“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation. So if you think that’s a groundbreaking proposal, I suggest you think again.”
Got it.
https://www.credit.com/blog/average-american-net-worth/
I wasn’t worth a tenth of that in L.A.
So I guess I had the right to complain.
I mean global average.
https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/the-50-countries-with-the-highest-median-wealth-per-capita/
Therefore, according to you, most people living well below the poverty line in America still have no right to complain about how much they get paid.
Yep. They get no sympathy from me when the vast majority of people in the world still have less.
Once they make more money, prices go up and the children in Africa continue to starve.
So basically less than one percent of Americans should be unhappy about what they’re being paid. They could live in a shack with no running water, but because they’re worth $9000, they have no right to complain.
That’s really what you think?
Yep. They should understand that they still have more wealth than the vast majority of people ever to walk to Earth. Not many Americans are in that position though. The problem is that $9k “isn’t a lot” in the US because most of our money is being siphoned by those richer than us.
If we reduced the disparity in wealth, $9k could be a lot.
It’s important we help out those at the bottom, not those towards the top. Even below “America’s” poverty line, you’re still globally more wealthy than most people can ever hope to be. As soon as you make more money, prices get up so the world’s poorest continue to stagnate. This is why inflation is a good thing for the ruling class.
If I’m worth $9000, I am at the bottom. And I’m living like the people in third world countries. You sound like you’re coming from a very privileged position and do not know what poverty in America is like. There are children literally starving in this country because their parents can’t afford to feed them enough, even with food assistance. And then there’s healthcare. Good luck if you have a long-term or chronic illness in America. In plenty of third-world countries, they still have socialized medicine.
But if you’re worth $9000 in America and you have cancer, you have no right to complain. Just die. This is your logic.
Poverty in America is nothing compared to poverty in Africa, or most parts of the world.
Ironic how you say I’m the one speaking from a position of privilege.
On the children starving in the US, it’s usually because parents are struggling to pay rent. Rent goes up when they make more money. The system is designed to keep people barely alive so they’re in no position to change it. Just work and pay bills till you literally can’t do it anymore.
I think the US should have universal healthcare, so I’m not sure what your point on cancer is.
I’m not going to argue the person worth $9k in the US should make more money just so it can be funneled to landlords and executives. I’m going to argue landlords and executives should be making less profit so those with less money can be catered to as well. The only way they’ll make less if they’re forced to, and that involves spreading out away from the most expensive places to live. Not “making more money.” All the latter does is drive up inflation, which is what we’re seeing now.
You clearly are.
And it doesn’t matter what America should have. We are talking about America as it is now. And, based on your logic, anyone in America today with a long term or chronic disease that can’t afford to pay for it should just die. Their family has no right to complain that they can’t afford care.
They also have no right to complain, according to you, if they can’t afford electricity or plumbing.
If you can’t afford electricity, plumbing or healthcare, how is your life different from people living in poverty in Africa? What is the effective difference? Other than, according to you, having no right to complain.