If wages go down, the price consumers pay goes down. If wages go up, prices go up. It's complicated, especially since workers and consumers may well be the same people.
As a senior one of my main concerns is that we get ourselves some young immigrant workers to help offset our aging population. Also, it's interesting bringing in new cultures.
National borders are a bullshit construct that serve mainly to divide us against ourselves, and I look forward to a future where national borders are as imperceptible as those between states in the US, or countries in the EU.
Also, there's no such thing as an "unregulated" border, because even "you can cross any time without restrictions" is a regulation.
Ask the Irish how much they liked having a hard border with (occupied) Northern Ireland.
ETA: also, the only people in North America who get to say a fucking thing about who should be permitted to enter or reside or work here are its original inhabitants.
Or you can keep prices down and wages up by increasing productivity. Provided you set rules to limit how much of productivity gains get taken away from the workers.
Or you could just enforce the zoning laws, being broken by the landlord renting to these multiple families in one apartment, instead of targeting the people being forced to live in squalor.
I'm going to say that working for an actual hate group pretty much disqualifies anyone from actually being a liberal in practice.
Goes, for me, the same with those who say we should drop blacks, gays, trans, women rights, etc, in order to get the Trumpist vote.Not really liberal, in practice.Also, FU, NYT
An excellent point. The problem, as you imply, is that in recent decades increases in productivity have not resulted in wage increases the way they used to. This country has gotten much more productive and much richer over the last three decades and almost all of that increase has gone to the rich.
I think a wealth tax is part of the answer. Much of a rich person's wealth is in investments. The money you pay for an investment may have been taxed, but increases in value on that investment are not taxed until it's sold. If it's never sold the heirs get it at current market value and thus own no taxes on any past increase. Billions of dollars goes completely untaxed this way.
It's true. Whenever I think of the manliest of the manliest, David Brooks always rises to the top of the list.
If wages go down, the price consumers pay goes down. If wages go up, prices go up. It's complicated, especially since workers and consumers may well be the same people.
As a senior one of my main concerns is that we get ourselves some young immigrant workers to help offset our aging population. Also, it's interesting bringing in new cultures.
*raises hand*
National borders are a bullshit construct that serve mainly to divide us against ourselves, and I look forward to a future where national borders are as imperceptible as those between states in the US, or countries in the EU.
Also, there's no such thing as an "unregulated" border, because even "you can cross any time without restrictions" is a regulation.
Ask the Irish how much they liked having a hard border with (occupied) Northern Ireland.
ETA: also, the only people in North America who get to say a fucking thing about who should be permitted to enter or reside or work here are its original inhabitants.
Or you can keep prices down and wages up by increasing productivity. Provided you set rules to limit how much of productivity gains get taken away from the workers.
Sushi truck.
Unnerving. Sushi is best prepared in a temperature controlled environment, unless you have a favorite stall.
Kansas summers.
Also too, while Brooks is close to aging out another wife, Suezums ain’tn’t 20.
Or you could just enforce the zoning laws, being broken by the landlord renting to these multiple families in one apartment, instead of targeting the people being forced to live in squalor.
Same direction. Give a larger share of productivity gains to those who really need and earn them.
They got one of these clowns over at Nancy Nall's blog. The NPR liberals out there suck his dick. Bitter Scribe's one of them.
I'm going to say that working for an actual hate group pretty much disqualifies anyone from actually being a liberal in practice.
Goes, for me, the same with those who say we should drop blacks, gays, trans, women rights, etc, in order to get the Trumpist vote.Not really liberal, in practice.Also, FU, NYT
When I saw the author's name, I thought it was that guy people call the Crying Nazi.
Then I read the review and found that I wasn't entirely wrong.
Yeah, I've seen a few people say that they thought it was Crying Nazi at first.
https://media0.giphy.com/me...
An excellent point. The problem, as you imply, is that in recent decades increases in productivity have not resulted in wage increases the way they used to. This country has gotten much more productive and much richer over the last three decades and almost all of that increase has gone to the rich.
I think a wealth tax is part of the answer. Much of a rich person's wealth is in investments. The money you pay for an investment may have been taxed, but increases in value on that investment are not taxed until it's sold. If it's never sold the heirs get it at current market value and thus own no taxes on any past increase. Billions of dollars goes completely untaxed this way.
One or both of those tax laws need to change.
Not just management, but shareholders too.
Sin is great as long as you don't get caught. And if you get caught that's okay too 'cause if you're a Kristian God has pre-forgiven you.