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[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This isn’t on the majority of US citizens.

Its obvious our entire socio/political system is corrupted by money. The idea that a group of sociopaths who behave as if their socio economic status grants them impunity to act as though they have divine provenance to manipulate whatever they please for some reason view the us democratic system as too sacred for them to touch is foolishly naive.

There is the election fraud case in rockwell county new york that is moving forward. And besides that i like to call attention to Germany the supreme court of which decided that electronic voting is unconstitutional as it is impossible to determine the difference between fraudulent results and legitimate ones for lay people or anyone who is not a cybersecurity/ IT expert.

This coupled with the corporate media’s narrative manipulation and successful attempts to shift the Overton window as far right as possible in the last 5 decades as well as such insidious techno fascist tactics such as Israel’s consortium of tech contractors called Team Jorge in operation since st least 2015 which engage in hacking, and social media narrative manipulation through sophisticated bot farming it paints a picture that the American electorate is ultimately powerless and being insidiously controlled by a group of disgusting power hungry fascists that are engaged in a class war with us.

Anyone directly responsible for the current state of the USA and gloval affairs involving Israel deserve no mercy whatsoever. Including the overly audible minority of conservatives who have been lead to believe they are the majority and the world is their oyster to shit on and step on freely with complete impunity.

But the majority of us are good people who dont want this. Especially the millennials and gen z. The Democratic party has shifted so far right to appease it’s corporatist(fascist) masters and education standards have been gutted so most people dont even understand how we are being victimized. Maybe my faith in humanity is misplaced considering how igly things are but leftism has always been popular especially among educated people and this is why the right has destroyed education standards. As nixon and reagan advisor roger freeman said “we are on the verge of having a highly educated proletariat, this is dynamite! We have to be more selective of who we allow through higher education. At the time he said this before the Reagan administration some public universities especially federal Land grant universities has free tuition and many others that were not free were $50 per semester. Even yale was $700 per semester for tuition before the 1970’s now you need yo go into massive debt to get a degree that might gaurantee you a wage of $25-30 after you graduate with a debt of 50-100K at least if not 4-10 times that.

They want dumb complacent obedient workers who will not object to being looted so they can live in opulence at our expense while simultaneously funding their forever wars to further their imperialist agenda and profit motives.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/63008977

So as we can see in this video of the alleged assault Ibrahim was convicted of on harvard campus there are at least several other people filming with their phones from different angles however this is the only video I can find online. And its just a consolidation of 2 videos. But it doesn't show the beginning of the incident and the view of Bharmal “assaulting” the israeli student is ultimately non existent.

The reality is it seems clear that the narrative is being manipulated by hasbara tactics. If there are so many cameras filming this altercation and theyvwere obviously filming before the beginning of the video that was released then where are they and why have they not been shown. Considering the fascist trump regime is using this as pretext to strip Harvard of funding(which they likely don’t need considering their super high tuition rates) but this is scary, dangerous and unprecedented.

What are everyone else’s thoughts and does anyone know if the other videos have been released anywhere and where to find them if so? I dont mean to sound like there is a conspiracy to obfuscate the facts and smear a Palestinian rights advocate but woth the behavior of the israeli lobby, their owned representatives in our government, and all the media outlets subservient to the Zionist regime i don’t believe it is a far fetched idea to put down.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/63008977

So as we can see in this video of the alleged assault Ibrahim was convicted of on harvard campus there are at least several other people filming with their phones from different angles however this is the only video I can find online. And its just a consolidation of 2 videos. But it doesn't show the beginning of the incident and the view of Bharmal “assaulting” the israeli student is ultimately non existent.

The reality is it seems clear that the narrative is being manipulated by hasbara tactics. If there are so many cameras filming this altercation and theyvwere obviously filming before the beginning of the video that was released then where are they and why have they not been shown. Considering the fascist trump regime is using this as pretext to strip Harvard of funding(which they likely don’t need considering their super high tuition rates) but this is scary, dangerous and unprecedented.

What are everyone else’s thoughts and does anyone know if the other videos have been released anywhere and where to find them if so? I dont mean to sound like there is a conspiracy to obfuscate the facts and smear a Palestinian rights advocate but woth the behavior of the israeli lobby, their owned representatives in our government, and all the media outlets subservient to the Zionist regime i don’t believe it is a far fetched idea to put down.

