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[JeffSH]

How much does your favorite government spend on advertising? Why don't you go after the Armed Services for sponsoring sporting events? How much does the Postal Service spend on designing and printing politically motivated stamps every year? Seems you should start where everyone's dollars are being wasted instead of aiming first at private parties spending their own money.

I'm a libertarian. I hate government. You don't need some centralized bureaucracy in order for the workers to be empowered to take back what is theirs.

 

[JeffSH]

Wouldn't it be awesome to live in a world where someone said, "I'm going to spend a billion dollars advertising my taco store on TV so that everyone will eat at my shop and I will make lots of money" and everyone else said "No. that makes no sense."

 

[George Hatch]

Most fast food workers could not do what we do. Not without extensive training. What point are you trying to make? Like I've said, I envision a world where the difference between plumber and CEO is not so large, but I don't envision a world without pay differences. That's silly.

But on fast foods, Fast-food chains spend about $3 billion each year on television advertising – enough money to pay 75,000 workers $40,000 a year to build hospitals, schools, or any number of productive activities that would actually benefit society.

Exactly - some labor has far less value in the market than others. Your labor is worth more in the market than the fast food worker - even though you both "deserve" to be equal. And by extension the dentist's work is worth more in the market than your's, and apparently the CEO who makes 700x what you make is worth 700x more pay to THEIR employers. As evidenced by the fact their employers are paying them that much.

And there is no future wherein companies stop advertising for business so you can put that fantasy out of your mind. They don't pay for advertising because they want to, they do it because they have to in order to survive.

And BTW, when the "unskilled" fast food worker gets a pay raise it isn't "the rich" who pay for it. Ever. It's always the consumer who pays. That's why the Happy Meals cost twice as much as they did just a few years ago and why you're spending more on groceries and everything else you buy.

 

[JeffSH]

Exactly - some labor has far less value in the market than others. Your labor is worth more in the market than the fast food worker - even though you both "deserve" to be equal.

Do you intentionally not read what I write?

 

[JeffSH]

And there is no future wherein companies stop advertising for business so you can put that fantasy out of your mind. They don't pay for advertising because they want to, they do it because they have to in order to survive.

Companies existed long before billboards, television commercials, pop-up ads, etc. Every new medium is ad-free until capitalists invade. Cable used to be ad-free.

You like advertisements? Really?

 

[George Hatch]

I'm a libertarian. I hate government. You don't need some centralized bureaucracy in order for the workers to be empowered to take back what is theirs.

How are the workers going to do that, if not protected by the State from being fired for organizing or striking? The state has intervened in commerce in order to limit the wage volatility that otherwise prevails with most other goods and services.

You can't get ANYTHING done that you're talking about without empowering the state to take it for you. The increases in the minimum wage are the perfect illustration of that - without those legal requirements those wages would float at whatever the prevailing market conditions would support. It's exactly what you're complaining about with your previous job - you didn't get paid more because the govt didn't force your employer to "share their profits" with you.

 

[JeffSH]

Will Cable TV be invaded by commercials? (July 26, 1981)

WILL CABLE TV BE INVADED BY COMMERCIALS? (Published 1981)

www.nytimes.com

 

[JeffSH]

How are the workers going to do that, if not protected by the State from being fired for organizing or striking? The state has intervened in commerce in order to limit the wage volatility that otherwise prevails with most other goods and services.

You can't get ANYTHING done that you're talking about without empowering the state to take it for you. The increases in the minimum wage are the perfect illustration of that - without those legal requirements those wages would float at whatever the prevailing market conditions would support. It's exactly what you're complaining about with your previous job - you didn't get paid more because the govt didn't force your employer to "share their profits" with you.

NOTHING gets done without labor. We are all in this together. An immoral society allows individuals to amass billions of dollars in wealth while there are mentally ill people living on the streets of every major city. One day society will come around. The people will overthrow the capitalists much like the revolutions of the past.

 

[George Hatch]

Companies existed long before billboards, television commercials, pop-up ads, etc. Every new medium is ad-free until capitalists invade. Cable used to be ad-free.

You like advertisements? Really?

I don't like them and I don't dislike them. Taking note that THESE COMPANIES obviously think it's a profitable business strategy and that the money is well spent isn't an enforcement or advocacy thereof, it's simply an observation of the obvious.

Lemme ask you a serious question: if you were to go to a football game and take a poll, how many of those attendees do you think would support your politics when framed within the context of the actual costs thereof?

 

[JeffSH]

I don't like them and I don't dislike them. Taking note that THESE COMPANIES obviously think it's a profitable business strategy and that the money is well spent isn't an enforcement or advocacy thereof, it's simply an observation of the obvious.

Lemme ask you a serious question: if you were to go to a football game and take a poll, how many of those attendees do you think would support your politics when framed within the context of the actual costs thereof?

Do you watch the commercials when you record a show, or do you skip through them. I genuinely don't believe you. Who the hell likes advertisements? You don't have a popup blocker? You don't pay for youtube premium or similar ad-free service?