Kansas Crimson

Leawood wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 12:08 pm

TDub wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 11:21 am

Cascadia wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 10:49 am

lol, bro, it's abundantly clear that you're the one who doesn't understand the free market concept.

I have an undergrad degree in ecomonics. I'm comfortable with my grasp of the concept thanks.

Hmm, my Senior thesis in History and Econ was "The Mexican Expropriation of United States Oil Interests in 1936 and its Effect on U.S. oil reserves for World War II."

What was your thesis TDub?

MJ23 wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 12:25 pm My thesis for today is how a bunch of people who have a common interest (KU sports) can get together on a message board and say fuck that common interest and instead have an attitude of let's become jag offs towards one another - for no other reason than people get off on being assholes.
That's the main reason why I choose to delete accounts and take breaks from this place.
It's fucking shameful.
Anyways, have a lovely Saturday boys and girls.

ousdahl wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 11:01 am

JKLivin wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 10:50 am

ousdahl wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 10:33 am Anecdotes about anecdotes, nice.

We should take economic advice from Russian cab drivers more often!

But “being unemployed is as or more profitable than working” is, once again, quite the indictment of the free market.

Because burger flippers deserve to be paid $20 an hour. Right. So you've said.

Another option would be that minimum wage was never intended to be a destination and should be motivation to move up in the world, not incentive to be a 45 year-old doing work intended for a 16 year-old.

Where’d I say that? (About never flippers and $20 an hour). You sure you aren’t putting words in my mouth?

And that’s a good observation. In fact, that’s precisely the problem I’m trying to discuss! Employers wanna marginalize their staff positions, then wonder why no one wants to work for them? That’s not the free market, that’s having yer cake and eating it too.

Maybe if employers DID treat their openings as some kind of “destination,” as you call it, where there IS a competitive enough incentive to work, maybe people will work.

Cuz, “please come work for us but we’re not giving you any better than high school wages” isn’t exactly a lucrative recruiting pitch. Perhaps the issue is, again as you put it, that those workers found the “motivation to move up in the world,” and simply don’t wanna bother with those shit jobs no more?

Walrus wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 4:57 pm That's called anarchy, not a free market.

TDub wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 12:49 pm We dont have a free market. Never have and never will. Government interference is too broad, unemployment, subsidies, price fixing, price setting, sin taxes, embargos, there is no such thing as no such thing as a true free market possible in a governed society.

Cascadia wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 8:05 pm

TDub wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 12:49 pm We dont have a free market. Never have and never will. Government interference is too broad, unemployment, subsidies, price fixing, price setting, sin taxes, embargos, there is no such thing as no such thing as a true free market possible in a governed society.

I’m so fucking proud of you.

Mjl wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 5:10 pm This thread has become what politics should be. Honest discussion, different points of view that both have backing of well thought out ideas based in facts. I wish the national discourse could go back to this instead of the conspiracy theory crap.