@timmysgrandpa @ninaturner Which is why they don't take out student loans. They may take out a loan to pay for college, but it will be a special loan just for them not available to average everyday people.
@SNasty78170989@DataProgress Our entire system of government works this way. It's called lobbying and usually goes towards corporations and not people. This would be a refreshing change (not that I think it will happen with idiots like you around)
@peterboghossian A politician tries to figure out where their voters are going and follows them. A leader goes where they want too and inspires their people to follow them.
@OfficialAPoD Hold on. Hold on. I'm looking for the word here... there is a word. Starts with an S.... hmm... sav... savage? Savages? Isn't that kind of racist to refer to a whole group of people as uncivilized savages?
@michelletandler Not from an ethical standpoint, but start with Corrado Gini, an Italian sociologist who studied inequality. His coefficient - the Gini coefficient - is a pretty good predictor of societal instability/collapse. Too much inequality = failed state status.
@SpinZero00@peteskomoroch Nope. You work full time for five times your local teacher's salary, AND you tutor on the side and charge the parents a huge sum ($75/hr) - and if the kid gives you any problems, you dump them and say "Not my problem" - it's really great.
@mertz_allen@GeorgeTakei I have to take a daily medicine that costs me roughly $1000/month on top of my rent which has increased 20% year over year. Food prices have gone up around me about 20%. My wages went up 1.2%. Food, shelter or life are my choices, is that an inconvenience?
@GeorgeTakei Many Americans cannot. I know I can't. I have an incredible amount of medical debt due to an autoimmune issue. I - and many other Americans - now get to make even harder choices for food, rent or medicine. I support Ukraine, but you are wrong.
@wokal_distance I am absolutely, 100% convinced at this point, that the industrial society and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race.