Do JD Vance next!

Didn’t say I do have that faith. Just saying what I think would be necessary for large scale positive change.

I mean, yeah but have you seen…

Gestures broadly

… The state of things? We need to stand up as a people

You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.

Yes, that’s what “If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers” would achieve. I get that that isn’t going to happen but it is still our collective fault.

If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers the ticket sellers would have a real incentive to do something against the scalpers. Right now they don’t have to care.

I agree that “just don’t buy it” is not that easy for culture in general, it could be applied to hypermonetized events.

I’m not sure I get your second point. How is Ticketmaster enabled by people boycotting events that get scalped?

Yes the workers are generally poorer than the investors. But that’s not the point here, the point is that it’s in its essence an unfair system where you are forced to work for someone else’s profit unless you are wealthy enough to yourself be an investor that can live from their investments returns.

Getting monetary benefits should come from work and not ownership.

Again, this isn’t really about low or high wages it’s about the extraction of money from the workers towards owners without any work being done by the owners.

The common image people conjure to justify this are the small shops built by someone and then being employing some staff. You must realize though that that isn’t the biggest chunk of wealth and not the really problematic part of the system.

The biggest chunk of wealth is concentrated on a few percent of the population and it’s mostly inherited not built up by themselves. And it’s here where we actually see wealth being extracted from the workers.

The money investors get, just by owning the stock, is produced by people working with the stuff the investors money bought. The money isn’t supposed to go to “poor people somehow” it’s supposed to go to the people doing the work.

Als I hate this doubly for the kid. Your mom getting arrested for your slightest sign of independence will fuck you up.

This so much. So much bullshit is being done to “protect children” and it actually hurts them.

I think that is a bit disingenuous. They apparently asked for passports to find Israelis not just any Jews. As deplorable as this still is, it’s different from “any Jews”.

Also: If russian hools started to openly endorse the war against Ukraine in a region where a lot of Ukrainian refugees are located I would absolutely advise caution for every russian visitor in that region no matter their stance and especially if they want to express their fandom to the same football team as those hools.

Imagine putin started setting his trolls on the agenda of whatever kompromat they have on trump. I imagine it’s a lot. That would definitely make trump mad. First and foremost he protects his ego.

I’m not sure if that’s how posting things to the public works. Optics will always be a part of that.

Honestly the jump in the etfs is kind of crazy. I expected a rebound from the recent dip but not like that

I’m curious, doesn’t WhatsApp require a phone number to be attached to an account? As in, I thought activating it doesn’t work on devices without a SIM card?