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[OGLemon]

[Molzie]

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[Shum]

^ yeah what he said lol. bit like a youtube celebrity I guess? she streams herself eating stuff (먹방 - meokbang) and doing awful kpop covers on korean ustream.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

weeey

[Phigure]

nz gang really loves asians huh

[Sexual_Chocolate]

not gon lie.

but

yes. we do.

[sigbowls]

and the pnw gang. fractal and me

maybe sonika

[nowaysj]

imo if u have a standard minimum wage, it has to be applied across the board so i don't think workers would be laid off as much as many people speculate. they still need the workers to produce the goods. some workers would be replaced by automation/machines but not as many as if they only increased the minimum wage for some types of businesses and not others.

instead the capitalists would try to pass the increase off onto the consumer. i say let them. i'm not an expert but i've heard experts say that studies show that the increase in prices is pretty minimal, we're talking about pennies (well, that was for a $10.10 minimum wage, not a living wage, but...).

i'd rather pay a bit more in prices and be able to use that extra consumer power to reward good companies with low prices than just pay more in taxes in order to subsidize all of those ppl who need welfare because they weren't paid a living wage. there would be more competition among capitalists to keep prices low, which is a good thing.

the bottom line is that we are paying for these people to live one way or another. bill maher said "if walmart won't pay their workers a living wage, then uncle sam has to." we can't just let ppl who actually work for a living and hold up their end of the social contract starve and be homeless. i'd rather it came from their paychecks than from our taxes.

not to mention, for all those concerned about the debt, increasing the minimum wage will lower the deficit because there will be less welfare. that's probably a good thing.

I didn't know you had it in you.

Wouldn't it be a dream if we had actual economic data from THIS economy generated by several studies from unbiased sources?

Yes, just a dream.

How, in this day and age do we not have empirical, accurate, nonbiased, nonpolitically motived data on this. We're still conjecting?

[sigbowls]

dam i have to move back to my parents where theres not many asians and its mostly old people

[Phigure]

How, in this day and age do we not have empirical, accurate, nonbiased, nonpolitically motived data on this. We're still conjecting?

because unfortunately it's practically impossible and the reason why economics is a "soft" science, rather than a "hard" one (ie physics, chemistry, etc)

there's no "test" economy where we can have an isolated, controlled economic experiment. there's just too many variables in a real global economy to draw any empirical conclusions from the data

[DiegoSapiens]

i have found a lot of cheap tapes of very good old school spanish rap in the internet, so i thought that buying some tapes could be the solution for my problem of no music in the living room, as i have an old casete radio player with a decent sound that i never use (also i could buy filter dread and magic+dreams stuff ).
Do you guys know any page where i can buy good old grime tapes?

[ultraspatial]

How, in this day and age do we not have empirical, accurate, nonbiased, nonpolitically motived data on this. We're still conjecting?

because unfortunately it's practically impossible and the reason why economics is a "soft" science, rather than a "hard" one (ie physics, chemistry, etc)

there's no "test" economy where we can have an isolated, controlled economic experiment. there's just too many variables in a real global economy to draw any empirical conclusions from the data

well you could experiment, but it would be viewed as highly unethical. so all you're left with is observing how different countries adapt certain models to their economies and cultures and/or comparing data you do have to existing models

[nousd]

I propose that, when a post contains quotes,
any bigups should be fractionally allocated equally amongst all contributors
ie a post containing one quote has one half a bagpipe given to poster quoting (pq) and the other half to the quoted poster (qp)
and a post containing two quotes would have a third of a bigup each to pq, qp1 and qp2 and so on.

(currently on a stakeout without much to do)

[nowaysj]

What are you flappin your gums about?

[dickman69]

what

about

now

?

[nousd]

I ain't frapping no guns
just trying to bring due recognition for qps

just gave rayban 4 quarters of a bigup

[OGLemon]

what

about

now

?

[nousd]

and Oglesmen just got two fifths
altho I think rayban made up that quote
so that means Oglesmen just gets one fifth
or is it one quarter?
no wait I miscounted
make that two sixths and one fifth respectively

shit, she's leaving the house, gotta go

no, it was her lover...

just thinking: maybe biguppers (bu) should get their share too
in which case I get one seventh of oglesmen's post

no, wait a sec, Oglesmen made 4 of those 5 quotes
but then how many did Rayban make up?
hmmm
this is getting kinda complicated

ah no!
it was Oglemen making up fake quotes from himself
so that means he gets four sevenths of a bagpipe
and Rayban gets...ah...
but then you've gotta acredit the bigupper with his due
which means I get um...is it one seventh?

[m8son666]

have you an abacus to archive big ups?

[nousd]

archive big ups?
do I have to do that too?
fuck
man, I'm gunna have to rent another shed