Post ATE63OXCRF4KWNPwMS by Steve98052@universeodon.com
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(DIR) Post #AT9dVVq0gl4IsgNHjk by QasimRashid@mastodon.social
2023-02-28T23:14:31Z
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🧵MAGA wants SCOTUS to block $10K student loan forgiveness for low income people b/c its "unfair."Okay, let's play that game and see where it takes us.Black people paid taxes for pools schools & libraries they couldn’t use during Jim Crow (1865-1965)—$0 reparationsNative people had 270M acres of their land stolen via Homestead Act (1862-1987)—$0 reparations"But that's ancient history!"—MAGAIt’s really not, but there are plenty of other examples MAGA pretends to not notice./1
(DIR) Post #AT9dVWKUrPSGPEddFw by QasimRashid@mastodon.social
2023-02-28T23:15:58Z
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In 2023—Undoc immigrants pay taxes for welfare benefits they can’t use.Documented immigrants pay taxes for welfare benefits they can’t use."But they're not citizens."—MAGASo? The Constitution doesn’t discriminate in rights. Meanwhile, in 2023, returning US citizens pay taxes for welfare benefits, federal education grants, section 8 housing, and federal and state job benefits they can’t use. ZERO MAGA outrage at any of the above. But it gets even worse. For example…/2
(DIR) Post #AT9dVWx8XkMaL4iUU4 by QasimRashid@mastodon.social
2023-02-28T23:17:50Z
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155 billionaire corps paid $0 tax for public benefits they DID use—no MAGA outrage700 billionaires paid lowest tax rate of ANY group for public benefits they DID use—no MAGA outrageTrump paid $0 taxes for public benefits he DID use—no MAGA outrageBut—total MAGA approvalMoreover—Though ~90% of student loan cancellation go to people earning under $75K—MAGA unanimously opposesBut while only 15% billionaire tax cancellation went to people making under $75K—MAGA unanimously supported it/3
(DIR) Post #AT9dVXRyh527sj97YW by QasimRashid@mastodon.social
2023-02-28T23:18:49Z
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In closing…MAGA opposes student loan forgiveness b/c it helps Black & brown students. 20 years after college, 95% of white students have paid off their debt & 95% of Black students still owe b/c Jim Crow still undermines Black students.I elaborate here: https://www.tiktok.com/@qasim.rashid/video/71729331559581811664/4
(DIR) Post #AT9nDWPIpgZCyXwUcK by CatDragon@mastodon.world
2023-03-01T01:57:34Z
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@QasimRashid let us not forget state schools used to be free or almost free until people of color began enrolling in the ‘60s.
(DIR) Post #ATA1l65sZOdwZQlGvg by Steve98052@universeodon.com
2023-03-01T04:40:30Z
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@CatDragon @QasimRashid Although federal and state aid to students has plummeted since I went to school, there's an even bigger factor driving the cost of education, and it's not even the fault of Republicans. It's a side effect of prosperity known as the Baumol effect.It's also a reason that the nursing care part of medical costs has risen.And in Baumol's original example, it's the reason live music tickets cost more. (Of course Ticketmaster's monopoly is the reason total live music costs are higher.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
(DIR) Post #ATBEkRDu1EVyNIUSJc by drmike@mastodon.social
2023-03-01T01:44:20Z
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@QasimRashid Exactly. Do as they fantasize, not what historical #truth says!
(DIR) Post #ATBnnVCbB7gDyo4pUm by aebicalho@techhub.social
2023-03-01T06:10:09Z
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@Steve98052 @CatDragon @QasimRashid if I’m reading it correctly, the Baumol effect would be the reason why a worker at McDonnalds would be making a similar wage as a nurse or an airline pilot. That is not reality, though. Lower paid wages continue to pay minimum wage - in fact, wages have stagnated for a long time.
(DIR) Post #ATBnnVnSy3Adp9KGxc by Steve98052@universeodon.com
2023-03-01T11:16:31Z
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@aebicalho @CatDragon @QasimRashid The Baumol effect generally suggests that the cost of goods and services that are difficult to automate will rise relative to the cost of goods and services that are easy to automate. It deals with relative costs, not nominal wages.Education is difficult to automate. Some parts of education can be automated, such as scanned multiple choice tests. But the expensive part -- lots of teachers, underpaid though they may be -- are expensive.By contrast, food is heavily automated. One farmer feeds many times more people than a farmer a century ago, due to automation. The result is that it takes more hours of farmer labor to pay for one hour of teacher labor.
(DIR) Post #ATBnnWHx8hYbLhacTo by aebicalho@techhub.social
2023-03-01T15:32:56Z
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@Steve98052 @CatDragon @QasimRashid thank you for the clarification.I can see the costs of those rising because they’re primarily based off manual labor which would have increasing costs, but if the wages are stagnated and the services costs rise, who’s pocketing the difference?
(DIR) Post #ATBnnWnVFOnIvYLoem by CatDragon@mastodon.world
2023-03-02T01:13:29Z
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@aebicalho @Steve98052 @QasimRashid shareholders and CEOs.
(DIR) Post #ATE63OXCRF4KWNPwMS by Steve98052@universeodon.com
2023-03-02T09:18:51Z
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@aebicalho @CatDragon @QasimRashid In the case of the Baumol effect, the cost of education and nursing increases because fewer hours of factory or farm or other automation-assisted labor are paying for the same number of teacher or nurse hours, independent of nominal wages or salaries. There's no difference being pocketed.For example, the average 2017 farmer produced 2.75 times as much food as a 1948 farmer. But a school teacher could teach the same number of kids, unless quality of education was sacrificed. (Digression: during World War II, class sizes approached 60 due to wartime labor shortages, so quality must have suffered.)If farmers grew 2.75 times more food per year of work but teachers taught the same number of kids, the farmer's relative purchasing power would be 2.75 times higher, so to keep purchasing power parity, teachers' salaries would have to increase 2.75 times faster.
(DIR) Post #ATE63PGZiXMgn6eB5U by CatDragon@mastodon.world
2023-03-03T03:47:29Z
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@Steve98052 @aebicalho @QasimRashid it’s a bad statistical analysis, as it doesn’t take into account the number of small farmers pushed out in that time period and replaced with larger agricultural industry.
(DIR) Post #ATGAiV4rnwmSoswOki by Steve98052@universeodon.com
2023-03-04T03:49:09Z
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@CatDragon @aebicalho @QasimRashid Regardless of whether the typical farm worker is the stereotypical farmer working for a multigenerational family farm or an exploited migrant laborer working for a corporate farm, the amount of food produced by a year of farm labor is much higher today than in the past.And the number of students educated by a year of teacher labor is very little changed.