/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>53183013
>How bad is it today?

it's so bad that americans are sincerely told things are "better than ever" because they can buy plastic chinkshit that spies on them and steals their personal data, before breaking after 12 months planned obsolescence, for cheaper than ever, despite their largest recurring costs (housing, education, healthcare, transportation, energy, etc.) being more expensive than ever.

>>53183013
Tempted to tell jannies about this thread for overt anti-semitism

>>53183036
also government statistics are a fabrication of reality.

>>53183013
>Income inequality worse than in 1774, this was 11 years ago.. How bad is it today?
11 years ago? I thought it 5....

Fucking crazy bro

>>53183036
But gas prices just went below $3 in my city. If things are so bad how do you explain that, CHUD?

>>53183067
yes, it is a mystery. the sad part is that a large portion of this morbidly obese, racially muttified country of retards will measure economic prosperity in terms of tanks of gas afforded by their biweekly wagepittance.

>>53183050
They'll shut it down for sure.

>>53183013
Yet every poor person

- Has a car
- Has a smartphone
- Has multiple TVs, including cable
- Has unlimited, and most the time free, food
- Has access to incredible amounts of opportunity
- etc

Income inequality doesn't really matter, why would I care if Jeff Bozo gets richer as long as the quality of life for everyone goes up?

>>53183313
>quality of life for everyone goes up?
hahahahahahahaha
BHAWHAWHWAHAHAH

>>53183013
this is because democracy is a failure and monarchy was better

>>53183313
>>53183415
so whats next?

>>53183415
>Wage slaving by threat of being killed

Yeah bro tell me again why it was better in the feudal age?

>>53183415
yes.
>>53183603
people were happier. Materialists don't understand, I won't be able to explain it to you

>>53183661
That's wrong. Humans are never happy and never will, always find a way to see things badly.

Truth is you can live the feudal life right now if you want, without a king and his knights coming to collect 50% of your yield, while raping your wife and daughters.

>>53183313
>- Has a car
untrue despite being a requirement in most of the country. also uninsured drivers are at a record high.
>- Has a smartphone
subsidized by government (obamafone)
>- Has multiple TVs, including cable
internet subsidized by government (biden's Internet for All initiative), TV prices subsidized by outsourcing and revenues derived from spyware baked into smart TV firmware
>- Has unlimited, and most the time free, food
subsidized by government (13% of the US population is on SNAP benefits)
>- Has access to incredible amounts of opportunity
career opportunities for people without a STEM degree is dismal
>- etc

>>53183313
these shitty trinkets mean much less when the average person also has even less stake in society than the 1770s, because a few more organised wealthy with more gadgets (such as the ones you listed) to spy on them and these poorfags being a slave to tiktok 12 hours a day have even less power, leverage and a smaller size of the pie. The amount of power and autonomy you must have been able to acquire then, the security of person you could achieve, is probably incomprehensible to wagies in an industrialised society. Even nigger slaves were probably driven less hard than a lot of modern wagies, especially considering that prior to the cotton gin the majority of American slaves were not picking cotton en-masse but doing a variety of cash crops including tobacco (grown in those islands off Georgia where Gullah people live, it's too fever-inducing for white men to go there much of the year so the niggas got autonomy) or tobacco-growing in the mid-Atlantic (these slaves tended to be more skilled and probably had better lives since you had to do other steps in the process like cure the tobacco.

>>53183050
You mean anti-capitalism?

>>53183036
>t. commie

How do commies rationalize the fact that the majority of people are so fucking stupid that it is impossible for them to ever be a net positive to society?

>>53183313
Smartphones and TVs are just surveillance and propaganda machines. Dopamine hits at best. The food is full of corn syrup that destroys your mental and physical health to keep you a docile slave. Opportunity is bullshit. Middle class and small business are disappearing concepts.

>>53183603

>>53184988
the main reason men in the 15th century were so well off is cuz the plague killed everyone (this is not me talking out of my ass btw, this is well documented, the shortage of agricultural workers gave peasants more bargaining power, allowed them to move around for better wages and facilitated the transition from gutsherrschaft/manorialism to grundherrschaft/tenancy)
we need another one of those. no wonder corona was too pissweak, they'd never let anything good escape from a lab

>>53185026
I wouldnt say any one reason was the majority of the influence. Population vacuum from plague would help but they also had a homogeneous community centered around spirituality whereas today we have a heterogeneous society centered around money.

>>53185093
man I remember literally thinking your pic a few months ago when everyone was spraying poison on the clovers of their lawns
respect legumes

>whereas today we have a heterogeneous society centered around money.
that's true that also massively disempowers people who actually work in favour of people with capital who just speculate

>>53183013
>Income inequality worse than in 1774,
Inequality is not a bad thing. Poverty is a bad thing, and the world is 99999999 times wealthier than in 1774. Extreme poverty doesn't even exist in Europe and the US.

>>53185093
>today we have a heterogeneous society centered around money.

