Comments by "SciFi Realism" (@scifirealism5943) on "Myths About Taxing The Wealthy And Minimum Wages" video.
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@Bane 1. Our lower class is the upper class of the world - the fallacy of relative privation.
2. Usa is wealthy enough to end poverty. It is simply not among our priorities.
3. It is not about incentivizing laziness: rich people make enough to not work, via a guaranteed income from stocks and real estate, but still do anyway.
But when poor people want anything similar, it's laziness. The double standard is appalling.
4. The real political problem with a guaranteed income for the poor isn't the costs, but the benefits: nobody would work shitty minimum wage jobs. Nobody would work in fast food or retail, for minimum wage, with zero benefits or chance for advancement. Nobody would accept what most employers are offering: below cost of living wages and no affordable health insurance.
5. I am saying the truth of our political values lies in the risks we refuse to accept. And it is rising worker power, not continued poverty, that America finds unacceptable.
6. Enabling workers to have more bargaining power is deemed as a policy emergency, not relief.
7. Politicians and corporations use the whip of poverty, not higher salaries, to keep workers in place.
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@bane3991 your profile picture is bane: here is something i realized.
1. Jfk once said "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country." He is implying in this statement that truth to our values lies in what we are fine with doing.
2. Watching movies, i realized this isn't true. Conflict stems not from what people ARE willing to do, but what they are OPPOSED to doing.
3. The real reason conflict happens in movies, is the same as in real life: that people are not willing to do everything.
4. The truth of our values, like with superheroes, lies in the risks we refuse to take, the prices we are unwilling to pay, the consequences we do not like to tolerate.
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1. Look at how americans reacted to workers gaining more bargianing power because of this pandemic: they hated inflation, unemployment, businesses shutting down, increases in the deficit, etc.
2. This reveals not america's love of poverty but rather their opposition to the inconveniences which would accompany poverty's elimination.
3. The truth of our values lies in the risks we refuse to accept, it is rising worker power, not continued poverty, that America finds unacceptable. America finds worker solidarity unacceptable. Not the fact that workers are in poverty from low wages.
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