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brianhow
US government has decided you are worth $1200. And that's it. Fuck Trump, I'll fight that tiny handed bitch.
LullabyJones
USA! USA!
ToneLock
usa is a failed country. how long before a revolution will end this episode ?
sadurdaynight
Economy shrank while market booms. Its bc small businesses died while big business has been bolstered.
oblimo
tick tock tick tock: https://asc.library.carleton.ca/exhibits/french-revolution-arc/1780s-pre-revolutionary-france
Deonan
There is NO trickle down economy, it only trickles up, give money to poor people and you know what they do? SPEND IT, they don't BUY STOCKS!
Deonan
But we can't have poor people having money and spending it, think of the economy! oh wait .... it's literally how Australia survived the GFC
spacepants4tw7
America sucks.... I’m sick of living here but I can’t leave. I’ll consider it the highlight of 2020 if the virus kills me before Christmas.
onlydrunkcomments
The stock market is a graph of rich peoples' feelings. They feel pretty okay at the moment. You?
dealinwifscum
What this is. The beginning of an uprising, a civil war. Not the cold civil war waged on us by the 1.% The one where they lose
GeneviveOrinse
Housing in my area is more expensive than I’ve ever seen it. Everyone is paying Manhattan prices to escape the city. 1/2
GeneviveOrinse
2/2 I could sell my house for 2.5x more than I bought it for 5 years ago but couldn’t find another place to live
chloramphenicolderivative
If you have a 401k or any type of pension fund or account, you own stock... still fuck the fed though.
Imalwaysready
And with all the millions and millions of pension funds, we collectively own a fifth as much as the top 10%. But that threat of "now YOU >
Imalwaysready
own stock so you should want to see the stock market go up" is how they get so many to look the other way while they fleece us.
DoomGuysCousinKenneth
Why do people think that the government giving money to businesses is capitalism? It's literally communism.
justlurkinghereforlolz
No, communism would take the businesses, nit give them money to enrich them.
DoomGuysCousinKenneth
And capitalism would not give them money instead it would allow them to fail.
IThinkYouGotAFineBrainJack
Also, I feel that many Trump supporters who believe that they are the working class that he's fighting for, are in fact the current middle
IThinkYouGotAFineBrainJack
class. They think Trump will elevate them to middle class, but that will never happen because the true working class shows employers how
IThinkYouGotAFineBrainJack
cheap labor truly can be. The true working class is now the people who work multiple jobs just to make rent and food.
OtterlyMagnificent
So...The middle-class with 2 working parents then. There IS no middle-class anymore. There hasn't been for longer than I've been alive. 1/
OtterlyMagnificent
It vanished when productivity broke away from pay and skyrocketed, taking living costs with it, while pay failed to follow.2/2
Cedric99099
My only dispute with his argument is that what is happening now is just the latest nail in the coffin of the middle class. The shift from->
Cedric99099
->local production to the current corporate "lets buy stuff from the other side of the planet and make the people pay for the air in the->
Cedric99099
->package instead of the paycheck of their neighbors and children because the desperate poor over there will do the work for pennies->
Cedric99099
->while we execs get the difference in our yearly bonuses" is what is causing all of this economic hardship. When the stock price->
Cedric99099
-> dictates what CEO's can do, we move from Ford's Industrialist leadership of "Make the best quality of goods possible at the ->
Cedric99099
->lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible" to the current "how can we squeeze more money from people right now" idea of ->
IAmNotNSAsodonotbeparanoid
And still nothing will change
DukeDarkwood
Not with that attitude.
JinxRocks
The company I work for is buying back stock right now to keep the price high using loan funds. And they are not the only ones doing so.
MissSiesta
This is the American way... Vote in more Bernies please
retropedro
If you have any sort of pension, you do own stock via your manager.
dcchillin46
Ya, all your retirement is tied up in the market, so you don't want to negatively effect it while they loot the country.
rossonerinho
so what is gonna make this stock market crash? it can't go on like this forever right? there has to be a correction.
kwil
How do we get out of it when the rich hold the keys on both sides?
TheSecondPiewackit
"I'm a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite and gunpowder and gasoline. You know what all of these things have in common? They're cheap."
Sulanis
This is also the Canadian way. We have a lot of the same political and economic problems that the united states has because we have allowed>
Sulanis
The few to dictate policy for the many. People in canada are living paycheck to paycheck and often wonder how to pay for basic living. ->
Sulanis
This is a human rights violation in my opinion because no human being should ever have to worry about how to feed and put a roof over their
Sulanis
Head when we see our politicians piss away public money like its water. Ecample: the Canadian federal government gave a no pay back grant to
Sulanis
Mastercard in Vancouver to upgrade there security when Mastercard posted over a billion in profit. However, when people need genuine help >
Sulanis
Its seen as the poor living off the government instead of paying their own way. Which companies pay their staff the lowest possible wage to>
The701
Ok, I'll do it for this post: https://">te.gov">https://vote.gov | https://vote.org
EroticZombiePants
My 401k is somehow doing fine, which probably fits the narrative since it'll be holding tiny portions of the same things they have tons of.
