jdreyer wrote on Jan 22, 2019, 19:56:

RedEye9 wrote on Jan 22, 2019, 19:11:
@Beamer
You're being trolled.
But you probably already guessed that.

I don't think that D-Rock and wtfman are trolling. They actually believe that a flat tax would be superior.

As for AOC, she has been brilliant. Agree or disagree, she is driving the conversation, challenging orthodoxies, and moving the Overton Window to the left. You can't really argue she's a bad politician(I don't mean you Redeye). We just spent 40 comments talking about her and her!

Squirmer wrote on Jan 22, 2019, 16:29:

wtf_man wrote on Jan 22, 2019, 12:50:
And who has the right to impose a salary cap? If I make a multi-million dollar business from nothing like a viral .com or whatever), I have the right to reap the full benefits of it. Your thinking punishes achievement. Acheivement is mostly what separates wealth. It has no color, religion, or sexual preference.

People are NOT equal. Some have more talent than others. Some are better athletes. Some are better thinkers. Some are better entrepenures, some are better entertainers.

Median US income:
Asian: 81k
White: 68K
Hispanic: 50K
Black 40K

"Some people are just better" starts to sound a little awkward...

Beamer wrote on Jan 21, 2019, 20:23:

jdreyer wrote on Jan 21, 2019, 19:30:
Hey Sliv, I was think your empathy meter is broken.

You know most of those workers are required to be at work even though they aren't getting paychecks, right? Also, for a lot of these workers, their skillset is very specific to their Federal job, and not easily replicable in the private sector.

Plus, it's exceptionally difficult to get a job when you can be called back to your other job literally any day now. So even if you are furloughed and at home, no staffing agency wants to speak with you because it takes a long while, and quite a bit of resources, to get you gauged and in the system. It isn't worth the potentially short term investment. Not when plenty of other people are on the roster.

And it's hard to compare this to "my own business." People went to a government job because it's stable. Comparing that to an entrepreneur who could fuck up at any time seems wrong.

Small business owners often have the worst mindset, which is why they're generally the absolute worst employers. They're the most entitled, which says a lot, given the Fortune 500 CEO.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 21, 2019, 07:44:
So today's list of things to do on the truck:

I'll report back, if anyone is interested.

Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 20, 2019, 20:11:
Well you have to be at least half crazy to work in the game industry at all...

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 20, 2019, 19:02:
So the problem I am experiencing is this:

I've swapped in a new air filter, just swapped the plugs, and I am going to replace the fuel filter tomorrow.