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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2022 5:05:05 GMT
Now, this is something that libs and welfarites hate to read but it is all true.
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple Made $99 million in 2021. Though his salary is only $3 mil, he received a bonus of $12 mil and owns $82.3 Mil in Apple stock which should not be counted as they are unrealized gains.
But let's just include everything and round it up to $100 mil for example's sake.
In 2021 Apple took in a record-breaking revenue of $378.35 billion!
That means, Tim only got paid .026% of it but in reality much less - .0039% since he did not cash out his company shares. In my opinion, he is grossly underpaid. A company with that kind of a visionary should, in my opinion, be paid at least 20 or 25% of what he brought in for the company.
Even if given no salary, bonus, or company stock but just 1% of quarterly or annual revenue he would, in my opinion, still be disgustingly underpaid.
I don't know why people are always talking about people being elites or the rich having to pay their fair share, especially considering, they already are and more. Percentage-wise, what is the fair share anyway?
It differs from state to state but on average you only need to make a net income of 600k to be in the top 1% and around 250k to be in the top 5%. That's decent money but it sure isn't the millions or billions that people think it is. And it sure isn't enough to give anybody power over others or deserve them the title - rich. So many people fall in and out of the top 1 and 5% many times in their life.
So if I made let's say $2 mil last year, that would put me in the top .X%. All that means is I can afford, through my hard/smart work, the ability to have a few $100 lunches from time to time and stay at a 1k hotel suite every now and then. So what? More power to me.
Since there is no legal definition of "Middle Class", most people in America who make 70k to 4 mil consider themselves middle-class. And this is why politicians use it as a blanket statement to try to hook as many voters as they can. There is no legal definition of "Middle Class".
I, personally have always admired those who have done well for themselves through working hard and working smart, especially those who earn much more than me (and try to learn from them) so I don't understand the hate towards them or why they need to pay a higher percentage in tax than others. In America, of all places, it should not be a crime to do your best and be rewarded for it. I'm not sure how it got the name Land of Opportunity but if so then Americans should be opportunistic. Accepting freebies or wanting others to pay for you kills one's inner drive to move up.
(I, also, have always had nothing but the greatest respect and admiration toward those who know more than me about any subject of interest and am more than happy to sit with them for hours or days to learn as much as I can.)
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Post by The Resister on Jun 30, 2022 14:51:48 GMT
Now, this is something that libs and welfarites hate to read but it is all true. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple Made $99 million in 2021. Though his salary is only $3 mil, he received a bonus of $12 mil and owns $82.3 Mil in Apple stock which should not be counted as they are unrealized gains. But let's just include everything and round it up to $100 mil for example's sake. In 2021 Apple took in a record-breaking revenue of $378.35 billion! That means, Tim only got paid .026% of it but in reality much less - .0039% since he did not cash out his company shares. In my opinion, he is grossly underpaid. A company with that kind of a visionary should, in my opinion, be paid at least 20 or 25% of what he brought in for the company. Even if given no salary, bonus, or company stock but just 1% of quarterly or annual revenue he would, in my opinion, still be disgustingly underpaid. I don't know why people are always talking about people being elites or the rich having to pay their fair share, especially considering, they already are and more. Percentage-wise, what is the fair share anyway? It differs from state to state but on average you only need to make a net income of 600k to be in the top 1% and around 250k to be in the top 5%. That's decent money but it sure isn't the millions or billions that people think it is. And it sure isn't enough to give anybody power over others or deserve them the title - rich. So many people fall in and out of the top 1 and 5% many times in their life. So if I made let's say $2 mil last year, that would put me in the top .X%. All that means is I can afford, through my hard/smart work, the ability to have a few $100 lunches from time to time and stay at a 1k hotel suite every now and then. So what? More power to me. Since there is no legal definition of "Middle Class", most people in America who make 70k to 4 mil consider themselves middle-class. And this is why politicians use it as a blanket statement to try to hook as many voters as they can. There is no legal definition of "Middle Class". I, personally have always admired those who have done well for themselves through working hard and working smart, especially those who earn much more than me (and try to learn from them) so I don't understand the hate towards them or why they need to pay a higher percentage in tax than others. In America, of all places, it should not be a crime to do your best and be rewarded for it. I'm not sure how it got the name Land of Opportunity but if so then Americans should be opportunistic. Accepting freebies or wanting others to pay for you kills one's inner drive to move up. (I, also, have always had nothing but the greatest respect and admiration toward those who know more than me about any subject of interest and am more than happy to sit with them for hours or days to learn as much as I can.) Let me preface this by saying that I do not understand economics. I do want to delve into it at some point. In the meantime this is something that has puzzled me all my working life. The free market allows us to make