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Here I am a full time college student and a part time high school wrestling coach assistant that only gets paid a total of $400 for the whole 4 months, along with a $500 monthly check from Disability Social Security Income. Bills to pay for car insurance, the car lease , gas, tuition bills, none of which is enough to sustain myself which is why I live with my parents at the moment. The last time I did actually work was in retail back in 2002 to 2004 during my high school years. After that it was college and volunteer works. I've been looking for a decent employment for the past years that includes grocery stores, and other retailers. I passed the exams for police officer positions and patient handler at a psych ward, nothing yet. Recently I applied for a job at Dick's sporting good in which a position was opened up, yet I didn't get the job ( probably because I am overqualified? Or because of my long "unemployment" history? So what the gently caress went wrong here? Before the meltdown, it was easy to find jobs anywhere. What's a guy gotta do to work? It's even worst because of my hearing impairment ( hard of hearing) because I don't know if I am being discriminated or not by the employers. It's getting to the point of sheer frustrations.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:37
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Dec 12, 2014 17:39
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rich people/entities screwed everyone over the wealth did "trickle down" but instead of wealth it was peepee hope this was useful.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:39
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I think you're just not working hard enough, op
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Dec 12, 2014 17:39
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It's because the country is actually an oligarchy.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:40
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Hingehead posted:Here I am a full time college student and a part time high school wrestling coach assistant that only gets paid a total of $400 for the whole 4 months, along with a $500 monthly check from Disability Social Security Income. Bills to pay for car insurance, the car lease , gas, tuition bills, none of which is enough to sustain myself which is why I live with my parents at the moment. The last time I did actually work was in retail back in 2002 to 2004 during my high school years. After that it was college and volunteer works. I've been looking for a decent employment for the past years that includes grocery stores, and other retailers. I passed the exams for police officer positions and patient handler at a psych ward, nothing yet. Recently I applied for a job at Dick's sporting good in which a position was opened up, yet I didn't get the job ( probably because I am overqualified? Or because of my long "unemployment" history? no real money all the rich trade fake money to take real things, when they need more money they just add some zeroes on a computer to someones account. They control who gets fake money.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:40
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basically we didnt all believe hard enough
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Dec 12, 2014 17:42
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Maybe if the rich weren't burdened with taxes to pay your 500 dollars a month they could cook up some jobs
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worker wages have gone up ~6% since 1978 ceo wages have gone up 760% since 1978 gg capitalism, suck it poors
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you're not bootstrapping hard enough also op what course are you doing
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People who owned places that employed people figured out that having potential employees in positions like yours OP was advantageous as it made them desperate for any work and unable to bargain for fair wages. As such there's very little motivation to actually "create" jobs. This coupled with the lowest taxes on the wealthiest people we've had as a country in pretty much ever means there's less money for social plans that help fix this (or at least alleviate some of the symptoms) so our economy sucks for young people right now. Millennials are one of the first (if not the first?) generations in america to be doing worse than their parents which should make it really obvious there's a problem but even millennials buy into the "millennials are lazy and entitled" talking points so it's an entire generation without much to look forward to other than having lovely lives and being blamed for having lovely lives by the people who are actually responsible for the situation.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:49
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in sparta, you would be executed, OP, so maybe count a few of the chickens you do have
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Dec 12, 2014 17:50
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ArbitraryC posted:People who owned places that employed people figured out that having potential employees in positions like yours OP was advantageous as it made them desperate for any work and unable to bargain for fair wages. As such there's very little motivation to actually "create" jobs. This coupled with the lowest taxes on the wealthiest people we've had as a country in pretty much ever means there's less money for social plans that help fix this (or at least alleviate some of the symptoms) so our economy sucks for young people right now. Millennials are lazy and entitled.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:52
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sexy young infidel posted:in sparta, you would be executed, OP, so maybe count a few of the chickens you do have lets face it, in sparta we probably all would've been exposed at birth
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Dec 12, 2014 17:52
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OP, ppl trying their best to take advantage of teh economy to hoard as much money as possible. the problem is the people who regulate it generally want money too leading to a conflict of interest. frankly the only way to make any meaningful difference is to buy a gun while its still legal and clean house that or move to a place wher eyou can get a job. if youre at "any job" desperate, literally anybody can get a job in many places (mostly cities, pick one with lower cost of living). there is a reason people live in dallas for example (its not for the scenery lol)
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ArbitraryC posted:People who owned places that employed people figured out that having potential employees in positions like yours OP was advantageous as it made them desperate for any work and unable to bargain for fair wages. As such there's very little motivation to actually "create" jobs. This coupled with the lowest taxes on the wealthiest people we've had as a country in pretty much ever means there's less money for social plans that help fix this (or at least alleviate some of the symptoms) so our economy sucks for young people right now. this, also because baby boomers thought that all the gifts they got from FDR's policies happened just because they were special, so they got rid of them thinking they were unnecessary
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Dec 12, 2014 17:53
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Dec 12, 2014 17:54
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Things are hosed. My Halo 3:Legendary Edition has actually DECLINED in value.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:54
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1gnoirents posted:OP, ppl trying their best to take advantage of teh economy to hoard as much money as possible. Cut them some slack, you don't have to assume everyone is a jerk. That kind of attitude reflects poorly on you. op it was probably just an accident.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:55
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it turns out an economic system where the more money you have the greater your earning potential is leads to massive inequality
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Dec 12, 2014 17:56
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what actually happened is that the government colluded with the banks to wipe out most ppls retirements which makes all the boomer hate you see from trash children, even more funny and misplaced 
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sexy young infidel posted:what actually happened is that the government colluded with the banks to wipe out most ppls retirements which makes all the boomer hate you see from trash children, even more funny and misplaced not really, they colluded with banks to drastically increase inflation, and then under report inflation. This way the rich and the government got essentially unlimited free money. They can take riskier gambles and just pay there losses off 5 years down the road when they got 30 times the money they had, and their old debt is now only 5% of their new wealth.
