cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18200056
They still somehow think trickle-down economics is a thing that works, while also thinking that more educated people don’t produce more economic growth. I can’t imagine thinking like these people do.
Something something… “job creators”
You overestimate the capacity for our planet’s resources to put up with this shit.
I mean, clearly a scifi, but I’m talking about the premise in the movie. It’s not as farfetched as you may think. Some countries already operate under the premise.
Why go to scifi when you can go to the past? Ancient empires have risen and fallen that were more advanced than what followed them, time isn’t always progress.
I was waiting for student loan forgiveness to buy a house. Now my down payment goes to debt.
I’m sure there are many like me.
Overall I side with debt forgiveness, not because I am in student debt, but because I saw first hand how school admins abuse the money for lavish paychecks and nice things.
Subsidies for universities should transparently be enriching the universities or reducing tuition.
I disagree. The taxpayer money could be better used in other welfare programs.
True but the more money that gets spent, the more people need to be taxed.
In certain situations it could be beneficial for some people but I don’t think it should be applied to everyone. If you have an autistic person who went to college but is working low income jobs because they struggle with finding jobs and doing job interviews, then they could be good candidates for such a program. Of course I think it would be better to have a program that helps teach people in that position how to look for jobs and do job interviews.
Tax cuts for big companies helps regular people and students in debt too, as they’re now able to create more jobs and innovate further! They’re definitely not going to use the money to enrich themselves further and buy new yachts while still exploiting their workers and laying them off when it suits them, that would NEVER happen.
Also, even when it does work “like it should”, it’s not like the company is giving away free money to its workers and the community. That money is used to pay for goods or labour.
Or maybe it is given for free as a bonus, but if any is given to the grunts, I’d assume much more is given to the execs.
Businesses shouldn’t be given bailouts. If the government is providing money to support a business that is “too big to fail” but incapable of keeping itself going, that money should be compensated with shares of the business that remain in public holdings. That should be what late stage capitalism looks like, not this “as business fail due to perpetual growth hitting a ceiling, whichever survives the longest gets to enshitify its market due to lack of viable competition and rent seeking, gets bought by someone else who thinks they can do better (often via tyranny), or just fails with current investors and employees left holding the bag. Or the government gives them free money instead of or in addition to this.”
