Elon Musk calls out the UAW for embezzling money from its workers

[SwampNut]

Pumping a little water from the sinking boat into the one that's not sinking is effective, sure.

 

[Cybertruckee]

Pumping a little water from the sinking boat into the one that's not sinking is effective, sure.

In what crazy kind of world is that happening? Seems even criminal in our reality-based world.

 

[SwampNut]

The one where several of my cousins have spent decades sitting at home getting fat by draining money from those who work. Seems common in this world, not sure about yours.

 

[Alan]

The one where several of my cousins have spent decades sitting at home getting fat by draining money from those who work. Seems common in this world, not sure about yours.

And for the most part that describes the red states which tend to take more from the federal government than they give.

 

[JBee]

All currency is fake.
Taxes are only to modulate inflation not redistribute wealth under MMT.
How can the US redistribute nearly twice as much as its tax revenue year for year? Who is actually paying for what?
We are but fish in a barrel and that barrel is fiat coin.

Economics is the pursuit of making ends meet in reality, which has nothing to do with MMT, where we can borrow endlessly from the future to pay for all our wants now.

 

[SwampNut]

I know economics is hard, but without the transportation opportunities across many of those states, the others would make nothing. There's much more interdependence and complexity in the economics of interstate dealings than in people on welfare.

I should note, I've never voted for a republican and I think the orange idiot is, well, and orange idiot.

 

[Cybertruckee]

And for the most part that describes the red states which tend to take more from the federal government than they give.

Those are my taxes! But they got the nerve to lecture us.

Dang.

 

[Crissa]

Yup, economics is hard but accusing somebody is stealing from you is easy psychiatric paranoia.

Yes, it's baseless and political, rather than observational, but we don't need to return the vitriol.

The one where several of my cousins have spent decades sitting at home getting fat by draining money from those who work. Seems common in this world, not sure about yours.

I don't know your cousins, but I know a just-so story when I hear one. Let's not, okay?

-Crissa

 

[SwampNut]

I have no idea what a just-so story means, but I've got a lifetime of observing this behavior first hand unfortunately. It motivated me to get out of that ghetto and swamp.

 

[Crissa]

I have no idea what a just-so story means, but I've got a lifetime of observing this behavior first hand unfortunately. It motivated me to get out of that ghetto and swamp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story

And it's great you got out. Just don't pull up the ladder behind you. I don't want to get into it more deeply than that, okay?

-Crissa

 

[SwampNut]

Don't need to pull it up, the crabs pull each other down. I'm looked down upon for working and leaving the system.