/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3763174
>we always get the oil

With Iraq we didn't. We are enjoying an oil surplus and subsequently low gas prices right now because of our shameless relationship with the criminal regime of Saudi Arabia who are the single most powerful member of OPEC, and an increase in our domestic drilling, clearly neither of which you support.

>tax cuts

Tax cuts are good, Jimmy. "Not taking" something isn't the same as giving it, you dumb dumb. In a completely globalized economy with wildly fluctuating currency exchange rates between countries only a few hundred miles apart, making your country as attractive as possible to the biggest employers is a desirable thing. It's the same reason China has lowered their own tax rates-which were until recently already lower than ours-to compete, and it's why Mexico has been able to not only poach our manufacturing base for decades but why Mexicans can come here and work for "less money" while dogpiling 50 people into a 2 bedroom rental house.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/us/undocumented-immigrants-stash-house-texas-trnd/index.html

Taxes don't go into your pocket, they go to organizations like the FDA so they can help maintain the various monopolies and arbitrary Intellectual Property law enforcement that have led to the healthcare crisis to begin with. They go to federal loan guarantees and grants for students which helped push general college tuition rates thousands of percentage points higher than that of inflation for what are often objectively worthless degrees.

You think that healthcare and tuition rates-which are the most profound problems facing americans today-would all go away if only the government would just give these organizations providing these services even more money vicariously through subsidy, effectively rewarding them for their unethical behavior and ensuring that they will never have to face consequences or change their prices or policies. You're wrong lol

>>3101413
Welcome to currency exchange rates. You will never technically be able to outbid an artist from the Philippines or SA to whom $20 could be the equivalent of $200 or more.

>>3101422
Pretty much this, just price your stuff honestly, it's all you can do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PiqC-vfYLw

>>3064843
>>3064879

Not him but it's a currency thing. $300 REALLY ISN'T a lot of money when you come from the USA but it doesn't mean that person is rich either-not at all.

For example, I spend $300 on food a month for a <2,000 calories a day diet (fatties spend more of course) and $600 to live in an apartment shared between three people; how much do you spend to breathe where you live? I've already spent over double what this guy >>3064879 supposedly makes an entire month and that's just to exist anywhere other than my parent's house, this also doesn't count a single other expense of which there are plenty, even taking away ones that are ostensibly a convenience like a cell phone, internet access or a vehicle.

It has to be said, the job market for artists is already over-saturated, and by helping people with low costs of living owing to geography and other circumstances you really are doing yourself an incredible disservice because they'll be able to work for half as much as you can while maintaining a lifestyle twice as sumptuous as yours.

http://www.mysuncoast.com/news/local/exclusive-former-employees-speak-out-about-disney-s-outsourcing-of/article_d8867148-7d8c-11e5-ae40-fb05081380c1.html

>>2940187
>The ultra-rich of the world are why you work on slave labor, not the immigrants, they get fucked worse then the rest of us.

Yeah, it must be real rough being able to turn $8 an hour into the equivalent of $50 an hour by sending it home to your hot ass mexican wife; but I know that foreign workers being able to work for less pay across the board certainly doesn't have an effect on domestic wages or employment because the young turks said so

>That's combined with the incredibly low to zero amount of tax huge corporations and the ultra-rich pay.

Tax money doesn't do fuck to raise quality of life at the individual level. Unless you're a mentally ill degenerate subhuman retard or pretending to be one to accrue your bare minimum guaranteed income literally everything you have comes from someone above you on the financial totem pole in exchange for your own services rendered and there's nothing wrong with that.

tl;dr get a job college boy, and maybe it's time to reflect on the fact that the same university that filled your head full of this hippy socialist bullshit just happens to be the chief architect of your own poverty.

>>2907812
They're competing for EVERYTHING you stupid idiot retarded fuck, including work as paid artists. I used blue collar jobs as an example; something as simple as working in a small warehouse taping boxes shut was at one time enough for a man to afford a home, a housewife and provide for their 37 children. Nowadays you need to have a doctorate in computer engineering math science and a spouse working full-time as a nuclear brain surgeon to be able to afford a studio apartment and feed your gay ass cat, and this has everything to do with the fact that there's too many extraneous people fighting over the table scraps of those born in generations prior.

>inb4 my hyperbole goes over your dopey autistic head

Easy solution: Move to Mexico

Dirt cheap cost of living
Delicious latinas with roast beef tamale pussies

>>2746495
This to be honest family. Basically pic related on a worldwide scale. Non-western countries where $3 is enough to put you up in a 3 bedroom apartment for six months are getting better at English year after year and we're getting f*cked, nigga.

Trump!

TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!

Just replace Mexicans with Turks and other 'refugees' for Germany. It's the same shit all over the world. Successful nations being sold out by politicians and corporations, bled by third world lampreys and being brought down to their level culturally and financially.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE

>>2500230
Trump is an asshole and he's probably the worst orator I've ever seen, but his views are objectively better than any other candidate on stage right now including Bernie "Bring on mass unemployment and inflation!" Sanders.