PhineasC

The amount of shit that the Greatest Generation went through does make the Millennials look pretty weak. Born into the Spanish Flu Stock market crash when young Childhood in the Great Depression Drafted into the deadliest war in history Own kids were drafted into Vietnam They had it pretty rough. Could the average soy latte and avocado toast guy handle that kind of lifetime?

Well yeah, but they probably talk about pinball machines there. Just my observation, but I don't know any rich people who go around talking non-stop to everyone about exactly how they became rich.

Getting partisan over this issue is stupid. It isn't the GOP that is causing any of this. More people need to wake up to the fact that it is the global 0.1% versus everyone else. Red vs blue is a fake distraction. Same as the "Blues and Greens" of ancient Constantinople. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots History has many lessons for us if we will listen. Our ancestors already dealt with these issues.

Nice! Thanks Lockdown Larry!

We are on the same side here. I don’t think many people are making bank from day trading. I was just saying I doubt those that are getting rich are here telling us about it.

I am not worried at all about vaccine deaths in general. But since kids are at such tiny risk from COVID it really doesn’t make sense to expose them to any vaccine risk, immediate or long term. Better to wait until full auth.

People getting rich on stocks or crypto don’t hang out on weather forums talking about their strategies.

About 340 Americans under the age of 18 have died "with" COVID so far. There is a lot of controversy around how many people have died as a direct result of the vaccines, but it seems at least as high as that by all accounts. I just don't see any rationale for injecting kids with a vaccine that is under Emergency Use Authorization at this time, given the stats and risk profile. My kids are not old enough to choose this themselves, but maybe it is different for older kids. Pretty sure I wouldn't allow a 16 year old to make that call either, though. Vax the adults all day, no issues there.

20+ years ago, I watched people make money off of stupid dot com boom bullshit. Shitty coders fresh from school were being offered Corvettes as a sign-on bonus. That didn't cause me to want to just sit on my ass and give up, it motivated me to work harder and become like those guys. I guess that is one of the differences between me and most young people... Kinda sad that seeing fake shit on social media makes someone give up on working hard. A tiny fraction of people have always made money doing dumb shit that seems worthless.

If Millennials can make money playing video games and trading doggy coins, then why are they even still complaining about the job market or college costs? Just ride that shitcoin to the moon, son.

Yes, because everyone ran off to college and came out with crap degrees and low GPAs, which cheapened the value of everyone's degree. Now a garbage degree from a low-tier school is barely worth more than a GED in some cases. So businesses found it easier to simply demand you have the degree since there was a glut of grads available still taking those jobs. There are plenty of Starbucks baristas with English lit degrees out there. The same pressures that caused everyone to run out to get a degree also created a stigma around those who don't have a degree, making it harder for them to get jobs they are qualified to do. It's a nasty vicious cycle in society right now. I don't recommend people stay at the same job forever. In the pizza delivery boy example, he can get some experience under his belt and then apply at a different pizza place to be a shift manager. Or he can keep delivering pizzas while learning another skill and then leave.

No, the pizza delivery boy needs to be able to retire from that job with a pension after putting his 3 kids through college. Anything less is just heartless capitalism.

There is a spectrum between the curvy, fertile look and obese.

But what? Most people simply eat too much bad food. You can still have empathy for someone while encouraging them to lose weight. Even the tiny percentage of people who actually have “glandular problems” causing their weight gain can still live healthier lives. Sugarcoating everything (pun intended) doesn’t help people with real issues.

Or a focus group of marketers in NYC who have zero idea what shopping in a grocery store is even like came up with it and thought it would "seem cool and high-tech."

Yep, I agree. There really are no small govt politicians in power now and there hasn't been for a long, long time so it really is a non-partisan issue.

I don't think it's the libertarians preventing the govt from regulating the market. Libertarians are not in power anywhere, really. Our current Congress is perfectly fine with using corporations to do the dirty work like regulating free speech and fighting wars.

Who can wash dishes for years and not get any other skills along the way? I am not talking about people living in literal slums. I am talking about people with cellphones and flat screen TVs. How can they not apply themselves even a tiny bit to move up? I think some of you actually believe the labor force out there is like something from a Charles Dickens novel. Kids out there sweeping chimneys for a loaf of bread? LOL

That would be true if that's all the govt did with the tax dollars. If we raise wages, will they step aside and lower taxes/remove bennies? No.

Yes, plenty of pent-up demand. I have kind of lost the bubble on what we were talking about.

I started out washing dishes. Did that for a long while. Hard work and taking risks still pays off. Maybe more should try that instead of being satisfied with collecting unemployment or being paid min wage with zero skills in their mid-20s.

There it is! That phrase cracks me up. Yeah, let's force the entire business under so 25 people lose their jobs instead. Or just pay them all 35/hr like they do in VT tourist country and charge the tourists 30 bucks for a pepperoni pizza.

So should Bezos be allowed to use loopholes or not? I am glad folks are getting to see why you don't post. LOL

I don't have an issue with something like broadband access. I was simply stating that pretending this is a "free labor market" and that normal market forces can be counted on is a joke. It's incredibly manipulated, easily the most manipulated it has been since the New Deal and WWII.

To me, your posts are like if the NFL randomly added 100 lbs of ballast to the footballs for certain games, but you were still sitting there watching going, "Well, aw shucks it's still a fair game, the players just need to train harder next time to chuck that heavy ball down the field!"