Posted on 05/01/2021 7:03:47 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Okay my friends.How do we fight the catch phrases like 'income inequality'? Makes us the defensive right off the bat. They just have to point to the obvious wealth out there to say it's unfair. 'No one working 40 hours/week should live in poverty.' Blowing them off doesn't do anything for the younger generation-communist. They're lost. College loans, putting off marriage, investing in Obamacare they don't need. Major surgery is needed and the poverty pimps have an easier time stroking resentment while we quietly go about our business. What's the solution?
AGREE!!
Well, I hope you have your self-defense implements handy, because at some point, they're gonna come for what you got, and it'll be THEM that won't care.
“The world needs ditch diggers, too!”
‘No one working 40 hours/week should live in poverty.’
Many of our metropolitan areas have gotten huge.
Their great size means that commute time minimization has value.
Mr. and Mrs. Professional might pull down $100,000 each, for a total of $200,000/year.
For each of them to commute half an hour each way each working day is like losing an opportunity to earn one-eighth of that $200,000/year. They would be willing to pay a good part of $25,000/year extra to be free of substantial commutes, maybe $15,000/year extra if they are in a 40% tax bracket.
A single professional might be willing to pay $7,500/year extra for a short commute.
The willingness to pay extra for short commutes puts a commute time premium on real property in major metropolitan areas.
Lower income people normally live in rentals. Single professionals are often willing to live in rentals and often have no choice if their employment history is short. Therefore, in large metropolitan areas all single people and not just single lower income people must pay a commute time premium, which can be $7,500/year, or $3.75/hour for a 40/hour week.
Advocates of big government say why not force employers to pay that $3.75/hour extra.
However, when governments do force employers to pay a metropolitan supplement, it makes those metropolitan areas even more highly attractive to say people from Central America willing to cram into small apartments and have several family members each collect a metropolitan area wage premium.
Initially, only lower income whites tend to throw in the towel on say LA after widespread immigration hits, but after time even blacks have to face the reality of immigration-based displacement.
Over time, large metropolitan areas have a well-paid professional class that is mainly white (there is also a professional black class that lives in places like Mitchellville and Tantallion, Maryland) and large numbers of immigrants and those lower income blacks unwilling or unable to flee like lower income whites.
“ditch diggers”
There are many amazing machines that are used nowadays.
Those that know how to operate the machines make fairly good money.
My county bought a machine that clears the overgrowth along roads. In five minutes the machine and its operator does what took five man days in the past.
Marriages need to be based on mandatory 10-year renewable contracts signed by both parties. Missing one siggy?
The party is over! That’ll take care of the gold diggers!
Exactly: simply point to their $300 sneakers and say, “I can’t afford those. I prefer to have my money work for me.”
That was quoted from Judge Smayo - Caddy Shack! But yes, I agree. The 4-yr degree is not a guarantee to any success, but instant poverty for years, in many cases. Vocational schools serve up far more “opportunity”.
‘No one working 40 hours/week should live in poverty.’
Actually the reality is: No two people working 40 hours/week each should live in poverty.
Ms. Demanding and her offspring are not going to economically keep up with Mr. & Mrs. Jones.
Marriage is the ‘gold standard’ of American domestic economic life.
You are all aware of all the homeless in the cities-overwhelming.You can’t go there now. Where are they going to go? You can’t move them without the poverty pimps getting in the way.
“Vocational schools”
Some of these have a bad track record.
Traditionally trades have been passed on from father to son.
Long ago there were apprentice systems. A family would pay a respected tradesperson the equivalent of thousands of dollars to teach their son all aspects of a trade.
Here in Florida county school boards run trade schools. The Sarasota County Technical Institute is now called the Suncoast Technical College. My neighbor’s son Kyle trained to become a firefighter/paramedic there. He had no trouble finding a paid job after graduation.
“simply point to their $300 sneakers”
If people had bought Apple stock instead of Apple phones, many would be pretty well-off.
Muhammad Ali?? Try W. C. Fields.
Tocqueville nailed it...
“There is a passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level [Class Warfare], and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”
The only quibble I have with Tocqueville is that it is not the weak who have that “depraved taste for equality”. Most of them understand why there are differences.
The ones pushing the income inequality crap are leftist “intellectuals” ie the community agitators, who, for either personal gain or a warped sense of “justice” spur the “poor” to demand pay equality (or using the latest euphemism “equity”) .
I have seen it attributed to both.
The way poverty is defined today, as the left tail of the wealth distribution curve, you’ll NEVER get rid of it because regardless of how you massage that curve it will always have that tail.
Whereas if you define it in absolute term, like living standards and compare it to poverty in other countries, especially the third world, most American “poor” are actually filthy rich.
Yeah, but Fields said it before Ali. (It’s also been attributed to P. T. Barnum, but without any valid citation that I could find.)
“You are all aware of all the homeless in the cities-overwhelming.You can’t go there now. Where are they going to go?”
Perhaps Hotel F1-style blocks.
A tiny room with one or two beds.
Shared showers and toilets down the hall.
A city like LA might say we are prepared to lease 13,000 to 18,000 minimal dwelling units at say $7,000/unit/year to $9,000/unit/year depending on various factors such as unit size and location.
Developers would provide intent to build notices to the city so a glut isn’t created in any one area or city-wide.
Occupants would have to sign over SS disability payments to get into a unit and would get allowances from their SS disability payments.
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