@JamesTate121 The wages of the job are set by the skills required to do them.
Just because government lowered requirements for assistance means nothing.
@ShamashAran@chicksonright It’s very simple.
Every advocate of socialism is nearly always some spoiled middle class kid whose parents GAVE them a decent life while they sat on their little asses.
So as young adults they think responsibility should be someone else’s job while they remain on their asses.
@BladeoftheS So the American taxpayer who can’t afford hiv supplies and ambulance rides is supposed to make sure people in sierra Leon and Liberia get them instead.
Cause that makes perfect sense.
@iam_biglad1 The USSR produced hundreds of millionaires via black and grey markets.
They would probably be more aptly referred to as predators.
Seems like a lovely system.
@mhdksafa Because Jesus was not advocating that you feed the poor by taking food from another via government authority.
He said for YOU to feed the poor not empower a government to do it for you.
@trumplicans2024 Having your wife of 20 years lose her mind and burn your life to the ground in every way you can think of in the most horrible fashion.
@OrevaZSN Climate change simply isn’t relevant.
And beyond that the “science” is unreliable at best. Science is in the business of telling you what it is not what it means or might do.
@burgride@SolaSixMillion Men with power and good intentions turn a system over to those who don’t have good intentions.
What you see are the fruits of selfish men who flaunt their successes and turn the failures into commercials that play to both your empathy and envy to consolidate even more power.
That may be the case now but that does not speak to any Lowe’s corruption nor the history of how they started and the business they built well before any blackrock nonsense.
I am not saying there aren’t real problems and real places where corruption breeds and festers.
Here is something to consider. Greed and corruption are all endemic to human kind.
If men are actually free then they are going to act on their nature and many times that is going to be unpleasant.
It’s just part of the price tag that comes with freedom - and guess what the very men you send to correct them I.e the “government” with the power of law - they are also corruptible.
It’s the hearts of men not the systems.
This is why a spirit of gratitude and thankfulness is of paramount importance.
Resentment, cynicism and self righteousness lead nowhere.
You can only be a light in the world to those around you and leave the rest to God.
@burgride@SolaSixMillion I mean essentially you’re treating this like so many treat the other “isms” in our society.
If everything is corruption then nothing is corruption. You can’t throw every legit business ever built under the bus because of a few bad apples.
200 Lowe’s existed in 1975 when vanguard was conceived. 296 in 88 when blackrock joined the fray. And McDonald’s had 3500 stores and 10,000 stores in those years.
Come on man you’re reaching.
This why conservatives get a bad rap because it ain’t 1954 anymore. You’re supposed to want to conserve the principles not expect a modern world to exist on a leave it to beaver chasis.
You ain’t on here railing about the literal 250 billion dollar “influencer” industry.
You’re mad because a working man chooses a cheaper hammer and a quicker lunch.
So first off - you absolutely are a compensated slave. I already offered explanation that in bygone times it was uncompensated slavery.
Our need for raw material extraction and servicing of the finished systems and materials has only grown - it is compensated slavery because everybody wants everything but nobody wants to do the dirty work.
Now - you have allowed your cynicism to replace your sense of gratitude.
Every “giant corporation” you mentioned there absolutely started out as a mom and pop. When Mr. Lowes died it was one store - his son made the decisions that led to what you see.
And guess what every other mom and pop could have made those same decisions - he wasn’t hand picked by any elites.
And it is a fine thing for you to blame the system for people’s choices in how they spend their money. They can go to Aunt Molly’s diner instead of McDonald’s, they can go to uncle Bobs hardware store instead of Lowe’s.
But they don’t. “We” did that.
And we do that because those businesses scaled their operations and offer a cheaper price. It’s simple economics. You cannot let the instances of greed that do exist fool you into misplacing the responsibility.
Oh - and life isn’t fair. That is a socialist concept. Instead we are called to be grateful for the fruits of our labor regardless of what they are.