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TOILETLORD posted:not really, they colluded with banks to drastically increase inflation, and then under report inflation. This way the rich and the government got essentially unlimited free money. They can take riskier gambles and just pay there losses off 5 years down the road when they got 30 times the money they had, and their old debt is now only 5% of their new wealth. Well first they had to take all the money from the taxpayers with the double dipping scheme of destroying all the retirement accounts and then taxing everybody for the bailouts Its all going to work out though which is why I'm hoarding pre-obamacare syringes and other valuables for the apocalypse
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Dec 12, 2014 18:00
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Plafop posted:Millennials are lazy and entitled. I was lucky because I did a running start program where you took CC classes for free that counted as both highschool and college credits, so I entered my university with a lot of credits already and an established college level GPA (which in turn got me scholarships and financial aid due to my family being poverty line). But even in the years it's been since I graduated high school (07), that program has already been gutted and now while you can still do running start, you have to pay for the community college (which my family would not be able to afford). To me something incredibly scary is that not only does the situation suck for my generation, it's only going to be worse for those coming after. ArbitraryC fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Dec 12, 2014 |
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Dec 12, 2014 18:03
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I don't think you should waste your short life worrying about what other people may have and you don't. You're always going to be miserable no matter what in that case
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Dec 12, 2014 18:03
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As a general rule, after an economic downturn hiring new employees slows. This happens because even though the economy is coming back, businesses have learned to adapt to having fewer employees. So because they're getting the same job done with less people, they're reluctant to spend more money on more employees.
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Plafop posted:Millennials are lazy and entitled. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-unluckiest-generation-what-will-become-of-millennials/275336/ a decent read.
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Dec 12, 2014 18:06
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Happy Bear Suit posted:rich people/entities screwed everyone over FWIW money has NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY "trickled down". Every economics course will teach you that money trickles up because stupid poors don't know how to handle money. You got duped, bitch.
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this
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this is exactly what happned op: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall quote:The tendency of the rate of profit to fall (TRPF), also known as the "law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall" (LTRPF), is a hypothesis in economics and political economy, most famously expounded by Karl Marx in Part Three of Das Kapital, Volume 3. Although the existence of such a tendency is rejected by mainstream economics nowadays, it was generally accepted in the 19th century.[1] Geert Reuten states that "In Marx’s day it was taken for granted among economists that there is such a law, both on empirical and theoretical grounds".[2] Economists as diverse as Adam Smith,[3] John Stuart Mill,[4] David Ricardo,[5] Stanley Jevons[6] and John Maynard Keynes[7] recognized a tendency of the rate of profit to fall. They differed in their opinion about why this might be the case. According to the classical theory of income distribution and accumulation, profits and wages would (other things being equal) fall to their minimum values in the long run, while at the same time the rent of landlords would increase.[8] Hence, the classical economists distinguished between income earned with labor effort to produce things, and unearned income obtained from rents, property and capital gains – this was seen as a critical issue for the future expansion of profitable wealth creation.[9]
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Republicans
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Dec 12, 2014 18:14
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Republicans this, and also a lot of democrats. thomas piketty illustrated the whole thing in that book he wrote last year.
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Dec 12, 2014 18:15
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People don't smoke and drink like they used to so they're living a long time and consuming valuable resources. Long story short, all you faggots who bitch about the smell of cigarettes and don't have good jobs did it to yourselves.
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ArbitraryC posted:We get way less welfare than boomers did. Can you imagine if you could actually work at McDonald's for a summer and then pay for college that way? I can because I'm under 30 and did almost that with no financial aid or loans. Granted I also worked in the semester, and it was technically jack in the box/Walmart/coffee shop, but who's counting.
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Dumb as poo poo laws relating to white collar crime (if a bank is even charged, investors have to pull their assets out forcing a bank run) combined with systemic risk creates a giant moral hazard problem where banks did insane poo poo with impunity and lost a lot of other people's money. It's those guys who can't afford to pay you a salary. Since the banks got bailed they can still afford to keep Boehner's jaundice going with Wild Turkey, and do even more insane poo poo. It's gotten to the point where four banks have federal insurance on $260 trillion of derivatives lmbo.
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ZergRushing posted:FWIW money has NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY "trickled down". Every economics course will teach you that money trickles up because stupid poors don't know how to handle money. You got duped, bitch. But Laffer Curve! It says you get more money if you lower taxes!
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Maybe greed fueled capitalism, political corruption and investors only focused on short term gains isn't a good way to go about it.  Americas new unofficial motto is "gently caress You, Got Mine"
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