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| Topic | IYO, should well educated people be forced to work minimum wage? |
| averagejoel 07/23/20 8:22:40 AM #5 | well-educated people are often forced to work minimum wage jobs I mostly think that people should be able to live a decent life working a minimum wage job, even if they don't have full-time hours --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | is being a landlord a job? |
| averagejoel 07/23/20 8:11:45 AM #39 | C7D posted... I own a small business. I have a couple of star employees who run it for me, and I pull out passive income. This is one of my jobs.owning something is not a job --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | The Pringles can challenge |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 9:41:52 PM #22 | Kami_no_Kami posted... Pringles fuck up the edges of my mouth sometimes. I do not want to see what they do to Vlad.did you actually name your dick after the historical inspiration for Dracula? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Rent should be optional |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 3:44:14 PM #62 | lightwarrior78 posted... A lo of property is built with the intet of using it as rental income. No rental income means they won't build the property, and again, you still have no place to live.jesus christ how can you guys be this dense. do you really think no one would ever build new buildings if there wasn't a private corporation making money by renting it out? do you think we've only had buildings since capitalism? like are you seriously this uninformed or are you intentionally trying to get me to waste my time talking at you? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Rent should be optional |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 2:45:56 PM #61 | Giant_Aspirin posted... so you don't think the people who own those properties are being punished by not receiving rent from those tenants? the landlord likely has a mortgage on that property and is expected to pay the bank the same way tenants are expected to pay the landlord.they would have to pay that mortgage whether or not they rented out the house though --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Rent should be optional |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 1:40:52 PM #54 | EffectAndCause posted... I think in periods of crisis, like the coronavirus lockdown, rent should be waivered until the crisis has passed so thousands don't get kicked to the curb.look, if you don't understand things you could have just said that. you don't need to pretend to make some brilliant point that you think I somehow haven't thought of --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Rent should be optional |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 1:18:43 PM #47 | lightwarrior78 posted... So instead we have empty homes unused but still private property you can't squat in, and vacant lots where homes aren't built because rental property wasn't being built on it because no one's going to do that without compensation.those are certainly all words, but I'm not able to deduce any coherent message from them when they're together like this --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | is being a landlord a job? |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 1:10:04 PM #16 | Austin_Era_II posted... A landlord if using a property management company still has to deal at times with things related to the business though most of the times it's easy stuff like giving the go ahead to replace a laundry machine that stopped working. It's like having an equity firm or something and owning a business but hiring a CEO to run it and shit.ok. the money that a landlord makes is not directly contingent on doing any of those things. you make money as long as you own the building. that isn't a job. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | is being a landlord a job? |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 1:08:11 PM #14 | Joeydollaz posted... It is, you have make sure the place is TOP NOTCH, Clean and everything from the inside piping is working alwaysto the extent that this is true (it's not), it's a property manager that performs those tasks --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | is being a landlord a job? |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 1:04:32 PM #10 | Hexenherz posted... Depends on how involved you are. If you manage a dozen different properties and you're constantly trying to take care of them and make sure the tenants are good and stuff then yeah that's a job.what you're describing in the first paragraph is a Property Manager. it is a job. "landlord" is not -- it's only contingent on owning the building --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Rent should be optional |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 12:51:20 PM #42 | EffectAndCause posted... Sounds like were beating around the bush of have the government pay for all of this like they do with public schools, in which case LOL no, there countless other things id rather have them spend their money on than the QUADRILLIONS this would cost.personally I think that ensuring everyone has a roof over their head should be one of the top concerns (maybe the top concern) of a government --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Rent should be optional |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 10:35:02 AM #31 | Mareen posted... So what do you advocate then?that housing be a public service rather than a for-profit industry --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Rent should be optional |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 10:33:51 AM #30 | EffectAndCause posted... Yeah man every utility worker should just work for free out of the kindness of their heart.please do not misinterpret me like that. performing labour and being compensated for it is not the same thing as turning a profit by owning something --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Rent should be optional |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 9:50:42 AM #21 | EffectAndCause posted... Then why arent utilities free? We pay for water, heat, electricity, TV, internet, phonedid you intend