@cremieuxrecueil Minimum wage isn't a great metric, though, since it is so political and doesn't capture what people actually make. Maybe bottom quintile or something.
@upstatefederlst He says pay them what they're worth. Presumably he means to cut the pay off the ones that aren't worth much, and stop paying them if they're worthless. I'm all for merit based pay.
@conor64 Thia sounds bad, and I wish it wasn't true, but I am increasingly convinced that a school that consistently supervises kids at lunch and accurately grades their papers is only possible in certain cultural contexts.
@avidseries This graphic is junk. It divides attacks on broadly defined “pit bulls” by AKC registrations, even though the American Pit Bull Terrier isn’t an AKC breed. The 2,500× figure isn’t credible.
@Kareybean@billybinion No. Inflation and interest rates just creep up. Wealth is destroyed. Foreign ownership of assets increases. The balance of payments balances via an outflow of US assets.
@plato_plubius@MrPitbull07 If "Bootlick" means not living in a simpleton's fantasy world where I blame anything I don't like on bad scary corporations, yes.