u/Legal_Chemistry_310

CEO pay has gone up over 1000% since 1978 and in 2023 CEOs earned about 290 times what an average worker made. In 1965 a CEO would have made 21 times what an average worker made.

With numbers like these, I call that Wage Theft. Not everyone can be the CEO, or President or Founder of an extremely successful company; and the Higher Ups should not be making Millions/Billions when their Average worker is likely barely surviving Week to week.

I remember when I was Younger it was a Big deal for Bill Gates to have a Net worth of around 50B dollars; now you have Billionaires going past 200B and they still want way more; Musk wants $10T, despite claiming "*Money will be worthless in the future anyways*".

Really absurd the level of Greed people have, while some are dying/barely surviving week to week, some have no limit to the Depths of Money they wanna have.

What better way to win future elections than to convince (or stop) people from showing up to Vote for "the other side"?

There is no other reason anybody would say that or actually believe it, and im not even certain the people saying it actually believe it either; but they know Repeating the lie enough times to the right people will do exactly what they want.

For one, the fact that Republicans frequently Destroy the economy and Democrats frequently save the economy and get it back on the road to recovery.

Republicans/MAGA dont have Plans, just "concepts of a plan" and sheer hatred for anyone thats a different Skin Color, sexual Orientation, from a different country, different religion, etc, etc.

It really seems like it with the Number of parents that seem to have absolutely out of control children, and the only thing Parents can seem to do is Pull out an iPad and go "*here, Go play in the other room Timmy*"

I also blame irresponsible, lazy parents for things like KOSA. It just screams "*Im a Lazy POS Tw@t muffin, who shouldn't be a Parent and believes its everyone else's responsibility to keep MY children safe online*"

MAGA now seems to think Fauci is a Criminal simply for pushing Vaccines, social distancing, and wearing a mask.

This is all because MAGA didn't wanna do any of that anyways, so they bury their Head in the sand and say "none of that does anything anyways, so why should we be forced to do it?"

Only, they have no Proof to back up anything; its literally just "*IM A RED HAT WEARING MAGA, AND I DONT WANT TO, SO YOU CANT MAKE ME*".

So, are all Patients suddenly Experts on Health/Science and doctors are "quacks that only push the Status Quo medicine"?

Stroking these idiots Ego was the worst thing anybody could have done, it is leading to a Number of things coming back into Relevancy; such as the Numerous Measles outbreaks that have been happening ever since the number of Anti-vaxxers out there went through the roof.

Its like people dont wanna trust 1 Vaccine, so they decided to throw out over 100 years of Scientific achievements (after all Vaccines helped to get rid of many conditions of the post WWI times) and say No Vaccines can be trusted all of a sudden.

We should ideally allow people different options.

If you believe that any Government paid for Healthcare comes with Too many problems to be worth it (the idea that if you have a National Health Service paid for by Government funds, that that Automatically means you wont be able to see a Doctor for Months) you should be able to Opt out and pay for your own Healthcare through your Employer, or some unaffiliated Health Insurance company; etc.

Don't want to or cant afford the cost? National Healthcare should be an Option.

You can very well have funded Socialist Policies *WITHOUT* forcing people onto them.

It shouldn't ever be a "well, now we have Socialist Programs you cant Opt out of"

I think we should have 2 or 3 options for Healthcare that dont just boil down to "*Middleman A, B, or C*" (insurance companies)

By making the Middleman (insurance companies) be a Necessity, we have created a System where Hospitals can just come up with any Magical number they want for Healthcare, and its up to your Insurance company to pay a Huge part of those costs to bring them down to a Reasonable number.

Instead, we should be able to pay for the *REAL COSTS*

Like when you ask a Hospital for an Itemized bill, and now a Bandage you were told would cost $300 now costs $20 (still way too high if you ask me)

And BTW, im currently on Insurance through my employer; still had to wait 3 months for my Most recent Doctors appointment.

So waiting months for a Doctors Appointment is very much a thing, even in the US, even on available options.

I cant get any answers from someone from GlassPass, their own group on here you have to be Approved to post anything (its very inactive).

And their group on Discord literally goes Months without any activity.

I bought a Piece, was verified enough to buy the piece, then the verification team says im Banned and funds processed back to the platform that "paid me" (hint, no platform paid me, im not a Seller, I have sold a total of 0 pieces to 0 customers for 0 dollars).

At least as long as I got my Piece, I got what I needed out of the platform and they can "ban me from selling" because im not a Seller, and never have been a Seller, so idk what Funds they are sending back to customers that dont exist.