this as some sort of gotcha? people shouldn't be able to exploit those things for profit either. --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Rent should be optional |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 9:44:08 AM #17 | EffectAndCause posted... Why would any one want to own rental property then? Mareen posted... Pretty much nobody would own rentals then. good. housing is a basic necessity and no one should be able to exploit it for profit --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | What's with "no Trump supporters" on Tinder? |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 9:38:43 AM #154 | gatorsPENSbucs posted... What? Where the hell did you pull that from.bigots hate people based immutable characteristics (such as being black), not based on their opinions not dating a trump supporter can make you a bigot. I have no idea where you got what you said from.from the way that bigotry actually works --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | "Celebrate Black stories", |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 8:52:58 AM #15 | the entire premise of labour under capitalism is renting slaves lol --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | "Celebrate Black stories", |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 8:40:26 AM #11 | thrashmetal14 posted... Slavery was a thing long before capitalism came alongslavery is what lead to the development of capitalism --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | What's with "no Trump supporters" on Tinder? |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 8:39:30 AM #151 | gatorsPENSbucs posted... a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.being black is "holding [a] different opinion" now? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Sweden's economy "the least harmed in Europe". |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 8:22:21 AM #36 | BalanceLost posted... Preferably none. There are however indications based on investigations done by IVO (The Inspection Authority of Nursing and Care) that the death rate would be about the same even with a lockdown due to the already exisiting flaws in our elderly care in several municipalities.somehow I find this hard to believe BalanceLost posted... I have a question for you guys out of curiosity. The Government could not legally implement the type of lockdown most Western countries have imposed since it is illegal according to the Constitution. We have a minority Government and they did ask Riksdagen for certain emergency powers but Riksdagen only allowed a watered down version which has now expired since the law came with a time limit. So lets say that the Government now were to want a lockdown - should they violate the Constitution? Riksdagen would then have the PM removed from office though.there are ways of dealing with this without going into full lockdown. and even full lockdown does not mean that people are actually restricted from leaving their home --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | I dont understand people who defend landlords |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 8:15:20 AM #254 | Says the guy who has no arguments and thinks stuff should be free?lol Only to losers. Half of IQ is problem solving. So here's a problem to solve: Go make more money.IQ isn't a valid measurement of intelligence. and, believe it or not, one person making more money does not solve actual problems (for instance, poverty). the "problem" you offered is a suggestion, not a problem. that's why I can't "solve" it Except it is, according to actual society, which is why rich people can buy what they want while you cannot.please describe the train of thought that equates "merit" to "being able to buy what you want" and while you're at it, maybe also don't dismiss this as "bitching" Like what?your equation of merit to wealth without defining either term, for one Random fool on Gfaqs who thinks he's entitled to free shit thinks he's smarter than a Harvard economics professor...where did I claim I was smarter than anyone? my only claim is that he isn't smart. he's certainly very bad at imagining more pressing issues facing society than allocation of beachfront homes I hate to be a-hole to tell you: you're prob poor because you make bad life decisions, which is typically a sign of stupidityand there's another thing that you made up --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Sweden's economy "the least harmed in Europe". |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 7:51:11 AM #28 | so tc, how many people do you think should sacrifice themselves for the economy? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | I dont understand people who defend landlords |
| averagejoel 07/22/20 7:46:51 AM #253 | Ilishe posted... This is an obvious troll post right? I don't know why I have even half an inkling you might actually be serious.where is the lie though --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | I dont understand people who defend landlords |
| averagejoel 07/21/20 5:12:47 PM #241 | Funkydog posted... If only it were so easy. But we love voting in awful, useless people who actively and openly state their intent to fuck us over.people pretty clearly do not love that, though many people will vote for such a candidate if they deem them better than the alternative. didn't work out too well for the Dems in 2016, but it might be better this time --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | What's with "no Trump supporters" on Tinder? |
| averagejoel 07/21/20 2:04:46 PM #103 | gatorsPENSbucs posted... But the people saying no trump supporters are just that arent they? averagejoel posted... people think trump supporters are a marginalized class of people and want to equate this to "no blacks" but are too scared to admit it because they might be modded for it --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | ATTN CEgals... you ever get called a ''K'' word? |
| averagejoel 07/21/20 1:00:36 PM #12 | you are aware that there's a K word that's an actual slur, right? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | I dont understand people who defend landlords |