Imalwaysready
Yep. You have $200k for retirement & they have $200M, but b/c our crumbs increase with their buffet, we push back on reform efforts for them
granbleu
This is why change won't happen in this country. Crumb holders look at millionaires and think, I can get there, just keep the status quo
itsthevoiceman
Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqOwBX5xD8o [0:05]
Mattersoftheshart
So a majority of Americans are getting fucked by their own stupidity. Good. Sameness the UK really. Also good.
Awmph
Politicians work for donors. It actually is exactly that simple.
DukeDarkwood
They shouldn't. They should not be favoring one subset of their constituency over others.
uponstrangeshores
They work for donors but they also work for themselves. Their sole purpose is to stay in office.
beguilingkittenpants
Yeah its bullshit but can we PLEASE just call it the Greater Depression.... ???
TouretteBadger
The Great Depression 2: Electric Boogaloo
TheOneTrueZippy8
"The End Days" has a nice ring to it.
mobiusm1
The Tremendous Depression
BrotherEstapol
Only if you limit your emoticon usage.
beguilingkittenpants
If only imgur's gifs loaded on mobile. That'll be the day.
beguilingkittenpants
I'll be honest at least it isn't as cringe as if i used weeb emoticons. smh. i have at least 1 standard.
Imalwaysready
I don't know. I find the overuse of emoticons as a form of communication pretty depressing.
BrotherEstapol
Exactly! Hence my limit proposal!
DukeDarkwood
The Greatest Depression. Nobody's ever seen a depression like it. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it.
ArtfullySane
CastleBonerShrinker
Don't catch you slippin, now
OverthoughtUnderedited
Damn that gif distills the hell out of that song.
Heliogabalus227
What’s, ah— what’s all that horrorshow stuff happening in the background there?
RealRaceRiotsAreAboutGettingBlueshelledInMarioKart
They didn't actually choreograph any of that for the video. That's just Tuesday in Atlanta.
Imalwaysready
American stuff.
AtypicalMammal
On the other hand, it's easier than ever for regular people to buy stocks. Apps with no trading fees. I'm just a trashy trucker and I made
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like $1000 on the market these last two months. A nice little bonus if times get really tough.
DreamingOfDistantShores
Out of curiosity, which app do you like to use for this? Been looking into it but unsure where to start, and I don't trust random apps.
TheSecondPiewackit
Robinhood.
AtypicalMammal
I use webull. Heard bad things about Robinhood, outages n stuff. Webull is smooth and easy.
DreamingOfDistantShores
Cool, thanks. I'll look into that one next.
ShadeFawks
Trust me the only way I was able to find an affordable house was a townhouse in which the HoA states you cannot rent unless you live there
MakeTabbouleNotWar
What’s affordable to you? I’m a curious cat.
ciaran13
mmartin762
Magnificent
CamsCampingAdventures
But... I'd pay more for a neighbour with a 40ft radio tower #Hamclub
BrokeMyFunnyBone
HoA's are the fucking worst.
liquinas
They can be great if your goal is to avoid neighborhoods with 7 broken cars and trash out front every other house since it's pre-agreed.
mop82
I agree, but that rule's constructive. Prevents one party from buying homes just to rent them out, enabling more people to be homeowners.
BrokeMyFunnyBone
Or it's another way to prevent low-income people from renting a place there.
katidragon
Let's be fair though, If a place has a HOA, the prices and anyone buying the housing up will likely already charge prohibitively and >
katidragon
Choose selectively and with bias.
GodsFoot
Not all, I actually live in a decent one. Not perfect, but decent. Most are shit
noeditfunction
ALL are shit... you dont own shit if you gotta ask permission to do something to your own property..like add a pool
Pimparoo3
HOAs don't control those permits and those permits are usually placed for safety, same as building codes.
flyingaardvark22
You usually need to get a permit from the city to build a pool and your neighbors can usually sue to prevent that.
ShadeFawks
Depends, we have a townhouse that's part of a quadruplex. They cover fire insurance, flood insurance, external, and landscaping. >>
ShadeFawks
And with how the building has been well maintained , including a new roof. That's not bad for $100 a month.
aristera
False. You are agreeing to live by a certain standards with other who also agree to those standards. Don't like the rules, don't live there.
Nostradamuswaswrong
My car got towed from a friend's place by their HOA because while I had permission from my friend, I didn't have it from the HOA.