DL Open Thread Tuesday April 11 2023
Sonia Sotomayor and the Billionaire
IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Sonia Sotomayor boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. She and her husband were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and a private chef.
If Sotomayor had chartered the plane and the 162-foot yacht himself, the total cost of the trip could have exceeded $500,000. Fortunately for her, that wasn’t necessary: She was on vacation with real estate magnate and Democratic megadonor George Soros, who owned the jet — and the yacht, too.
If the names were changed I think this story might has caused a bit of a stir on Fox News.
We have a serious free-rider problem.
What Is the Free Rider Problem?
The free rider problem is the burden on a shared resource that is created by its use or overuse by people who aren’t paying their fair share for it or aren’t paying anything at all.
Psst… companies don’t care about being “woke.” They care about making money.
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It’s beyond their comprehension that corporations have found that inclusivity is profitable and that nothing more nefarious than that is happening.Matt Walsh
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The Left has taken away all of the neutral cultural ground. This is why brands like Bud Light and Nike are giving endorsement deals to a dude in a dress. In the past, a beer company could basically be culturally neutral. But the Left has declared that you are either with them or against them. The “silence is violence” principle. So the brands have a choice. They can be baptized into wokeism and openly worship at the LGBT altar, or they can by default align themselves with conservatives. What do they do? Well, the Left will do everything in their power (and they have a lot of power) to make them pay dearly for disloyalty. Piss off the Right, on the other hand, and you’ll have to deal with some angry tweets and then nothing else will happen. It’s an easy choice.
One of the few conservatives I can actually talk to asked me why every couple on ever commercial had to be “same sex” or mixed-race?
There is only one reason. They think “same sex” or mixed-race commercials will make them more money.
Tips are not the solution to the war on poverty. The problem of course is not only the sub-minimum wage for “tipped jobs.” It’s service jobs in general.
There are too many meaningless jobs that exist only because they are allowed to pay less than a living wage.
The price of the service needs to increase until it pays a living wage. And laws need to ensure that the increased price ends up in the hands of the worker. This will mean that there will be far fewer meaningless service jobs, which will be a good thing and we have to move to a UBI without the stigma of welfare.
The wealthy will still be able to hire people to make their beds, cut their grass, fetch their food, or watch their kids, but they will pay far more for the services.
Uber-type driving was always a scam. If the income doesn’t pay enough to buy and maintain the car you use and still have a living wage, then you are not in business for yourself.
Agreed. The free rider problem is much bigger than tipping and gig economy. The conservative movement is free riding across the board. Economy, environment, democracy, etc.