OCASM

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by OCASM 6y ago
Lyft and Uber work great for what they are: gig jobs. The problem is people trying to turn them into something completely different. If these companies don't offer the terms you want, maybe seek employment elsewhere?
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by OCASM 6y ago
Or you could could have such a business and allow people to decide whether they want to work there or not.
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by OCASM 6y ago
It's not only the prices but the specifics of what "livable" means. For some it just means the essentials, to others it includes luxuries.
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by OCASM 6y ago
The people taking those low-wage jobs clearly prefer the existence of those businesses over nothing. Maybe you can help them by getting them food at lower prices. Just a thought.
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by OCASM 6y ago
If only there were less regulations, allowing the creation of more businesses which would compete for this man's labor, increasing the wages as a result.
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by OCASM 6y ago
The US used to have very little taxation. It worked fine then. Ever increasing government reach wasn't always the norm.
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by OCASM 6y ago
Sure, different countries have different living standards. That's the point. "Living wage" is an undefined, ever changing concept. Populist to the core.
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by OCASM 6y ago
Could be that I do want people to improve their lives and just happen to disagree with your methods? No, disagreeing with your must mean I want people to stay in poverty forever... Learn from immigrants: they earn their way to a better life
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by OCASM 6y ago
Demanding other people take care of you even against their will and using the power of the state to achieve so. How is that not slavery?
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by OCASM 6y ago
They don't need the handouts. They could for example live in communal spaces and share resources. What exactly is "livable" anyways? Millions of people live every day with only a couple of dollars a day.
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by OCASM 6y ago
There would be no taxes, only voluntary cooperation.
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by OCASM 6y ago
Is starvation preferable to getting a low wage job? You start somewhere. Minimum wage laws just reduce the amount of opportunities low skill workers can choose from.
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by OCASM 6y ago
Destroys small businesses and consolidates big corps as monopolies.
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by OCASM 6y ago
Adults will just buy them for the kids. I bet tons of stores will just ignore the law too.
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by OCASM 6y ago
Only the envious care. They try to justify it by conflating poverty with inequality.
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by OCASM 7y ago
The response to this from the western world has indeed been disgraceful. China's was too. They managed to contain due to their authoritarian policies but the real examples of good responses from asian nations are SK, Japan, Singapore,
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by OCASM 7y ago
Well, lets not forget that this whole mess started in China. It was the chinese government which decided to hide information and pretend everything was under control while allowing it to spread all over the world.
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by OCASM 7y ago
How does the government acquire the money for that stimulus? By taking it from the companies through taxation. Government spending is always less efficient than by private entities.
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by OCASM 7y ago
The government would be creating a market distortion by not allowing companies to spend their money how they see fit and instead redistributing to another sector (the general public). There would be no growth because the money the people wo
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by OCASM 7y ago
Saving allows the banks to lend the money to entrepreneurs who increase productive capacity and hence grow the economy.
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by OCASM 7y ago
Indeed, real investment requires market interest, something the government is pretty bad at discerning Saving goes hand in hand with investment since by putting money in the bank it can be borrowed by entrepreneurs and they can hopefully do
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by OCASM 7y ago
Inflation is their favorite tool to steal from the people. It's even illegal to purchase a high amount of US dollars now.
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by OCASM 7y ago
Inflation is not as bad in the US as it is in Argentina because the demand of US dollars is still high. When that changes you can say good bye to a nice, stable inflation rate.
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by OCASM 7y ago
Anything but cutting spending, huh?
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by OCASM 7y ago
Keynes's ideas also fail all over the globe. Saving and investing is what grows an economy.
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by OCASM 7y ago
What's irrational about the reaction to the virus?
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by OCASM 7y ago
Maybe they want to avoid the risk of being labelled predators.
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by OCASM 7y ago
You're not taking away anything because they never had them in the first place.
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by OCASM 7y ago
It is worse because you'd be taking away opportunities from some to give to others against their will. It's cheating.
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by OCASM 7y ago
Capitalism is about private property and freedom. If parents want to provide generously to their children that's perfectly fine. Equality of opportunity is equally as bad as equality of results. It denies people the ability to reach as

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