 

So as we can see in this video of the alleged assault Ibrahim was convicted of on harvard campus there are at least several other people filming with their phones from different angles however this is the only video I can find online. And its just a consolidation of 2 videos. But it doesn't show the beginning of the incident and the view of Bharmal “assaulting” the israeli student is ultimately non existent.

The reality is it seems clear that the narrative is being manipulated by hasbara tactics. If there are so many cameras filming this altercation and theyvwere obviously filming before the beginning of the video that was released then where are they and why have they not been shown. Considering the fascist trump regime is using this as pretext to strip Harvard of funding(which they likely don’t need considering their super high tuition rates) but this is scary, dangerous and unprecedented.

What are everyone else’s thoughts and does anyone know if the other videos have been released anywhere and where to find them if so? I dont mean to sound like there is a conspiracy to obfuscate the facts and smear a Palestinian rights advocate but woth the behavior of the israeli lobby, their owned representatives in our government, and all the media outlets subservient to the Zionist regime i don’t believe it is a far fetched idea to put down.

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“Suicide” yeah…. Sure…… Nothing to see here plebs, keep on turning the wheels of capitalism to make us richer while you suffocate in poverty.

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No amber whataboutism or volcel police?

 

my wife and I have been going to the local Ymca for the last 6 months on financial aud which cuts the membership price in half. Weve been dinged a few times for paying late which is a ridiculous $20 overdraft fee. We were hoping to have the $48 for Tuesday already as to not overdraft again but finances have been tough this year. If anyone can help with even a little bit we would greatly appreciate it.

If you can help then PM me and ill send my venmo cashapp or paypal(preferably the first two since paypal costs like an additional dollar to transfer over.

Anyway thanks for reading this.

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There are others i would rather see go first but i wouldn't be upset with that outcome

It just strikes me as ridiculous they are full blown trying to make this kid a martyr. But the maga crowd arent the brightest bulbs in the pack. Wcgw? 🤷🏻

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Price of gold just hit $3140 why does that matter? Because gold is the true measure lf inflation. The inflation statistics used by walstreet and the FED come from the world bank and IMF. These numbers are based on consumer price index which is an inadequate measure of inflation because it does not account for the devaluation of a currency due to the increase in circulating currency supply and leveraged debt. Also Cpi Has been manipulated several times in the last few decades to keep inflation numbers skewed.

The reality here is that capitalist empires in decline always lie about the true measure of inflation to prevent civil unrest and the fomenting of a revolution by the working class.

But anyway: for the first 173 years of the us dollar as a standardized currency the price of gold only fluctuated 95% from $18 to $35 but in the 54 years since nixon withdrew from the bretton woods agreement ending the gold standard(the convertibility of the us dollar into gold at any bank) the price of gold has increased 8900% from $35 to $3140 this is directly proportional to the increase in the national debt in the same amount of time. From $400 billion to $36 trillion or 9000%

Even when fdr first passed the fair labor standards act setting minimum wage at 25¢/ hr that was more than the highest minimum wage currently for corporate fast food workers in California of $20/hr. As 25 cents an hour in 1938 produced 14.9 ounces of gold which would be $22/hr today or $45,160 (From 1938 to 1968 federal minimum wage was increased 7 times. On average from 1938 till today federal minimum has been increased 22 times on average once every 4 years with most adjustments happening within a year of the previous one. But today the federal minimum wage has not been adjusted in 17 years. The longest period it has gone unadjusted in 87 years.)

For about 4 decades a minimum wage worker could support a family of four with enough left over to save for their retirement (if they were not part of the approximately 50% of people with a pension) their children’s higher education and a modest family vacation once a year. During this point in history the median house price was $7200 but a home could be bought in most states for $4k-5k or even less for a fixer upper (my geandfather bought a house they were going to burn down in 1955 for $2700 about an hour outside Boston in the metropolitan providence area of new England and today it is worth $600,000) in 1950 minimum wage was raised to 75¢/hr which is 45 ounces of gold a year or $141,000 / $68/hr today. in 1956 it was again raised to $1/hr or 60 ounces of gold a year or $188,000/ $90/hr and in 1968 it was raised a final time before the end of the gold standard to $1.60 an hour this was 95 ounces of gold a year and today would be $300,000 or $147/hr it would take both adults working 2 jobs at 80 hours a week with overtime at a base pay of $30/hr to reach the same quality of life/ buying power