| averagejoel 07/21/20 9:13:17 AM #233 | MajesticFerret posted... An overwhelming majority of houses are for sale, not for rent, and even the houses for rent are usually for rent because they cannot sell.this is irrelevant MajesticFerret posted... If we use a merit system, the best metric is...money...which is exactly how we decide who gets to own what. If we don't use a merit system, fuck working hard and making our country have nice things.meritocracy is a myth. it has never existed and it cannot exist. certainly wealth is not an indictor of it MajesticFerret posted... Or perhaps you're advocating nice things shouldn't exist just because you can't afford them?no, the actual explanation here is that you're making shit up MajesticFerret posted... I like that you even know who Thomas Sowell isI wish I didn't MajesticFerret posted... people like him because he's a highly intelligent economist and is typically right.and they would be incorrect on both counts --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | What's with "no Trump supporters" on Tinder? |
| averagejoel 07/21/20 9:07:10 AM #88 | people think trump supporters are a marginalized class of people and want to equate this to "no blacks" but are too scared to admit it because they might be modded for it --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Fox News' Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity accused of sexual misconduct. |
| averagejoel 07/21/20 12:07:45 AM #5 | I'm surprised it took this long for them to be accused --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | $50 million but you have to pick 3 of these things to become 5x larger |
| averagejoel 07/21/20 12:05:06 AM #2 | YugiNoob posted... And let's just ignore how this would totally mess up the ecosystem since it's just for funso... it has no actual effect aside from the appearance? --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | I dont understand people who defend landlords |
| averagejoel 07/20/20 9:04:00 PM #216 | Prismsblade posted... Dont you mean large urban citys where most people are and want to live?believe it or not, most cities do not actually have a housing shortage beyond an artificial scarcity created so that landlords can charge more (edit: also, that's my bad -- I assumed you were referencing Thomas Sowell. a lot of the free-market-libertarian types love him for some reason) --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Is there a difference between paying for an access to an OF and porn? |
| averagejoel 07/20/20 8:49:03 PM #4 | it's better than paying for porn because the money is going directly to the people involved, rather than most of it going to a corporation who then underpays the workers --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | I dont understand people who defend landlords |
| averagejoel 07/20/20 8:36:40 PM #213 | Prismsblade posted... You can get rid of landlords but theres nothing anyone can do about supply and demand.personally I would love to live in a society where the most pressing issue was the allocation of beachfront homes --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | I dont understand people who defend landlords |
| averagejoel 07/20/20 8:24:37 PM #209 | there are 3 possibilities for people who defend landlords. from most to least common (I hope): -people who have been brainwashed by decades of far-right propaganda -people who benefit directly from the existence of landlords (generally either landlords themselves or immediate family members of landlords) -fascists --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | can someone help me understand how 'mechanical time' is specific to 'whiteness'? |
| averagejoel 07/20/20 4:24:56 PM #40 | Sackgurl posted... to be fair it passes it on to them via incentives, not osmosishow it passes it on is not really relevant to the point here. it's still passing on the idea --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | can someone help me understand how 'mechanical time' is specific to 'whiteness'? |
| averagejoel 07/20/20 4:10:06 PM #13 | Giant_Aspirin posted... can you imagine trying to work in an environment where you schedule meetings and people show up whenever they felt like it? i could not handle thatthat's more a function of capitalism demanding productivity at the expense of everything else and ingraining that mindset on (or at least attempting to pass it on) to everyone who lives within the system --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | can someone help me understand how 'mechanical time' is specific to 'whiteness'? |
| averagejoel 07/20/20 4:06:57 PM #11 | generally speaking, this board is not a good place for a nuanced discussion about anything related to race --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Portland protesters break into Police Association building and light it on fire |
| averagejoel 07/19/20 7:45:47 AM #57 | Solid Snake07 posted... Well, the topic we're posting in is literally about a building being set on fire........in response to police violence --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Portland protesters break into Police Association building and light it on fire |
| averagejoel 07/19/20 7:44:39 AM #56 | billcom6 posted... I just don't get the protestors who light things on fire. It accomplishes nothing. Nothing good will come from it.from an objective pragmatic standpoint, destroying buildings is a demonstrably effective protest tactic --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | That suicide topic was up for 4 hours lol |
| averagejoel 07/19/20 7:36:23 AM #14 | I remember one suicide topic that was just a normal topic except for dick in the guy's sig --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | this is South Korea right now |
| averagejoel 07/19/20 7:33:43 AM #25 | Aki_Sora posted... If you don't like it go moved to other countriesbelieve it or not, people who care about problems in the US moving elsewhere... will not solve problems in the US --- peanut butter and dick |
| Topic | Your 16-year-old son asks if he can have sex with his girlfriend? |
| averagejoel 07/18/20 4:49:15 PM #15 | "you should be asking her, not me. it's completely fine as long as you both genuinely want to do it." I would also make sure he knows where the condoms are --- peanut butter and dick |
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