I can’t recall the last time I saw more than like 2-3 people working at a fast food restaurant at the same time. A lot of restaurants are getting rid of kids play places since that requires a lot of labor to clean (or just letting them get disgusting). There’s no more labor that can be cut.
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Not to mention, the Zionist entity views all Arab people and nations as a “threat to their security”. They’re like the Founders in DS9 - everyone around them is a threat and no amount of unprovoked violence against others is unjustified. If they could get away with it, the Zionist entity would slaughter every Arab man, woman, and child on earth and claim it was needed for “security”. I think a lot of Zionists have even convinced themselves this is true.
Members of the Knesset openly say this shit every day, too.
They’ve gotten worse where I live in that people used to get those fake service dog vests so they could take their dogs inside shops and restaurants. Now they just bring their dogs in without the vests. And stores have cut so many corners with hiring bare bones staff that no one’s around to tell them they can’t bring a dog in.
Even though the US is an oil producer, higher prices are bad for the US economy, and for Brandon in particular if gas prices are high in November he will get Mondaled.
That response actually surprised me. I was expecting them to blame it all on China “distorting market incentives” with huge subsidies but no, just straight up admitting that the socialist economy is drinking our milkshake.
Yep. The socialist calculation debate is over. We won. I happen to think the Austrians did have a point back back in like the 1920s. You can read all about how much Lenin et al struggled with central planning. I actually think full central planning was maybe possible before the 1920s and then after the 1970s or so. But there’s that 50 year window where you had highly complex economies but not the appropriate computing power to match that complexity for planning purposes.
Alan Cotrell wrote Towards a New Socialism in the early 90s and showed conclusively how there was plenty of computing power available at that time for central planning. Now consider how much more power computers are now versus back then, without anywhere that much an increase in economic complexity.
Has to be intentional.
Well, let’s see if it actually gets built, completed, and actually up and running first. I’m skeptical.
Even I don’t totally agree, these are all reasonable critiques that we shouldn’t be afraid to investigate further.
One thing I got from Rashid Khalidi’s The Hundred Year War on Palestine is that the Zionist entity is like a chaos dragon (sorry for the JBP term but it really fits well) for the entire Middle East. That role is incredibly beneficial to the US. They keep all the other MENA states from acting with a united purpose. Essentially, the Zionist entity keeps them down and their leaders dependent on the US. Every neighboring nation must devote signficant resources - financial, political, social - just to try and keep Israel from fucking up their shit all the time.
How this is done is multi-faceted. Of course there’s Israel’s decades-long history of attacking neighbors unprovoked (literally what’s happening in Syria right now). By preventing any right of return, the status of Palestinian refugees in places like Lebanon and Jordan creates tremendous social pressures which leads to social and political instability. Basically, if you are a leader (elected or otherwise) in the Middle East, you have two choices. Either side with the US/Israel (and against the Palestinian people), or don’t side with them and Israel will find reasons to bomb you or mess with you or try and get the US to view you as part of the “axis of evil” or supporting terrorists or whatever.
If the Zionist entity were to be destroyed, you would almost immediately see other MENA nations act in a more unified and confident manner - which is a very direct and real threat the US’ strategic position in the region and the flow of oil.
Are inventories sitting idle? Or is there a glut of supply that is lowering prices but otherwise clearing the market? I genuinely don’t know.
The former is a real (but solvable) problem for China. The later is the US’ problem, not China’s, that US firms aren’t able to compete the prices China can sell at.
Yes but practically speaking for most wage work in CA workers have made a lot more than that (but not $20/hr) for many years. CA has a state minimum wage that is usually much higher than the federal.
The federal minimum wage represents a legal floor but it’s so low and never changes that it’s functionally meaningless.