The reality is wall street took over our government, enacting the business plot they had attempted during the FDR administration(if you dont know about this coup led by prescott bush and the other robber barron wall street legacy families look it up) and they used their wealth and influence to eradicate the progress made by labor and civil rights advocates in the 30’s 40’s 50’s and 60’s primarily by intentionally devaluing the us dollar to lower the cost of wages for all the jobs they couldn’t outsource to the third world in the next step of their plan to siphon more wealth from the working class and poor. They had Reagan re legalize stock buybacks again and implement trans national trade agreements that sent a majority of the good manufacturing jobs and the jobs supporting them to the third world to cut lanor costs by 90-95%+

Now rent for a 2 bedroom in most metropolitan cities close to shipping ports is $3000/month (rent for 2 bedroom apartments has always been about an ounce of gold on averagein areas such as hartford ct, plymouth ma, providence ri, burlington VT, many parts of NY outside the city and new jersey. By the end of this administration gold spot price for an ounce will be $4500 last time he was in office saw rhe largest price increase under any administration from $1200 to $2050 or 71% so brace yourselves.

The reason financial institutions don't tell us this as I mentioned above is to prevent civil unrest and revolution. If more people understood this as i do they would immediately stop participating as a wage slave in a system that doesn’t afford a quality of life worth working or living for. Minimum wage has decreased in value by 86-95% meanwhile executive pay has ballooned from 30-60 Times the median worker wage back 54-84 years ago to 1000-5000(3333%-8333%) times that same metric today with the highest paid executive earning an hourly wage of $72,000 or about $800/hr back before 1971.

The reality is that it cost more to purchase and maintain an enslaved person for their average 30 year lifespan during chattel slavery than minimum wage workers anywhere in the United States are currently compensated

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

Fuck steve huffman aka u/spez

 

Out of 1700 comments on a reddit post about the justice department seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione 97.222223% of those comments have been censored / deleted.

Fuck the state. Fuck the establishment.

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s definitely a bunch of LEO’s and corporate executives. The shit they type is so ridiculous. Like luigoids are transphobe far right incels and saying brian Thompson is a hero for providing gender affirming care. Like what planet are these people on?

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Im pretty sure that sub has been there since before kfa was representing him. I could be wrong,

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

The Balfour declaration was literally addressed to “Lord Rothschild” fuck the Rothschilds. Zionists are evil

Why don't you defend all billionaires and tell me how hard they worked. Obviously anti semitism isnt really a big deal to zionists if they are best friends with trump and Elon musk who did a blatant open seig heil salute not once but twice at the inauguration while espousing all the pro Zionist bullshit he can. The ADL even excused such a disgusting gesture so if doing a seig heil salute isnt anti semitic then clearly calling out the rothschild family cant be either right? Which way is it? Sure the rich Zionists who use their money to further their cause are all good guys because of the magic sky daddy they worship.

Get the Zionist boot out of your mouth and go touch some grass and breathe in some Reality for once.

That youtube link is for anyone who wants to hear the truth. Its from code pink. Obviously you don't want the truth you want to make excuses for genocidal war mongers because you deludedly believe their ethno-religious identity shields them from valid criticism.

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I made a post on antiwork yesterday about all the additional comments underneath the top comments that just don't exist when you go to expand them. Made a screen grab video of it. In one case it said there were 48 comments but you open them and nothing then you scroll to the end it said 458 comments and there were like maybe 40-50 it’s ridiculous what a corporate bootlicking shithole reddit now obviously is. At least it was better hidden before.

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

https://youtu.be/OiopyxPHS-g

Today on neo liberal paridoxical brain rot. “Anyone who identifies as a zionist is therefor jewish and completely absolved of being held accountable, the idea that ultra wealthy zionists who hold extreme Socio-political and economic power who have publicly spoken of their aims and used their wealth to manipulate and influence others to also serve their interests are very likely working together for a common interest, is just a crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theory and should be discredited immediately because it makes all people who support a genocidal ethno stare look bad and that reflects poorly on judaism as a whole!”

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Too late. You’ve taken a ride on the intellectual equivalent of the lolita express.

