MisterFrog

It's absolutely wild we don't have a government run job website.

Companies ought to play by our rules, not bribe a rent seeker.

Immigration should be managed appropriately, but "they took 'er jerbs" is less possible when worker protections are expanded and entrenched for all including newcomers.

There's no war but the class war, and I do hope to meet some of the M4A people so I can talk them off a ledge.

Our enemy is the same, they're just misguided about who that is. Some racists are capable of change.

Not the full-blown Nazis though, they can die in a hole.

They should receive a criminal charge, if it can be proven that they should have reasonably known that it was for a nazi event.

We do not have un-checked freedom of speech in this country.

Nazi speech is illegal.

-dun-

Time to bring back our state run building and manufacturing. It was in fact a thing

I likely would not be an engineer today if it weren't for welfare, and my position was already fairly good.

I don't enjoy people lamenting taxes, I don't ever lament my taxes, and I especially don't lament my taxes going to people who need it to give them a fair go in life (I try not to think about all the ways we're wasting our taxes on corporate welfare and tax loopholes when I'm paying my taxes haha)

The solutions to me are simple, hire enough people to work in the department so they can actually handle their case load without absolutely hating their jobs due to burnout, iron out stupid requirements by making feedback easier to give (and give workers in the department the ability to fix them), make the automated systems actually work and not require you to call or turn up in person to get anything bloody done (when I was in the system, it felt like they were allergic to providing customer service in writing. I wasted so much of my and the worker's time in what could have been an email and supporting evidence...), and raise the amounts you receive in line with cost of living (and in particular average cost of housing).

1. Something makes me doubt it would cost all that much more money in the grand scheme of things
2. Stop legislating tax cuts for Christ's sake
3. Implement wealth taxes for people with more than $10 m in assets, in a progressive nature (or some other number)
4. (Unpopular) bring back inheritance taxes above a certain amount, like, ffs people, do we really like intergenerational wealth?
5. Tax companies more in creative ways
6. Mining tax that we should have implemented like 50 years ago, it's our resources
7. Brainstorming for fun: give a regulator or the central bank independent control over taxation rates in line with legislated guidelines so that inflation and unemployment can be managed in line with countercyclical fiscal policy, perhaps. (Could be a dumb idea)

So often you hear "what's the solution to xyz?" and it so often is "maybe pay more". It's not always the solution and not usually the only problem, but these days, more often than not it is...

Just a little more privatisation bro, that'll fix infrastructure bro. Trust me bro, sell off Aus Post and it'll be so efficient!!

I really hope we undo the madness of neoliberalism soon!

Hey folks, when in the world are we going to do something about this?

And I really do mean all of us.

We are all partially vindicated by the fact we're in the capitalist game, and as individuals, all we can do is play the game.

But Christ, this is gonna break.

Please next time you meet someone who's talking about their house price going up. Please say, we really can't keep going on like this.

It's gonna break eventually. People are paying stupid percentages of their income on rent or mortgage.

Eventually we'll simply not be able to afford to live.

Housing is a stupid, non-productive (past the base value of providing somewhere to live) asset that we could be investing practically anywhere else in our society.

We're sitting on piles of gold (metaphorically).

At least you can make electronics with gold.

These settlements are always peanuts.

$50 million? For Facebook?

In German they'd say: "it doesn't even give them an itch".

let alone Taiwan

Taiwan's issue with the mainland's encroachment of their airspace notwithstanding, my "um akchually" note here is that Taiwan claims roughly the same islands in the South China sea, as a hangover of their "we are the real china and there is only one China" stance, and that the claim was made before the civil war:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea

If I were to guess, they probably don't bother updating their claim since it may needlessly antagonise the mainland, someone more knowledgeable may correct me on that.

Xi Jing Ping is playing 4D Go

Unless it's run by the state, then part of the money will go towards profit.

So, a bit dumb, if you ask me.