Unfortunately Americans using their brain when they purchase something means they are looking to maximize their quality to cost ratio. I do this all the time when shopping for automotive tools. Lots of companies sell what is more or less the same exact quality product made by the same exact manufacturer. And if you peruse amazon(so hard not to even send traffic their way) you will find the same item sold by say matco, cornwell, mac or bluepoint rebranded in different packaging for 15-25% the price asked by those other high end brands. And in some instances i have seem people open up the product and find it is packaged with the more expensive brand name logo on it. So when 50% of Americans earn $42,200/year($20.29/hr) or less and when you remove the highest earning 10% from the data set then the average wage in the USA is $58,000 ($28/hr) American’s known only one way to shop smart and that is look for the best deal and ignore the ethical implications because most of us can not afford to figure this into our shopping habits.

And this is compounded even more so by the reality that us yankees are being lied to by the financial institutions at the helm of our societal machinery. Inflation statistics are wildly skewed to reduce the possibility of the working class rioting and fomenting a revolution so the passive income stream for the ultra wealthy will continue to flow.

The world bank and international monetary fund who’s inflation calculations are regurgitated to us hu the FED and all of Wall Street- they use consumer price index to figure inflation statistics and CPI is flawed in multiple ways but the most important of them being that CPI does not account for the devaluation of a currency due to the increase in circulating currency supply as well as leveraged national debt/ deficit, and these 2 factors are the primary driving force of inflation. And if you even mention the fact that the price of gold foes account for those two factors then youre called ridiculous and a few will try to spew out a ton of nonsensical economics information at you but all you need to know is that in the 172 years of the US dollar as a standardized currency the price of gold only fluctuated ≈95% from $18 to $35 (and the bulk of that was when FDR had to take drastic measures to save the economy after wall street malfeasance that caused the Great Depression which was mild in comparison to the last 40 years of fraud by wall street so FDR made it illegal to hoard gold and bought up the majority of the supply at $20.67/ounce to store in the newly built fort knox and when his administration was certain they had the majority of the supply they revalued gold wt $35/ounce where it remained until nixon ended the gold standard permanently in 1971 by withdrawing from the bretton woods agreement) but since nixon ended the gold standard permanently 54 years ago the value of gold has increased in direct proportion to the national debt going from $35 to $3400/ounce or ≈9600% compared to the national debt increasing from $400 billion to 37.3 trillion ≈9400% in the same exact time frame.

So this is why the silent generation l, boomers and most of Gen x had it so well. Why my grandfather was able to buy a house in 1955 just 5 years after coming to the usa at the age of 18 on a minimum wage salary in an Ivy League college town for less than $3000 but today federal minimum wage hasn’t been raised in going on 17 years and average rent for a 2 bedroom apartment in the same city is now $3000/ month if you go outside the city its $2200-2500 depending on your standards but the reality is that it cost more to purchase and maintain enslaved people during chattel slavery some 170+ years ago than minimum wage workers anywhere in the Usa are currently paid today. We are slaves convinced of an illusory freedom. Mainly through the eradication of high education standards that were the norm after the Great Depression up until the end of the civil rights movement Fascism has creeped into sociopolitical system and taken a strong foot hold while using digital medial to effectively disburse propaganda and condition many to support ideas against their own self interest and simultaneously believe what is in the better interest of the working class is evil and foolish. Things couldn’t be more upside down than they are now.

I think you have misread what I said.

The richest 1% (3.4 million people) own 44.6 trillion. Half of that is 22.3 trillion so 22,300,000,000,000 divided by 336.6 million (336,600,000) and you’re left with $66,646.74 now take the other half and divide it up amongst the 3.4 million richest 1% of Americans and they are left with $6,558,823.53 each

You’re talking about a gray market, like in legal cannabis states where prices are still high and there are ridiculous barriers preventing those who were growing cannabis illegaly before “legalization”(or rather prohibition 2.0) from entering the industry so they sell at a lower price and undercut the market. But these people are not multi million dollar cartels and in 97 cases out of 100 cartels have already moved out of the cannabis trade or they have taken steps to enter the legal trade. Im talking about a commercial environment where violence is not needed to protect the producer and their profits, the main idea behind prohibition is this enforcing of abstinence only moral Puritanism built on religious fundamentalism and racism/ white supremacy. There is definitely a way to undercut the entire black market but it is almost impossible within a capitalistic economy the leas regulated the more unfeasible it is.

