gandalf_der_12te @ gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de

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that depends on whether there's still competence in the grocery market

Farm workers are chronically underpaid. Farm work could be good work if it was half as stressful and paid double.

What we need is a reform of the way that agriculture is done. Instead of relying on migrant workers who have no realistic chance of standing up and demanding a good treatment, the working conditions should be made attractive enough for americans to work there again.

Grocery value didn't go up. Real wages went down. We should measure inflation based on cost-of-living.

Groceries don't really get more expensive, because the methods for producing food don't really get less efficient over time; if anything, it's more efficient. So there's no real reason for them to become more expensive.

Instead, wages declined. I've already commented many times that the labor market is a free market, that means it's regulated by Supply and Demand. I.e., if prices for labor go down, as we can observe, then that can be interpreted such that supply of labor went up (women go to work too, offshoring labor to other countries, immigrants, ...) or that demand for labor went down (automation, end of growth, ...).

I honestly think that both cases are difficult, where the supply of labor could be a bit reduced by kicking out immigrants and home-shoring labor (and also, to a lesser extent, making it more difficult for women to work), which btw some advisers to trump are seemingly trying to do, but my honest opinion is that it won't bring wages up to how they were in the 1960s. Demand for labor is shrinking too, due to the end of growth and now AI and other automation techniques. I guess we'll have to face that.

edit: just to offer an optimistic outlook, i think that consumerism and therefore demand for consumer products could be stimulated by simply giving handouts to people. most people will spend most of the handouts immediately, and that stimulates consumerism. and that in turn stimulates the economy.

is the defenestration supposed to be a metaphor for something? i.e., they took too many risks and "leaned out the window too far and fell over" or sth 🤔

tax the rich! (slight /s)

what i'm wondering is:

who exactly wanted this war? i.e., i guess it was not a single-person decision. probably a number of oligarchs are behind it because they think they can profit from either the conflict or the outcome of it.

everybody knows that wars are hella expensive. i guess most wars are decided by economic factors, i.e. who can stay solvent longer. what did the oligarchs think would happen to their wealth due to the war?

very very interesting indeed. i wonder what are the effects of this ..

these people quote whatever the fuck pleases them today.

the bible literally says to feed the poor and house the homeless and these fucks don't mention it with a word

it's literally just a way to manipulate lots of people in whatever way the rulers prefer

whyyy did you have to post this here?

sth function approaches a straight line, why do you ask?

I suspect that's where evolution comes in, as it is a strong driving force that's pushing us in a direction continuously, so in that sense we evolved a sense of happiness or sadness.

nah, that's why i value simplicity

the limit that everything converges against?

besides, the major reason why i like molotov cocktails and similar things is because of how easily they are made and it doesn't require any special ingredients. they can be made either with alcohol or gasoline, and both are widely available. the thing with the aluminium, rust and magnesium is that some of these ingredients aren't exactly what you'd find in every home, and if trump goes all-in, he surely will make it illegal to sell these things in shops if people actually do use it to build fireworks out of them.

A sandwich bag of aluminum and rust with a magnesium starter will melt through 4 inches of steel.

how do you apply that practically? you'll hardly have time to install that setup on the car of an ICE vehicle or some place where you pass by by chance. Where else could that be useful?

yeah it actually did happen to me irl some years ago when we were on a field trip and a girl who had already flirted with me for the past two days suddenly wore a perfume and i think it was that that made it really difficult for me to stay clear-minded. could have also been the flirting though, i'm not sure actually.

you're right, i should have been more careful about this.

i just contacted an old friend of mine who had that view, and he too says that he's changed his mind about this and no longer sees it that way.

Israel does not have a future after this. They're removing their own credibility, and the world knows it. They're nothing but a rogue state at this point, waiting to be put to sleep like a rabid dog.

Like a dying star undergoing supernova. A rampant destruction at the end.

alternative organizations need to be established quickly. States need to take it on themselves to independent of the federal government.