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Okay, so if giving a smaller group of people who earn minimum wage a 10% increase would cause these price increases, wouldn't it be far worse to give everyone a flat 10% personal income tax cut? Surely that would make inflation go absolutely bonkers as greedy capitalists all raise prices to gobble up the extra money flowing into the hands of the people and leave them no better off right? How about we raise taxes instead and the opposite happens, people can't afford these things and corporations and landlords are forced to drop prices to meet the new "supply" of general wages, making no material difference to the individual person but instead clawing that money from the capitalists back to the government who can spend it on public works like infrastructure, welfare, even subsidized housing for low income earners?

Why does the cost of living go up by the same amount though? Yeah some domestic industries that rely on low income workers like food and agriculture would have increased payroll costs, but how are other major living costs like rent, foreign made goods, and transportation tied to minimum wage?

I love asking them to explain what negative consequences raising minimum wage would have for inflation and the economy, then asking them to explain how lowering income taxes wouldn't be even worse.

Again, I'm no Elon stan. You don't have to convince me he's a dbag, and I wish some other competitor would come along with something better.

That's what the government should do then, help create a Canadian competitor... 🤷

I sure hope those 2nd amendment fanatics can afford the naval vessels and foreign military bases they're going to need to get involved in the South China Sea! 💸

Military spending in 2023 (in billions of US dollars):

United States: 916
China: 296
Russia: 109
India: 83.6
People who own a "don't tread on me" flag: 0*

(* Rounded to nearest significant figure)

Oh hey look, we have the real world Firecracker!

That's a really big rug they put in there. Would be a shame to everyone else if they were to pull it out suddenly.

Money.

For context I'm running KDE Neon on an Intel/Nvidia desktop. When KDE 6 first came out there were a lot of weird issues caused by the switch to Wayland like windows having flickering or strange rendering issues, but as the months have gone by almost all the issues I noticed at first have been getting fixed and disappearing, with only occasional new ones popping up.

The post mentioned a wireless mesh network, so it sounds like the ISP/provider already has a bunch of wireless access points set up to cover the whole building. One of the problems with high-density living spaces is that there are only a limited number of communication channels WiFi can use, so if everyone living there also runs their own wireless networks they use up all the available channels and have to cross-talk over eachother, leading to everything slowing down.

Yes, I agree those factors probably contribute to the fact that the US experiences far more school shootings than any other country in the world, but again while far more infrequent, there still have been school shootings in Canada, Australia, Europe, and many other places.

Keep in mind that I'm playing devil's advocate here, but if we were to fix the things you mentioned: toxic masculinity is erased from the public consciousness and the government gives free mental health support to everyone, can you guarantee on your life that a school shooting would never ever happen again for any reason? Simple yes or no answer to satisfy Mr. Vance.