• carlossurf@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    Also dude looks like he takes 4 hour naps a day, why do we keep electing senior citizens

  • selfdefense420@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    our president is a hypocrite?? wow. this is news to me. well thanks for bringing this to light! i’m sure the people will have a change of heart now!

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      15 days ago

      With the amount he plays golf, you’d think he’d be better at it, but apparently he’s a chronic cheat at that as well.

  • huppakee@feddit.nl
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    15 days ago

    Damn it’s been a while since a political nottheonion was actually a good nottheonion

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Well yeah

    Pensions are fucked globally

    Not a single one of you will see any money from it, so better get working

    Even better, you guys will probably need to extend the pension age up to 75 or so

    Prepare for fun times

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    15 days ago

    The mantra I was told was always ‘add value’ at your job.

    When I read volume one of capital I came to understand that this was willingly giving more of my labour for free on top of the labour capital was already profiting from (after all I am only given a job earning x units/hour as long as capital, via management upwards, earns x+1/units from that labour). Thus wealth trickles upwards in capitalism. Not down.

    Everyone bought the ‘add value’ line and repeated it in work as though the were doing something great - us humans tend to believe what we are told (and once those neural pathways are burned they don’t change easily), which is in large part why those without empathy are able to succeed.

    Another one is “always use other people’s” money (from think and grow rich, or whichever popular book it came from). If you’re Elon Musk looking to hedge risk when buying twitter then fair enough, otherwise you go cap in hand to capital, and pay it a portion of the wealth you create for the privilege of being loaned the capital to begin with. Capitalists want you to use other people’s (actually their) money in order that they can take their cut of your profit.

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      15 days ago

      I’d recommend Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the 21st Century’ if you’re into the deep economics side of all this. Its a bit dense, but really hammers home the point that the period from ~1940 - 1980 in the US was the ONLY period where wealth inequality was declining and therefore it was easier for people to believe that we lived in a meritocracy of some kind where ‘adding value’ at work actually did lead to added wages. That period has ended, and now inequality and trickle-up economics are reaching all time highs, with no apparent limit in sight.

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    16 days ago

    Given how worker production increasing over time and pay for said production have not stood in line with each other I think I’d rather not.

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 days ago

      I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, but it’s not excessive.

      That’s 21.7 weeks. If he went golfing on the weekend, then he still golfed less than 2 times per week.

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        15 days ago

        He actually said at his most recent press conference that he’s upset because he hasn’t been golfing for the last three weeks.

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        15 days ago

        Est. cost to taxpayers for golf since returning to office: $51,800,000

        Perhaps you would not mind paying his golf bill then.

        • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
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          15 days ago

          Not for nothing, but the headline of the article is talking about time spent golfing, and so is neon_nova’s comment.

          The thing the President did isn’t the problem, or really even the frequency. The problem is the cost to the taxpayer.

          ‘20,000 American’s pay for President’s golf habit’ would be a better title.

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        15 days ago

        There is a calendar on the site showing which days he was confirmed to have been golfing. There are many on the weekends, but not all, which means “work week” time was spent golfing.

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          15 days ago

          Eight days so far during ‘work week’ time. If he was going on his own dime, this wouldn’t be worth talking about.

          It just makes a better talking point to say ‘he’s golfed 37 days out of 152’ despite it not being about how he’s using his weekends (assuming we hold government to the same 5 on 2 off standard as most of us have) when it’s really about how much it’s costing.

          A better headline would be ‘President spends income tax of 20,000 Americans on personal entertainment’.

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            15 days ago

            Agreed, but the person I’m responding to made a point about weeks vs. weekends.

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              Yes I suppose, just like anything, a nuance here would be whether or not we expect a person of such political authority to be able to have weekends at all.

              On one hand, they’re still a person working a job and no one should be working 365 days a year On the other, the societal cost, in terms of income tax covering travel and security costs, of having a President that travels every weekend is a bit much.

              If the President was only golfing on the weekends, and wasn’t charging the government to golf at his own clubs, then this whole thing of him taking leisure every weekend would be a harder thing to argue against without getting into that whole administration work life balance discussion.

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    16 days ago

    I hate articles like this. You know weekends are 28% of days right? Can we report on real crazy shit Trump has done instead of these performative outrages?