Sure, it's pretty simple really. As wages rise the business has to charge more to cover the increase in cost. As price rises demand falls.
So while the commenters statement "There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only activities that people don’t think are worth the cost." may be true so is "There is no such thing as a work shortage, only activities that customers don't think are worth the cost."
I don't agree with the Republican immigration bullshit but I've argued for over 30 years that if any of these blowhards were actually serious about immigration enforcement that they'd go after the employers. The I.R.S. has known for years which employers are hinky, they can see it with SSN re-use during employment verification.
SSN 506-03-2379 cannot possibly be working full time as a construction worker in Florida, a meat packer in Iowa, picking crops in California, ditch digging in Texas, and running Door Dash in 57 other cities....ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Find the employers involved in this and fine the ever loving shit out of them. They can employee people and pay them real wages instead of building their business on the back of underpaid immigrants.
At some point, the NRA forgot that and only funded one side.
As the article notes after '94 the number of Democrats the NRA could support steadily dwindled. These days the Democrats purity test their candidates to ensure that they fully support Gun Control and there are various Democrat PACs that will oppose Pro-Gun Democrats in the primaries; making it increasingly unlikely for there to be any future Democrats at the federal level that the NRA can support.
The 2nd Amendment is a wedge issue and both sides do their best to take maximum advantage of their position.
That left them vulnerable when there was widespread financial fraud in the organization...
They were vulnerable because they were up to shady shit. No one should have been going to bat for the NRA during their corruption scandal and the fact they had one is entirely the fault of the NRAs Board of Directors. They knew what was happening and ignored it. No amount of political donations to Democrats, or anyone else, should have insulated them from the consequences.
I'd like for all of the Pro 2A groups, not just the NRA, to get back to donating to non-Republican politicians but they kinda don't exist anymore and I don't know how to change that.
The modern NRA is near useless but what you're accusing them of hasn't been true in a long time.
The NRA that supported The Mulford Act ceased to exist on May 22nd, 1977. The membership was fed-up with their organization supporting Gun Control and in an event known as the Revolt at Cincinnati they removed and replaced the entire leadership then set the organization on an entirely new course.
Post '77 it's been very rare for the NRA to support any kind of Gun Control, to the point that they've spent the last three decades getting torn up in the media for staunchly opposing any limits on 2A rights for anyone. They've spent a ridiculous amount of time, money, and energy winding back all of the gun controls and policies that they supported prior to '77 and to my knowledge they've made no attempt to limit 2A rights for non-whites.
Now some of the NRA members and 2A associated politicians are certainly racist / sexist / 'phobic fuckheads but the organization itself hasn't cared about any of that for decades.
The biggest knock on the NRA in modern times, basically the WLP corruption era, is that they completely lost the willingness to go against the Police regardless of the circumstances. The '90s (Cold Dead Hands / Jackbooted Thugs) era NRA would likely have already been in the streets at this point.
The NRA is very nearly a failed organization at this point.
In regards to recent events there was a time back in the '90s where they were pretty willing to get involved in stuff like this. Ol' WLP himself let fly with phrases like "Jackbooted thugs" and Charlton Heston proudly declared "From my cold dead hands." The NRA of the '90s was a fiery organization that was increasingly positioning itself as an anti-government force.
Then it stopped. I've never seen confirmation as to why but my supposition is that after the "jackbooted thugs" comment that WLP got a tap on the shoulder from the men in black suits and a deal was struck.
If today's NRA had the spirit it did 30 years ago they'd likely already be in the streets.
Haven't you wondered why he's all but stopped making videos on his primary channel? In January of 2024 he released a video where he openly says that he can't make money like he used too so he's dialed back his "main" channel and is instead focusing on his Barcade channel.
This isn't the first time he's done it either. Remember, he started off as the "TheiBookGuy" where you bought, fixed, and resold used Macs. When that stopped making money he quit doing it and launched a PC Repair channel and when that didn't pay off he moved to RetroComputing.
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy his historical retro type content. I also appreciate the projects and energy he contribute(s/d) to the Retro community but in a contest of altruism between The 8 Bit Guy and Perifractic there's really no contests.
My ideological opponents are already silencing speech.
Uh huh. I can fire up Social Media and find endless content openly discussing the entire spectrum of Political,Cultural, and Economic beliefs. Nearly all of that is openly discussed on Mainstream Media as well. You aren't being silenced.
As long as fascists exist they must be silenced.
Define "fascist".
When they seize power, they will not do you the courtesy of allowing you to speak...
Which is precisely what you yourself are proposing. Congratulations, you are rubbing elbows with the very people you claim to despise.
If you do not tolerate dissent then you are ethically and morally inferior.
The same tailscale that announced last week that they are going to start charging?
https://tailscale.com/kb/1251/pricing-faq