Does Mr beast do his charity through a non-profit or through his youtube buisness?
If it's the latter than my hot take is that this would make him morally superior to 99% of philanthropy that has existed in the contemporary era since write offs for business' expenses aren't nearly as generous as the write offs for NGO based charity.
My hot take here is that both Hbomber and this guy are people who are too anti-social to have jobs and who are trying to be content grifters and at the end of the day adding plagiarism to it only makes him 10% worse.
hbomber being mad at somerton is like when the democrats were doing a "how dare you sir" about the children in cages during the trump presidency.
Agreed, pooling tips should be legally required accross the board
"Kulaks are people who make my treats more expensive so they can afford to live above subsistence levels"
Yes, the workers are wrong.
This is a better way to do it. Unfortunately, many waiters really do come out ahead with tipping, especially those working at higher end restaurants, conventionally attractive by euro standards, or just really good people skills, so they argue tipping is good actually. It benefits some individually, but collectively a lot do not end up with more money this way. So yes, alot of waiters start off making less money. The current system while deeply flawed allows people to have careers in waiting where they can start making pretty low wages to making above middle income money. If they work into bar tending then they can make up to 80 an hour on a good day.
Such career tracks are things you see in logistics and trades. If you want to make a career here you can, the difference being that it offers income mobility without getting a degree making it a far more egalitarian field than most since the "meritocratic" career paths since college overwhelmingly fails poor people, people of color and first generation college students. If it doesn't fail them then they'll likely end up underemployed, unemployed out of their field or in so much debt that they might as well be in fast food.
It’s part of the whole pull yourself up by your bootstraps ideology - yes you theoretically could do better with tipping, but how many do, compared with the many who don’t? But of course restaurantbusinessonline would prefer business owners still be paying less than minimum wage, so they find those workers whose interests for whatever reason line up with theirs.
the real solution then isn't abolishing tipping, its abolishing the tipped wage and retaining tipping
Yep which is a good thing. People pretend to hate tipping because of some foo pro-worker stance but it's really because middle income people can't stand the idea of unskilled labor making more than them and having to pay extra for their treats
Now I could be wrong, but getting a an hourly wage as a restaurant worker is FAR better than relying on tips. I feel like either workers in this situation are too obsessed with tips or there’s huge context missing.
This is cunsoomer propoganda. The tipped wage allows unskilled workers to acheive the heights of middle income without getting college degrees and gives them a career path in retail, plus it makes excel spreadsheet workers and boomers pay extra.
You can make the arguement that "well actually that 20% should me baked into the price and that should go to the worker". Which is possibly the most delusional arguement a person could possible make. How many times have companies raised prices on their goods 20% due to increasing labor costs and how many of those companies actually have given that full amount to workers? Approximately 0.
If you abolished tipped wages tommorow and told bosses to raise prices to compensate they'd turn their workers into fast food workers and pocket the extra 20%. That's the fate of all non-tipped work.
If abolishing tipped labor for resturants was so good for workers then ask yourselves why all the fast food resturants with much higher profit margins and much leaner workforces get paid way, waaaaaay less than waiters.
The real communist politic is to keep the tip and abolish the tipped wage. If that makes restaurants more expensive than good, if a service can't be provided without poverty wages than it shouldn't exist.
yeah this is it, the local dsa has been sucessful organizing a tenant union in my metro area and ive never considered joining because ive only rented from small landlords. renting from a small landlord kinda precludes any sort of mass tenant organizing
Eh, to be honest I think part of the reason why the NHS looks better is because while american healthcare sucks and is too expensive, you brits have never experianced it in comparison to your own.
I watched philosophy tube's video about the NHS and honestly it seems like the NHS is a government agency dedicated to wasting tens of billions of dollars to maintain the appearance of healthcare so people can feel good about themselves until they actually need it. I for one prefer to know that at least while I might be financially ruined at a hospital or receiving gender affirming care, at least I can get it.
I mean let's be honest a ceasefire is just a good demand tactically. The 2014 BLM movement shot itself in the foot by demanding police abolition since that's just not a policy that can be enacted. Unrealistic demands just stifle movements and lead to burn out.
Complete nonsense.
As we all know, many idol-worshiping peoples have encountered gnomes and through worshiping and offering tribute to these gnomes, these gnomes become the hosts for powerful dark gods who reward their followers generously but are known to be fickle and demanding.
Silicon Valley is infamous for it's bizzare polycules and their ottoman haramesque power struggles. Somehow, Sam Altman offended Aella_Girl's polycule who happened to control the board of open AI.
Aella_girl is openly in sexual concourse with a series of garden gnomes who she likely worships and has married as it is known that gnomes usually demand a wife or your first born child.
Proof: https://cashmeremag.com/reddit-gonewild-aella-gnome-cam-53817/
She likely used the powers of this dark god to remove Sam Altman from the board but likely failed to meet it's escalating demands or otherwise disappointed this entity and as a result failed to remove him. It is known that when disappoints a gnome or stops worshiping it that one's fortunes will fall into a rapid decline so if this happens to her then we know what likely happened. Either that or Sam Altman is also in contact with a dark entity of some sort.
