• smollittlefrog@lemdro.id
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    As cited above, the GDP per capita in Germany doubles every few years.

    How many times more do you think it has to be doubled until you and your friends deem themselves wealthy.

    They never will. Because you, too, define wealth as being able to look down on others (in your social environment).

    A large part of the world’s population would consider themselves extremely wealthy if they had even near the income of a German worker earning minimum wage.

    On a global scale, German minimum wage workers are very, very wealthy.

    The only reason you’d ever consider German minimum wage to be too little is if you’re used to extreme excess, if you’ve lived in a hyper wealthy environment all your life.

    You’re so used to extreme wealth, that you deem slightly less extreme wealth to be poverty. You consider it to be poverty, because the people surrounding you are even wealthier. You consider it poverty, because you can not look down on them.

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      Oh, so you’re one of those smug (ethno)nationaist chuds that think that people in the United States that are one missed paycheck from homelessness, or are already homeless and are in physical decline from exposure and preventable illness are actually spoiled because some numbers on a screen say that that homeless person is actually a recipient of extreme wealth due to location while completely ignoring cost of living expenses because it doesn’t fit the numbers you want.

      You’re way too far up your own ass to argue with, and you probably have goosestepping lessons to keep up with for the big plans you and yours have for your glorious fatherland in the future.

      Most jobs are not fulfilling and would never be done voluntarily (at a relevant scale).

      What is your glorious German superiority proposal for those “not fulfilling” jobs, then? Slavery? The US prison system might excite and thrill you if you look into it. scared-fash

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        What is your glorious German superiority proposal for those “not fulfilling” jobs, then?

        The current system.

        ignoring cost of living expenses

        I don’t have detailed knowledge of the US economy, which is why I keep using Germany as an example.

        In Germany you are never one paycheck away from being homeless unless you’re actively wasting money. As said before, 800€ is more than enough to live alone in an apartment. And you make more than double that (in the worst case).

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          I don’t have detailed knowledge of the US economy, which is why I keep using Germany as an example.

          You only have arrogant presumptions about rich the United States ostensibly is, while ignoring that a tiny percentage of the population actually benefits from those riches and the rest experience staggeringly higher cost of living, especially for things like medical care and housing.

          In Germany you are never one paycheck away from being homeless unless you’re actively wasting money. As said before, 800€ is more than enough to live alone in an apartment. And you make more than double that (in the worst case).

          Again, you’ve admitted your ignorance about the United States there, and the situation of hundreds of millions of people that live in it that are not functionally wealthy in a material way that they actually experience.

          And once again, “the current system” is failing those people and no amount of being smugly content with a status quo that is unsustainably bad for people in the United States that scrub toilets, drive ambulances, or provide CNA services to hospital patients does those people any good.

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            Again, you’ve admitted your ignorance about the United States there, and the situation of hundreds of millions of people that live in it that are not functionally wealthy in a material way that they actually experience.

            I am indeed ignorant about the United States. This may surprise you, but I don’t know about every economy around the world. I’m sure you don’t either.

            But I do know that a capitalist system can work well without UBI, as proven by the German system.

            (Yes, I will keep using the German system as an example.)

            “the current system” is failing those people and no amount of being smug about how status quo poverty for people that scrub toilets and pick fruit is somehow a good thing will change that.

            As long as we haven’t fully automated it, people will have to scrub toilets and pick fruits in any econonic system. What you wish for is for them to not be poor. Which they aren’t (in Germany).

            ignoring that a tiny percentage of the population actually benefits from those riches and the rest experience staggeringly higher cost of living

            Are you claiming that people’s actual wealth has not gone up in the past 50 years? That we don’t eat better regulated food, that we don’t own very advanced devices, that we don’t eat food shipped from across the world?

            Normal people’s wealth does keep growing. That is a very obvious fact. You may claim that it doesn’t grow fast enough, but it does grow.

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              I am indeed ignorant about the United States.

              No shit. And you were making vast and bold status quo warrior declarations upon a foundation of that ignorance.