as much as we'd like to make based upon our abilities. The sky is the limit. That is great. Then you get some guy like a George Soros or someone that loves to promote the left. They make their money by getting a lot of stupid people and underachievers to work for them and they take advantage of them. It's great that some people can make as much money as they want, but what happens when you are on the lower rung? In today's market a lot of people don't want to go back to work for a simple reason: Employers don't want to pay squat. So, people sit it out. Business people say if they can't make X number of dollars, they won't open their doors. What if you can't work for that wage? Blue collar wages can be $11 to $15 an hour and rent starts at $1500 a month. Let's split the difference here and do the math at $13.50 an hour. At $13.50 an hour, a person has to work 115.38 hours just to pay for the apartment. Employers don't like paying overtime so an employee works 40 hours per week or 160 hours per month. That means that after rent, a person has just over a week's salary left to pay state and federal income taxes, car payment, gas for the car, utilities, clothing, insurance, co pays, deductibles, food, etc., etc. The money is not there. The primary function of government is to protect the weak from the strong. So, to many people the way out of this dilemma is socialism. It may start out as unionism, but it ultimately ends with socialism. On the low end pay scale the poor can't afford to live. That is why a lot of people give up and get on welfare. It pays better. Employers are taking advantage of the lower class (most of which don't have the IQ or maybe mental wiring to learn and earn more.) Minimum wages are not a good idea. The employer has to pay more for help, they pass the costs along to the consumer and the cost of living goes up for the working class, offsetting their pay raise. That's a vicious cycle. If the wages go up too much, the rich elite do what David Perdue (former Senator) did. They ship the jobs to China. What I understand is that somebody is going to have to do the grunt work. It has to pay enough to afford minimal housing. It doesn't and hasn't during my lifetime. People used to take to making some side money in cash. The IRS is stopping that. You can't punish intelligence into people. The Democrats have been promising the blue collar workers higher wages at the expense of the " rich," but it never works. What do you suggest we do to fill jobs with those lower on the IQ scale, disabled people, etc. AND make sure they make enough money to live?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2022 1:19:34 GMT
Let me preface this by saying that I do not understand economics. I do want to delve into it at some point. In the meantime this is something that has puzzled me all my working life. The free market allows us to make as much as we'd like to make based upon our abilities. The sky is the limit. That is great. Then you get some guy like a George Soros or someone that loves to promote the left. They make their money by getting a lot of stupid people and underachievers to work for them and they take advantage of them. It's great that some people can make as much money as they want, but what happens when you are on the lower rung? In today's market a lot of people don't want to go back to work for a simple reason: Employers don't want to pay squat. So, people sit it out. Business people say if they can't make X number of dollars, they won't open their doors. What if you can't work for that wage? Blue collar wages can be $11 to $15 an hour and rent starts at $1500 a month. Let's split the difference here and do the math at $13.50 an hour. At $13.50 an hour, a person has to work 115.38 hours just to pay for the apartment. Employers don't like paying overtime so an employee works 40 hours per week or 160 hours per month. That means that after rent, a person has just over a week's salary left to pay state and federal income taxes, car payment, gas for the car, utilities, clothing, insurance, co pays, deductibles, food, etc., etc. The money is not there. The primary function of government is to protect the weak from the strong. So, to many people the way out of this dilemma is socialism. It may start out as unionism, but it ultimately ends with socialism. On the low end pay scale the poor can't afford to live. That is why a lot of people give up and get on welfare. It pays better. Employers are taking advantage of the lower class (most of which don't have the IQ or maybe mental wiring to learn and earn more.) Minimum wages are not a good idea. The employer has to pay more for help, they pass the costs along to the consumer and the cost of living goes up for the working class, offsetting their pay raise. That's a vicious cycle. If the wages go up too much, the rich elite do what David Perdue (former Senator) did. They ship the jobs to China. What I understand is that somebody is going to have to do the grunt work. It has to pay enough to afford minimal housing. It doesn't and hasn't during my lifetime. People used to take to making some side money in cash. The IRS is stopping that. You can't punish intelligence into people. The Democrats have been promising the blue collar workers higher wages at the expense of the " rich," but it never works. What do you suggest we do to fill jobs with those lower on the IQ scale, disabled people, etc. AND make sure they make enough money to live? You have asked a lot of questions and I will try my best to answer them them. George Soros and Jeff Bezos are so rich that they are willing to take a large risk. The more money you have the easier it is to make more money. It is not just the numbers it's the psychology. Just as it is easier to get a girlfriend when you already have one. They can take risks normal people can't since if they lose 99% of their worth, they are still super-rich. These people are not in the top 1%, they are in the top .00X% But what they are doing has nothing to do with economics, and is an anti-free market. They are doing what Jews do - monopolize. (Bezos pretends to be somewhat Christian but his blood on his mother's side is