I have a full time job and part time job, i have for over 2 years at this point, and in that 2 years ive had to pull away from the part time job more and more.

They just dont understand or care to actually take care of good workers, instead you get expected to save a constantly Struggling company, as if I make a Profit percentage off of the companies "fortune 500 success", rather than it just being a Place that I work to pick up another 3-5 hours \*IF I FEEL LIKE IT\*

When i show up and constantly get put doing jobs that are \*GOING TO PUT MY BODY IN PAIN FOR DAYS\* it makes me regret showing up to try to \*GET AHEAD\*

When i know my body is going to start Glitching out, because at the end of a 4 hour shift, my Muscles start to show off all the Damage at the end of the shift.

Ill be going home, with my Torso muscles cramping up and making it so I Physically cant do anything, one wrong move and it feels like I did 200 sit ups in a Row.

Im not gonna save the Company, its not \*MY COMPANY\*, im just an employee.

Either I can work 1 shift a week for the next 2 Months, or I can quit sooner if Push comes ro Shove, but im tired of being expected to be the companies Savior.

\*MY BODY IS NOT BUILT FOR LIFTING 150 LB PACKAGES UP FROM THE BOTTOM OF A TRUCK\*.

I wish I could have just been working my full time job the past 2 years, but instead im still dealing with the Shitty part time company, until they make me mad enough to quit on the spot.

And believe me, they are so close to doing just that.

I have a full time job and part time job, i have for over 2 years at this point, and in that 2 years ive had to pull away from the part time job more and more.

They just dont understand or care to actually take care of good workers, instead you get expected to save a constantly Struggling company, as if I make a Profit percentage off of the companies "fortune 500 success", rather than it just being a Place that I work to pick up another 3-5 hours *IF I FEEL LIKE IT*

When i show up and constantly get put doing jobs that are *GOING TO PUT MY BODY IN PAIN FOR DAYS* it makes me regret showing up to try to *GET AHEAD*

When i know my body is going to start Glitching out, because at the end of a 4 hour shift, my Muscles start to show off all the Damage at the end of the shift.

Ill be going home, with my Torso muscles cramping up and making it so I Physically cant do anything, one wrong move and it feels like I did 200 sit ups in a Row.

Im not gonna save the Company, its not *MY COMPANY*, im just an employee.

Either I can work 1 shift a week for the next 2 Months, or I can quit sooner if Push comes ro Shove, but im tired of being expected to be the companies Savior.

*MY BODY IS NOT BUILT FOR LIFTING 150 LB PACKAGES UP FROM THE BOTTOM OF A TRUCK*.

I wish I could have just been working my full time job the past 2 years, but instead im still dealing with the Shitty part time company, until they make me mad enough to quit on the spot.

And believe me, they are so close to doing just that.

Im used to sub 100 dollar water pipes. The past few weeks ive been researching and looking at Sovereignty glass. Earlier today I bought a Sovereignty Peyote Pillar, kinda a Splurge/Celebration piece for starting to get ahead in a Meaningfull way after a very long time of Struggling financially.

Im not Rich yet or anything, but ive got a decent start to finally not falling behind (a few weeks of money ahead to go towards Bills), and i intend to keep that up, make better choices, and not struggle much going forward.

I know some people say SOV are way overpriced and not worth the money, some disagree and say they are worth the money and then some, some people seem to hate the Peyote Pillar style/say other Percs do a much better job.

I had heard its supposed to be the best for Flower flavor, but it can be hard to clean (of course that could probably be said of any Multi Perc glass piece)

Im tired of trying to sell cheap cards for fair prices and it being more of s Struggle and more Stress than its worth. Going forward im gonna keep Shiny cards, and the other 11 cards that come in a Booster pack will go straight to the Garbage.

"*but what about Kids*"

Not my problem, their Parents can buy them packs/boxes for whatever the price may be and they can lose the Vast majority of their Money, especially if they are buying at Scalper prices, so they will lose even more Value, barring extreme Luck.

Clearly nobody cares that much about playing a Trading card game, they only care to flip expensive Singles for some quick/easy money, or its gotta be Sealed product.

When people say "think about the children" the Vast Majority of the time, they dont care. I think when it comes to TCGs, people wanna act like its a Tragedy for a bunch of cheap cards, but ask a few Dollars for a small lot? You must be on Drugs. Free? 100 people want the Same lot you couldn't sell for $5-$10.

