By far, my 2 year old son’s favorite neighborhood person is the garbage collector. The man has a badass truck, lifts massive dumpsters, super loud, crushes large objects, always smiles and waves. Son enthusiastically watches his every move, transfixed.
Funny comparison in the book “Bullshit Jobs” about what happens when certain professions go on strike. When New York’s garbage collectors went on strike, the city was brought to its knees within 11 days. Total chaos. Mayor had to buckle. When Ireland’s bankers went on strike, nothing happened. After 6 months they gave up because no one cared.
Crises like the one we’re experiencing should be a wake up call to appreciate - and more importantly PAY - essential workers.
>and more importantly PAY - essential workers. Pay is determined by supply and demand. The fact that the jobs are essential means that the jobs need to be carried out; it does not mean they are necessarily valuable.
e.g. shelf stackers are absolutely essential otherwise you couldn't buy food, but the ability to easily fill the position with an abundance of low skilled labour means that the individual shelf stacker is not that valuable. The role is essential, the individual is not.
Noah Scott
NEEDS MORE WORDS
Christian Lopez
>I need to make Saffron Truffle Risotto >Let's see, I have to buy saffron, truffles, rice, some olive oil, garlic and onions, perhaps a nice vegetable stock, and... water. >We can't make the risotto without the water, so clearly, water should be the most expensive ingredient >WHAT? WHY IS SAFFRON SO MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE? FUCK U BIGOT GROCERY MART
Imagine being this stupid
Evan Wilson
you live your life in easy mode you retarded american. you are deluded.
Carter Murphy
College degree is the #1 way to mathematically traverse the class hierarchy and have a better life for you and your family.
Does it make you "special"? No not really, but it makes you competitive in a competitive labor market where the status quo is a college degree.
> inb4 "muh college degree doesn't mean I'm smart"
Yup. Sure doesn't. Especially now. But guess what - employers know that. The Early Gen-Xers and Boomers that now own and administrate the means of production have degrees (from a different era) and to them, a degree means you're a hardworking, intelligent person.
So long as those at the top have them, they will require the bottom or the middle to have them as well. Cyclical in nature. Propagate longitudinally over time, yadda-yadda. If you don't have a college degree, you're going to be okay, but don't expect to be a millionaire unless you're in the 1% of edge cases.
Blake Jackson
I agree. There is nothing wrong with wanting to better yourself but i have a friend who openly holds the fact he went to some college he was paid into one of the top 10 or w.e in the country as a accomplishment in and of itself. Despite having a shit GPA and just getting it through nepotism/donation. Also alot of people with shit jobs do have actual degrees in something but couldn't apply them. Im not making an excuse for those without career jobs/who failed in general but there is a group of spoiled rich kids who are as dumb or dumber then those they insult who don't understand an accolade is not the thing you should be proud of.
Adam Sanchez
>Pay is determined by supply and demand That's the point. It shouldn't be. That's an outdated system that's been proven not to work. We're paying essential workers pennies while bankers and celebrities who don't contribute to society are paid millions. Supply and demand is not an efficient or fair way to assign value to things.
Everything else aside modern art pisses me off. Id love to see how artists of old would vomit at seeing this shit. Its all effortless nonsense some hipster shit head will pretend is special and feign some nonsense symbolism/past about since the art itself is something a child could make accidentally. Meanwhile every jew goes ape shit when a man exposes some of their historical deeds in a extremely effortful painting. We've reached the point where i respect deviant art furries more then i can respect what the public considers modern art.
Julian Perez
I mean I'm early-to-mid 20's and I'm doing pretty well. I actually think that I could probably be a multi-millionaire by 40 at the rate things are going. I do attribute in some part to my degree.
That aside, hierarchy is simply a by-product of nature. Some people (entities) are more fit to perform tasks than others. The amount those entities are paid or compensated is not necessarily commensurate with the (admittedly "out-there" concept) "value" they represent, but in a finite system where we only have so many choices to do so many things, eventually it stands to reason that scenarios where things like bankers and traders exist. Especially given that we are "animals" in the sense that we are greedy, and tend to amass as much as we can. Is that moral? My answer would be "Meh". Do people deserve not to die in the streets of poverty? Probably. Do I deserve to go to college for free on a third party's dime? Eh... less so.
I agree it is not perfect, but it has the unfortunate aspect of being rather self-propagating as well. At some point you're faced with the choice to either play or be played.
Nicholas Ward
Modern art sucks, because a group of people managed to convince everyone else that art is not about beauty.
Carson Johnson
God I wish women could speak like that.
