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Class Enemies

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I had eggs and sausage patties at a breakfast place in St. Louis today. $33 with a tip. It included pancakes, but I refused. Of course, I could have raised my own chickens and milked them or whatever. But this same breakfast in the same place cost $16 eight years ago. No amount of successful life management can change this fact of objective reality.

Screw everybody who claims that the cost of living did not increase dramatically.

People like the one in the above picture are my class enemies. He’s responding to a comment by a student who said that takeout burritos are expensive. A student who definitely doesn’t have a wife, let alone a wife who can dedicate time and effort to grinding her own grain for Pitt’s sake. The cluelessness is staggering. The same breakfast, at the same place, doubled in price. What, in the name of everything holy, does that have to do with anybody’s grain-grinding wife?

It should be possible to discuss things without bringing everything into the realm of individual virtue.

13 responses to “Class Enemies”

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    Anonymous

    Ah yes, my fondest childhood memory is milking the chickens at my grandfather’s farm.:)

    I went to a Taco Bell a few weeks ago, for the first time in years. I ordered one of their combos, containing two small tacos and a dinky burrito. $15! I was shocked. Taco Bell used to be the cheapest of the cheap – their tacos were 89 cents or something a couple years ago. And after I scarfed down the combo, I was hungry 5 minutes later.

    I’m not eating fast food anymore. It’s not cheap and it’s not that fast. A local Mexican restaurant serves huge portions for $20, which ain’t cheap either, but a hell of a better deal than Taco Bell. You at least leave filling full.

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    1. cliff arroyo Avatar
      cliff arroyo

      “my fondest childhood memory is milking the chickens”

      I regret to inform you that that phrase can have a very different meaning than the one you (I hope) intended.

      So sorry….

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      1. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        My father, a city boy, once tried to milk a male goat during a childhood vacation in the countryside.

        He was forever traumatized by the experience.

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          cliff arroyo

          “He was forever traumatized by the experience”

          Which one was traumatized? Your father or the goat?

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    Anonymous

    Eight years ago minimum wage in Missouri was $7.85, it’s now $15. Thats the real problem.

    Walnut

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      Clarissa

      Most certainly. I told before how raising the state minimum wage eviscerated my department’s capacity to offer jobs to students. Exactly zero people are making more money as a result. We simply offer half the hours that we were able to offer before. I kept warning about it until I got blue in the face, while all of my colleagues celebrated the raising of the minimum wage as a wonderful decision. And now they keep asking why the lab is always closed. Seriously, it’s like people are not in touch with basic arithmetic.

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        Anonymous

        I can’t do my normal long length discussion posts, but the problem is both sides are correct on this one.

        The wages didn’t go up while prices did, and while this can be sustained for some time, this has been continuing from about the 1970s. Effectively up until 2020 you had 50 years of minor price increases and very little in the way of wage increases.

        From 2020 to today, you have had six years of massive price increases and wage stagnation or wage decreases.

        Again both sides are correct, wages do need to go up to match the rise in prices. However if wages go up, the prices will rise again to match. In addition there will be a sharp decrease in the number of jobs as small companies and medium companies can no longer afford most of their employees, much less hire new ones. And the large companies, and international companies will simply either refuse to increase pay, or will simply fire people in job lots and put up new hiring info with wages starting at half what they were before.

        Effectively we are between a rock and a hard place.

        However there are routes out of this, they are just not very nice routes, and also ones that are somewhat dangerous. But this is all we have left outside of marching on DC and hanging everyone even vaguely connected to government, or watching the entire economy collapse around us.

        As a side note, I do believe this is the set up for the mark of the beast system as spoken of in the bible. In the 1920s, when the US stock market crashed, it dragged the whole world into the Great Depression. Today the bubble is even bigger, covers nearly every sector, and every nation of the world is tied into this. Once this overarching bubble pops, the world will be in a state even worse than the Great Depression. With the Beast System waiting to be implemented as a this is our way out.

        Back to the main. The first fix is mass re-migration. This time at bayonet point. There are 50 million illegals in the country, and while not all of them are holding full time jobs, removing them would free up a lot of jobs, as well as heavily reduce the weight on our welfare system.

        The second fix which is dangerous, is raise the min wage, 1 dollar a year for fifteen years with all corresponding jobs going up the same amount. At the same time put a price stop for the fifteen years. If anyone tries to get around it, they would need to be jailed for 20 years no bail, no early release. This is dangerous because one people will lose jobs, and two it is putting far too much power into the hands of government agents, most of which need to be shot for the betterment of America.

        The third fix is immediately stop printing money. This will put us in default. We would need to immediately cut all programs spending money outside the truly necessary ones. Baseline military, interest payment on debt, a small fraction of welfare.

        You will note that SS and Medicare were not among these. The reason is simple, both are placing massive burdens on the young to fund at the expense of future generations. By doing this the elderly generation and the ill will be condemned to die a slow death, but in exchange their children and grandchildren will survive. Naturally congress will never go for this. They would put their own welfare before everyone else’s survival.

        The point is both sides are correct, and there are ways out, but the longer we wait, the worse the solution will be. Again I will state my opinion is this is deliberate and is being done to destroy the economy, not just of America, but of the world.

        • – W

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    random reader

    That bread only costs $1 if you do not account for the time and labor that his wife spends grinding the flour, making the dough and baking it. How about the cost of the appliances and electricity that make the grinding and baking possible (although I could believe she is doing it old school by hand, using stones for milling and baking the bread in fire). I am sure that his wife feels really appreciated reducing her time and effort to $0. But I guess she may not be allowed to access internet, so everything is OK….

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      Clarissa

      Exactly. He’s describing a very boutique lifestyle that, ok, it works for them, whatever. But most people are not going to be butchering goats in the backyard to make their own goat sausage. We’re not switching to subsistence farming en masse.

      A great point also on “the wife does it so it’s free.”

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  4. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    “my class enemies. He’s responding to a comment “

    He’s engagement farming though rage bait. Very cheap tricks to, but unfortunately they… work on a lot of people.

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    oldcowboy3

    Well, Kid, it might have been entertaining to see you try to milk a chicken ;-D

    But in reality, all that we are seeing is most Western governments debasing the currency by borrowing money with neither ability, nor intention, of ever repaying.

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      Anonymous

      This right here. With one caviot. Its not “Most” it is (All), and that all includes nearly every government in the World too.

      • – W

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    methylethyl

    The part he’s leaving out is that a decent grain mill costs a minimum of $700 unless she’s turning a stone quern for hours a day.

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