Late Cycle Capitalism

[DBTrek]

More trolling and ad hom. You two should start an act together.

... so you could wail about our success and tax that too, no doubt.

[clubgop]

Risk Takers.

What risk are you taking? How can you be a judge of risk when you are an admitted coward, and former pacifist?

More trolling and ad hom. You two should start an act together.

Why would we take a risk like that when we can whine, bitch, and moan? Lets say we do, can we complain about the unfairness and all the hard work we did when no one buys a ticket? Or maybe we can do a musical about a founding father that is really subtle propaganda for the central banking system and charge rich liberals a grand per seat and become successful so then you whine some more about unfair it is.

[SuburbanFarmer]

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[DBTrek]

Wow, that meme about a random plate of 1000 cookies suddenly being squatted by a rich guy is profound. How many people has it converted anyway?

Here’s another version for you to ponder - a businessman sets up a cookie factory by going into extreme debt, convincing investors to take a risk on him, coordinating the building of the factory and navigating the labyrinthine legal hurdles. He hires a guy to work the ovens, but handles the rest of the tasks himself.

1000 cookies are produced.
The worker says “There’s only two of us, 500 of these should be mine”

[SuburbanFarmer]

Wow, that meme about a random plate of 1000 cookies suddenly being squatted by a rich guy is profound. How many people has it converted anyway?

Here’s another version for you to ponder - a businessman sets up a cookie factory by going into extreme debt, convincing investors to take a risk on him, coordinating the building of the factory and navigating the labyrinthine legal hurdles. He hires a guy to work the ovens, but handles the rest of the tasks himself.

1000 cookies are produced.
The worker says “There’s only two of us, 500 of these should be mine”

Later, the businessman hands the operation over to a stranger from Bain Capital, who proceeds to extract maximum value and misery from his oven guy, leverages the business into insolvency, then sells the oven off to a Chinese firm. Oven guy is then chastised by his peers when he complains.

[DBTrek]

Oven guy did monkey work.
Oven guy either builds skills, starts his own thing, or finds another monkey work job someone else has provided for him.

/shrug

He’s a grown man, not someone’s pet to be cared for.

[Speaker to Animals]

The billionaire probably paid all the costs and labor to make the cookies, though, and he likely invited the immigrant over to do it for less than minimum wage because the working class guy requires the billionaire to pay taxes. I am not sure what this meme is supposed to show. It kind of cuts both ways. Yeah, immigrants are "stealing our cookies", but billionaires are the ones paying for all the flour, sugar, and baking powder to make cookies, and paying the wages to make them. I don't really give a shit if greedy billionaires want 999 cookies. I give a shit about the criminality of illegal immigration.

The wealth inequality canard is a total red herring with respect to why shit is getting so bad for so many Americans.

Real incomes are stagnant because corporations have a lock on our immigration policy, and face little to no consequences for enabling illegal immigration to boot. Then they have a lock on "trade" policies, which these days is code for exporting jobs in exchange for foreign powers buying our national debt. Focus on that shit. Leave the Bernie Sanders garbage behind already.