from the Jewish tribe of Dan.) First of all, it is illegal for them not to pay over time, and the people working for them by law get paid overtime and are not exploited in any way, They agreed to the payment. So let me tell you how Bezos and Soros exploit the minimum wage. They allow news stories such as how they make billions while some of their employees are on food stamps. Now it doesn't matter how much you make as a blue-collar employee, you will be a welfareite if irresponsibly have too many children and irresponsibly manage your earnings. Companies like Amazon and Netflix awere already paying the minimum wage. Now Soros and Besos have gamed this. They announced to the public that they will pay their employees 4$-$6 above the minimum wage and they have. And hat they do at the same time is promote other companies to do the same, knowing that these smaller and medium-sized companies cannot afford it and will go out of business if they do that and that also shifts the public scrutiny to these smaller and medium-sized businesses look like the bad guys instead of Amazon and Netflix. So they just wait till their competitors go out of business trying to match them and afterward announce that they can't afford to do it anymore and reduce employee payback or nearly back to the minimum wage. Soros has been accused of insider trading many times. Basically, they are enemies of capitalism and what they do with their money is disgusting. Even though they donate billions to certain charities for tax write-offs, they turn around and sell anti-White, woke books and create immoral tv programming such as cuties or that new coming series about Jesus being a lesbian woman. Almost all of Netflix's shows contain LGBT, interracial relationships, and anti-Christian themes and they are almost all flops but they make them already know they will be. They do not care abut the profit, they have an anti-White and anti-American agenda. These guys, unlike guys like Elon Musk and Steve jobs, are not innovators but deceivers and what to shut down smaller guys. As for the handicapped, it depends on how crippled they are. Most of the great inventors had handicaps that they used to their advantage in some way. Thomas Edison, who was totally deaf in his later years loved not being able to hear the opinions of people. He had cards printed and would hand them out - "Sorry I am deaf so I can't hear your horseshit." These days with the internet, many crippled, dead, and even blind people are able to work from home and even run their own businesses, As for the stupid, they also have options. Just because they are stupid does not mean that all their friends and families are stupid too. The thing that stops the stupid is when they are too stupid to know they are stupid. I deal with stupid business guys all the time. They have a set formula when doing business and they adhere to it. When they don't understand something they ask a trusted friend. One of the most successful things I have seen the stupid do is work and save money until they can afford to form sources of passive income such as renting out living spaces. The thing that hurts the stupid most is licensing and certification. Why do they need to spend thousands of dollars and hours just to have the right to cut someone's hair? This is something they can learn apprenticing under a barber. I have never met a stupid that didn't have something extraordinary and unique to offer. It feels like god make them stupid but compensated by giving them a special ability. What they also can do is get themselves into a trade or craft since college means nothing these days and never has. The bankers campaigned to make everyone have to go to college in order to make them take out student loans that take decades to pay off. College was originally created so rich kids could have a place to network. Now that it takes a university degree just to work at an office in the copy room or answer phones, what is the point? Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction. I had a high school dropout friend who went to apprentice at an auto shop and within 8 or 10 years had several of his own and two used car lots. I also started a community apprenticeship program for dropouts and deliquents that is doing well. These kids. instead of following a life of drugs and crime are living under a teacher/master by contract, their salaries are withheld until they complete their apprenticeship but are given pocket money plus room and board. It's hard work but in the end, they have true skill and have the know-how to open their own shop. In some cases, if they have the right character, the master will even hand them over to the shop and have them marry into the family. Now there is a problem for both blue and white-collar workers and that is the robotization and automation of every job function and now you have this AI crap taking jobs away. Now, this might seem like a curse, especially for young people but it doesn't have to be. It could be a blessing. Since they can take advantage of it by not having to waste time paying off school loans and being an employee. It frees up their time to do things they never imagined they were capable of instead of following outdated myths such as thinking it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain “experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician. The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, they should ask what the experience they gaining right now will be worth in 10-20 years. Will your job even exist then with all this technology coming? In conclusion, money won't buy you happiness as we see the majority of people committing suicide are the rich, not the poor. For the love of money is the root of all evil and idles hands are the devil's workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece. If I had a choice to work hard, live a moral life, and come home to a cheerful wife, I would choose that over being a multi-billionaire any day. I used to work a corporate job and after that drove Uber all night long and on weekends and also run a hotdog stand. looking back, those were tough times but some of the most rewarding.
