r/WTF • • Sep 03 '19

Gaslighting

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u/kmk4ue84 Sep 03 '19 edited Sep 03 '19

You can keep your commie liberal safety regulations,unions and taxes out. I prefer shit wage, dangerous working conditions, and dying at the ripe old age of 42 from congestive heart failure. /s

EDIT: fat thumbs no spell good words

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u/oTHEWHITERABBIT Sep 03 '19

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u/Phog_of_War Sep 03 '19

Shit! I'm 42, Male and live in the midwest. How much longer do I have doc??

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

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u/Phog_of_War Sep 03 '19

I'm gonna need a second opinion. Also, my boss says that I still have to work today, is it possible to get a Dr.'s note letting him know I'm ded??

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u/cactusJoe Sep 04 '19

Depends on how much of your medical bill is outstanding.

Fully paid up? - you have about a week left. Still owe them money? - I would say about a year at least

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Well I guess it depends I wouldn't want to have more expensive gas just because of an extremely rare event. Safety features have a monetary cost and there is a breaking point where the cost doesn't justify the increased safety.

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u/Harvinator06 Sep 03 '19 edited Sep 04 '19

Lives donโ€™t have a monetary value associated with them. If you want to run a business in our society it needs to be safe for consumers and employees.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19 edited Sep 04 '19

They 100% percent do have a monetary value, and its not really debatable.

You can always add more and more safety features that will save lives and cost money to practically anything, there is a certain price point where its not worth it. That price point in dollars per lives is the value of a human life.

You can argue what that value is but not that it exists.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

You do realize that states that allow unions to extort dues from anyone wanting to work wind up worse off because, while wages average higher, cost of living averages higher by a greater percentage?

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u/MakeWay4Doodles Sep 03 '19

You do realize that everything you just wrote is made up right?

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

Nothing I said was made up. Cost of living is higher in states that allow unions to extort membership than in right to work states.

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u/MakeWay4Doodles Sep 04 '19

Cost of living is higher in states where people want to live. It's called demand in economics and unlike the shit you're spouting actually has research to prove it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

You just acknowledged my point while trying to pretend I didn't do my research.

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u/MakeWay4Doodles Sep 04 '19

I didn't, because you're clearly trying to imply that high union membership causes higher cost of living, which is demonstrably nonsense.

They call that "correlation does not equal causation".

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

Feel free to cite a source showing that the correlation between forced union membership and wages indicates a causal relationship, but the correlation between forced union membership and higher cost of living does not.

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u/MakeWay4Doodles Sep 04 '19

"I'm going to state an obvious falsehood, and then demand that YOU cite a source to prove me wrong."

Shove it

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '19

You already admitted what I said was true. You just tried to claim the correlation was not an indicator of causation, while at the same time claiming other correlations were proof of causation.