Four bucks per hour laughing at nineteen bucks an hour?
It says $4 million per hour. It’s from one of those places that uses dots instead of commas.
But I do like to imagine someone in a really low CoL area like the Philippines wearing a tuxedo and laughing about how wealthy they are making $4/hr.
There are only two countries that use a currency named dollar and the comma as the decimal separator: Ecuador and Suriname. Which of them seem likely to have originated this English-language meme with typical US hourly rates?
Twitter, for all its faults, proved that a lot of people online with strong opinions about US politics are located in India, Pakistan, and southeast Asia. In my opinion one of these is the likely origin.
So let’s say the guy making $19/hr and the guy making $50/hr come together to take on the really rich guy, what then? They kill the rich guy and take his money? And do what with it? Do they split it evenly, or do they end up fighting each other for it? And what happens when that money runs out? Because it will run out. You give somebody who’s used to living paycheck to paycheck a few million bucks and they will spend it. And once they have the money, aren’t they then the rich guy? Meaning now they would be the target of other working class people? Is the goal to become a rich asshole? Or is the goal for everyone to make $19/hr?
Obviously the problem is still relying on transactional society when we have the capability to become a post scarcity society.
We have lazy bums now under capitalism. We’d have lazy bums under socialism too, but they wouldn’t be an easy mark for the ultra rich to distract the working class with. They’d be free to pursue their interests.
