MarxMadness

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[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Survivorship bias

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

The financial industry is heavily regulated by the US Gov’t

Lol

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Not just a time invesent -- if you're biking 18 miles you're going to need a shower where you're going, or you're going to need a job where you can show up drenched in sweat.

And that's not factoring in rain or snow or having to transport large objects or people.

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The response here to "people must be financially illiterate if they can't live without income for months!" is no, they aren't illiterate, they live in an economy designed to keep a ton of people in precarity.

Everyone understands it's nice to have some money set aside for rainy days. It's such a simple lesson that calling it "financial literacy" is almost condescending. The problem isn't that people haven't heard of saving, it's that decent-paying jobs aren't common, basic costs like housing and healthcare are rising rapidly, and even if you do everything right there are a thousand ways to get a fat bill dropped on your lap that takes you back to square one.

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Just go through and count the usage of kkkanadians.

The horror!

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

What is it you think vapes emit?

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

A kinder version of a company town is still a company town, in the same way high-paying wage labor is still wage labor.

This is not Google being charitable and caring about housing prices in the surrounding area. These are the people most able to work remotely; Google is bringing them back to their expensive office to justify its existence and saying "this time I'll be your landlord, too."