Unemployment, Amazon wages

[Minimalist]

[Angrboda]

[Amarok]

alpha male Wrote
Lower taxes (Trump) and less burdensome regulation (Trump) --> greater investment in business --> more jobs --> lower unemployment --> employers forced to bid up wages 

But i guess Beta Fail needs to twist this news to reinforce his gospel of madness

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IDK why people still pretend that trickle down works.  Even the politicians who vote for it know that it doesn't.

And the Conservative reaction when you point that fact out 

[Minimalist]

[Seraphina]

I'm happy to see that Amazon is raising its wage floor to $15/hour. But I have to wonder if the people who are falling all over themselves to clap for Amazon are the same people who were bitching about California raising its minimum wage to $15/hour in step increases by 2022. I mean, I had working class friends - who will benefit from CA's wage increase - who were complaining about it. Basically spouting the same talking points they heard on tv and online. The loyalty to their conservative overlords is strong, I guess.

-Teresa

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Lower taxes (Trump) and less burdensome regulation (Trump) --> greater investment in business --> more jobs --> lower unemployment --> employers forced to bid up wages.

Except when companies elect to keep their profits for themselves - like paying their executives millions in compensation - instead of investing their capital. The ability of a business to invest is important but your link from greater investment in business to more jobs is often broken, unfortunately.

Your spending is my income and my spending is your income. But when it's all about garnering as much as possible for a select few, it's the working masses that lose out.

-Teresa

[Amarok]

Need i also point out Amazon is a legitimately evil company that treats it's works like shit so raising their wages is like giving table scraps to a dog someones just whipped.

[vulcanlogician]

This seems good to me.   I don't know why others are complaining, it's almost like they want failure (of the country).  And what is great about it, is it is not a forced action by the government, but a voluntary one by a company.

Also, I have been thinking about that slogan (MAGA).   I think it should just be Make America Great.   Constant improvement beyond whatever ones thoughts where before.
But some people seem to oppose this.

People are complaining because this was obvious conservative spin from Alpha, made complete with a "MAGA" thrown in at the end to bait us even more.

I personally hate the phrase "Make America Great Again." Anyone who loves American history knows what a load of horseshit this catchphrase is.

America started with some pretty high minded ideals... not to be some world superpower, but a republic of free people. Along the course of its own history, America challenged itself to see if it really lived up to those ideals. First, slavery had to go. Then oppression in the Jim Crow south. Moral victories such as those are the sort of things that truly make America great. What good does it do us to be a world superpower if we revert into a bunch of bigoted, fearful assholes who forget those high minded ideals upon which America was founded in the first place?

[Amarok]

RoadRunner79 Wrote:
This seems good to me.   I don't know why others are complaining, it's almost like they want failure (of the country).  And what is great about it, is it is not a forced action by the government, but a voluntary one by a company.

Also, I have been thinking about that slogan (MAGA).   I think it should just be Make America Great.   Constant improvement beyond whatever ones thoughts where before.
But some people seem to oppose this.

If you can't see  why people are pointing out the flaws in Beta's spin then i can't help you .

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This seems good to me.   I don't know why others are complaining, it's almost like they want failure (of the country).  And what is great about it, is it is not a forced action by the government, but a voluntary one by a company.

Also, I have been thinking about that slogan (MAGA).   I think it should just be Make America Great.   Constant improvement beyond whatever ones thoughts where before.
But some people seem to oppose this.

People are complaining because this was obvious conservative spin from Alpha, made complete with a "MAGA" thrown in at the end to bait us even more.

I personally hate the phrase "Make America Great Again." Anyone who loves American history knows what a load of horseshit this catchphrase is.

America started with some pretty high minded ideals... not to be some world superpower, but a republic of free people. Along the course of its own history, America challenged itself to see if it really lived up to those ideals. First, slavery had to go. Then oppression in the Jim Crow south. Moral victories such as those are the sort of things that truly make America great. What good does it do us to be a world superpower if we revert into a bunch of bigoted, fearful assholes who forget those high minded ideals upon which America was founded in the first place?

Indeed it's a regressive BS piece jingoist nonsense

[Amarok]

Lower taxes (Trump)

Which isn't what caused this nor do business invest or improve when given tax break that's Conservative mythology 

 less burdensome regulation (Trump) 

Which isn't what caused this nor do business invest or improve and just allows corporations to cut corners on safety and quality to save money at the top and there is no such thing as burdensome regulations that more conservative mythology 

greater investment in business 

Does not happen 

more jobs 

Does not happen 

 lower unemployment 

Does not happen 

 employers forced to bid up wages.

Does not happen 

[Fake Messiah]

Yay MAGA!