throwaway23234
Joined 4 years ago
Joined 4 years ago
Not saying that's good or bad, but that's what killed craigslist.
https://lasd.org/effects-of-defunding-the-lasd-on-public-saf...
Mobs are literally going into malls and basically stealing everything in one specific store.
Homeless people are killing people, shoving people into running trains and in a lot of cases the victims are women.
Package theft (porch pirates) is at an all time high.
Mass Murders (gunning down multiple people) is happening every day in the united states.
But yeah I guess other than that, it's really not happening.
People that are less fortunate are going to start getting investment together to buy raw land, build a house and sell it for upwards of the salary of an AI developer at Google.
This is something people can get started on literally tomorrow.
Maybe about 5 years ago I would have said that people making 200k are wealthy. Today I would say that they are a lot of people that have been duped into a lifestyle where they "think" they are wealthy but are not. They spend MOST of their salary on non-essential and non-asset building things. So in a sense they are people that should be rich, but are not. Instead they don't own property (renters) buy lattes, restaurant food (for every meal) and the rest of that income is just going to payments - the tesla, rv/campers/boats, storage facilities for the stuff that doesn't fit in the apartment.
Those people certainly could become winners of the economic system if they stopped paying everyone else - but they identify with wealthy people making 400k but have absolutely no appreciating assets (ok except for their self driving module that Elon duped them into - which it turns out isn't actually "sellable" to the next owner anyway!).
I don't think these people identify with working class - instead they are pushing a narrative for themselves as poor to feel less guilty about that large salary and how poorly it's being pissed away.
That's the closest I can "explain" that from my personal perspective at least.
I highly recommend that instead of Paypal too if you suspect a site will have a much higher chance you'll need to reverse a charge. Paypal has longer wait times for disputes than the CC companies. CC companies will also have your back a bit more, typically.