Chase Kelly
only way that would actually happen in America is if the tenant had something wrong with their financials which a landlord might overlook but a lending guidelines will not allow.
if your credit is 660+ and you earn ~4 or 5x your payment, you're approved.
Christian Garcia
>Reminder that having a college degree doesn't make you special Yes, yes it does, as it's the only way to get a decent paying job that, at the same time, wont treat you like a mild nuisance at best, or a fucking nigger at worst.
All I can say to the graduation class of 2020 is good luck and sorry y'all had to graduate right into a depression. And people wonder why I haven't done shit with my life.
>Crises like the one we’re experiencing should be a wake up call to appreciate - and more importantly PAY - essential workers The real word is "expendable". Nigger please. The average american has the attention span of a gnat fly and will just be ungrateful as they always are and will always be.
>That's the point. It shouldn't be. Yes it should, that's the only determination of value. It's not a system, it's manifest reality, it simply IS.
Gavin Brown
Everyone is getting a real reality check and finding out exactly what career paths are just "busy work" intended to make someone richer, but has no baring on actual society.
Christian Walker
This is bullshit. You don’t need any skill to pick up a broom and start sweeping. Bankers require knowledge of calculus, statistic, public speaking and financial theory. This is just a cope by dumbasses that spent their college years playing video games and now are mad they have no skill outside of being able to aim a cross hair or level up a gay character.
Christian Edwards
>giving a legitimate to a retarded commie
Leo Bennett
One can live its entire life without even knowing what risotto is One can live without water for about a week at most Your retarded logic perfectly exemplifies libfaggot retards thinking some imaginary pompous shit is more important than the absolute basics of survival necessities
Michael Edwards
>Bankers require knowledge of calculus, statistic, public speaking and financial theory.
But no one needs bankers. Is it the, "public speaking," part that is most important for leeches.
Isaac Young
Modern art is a money laundering scheme, so the prices don't surprise me at all. It's not art, it's a form of criminal activity.
Ethan Green
WHEN YOU KILL NIGS LMAO
BOTTOM TEXT
Nicholas Ramirez
>REMINDER Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc. did not graduate from post-secondary institutions.
>REMINDER GPA is not a measure of intelligence. GPA is a measure of how pliable you are as an individual.
>REMINDER School is not designed to make you into someone who can chase their dreams. It makes you employable for someone else chasing theirs
That garbage collector might be a great guy but yes it does. But only if it's STEM. You are not human if you can't into calculus.
Ethan Gonzalez
Then how will you bring resources to start projects that built the house you live in or find the company that built the computer you are using? Your PC electronics need more than 10 rare earth metals to function, without loans from banks and risk mitigation used by bankers your PC electronics would not be able to exist.
Colton Peterson
This
Leo Sanchez
>wall of text
Jason Anderson
Please, scatter your sheltered world view somewhere else, sweetie.
Connor Anderson
Garbage men get paid. I used to do IT for a "scavenger company" ie garbage and recycling, and all the drivers made 60k a year plus and had hot wives.
Logan Gomez
implying a retarded """""art""""" installation that has artificial value from rich people memeing is representative of things with actual value
John Baker
>Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc. did not graduate from post-secondary institutions. They were spoiled kids to have families to fall back on, or in some cases, bankroll thier early works
>GPA is not a measure of intelligence. GPA is a measure of how pliable you are as an individual. It's just a reflection on competency.
>School is not designed to make you into someone who can chase their dreams. It makes you employable for someone else chasing theirs There's no time for dreams. The rent/bills are due, and everything has already been done, and for much cheaper thanks to globohomo and apps.
>They were spoiled kids to have families to fall back on, or in some cases, bankroll thier early works
Irrelevant. Where there is a will, there is a way.
>It's just a reflection on competency. Competency to do what? Regurgitate (mostly) useless/irrelevant information on command.
>There's no time for dreams. The rent/bills are due, and everything has already been done, and for much cheaper thanks to globohomo and apps. They were saying things like this around the turn of the last century as well. Then the Wright Brothers came around in 1903...
Benjamin Torres
In the city where I live (Marseille), it is well known that garbage collectors are a mafia that no politician has ever dared to go against. Those guys litterally work 1 hour a day, and earn more than the median wage. Everyone wishes they could join, but you have to be a "son of" to be able to.
Cameron Kelly
nice kike logic faggot.
Tyler Cox
How much have you paid out of pocket and how much are you in the hole? If the answer is $0, then it isn't in vain, though if it's considered a waste of time, that's worse.
