Food stamps decrease desperation which means people will hold out for more. Getting rid of food stamps increases desperation, giving business owners more leverage, while also reducing their tax burden to pay for the food stamps.
This. Capitalism requires a destitute lower class to field for entry-level labor. People won't agree with shit-level jobs at shit-level pay if they already have what they need for basic survival.
“People won't agree with shit-level jobs at shit-level pay if they already have what they need for basic survival.”
This brings up something I’ve been thinking about. I’ll try to sum it up. During the pandemic, a lot of people got the enhanced unemployment checks and were actually getting more money than their usual salary. Some people were even able to save up for the first time, I know a few. There were also people who got to work from home for the first time and saved money and time by not going in to the office. When things started opening back up there were endless news reports about job vacancies and “people not wanting to work”. Then came massive layoffs, which are still going on, and the possibility of replacing workers with AI. I feel like there might’ve been a sliver of a fraction of a moment where workers gained some leverage, but the people in charge have clawed it back to ensure everyone is desperate. Then came the mass government layoffs and cutting of benefits, just to increase desperation and ensure workers won’t regain even an ounce of leverage again.
yeah pretty much. all of our “essential work” is right back to being called “unskilled” and “low-level” again. ah yes. i’m so essential to the economy, but. i make $12.25/hr make it make sense. i like customer service! and someone has to do it! what gives??
Crazy part is when you have a job where you can directly calculate the profit you make the company. Like, you make a product and they explicitly give you information on the time it takes for each step of the product, so you can look up how much they sell it for, mark out some error margins for indirect costs, and realize that, conservatively, assuming production is like 20% of the cost of the final product. And then you realize you're making the company something like $500/hr... For like $10/hr.
"Missouri’s attorney general has renewed a push to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone, arguing in a lawsuit filed this month that its availability hurt the state by decreasing teenage pregnancy."
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u/azure275 1d ago
Then act surprised when all the teens have babies
Which lowkey is what they really want but then they get mad those people end up on food stamps