Im simply not gonna Care anymore, ive tried to sell cheap cards for a Fair price for too long, wasted too much of my own time and sanity, and stressed myself out.

If you had to list a top 5 Worst presidents since (let's say) the 80s, who would your top 5 be?

My pics would be Trump for Spot 1, Reagan at 2, W Bush for 3, and HW Bush for 4. I dont really have a 5th pick.

Only people that hate Immigrants and just want the Country to Burn think Trump is doing a Great job.

Reagan of course is responsible for "trickle down" economics.

And what can I say for the Bush(s)? I know W was responsible for the Crash of 2008, and all I remember about HW was him being a Warmongerer like his Son ended up being (but he doesnt have a Financial crash attributed to him at least)

Ive always thought it was kinda funny how many people call me a "Scalper" when almost all of the TCG packs I buy I open, and most of the time my luck isnt really worth it.

But just because I tell people that Scalping isnt likely to ever end, I get accused of supporting it or being a Scalper myself.

I wish people would stop scalping, but apparently greed is "In", because thats all Scalping is. Most of these items arent really worth overpaying for, but in the case of TCGs you can get people to overpay because "Maybe ill get that $5000 trading card".

Is there not some sort of law that makes it illegal to just make someone's "delivery charge" be as much/more than actual Energy Usage charges?

The necessary Upgrades/Maintenance should already be done from the Energy company profits, but yet we have NY, NJ, and idk how many other states that have just started Screwing over all the residents by making them pay Double/Triple what they used to before the end of Winter came along (thats when they seem to have added the Delivery charges that match/exceed actual Energy usage charges).

I hope there is a Clear end in sight, but I wouldn't be surprised if they found a way to keep it going for Years.

Just like how we were supposed to pay for the Roads via tolls, and then when the roads are paid for "we have to maintain the roads, so we will just keep charging Tolls forever"

Curious to see what everyone's thoughts are on this. Basically to sum it up, it sounds like the Studio gave Damien Leone the rights to use the character "Art" for 1 movie, didn't see much success, and didn't think much of it, until Terrifier 2 and then 3 came out.

Then, they see how successful Damien has made the franchise based off of Art, and now they are seeing Dollars signs and wanna kick Damien out and take over rights and Profits for the franchise.

Should they just get to take back over? Or should Damien Leone get the rights to continue?

Maybe they will force Damien to have to pay a certain amount back to the studio, but ultimately give him the rights of Ownership of the character "Art" and movies involving him going on his Killing sprees.

Id like to see the studio get told to Kick Rocks, since they didn't seem interested until 3 entire movies were made.

They didn't do anything after T2 came out and was moderately successful, but T3 comes out, and now they want rights to the character and the Profits? I wouldn't give them the Win, but its not up to me, so just my Opinion.

Idk if its clear enough how much Reps/Conservatives/Fox News love to Boldly lie to their Voters, but if it isnt clear enough by now that they will tell you anything and expect you to believe what they are telling you, and expect you to not see the Truth in front of your own eyes.

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The fact that they would even lie about the Reflecting Pool not being absolutely full of Algae and being as Deeply saturated Green as a High quality Emerald tells you they really just want you to Ignore reality and buy the Narrative they are selling.

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Well, im not buying the Narrative, but im still fairly certain at least 75% of MAGA is eating every word they are saying.

It just seems like Common sense that these people would likely be seen as Female by more people if they actually put more effort into it. When I see someone going "im a Female" and they want people to see them as such, but then they got a very obvious Beard/etc? Yeah, thats gonna result in a lot of confusion and many people not seeing them as Female.

And im not being hateful or anything, so please dont go there and claim i have some Kinda grudge, I really dont care, but if someone wants to be seen as Female, being very hairy kinda just hurts their chances of that.

I actually think a lot of very vocal people saying they have something against Transgender people are just Hateful people, and no amount of Sense is likely to ever change that.

But if anybody pulls out the "but Men will pretend to be Women to Rape Women in the Bathroom" thing, miss me with that BS. No Rapist needs to pretend to be a Female to walk into the opposite bathroom and Rape someone if thats what they actually wanted to do.

I hope i dont trigger some kinda Ban from asking questions, nothing but Love to anyone but Hateful MAGA.

