https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1418009990393221124?s=19

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    How do you incentivize those who haven't returned to get back to work?

    That's some bullshit framing right there.

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      3 years ago

      I'm sure everyone is just choosing not to work because they're lazy and uhh handouts. Trust me bro. And it's a choice, bro, dude trust me.

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      "Listen here, jack - I've had goo on my shoe less conservative than you. Harsh but fair and it's true. Gotta be true. It rhymes."

  • mr_world [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    How this works: Friend owns bars and drink prices are reasonable. Bartenders currently make min. wage and $300+ in tips per shift. If Owner pays higher wages, he will raise drink prices to balance it out. Customers will tip less. Bartenders will makes less than they were before.

    Why do the lolbertarain fucks who always say this shit in comment sections never have faith in the market? If you really believe in the efficiency of the market, this won't matter.

    Here's how it works:

    Friend owns a bar and drink prices are high because that's how bars make money. Bartenders make min wage and get large tips because the delicate price-conscious consumer doesn't exist. Also alcohol inhibits your frontal lobe which is where the responsibility social stuff lives. That means you're more frivolous with cash when you're drunk. Another reason why bars make as much as they do.

    Owner pays high wages. He raises drink prices to maintain his profit. The bar down the street also raises prices because it's a federal law. There's nowhere for the customer to go. The weakest businesses that can't operate at this level will close. This is good. Businesses are supposed to close in a free market. That's how it works. Some succeed, a lot fail. That's what makes it fair. It's not a fair market if it's allowed to fuck over workers so that it doesn't have to go out of business. When enough bars fail and become scarce, the high price will be more appealing to customers. They'll patronage the remaining bars even with higher prices. If those few bars can't keep up, new ones will open and the market will be efficient. This is the best outcome. Because the market removed inefficiency and everything balanced out.

    Have a little faith in the thing you can't stop defending no matter how shit it is. If it's not shit, then embrace it.

    • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      He raises drink prices to maintain his profit. The bar down the street also raises prices because it’s a federal law. There’s nowhere for the customer to go. The weakest businesses that can’t operate at this level will close.

      Or, some bar owner will decide they can take a smaller cut and will keep prices the same even with the wage increase. You know, because there are market forces that act on prices, too! Businesses don't just set prices wherever they please!

      I prefer this angle for attacking lolbertarians on this point because (1) businesses do, in fact, set prices in response to market forces, and (2) it highlights that the inefficiency getting squeezed out of the market is the profit the owner is leeching off the business.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Drink owner raises prices, consumers continue to tip 20% like they always have, tips go up

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    How do you incentivize those who haven’t returned to get back to work?

    and by this they mean "without paying them more"

  • Baoist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Hawaii is telling people to not come cuz tourist companies can't find labor.

    Hawaii is also at the bottom of the list for tourist worker pay

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    A communist Joe Biden would rule.

    Listen Jack, we are going to seize the means of .... aww man I forgot, you know the thing.

  • Parent [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I looked it up really quick and 10% of Americans own a small business. Yet all we ever hear about on the news is small businesses and from guys like this. How do these guys get so much play?

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I want to just wail on this dude. Goddamn I want to just punch this dumb prick in his red as a beetroot face

    • Woly [any]
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      3 years ago

      His fucking four undone buttons make me so angry, I can just feel the Branson/Mark Cuban wannabe vibes oozing off of him. Probably drives a Lamborghini between his five above-ground pool and jacuzzi stores.