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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the only solution to this problem is subsidies.

Subsidies knowledge works well around the world.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That is what we are going to change

Then do it! I feel like I've heard this for so long, from all the parties, and just nothing gets done.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"That is what we are going to change."

:(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Federal Reserve has more power to control inflation than the president ever did. Presidents can't control supply and demand, nor can they control how much Amazon, Uber or Walmart pay their workers. Why do so many people believe that the US president is able to raise or lower prices of commodities, homes or college on a whim?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Workers have been getting nickel & dimed for ages now, but it just feels like since the pandemic that everyone everywhere across every industry has just gone into overdrive with trying to get as much as they can from workers/consumers ("greedflation"). I don't know if this is the last big hurrah before capitalism collapses or what, it's just insane. And there doesn't seem to be any official government response to do anything about it, to help average people out, or to try to even bring prices down, nor does it seem like it's going to end anytime soon. I just wonder month after month, how much longer can this go on for? Are we getting the pitchforks out yet?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes something needs to change and I feel you are seeing the real panic of the right as more and more younger people can now vote and are just pissed as everything they are doing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People have been saying this since the 60s. Lots of young people are still conservative and many areas are still solidly red. I don't see a massive blue wave that garners a supermajority happening anytime soon.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I found my people. On Reddit this would have been on r/BernieSandersforpresident and I would have been the lostRedditor for suggesting otherwise

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's not minimum wage's fault, it's the government guaranteeing student loans. Tuition skyrocketed since then and has been out of control since.

Then with so many people being told "You have to go to college so you don't become a garbageman!" the requirements for most jobs increased as well. Manufacturing in pharma, for instance, I could take a kid out of middle school and teach him the job in an hour. Get fresh grads from college for a bachelor's degree and they still need an hour of teaching. But now the Bachelors is required for some reason.

Ironically, garbage man pays pretty decent for some minimal manual labor.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

College prices went sky high when the government started backing student loans, they should have never done that.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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