If I hear about him “abolishing tax on tips” again I’m gonna lose my mind

      • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        18·
        15 days ago

        I mean it would be irrational to think they are not, Libs (and there subset of conservitives) do think and have motivations, even if they are not entirely rational to an outside observer, it needs to both make sense to them, and especialy the case for libs, to the Capitalist overclass. I can understand why the workers would feel the gold standard would help, it just has the gut reaction that making the dollar actually worth something real and tangable would help, what I cannot understand is where the capitalists think they will see any gain in this

    • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      15 days ago

      Maybe something about gold being

      1. Old-fashioned, like they did before everything went woke
      2. Easy to understand. If gold is money then I have one money if I have one gold. On the surface a gold standard seems much more straightforward than the web of debt backed by vibes that is fiat currency.
      3. Gives a feeling of independence and self-sufficiency. If I have good it can’t be touched by inflation or the evil gubmint (it absolutely can, but it feels like it can’t).
      4. Fertile soil for grifts. There are people who make good money selling gold to chud goldbugs.
      5. The thing the liberal (((elites))) running the financial system doesn’t want.
      • Tom742 [they/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        15 days ago

        Fertile soil for grifts. There are people who make good money selling gold to chud goldbugs.

        I’ve had to navigate older family members through so many gold scams lately