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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • Because most voters aren’t making the minimum wage. So say the minimum wage is $10, but you’re making $16, and the min wage gets brought up by $5 to $15. The person making $16 an hour isn’t going to get a raise, or if they do, it won’t be a $5 raise. They’ll just be making $1 over minimum wage, only now everything in the state will adjust upwards in costs, because capitalism. Rent rates and used car prices will go up. Groceries will get a bit more. Places will charge more for child care.

    If you weren’t making close to minimum wage, it hurts you more than it helps.

    This is a perpetual problem. The fix is simple. Instead of trying to make low incomes higher for a short term amount of help; tax the fuck out of the top end. That will lessen the burden on everyone else, provide more money to help those in need, prevent the oligarchs from just trying to hoard their wealth and put it back out into their companies rather than paying more in taxes, etc.

    In short, raising minimum wage is a dumb thing to focus on, when the real focus should be on lowering the top.









  • Law offices, hospitals, and insurance companies are not going to set up their own servers, localize an AI, and upload all the custom data sets they need into a pre trained locally hosted model. Everyone could easily host their own cloud backup system as well, but no one does it.

    But yes. That’s their plan. It’s been done multiple times before amongst things. It’s how busses eliminated trolleys, how ride share beat out taxis, and how Walmart sells the cheapest Coke. Amazon does it as well. It’s a variation of predatory pricing. It’s common as hell. Supposed to be illegal, but seldom does anyone get in trouble for it. Crooked government that works for the wealthy n all.







  • Lol at trying to cop out on being wrong by claiming you were basing your answer on the pre 1963 pencil and paper game of Battleship. What’s worse is that you COULDN’T stack ships in the paper version and that the picture\meme for this post is using the boardgame.

    You’re a riot, man. People must love how right you always say you are.