>Competency to do what? Regurgitate (mostly) useless/irrelevant information on command. It's all that matters >They were saying things like this around the turn of the last century as well. Then the Wright Brothers came around in 1903... Yeah, jews ran everything and copyright is as tight as it is now as it is back then. Shout out to the kikes who stole Edison's motion picture technology, went out west, and created Hollywood. Too much shit is already locked down already corporations for future ideas to flourish. I dont even want to get into whatever IP that is created by an AI on the backing of a corporation.
It's over, son, unless you have unlimited legal funds for litigation reasons.
>Reminder that having a college degree doesn't make you special spoken like a true college drop out subhuman that works a shitty job than can be done by a robot
Hunter Diaz
>Pay is determined by supply and demand. Lmao imagine actually believing this In a world where some entity can create about 1/5th of a country's entire gdp in a single week out of thin air and has the absolute control over the creation and flow of those money pay is not determined by some imaginary hand-of-the-market, but by decisions of those who control the printer Your only ability to get money is to either serve printer-owners, or to serve people who serve printer owners, or to serve those who serve the printer owners and so on It may be a long and seemingly convoluted chain but it still leads to a static pair of hands and if those hands swing, it maybe take some time, but eventually the wave is guaranteed to rock you too The fact that they do not always exert the amount of power they have doesnt mean they dont have it They dont care about infrastructure much - such workers will be paid less regardless of what "market" wants They care about medicine only for themselves - such workers will be paid a lot, but there will be rather few of them and everyone else will have hard time getting medical aid And absolutely everything is like this
Nathan Adams
I have paid $0 of course. I live in Europe where university is free.
I have met a lot of people with tech degrees who were rather in my opinion(as in, easily influenced, naive or completely deluded about something)
Austin Hill
rather dumb*
Brayden Bell
My coworker buddy doesn't have a high school degree because his life was a complete clusterfuck, yet he is intelligent and sharp as fuck, knows three languages, has a lot of hobbies. Who the fuck cares about degrees, what matters is who you are. You can be a retard with college, you can be an ubermensch without high school.
Parker Edwards
Doesn't every euro know at least 8 languages? Well, that number is probably inflated because of the newcomers and how many refugee camps they've been in.
There needs to be higher taxes on rental properties
Jaxon Morris
Property taxes cant be any higher. Being a homeowner is retarded in this area because the property taxes are nearly a grand a month on a .75 acre property. Do I want that cost passed on to me? Absolutely not.
Jacob Diaz
STEM master taxable race checking in
Eli Cooper
Anybody got the edit where the guy says something like "I have a PhD in theoretical astrophysics" in the second panel?
Michael Torres
when did our bankers go on strike?
Benjamin Peterson
actually, it says the guy has a theoretical degree in astrophysics
Study well, so you’ll be OK with your shit socioeconomic position too!
Chase Long
Same lol
Ayden Ortiz
Why don't you pay more? Tipping is a social custom in the US. You can pay low end workers as much as you want.
Juan Bailey
Yeah and somehow they've got money for that. Really makes you think. The burger mindset is so cringe. You always buy into big corporations and institutions behaving as if they have no money and therefore you have to pay for everything. You don't, there are money-makers in their places specifically so that you don't have to pay. That's how it goes in the normal world..
Thomas Jones
>Yeah and somehow they've got money for that. Really makes you think. What pays for it? Oil and high taxes? >The burger mindset is so cringe. You always buy into big corporations and institutions behaving as if they have no money and therefore you have to pay for everything. What the fuck are you talking about? Everyone knows that these corporations have money and pay next to nothing in taxes. >You don't, there are money-makers in their places specifically so that you don't have to pay. That's how it goes in the normal world.. There's lobbyists on K-Street whom it is thier sole job to not make this shit a reality.
Taxes on reantal houses should be high enough to convince people to buy houses It's simple, raise taxes on rentals and raise taxes on every house beyond your first property So simply by having multiple houses you are forced to pay a very high annual tax, and if you rent, you get additional taxes on top Now all landlords can either drive prices sky high, or sell Since they'll be forced to sell because nobody will want to pay 15k per month for a shitty single room apartment, housing prices will drop and people will actually be able to afford housing
Jaxson Johnson
>What pays for it? Oil and high taxes? I'll tell you what should be told to every burger. Go educate yourself for once. Our taxes are lower than yours. Yet things can be paid for.
>What the fuck are you talking about? Everyone knows that these corporations have money and pay next to nothing in taxes. Yeah everyone knows and everyone acts as if they don't know. Example of education and health care.
