Everyone crying that it won't work, I NEVER see them suggest an alternative to the cost of living crisis. Their plan is just to get slowly boiled alive like wtf.
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LA put a mansion tax on homes selling over a certain value and I was told it would crash the market…spoiler it didn’t.
Kinda wish it would've crashed the market. Maybe then it'd slow folks getting pushed into the Inland Empire and crash the construction of housing tracts
The rich will always have a soft landing when there's a crash (many even profit from it). Best way to liberate their wealth from them is through taxation.
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I have this debate all the time in the Uk pushing my leftist ideals and I’m always met with it won’t work rah rah rah. And I’m like well maybe we could try because for the last 42 years of my life of unfettered capitalism things have gotten worse and worse for most people so clearly this isn’t working so let’s just try something radical for 5 fucking years aye.
I’m not even capping but if the greens don’t get elected next election there’s a none zero chance i am going to throw my life away by murdering people of the elite class because the alternative is to just plod along and nothing changes.
I’m doing alright too. But I care about all people and we should judge our society on how we treat the poorest in it. I will fucking die on this hill, just depends how many I take with me.
That's what crazy to me. Ppl afraid of "radical new ideas" when the same old shit clearly isn't working.
I'm not gonna try and talk you down, everyones frustrated and fed up with the state of things. I would say be careful what you post online these days. We all just feel powerless to make any meaningful changes in the world around us :/
Truly boggles my mind.
I appreciate you looking out and honestly I’ve been trying to push the boundaries of what you can say online lately and seeing if I get any knocks on the door, although I feel this stuff would only be discovered after the fact, and I actually went postal. Rather than someone coming to check I’m not insane.
At some point though I do believe that violence is the only answer to an oppressive system and I would happily lose my freedom in service to my end goals. But let’s hope it doesn’t come to that and we can spread awareness about more progressive policies.
Their plan is "I got mine, fuck everyone else."
Who is crying that? I mean that isn't a corporate mouthpiece? Just adjusted for inflation, federal minimum wage should be like $35.
What? Anytime I see Mamdani posted on FB half the comments are saying NYC is gonna starve and communism doesn't work and rich people will just leave and we need the rich to create jobs etc etc
I specifically said excluding corporate mouthpieces.
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I've met several people who buy into how minimum wage just leads to higher prices. They think they're smart because they're considering a consequence beyond just "people get more money", but they're not understanding that few workers serve many customers, so to give a fast food worker an extra dollar per hour you really only need to raise prices maybe like 1%, and then workers have more money to spend on luxury stuff like fast food, so business actually picks up as a result of paying people more.
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Everyone: What if we just throw people in jail for being poor or other behaviors associated with poverty? Surely nobody would choose to be poor then!
Do people in power not realize that if workers make more money they'll also spend more money, thereby helping businesses profit?
Seems they began the process of willfully ignoring this fact in the 1970s, and it’s now gotten to the point where no, they don’t realize, because they’re so divorced from reality they can’t.
The late 1970s was when the top tier tax rate fell below punitive levels. Unlike in the 1950s and 1960s (91% top-tier tax rate), there was more benefit to accepting the tax than spending the excess revenue on deductible expenses.
The tax policy used to drive the rich to spend their money rather than hoard it.
That would result in a redistribution of wealth. I think most billionaires would rather live in an Ivory Tower in the middle of the desert than live in a 10-bedroom mansion alongside lesser millionaires in a diverse and prosperous city. They really couldn't give a shit about normal people which is why people like Bezos want to bring in robots to do the work.
But the rich lose control when wealth is redistributed
Without breaking monopolies weath redistribution will end up mostly going bad to the same bilionaires and mega companies
But then the poors will have more power.
A strong middle class is much harder to rule.
Even if you don't get it - start at $30 bucks. The current is $16.50. If you get negotiated down to $20/hour you just gave every body on the bottom a more than 20% raise. I don't think it's reasonable to expect New Yorkers to live on $40k/year but it's a hell of a lot more reasonable than $33K/year.
I understand why minimum wages need to be monitored closely, and doled out with forethought and compromise. I get that raising up the bottom very suddenly tends to just be accompanied by price increases that ultimately still benefit the wealthy.
But it's also just true that feeding money into the bottom of the system always pays greater and more impactful dividends than trying to somehow feed even more to the top. It's been proven time and time again, and yet we're always told it's pointless to try it this time, because Rich people will just find a way to get it back. Duh, that's what Rich people do. They use their advantages to gain more advantage. But the more people's hands that money flows through on the way back to the wealthy, the better off we all are.
If it gives the poors a choice, the rich can’t have it.
You let those bottom 20% climb out of poverty and suddenly gain a choice in where they work/shop/spend their sudden disposable income? Well that might lead to demands of quality products, equitable availability and pricing, and less money for my cash stack throne!
They’ll ignore the mountain of starved child carcasses if there’s another 100 on the stack.
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The people who complain about higher minimum wage are the same people that also complain about crime and the unhoused. What if you simply paid more in taxes and then some of these problems were alleviated? What if public transportation in the US was just way better. Shit this became a fuckcars ad lmao.
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which would have to be approved by lawmakers
I foresee checks and balances working as designed, protecting capitalists' profits and shielding them from paying a livable wage, again.
And the more people who try this, the more it makes said lawmakers look bad. I'll tell you one thing. We certainly aren't going to accomplish it by not trying. So I say let the man cook.
Fully agreed. Even exposing people to these ideas and trying to partially implement them is a good thing in every imaginable aspect.
Mamdani ONCE looked at A Nazi Tattoo through a WINDOW! We HAVE to Vote for Donald Trump's Sexual Deviant friend INSTEAD!
I'll believe it when it comes into effect. That's a lofty promise.
It isn't a promise to raise the minimum wage. The mayor doesn't have the power to do that. It is a promise to push and lobby towards that goal.
For a supposed democracy, Americans really tend to gravitate to a single source of power (king, dictator) mentality.
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