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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago
[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

Tradeoffs for thee, obscene wealth for me

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t have enough bad things to say about this person and this statement

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 8 points 1 week ago

Another man added to the long ignore list

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or, counterpoint, maybe we should handle rich people's money more efficiently to stimulate economic growth instead of hampering it.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

Also, why should the average American care about competing with China in the first place?

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

I don’t give a fuck about competing with China

It’s a problem of motivation

https://youtu.be/to_e1N4xovQ

[–] pierre_delecto@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago
[–] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

I don't give a 🦆 to compete with China! That's his bull shit.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

American workers are about 6x more productive than Chinese workers based on my preliminary research. These guys are just fucking ghouls

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

Any excuse to work people to the bone.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

I still won't buy a US car or a US phone, no matter how hard [or hardly] people in the US work.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

996 was there for legitimate reasons, not stuffing some capitalist offshore bank account with unnecessary wealth, iirc.