 

This is a wide spread phenomenon on the platform. Sometimes its just a few comments or even dozens of comments in response to an original comment on a post being grouped together in another button saying (x number of replies) but when you open those replies its either nothing, or significantly less replies than the prompt described. Its mostly all on posts that are political in nature relating to the current fascist takeover in the USA, Luigi Magnione, amazon union busting, anti laborer’s rights legislation, loosening of child labor laws and other topics related to the wider topics regarding disappearing human rights under emboldening fascist authoritarianism. many of us have seen the news articles that mention allegations of reddit censoring comments and giving people violations for liking certain content but nothing is being said about the actual extent of this censorship. But when you can see hundreds of comments being deleted from a post such as this one here, it doesn't bode well for the future

 

Along with everything Khalil said we also need to remember (or for thise who dont know already, learn)that the attacks against Palestinian rights advocates that aim to paint the support of resistance organizations as the support of violent terrorists are rooted in ignorance and falsehoods. As international law dictates; resistance to colonial occupation is an inherent right to indigenous populations including armed struggle

The reality is there was no such thing as islamic extremist “terrorism” before middle eastern resistance groups started intertwining marxist ideas to their resistance movements sometime in the 1960’s long after the creation of IsNOTrael as a nation stare.

This nation state was founded upon terrorism funded by a family of central bankers who have for the last century very cleverly used PR agencies and campaigns to cleanse the blood from their hands and paint anyone who dares criticize them as “antisemites”

Theodore Herzel, one of if not the most prominent founders of the zionist state of IsNOTrael went to the patriarch of this family and asked for a loan of 15 million(2.4 billion in today’s money) and they refused because why would they pay for this land when they could leverage their wealth and use the british empire(which they already owned or at the very least had under their thumb, to steal the land from the ottomans for their cause) It was sometime after this proposition by herzel, 1922 to be specific, at the end of the first world war when British prime minister Balfour signed the balfour agreement which verbally y the UK’s intent to creating a home-state for zionists and subsequently gifting this land to this family that for all Intents and purposes was more powerful than the British empire itself, that the British empire took control of Palestine renaming it “British mandate Palestine” for the time being.

This event triggered a ceaseless barrage of Zionist terrorism by 4 main paramilitary groups. The Irgun, Hagannah, Palmach and Lehi(or stern gang) were responsible for dozens if not a hundred or more violent attacks, riots, race mobs, assassinations and heists. Killing somewhere between 5000/8000 Palestinian christians, jews, muslims/arabs, even American and British citizens as well as British infantry. Before the British empire relinquished control of the annexed territory in 1948 giving full control of the land to these violent racist extremists.

Now they made a show and publicly denounced these paramilitary groups as terrorists while also welcoming them with open arms into the newly formed IDF, IAF and Mossad. Many of the high ranking members within their ranks today had family members who were directly involved with these groups such as Bibi Netanyahu himself.

So remember the next time a zionist looks down at you from their high horse and calls you a terrorist sympathizer that not only is the term “terrorist” an ignorant epithet used to minimize the efforts of freedom fighters and empower the oppressors but that before zionist terrorism there was no such thing as middle eastern radical islamic terrorism. There are several well written historically accurate pieces written examining this fact.

 

How fucking dumb are these asshats? Calling boycotts of a shitty product which is first amendment protected activity, illegal? Super dumb Promising to make even more of these cars when his company already struggles to sell them and they sit in lots collecting dust for years? Then promising that these cars will either be self driving or they wont drive at all, which is his way of saying he will finally succeed in delivering FSD after over a half a decade of continuously failed promises to deliver, in his own extremely moronic grasp of the english language.

This is nothing more than a fucking dumpster fire fueled with weapons grade plutonium levels of stupidity.

 

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present President of the United States, Donald J Trump, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

Ive had people on lemmy and other communities tell me the r/fuckluigimangione sub is satire but after checking its posts out since it was made and circling back to it now i am 100% convinced it is not.

The auto mod responses alone as well as the concerted effort to manipulate the narrative tell you all you need to know. For instance anytime you say his name there is a ridiculous anti L-M response, or if you say brian thompson (yuck) the automated response is just pure corpo ball gargling. If you ask if the sub is satire there is a specific automod response that explains in definitive English that the sub is 100% not satirical.

