Message from @shrikeclaw
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"How do you purport we pay for *that*?" "Uh..uhh... tax the rich that isn't in politics..." "Suuuure."
So far nothing else will ever do
fucking vultures
No, I'm not permitting the shreds of that tangentially related song entering my headspace.
Verizon is Selling Tumblr for less than 5 million USD
Fuckers don't understand that American wealth isn't limitless, and that we cannot pay for the whole god damned world, and that under the table wages will always be a problem.
You can't have an abundance of workers AND a high minimum wage. Not unless you want widespread tax evasion.
They spent over a billion with a B to acquire it originally....
yep
Shouldn't have banned the porn
because they are going to make 100's of billions
Under the table wages.
Liberals need to understand that concept.
High minimum wage + abundant workers = rampant tax evasion.
good investment
happening across latin america too
Well, unless it's not about making the common man prosperous enough to live well.
Venezuela has disgorged millions of people across the continent
Buy Tumblr and then allow porn. Make porn easier to search.
Sell it back to Verizon for a billion dollars.
they can hire a Venezuelan at half the price of a local
same skill level, kept off the books
🌌
the people on the lowest rung that are nationals are losing jobs and houses
Yeah, shit pisses me off.
Liberals DO NOT GET that people are not just going to follow the law because you fucking tell them to. Under the table wages is a HUGE problem in any income-tax based system, and the only way you're ever going to solve that is by keeping the minimum wage at least somewhat close to equilibrium market wages (or below it).
If you want higher wages WITHOUT rampant tax evasion, then you need to address not the minimum wage, but the market equilibrium.
its depressing, I know so many people that have been affected
Which means either more demand or less supply for workers.
good, hard working people
it's caused huge migrations from the country to the city
shanty towns
no water
@shrikeclaw - Worst part is, you're not even allowed to verify their citizenship or legal status.
If they fill out a form, you have to accept that at face value and leave it up to the government to enforce the law.
christ, that makes me furious
At least in the United States. By law, you cannot impose a "citizens only" policy for employment.
You can't even verify citizenship status on your own. Have to leave it up to a government agency.
stop kicking your own people for christ sake
how hard is that
Worst part is, you can't even discriminate on national origin, even for non-citizens.
So while China is engaged in rampant IP theft, you are legally prohibited from restricting Chinese nationals from jobs in tech. You can't even subject them to heightened background checks (because the Chinese government is constantly stealing IP), because that would be "national origin discrimination."
pretty fucked up, huh?
If you hired a Canadian dude with a clean background check and not much else, but want to look into the family connections of a Chinese guy just to make sure he's not a pawn for the Chinese intelligence services, you just broke the law.
how did things get this fucked up?
Politics.