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Post by The Resister on Jul 1, 2022 2:16:18 GMT
Let me preface this by saying that I do not understand economics. I do want to delve into it at some point. In the meantime this is something that has puzzled me all my working life. The free market allows us to make as much as we'd like to make based upon our abilities. The sky is the limit. That is great. Then you get some guy like a George Soros or someone that loves to promote the left. They make their money by getting a lot of stupid people and underachievers to work for them and they take advantage of them. It's great that some people can make as much money as they want, but what happens when you are on the lower rung? In today's market a lot of people don't want to go back to work for a simple reason: Employers don't want to pay squat. So, people sit it out. Business people say if they can't make X number of dollars, they won't open their doors. What if you can't work for that wage? Blue collar wages can be $11 to $15 an hour and rent starts at $1500 a month. Let's split the difference here and do the math at $13.50 an hour. At $13.50 an hour, a person has to work 115.38 hours just to pay for the apartment. Employers don't like paying overtime so an employee works 40 hours per week or 160 hours per month. That means that after rent, a person has just over a week's salary left to pay state and federal income taxes, car payment, gas for the car, utilities, clothing, insurance, co pays, deductibles, food, etc., etc. The money is not there. The primary function of government is to protect the weak from the strong. So, to many people the way out of this dilemma is socialism. It may start out as unionism, but it ultimately ends with socialism. On the low end pay scale the poor can't afford to live. That is why a lot of people give up and get on welfare. It pays better. Employers are taking advantage of the lower class (most of which don't have the IQ or maybe mental wiring to learn and earn more.) Minimum wages are not a good idea. The employer has to pay more for help, they pass the costs along to the consumer and the cost of living goes up for the working class, offsetting their pay raise. That's a vicious cycle. If the wages go up too much, the rich elite do what David Perdue (former Senator) did. They ship the jobs to China. What I understand is that somebody is going to have to do the grunt work. It has to pay enough to afford minimal housing. It doesn't and hasn't during my lifetime. People used to take to making some side money in cash. The IRS is stopping that. You can't punish intelligence into people. The Democrats have been promising the blue collar workers higher wages at the expense of the " rich," but it never works. What do you suggest we do to fill jobs with those lower on the IQ scale, disabled people, etc. AND make sure they make enough money to live? You have asked a lot of questions and I will try my best to answer them them. George Soros and Jeff Bezos are so rich that they are willing to take a large risk. The more money you have the easier it is to make more money. It is not just the numbers it's the psychology. Just as it is easier to get a girlfriend when you already have one. They can take risks normal people can't since if they lose 99% of their worth, they are still super-rich. These people are not in the top 1%, they are in the top .00X% But what they are doing has nothing to do with economics, and is an anti-free market. They are doing what Jews do - monopolize. (Bezos pretends to be somewhat Christian but his blood on his mother's side is from the Jewish tribe of Dan.) First of all, it is illegal for them not to pay over time, and the people working for them by law get paid overtime and are not exploited in any way, They agreed to the payment. So let me tell you how Bezos and Soros exploit the minimum wage. They allow news stories such as how they make billions while some of their employees are on food stamps. Now it doesn't matter how much you make as a blue-collar employee, you will be a welfareite if irresponsibly have too many children and irresponsibly manage your earnings. Companies like Amazon and Netflix awere already paying the minimum wage. Now Soros and Besos have gamed this. They announced to the public that they will pay their employees 4$-$6 above the minimum wage and they have. And hat they do at the same time is promote other companies to do the same, knowing that these smaller and medium-sized companies cannot afford it and will go out of business if they do that and that also shifts the public scrutiny to these smaller and medium-sized businesses look like the bad guys instead of Amazon and Netflix. So they just wait till their competitors go out of business trying to match them and afterward announce that they can't afford to do it anymore and reduce employee payback or nearly back to the minimum wage. Soros has been accused of insider trading many times. Basically, they are enemies of capitalism and what they do with their money is disgusting. Even though they donate billions to certain charities for tax write-offs, they turn around and sell anti-White, woke books and create immoral tv programming such as cuties or that new coming series about Jesus being a lesbian woman. Almost all of Netflix's shows contain LGBT, interracial relationships, and anti-Christian themes and they are almost all flops but they make them already know they will be. They do not care abut the profit, they have an anti-White and anti-American agenda. These guys, unlike guys like Elon Musk and Steve jobs, are not innovators but deceivers and what to shut down smaller guys. As for the handicapped, it depends on how crippled they are. Most of the great inventors had handicaps that they used to their advantage in some way. Thomas Edison, who was totally deaf in his later years loved not being able to hear the opinions of people. He had cards printed and would hand them out - "Sorry I am deaf so I can't hear your horseshit." These days with the internet, many crippled, dead, and even blind people are able to work from home and even run their own businesses, As for the stupid, they also have options. Just because they are stupid does not mean that all their friends and families are stupid too. The thing that stops the stupid is when they are too stupid to know they are stupid. I deal with stupid business guys all the time. They have a set formula when doing business and they adhere to it. When they don't understand something they ask a trusted friend. One of the most successful things I have seen the stupid do is work and save money until they can afford to form sources of passive income such as renting out living spaces. The thing that hurts the stupid most is licensing and certification. Why do they need to spend thousands of dollars and hours just to have the right to cut someone's hair? This is something they can learn apprenticing under a barber. I have never met a stupid that didn't have something extraordinary and unique to offer. It feels like god make them stupid but compensated by giving them a special ability. What they also can do is get themselves into a trade or craft since college means nothing these days and never has. The bankers campaigned to make everyone have to go to college in order to make them take out student loans that take decades to pay off. College was originally created so rich kids could have a place to network. Now that it takes a university degree just to work at an office in the copy room or answer phones, what is the point? Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction. I had a high school dropout friend who went to apprentice at an auto shop and within 8 or 10 years had several of his own and two used car lots. I also started a community apprenticeship program for dropouts and deliquents that is doing well. These kids. instead of following a life of drugs and crime are living under a teacher/master by contract, their salaries are withheld until they complete their apprenticeship but are given pocket money plus room and board. It's hard work but in the end, they have true skill and have the know-how to open their own shop. In some cases, if they have the right character, the master will even hand them over to the shop and have them marry into the family. Now there is a problem for both blue and white-collar workers and that is the robotization and automation of every job function and now you have this AI crap taking jobs away. Now, this might seem like a curse, especially for young people but it doesn't have to be. It could be a blessing. Since they can take advantage of it by not having to waste time paying off school loans and being an employee. It frees up their time to do things they never imagined they were capable of instead of following outdated myths such as thinking it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain “experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician. The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, they should ask what the experience they gaining right now will be worth in 10-20 years. Will your job even exist then with all this technology coming? In conclusion, money won't buy you happiness as we see the majority of people committing suicide are the rich, not the poor. For the love of money is the root of all evil and idles hands are the devil's workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece. If I had a choice to work hard, live a moral life, and come home to a cheerful wife, I would choose that over being a multi-billionaire any day. I used to work a corporate job and after that drove Uber all night long and on weekends and also run a hotdog stand. looking back, those were tough times but some of the most rewarding. I'll have to share the benefit of my experience dealing with low IQ families later. For now, you should stick to the politics. No Jew ever came from the Tribe of Dan. In theory the blue collar workers can do A, B, and C, but bear in mind it is all theory. I cannot hire the blue collar workers at the price I can afford because most jurisdictions have laws regarding licenses, permits, registration, etc. In practice, it's a lot more complex than you think. There is a sensible reason employers hire undocumented foreigners. Too bad white males don't take the same hint.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2022 2:33:22 GMT
I'll have to share the benefit of my experience dealing with low IQ families later. For now, you should stick to the politics. No Jew ever came from the Tribe of Dan. In theory the blue collar workers can do A, B, and C, but bear in mind it is all theory. I cannot hire the blue collar workers at the price I can afford because most jurisdictions have laws regarding licenses, permits, registration, etc. In practice, it's a lot more complex than you think. There is a sensible reason employers hire undocumented foreigners. Too bad white males don't take the same hint. It's the man minimum wage thing. How can anyone afford to hire someone for 20 bucks and how without any experience? Undocumented foreigners deserve the job since they are willing to work their way up. My friend who is a contractor/landscaper hired an undocumented for cash and he moved up to supervisor and now has his own landscaping company. It should also be noted that once you get into the welfare cycle, it is almost impossible to get out. No achievers will want you as company nor would you be comfortable around them. And your drive to move up is gone and so does your IQ.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2022 3:33:36 GMT
I'll have to share the benefit of my experience dealing with low IQ families later. For now, you should stick to the politics. No Jew ever came from the Tribe of Dan. In theory the blue collar workers can do A, B, and C, but bear in mind it is all theory. I cannot hire the blue collar workers at the price I can afford because most jurisdictions have laws regarding licenses, permits, registration, etc. In practice, it's a lot more complex than you think. There is a sensible reason employers hire undocumented foreigners. Too bad white males don't take the same hint. It's the man minimum wage thing. How can anyone afford to hire someone for 20 bucks and how without any experience? Undocumented foreigners deserve the job since they are willing to work their way up. My friend who is a contractor/landscaper hired an undocumented for cash and he moved up to supervisor and now has his own landscaping company. It should also be noted that once you get into the welfare cycle, it is almost impossible to get out. No achievers will want you as company nor would you be comfortable around them. And your drive to move up is gone and so does your IQ. This is getting beyond the economics and business category but I do want to talk about it a little bit. The white man discussed me now. He has become so effeminate. Not only do I think maternity leave is something that should not be forced on any company since if a woman wants to have a family then that is her individual choice that nobody should be forced to pay for it. In general, maternity leave pay is optional for companies but many companies want to retain good female employees so they offer it. However this is abused by many shitty female employees that just get the job and then get knocked during or after their probation period and take the benefits. They're ripping off the company. What is more disgusting to me is men who demand maternity leave. It used to be a man's pride and joy to be able to come into work beaming that his wife is pregnant and work his ass off to support the new coming child. These are qualities that white Christian men have always prided themselves on and it's disgusting to see some guy asking for money to stay home and take care of the baby.
