US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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401k plans making all these normies love the stock market was some insanely smart marketing for the corporatists.

Now anything that actually is good for leftist values, like sticking it to corporations that use exploitation to make profit, is bad for their retirement. And we all know which they really care about more.
Capitalism is fucking retarded and led to this mess. Your retirement freedom is tied to the success of the richest people in the world.

People in this thread literally simp for Epstein associated bankers and CEO pedophiles.
 
Is he wrong? I know people that would cut off their own arm for a 5% increase in their portfolio. If you can be beholden to that degree it certainly seems like part of the corruption has touched your soul so to speak.
I think conflating corporations with the figureheads in the CEO role is a lazy metonym that people drift into, and it turns quite toxic when you get e.g. liberals attacking vehicles because they dislike the figurehead in the C-suite of that company even while they themselves are statistically almost certainly invested in the same company via index fund.

tl;dr your stock portfolio does not represent a tie to Elon Musk, the person.
 
How hard do you think it is to buy an injection molding machine or a CNC mill? Most Chinese-made goods are simple things that a small shop can make.
There are people I know running fabrications for race cars making their own parts to the bolt. Small shops and fabrications are more than doable when you have a market niche you can tend to. There's a lot of tools available to us all these days, but there's a lot of bullshit paperwork that gets tacked on when you run a small business. Depending on your state they will absolutely fuck you over. Some places (primarily blue states but you can still get fucked on a local level too.) are absolutely hostile to anyone being independent.
 
People are fucking retarded. Capitalism is a system that doesn't feel, have any political bias, etc. and it has brought the United States into a superpower while Socialism has given us South America.
Capitalism adds fuel to the fire of people's stupidity. Capitalism needs to be restrained but not destroyed entirely. America became a superpower because of geography it was protected by two oceans and weak allies unlike other places like Europe which were filled with hostile nations at each other's necks. I do agree with you that socialism is a failure.
 
First off Trump is a boomer, ok besides that Trump won the majority of baby boomers by a fucking landslide. This idea that he is sticking it to the boomers is delusional.
It's not just Trump. The US government is full of boomers. Washington DC is a fucking retirement community for degenerate zombies.
Second the stock market falling actually hurts Millennials and Gen Z. Milesians and Gen Z invest more in stocks compared to boomers.
Approximately 30% of Gen Z individuals begin investing during their university years or early adulthood, a significant increase compared to 15% of Millennials, 9% of Gen X, and 6% of Baby Boomers.
The reason why is because real estate as a form of investing is not viable due to boomer housing policy. Not only has Trump never shown any indication of addressing this he has done the opposite lie removing the social security tax which taxes rich boomers on social security.
I don't know why you're getting negrated. You're right of course. More people invest in the markets due to housing markets being as inaccessible as they are.
The United States subsidizes mortgage borrowing. It subsidizes property taxes. It subsidizes capital gains on your home. It subsidizes ownership over renting by taxing the income with which people pay rent but not the in-kind or “imputed” rent that homeowners get for free. It subsidizes the entire mortgage-lending enterprise with light regulation of systemic risk, periodic federal bailouts, and an implicit promise to keep providing them.
Homeownership was always the pinnacle of the middle class. It was always one of those key drivers of tax benefits for normal people. Of course it's tax-advantaged. The downside now is that the math doesn't balance in the favor of owning right now and that will continue to be the case as long as supply is artificially constrained.
No, boomers seem to be uniquely and exceptional hateful to younger generations, it's very odd.
Boomers are the niggers of the generational cohorts. They consume the resources from everyone else with impunity and blessing of government, live off of infinite gibs, act like fucking retards online and in real life, and are programmed to hate everyone that's not them over some perceived slights that don't fucking exist.
 
It's never going to be a simple Jared Diamond answer like this. You can't just look at the state of the empire as it currently is and say that its economic system had nothing to do with it and actually it's because of nice rivers.
I never said it had nothing to do with it. I just don't think the economic system is the main reason for America's success it is one reason.
 
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