Does Trickle-Down Economics Actually Work?
- Thread starter Frederick Foresight
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Just throwing out a notion reading that, not to he taken as a personal challenge by anybody who has no imagination.
The US is awash with cash and a really easy place to make money because it is "the great parasite" in ways other developed nations are not.
Of course there is a culture of work will set you free, at least long hours and few holidays as counterproductive as that can be. There is however a ever present rushing sound as resources are sucked from the 96 percent of the people in the rest of the world through various mechanisms. This is both the obvious petrodollar but also human capital.
You can near kill yourself in most countries of the world and never get more than a little. Receiving a lot, and I mean crazy money for even unskilled work? Yep, you are going to attract a lot of migrants with banner headlines like this:
UPS delivery driver job searches soar 50% after union secures wage hike that could see workers get a $170,000 yearly package
https://www.businessinsider.com/ups-170k-deal-driver-job-searches-soar-union-wage-increase-2023-8
Natural born Amercians have a lot of advantages up the ladder however immigrants smoke them at the bottom.
I know, what I just said is red rag to a bull but natural born Amercians just so rarely have a good perspective on their actual effort vs reward.
I recall myself working when I became an IT contractor and was on 500 pounds a day, I never missed work. Very quickly I was making three to four times that six days and sometimes seven days a week, never having a holiday and clicking my heels every morning jumping out of bed.
There is a profound psychological difference between being paid and over-compensated but natural born Amercians rarely see it as over-compensated as they lack perspective. Sure I was in ways exhausted all the time but I saved a retirement in ten years in a top-tier economy.
The sloshing cash that motivates all is taken straight from the pockets of everybody who holds dollars whenever the US needs it. Americans over play their 'exceptional' hand as a matter of personal effort by them.
The only nation that never has to deal with reality, need cash but have inflation? Find another war, get the dollar you diluted in larger demand. Push up birthrates, why not? More people is a better cusion.
Anyway, just a brain fart in the storm. One day I'll write this well and make it a persuasive dinner party argument.
None of this contradicts anything I stated. What's your point? You made a stupid connection between immigration and trickle down economics. I disproved any such connection. Yet you keep rambling on with immigration numbers.
And yet that's exactly what liberal British Columbia did, legalize the selling and trading of hard drugs. Congrats. And safe injection sites next to elementary schools with needles lying around everywhere. Leading by example to our future generations I guess...
FB posts like this on an almost daily basis in my town.
FB posts like this on an almost daily basis in my town.
A jack of all trades. Hospice worker, then IT contractor. Seems like a magical economy where you take a few Web Design online courses and then get paid 500 bucks a day. I am retired but I wished such opportunities existed here in canada, lots of folks in rural communities struggling...to make the same you gotta work in a camp 2 weeks on 2 weeks off, hundreds of miles away from friends and family. A real marriage buster...
In summary, trickle down never worked for the majority of the population. But neither do liberal policies work that normalize crime and pardon wrongdoing and encourage destruction in communities and families. The biggest destructive factor of our societies today are single parent homes with virtually both parents absent. All that encouraged by or at least a result of liberal policies
I never suggested the legalized selling of it. That's above my pay grade. I'm just suggesting that if you're going to go after someone, then go after the predator and not the prey.
And what liberal policies would those be?
It 100% directly contradicts your statement: "Canada is a more popular immigration destination than the US."
It proves my only contribution to this debate: Where do immigrants of this world want to go?
I suggest you try to travel the world and see other countries before you bash the US.
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