First World Problems vs. Third World Problems: The Ultimate Showdown

Ace Rimmer

Define Cost cutting.

Tnu1138

You kn ow layoffs, worse products, Raising prices on consumers.  the associated individuals who compries a business do no t have unlimited money to do everythign that is expected of them. You can't keep adding costs and still expect it to work anywhere close to well.

Ace Rimmer

Except thats not what happened either, when the United Kingdom and Canada brought in minimum wage laws, Unemployment went down not up. Also Inflation was unaffected and prices went down for stuff as well.

Explain that one.

Tnu1138

I'm not even sure how that is possible. Let me give a small scale example. Bob has units to spend on labor. if each hired individual only asks one unit a s a part of the contract he can afford to hire ten individuals. If then each individual is required to be paid two units five individuals have to be let go. There is no possib le workign arund that.

Ace Rimmer

Not only was it possible but it also sheltered the UK from the 2001 recession

Tnu1138

The math just doens't work. How doyou explain that?

Ace Rimmer

I can't, I just know that it happened.

Tnu1138

I don't see how every angle i've looked at it from doesn't make sense in the slightest. Mathamatically and sociologically it simply doesn't add up.

Misery

Oh, politics. -groan-

Manly McMacho

It might just be the sleep deprivation but this thread is mad funny.

Tnu1138

Also now that I think of it on the subject of the title of the thread. Have communist countries been lumped in to either the first or third world now? Nobody ever mentions the Second World.

Manly McMacho

No one ever mentions it because the government is planning to take all second world citizens and ship them to mars to rule more effectively over the third world countries.

Like, duh.

Tnu1138

wait bit of research failure oin my part Second World isn't communist just means that they're allied iwth the Superpower nations.  But wouldn't shipping citizens of t hose countries to Mars make them Fourth World countries?

Manly McMacho

No, it would make them Martians.

Either that or dead, really no one cares.

...Dead Martians. Dead, Communist Martians.

Tnu1138

As it turns out Fourth World as a classificaiton actually does exist as an extension to the Three Worlds Theory.

Manly McMacho

Nope, it's a red herring. Don't buy into the conspiracy, Tnu.

That's how they get you.

BEWARE

Tnu1138

Well It's not really a part of the original Three Worlds Theory neither is the notion of the "Last World" which is another extension of it. Very interesting to examine where we get these terms and what exactly they mean.

Ace Rimmer

[quote]

It might just be the sleep deprivation but this thread is mad funny.[/quote]

How so? :)

Manly McMacho

Well when I wrote that all I had read was the OP which admittedly is megatits hilarious.

Then again, I've been laughing at the phrase "chicken sandwich sandwich" for like 20 minutes now so my word on what is  funny may not be the most reliable at the present moment.

But yeah Ophelia's post was just delightful.

Viani

I want to be fat vs. I want to have lung cancer: Blacklungs vs. the Fatness

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Justice4243

“Yes because it's

so possible to have a utopia where everything is free if we just get rid of any

notion that people can make money.”

I couldn’t even read the rest of the post because you started with a straw man. No one was suggesting abolishing money, entirely, as far as I could see. Just discussing the gaps between job A that makes only a little money and job B that makes a heck of a lot more when both jobs people are working just as hard (note that there were two sides to the discussion, as well).

“Nobody ever mentions the Second World.”

11th post, first page. We just drifted off towards discussing how rich people fuel their vehicles by shoveling diamond encrusted cuff-links into the gas tanks.

This is in "general" after-all. 

Viani

No one was suggesting abolishing money,

hey we should abolish money

Justice4243

THE PROPHECY HAS COME TRUE!

Tnu1138

OK justice you're right that was bad of me. Would it be desirable for me to amend that out of the post? Your argument only holds weight in Marxist theory. There is no objective way to determine value however and what holds a certain value to one person may hold a different value to another regardless of what went in to the product or service.

Justice4243

Which argument? 

Was it the one where I suggested supply and demand determines the value of someone's job and there was nothing wrong with that?

Because I think Marx would flip his shit if someone suggested that was compatibly with his theory.

Tnu1138

Oh so rry your statment was a neutral one that dealt with what the disccussion was about rather then your stance on how much people get paied for different jobs.

Justice4243

Yes, as I said, I there was a bit of a discussion with two sides.

To be fair to Squid, though, he didn't necessarily suggest that the jobs in this scenario should be equal. 

More that he felt the gap between "unskilled laborer" and "CEO" was far too big, though he seemed to agree that it was logical that there would be some sort of gap.

If I'm understanding his post, that is.

Tnu1138

There are several factors that contribute to the size of the gap.

Ace Rimmer

Watch that Tnu.

Tnu1138

So the oslution is violence?

Justice4243

Isn't it always?

Tnu1138

Never justice. Force is only justified as a response to force. When a single entity has a monopoly on force that is quite a frightening notion.