just_an_average_joe

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[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What's the point in asking something like this here unless to make a connection between a terror attack and islam?

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Even if it misses, it has a chance to come back every 4 years

Why do you have a photo of your selfie?

I think it is because we humans are not rational.

In a free market society, over time, every seller would charge for their service as much as they can. And the service they themselves use, will in turn charge them as much as they can.

This would be an optimal system, if only humans were rational creatures. When prices for a service increase too much, we should stop using it and go for alternatives, which would create more incentives for competition to grow and prices to come down etc.

But i think, we don't think rationally. Sometimes, even when we know something is bad for us, we still do it cuz of lack of self control or other reasons.

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Your whole point is "you don't know" without actually providing anything. I may be wrong but at least im saying something. Please try and at least say something, otherwise what's the point of your comment? Gain upvotes/give down votes on lemmy?

And at least for me, I actually live in EU and many of my friends have worked and many acquaintances are still working as servers so at least my opinion has some worth.

Where are you from btw?

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lol, what?

I am literally talking about how much suffering it would cause if we keep trying to "fix capitalism" with bandage after bandage and how each and everything would need fixing which will turn into something not capitalistic anyways.

I don't want to be rude but people should have better reading comprehension and learn to read between the lines or just read i guess.

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Sure tipping for things may not be applicable in eu. But here's another example: imagine the first person who got a loan cuz they wanted to buy a house but didn't have the money at the time.

The bank who lent the money did a nice thing. Other banks and people started doing the same. And because people had access to more money, the price of houses increased to match with it.

Despite the fact that those people don't actually have that money and now it is a requirement. Nobody can afford to buy a house unless they go into debt. Again this is capitalism and the free market in action.

The reason tipping so "people can have livable wage" is not a thing in the EU is because the EU does have a livable minimum wage.

The concept of minimum wage is inherently anti-capitalistic. It is against the principles of free market.

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (13 children)

The issue with tipping is an issue with capitalism.

It is capitalism that has ruined nice things. Imagine the first person who tipped someone because their service was good and it was a nice thing to do. Next other people started doing it as well, which makes the profession with tipping more favorable.

This leads to a higher supply of workers and lower demand and the market adjusts which means lower pay because "they will receive tips".

Also it is easy to vilify the shop owners for doing something that the system encourages and even demands them. We don't know how or in what ways the shop owners are suffering because of the system.

Also to acknowledge their suffering is not to say that their suffering is equal to the suffering of their workers but rather we need to identify that everybody suffers in capitalism (except the very rich/elites).

The way to fix this is to stop tipping altogether. This will hurt the workers for sure but their suffering is necessary in order for things to change, at least under the current system.

Or alternatively, we can try and abolish the system altogether.

I mean who doesn't have a couple grands to donate? That's like the chump change you get for groceries or smth

I like to think that there are two versions of this "hard working elite". 1. Is the worker and 2. Is the owner

When these people are working and no doubt they work hard as a worker they enjoy their pay for their work. They are considered a proletariat imo.

But they also enjoy the surplus from the work of their employees. And this version of them is the bourgeois.

We can commend the worker side of them (for which they are already receiving a wage) while at the same time condemning them for the owner side of them.

Because at the end of the day, any surplus the owner is getting because of being an owner is exploitation of the workers.

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 5 months ago (4 children)

For a bit of context, elon is supporting the far right AfD. And AfD is pro russian oil and anti nato. Nato which might have to intervene if a nato member is attacked by russia.

If there is any party russia is supporting, it has to be AfD, imo that would make the most sense.

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