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No it isn't.
There are plenty of people who are going to lose money and/or jobs because of this. Trump and his cronies aren't going to be hurt.
Don't celebrate hotel maids and servers getting screwed
The reason hotel maids and bartenders will be hurt is because the CEO's made leveraged bets and are losing their asses. That's not the fault of consumers who choose not to spend, that's the fault of the wealthy.
Or let me put it another way: I don't owe those workers to make their boss rich so he pisses a little of that wealth onto them. I would much rather provide a social safety net to help them out when their boss loses money being a prick.
Good news, you're doing NEITHER.
Well I'm sure as fuck not going to feel morally obligated to provide the wealthy even more profit in either case, so that's actually moot. But if we're going to worry about the plight of the common man, let's go about it the right way.
The delusion that literally every employer is a billionaire is fucking embarrassing.
By deluding yourself into thinking a business of any size is the same as mega corporations and doing nothing else. Good work.
Where do you even read the word "billionaire"? What are you talking about?
What a profoundly American way of seeing things.
I hope they all have the day they voted for then.
Let me guess, if someone is held hostage for a ransom, and the ransom isn't paid, and the hostage is killed, you blame the person that didn't pay instead of the kidnapper?
Literally the same moral logic.
First, explain to me what part of "Don’t celebrate hotel maids and servers getting screwed" is so offensive to you.
Apparently reading comprehension is also not a strong suit for you.
In other words, you realize I'm right and don't have the stomach to admit it, so you double down on cheap insults.
Go ahead, explain why celebrating wage earners bad luck is a great thing.
ELI5
Let them get screwed let your whole country crumble into nothing. You voted for this. And no I didn't whatever your country did and your letting it all happen.
Well, the guy I responded to didn't answer so it looks like I was right.
And by your logic, the people who got A-bombed in Hiroshima deserved it because they didn't rise up against the Emperor.
I'm impressed by your compassion