Oh yeah, the democrats really like workers, they promised to help!
Even though I unequivocally support raising the minimum wage until profits are exactly equal to the minimum wage itself, I think the "minimum wage debate" sometimes gets a bit wonky because of how many bizarre problems Yankees sleepwalked into. I can definitely see somebody living on 15 an hour comfortably if they didn't have to pay like half of their wages on fake services like rent. As it stands they pay outrageous prices for worse versions of cheaper stuff in other countries, and have to work bullshit jobs like doordash/hellofresh to keep up.
Liberals love complaining that increasing wages will lead to inflation (which is already a dubious claim), but then they refuse the other reasonable alternative of redacting the landlords. Even though Stadians have negative class conscience as a society I think it's more likely for there to be some big city rent strike than for their stock exchange hub posing as a Congress passing even a 1 dollar increase in minimum wage. Not to mention gig economy bypassing the already pityful wage for big cities anyway.
I think reducing cost of living and increasing wages should go hand in hand, a thing that the ever-compartimentalising liberal hates to do. The don't pay campaign looked very promising in the UK and I think even made Truss back down on her shit relatively quickly. Hit them where it hurts ~~financially~~ and all.
Libs in the thread thinking they're "compromising" by voting Sanders is just rich, though.
why would anyone pay that?
It's the law, son. It makes people do stuff. With guns.
Just got through the first one and it's a cool read.
I already expected from the Trotsky references that the USSR takes would be weird, but one thing I found surprising was his portrayal of feminism. From my understanding, what he calls "feminism" is just the liberal feminism traditionally espoused by the likes of the LibDems or the Labour party and that there was actually always a strong Marxist Feminist current.
Can somebody more well versed in that help me understand it better?
he also did another podcast called “Revolutions” where he goes through historical revolutions, including the Russian revolution (though I personally haven’t reached that series yet, so I can’t vouch for its accuracy.)
He is horribly lib sometimes in the first 3 (English, Yankee, French) but as soon as he reaches Haiti he starts to realise the hypocrisy of liberalism and it only gets better after that. On the first two he was working on the constraint of "15 episodes per revolution" so they suffer a lot for it, so you can skip to French or Haiti if you just want to check it out. The dude is an incredibly skilled podcaster though with a lot of attention to detail, and he always makes sure to correct every mistake when pointed out. His Rome one was what got me into history in the first place.
He also spawned a whole trend of in-depth history podcasts (like History of Byzantium) and while I haven't found one so catching yet, I think it is harder to be spewing nonsense if most of your audience is already a bunch of history nerds who will correct you endlessly. YouTube mostly encourages going for aesthetics and briefness so it's actually harder to put a similar amount of research and information density. I guess hbomberguy has become a modern conspiracy history channel for the last 2 years after the midlife crisis. He only posts once a year. Youtubers are weird.
Yeah, I didn't mean "prominent" as in wealthy or socially highly regarded but just in how they are a notable fixture of that society. It's very rare to read a Byzantine source that doesn't mention Varangians and eunuchs at least once, and yet those "successors to Rome" in Western Europe don't know much about either. As soon as things stop being relevant to the Normans, Westerner pop historians just forget about it.
And they say commies are the lazy ones! This is great!
Even their understanding of the Vikings is incredibly western, most barely know about how prominent the Varangians were in Eastern Rome because they only read Latin sources. It begins and ends with Ragnar and some Marvel superheroes (and the Nazis, obviously).
Congratulations Europe, you wasted the time of 60 countries to talk about some hypothetical 61st one. Wonder why CELAC wants nothing to do with that one war over there while their allies blockade Cuba and threaten other Mesoamerican/Caribbean nations with invasion.
In that case, I'm definitely getting one. I think the current logo is already fantastic for a sticker, but if having it also serve as advertising is also important, it could have the url under it like the lemmygrad one.
Fighting for "freedom of the press" has been a liberal capitalist fight since the beginnings of the printing press. They believe that just because their ideas are banned that they'll cease to exist, probably because they require enforcement from the law and state in the first place. And yet they think themselves to be "following human nature."
Everyone knows very well why. Because the publication of a newspaper is a big and profitable capitalist undertaking in which the rich invest millions upon millions of rubles. “Freedom of the press” in bourgeois society means freedom for the rich systematically, unremittingly, daily, in millions of copies, to deceive, corrupt and fool the exploited and oppressed mass of the people, the poor.
This is the simple, generally known, obvious truth which everyone sees and realises but which “almost everyone” “bashfully” passes over in silence, timidly evades.
The profit should equal exactly the minimum wage, no more and no less. In fact it should not even be called "profit", just the wage of the administration. Doesn't matter if a profession is "skilled" or "unskilled", people should be paid to live not to value their skills above others. No reason an MD should be paid more or less than a janitor and we wouldn't be able to live without either of them. The pandemic showed clear as day how much work is "essential" and badly paid compared to "inessential" and "skilled".
It's not even like employers themselves are particularly skilled anyways. Now if you believe that some people inherently deserve a worse life due to their profession, you can just say it.