It’s “how little can I tip before they tamper with my food”

Normal people never, ever think this.

Unironically the answer is “shop less.”

Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.

Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it’s just that you have to encourage building rather than “live somewhere less” because the second option really isn’t tenable, for obvious reasons.

If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.

As is this. I have no idea why people here are convinced tipping is somehow bad for employees and good for employers

It’s literally the same thing you just are more aware of it.

You literally always pay the wages of the people that work for companies.

Their employer is treating them like a tipped employee, which is so embedded into society’s fabric that we have a separate tax code for it.

You not liking that is not any different from you liking a given law. You’re free to not participate, but expect there to be consequences, and one of those is for people to assume you’re intentionally being an asshole, not protesting a perceived injustice.

VC money is meant to crush the competition and lock in the consumer to charge rent.

This is not anything close to correct lol. VCs specifically do not invest in mature companies or they aren’t VCs.

Why would any commercial real estate firm allow affordable housing to exist when they can scalp it on investment properties and leave them empty? Why build affordable housing when the margins are small?

All housing built helps other housing come affordable because it increases supply. You are correct that there is little purpose intentionally building less valuable housing

My hope would be that we can transition peacefully to a hybrid model with the rising power of unions, gradual emergence of worker cooperatives, and increased demand for socialized health care and affordable housing.

None of this has anything to do with capitalism tho.

Like, capitalism can and should be the economic engine driving these positive outcomes.

I don’t care lol

I love that you always wish me luck 😘😘❤️❤️

Doing something and doing something competently are two separate things.

I think you should have a good long think with yourself about the very personal meaning this statement should have for you

This might make sense if the sentence I was replying to wasn’t

Looks like stocking up for wartime…

Which is not occurring.

Yes. I also do not see how this person literally regretting their children can possibly be interpreted any other way

the immigrants in USA actually do less crime than the americans themselves, were in Norway they do more than twice as much crime.

Sounds like Norway needs reforms more than these people need to stop coming.

My hot take here is that Brave New World shouldn’t be read by high schoolers because it’s too complex for most high schoolers.

The book is most definitely not about how “bread and circuses” distract people from an encroaching dystopian hellstate and the number of grown-ass adults I see parroting that is too damn high. See the other comment to your post.

It’s instead about how a lack of agency from ongoing institutions already paves the way for dystopian hellstates, and the industrialization of that loss of agency is the core concept discussed in the first chapter. That’s why they just ship the main character off to an island with the other people who have figured things out - the dystopia is such that the machine breaks immediately if anyone questions it, so they just let those people go live how they wish.

It shouldn’t be banned though, because no books should ever be banned.

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I am quite certain that you are a skilled enough communicator to not say

If I had to redo my life, that’s what I’d do.

Which is directly wishing your children were never born, and is a fundamentally different conversation from “By all means, opt not to have children - our financial lives would look quite different if we did not.”

As with most things, how you say it matters as much or more than what you’re saying.

We already have the strategic oil reserve. “Stocking” implies that we are currently building up our surplus beyond past levels, which is not happening

Hilariously enough I worked in logistics for years.

There will never be a time in which your children are cool with you telling them that you wished they’d never been born

Between a dude calling me “pedestrian” on here the other day, and this Bud Dink reference, I think it’s a sign from the universe to show my kids Doug

Don’t ever tell your children that.