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papercup posted...

If you want people to work, you have to offer them a fair wage for their work. It's literally that simple.

*cue laugh track*

For thousands of years, getting people to work wasn't a problem because benefits weren't a thing. You start paying people to not work and they magically stop working. How about that?

streamofthesky posted...

Even then, it goes beyond that. The cost of living is rising so fast, there's no fucking point.
Housing is going up 20% a year now. Even a 10% raise would be falling behind.
We allow the rich to concentrate and pool ever more money and buy up property as an alternative stock portfolio, and the rest of us get priced out.
Higher wages are a start, but the inequality is way bigger on the other end. Until it's balanced out, why bother? Money isn't an end, it's a means to an end. the stuff we use money to obtain is becoming more expensive than a salary increase can make up for. Do something about THAT!

Considering that 90% of the "inequality" argument comes down to unrealized gains, it's hard to take those arguments seriously because it's a pretty clear smokescreen.

Muscles posted...

I work ot pretty much every week, have a fairly active social life (at least compared to my younger self), workout, and write/read but I guess a couple of hours of video games a week (if that) makes me lazy

...having an "active social life" and "working out" aren't surrogates for gainful employment, though. At best, working out is a productive hobby, but it's still a hobby. (Granted, Hawley has hunting on his list, which is *also* a hobby, unless you're using it to feed yourself or selling the meat.)

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