Also they are trying to spread the narrative that mangione is an alt right trump supporting racist anti trans (because supposedly brian Thompson left a legacy of promoting trans health care (you cant make this shit up)) incel? Satire should at least be so absurd its funny however this sub is just so obviously a smear campaign and pro corporate boot licking effort unlike anything I've ever seen before. Go check it out for yourself. It would be a shame if a bunch of people who have brains and understand whats going on in the world just bombed the shit out of their gross billionaire ball gargling bukkake fest.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckLuigiMangione/s/CEEjtVA5Up

 

we are about to get a heavy snow storm in the north east tomorrow night and we are definitely going to run out of propane gas for our heater in the next 8-10 hours. Along with propane for /heating we need a bag of cat food for our cat Sprinkles as well as some pellets and hay for our bunnies Raisin and Felix before we get snowed in for the next week. Also a few gallons of gas to get supplies. Its also supposed to snow again next Thursday and that is supposed to bring a 14”-20” snowfall in our area and potentially 3 feet north in boston from a couple of the models i have seem. We are very worried that our pets might get sick. Any help would be so very greatly appreciated. If you do feel so inclined to help just pm me and i will send you my cashapp, venmo or paypal. Whichever works for you.

 

This is always a contentious topic. I am Always met with resistance to my main arguments. So without further adieu let us delve into why this is aweful and will only get worse. I see gold hitting $3500-4000 by the end of this cunt’s second term. His first term saw the largest growth of gold price / decrease in usd value of any sitting POTUS from $1200 to just over $2000 which is a 66% fluctuation whereas with biden it went from $2000 to $2700 which is 35% increase.

Anyway lets get into this. For the first 172 years of the history of the USD as a standardized currency the price of gold held strong only increasing ≈85% from $19 to $35. But since 1971 when nixon ended the gold standard the price has ballooned ≈8000% from $35 to $2800 today.

Gold has always been considered an inflation proof asset. It retains its value better than any other commodity subject to the rules of supply and demand markets. Gold was the first currency used outside of traditional barter and trade economics and its value is still intrinsically tied to the value of every circulating currency in existence. If you calculate the exchange rate between any two currencies you’ll quickly see that they all add up to good perfectly. But that’s basic and should go without saying.

Ever wonder why at the time of American history portrayed as the era of American working class prosperity (the mid forties till the mid seventies) one working adult making minimum wage could afford to raise a family of four with enough surplus to send their two children to college, save for retirement (if they weren’t part of the 50% of workers that had a pension around this time) and go on a modest yearly family vacation? Meanwhile today even a family with only one kid is struggling to make it by on two salaries totaling $100,000 after taxes?

Now this may just be conjecture on my part but I believe the reason for this massive flip in working class power dynamics over the lasy 54 years was intentional. Sometime after Kennedy was assassinated wall street corporate interest had for all intents and purposes captured our political process and instructed their employees (our alleged representatives) to enact legislation that would effectively eradicate all the progress made by the labor and civil rights movements of the 40’s 50’s and 60’s as well as FDR’s new deal policies which stood as a foundation for the progress that came after. They were successful meanwhile the corporate executive class adequately adjusted their compensation to counteract the intended results of these policies.

In 1938 after conservative policies had been doubled down on which led to the gilded age and left us with the great depression. FDR finally began to repair the damage with common sense fixes that the robber barrons had fought at every opportunity available. 1938 is when the fair labor standards act was passed. This legislated many common sense socialist protections for workers protecting them from ruthless exploitation by profits at all cost models of capitalism. Such as; child labor laws, federal holidays, weekends, the 40 hour 5 day work week and most importantly, minimum wage.

Minimum wage on a federal level in the 87 years since its introduction has been adjusted 22 times with most adjustments occurring within a year of the previous one. Today the last adjustment of federal minimum wage was 16 years ago. And for the 30 year period of 1938 to 1968 7 adjustments were passed after first being set at 25¢ per hour or 14.9 ounces of gold per year at a full time schedule($41,000 today or about $19.50/hour) The 3 most impactful adjustments were in 1950, 1956 and 1968 where minimum wage was respectively raised to 75¢, $1 and finally $1.60 per hour. St the time that ranged from 45 ,60 and 95 ounces of gold annually.

