The UK did it immediately after WW2 when our economy was destroyed. We were in much debt, we didn't finish paying America back until 2006. However, apparently, the country we paid all that money to cant afford it?
You have to admire the brazennes of the lie though.
To me, its much more that the rich don't want to pay for the healthcare of the people who earn all of their money for them, rather than active sadism.
More, devoid of empathy and not really seeing them as fellow humans, deserving of basic rights like not dying of poverty. Especially if it costs them money.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're white and male
He's been telling that story for years
I mean, in the UK, we see the "loan against unrealised, paid off to a zero tax position" trick as the disguised remuneration package that it is.
In fact, it only America, out of the western nations, that allows that.
You took payment of a sum of money, specifically related to unrealised gain. Therefore, the gains are realised.
OK but what about going onto the ground?
Like, in your garden, is that the first floor of the planet?
When you get off an airplane, do you say
"Its great to be back on solid first floor of the earth."
?
Same, I didn't want to go in early on that game but I'm very happy I did.
It just good, clean and terribly unwholesome fun.
Tbf, economics has to presume inequality to be non existent. If they dont, inequality is the overriding factor that makes all the other forces at play pale in comparison. So, they remove inequality.
Again, tbf, in a world with no inequality, where only the very best and brightest rise to the top and not just a endless stream of nepo babies, with whole institutions in place to ensure a lack of social mobility, a national minimum wage would be a bad idea. Just like tax breaks for the rich would fix any problem you had, in that fake - made up world that could never exist.
But, as you allude to, in the real world, things are very different.
I does have a certain "and then the whole bus clapped" energy to it.
Good thing they left reddit and went to 4chan where they could get away from ultra thirsty guys acting all kinds of crazy over women.
Its funny how much owning a successful business sound exactly like being a lazy, work-shy layabout who does nothing while living off of other people's hard work.
You think that's bad, wait until you hear about the shareholders and landlords.
They dont even have to pretend to work to get paid.