That sounds like the value of the land and equipment is included as wealth.

For one thing, we’re clearly getting our stats from different sources. For another, “household” commonly means one or two people in an urban setting and 5 or more in a farm family. So I would actually hope their incomes are above median. In any case, I srsly doubt that the people here bothered to look up anything before lighting torches and grabbing pitchforks, which was my point.

Prisoners make something like a quarter an hour.

Supporters of facism and their narcissism. Specifically, they use their privilige to moan about their own challenges, seemingly without much thought for those taken into concentration camps. They will only ever understand what hurts them.

And Sarah Huckabee Sanders is trying very hard to get kids back into the workplace.

And she wonders why people hate her.

Proles hate this one easy productivity hack, the results will shock you!

Go look up sewage cleaner in India. No amount of money is worth that.

That’s just untrue. There is definitely some amount of money worth it.

Kind of a bad argument. “Look up sewage cleaner in India” implies that there are sewage cleaners elsewhere with better jobs. Making the problem with being a sewage cleaner in India a bad condition.

Ironically I agree with you. Some jobs are way better than others, making some jobs bad and some good. A garbage man will always be a worse job than an ice cream taste tester barring absurd caveats. it’s just funny to me that your argument explicitly implies a problem with job conditions.

There are people who literally shovel congealed fat out of sewers, that’s definitely a shit job.

They get paid a ridiculous amount though.

he already gave the response to people complaining" you voted for what i cammpaigned on, deal with it"-paraphased trump exact words.

not to mention, the fuckery around shrinkflation/cheapflation. many other products like oral care is heavily shrinkflationed.

To be fair, in Germany a lot of food is imported from other countries that have different labor protections, so Spanish tomatoes could have different conditions. Of course Aldi and Lidl have popularized super efficient supply chains that help keeping prices low (and AFAIK they pay reasonable salaries).

It’s not inflation if that is actually how much it always should have cost. Our food is too cheap and full of shit.

That would be unpleasant, yes, and would require further efforts to minimize the consequences for those with low incomes (for instance, expansion of food subsidies, which yes would require even more taxation of those with wealth), however, if food prices aren’t as high as that now because of near slavery conditions, then there’s probably no ethical way to avoid it.

Which means the pay has to rise even more.

My guess is that this is a Peter Thiel move and robot companies are almost ready to deploy their farm helpers.

Capitalism

it is not anywhere near baffling. it is an example of exactly how disgusting and terrible capitalism is. these times should be moving people radically left.

For real. In America being a psychopath is rewarded with money. And what’s worse is that there is something very dark and heartless happening that seems to have a hold of not just the government but the people as well. Like it’s now becoming known at least slightly, that America is not the image it branded itself as and that the people here are very much being manipulated socially and society is being orchestrated to be something that is not for humanity but instead for an ideology that feels like the essence of evil.

We should be realizing our nation isn’t for humanity. It’s all strictly business, and “the game” of conquering life and existence. And anything that gets in the way is the enemy.

As citizens here we aren’t special. They can do the same things they do to other countries to us. We can become the middle east warzone. The only reason they don’t do it inside the nation bluntly is because then it would show their true colors. So what they do is manipulate and divide the citizens over simple things and watch the citizens destroy themselves. The same geopolitical methods they use to overthrow countries they use here.

I don’t think a lot of them realized just how bad it was, maybe not even a passing thought. I’m willing to give a pass to anyone who isn’t a farmer or has experience farming.

The fuck are you talking about? It’s the Democrats saying we need a slave class, that we can’t deport them, not the Republicans.

they prefer slaves.

I thought farmers were their base though.

You mean slavery?

I hope the inmates and/or indigent perform plenty of malicious compliance if this happens.

I’m certain that when they say MAGA, they mean bring back slavery.

Don’t you guys have forced prison labour? That ought to do the trick. You can even employ Moore people that way because you need guards and fences, gps tracking on the volunteered workers and all that.

Has any nation in history fucking autolobotomized as hard and as fast as we have?

Well, the Khmer Rouge killed everybody who wore glasses because they were “intellectuals,” China killed millions trying to force city kids to become farmers during the Cultural Revolution, and I’m pretty sure other autocratic totalitarian governments have fucked themselves in similar ways. Usually when societies become illiberal, people with brains are the first to be put up against the proverbial wall.

Just to add a point - if the farmers do end up folding and selling off, who’s going to buy the land? My money would be on large corpos.

they tried it with prisoners already, they arnt doing it because they are already in jail, why work when you have all the ameneties provided for you, and it barely affects your sentence.