Why might there be hundreds of thousands of fewer people in the workforce post-COVID? Must be laziness caused by all those thousands of free dollars people are still riding high on! No other explanation I can think of!
Oh yeah it can't be the mass disabling event that long covid continues to be. It definitely isn't the tech god kings showing their whole ass, revealing themselves to be shallow empty husks. It absolutely can't be the mask of capital slipping down to reveal the rictus grin of death and destruction as it gleefully massacres all that is good. Nah, it must be the Trumpbux™.
Says you. I’m still living the highlife with my $1400 from 3 years ago. I eat Teslas everyday and drive my caviar to the office I don’t work at anymore.
Everyone should have done the smart thing and poured it all into Tesla stock!
Covid handout that amounted to like a months rent and some change a few years ago 🙄
When you're in the middle of a bad situation there's a tendency to just push forward and not appreciate how bad it's going for you. Then when you finally get out you can suddenly realize. After that tiny moment where not all of us got to separate ourselves from our work lives, this kind of perspective was gained by a lot of people. I heard Dave Anthony make that point on an old Dollop I listened to the other day, catching up on them.
I don't expect American pundits to be wise and clever but you don't need to be an oracle understand the concept of people viewing the world as they are pushing forward versus them being in a better place.
I think Chris Hayes is one of the better pundits. He is actually intelligent and sometimes he shows hints of still having a soul. But on a recent show - I had to stop watching after ~5 minutes. It was clear that at least the first ~20 of his show was going to be on his paraphrase - "What's wrong with Americans? Why they all aren't positive about the economy? The numbers are great!"
It's like a covid and the million plus deaths from it and the wild swings in people's circumstances didn't just fucking happen. And even if they did - everybody should look at the world and their own lives dispassionately like Paul Krugman' POV in his op-eds.
And if they don't do that, it's presented as evidence of how irrational and mathematically illiterate the peasants are. They're absolutely desperate to convince people that anyone pointing out how most people are struggling to pay for food and housing is spouting propaganda designed to mislead the benighted citizens who are too stupid to know how well they're doing. It's amazingly arrogant, and it's not going to work (but that's not going to stop them from trying).
at this rate, when they shoot social security in the back of the head, they'll still blame it for elderly people not working for the next century
THE CRUMB OF WELFARE YOU GAVE US IS FUCKING GONE why bother blaming something actually happening when you can blame a tiny good thing that happened 2 years ago
Don't mind me, I just repost this every few months when relevant.
There's a book by Walter Scheidel called The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century where he talks about the "4 horsemen" of leveling inequality; mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues. And what we're seeing now is pretty much straight out of his chapter on the rise of labor power after the black death even to the point of them attempting legislation to reign in labor power.
June 1349, the crown passed the Ordinance of Laborers:
Since a great part of the population, and especially workers and employees (“servants”), has now died in this pestilence many people, observing the needs of masters and the shortage of employees, are refusing to work unless they are paid an excessive salary. . . . We have ordained that every man or woman in our realm of England, whether free or unfree, who is physically fit and below the age of sixty, not living by trade and exercising a particular craft, and not having private means of land of their own upon which they need to work, and not working for someone else, shall, if offered employment consonant with their status, be obliged to accept the employment offered, and they should be paid only the fees, liveries, payments or salaries which were usually paid in the part of the country where they are working in the twentieth year of our reign [1346] or in some other appropriate year five or six years ago. . . . No one should pay or promise wages, liveries, payments or salaries greater than those defined above under pain of paying twice whatever he paid or promised to anyone who feels himself harmed by it. . . . Artisans and labourers ought not to receive for their labour and craft more money than they could have expected to receive in the said twentieth year or other appropriate year, in the place where they happen to be working; and if anyone takes more, let him be committed to gaol.Welcome. I'm not 100% sure the author isn't a lib, but he does acknowledge the effectiveness of violent revolution.
He’s also told remote workers to “get off their moral high horse” and that they’re detached from reality and giving off “Marie Antoinette vibes.”
I forgot he said this. Irony is fucking dead.
I sure trust Fortune Magazine to tell me "handouts" are evil and Musk is right
Still a workaholic, but my work-ethic was hampered when my old boss fought hard to keep me from the mass layoffs during 2020, only to realize I could have made more money on the dole. :/
Musk, currently famous for spending 40hrs on Twitter and calling it "work".
Habibi, use archive.org, archive.ph, or archive.is for that cringe shit...
mf nobody has had a covid handout in YEARS the money i got is waaaaay past spent what the fuck are they talking about?
