Get in the Hilux

I want to both upvote and downvote this at the same time. So I will do neither, I will just state my opinion..

This is not a shitpost, this is fact.

Actually, I'd be happy to keep working if it means that everybody on earth gets a decent standard of living.

BUT THINK OF THE BILLIONAIRES COMPETING AGAINST EACH OTHER TO BUILD BIGGER MEGA YACHTS. THINK OF THE YACHTS.

It's not time stolen from you as the work needs to be done either way, but it's money stolen from you as you're either underpaid or paying too much for what you're buying.

Fucking yes. We need to be having economic conversations on the basis of time.

I'm not opposed to being rich, or really even being filthy rich, I think the fair chance of being able to live lavishly is a great motivator for folks to shoot for their best ideas.

What I am opposed to is being so obscenely rich that it would take several generations of chronic mismanagement for your descendants to manage to blow through the funds within a time limit of "by the end of the 22nd century."

Most generational wealth has reduced to being a small supplement for the recipient to supplement still having to work for their living with by the time the original person who built it up's grandkids have had their turn with it, maybe the great grandkids if the family makes it a point of staying grounded and using the wealth wisely.

That's not even from blowing through it like madmen, it's from how many people it's getting divided among by then and how likely any one of those individuals are to just decide they don't need to work anymore on getting access to it.

Conspiracy theory: The reason we have the Chicken Tax is to keep the Hilux out of the US because it's too effective a weapon against the military

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They won't sell the Hilux in the US because it's too easy to turn into a technical. Nobody out here with a Tacoma technical

Shitpost? This is just unadulterated truth

Forget not working. It's not even that I want to not work. I just want to not struggle to survive. I don't want to have to work a gruelling 40 hours every goddamn week. I want to have the time to pursue other means of work, to contribute to society as a whole, not just to one, single company! Yeah, being able to have more time off would be great, but I don't want to not work, I want to be able to contribute in my own ways too. And I can't do that when I'm working 40 hours and still living fucking paycheck to paycheck.

More people need to read Marx. I recommend reading Wage Labor and Capital and following it up with Value, Price and Profit if you have a couple hours to spare.

Nobody seems to have mentioned the very oddly placed highlight

I don't mind working when it's either something I enjoy doing and would do without it being a job, or if I can see it tangibly improving something or someone by providing something other people (or myself) need.

If all I see is the boss getting richer while I am doing something I literally would only do because I am being paid to do it,, fuck that job.

Employers steal the entire fruits of your labor as well. The fruits of workers' labor consist of the liabilities for the used-up inputs combined with the property rights to the produced output. Both of these are entirely held by the employer. This assignment violates the ethical principle that legal and de facto responsibility should match. You and your fellow workers are jointly de facto responsible for producing the product, but the employer has sole legal responsibility for it
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Is there any reason why they should keep more money than they ever can spend?

And at what cost to the climate/resources did they get this rich? Compare that to what they have done for the climate/resource.

Now we know the real reason why you can't buy a hilux in america.

We have reached the point where this is shitposting. I feel that we have failed as a species.

/s

I am just against what they are allowed to do with this money. How many airplanes full with fules can they blow up just for fun? Want to find fastest way to blow it up. Is it fair that they can ignore the climate impact completely? Just do what ever bad stuff they want to.

If it makes you feel better...

No they aren't. The number that's increasing is a price tag, not cash. That's why no one's wallet or bank account gets bigger when that same number goes down.

You see how that would be bad for the economy, right? Good for individual workers, but bad for consumers since there's no longer a person doing some service, like I don't know, medical care. I fell off the bike in Canada and spent 7 hours covered in blood before a nurse saw me and bandaged me up.

As an American I also had to pay $1000 USD for this (insurance will eventually refund this to me, hopefully)

Money is not finite. Quit acting like it is gold bullion. It's not. Whatever amount someone aquires has zero effect on your pile. This argument reeks of grade 2 math.