aquascoot wrote on Jul 23
rd, 2024 at 4:52pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Jul 23
rd, 2024 at 3:32pm:
aquascoot wrote on Jul 22
nd, 2024 at 6:16pm:
there is the odd person who truly is passionate about serving
Most politicians are passionate about serving - until the reality of mindless adversarial debate in the chambers sets in, then it's just blind, self-interested survival...
Quote:but trump is no more or less selfish then your average joe lunchbox who lives totally in the world of me.me.me .
Does cutting taxes on the wealthy improve the lives of low wage workers?
Quote:That's because the nation's money lenders force scarcity onto low-wage workers, despite the the fact we live in a world of plenty.
this is where your thinking is very wrong
you think everything is a win/lose
Wrong of course: unlike you, I think 'win-win' is the desirable (and achievable) outcome of a well-functioning economic system.
Quote: that there is a fixed ammount of resources and that the rich need to give some of that fixed ammount to the poor and thats a win for the poor.
Wrong again - because you are steeped in the 'scarcity' doctrine of neoclassical dogma ie
"unlimited wants in the face of limited resources". Whereas a well-functioning economic system knows there is no scarcity of essentials, hence no need for the poor to live in poverty (the poor don't aspire to - don't need - gold-plated bathroom taps).
Quote:a winner and a loser
the competitive frame
Competition is fine, while recognizing "from each according to his ability". No need for ANYONE to live in poverty, in a world of plenty.
Quote:you need to study business (and social interactions and learn about the collaborative frame)
constructing the win win, the basis of all wealth creation.
Government also needs to be involved in wealth creation** alongside the private sector, because the private sector is based on self-interest, meaning the most succesful will be able to claim an outsized share of the nation's resources for themselves, forcing the less competitive into poverty which results from 'government austerity' - a trick of private money-lenders.
** by muscling in on the money-creation function which is currently reserved for private money-lenders.
Quote:and NO ONE is forcing poverty onto low wage earners, as you rightly point out in a world of PLENTY.
The world's central bankers are forcing poverty and unemployment onto low-wage earners via interest rate rises to control inflation - a dysfunctional system.
Quote:they live in a scarcity mindset and that will always result in poverty, thats their set point
Like I said - with mainstream economists urging interest rates to stay higher for longer - guess who that hurts the most?
Quote:people who complain they dont have enough cash spend a lot of time complaining they dont have enough cash
With rents taking half their income and prices rising, cash for essentiulas IS short.
Quote:they could have spent that time reading books by daniel kahneman, dan kennedy, malcom gladwell.
they could even go back and read napoleon hill
edward de bono
seth godin
Frauds, the lot of them, while central bankers are trying to increase unemployment and median wages are stagnant.
Quote:have YOU read any of these?
its just easier to complain isnt it.
It's certainly easy to blame the victims of poverty, while the economy is set to churn out the world's first $trillionaire within the next decade.
Quote:you could read those books
you could stop being a punk ass bitch
you live in a world of plenty
of total abundance
And Bezos COULD pay his workers decent wages and working conditions, but he doesn't.
Quote:and yet you are a hungry ghost
we have a saying in business
1 the hungry never get fed
Wrong again, I'm very comfortable, and can choose the best fresh food in the supermarket - unlike many people living in the wreckage of 'first world rust belts' who have seen their formerly high-paying manufacturing jobs disappear, in a dysfunctional global economy.
Let's see if Trump can actually increase wages and employment at the low end, while he cuts taxes on the wealthy.