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  1. DonkeyCigars
    Sure, I guess I didn't understand how captain's "trickle down" comments were applicable and wanted to pressure test if he had a real point or just an opening to pontificate his personal points (of which I also, opined, to be fair). Edit to add: Bevo on the post above mine just nailed what I was trying to argue.
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    Also, you just said the quiet part out loud. Some people don't want the upper middle class to exist. Not because we are aesthetically displeasing and gross, because we are with all our cheap, gaudy accoutrements and boring styles, but because it's better to drag the upper middle class into the bigger population pool of poor/working class in order to broaden consensus and get stronger voting blocs to wield power against the vampire billionaires and other evil rich people who enjoy outsize influence and control. The upper middle class is a necessary death, it seems, to you people.
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    But what are you trying to say? Wage growth hasn't grown as fast or on par as per capita GDP? Do you think maybe because, like with the net worth growth (DURING COVID-19!!) of the middle and upper middle class (note: I didn't say poor or lower middle class who can't afford a $200k starter home), those two factors (median wages and GDP growth) are not as tightly coupled as they used to be? The net worth of US households rose to a record $141.7 trillion in the second quarter, up 19.6% from a year ago, the Fed reported yesterday. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/23/household-net-worth-rises-above-141-trillion-but-debt-up-sharply-as-well.html
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    Government shut down looming. Who are the hodge twins?
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    Maybe not so much with poor, but middle class and upper middle class have absolutely seen an increase in net worth even during the pandemic. Namely because of stock market gains and home equity growth.
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    Well, you got me all excited now right before bed!
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    Well did you listen to me? If you went all in on the Monday sell-off and sold at opening bell tomorrow, you'd have made how much?
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    John Carryou giving props to the defense team. Seems like Holmes as a puncher's chance:
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    Evergrande caused a sell-off for exactly one day. TINA.
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    It's the only thing we could ever control, and do; and it wasn't done then, it's not done now, and it's not going to be done in the future. And I think there must have been some measure of time as a great white washer, for us to fondly recall cloying stories and times where we took personal responsibility and were decent, as a people--as a race of people. I think we've always existed and gotten past bottleneck extinction events in spite of our indecency. And we will get over Covid-19, those of us who survive and our progeny, in spite of our general indecency. Or we won't and it will live with us forever or kill us. But hey, whatever works for you. Hope springs eternal.
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    I thought NYG/WFT would be trash, but it was great. I thought CAR/HOU would be trash, but it was trash.
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    Yes + yes to every member of my immediate family (lives under same roof).
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    So, now you are the robot in this hypothetical fantasy of yours? Did you accidentally role switch from your premise? Are you drunk?
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    Hot take alert: COVID-19 is going to have to run it's course. There is no getting it under control and if you haven't resigned yourself to that fact after all the evidence presented the past 20 months or whatever, then I think you might be being a bit obstinate. It's either going to run it's course and burn out over time or it's going to hang around like Marcy playground.
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    You have the weirdest fantasies.
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    Gotcha, makes more sense, thanks for clarifying. Either I was having a tough time with reading comprehension today or...well, I'm probably just tired. :)
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    I gotcha-- you are essentially saying that covid-19 has put a premium on this roles that is not going to be clawed back. Toothpaste out of the tube type thing. The CVS cashier is now an $18/hour baseline versus the $12 it was in 2019 (or whatever the actual numbers are) and so if you are a business trying to regress back to the former baseline (or baseline + $1 or something nominal) then it's not going to work out. I wonder if this has a waterfall effect on the next tier jobs then the next then the next, etc. The big news this summer was Goldman, Morgan Stanley, JPMC, Citi, etc. all bumping the salaries and pay of associate Wall St. bankers due to the burn out and attrition/brain-drain to the cushier sector of tech which pays the same or better, but also has an obviously better quality of life. I guess that's not directly related to hourly workers getting paid more, but I wouldn't doubt it if that wasn't a factor.
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    I'm not very smart so bear with me here-- am I understanding you that you are saying we should create a job role or requisition or a policy or entitlement (call it whatever), to...pay people to combat the pandemic? Pay people to wear masks, get vax, stay home, etc.? If so, I'm shocked and a little curious, but also think this is rewarding bad behavior so ultimately should be dismissed.
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    Just catching up here, but what has you so convinced? Because from what I've seen and what I feel, I'm entirely unconvinced. I'm interested in hearing you tease out your conviction.
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    What part doesn't age well? That's quality children's humor in 2021 too, right?
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    I won't sit here and let you besmirch the good name of St. Jude's!
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    I'm almost 100% certain it's real.
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    It all comes back to how you define work. When we see work as a calling, we have a lot different mental and emotional and spiritual engagement. Studies have shown. But also this video sums it up. So shut up nerds, you are all wrong, and get back to work and get great at something.
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    I wonder how faithful to the source material this will be. Cross posting from the "movie you just watched" thread:
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    Haha, but really, the indigenous brown and brown-haired people (BIPOC?) who are peeved that this singular young blonde death has America refreshing twitter but nobody cares about the other deaths in the area, have a point. It's asinine that so many people are enthralled with this.

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