The depressing thing is that if this does what it says it does then this is actually a really good deal. If this was being offered locally I'd probably get it tbh
Saw this one hyper active socialist blogger on medium who reviewed amber's book and said that they are a socialist who got into their politics through chapo but stopped being active because they went to three meetings and it seemed like "an irl meeting of redditors" and it made me annoyed.
First of all, so many people pretend to be leninists and hold themselves to a series of political standards and believe in political discipline in some sense. Do you really think your encounter with a bunch of socialists isn't in someway mediated by your own internal biases? Like so many people who complain about this stuff explicitly say they got annoyed by being asked pronouns so like I totally think the 20% of people who don't say that it's about using pronouns are just not saying the quiet part outloud.
Second, so much of these sorts of confessions read like the narcism of small differences. Really, you encountered a bunch of people with shared interests and they all sucked? Did you ever consider that maybe you yourselves are actually cringy or that you hate yourself and you saw a bunch of people who are alot like you and it upset you to see you're own reflection? Maybe that's not a problem with the DSA or the left, maybe that's a you problem and you should work on that.
And lastly is just the fact that for an atomized, alienated subject whose social interactions are minimal and are usually online and based on hatred either shared or outwards, any sort of large scale social meeting that's earnest is gonna feel bad at first. Work on it. So many things that are good for you like recovering from a drug addiction, starting to get a reading habit, going to the gym, cutting out sugar and processed foods, drinking less coffee, suck complete dick for the first 2-4 weeks.
If you're lonely and your problem is you need more people in your life, go out and do it. It's gonna suck at first like all good things do. Sure if you want to vent about how it's hard or it sucks go ahead feel free. I'm not going to shame you. But on the other hand if you tell me "I'm dehydrated but drinking water sucks because I'm used to soda" sure I can sympathize and be understanding when you fall off or want to complain. That's ok. What isn't ok is "I'm dehydrated, but drinking water sucks because I'm used to soda, therefore drinking water is bad actually and I'm just gonna let myself die but also have a bit of ironic distance from that and pretend it's water's fault" then I'm sorry but while I'm happy to work through those feelings I'm not happy to just endlessly validate them if you have no intention to change them.
Anyway this would just be pretty masterbatory if I was just complaining about a type of guy I hate but I feel like any sort of critism should be paired with self-criticism to keep it dialetical and also not to fall into the social media trap of talking shit about people you hate to make yourself look better in comparison.
I've been feeling pretty alienated for alot of reasons and loney and while I've been working on my social life I got really depressed that I'm probably at a point where even though I'm working really hard on getting my social life back together I'll most likely never be at the point where I hangout with people during the week days and I can only look forward to hanging out with people on the weekends which just isn't fulfilling enough.
So on a semi-related note. My partner has been wanting to go to social events at the local grocery co-op. I feel out of place there and there are alot of vegan types there so I've been encouraging them to go without me and they haven't really done that. These events are usually fridays and thursdays and have a turnout of like 8-15 people at them. Roughly 1/3rd students, 1/3rd classic vegan types and 1/3 regular working class members of the community.
I woke up and realized the other day that I've been walling in my own misery despite the fact that the solution has been in front of me for a year and I've just been ignoring it. I've been thinking this whole time how all the other anti-social personalities annoy me but I haven't even looked in the mirror at my own anti-social behavior. So when my partner comes back home from work I'm going to talk to them about making an effort to go to these events regularly.
True, but tbf again I'm def willing to submit to self-critique on this one, I think I had a bit of an ultra-leftist error of trying to focus too hard on making solidarity statements for various events while ignoring local electoral struggles. Definately going to pay harder attention to local referendums next time around
i can't even really say anything cause as a member of our chapter's RnR working group alot of that was on me.
tbf they did call a plebiscite for a similar thing to sell off the water utility in somerville nj, unfortunately our local DSA chapter didn't notice it in time and started campaigning against it waaaaayyyy too late so it passed.
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to be fair if this was like a couple years ago or even last year I bet it would have gotten double the views, and if we lived in peak gamergate this would have gotten at least 1 mill
G. Gordon Liddy was an absolute unit. A unit of pure derangement but a unit nonetheless
Seriously, I feel like the root cause of the problem is that people these days are so alienated in society that they have grown too afraid to socialize. Complaints like “no, I don’t want to talk to people who I imagine might say reactionary things that I don’t like!” are just excuses to stop oneself from interacting with real people in the real world.
Not gonna lie I see some posts on this site that outright describe people in their community with the same vitriolic hatred that Timothy McVeigh describes brown people. Sure I bet there are alot of areas with right wingers, but I'm sorry but if everyone around you is a literal demon then have you ever thought about the fact that the common factor in all of your interactions with these people is you?
The emotional core of fascism is a deep misanthropy and I've seen so many young people who grew up with some socialization issues and a deepset hatred of other people latch onto communist politics and then become some sort of fascist or right-winger later in life. I don't care about how epic you think your Maoism-Third Worldism is, I've seen enough of those people become Nazis or Haziods that I can clearly see a pattern in that sort of psychological framework to be incredibly sus of that sort of sentiment.
Can't wait to see what happens when the clock strikes midnight and he discovers his dog is dead for real