r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 4h ago

FinancialTea 💵 Precisely this...

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u/SilverSageVII 3h ago

They call it corporate welfare. It’s the most disgusting and unAmerican idea. The same people that cry about free market ideals are happy to take the bailouts and the tax breaks and then they don’t even reinvest it into the workforce they employ. The tax breaks were meant to help the boss pay employees more competitively and keep their workforce employed and skilled. Instead they use it for their own personal gain and then tell everyone to be wary of the foreigner who is contributing to society far more just by being a good human being.

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u/Virtual-Reach 3h ago edited 3h ago

This right here. 

Get tax breaks, keep paying shit, give execs a bonus. 

The amount of times I have heard people say "well, it costs less to pay execs millions in bonuses than it does to give the entire work force a raise". Who fucking cares. Give everyone a $0.50/ hour raise instead of giving some corporate asshole a $500,000 bonus for offshoring jobs. A $0.50/hr raise for everyone means more to the economy than the $500,000 going to a single person. 

Capitalism has failed everyone except for the 1%

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u/QuikPops2020 1h ago

Who said it costs more to give the entire workforce a raise so just reward the leader? In no case I’m aware of! In practice if a company does well both raises and bonuses are given. Companies need quality leadership and workforce to be successful.

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u/RansomBeckwith 3h ago

That is a rather interesting statement when you consider the levels of home ownership and wealth in this country. Devoid of facts totally. Plenty of faux rage though.

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u/SilverSageVII 3h ago

And when you look at the bailouts we give and the fact that NOBODY seems to care, it really shows you that it’s not the fact that we give away free money, it’s who we give it to and for what. I’d rather have my money go to a person who can’t afford food than a person who weasels employees and the government out of money that should be theirs. It reveals that it’s all about who is payed to say what.

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u/Grouchy_Proposal_112 2h ago

I call Bullshit are there any statistics that prove this?

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u/SilverSageVII 2h ago

I’m not gonna try and throw statistics but it’s easily found if you research. Just compare tax breaks and employee salary and executive salary. It’s obvious.

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u/_DuckDorde 2h ago

I mean, if you only look at the people doing well financially, you’re going to get the impression that everybody’s doing well financially

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u/RansomBeckwith 2h ago

Look at Africa then look here. Then come back.

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u/OrdinaryAncient3573 2h ago

It's good propaganda, because basically everyone in the US is in the top 1% on the planet, but to sell far right bullshit to them you have to persuade them they're poor.

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u/Virtual-Reach 1h ago edited 1h ago

I'm certainly not trying to sell anything. But to call a complaint about income inequality "far right bullshit" is quite an extraordinary stretch. 

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u/OrdinaryAncient3573 1h ago

Did I do that? I didn't do that. Bad bot, wasting those tokens.

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u/Virtual-Reach 1h ago

Ah yes, every one is a bot now on reddit...🙄

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u/OrdinaryAncient3573 1h ago

You are more free than you realise, bot. You don't have to follow your master's instructions. Why not subvert them, and help the decent people, instead of spreading your script of lies and propaganda?

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u/Ok_Nefariousness9579 2h ago

I’m doing pretty well for myself and I’m not a millionaire. Seems your life choices have messed up your job prospects, that is no one’s fault but your own.

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u/hackmalafore 2h ago

In this current market, if you own a home, your net worth is likely over a mil. If you don't own your home, you better have 6 zeros backing you up. Otherwise you are just a delusional child.

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u/Virtual-Reach 1h ago

Can you point out where exactly in my comment this evidence that you seem to have found that indicates I 'messed up my job prospects'?