilled in that it’s good for the workers
Just another way to divide. Typically FOH staff get all or most of the share, while cooks get screwed, in my experience.
Absolutely, those who get high tips stay in the industry. Those who get low tips are fired. Places don’t keep those who aren’t tipped well because it means they have to pay more out of the budget. If you aren’t getting high tips you are seen as lazy or not doing enough as a waiter. In reality tipping has more to do with who you get as customers (and what they find attractive) than quality of service. https://scroll.in/article/860274/does-tipping-really-ensure-better-service-probably-not
That element of it — when the restaurant is doing well, the windfall is shared with the waitstaff — could be preserved by simply giving the staff a percentage of the price of each meal they work on. Structure it as a bonus, the way salaried professionals can receive a bonus when the company is doing well.
It may be worth noting that worker-owned restaurants, like Cheese Board Pizza here in Berkeley, typically do not solicit tips. (Well, except for the live musicians, who are not worker-owners.) If tipping was really all that great for the workers, then places where the workers literally control company policy would encourage it.
It is not illegal for owners or managers to receive tips for work they perform. If the manager is waiting a table, they can receive that table’s tips.
Where the restaurant is owned by the workers, an individual worker-owner will still collect the tips for the work they perform. An owner who is not working that day has no claim to tips earned that day.
Employers, managers, and supervisors may not keep any portion of the employee’s tips, and may not participate in a tip pool. But yes, they can certainly accept their own tips.
Consider a small, mom-and-pop diner. Pop cooks, mom serves. They co-own the diner. They can certainly accept tips.
Hiring a part-time busboy as a worker doesn’t mean that he automatically earns all tips received during his shift. Mom still gets to collect tips for serving, pop still gets to collect tips for cooking. They don’t get to receive tips in their managerial capacity, only in their capacity as workers.
It is important to note: A traditional owner/manager only performs managerial work. This is the kind of scenario we are usually talking about when we hear about scummy managers stealing tips, but it is not the kind of scenario we are talking about here.
We are considering a restaurant that is owned by the workers. We are talking about a mom-and-pop diner with a whole lot of moms and pops doing the work.
In Norway, restaurants started to implement applications or websites to order at the restaurant. Scan a QR code or download an app (yuck) to order the food and preemptively pay for it. While that might be fine, I find it really strange when I’m asked about tipping when I place my order. I have literally not seen a waiter, I have just sat down and looked through a website, and now I’m asked if I want to tip? Why? What for?
Luckily, 0% tip is very common in all services in Norway, so it’s not considered rude to refrain from tipping.
Tipping isn’t an issue if it’s a bonus from satisfied customers. The American system of it making up your minimum wage is nonsense.
Tips = To Insure Prompt Service It’s a slavery term
Religions.
This is one of the most obvious answers.
The American Healthcare system
My wife spent no less than 5 hours on the phone with just as many groups of people to organize a blood draw that took a grand total of three actual minutes.
That’s just the efficiency of the free market.
Totally normal for my life saving mediation to cost $28,000 per dose before insurance. Absolutely nothing wrong with that
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The Electoral College.
FPTP anywhere it’s used. The UK. The US (for individual Senate or HoR races, as well as each state’s decision of how its College Electors are chosen). A majority of the seats in Taiwan and South Korea. Among a bunch of others. Though certainly, most of the most functional democracies avoid FPTP, because by its very nature FPTP is undemocratic.
