Good answer

How so? Cow farts? The grass is going to emit the same gasses whether it decomposes in a cow stomach or in the dirt. I guess the solution to carbon emissions is to pave the earth! No more organics polluting everything.

The value only exists on paper. He halved it, he can double it. Happens all the time.

Absolutely, in general I’m not opposed to mining and other industrial activity if they clean up after themselves.

A fair point, although recycling only provides a fraction of the replacement needs of a population. Some things are only partially recyclable and other things are not recyclable at all, at least not without massive energy cost and industrial capacity.

Yes…

When you raise wages the market can bear more. Say you’re paying $1,000 a month and have just enough left over for necessities. You get a raise for $200 a month, now the landlady can raise rent $200 and you’re left exactly the way you were before. She won’t figure this out right away of course, she’ll just keep playing with the rent until she hits a point where people are able to pay and she has a unit sitting vacant. Once that unit rents then she can start raising again

And the unit will rent as soon as someone–who previously couldn’t afford rent–gets a raise that makes them able to afford it. Soon the rent for everyone goes up, and now someone’s not able to afford it anymore and has to move out.

The end result is that one homeless person now has a home, one person who previously had a home is now homeless, everyone got shafted with higher rent, and everybody’s available spending money remains the same.

This is why nothing ever changes and the poor will always be poor: the system just designed to suck all excess cash out and put it in the pockets of the investors (landlords, banks, BlackRock, etc). The problem is not wages, because the market will always adjust to eat the wages. The system screws you because it was designed to screw you, and the people who have the ability to fix it don’t want to because they are the ones who benefit from it.

Even so, the problem is not capitalism, it’s our specific form of radically unregulated capitalism, combined with intentional inflation, fiat currency, and laws that favor corporations over people. No doubt that list could be made quite a bit longer!

I’m not willing to abandon capitalism but this version of it has become corrupted.

Another way to look at it is inflation’s too high

Well except if the prices are already going up, why would you want to add stress to the system that encourages them to go up even more? You’re assuming that things are disconnected but that’s in no way proven.

And they’re going to start again in 2 months? Color me skeptical.

We demand nothing, you can’t avoid entertaining us.

I was on that call too, can confirm.

Spoken like a boomer

Apple probably figured away to make more money this way

Is that illegal?

Drive-thru so long it doesn’t save much time either

Maybe they’re getting an erection cuz they’re falling asleep of boredom

Even worse, to unleash an untrained surgeon out to the world in exchange for sex.

The holes are an evolutionary adaptation that allows bullets to pass through harmlessly.

I guess I’ll be giving away candy canes at Halloween. Maybe also some of those old fashioned ribbon candies that taste like mothballs… That’s kind of in the spirit of Halloween isn’t it?

Interesting. I actually preferred the subreddits that were kind of quiet, where 50 votes was a super popular post and got maybe two dozen responses at most. Any more than that and it starts to become noise. But then I have niche interests and I’m older. Zoomers seem to thrive on the chaos and have no problem with a rapidly scrolling chat window or a 1000+ comments on a post. I prefer a thoughtful audience to a large one, and longer well formed posts. (Not meaning zoomers aren’t thoughtful, they just maybe communicate it differently)