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Post by The Resister on Jul 2, 2022 16:31:54 GMT
I'll have to share the benefit of my experience dealing with low IQ families later. For now, you should stick to the politics. No Jew ever came from the Tribe of Dan. In theory the blue collar workers can do A, B, and C, but bear in mind it is all theory. I cannot hire the blue collar workers at the price I can afford because most jurisdictions have laws regarding licenses, permits, registration, etc. In practice, it's a lot more complex than you think. There is a sensible reason employers hire undocumented foreigners. Too bad white males don't take the same hint. It's the man minimum wage thing. How can anyone afford to hire someone for 20 bucks and how without any experience? Undocumented foreigners deserve the job since they are willing to work their way up. My friend who is a contractor/landscaper hired an undocumented for cash and he moved up to supervisor and now has his own landscaping company. It should also be noted that once you get into the welfare cycle, it is almost impossible to get out. No achievers will want you as company nor would you be comfortable around them. And your drive to move up is gone and so does your IQ. I don't know that we can develop any kind of economic policy. But, I'd like to relate my experiences to you so that you understand where philosophy ends and reality begins. About five years ago I had to have major surgery. Within a day or two of getting home I got my gas bill. It was high! I called the gas company and asked if the rates had gone up substantially and related the experience. The lady was extremely knowledgeable. She asked if I knew where the overflow valve was on my water heater. I did. She told me to go and feel the pipe leading off of it and see if it was hot to the touch. It was. She concluded that I needed a new overflow valve on the water heater. So I went and bought an overflow valve, but was in too rough a shape to be doing the job. I called a plumber. He charged a $49 " service fee." It used to be that was just a minimum fee to come out and do a job that only takes a few minutes. In my mind, I'm thinking that the bill will probably be $80 since it takes 15 minutes to do the job. So, the man comes out and says he will look at it and see what is wrong. I said I know what's wrong; I just need you to replace the valve. Well, this guy goes back to his truck and spends almost 40 minutes " drawing up a proposal." He said, In addition to the $49 fee, it will cost you $245. So I wrote him the check for $49 for coming out and told him he had exactly 49 seconds to get the Hell off my property. Someone told me they had a friend that was a retired contractor and he might help. So, I gave him a call and he came over. He introduced himself and we went to the basement. He asked if I had a water hose and I showed him where it was (just outside the basement door.) He hooked the hose to the bottom of the water heater and began draining it. He cut the electric going to the controls on the water heater and cut the gas off at the valve and the water going into the water heater. All of this stuff is within feet of each other. He took an adjustable wrench and swapped out the valves, putting some plumbers tape on the threads of the new valve. He shut off the spigot on the bottom of the water heater, undone the water hose, making sure excess water went out the hose and into the yard (instead of the basement.) He flipped the gas back on, the water back on, and made sure the automatic lighting device lit the pilot light. He gave it about five minutes to fill up and make sure everything worked right. I asked what I owed him. He asked if $30 sounded about right. It's pretty consistent here. That plumber charged $980 an hour. If he had a helper, that guy probably made $10 an hour. So, in theory, it is a free market economy. The helper could always find another job. Right? Not exactly. Plumbers have protected their territory. In order to do plumbing you need a license, be bonded, insured, and apply for a business license. Technically, it's illegal to allow an unlicensed person to do plumbing on your property. I'm not paying $980 an hour to get someone to change a valve that takes 15 minutes and the ONLY tool you need is an adjustable wrench. It literally took 15 minutes. America, with its licensing, bonding, insuring, taxing, etc., etc. discourages anyone from becoming an entrepreneur. Then you have half wit bubbas that have a pick up truck and a few tools that will show up and do the job for " half price" and save (sic) you money. Even that is unrealistic being that I'm taking all the risk and if the bubba with a truck screws up, I eat the whole cost. It makes for a bad situation, but if a person knows how to do handyman work, they can knock out $300 cash per day every day they want to work. That's $1,500 per week or $72,000 annually based on a 5 day 40 hour work week with 14 holiday / sick days and two weeks missed for vacation. Why aren't people working? Because they have to work off the books? I doubt that's the reason. Consumers are being blackmailed into paying outrageous prices for goods and services. Big business is protected by the government that over-regulates and discourages competition. We're having this discussion as to why the workers should be paid more. All I can say is, it costs a certain amount to live. Period. If you don't pay people to work, they will either work off book OR they will make up the difference in welfare. Society is going to pay, one way or another. If the worker is on welfare, no case can be made for tax evasion against welfare riders and labor should never be taxed in our free market economy anyway. I see the lure of socialism and know it doesn't work. It just takes this extreme the other direction, forcing businesses to close down. Undocumented foreigners are willing to work for cash and do a good job. Maybe we should focus on exposing the 16th Amendment for the fraud it is and encouraging people to work for cash and do positive things with their lives. I REALLY don't have an answer.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2022 0:38:28 GMT