Or we could just end the prohibition of drugs because it does nothing beneficial for society and destroy the black market instead of doing bullshit like “decriminalizing” which doesn’t do any good because the black market still flourishes

Usd has plummeted in value though and those in control of the economic system have manipulated it to hide this reality. For instance Inflation statistics are calculated by the world bank and IMF using Consumer price index which is extremely flawed mostly because CPI does not account for the 2 primary driving forces of inflation… the increase in circulating currency supply and leveraged national debt. So they are feeding us highly skewed inflation numbers to prevent the workers from rioting/ fomenting a revolution so their passive income faucet keeps flowing.

Saying that “It Doesn’t Work that way” is just highlighting the reality that the entire system is rigged and set up to benefit those in control over those doing the actual labor and creating the profit

do billionaire’s nuts taste that good?

Reminds me of the tool song “jerk off”

Well quantum mechanics are a little bit beyond the material and in reality many of the principles of science transcend into other scientific disciplines so it makes most sense that the spiritual/ non corporeal/ extra dimensional realm(s) would have similar constraints. But whatever you want to believe/ whatever makes you comfortable and or happy.

Fuck, that is the truth. If i could edit the poorly cropped meme i cropped i would :(

No bottle, maybe a diaper.

No because after he accumulates all the wealth he had in life he just gets to be eternally tortured like every one else but with a useless collection of acquired wealth

You missed the best part where christ is being asked how to achieve salvation and he answers basically sell all your possessions and donate all of the money from them to the poor then you will know righteousness.

But yeah, christ was jewish and most orthodox jews don’t believe in hell. Hell became a punishment within the myth of judaism after Alexander the great Hellenized the levant and greek culture mixed in so the concept of Haedes integrated into the myth. Before this as is said in genesis the punishment for sin was just death and really within the adam and eve creation myth eve’s consumption of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil was not only a tool of misogyny to blame it on women but also just the vehicle to explain why human beings die.

But hell is the most illogical idea of what happens after we die because science has already proven all matter and energy are recycled to maintain equilibrium so reincarnations is a far more likely reality than eternal suffering by a petty being that is supposed to love his creation but also abuses us worse than the wife in an arranged marriage during the eighteenth century

Unfortunately i only Cropped the crop😖

24/7 manual bull semen extraction at minimum wage for servers tips allowed but only acceptable tips are bull semen.

Whatever do you mean friendly fellow hooman 🤖

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You have my vote

Lol I saw someone do the math where he was only allowed to keep a penny a day. I mean I don’t think you need to pay rent of eat in hell. You probably just get tortured non stop after doing some awful grueling repetitive work like breaking rocks. That’s better than he deserves.

Remember when trump got a bunch of undocumented Eastern European (polish I believe) immigrants to do the demolition and excavation work on the property that would become trump tower through the connections of his mafia consiglieri McCarthyite fixer lawyer Roy Cohn (who also had connections to human trafficking rings and a home for orphaned boys in norther ireland that MI5 and MI6 were using to recruit children to be abused for the purposes of Kompromat farming and blackmail rackets almost identical to the kind of operation Epstein and maxwell(whom trump met several years after Cohn died in ‘86)were running and then when the immigrant labor team, who had been contracted to do the work due to their very low bid, was finished with the work they were reported to immigration enforcement and then deported and trump saved a bunch of money by not having to pay what was owed on their services…… and then trump did something similar in Atlantic City by just refusing to pay contractors because it was cheaper to fight them in court and or settle since most couldn’t afford legal representation and many ended up going bankrupt. Trump’s excuse for this was that they did bad work but many of the contractors whom he did this to, litigated against and settled with he had the audacity to request them to do more work after the fact. So i can imagine what kind of fraud he is going to pull on this monstrosity of a neo-gilded age ball room but I would expect at least for trump to pocket half of the over inflated estimate and them cut as many corners as possible to try and further skim more off the top. Like how has this fuck not been prosecuted for violating the emoluments clause? It should really also include family members acting on behalf of the president’s past present and future business interests. This administration and subsequently the entire country as a result are in such a mess. And we can thank Roy Cohn for teaching trump how to brazenly commit fraud and get away with it continuously.

Human civilization most likely wont be here anymore in 9 million+ years at the rate we are “progressing”