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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Fair enough, but I suppose it doesn’t really matter for the poor.

    If there’s not cheap labor, prices will have to go up, so really, cheap labor or costly labor, either way, the poor person on the bottom is still the poor person on the bottom.

    You mention grass, but just take all the made in china stuff. That’s all about taking advantage of cheap labor. Everyone seems to have a phone these days, even the poor. Maybe, if that wasn’t the case, we’d have lots of jobs that pay well, but that still results in higher cost of goods so no one is really doing better because of it.

    Outside of technological advancements, I’m not sure how it’s possible to pay low skilled laborers well. When you increase the cost of basic labor, the cost of basic goods go up with it.


  • Yea, I can see this. I could also see a white-list style federation. I think either is fine.

    OTOH, I’m not sure having closed circles is all that bad. It’s how we used to do it anyway. Wanna chat about motorcycles? You didn’t go to some site that has everyone talking about everything, no, you went to the motorcycle forum. And if you found that you didn’t work with that group, you found some other motorcycle forum.

    Sure, it would be nice to have an online forum where everyone can go and speak freely, but that place needs to be specific to that. Federation is probably not the correct answer for this.



  • Jobs don’t exist when people don’t create them. It’s not business owners’ fault that the majority of people would rather take the easy route of working for them rather than run their own business. They are literally helping people survive that cannot survive on their own merits or are too lazy to bother. Your earnings and earning potential is your own business, not anyone else’s.

    So yes, people can create their own jobs, it’s how it’s been most of human history. The employee employer relationship, as it is now, is pretty recent.