The price of an hour's work isn't set by minimum wage. That's a price floor; it doesn't mean you can actually hire anybody at that rate. All the fast food places near me start at $12.
the problem is the price floor also has been at about $12 throughout the nation for awhile, something like only 10% of jobs pay less than $12 an hour, or did back in 2011 when i first pulled that info.
thats the thing, businesses aren't raising wages. almost no one is offering more than 20% of minimum wage, even in journey trades bullshit or salesmen or warehouse work. even if they do thats factoring in a signing bonus and just over.
I delivered Pizza during COVID and bought a house
>This kiwifarmer made $400k delivering pizza, his friends hate him! find out why
you aren't living that down by the way. that boomer quote will follow you on here forever.
Tech yuppies aren't going to move to rural Virginia. I live in suburban Wisconsin which isn't even rural for fucks sake. We have micro pubs and coffee shops and the Cali transplants still act like it's Fallout New Vegas's Goodsprings or something.
They'd fucking starve and die in the country.
you'd be surprised, the silver line basically finished its extension and all those new homes in upper loudon are basically finished now. leesburg went from having a pop of less than 2k in the 1950s to having roughly a 100k population. you'd be surprised how built up the area's gotten, the tax burden is negligible but there are a few people biting the bullet and just living in WV rather than in loudon county.
That's right they're moving to Tennessee. They've built up the area a ton within the last few years.
that was the last stronghold for gop votes by numerical superiority in the 2016 election, makes sense for it to be inseminated next, most people in country music have been hardcore anti-white since the 90s, people love nashville and knoxville but they'll soon find out why those places were so comfortable to live in.
It was supposed to collapse when gas went up to $2 a gallon. After that it was $3 a gallon. Some said when the debt reached 30 trillion the US economy would collapse. Yet it never did.
Don't take doom-splaining boomers and boomer tier types seriously. It's better for your health.
just because we aren't living in mad max doesn't mean shit isn't much worse than it was in 2007. we all remember the bush years, you could fill up your gas tank or buy a months worth of groceries with $20, college was still cheap enough that if you really bothered to you could afford it while working a full time job, you could afford a 1 bedroom apartment as long as you worked full time fucking anywhere. i know you're retarded enough to believe all of that is true as of 2022 but most people with brains knows none of that is possible now.
There is plenty of oil right now, and there will continue to be plenty of oil in the future; but what happens when plenty of oil just wont cut it? I don't agree with everything he says in the interview, but his broad points I find interesting, and believe they hold some truth. As oil production continues to diminish demand for oil is staying relatively steady( if not increasing) this can continue for an indeterminate amount of time, essentially as long as reserves can be funneled into supplies to keep up the illusion of a strong energy base; once this illusion is dispelled all bets are off.
Our society is built upon cheap plentiful energy, and for it to continue to grow this cheap energy needs to flow. Political and social factors undoubtedly have contributed to the recent decline in energy production (covid policies etc), however there is no paucity of evidence to point towards a decline in energy production pre pandemic. Dismissing this issue out of hand purely as a result of pandemic policies and nations banning oil production in oil rich areas is in part how we've come to this point; what I mean by this is that the prediction of "peak oil" has been bandied about for decades, and the consistent, and thus far dubiously correct retort of "we will find oil/energy elsewhere" has perhaps lulled us into a state of complacency. The ROI for energy will only continue to decline as long as we are dependent on fossil fuels, green energy is superfluous at best if not out right a net negative, and nuclear needs to clear the hurdle of public opinion(something tells me the AC going off in mid August might change some peoples minds) before plants that will take years to complete can even start producing energy.
Peak oil like many gradual phenomena is often thought of as occurring at some set point, and perhaps we will look back once it has finally occured and fix a date, but in reality it will be a slow grind that will see prices climb until they simply become unsustainable. The rise in gas prices over the years is not simply a result of monetary inflation but a severe spike in the amount of energy required to generate even more energy.
Perhaps we have another decade of relatively cheap energy ahead of us, perhaps not, either way the problem of diminishing energy production stands naked for all who chose to see it.
