Metaright

joined 2 years ago
[–] Metaright@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Get ready for the "let people enjoy things" brigade.

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's interesting to me. My layman intuition would assume it would go for much more.

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wonder how much it's worth.

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago

Paying for her cab fare home sounds reasonably polite.

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 93 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Regulate the market? What are you, some kind of communist?

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think there are a lot of people who need this reminder. People act like "the market" is some autonomous, intelligently acting entity that we're powerless to control. If demand and prices go up, well, nothing to be done! Humans are mere slaves to their own creation!

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago
[–] Metaright@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Heyck says she got divorced in her 50s after her son turned 18.

“It was really more of a working relationship than a full marriage,” she says, and Heyck was emotionally ready to be on her own.

But the financial transition, she says, wasn’t easy. For years, she struggled to make ends meet, living with roommates and couch-surfing as she waited for a spot to open in income-adjusted senior housing.

“I was an artist. I lived on the edge financially. I didn’t have a 401(k) … I always thought that I would be married. That was the big surprise,” she says.

How was it a "big surprise" when it's implied that she wanted the divorce to happen? You have an unstable job, divorce your spouse, and then go all surprised Pikachu when it occurs to you that your finances are unstable?

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

If climate change, how snow? 😳🤔🤣

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 55 points 2 years ago (5 children)

When not even the companies take these massive documents seriously, it's clear that we need to rethink how this all works.

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I missed it! What did it say?!

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I missed it! What did it say?!

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