It's the man minimum wage thing. How can anyone afford to hire someone for 20 bucks and how without any experience? Undocumented foreigners deserve the job since they are willing to work their way up. My friend who is a contractor/landscaper hired an undocumented for cash and he moved up to supervisor and now has his own landscaping company. It should also be noted that once you get into the welfare cycle, it is almost impossible to get out. No achievers will want you as company nor would you be comfortable around them. And your drive to move up is gone and so does your IQ. I don't know that we can develop any kind of economic policy. But, I'd like to relate my experiences to you so that you understand where philosophy ends and reality begins. About five years ago I had to have major surgery. Within a day or two of getting home I got my gas bill. It was high! I called the gas company and asked if the rates had gone up substantially and related the experience. The lady was extremely knowledgeable. She asked if I knew where the overflow valve was on my water heater. I did. She told me to go and feel the pipe leading off of it and see if it was hot to the touch. It was. She concluded that I needed a new overflow valve on the water heater. So I went and bought an overflow valve, but was in too rough a shape to be doing the job. I called a plumber. He charged a $49 " service fee." It used to be that was just a minimum fee to come out and do a job that only takes a few minutes. In my mind, I'm thinking that the bill will probably be $80 since it takes 15 minutes to do the job. So, the man comes out and says he will look at it and see what is wrong. I said I know what's wrong; I just need you to replace the valve. Well, this guy goes back to his truck and spends almost 40 minutes " drawing up a proposal." He said, In addition to the $49 fee, it will cost you $245. So I wrote him the check for $49 for coming out and told him he had exactly 49 seconds to get the Hell off my property. Someone told me they had a friend that was a retired contractor and he might help. So, I gave him a call and he came over. He introduced himself and we went to the basement. He asked if I had a water hose and I showed him where it was (just outside the basement door.) He hooked the hose to the bottom of the water heater and began draining it. He cut the electric going to the controls on the water heater and cut the gas off at the valve and the water going into the water heater. All of this stuff is within feet of each other. He took an adjustable wrench and swapped out the valves, putting some plumbers tape on the threads of the new valve. He shut off the spigot on the bottom of the water heater, undone the water hose, making sure excess water went out the hose and into the yard (instead of the basement.) He flipped the gas back on, the water back on, and made sure the automatic lighting device lit the pilot light. He gave it about five minutes to fill up and make sure everything worked right. I asked what I owed him. He asked if $30 sounded about right. It's pretty consistent here. That plumber charged $980 an hour. If he had a helper, that guy probably made $10 an hour. So, in theory, it is a free market economy. The helper could always find another job. Right? Not exactly. Plumbers have protected their territory. In order to do plumbing you need a license, be bonded, insured, and apply for a business license. Technically, it's illegal to allow an unlicensed person to do plumbing on your property. I'm not paying $980 an hour to get someone to change a valve that takes 15 minutes and the ONLY tool you need is an adjustable wrench. It literally took 15 minutes. America, with its licensing, bonding, insuring, taxing, etc., etc. discourages anyone from becoming an entrepreneur. Then you have half wit bubbas that have a pick up truck and a few tools that will show up and do the job for " half price" and save (sic) you money. Even that is unrealistic being that I'm taking all the risk and if the bubba with a truck screws up, I eat the whole cost. It makes for a bad situation, but if a person knows how to do handyman work, they can knock out $300 cash per day every day they want to work. That's $1,500 per week or $72,000 annually based on a 5 day 40 hour work week with 14 holiday / sick days and two weeks missed for vacation. Why aren't people working? Because they have to work off the books? I doubt that's the reason. Consumers are being blackmailed into paying outrageous prices for goods and services. Big business is protected by the government that over-regulates and discourages competition. We're having this discussion as to why the workers should be paid more. All I can say is, it costs a certain amount to live. Period. If you don't pay people to work, they will either work off book OR they will make up the difference in welfare. Society is going to pay, one way or another. If the worker is on welfare, no case can be made for tax evasion against welfare riders and labor should never be taxed in our free market economy anyway. I see the lure of socialism and know it doesn't work. It just takes this extreme the other direction, forcing businesses to close down. Undocumented foreigners are willing to work for cash and do a good job. Maybe we should focus on exposing the 16th Amendment for the fraud it is and encouraging people to work for cash and do positive things with their lives. I REALLY don't have an answer. First of all, let me start off by teling you in the most basic way the reasons for inflation: 1. government overspending. 