              This may surprise you

              It only surprises me that you came here and made those claims with that much ignorance to begin with. I made no such claims about Germany, but you certainly did about the United States, again, in support of your enthusiasm for the status quo.

              As long as we haven’t fully automated it, people will have to scrub toilets and pick fruits in any econonic system. What you wish for is for them to not be poor. Which they aren’t (in Germany).

              And according to your smug status quo advocacy, those people getting any more pay or being treated with any more dignity is bad because… Germany is so glorious to you. Which somehow justifies the status quo worldwide.

              Are you claiming that people’s actual wealth has not gone up in the past 50 years?

              It is far from evenly distributed and is steeply tilted by the staggering increase of wealth in the billionaire class.

              If you bent down and talked to someone sleeping in the street (as the rate of homelessness now rises here), told them how their wealth has gone up, actually, with a probably smug look on your face, you shouldn’t be surprised if you get spat on.

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                I made no such claims about Germany, but you certainly did about the United States

                Can you please quote where I did that? Because I never made any global claim. I always referred either to “many countries” or “Germany” neither of which explicitly include the USA.

                And according to your smug status quo advocacy, those people getting any more pay or being treated with any more dignity is bad

                They can get paid more. But they’re already dignified and already well paid (in Germany).

                If you bent down and talked to someone sleeping in the street (as the rate of homelessness now rises here)

                Where is “here”? Some country which didn’t manage to implement capitalism successfully? I never claimed that calitalism does work everywhere, I claimed that can work everywhere.

                Maybe US capitalism is shit. But it can work well without UBI (as proven by, you guessed it, Germany).

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                  Can you please quote where I did that?

                  Smug status quo liberals like you phrase their bad faith questions like that all the time, but just in case you will surprise me, here.

                  In Germany you are never one paycheck away from being homeless unless you’re actively wasting money. As said before, 800€ is more than enough to live alone in an apartment. And you make more than double that (in the worst case).

                  As cited above, the GDP per capita in Germany doubles every few years.

                  How many times more do you think it has to be doubled until you and your friends deem themselves wealthy.

                  They never will. Because you, too, define wealth as being able to look down on others (in your social environment).

                  A large part of the world’s population would consider themselves extremely wealthy if they had even near the income of a German worker earning minimum wage.

                  On a global scale, German minimum wage workers are very, very wealthy.

                  The only reason you’d ever consider German minimum wage to be too little is if you’re used to extreme excess, if you’ve lived in a hyper wealthy environment all your life.

                  You’re so used to extreme wealth, that you deem slightly less extreme wealth to be poverty. You consider it to be poverty, because the people surrounding you are even wealthier. You consider it poverty, because you can not look down on them.

                  You are obnoxiously ignorant of living situations outside of your own to the point that you prescribe maintaining the status quo to people you don’t know that don’t live anywhere near you do. You made the extraordinary claims, not me.

                  Maybe US capitalism is shit. But it can work well without UBI (as proven by, you guessed it, Germany).

                  Again, your ignorance is showing, paired once again with your arrogance. It is not working for most other people and no amount of being smug about you getting yours changes that for most other people.

                  Further, what about the status quo makes you so happy about people being paid less than a sustainable living to scrub toilets and pick fruit? Why is that so necessary to you? Well, besides you having a disgustingly privileged point of view where people toiling for almost nothing is cool and good because GLORIOUS GERMANY.

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                    Can you please quote where I [made a claim about the USA]?

                    Smug status quo liberals like you phrase their bad faith questions like that all the time, but just in case you will surprise me, here.

                    [lots of quotes]

                    I’m sorry, I don’t see where I explicitly mentioned the USA in those quotes.

                    Was it “A large part of the world’s population”? (Note that it doesn’t say “the entire world’s population”.)

                    You are obnoxiously ignorant of living situations outside of your own to the point that you prescribe maintaining the status quo to people you don’t know that don’t live anywhere near you do. You made the extraordinary claims, not me.

                    okay

                    Again, your ignorance is showing, paired once again with your arrogance.

                    sure

                    It is not working for most other people

                    Again, I never claimed that capitalism is well implemented everywhere. I only claimed that

                    it can work well without UBI