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Your dumb shell game amounts to:

The rich actually want to be forced to pay a higher wage.

This is somehow exactly what they wanted all along and will somehow make the poor poorer.

Only solution is to do nothing. Let the rich have their way. Stay poor.

But wait... oh no, what if the rich just increase wages themselves then? Does that mean we cannot avoid this terrible trap?

Oh no they're paying me more money! This is the disastrous situation GP warned me about! Somehow I'm ruined!

Who fucking conned this dude into believing that enforcing higher salaries is a trap by rich people? How did you do that?

There's ways to provide relief and welfare for the poorest, but this surely isn't it. If the rich support it, you know it's a bad idea.

so the poor living on dirt get to live on more expensive dirt just so they can think it's not overpriced dirt. got ya.

It's countered linearly by the costs of supply. Increased demand for costlier supplies has a known effect.

Raising the minimum wage affects more than just the poorest workers. It creates upward pressure on wages across the spectrum (known as "wage compression"), which further increases demand as people in multiple income brackets suddenly have more spending power. This amplified demand for housing, food, and other essentials drives up costs for everyone—especially in areas where supply can’t keep up, like housing markets. So while the argument claims demand isn’t tied to poor people's incomes alone, boosting wages at the bottom affects the broader economy in ways that indirectly raise costs.

Again, high prices for living is an observable outcome in every city with high minimum wages. It's effectively a welfare tax affecting primarily those barely scraping by and on the margins of these high costs of living, which is why the rich support it. Raising the costs of living is one of the primary goals of the crony rich. And the income disparities are greatest in the cities with large minimum wages.

Maybe. What about degrees that are known not to increase odds of getting a good job?

Depends on the policy, I guess. Universal healthcare I'd support depending on implementation, rent control I'd oppose.

Ok, but you realize this attitude is kind of my point? Like as long as other divisions between people exist, it's near impossible for all laborers to band together.

And to your thought experiment, you are right on.  Everybody seems to think AI will eventually do everything and nobody will have to work and that will be great, that is so naive, the only people that will be good for are the bazillionaires that own the AI, when AI gets to the point where nobody has to work, it will also be when nobody has a job, and they don't have any money either, and the ruling Oligarchy is not going to give them any.  There is no AI utopia in our future, there is only an AI utopia for the ruling oligarchs, and then the revolution.  

Racism has always been the scapegoat of the bourgeoisie.

Racism is the classic tool of division used by the bourgeoisie, the ruling class, to distract the working masses from the deeper, more pressing issues of class inequality and economic exploitation. It's how the powerful elites maintain control by preventing solidarity among working-class people of all races, thereby keeping them focused on superficial divisions rather than the shared economic struggles they face due to the concentration of wealth and power. It deflects attention from the systemic corruption and economic systems (the things Doge is working to dismantle) that disproportionately benefit the few while keeping the many in poverty.

The Bourgeoisie class makes sure that the working class spends all their valuable time and effort directing their anger and frustration toward one another, rather than uniting against the true cause of their suffering: the corrupt system itself. This manufactured war is what keeps the status quo  in place, with the elite benefiting from both economic and racial divisions. We saw this with the whole ESG bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_governance

Racism is the pervasive scapegoat that perpetuates the power dynamics that allow the rich to stay rich and the poor to stay oppressed, all while diverting attention from the genuine structural issues like crony regulations and crony capitalism. That scapegoat is currently on life support as the American society moves to reject that narrative.

It really doesn't matter if the preferred skin color was white 50 years ago or black today, the point is to continue the manufactured war to sustain the current system.

racist

Capitalism is the gold rush. That's its roots. Men with pickaxes and ambition in a wide open world. Now an increasingly small few own all the land. We'll be lucky if they let us handle rakes. 

The very fact of acquiring resources creates a barrier of entry. There was no gold rush if the mountain was owned.

Survival of the fittest sucks, and any religious person should curse a God that invented it.

I am not sure what to say I would be opposed to confiscating money from anyone to give to the poor. I think such methods usually result in more poor people existing, not less.

As far as affordable housing is concerned I believe in supply and demand. Reduce the demand, perhaps by lowering immigration than the price has to come down.

It's a supercharged predictive text. It has read the entire internet and puts one word after another according to what it has read.

That would require a string of meaningful words, I don't see any.