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Oct 11, 2022 11:21 AM
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dixxienormus
Treebeard earns more than an EMt
HazeMachine
Wait til you hear about car parking leases cost per month in NYC
BootsDusty
ElVatoLoconro1
Sad, but it's believable...
ILikeTaterTots
PicassoCT
Collapsing in a parking spot and getting saved by an EMT though
AdamGenesis
I was gonna type something but my cat stepped on my keyboard.
tinyfootprints
For 20 years, the parking guy at the London Zoo collected £5 per car. Then he disappeared. Parking at the London Zoo has always been free.
Codybill
Parking here (Denver) costs $4.00 an hour, or $24.00 for all day, you must really suck at your job.
BaklavaWearingBalaclavaWhilePlayingBalalaikaOnBlackLava
"Parking can sometimes cost $20-30 for an hour, more if you have an SUV" https://www.tracykaler.com/parking-a-car-in-nyc/
Cheese302
sad
Clarysage
Well, at least there's the possibility of getting nuked to distract us from the much slower and more soul crushing capitalism death.
Targe0
wuHoo End stage capitalism! Let's get the death spiral going. /s
sadurdaynight
(company) we're sending you on business trip, all expenses paid! (me) cool.. and you'll have the expense reports approved before the 1/
sadurdaynight
company credit card tries to bill me, right? (company) ... (me) RIGHT!? .. oh god dammit.../
westPAguy
Targe0
I mean if we truly hit the peak of End stage Capitalism they will end up eating themselves.
aurifex
I really wouldn't prob a bit rich for my taste
caliborune
why do americans not simply become private property. sink into the earth, earn back your rights, build yourself into a brick wall--profit
nclu
Relevant meme of mine, but really, LVT => UBI is the way to address this.
gerf
Unless you're in Chicago, where they sold all their parking meters to a foreign conglomerate for 99 years. wtf Chicago.
mykidsdontsleep
I sure hope it is the end stage. We can't take much more of this.
wrenlmao124
this is the beginning of the end sadly
sadurdaynight
We're at a turn-around point if folks vote and keep voting for decades to come. Otherwise it'll be a breaking point soon.
trippingthelightfantastic
LiquidHandSoap
More of us than them, hallelujah.
Illithidbane
linusTheTiger
That's cute. Ain't nothing gonna happen.
ThisDeservesMoreUpvotes
Illithidbane
IIRC, isn't the wage gap in the US now higher than the last French revolution?
Azazellosarmour
Get a better job, let’s have a different person do your current job and they can starve & go without medical care- Republicans
sadurdaynight
That's why they want abortion illegal. Over-population = no wage negotiation power, and lots of desperate people willing to accept shitty 1/
sadurdaynight
work conditions, and some folks willing to sell their soul to become the task masters (police/management) of it all./
Azazellosarmour
Yep
Targe0
And why would them starving even matter? Their poor, we all know the poors don't matter. ~Also Republicans
sadurdaynight
"Republicans have this one secret diet trick to keep you skinny! Vote here to find out!"
ummjakefromstatefarm
Some of them started in their garage. And look at them now. You lazy fucks need to up your game.
5amNonsense
In their parking garage?
ummjakefromstatefarm
Some times that were parking spots are born
TongueWagger
I hate when a good joke is lost on the crowd. Yes. That parking space worked hard to earn that salary!
ionlyregisteredtosavelinks
That's just imgur in a nutshell.
ummjakefromstatefarm
carlsagansghost
Damn. A lot of people missing this joke. Well done. :)
5amNonsense
Imgur's a cesspool at the best of times tbh
ummjakefromstatefarm
It’s what i do best.
relsky
I saw a parking deck at a stadium the other day that was $60/hr. Parking spots out there making six figures while people starve.
ThisIsMyDogLily
An hour? Really? Sure it wasnt for the whole event? I see that price too for parking but its always for the whole night
TacticoolWolf
That's still a lot considering someone might be there for 3 hours for the average football/baseball game. or much less for dinner or movie.
Sandboom
The parking spot is the real victim here. You think it keeps the money it earns? You think it likes having strange cars parking all over it?
