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> Real life isn't a Disney movie. Doing what I love, I would be lucky to make $10k a year. Unfortunately, an increasing number of people don't feel this way.
by linuxftw 8y ago
> Real life isn't a Disney movie. Doing what I love, I would be lucky to make $10k a year.
Unfortunately, an increasing number of people don't feel this way. Their solution is to increase their salary (and benefits) at the ballot box.
- saagarjha 8y agoOr fortunately, depending on your sociopolitical views, assuming you're talking about universal basic income?
- testvox 8y agoI think he meant more like minimum wage increases and health insurance mandates.
- linuxftw 8y agoI'm talking about anything and everything that the many choose to take from the few.
- FiddlyPack 8y agoDollars are a social construction of disassociated trust of value, wherein your ability to establish rent grants you power over rentees. Votes are another way of expressing power, wherein your ability to establish a majority opinion grants you power over the minority. Seems like the equilibrium would be at the point where power expressed by the renting class is only just not quite able to override the power expressed by the majority opinion.
- adrianN 8y agoWhere do I put my cross to make more money as a tea farmer?