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Feb 7, 2017 2:55 PM
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seemetrollinh8in
Race to the bottom
MostlyToasty24
liberal class warfare propaganda
hoboranger
@Op then go already we don't need you
paradoxagon
justicedemocrats.com
Armchairsocialist
Signed in just to upvote
RRRIV
You can try, but nothing you can do will garentee this won't happen.
HighSlayerRalton
A new society won't be enough. IF you're moving to Pluto, start a new species.
sircountvertigo4
Just when I was getting over Pluto! God Damn OP!
BronzeLeaguePro
But the other end of the isle says shit like "we can't make jobs because it would disrupt the environment, enjoy your min. wage".
geonic994
gotta love #auspol comics
cronkey
I don't like that they switch up the order in the last one...
Jayyce
@MobaNR
digitalutopia
Well, you *can* move to pluto - I suppose. But you'd be long dead by the time you got there.
motherofboys
You'd better take a jumper. I hear it's pretty cold.
MKaiser
such is the sad reality of the times
Bystandr
Its funny how their income are based on making money off existing prosperity, yet they keep doing things that destroy that prosperity.
VenerateThisGuy
I wanna move to Pluto as well! Let's go!
Doomintroll
I feel that. Studied Environmental Technology. No work. Couldn't get anykind of practice. To Civil Engineering. Atleast there's jobs...
DefinitelyNotASithLord
Op:
Eabus
Are you sure about that? http://imgur.com/SyFdh00
mikeolinzock
...with gambling and hookers
METAAAAAAAAAL
r/im14andthisisdeep #3edgy5u #3deep5u
unfunnyfuck
Or, wait till you're old enough to vote. Then vote.
LutraLazuli
would never happen if hillary became president and/or every one of us became a global citizen
CynicalClinicalWalrus
I had to work at a mine for a bit in AZ. The guys that went underground made $100k+
Bystandr
They get paid pretty damn well to put in risk to self and health, otherwise no one would do it today as slavery is frowned on in most places
genericaccount10101
I think that particular comment in the comic is more referring to the past. Desperate miners in the industrial revolution didn't make shit.
GrandmaSlappy
Miners still exist and it's still a bad situation
tinksparky
In Australia mines are incredibly remote. Workers are away from families for weeks at a time. Pay is good; family life suffers.
INeverThoughtIdMakeThisAccount
Yeah, but you can't use the money if you're dead.
thecolonels
Its because they arent desperate, so they have the ability to be compensated for the hazardous conditions.
PandraPierva
Yea its rough work but they get paid pretty damn well.
Bystandr
They get paid pretty damn well to put in risk to self and health, otherwise no one would do it.
PangolinBan
Rough and unhealthy. Rough I don't have a problem with, but a job that statistically reduces your life expectancy by several years is 1/2
PangolinBan
2/2 not for me. Living near coal mines does the same to your family as well.
PandraPierva
Oh yea that it can, often times they breaking a lot of safety rules as well. Which doesn't help...Source: Father did stuff for MSHA
GrandmaSlappy
Not bad for black lungs
TheMightyMoto
This reminds me of someone recently telling me, why should my taxes go to schools, I have no children.
Nicknack123
Was it Betsy DeVos?
Juantapman
because you don't want to live in a society of dumb people
hearthstoneaccount3
and more people going to school will mean more innovators meaning more inventions benefiting you directly. Without better schools no matrix
CanOpenersOnTheirFaces
As a fellow non-parent, I'm okay with investing in a quality education for our future [leaders].
Lenthas
And thats a problem with education, either lack of it or lack of quality of it, teaching WHY we live in a society AND how it works...
TheMightyMoto
don't forget a lack of care for it.
SlothMasterJ
No kids for me and i want taxes to go to schools because they will be the future leaders and I don't want them to be stupid. It affects u 2.
Sprixxen
That's your informed choice. And I think it's the right one. However, the debate is whether to force people to give their money away.
SlothMasterJ
There are days I contemplate choosing where our tax $ go but that's a very slippery slope. Funds are disproportionate not they'd be more so
SlothMasterJ
Funds are disproportionate now and would be more so**
5po0ky
An uneducated populace leads to Donald Trump becoming president
TheMightyMoto
It's more than just uneducated, it's a willingness to stay ignorant.
Kaesh
It's far more than that. 1/2
Kaesh
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMPS_AMERICA_TRUMP_COUNTRY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-02-07-10-18-34
5po0ky
$15/hr min wage would really help these people out. Instead they vote for the party wanting to abolish the concept of min wage. Good stuff
bart2pl
the short and robust explanation is, you live in democratic society, it is in your best intrest to want your neighbours to be as
JosAngelGONZO
But it's not a democracy. It's a democratic republic. Vastly different. In a democracy, that's what it should be, but this isn't it.
bart2pl
wealthy,healthy and intelligent as possible
Sprixxen
Sure, but isn't it still the person's choice to help or not? From a moral viewpoint. Since we also live in a liberal society.
SeverusSnapple
I mean if you want to hamstring yourself, then by all means, be my guest, don't do the thing in your best interest.