If you actually think about it, not having to worry about stock ever selling out, because all of a sudden people deciding its "worth more than MSRP" is a Perfect "*nightmare*" for TCG Companies.

they can keep releasing a new set every 3-4 months, push out Cards that are a Stupidly low pull rate (like 1/2000 packs, thats close to 7 Cases of product at minimum $8400) to make it worth a Risk for people that might buy from a Scalper at inflated prices (someone might not buy a lot at once from a Scalper, say 20 booster packs, but at way over Retail), and keep Raking in literal Bank vaults full of money.

The "main company" makes the same amount of money anyways, depending on how much Stock they sell to various companies, since the rate is set at a pre-determined level.

But the Scalping epidemic ensures nothing is gonna be sitting around 6+ months from now because it will likely go to a Scalper who bought everything, so they can Hoard it in their Garage and sell it to the next guy for 250% markup, all on the Hopes of hitting a Big card that can go for $1000-$10,000+.

The way to actually Kill Scalping, would be to actually let people put in orders and not waste their time, actually deliver to customers.

But, they would rather happily keep the Illusion of scarcity going on.

Consumers like me are often stuck between Places that say they can offer Product for a Fair price, but ultimately waste my time, or shops that want $100-$150 upcharge on every 24 pack box of cards, and you are only gonna get 2-4 hits in a Case that might be worth a comparable price to the inflated Booster box prices. The other 8-10 booster boxes in a Case end up being dead weight.

Its all very cleverly designed, and keeps working as intended. Scalping isnt a "problem" they ever intend to solve. They'll just keep Scaling operations bigger to sell more volume when they realistically can. But they dont wanna ever "solve" it.

I really cant stand the Major companies that seem to be Stuck on re-releasing/remastering the same games; games a whole lot of people in the community seem to have No problem rebuying every time there is another "better/improved" version.

It feels like while we could have a lot more Variety, the Industry is just more or less hooked on doing as little Variety as possible.

because why risk doing something different if you can "improve" an old Game every other year, Re-release it for the 3rd or 4th time, and keep making Higher profits on the same "Dead Horse" they refuse to stop beating like a Piñata?

It seems like more and more time lingers between one game and the next entry, because as long as they can Squeeze out more sales of the last one, why not?

GTA V and ES V are the 2 most obvious games that come to mind when it comes to dead horses still being Beaten like a Piñata, but then theres also Sony with TLoU 2.

Quite frankly, im at a stage where im probably just gonna stick to cheaper releases 9/10 times, like Indie releases that are more $20-$40 games, rather than $60-80+; not to mention if I can play something on PC GamePass and not have to buy it, thats what ill do.

I really hope a lot of Older franchises that havent seen a new release in 15-20+ years start coming back. Its refreshing seeing Starfox come back around, hopefully they bring back F Zero too.

My mom ended up marrying this dude that is basically a "Working Bum" by which I mean Supposedly dude has 3 part time jobs, and yet even though he "has no Hobbies" (besides Bowling) he is Awful with Money/getting his Priorities in order (worried about Maintenance/upkeep/pimping out on a Truck they can Take away at any time)

He is so Obssesed with this (Dodge) Ram Big Horn he has been Severly struggling to pay, it has been past due by over $5000 before, and he seems out to impress a Bunch of no name, haters, whose opinions dont really matter.

Im personally tired of this "look at me with my Carhart clothes and Dodge Ram Big Horn" meanwhile dude is paying almost literally Nothing towards bills.

It really doesnt matter what Possessions you are Flaunting/showing off, when they arent Paid for and can be repossessed at any time.

But its Not my problem if the Truck gets Repossesed, and im not helping out my Mom's Husband because he somehow doesn't understand basic Money priorities.

I really dont care if some people dont like me, not everyone is going to like me, and im not gonna waste my time/energy/money to try to make them like me/think im "Worth" something.

This is really rather Hilarious. MAGA Got scammed for $100 deposits for a Phone, promising to pay a total purchase price of $500. And these phones are worth between $70-$169, if we were to give it a Rough estimate at lets say being worth $100, these people are still being fleeced into paying $500, for a $100 phone.

That makes a 500% markup on a mass produced, 18 month old, Chinese made phone; being advertised initially as "made in the USA".

In total, Trump already has about $60 million in deposits alone, with the other 4/5ths still having to be paid by MAGA supporters. So theres another $240 Million that these suckers still have promised to pay. They already paid enough/too much as is for their almost 2 year old out of date mass produced Chinese phone.

Nothing says MAGA like Finessing "Patriots" into paying 500% for a Mass produced Chinese Phone that is already almost 2 years out of date, 😆.