Top 1% pays 40% of income taxes.

[EatTheRich]

You said required . As in forced.

“Scan a barcode or starve” because no other job is available is an ultimatum.

 

[PhilFish]

“Scan a barcode or starve” because no other job is available is an ultimatum.

False construct.

There are many jobs available.

 

[EatTheRich]

False construct.

There are many jobs available.

No. There are so many jobs available for construction workers, so many jobs available for barcode scanners, so many jobs available for coal miners, etc. A given individual improving their skill set doesn’t change the fact that your economy will have a bunch of people doing low-wage jobs.

 

[PhilFish]

No. There are so many jobs available for construction workers, so many jobs available for barcode scanners, so many jobs available for coal miners, etc. A given individual improving their skill set doesn’t change the fact that your economy will have a bunch of people doing low-wage jobs.

Yes. But your required and starve remain without merit

You neither have to take the job nor sit around starving..other than by choice

 

[EatTheRich]

Yes. But your required and starve remain without merit

You neither have to take the job nor sit around starving..other than by choice

Our economy is premised on millions having no other choice.

 

[PhilFish]

Our economy is premised on millions having no other choice.

Nope.

 

[EatTheRich]

Nope.

Of course it is. One way or another, millions have to have those jobs and no others and tens of millions more have to have no jobs at all.

 

[PhilFish]

Of course it is. One way or another, millions have to have those jobs and no others and tens of millions more have to have no jobs at all.

No. They can choose to find a job that suits.

This isn't the gulags

 

[EatTheRich]

No. They can choose to find a job that suits.

This isn't the gulags

If people could choose their jobs without constraint, everyone would have a high-paying job. Meanwhile in the real world, the available jobs are “rationed” by the “job creators” so that so many people are employed at low-wage jobs and so many others are unemployed.

 

[PhilFish]

If people could choose their jobs without constraint, everyone would have a high-paying job. Meanwhile in the real world, the available jobs are “rationed” by the “job creators” so that so many people are employed at low-wage jobs and so many others are unemployed.

Nope. You attain based on what you are able to perform.

 

[Nostra]

ETR is the most economically illiterate moron I have ever encountered.

 

[PhilFish]

If people could choose their jobs without constraint, everyone would have a high-paying job. Meanwhile in the real world, the available jobs are “rationed” by the “job creators” so that so many people are employed at low-wage jobs and so many others are unemployed.

I keep reading this now wondering if maybe you're a teen... College student... Odd..