Sprixxen
That's the point though. You are compelled by force to pay. If it were a choice it'd be called charity.
bart2pl
absolute liberty is anarchy, the point of a goverment is to strike balance between forcing people to do the right thing in some cases,
bart2pl
and letting them decide in others, for example you are forced by the goverment to fund roads/police/fire department/millitary
bart2pl
btw. i went off topic, in my opinion the moral viewpoint of that depends on your personal moral viewpoint, some consider
Sprixxen
I don't agree. We force people to do the neutral thing. Forced charity wrong. The government is there to protect not perfect.
iggyface
Im flabbergasted that there are now human beings who think this way.
TheMightyMoto
There been people who think that way for a while.
Nicknack123
Was it Betsy DeVos?;55
losh61
At no point do these pretty pictures make anything resembling a rational point. How about we all just be accountable for ourselves...?
Caramirdan
It's feels. not reals. So many children masquerading as adults.
Voidhawk42
Have you ever shared a house with lazy flatmates? If you try "everyone is responsible for their own cleaning", you just get a dirty house.
losh61
Okay... so you need to be accountable for having a filthy house or dealing with your nasty flatmates. How is this an argument?
Voidhawk42
Some things are too important to everyone, to be left to each person alone. If your housemate can't afford to do laundry, your house stinks.
Voidhawk42
The enviroment, education, safe working practices, wages. These things can't be left to the few powerful to control. Because they don't care
losh61
I agree. It should be left up to the people that care the most, the free market. A bunch of independent actors creating great solutions.
Voidhawk42
That is the exact opposite of my point. The free market is a race to the bottom, where the most sociopathic company, wins.
CynicalClinicalWalrus
40 job apps a month? Hah, amateur.
monkeymuffins
It's referencing Newstart (on the left), which is welfare for Australian jobseekers. You're required to apply to 40 jobs a month to get it.
Cheomesh
Shit, I thought it was something here in the US to do two per week.
InRetrospectIShouldveLearnedToSwimBeforeBecomingaSailor
Doesn't that insinuate people only apply for the jobs for the money though...
Sprixxen
Well if you're using taxpayer money as aid then you should be trying to work any place you can, right?
InRetrospectIShouldveLearnedToSwimBeforeBecomingaSailor
Definitely, but 40 seems really low when you you should be applying everywhere. The infographic makes out to be 40 dissertations.
Sprixxen
True. Although 40 + personalized cover letters may be very difficult to those that have poor writing ability or bad typing skills. Still...
Cheomesh
Shit, I thought it was something here in the US to do two per week.
ProbablyDrunkAgain
Something like that, and you just keep a record of where you applied in case you get audited.
Sprixxen
It depends if you're writing custom cover letters as well and how much info it requires to put in. 40 a month could be very high or low.
ubermierski
I like how they have nuclear power plant cooling towers emitting smoke when in real life it is just harmless steam
SpeciousDennis
Dude I saw that and it bugged the shit out of me.
WimpLosMilkduds
It's Australia, so its likely the artists impression of coal power plants, as we have no nuclear power stations here.
InADayOrSo
Don't you guys supply a huge portion of the world's Uranium?
WimpLosMilkduds
Yes, second largest in the world, however all past government have been more interest in taxing carbon dioxide emissions for all dat $$$$
rgzdev
Steam from a nuclear plant still contains about a thousand times more fear than fossil fuel smoke.
Corsair212
To be fair, if there's smoke coming from the plant it's probably a lot more deadly too, since it should be steam not smoke... ;)
rgzdev
Except smoke from a modern Nuclear Plant is more likely to come from a car crash in the parking lot.
5tRaNgEdAy5
And if we look to the comment section we can see groupthink in action.
thisplaceisnotforyou
So instead what is your proposal? Should we all just disagree with facts? No wait, that's groupthink also? Basically you're a fucking idiot.
5tRaNgEdAy5
What "facts"....all I saw was a crudely drawn cartoon and people mindlessly agreeing, respectfully.
thisplaceisnotforyou
A cartoon that doesn't appeal to your aesthetic in no way diminishes the point. You will only see what your overlords allow you to see. tool
5tRaNgEdAy5
Also, how does it feel to want things?
5tRaNgEdAy5
Bitch I am your overlord
thisplaceisnotforyou
oooh creative. I'm practically moist.
Stumpyz
And if we look to this comment, we can see the person unaffected by any of this who thinks he knows what he's talking about.
5tRaNgEdAy5
I assure you I do.
Stumpyz
That makes your comment worse, then. If you know the struggles the rest of us go through, yet you think legitimate woes of our current (1/?)
Stumpyz
(cont) situation are "groupthink in action", your perspective on life is EXTREMELY skewed.
5tRaNgEdAy5
My reddit account is Sleipnir88 if you want to PM me , Id be more than willing to have a civil conversation:)
5tRaNgEdAy5
Im just a norma guy, I just think about things differently. Id be happy to explain myself in a forum that doesn't max out at 140 characters