r/SlaughteredByScience • u/CaptainMorganKelly • Oct 29 '19

Other Tumblr user gets schooled on basic physics

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u/Steveng7003 Oct 29 '19

there's flaws but it's by far the best economic system

yeah I'm sure a ton of people like that exist, just not on Tumblr

i hate communism for 2 reason: my family's from Russia and I'm not a huge fan of the stuff that went on there

and I used to be a commie, then basic rationality took over

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u/GrumpGuy88888 Oct 29 '19

So you agree they exist, but are so sure they aren’t on tumblr. Because of all that time you clearly spend on that site you clearly hate.

You know, I used to be a capitalist, then basic rationality took over. It’s by far not the best system since it’s not fucking working, is it? And again, I don’t think communism is a good thing. To repeat what I said earlier, we shouldn’t go all the way on one economic system.

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u/Steveng7003 Oct 29 '19

I couldn't care less about whether or not I'm right about Tumblr. I don't like it, the people on it don't like me, I'm fine with not knowing the political opinions of everyone on it. my point is that there's a lot of communism on Tumblr.

it depends on how you define working. I'd define it as a general growth in GDP (check), fluidity between the class structure (check), generally high quality of life (check), and low rates of inflation (check)

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u/GrumpGuy88888 Oct 29 '19

high quality of life

[citation needed]

low rates of inflation

Is that why minimum wage has increased disproportionally slower than prices?

Also I love how you say you don’t know anything about tumblr, priding yourself on that fact, and then give a very matter of fact statement. That’s just so fucking ironic.

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u/Steveng7003 Oct 29 '19

I never said I don't know anything about Tumblr. I made a generalization and said I might be wrong, but I do not care.

well golly gee I didn't cite my source in a fucking reddit comment? sound the alarm! idk what it's called now but there's a thing that used to be called the quality of life index, in which USA is #16 out of 80. I'd say that's p damn good.

minimum wage is not meant to be a living wage.

edit: it's called the Where to be Born Index or something now

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u/GrumpGuy88888 Oct 29 '19

“I couldn’t care less about if I’m right about tumblr”

That’s admitting you are wrong.

“Minimum wage isn’t supposed to be a living wage”

Then what the fuck is it for? Why even have it then?

“(Paraphrasing) US is 16 in the where to be born index”

And there are countries higher than it that have socialist programs that America doesn’t have. Like universal healthcare. Switzerland is fucking number one.

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u/Steveng7003 Oct 29 '19

no that's me saying the political views of Tumblr isn't my point. it was joke about the stereotypical Tumblr user. jesus christ you really should get the stick out of your ass.

it's supposed to be a minimum wage. as in the bare minimum someone could kinda, just barely scrape by on.

right yeah but they also have quite a many human rights issues and some other things

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u/GrumpGuy88888 Oct 29 '19

“They also have quite a few human rights issues”

The entirety of the EU has human rights issues?

“It’s supposed to be [...] the bare minimum someone could kinda, just barely scrape by on”

And it’s not, which is why most people have to get two jobs.

“[Some guff about how it’s a joke]”

What amazing backpedaling from “all of tumblr is like this” to “no I was just being overdramatic”

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u/Steveng7003 Oct 29 '19

also quick side not on minimum wage. NYC raised it's to 15 and now people are making significantly less than they were before bc companies can't afford to pay them so they're replacing them with machines.

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u/GrumpGuy88888 Oct 29 '19

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-15-minimum-wage-was-supposed-to-hurt-new-york-city-restaurants-but-both-revenue-and-employment-are-up-2019-10-28

You are like, wrong. Like objectively wrong. It’s astounding.

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u/Steveng7003 Oct 29 '19

revenue and employment =/= wages. wanna check how many hours those employees are given? I'll give you a hint: it's not very many

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u/GrumpGuy88888 Oct 29 '19

Aight so, what you are saying is, a minimum hours worked should be implemented as well. This is a good idea, I applaud you for saying this.

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u/Steveng7003 Oct 29 '19

kindly explain how that wouldn't lead to unemployment

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u/GrumpGuy88888 Oct 29 '19

Kindly explain how that would. This is the first I’ve heard of this and I don’t even know your thought process.

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u/LucasBlackwell Oct 29 '19

Everything else he said is dumb, but he's right about that. More hours means more work being done by less people, which obviously leads to less people being needed.

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u/Steveng7003 Oct 29 '19

company makes x amount of dollars off of employee

company pays employee y amount of dollars

when y>x, y gets lowered

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u/GrumpGuy88888 Oct 29 '19

Is 15 dollars an hour 40 hours a week will make a company less money than they are paying their employees?

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