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demizerone ,

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

TokenBoomer ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/141a01bd-8b85-4975-9588-2c0f6eca4eef.jpeg

/s

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

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.

John_McMurray ,

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.

Track_Shovel OP ,

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/3b62f1aa-ee9d-4d53-91a4-29426c89ff85.jpeg

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

And people say memeing is not an artform

DaedalousIlios ,
@DaedalousIlios@pawb.social avatar

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.

Mio ,

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.

Mio ,

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.

Sadbutdru ,

Is that a thing? Blowing up fully-fuelled airplanes just for fun?

Mio ,

Almost. Look at spaceX and their Rockets.

I am just saying that they are allowed make very heavy impact to the climate compared a normal person. Just take their jet plan or helicopter wherever they go is allowed.

Harvey656 ,

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

Octopus1348 ,
@Octopus1348@lemy.lol avatar

Who tf pissed on this image?

https://lemy.lol/pictrs/image/b8d5d2b7-242a-4d4b-b59c-dcc92a9234a2.jpeg

iopq ,

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)

Track_Shovel OP ,

I’m Canadian, and I dont mind our healthcare system one bit. You only had to pay because you were American.

It’s far from a perfect system, but at least I’m not riddled in medical debt, or have to financially plan to have my wife deliver a kid.

iopq ,

It’s not about paying, my insurance will get me back. It’s about the wait time in the emergency room. If you’re not dying they never see you until early in the morning

intensely_human ,

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

ToucheGoodSir ,

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

telllos ,

I think they compete in Space cock

damnedfurry ,

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.

stormeuh ,

Who do you think the profit of increasing the price tag goes to? The workers in the factory to help them deal with inflation, or the rich shareholders?

damnedfurry ,

Who do you think the profit of increasing the price tag goes to?

Whoever sells the appreciated asset to someone else, who was willing to buy it at the new, higher price.

And if they don’t sell, there is no profit, it’s still unrealized.

Zink ,

Unrealized on paper, but not in a practical sense when they can borrow against those assets to access their wealth tax-free.

damnedfurry ,

borrow against those assets to access their wealth tax-free.

…until they pay the loan back, you mean.

Hell, loans better be tax free, it’s not income if you have to pay it back.

P.S. Some food for thought: if workers’ labor is being ‘skimmed’ by employers, making workers into a source of profit as a result, then why would a company ever downsize as a measure against financial difficulty? Why would any business ever fire anyone who’s doing their job, if worker = profit for the business?

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

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

Wizard_Pope ,
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

It is so smaller more competitively priced and actually usable trucks stay out of your country

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

That’s too credible for me to believe

John_McMurray ,

Top gear put a Hilux up against a 1984 chevy half 4x4 they found on craigslist. The old chevy won, only vehicle running at the end.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

[citation needed]

John_McMurray ,

gmauthority.com/…/top-gear-usa-crowns-1985-chevy-…

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

That’s Top Gear America, which is very much not Top Gear. Plus they didn’t run the Hilux head-to-head. I bet none of those guys have even driven a Hilux.

John_McMurray ,

Anyways, point has been made, and proven. They did run head to head. Hilux was the runner up, 2nd last to break. Watched the episode years ago. Now I know you’re thinking of what amounted to a hilux ad on the original top gear. It’s not really true to life. No 85 Chev half tons in England either.

John_McMurray ,

You gotta remember hiluxes are just a quarter ton truck. Yeah they’re tough enough, so were old Datsuns. It’s never really mechanics and hard core off roaders that fanboy hiluxes, and those old chevys were fucking tough.

Emerald ,

Nobody seems to have mentioned the very oddly placed highlight

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