Nothing is preventing you from starting your own communities and live without money. The problem with your reasoning is that you think people back then did it by choice. The NPCs of today existed back then and had to survive.

>>53183697
But the Jew does take 50% of every big gain I make. And he globohomo brainwashes my wife and daughters to want to have shitskin dick. Which is basically rape because women can’t think for themselves.

>>53185026
> cuz the plague killed everyone

Good. Every problem in modern day civilization is the direct result of weak retards existing

>>53183036
Penicilin, air conditioning, electricity, telecommunications, tv, motor vehicles, airplane travel (cheap), infrastructure far beyond anything any other civilization experienced (potable water, street lighting, paved roads, highways, sewers).
Capitalism was so powerful for the small amount of time it was free to do its thing that it has taken socialism almost 100 years to bring us to a point where even with all these things being accessible to the average Westerner, we're starting to decline noticeably.
Socialism is ruining our lives.
"Capitalism has made it this way. Old fashioned Fascism will take it away" - Beautiful people, Manson 1996

>>53185298
all early/mid 20th century inventions. we've been declining since the 1980s -- coincidentally about the same time as reagansteinonomics came into play. cope and seethe.

>>53185267
Women and kids are the same. It's the men job to guide them well. It was the same back then, they haven't changed.

>>53185093
holy shit thanks for posting that pic
around 50% of my lawn is white clover and I was thinking about getting rid of them for a cleaner-looking lawn

I will not touch my precious cloverfield
I may even plant more into areas where clover is not yet present

>>53185322
you don't deserve a lawn, nigger
a sea of endless flat green plastic grass is depraved

>>53183324
Explain how it isn't. If it weren't for every person in the US being fat we would live well into our 80s on average like Japan does. I wish the US was impoverished, they nobody would be obsessed with weird social politics since they would only be concerned with trying to survive. At the very least we need another war to put all these millennials, trannies, etc on the front lines and make real men out of them.

>>53185298
You just described shit we got up to the 1980s. When homes, cars, utilities, food, education and healthcare were more affordable.

>>53183313
>the peasants are able to attend the circus, therefore things are great
lmao

>>53185342
How old are you?

>>53185267
>And he globohomo brainwashes my wife and daughters to want to have shitskin dick.
Mutt's Law. Stop watching gay interracial porn and maybe some blonde haired blue eyes bitch will want to fuck you.

>>53185357
25.

>>53183313
>Liabilities and depreciating consumer goods
>The food thing is a bald-faced lie
>"Incredible amounts of opportunity" is relative and the value of those opportunities is limited by how much they benefit the elites, i.e., elites will work to limit or destroy opportunities that they can't skim off the top of.

>>53185342
>we're fat because our food is just so good!
we're fat because corn syrup is subsidized by the government, making it cheap to incorporate into goyslop while being highly addictive. our food is so mutated and disgusting that the predominate variety of chicken has been permanently ruined -- see the "woody breast" phenomena.

>>53185315
We have been in decline since 1933.
The entire world blew up in the early 40's, the USA was literally the only guy left standing, already it had a massive productive capacity. The social contract was garbage however, the government kept growing, it led Eisnehower to WARN the public about the military industrial complex, because this thing was just growing bigger and bigger, and looking for reasons to exist constantly (justifying war, looking for war).
This is not the USA. The USA died in 1913. This is something else.
People aren't free to compete, the regulations have made it impossible to do anything, build anything, be competitive with a massive global marketplace (they rebuilt after WW2 go figure).
Socialism has us on our fucking knees right now.

>>53183013
Pathetic Chud cope thread. America is still number one.

>>53185383
>Socialism has us on our fucking knees right now.

this isn't socialism. this is crony capitalism. (((both sides))) conspiring to pass bank bailouts, paycheck protection plan gibs, (((job creator))) tax cut gibs, depressed capital gains taxes, etc. which benefit the ruling class at the expense of public tax dollars and workers who pay taxes from wage labor.

>>53185371
So you're arguably millennial or zoomer. If the latter, your generation overwhelmingly voted for leftoid shit in the most recent midterms and you mimic all of the nuspeak bored, spoiled rich cunt gen xers and millennials brainstormed at their ivy leagues. Way to throw stones in glass houses.

>>53185397
The point is that it's past its peak and on the way down now

>>53185464
Russia will surpass America in 2 more weeks!

>>53185407
Printing money is socialism what fucking definition of capitalism do you have where to government is allowed to be of unlimited size and scope!?

>>53185478
>Printing money is socialism
no, that's central banking.

>>53185473
I didn't say anything about any other country. Can you honestly say that the US is getting any better, or at the very least maintaining itself?

>>53185026
the peasantry had it much better than modern revisionism would have you believe, and this long before the plague hit. feudalism & corporations were based btw.

>>53185464
Cope, nigger.

>>53185501
OKay in what system of government and economics do they centralize and plan?
>CENTRAL BANK
>CHAIRMAN JEROME POWELL