CannaFreak
Holy shit, worst I’ve seen here was 5€/h
Gearwarz
An HOUR?!? Highway robbery as my dad would say. How long did the event last? What was the final parking bill?
armagetz
I’m assuming the place is trying to maintain exclusivity w/ certain clientele,where if you shop/eat at surrounding places it gets validated
Iliketacos42
I can't understand why anyone willingly goes downtown. Oh there's a sports. That will be $60 to park and $30 for 3 tacos. Now walk 4 miles.
Iliketacos42
That's not even going to the game.
TicoGuy
lol yes, like where is the $300 per seat to see players at look like ants at that distance.
TeeweeAndSmashboy
Stadium parking is more often empty, than full.
smegmaspread
Which is why o love it when city governments tell billionaire team owners to fuck themselves when they want money to build a stadium. Sadly
smegmaspread
That doesn’t happen often. But it boils my blood when a stadium gets built with my taxes and then they have the audacity to charge me to
smegmaspread
Park and keep ticket prices so high I can’t take my family to a game for under $1000.
nclu
We really need proper transportation networks. Storing our cars on expensive land is a huge part of the problem and such a waste
lljkstonefish
Cities permitting buildings that don't have their own free underground parking to support their expected customers is the actual problem.
lljkstonefish
Public transportation is a great compromise, but building the infrastructure to support the best transport option is better.
BlackHartMTB
Cars have lowest thru put and efficiency, they also cost more personally and have more externalities than the “compromises”.
nclu
You need Shoup. Cars are externalization engines displacing actual people from public spaces.
lljkstonefish
Yeah I'm good
w1k2
Hey, now. Those parking spots worked very hard n started from nothing! They got themselves up by them bootstrap. Pussy in the chain wax, dog
CoinedWatcher
PUSSY IN THE CHAIN WAX!
Shifuede
lljkstonefish
I'm having some real trouble parsing "Pussy in the chain wax, dog". It might keep me up all night.
Shifuede
imakethepunsrealgood
Its a key and peele reference.
PaintyGuys
Same
HankScorpioCEOofGlobexCorporation
What exactly do y'all mean by end stage capitalism? Even the social democracies of Scandinavia and Western Europe are capitalist 1/2
HankScorpioCEOofGlobexCorporation
You're not going to improve on them by going full-on communist. 2/2
dontrike
That's one way to tell us you don't know what communism is.
carlsagansghost
LMGTFY https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism
Targe0
End stage capitalism means the point at which capitalism starts to kill itself. So as an example workers pay is cut so much they can no ->
Targe0
longer afford to buy the thing they make meaning no one can buy it anymore. It's basically when they system reaches it's more non functional
DickMercenary
They mean unregulated Capitalism. Capitalists strive for zero regulation to maximize profits. Fewer regs = closer to their end stage.
Targe0
It's also the point where workers pay can't get any lower but product prices get ever higher. It's called end stage because the system ->
Targe0
Starts to eat itself at its core. It will either correct its path with regulation or it dies. It's why it's end stage as there nothing after
BeetBoxer
So serious question, are there unions for EMTs? That's certainly a job whose value has never aligned with its compensation.
1966flodur
Workers actions are more difficult as the work is more important. Striking for EMT would kill people so this blackmail keeps pay low.
WaveMotionGum
Meaningful work that really helps people appears to be so scarce that people doing it can be exploited. It's fucked up.
tzap
Yea but striking is a bit problematic for EMTs. People literally die when EMTs go on a strike so governments don't usually even allow it.
paintingagency
"So you have impartial binding arbitration then, right?"
tzap
Striking, rioting, sabotage (eg purposefully doing bad work) etc are the way to actually get improvements. Peaceful negotiations do jackshit
HollerinAtTheVoid
Yeah but for EMTs when they do that innocent people die, not the overlords
tzap
They could still riot en masse...
ToastedEggSandwich
Sounds like they should be paid better to assure they don't go on strike, then.
Codac
What if they just started refusing to fill out certain paperwork? Just thinking something similar to Japanese bus drivers giving free rides.
viila
Then welcome to the land of being able to be fired for almost any reason or no reason.
HollerinAtTheVoid
This is a great solution. Start treating people for free using the hospital’s resources but without submitting paperwork needed for payments
mouseasw
I like the cut of your jib