2. government prints more money than the people have. (Remember government has no money, only people do.) 3. YOU. When I say you I mean all of us. WE WANT INFLATION. Now no one will say this and most people don't even know it. Now ask yourself - Do you want the price of which you sell things to down? No. You want the price of the things you buy to go down. Yes. Everyone wants their cost to go down but not their profit. See how it works? Now if this can be managed then it would be a really neat trick! Now we were talking about the stupid v. the smart and the able body v. the crippled. That is just how life is. There is no equality in nature and the government turning its back and allowing equality of opportunity will allow people to go up but when it puts its hand in and creates forced equality then the economy has to pay for it through welfare programs. These programs should be ended immediately along with the minimum wage. It sounds painful but it is painless to the economy. The 30- year old and 300-lb basement couch potatoes might feel some pain but it's good for them. Ending the minimum wage would also be great since it will allow young inexperienced people an opportunity to find a job and gain the experience needed to be allowed. The higher the minimum wage the harder it is to get hired. Child labor should also be allowed. Not only does it build good character, and business sense Most kids in the past worked under the table. I had a paper route, mowed lawns, and worked in my parent's office, filing papers. Anyone over 50 has done child labor. If I want to put my kind to work after school it is none of the government's business. The same thing goes for education. Give the money to the kid and parents, not the schools. Since we have to pay tax to the Department of Education then we should have a choice in the form of school vouchers. It is no different than the G.I. Bill or food stamps. The government issues the checks and soldiers are allowed to choose the college they want and welfareites do not have to go to government food bank but can spend their money anywhere they want, why not education? I am paying for it so why do I not have a choice to send my kid to private, charter or have them homeschooled instead of government indoctrination camps? Because of the Teachers' Union *, that's why. As for what you said. My contractor friend told me that if he could start again he would go directly into plumbing. Licensed plumbing is one of the biggest profit-making careers ever. An old lady gets her house flooded in the middle of the night and calls a plumber who comes and shut off the main water (5-second and no tools needed) and charges $350. Then he tells her he will be back at 9 am and that is when he really starts gouging her for thousands. (I have heard stories of 15,000). Now if we take away the licensing them we get fair competition. Licencing just makes it illegal for others to compete. When I was a kid, the thermostat in my car broke. I went to an auto repair shop and he wants $85 bucks to fix it. I couldn't afford it so I went to ask a neighbor how to do it (no internet then). So He told me to go to Pep Boys and buy a new thermostat and the grease that is needed to seal it. The whole thing cost me $7 and 5 minutes. Later as an adult, the ventilation in my car died. I went to the dealership and they wanted $1300 to fix it and 4 days. I said no and they called me back and said as a preferred customer they can do it for $850 but it would still be 4 days. I went online to a car forum for my model and did a search for people who had the same issue and found all I needed was a $35 part I had shipped to me overnight from eBay and there was also a video on youtube showing me step by step how to replace the part. Took under 30 minutes to have a new ventilation system for $35 bucks. Now if I learned more of these skills I could open a repair shop and charge hundreds less than the licensed guy but then that would slap me with a lawsuit. All licensing and certification need to end. You need to spend thousands of dollars and thousands of hours to get a cosmetology license to cut hair. Why? You are free to cut your own hair and the hair of anyone else for as long as you don't charge for it. What's the worse that can happen? maybe you give someone a bad haircut or do you prick their ear? Licensed hair cutters do that all the time and what happens? They lose that customer. Right now the 16 Amendment needs to be handled before the 14th. It's not just about taxation since that is not the true intent of the 16th. The true intent is Communism, and that is what is really destroying America. We handle the communism and then we will have cleared the path to handle the other issues. Another thing I would like to talk about is monopolies. Everyone talks about greed being bad and it is bad. However, they misuse the word. They use it out of jealousy. Is it greedy for you or others to look out for your own self-interests? Is it bad that your want to expand and open factories to give jobs to hundreds of people? No monopoly just popped up from nowhere. They all started from scratch. Both Google and Microsoft started in a garage and the same goes with Sears, Walmart, and Target. To catch a thief, you have to hire another thief. To bring down a monopoly you have to allow another monopoly to come in and compete. Anti-monopoly laws are what keep monopolies strong. The government's only job is to defend us again foreign and domestic enemies and to stop you from bashing me over the head, that is it. It should stay out of everything else. You, my friend, if not for all these governmental regulations, certifications and taxes would have been a millionaire since the 90s I am sure. * It is important to know that the public school system is not public at all. It is a government-owned system run by the Teachers' Union. If you love your kids, NEVER send them to public school.
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