Things will always just work out, right?
i agree with what you're saying but as we've seen political fuckery will cause an "imaginary" peak oil a lot sooner than a real peak oil could ever be reached. 2 years ago gas was on average $2, if biden and the feds didn't fuck things but did the right moves it could still be $2, even a decade from now when $2=2 cents they could still get it that low. its just that they'd have to let some of that red tape go, the regulations there to make sure a jew gets to bath in child blood before we get to install more oil pumps might have to go.
but peak oil was never real because once we run out of oil we can profit from at a $2 price point, we'd have more we can profit from at the $3 and $4 and $5 point. peak oil is as real as a beautiful woman reaching peak fuckability, its more about their own personal choices than having an inability to find someone willing to fuck. if it weren't for politics we'd have til the 2090s before $200 a barrel gas would happen. instead it will be our christmas present.
Hmmm, if only we had an energy source that is near infinite, is extremely safe and one that we only scratched the surface of what it can do before shutting it down because of propoganda based on shoddy Russian engineering.
this is a great point, they're doing to gas what they did with nuclear power during the cold war era.
Bear market rally.
Everyone bought insurance for the crash (put options) so when it didn't instantly materialize, a short squeeze commenced. Many such cases.
Shouldn't you be coloring right now?
its a casey at the bat situation, the most logical outcome that all the money is on fails and the dog wins because the universe can't let too many people win easy money.
That's the gimmick, but all those "dollar stores" have tons of stuff priced higher anyway. It's always been a pet peeve of mine. But generally speaking they sell garbage-tier, shitty versions of an assortment of grocery and pantry-related goods, along with common household stuff like facial and toilet paper, paper towels and plates, shampoos, soaps, trash bags, usually school supplies, etc. Yes, there are some legitimately good deals here and there, but most of it is (ironically) overpriced trash. Even so-called "store brands" are generally higher quality.
And practically none of it is actually priced at $1 anymore. Even back when the concept was fairly new and there were stores literally named "Everything's a Dollar!" or had giant signs in their windows advertising that claim, you could still easily find random crap in any of them priced well over a dollar.
If our fucking government had any competence whatsoever (then or now) the FTC would have cracked down on that kind of misleading advertising and nipped it in the bud. But nobody goes after retail stores anymore for their lying ads.
that wouldn't have worked anyway, we'd just get 5 below type companies much quicker, its like how we went from 5 and dime to dollar stores. FTC crackdown would have just meant we'd be seeing "10 and under" stores in ghettos now, owned by the same mega corps that own dollar store and in the same location with the same employees.
I guess with inflation more stores might become like Five Below, which sets their cheap threshold at $5... so slightly nicer trash?
its not just nicer trash but because of the increase in threshold they bundle a lot of crap you usually see at the dollar store, its like an orgasm for poor kids seeing that instead of one dollar tree candy bar they can get a box of them, or if we're being more honest a pound of various candy.
i've always wanted to do a pop-up irony bro-esque parody of the concept using stuff priced at $100 instead, imagine buying a box of truffles or a pair of lower quality shoes/headphones or a high quality t shirt, pants, or hoodie. of course we'd have to have huge security willing to kill any shoplifter but still.
All this will do is make a bunch of middle man shippers a lot of money and drive the overall price up, they will still buy the oil because they need it.
I honestly struggle to get my head around this. Are the euros maliciously trying to destroy their own continent or are they just that stupid? If you look at their education none of them have economic, engineering etc degree or any technical education. I think one of the German ministers has a degree in literature or something. Explains why they don't seem to grasp the most basic of economic concepts. Maybe they are just that incompetent and stupid. God help us all.
like women they won't ever face consequences for their actions so it doesn't matter, its like playing sim city. who cares if you destroy your city, you can just make a new one.
And the USA got overtaken by juden.
I like looking into historical anecdotes and catastrophes. How much stronger communities were, how better behaved nigs were, and how more moral a society it was.
The immigration and judes destroyed Lovecraft's America.
Not saying the rest of the world haven't gone downhill in that regard, but in the west and US it is most notable.
both groups were only allowed in because the GOP needed to free the niggers. there's a lot of odd anti-jew talk that gets shut the fuck down in the later 1800s because of their actions during the war. the fact that a sitting us president shittalking confederate-aiding citizens years after the war and being forced to apologize doesn't get talked about is weird.
a fuck load of people also noted how the chosen people always managed to avoid even getting their number pulled in the draft, really made people think until the GOP always forced them to shut it down.
