I was a young girl back in the late 60's. As time went on, I watched. I saw that people could not work full time, have a decent wage, buy a house, or rent an apartment, raise a family (more than one, maybe two children) and school them, pay bills, taxes, fees, licences, insurances, be able to afford groceries, transportation costs, utilities, clothing, and have some money leftover for a once a year family vacation, and be able to give to charity, help people in need.
Misunderstood the headline, thought it would be a piece on why progressives of all kinds (doesn't matter if it's a campus radical red or the likes of Musk and Thiel) think you can calculate how much of everything needs to be produce.
Reality is, you must produce surplus - something progressives (futurists, industrialist, pomos et c) don't understand. No surplus means any kind of loss or interruption to the production/distribution means someone somewhere will experience lack and want.
Was an old rule of thumb here in ancient days, allegedly, that anyone growing food saw it as "1/3 you eat and save for Winter, 1/3 you save to plant next season, 1/3 is what you set aside for taxes and expenses" - people paid their taxes in goods and services back then.
Even if the percentages may have changed, it still holds true I think.
But the progs thinks you can calculate how many yards of toilet paper a town of 12 000 uses in a year...
This is hard for so many to comprehend, but Justice Thomas put it as succinctly as anyone ever has.
I was a young girl back in the late 60's. As time went on, I watched. I saw that people could not work full time, have a decent wage, buy a house, or rent an apartment, raise a family (more than one, maybe two children) and school them, pay bills, taxes, fees, licences, insurances, be able to afford groceries, transportation costs, utilities, clothing, and have some money leftover for a once a year family vacation, and be able to give to charity, help people in need.
Misunderstood the headline, thought it would be a piece on why progressives of all kinds (doesn't matter if it's a campus radical red or the likes of Musk and Thiel) think you can calculate how much of everything needs to be produce.
Reality is, you must produce surplus - something progressives (futurists, industrialist, pomos et c) don't understand. No surplus means any kind of loss or interruption to the production/distribution means someone somewhere will experience lack and want.
Was an old rule of thumb here in ancient days, allegedly, that anyone growing food saw it as "1/3 you eat and save for Winter, 1/3 you save to plant next season, 1/3 is what you set aside for taxes and expenses" - people paid their taxes in goods and services back then.
Even if the percentages may have changed, it still holds true I think.
But the progs thinks you can calculate how many yards of toilet paper a town of 12 000 uses in a year...