Today the highest minimum wage in the country of $20/hour for some California fast food workers barely produces more than 15 ounces of gold for a full time year of work. And federal minimum wage is approximately 5.5 ounces. So thats a loss in value of 94-85%

And here many people will try to convince you that “the price of gold isn’t an accurate measurement for inflation statistics” but this is incorrect. But go ahead and believe the world bank, international monetary fund and Wall Street’s cooked books. These institutions have no issue committing fraud and them footing the bill to the rest of the world but sure lets pretend they are telling us the truth about something so important as how badly the socio political and socioeconomic policies they’ve supported the last 5-6 decades have brought the rest of the world as well as america into a state of austerity for the working class while they put around in their new yachts supercars and private jets that burn anywhere from $7,000 to $40,000 worth of fuel per trip. They definitely seem credible 🥴

But anyway lets look at the basis of their inflation models. The inflation models peddled by these fine and proper institutions snd definitely not rotting fraud filled pus buckets of society. They are based almost entirely upon a metric known as “consumer price index” or CPI. And cpi is flawed for several reasons but the biggest of those is that CPI does not account for the devaluation of a currency due to the increase in circulating currency supply. Such as what happens when a governing body prints money out of thin air and increases the national debt over 50 times in the last 6 decades. Now if we contrast cpi to the price of gold we will see where cpi fails is where gold excells. The main driving point in gold’s price increase is economic worry caused by poor policy the most common of which being irresponsible and unrestrained Fiat currency printing. Now lets look at currency printing in the last 54 years. There are plotted graphs that solidify my point and you’re free to look them up. Now by the end of 1979 the price of gold had alrrady increased by 2000% to just over $700 and in less than 2 years by 1981 the US had finished printing the first one trillion dollars into circulation adding to the national debt substantially. Fast forward today and the last i checked the us debt was somewhere around 36 trillion dollars and we currently print one trillion dollars every 3 to 4 months which is driving the price of gold through the roof due to decreasing USD value and market worry about the stability of the US dollar in modern times.

So why could someone working a minimum wage job from 1945 up until the mid 70’s support a family of four? Because money was worth far more and leftist organizing held the feet of the wealthy legacy families in wall street to the flames (these fsmilies all had supported Hitler so blatantly in the 1930’s they held a rally for him at madison square garden and made him person of the year on Times magazine’s cover in 1938) lets do some math here. To earn equal value to 1950’s minimum wage you would need to make the equivalent of 45 ounces of gold which today is worth $126,000 or $60.57 per hour. In 1956 it was 60 ounces or $168,000/ $80.76 then for 3 years before nixon shock was put in motion by withdrawing from the bretton woods agreement, arguably the worst financial policy the us has ever made, us minimum wage peaked at $1.60 which produced 95 ounces of gold or $266,000 or $127.88/hour.

To come anywhere near this both adults need to work 80 hours a week with overtime at a base pay of $20 just to reach $208,000 before taxes. And yes you can live better than a majority of people on thst wage and even $120,000/yr is decent but with 4 kids good luck saving anything meaningful and living anywhere but highly undesirable urban areas in super red states.

So these are facts that i know at least several will comment to debunk on this post. But the facts I’ve mentioned remain. None more so telling than the reality that the rich who are well versed in the markets of investment banking, have always considered gold to be an inflation proof asset that is not just a status symbol or a usefull material for technological applications but also a store of wealth in chaotic economic times.

anyone saying or asking why would they lie to us about this? I mean, are you not paying attention? If they told us the truth, that someone making quadruple federal minimum wage today is making 20% of minimum wage just 54 years ago then people would see the root of their economic frustrations in life and be much closer to starting the class warfare our society so desperately needs.i and others before me who have done the math have also figured out that the minimum wage workers of today are payed less than it cost to purchase and maintain enslaved people under chattel slavery. But since we have this illusory sense of choice, that we could just quit at anytime we are delusional to believe in our freedom under democracy (which is in reality class dictatorship) so from 1950 till today the share of wealth has gone from the top 20% having 10% of the wealth to the top ten percent having 66% and the top 20 having 74% while the bottom 60% have less than the 3 wealthiest men who collectively control $1,000,000,000,000 in assets.

The American working class have been robbed before their very eyes to the point where we are just glorified slaves. Many millennials snd gen z will have to work till we are to sick to do so or have to clock in on the day we expire. Many will never own a home snd have to hope that social security isn’t completely gutted in the next 25-50 years but i am not hopeful.

Have a good weekend regardless. Plan a boycott and some strikes and lets at least try and make things better than they are as dauntingly impossible as it may seem

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