In the short term, yes. The money you’ve saved is now considered “disposable income” and will be absorbed by the next person in line.

If a paycheck could make you wealthy, no one would give you a paycheck. A retirement account CAN make you wealthy but only after the machine has squeezed 40+ years out of you. But one way or another that money is leaving your hands and flowing back into the system.

Ok, sure. There are theoretical and convoluted ways to disconnect from the electric grid. You’re still buying solar panels. Your out of pocket costs don’t change. The river of money still flows into and out of your life. It’s called currency for a reason. The whole system is designed to stop you from keeping your money.

The dark secret about money is that it only works when there’s isn’t enough for everyone. Despite what politicians want you to believe, you are SUPPOSED to live paycheck to paycheck- at least under a western capitalist economy. This is why poor people are both the most valuable citizens, and easiest to control. It’s slavery with more steps.

It never was

No they wouldn’t. Final consumer cost is based on what people WILL pay not what they WANT to pay. At the end of the day the overarching goal of capitalism is for 99% of the population to spend 100% of their earnings. You can’t funnel all wealth to the 1% if the 99% are holding on to it.

I hear you. I worry how deep this rabbit hole goes. Is the balkinzation of the United States possible? It terrifies me when I hear people casually talk about civil war.

I’m surprisingly ok with the US reducing our international influence but I just can’t wrap my head around the concept that some people think we should polarize ourselves to the point of redrawing maps… Again. I hate that I have contingency plans.

Op: Barron Trump

If we’ve learned anything in the last ten years it’s that everything has been made out of Popsicle sticks and chewing gum the whole time. The boomers created a fiction that no one questioned. Now their dying gasp is to tear it all down and lock the doors behind them.

I love how we’re teaching the rest of the world that the best weapons against the most powerful nation in the history of the human species is propaganda and viruses.

It’s all made out of fucking Popsicle sticks.

So is the message here that the government is investigating Sen Kelly because they disagree with what he said? Soldiers… Should?.. Follow illegal orders? Are we this deep into fascism already?

Lmafo @ smash test dummy

I’m sure when he installs Baron as his successor the numbers will improve.

If it’s got boobs someone will eventually fuck it.

The United States is still an ally to Ukraine. Our mistake of a President is a criminal and an ally to no one but himself. Even that is a stretch.

So are we calling this a prison murder or a state sanctioned assassination?

Why? It’s a goddamn mystery.

It was 100% about EBT for Thanksgiving. The Dems still don’t realize that The political games of the past aren’t working anymore against an opponent who has no agenda beyond punishing his political rivals.

Trump wants to destroy anything that he even thinks is left leaning. He doesn’t give a shit about renewable energy but democrats do therefore wind turbines are his enemy.

College educated people are less likely to vote republican therefore all universities are his enemy.

I’ll bet he doesn’t even understand the concept of fascism or even what a dictator is. All he cares about is hearing “yes”. All he wants is the obsequiousness he sees other leaders get.

Never forget that at his core he is a barely literate diaper wearing spoiled brat with a room temperature IQ. The day he leaves will become a national holiday.

I’ll say the quiet part out loud. Trans people were never an issue before straight guys started thinking they were bangable.