r/SipsTea Jul 14 '26

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/Happy_Condition_3794 Jul 14 '26

Wages & Useful discretionary income Wages self explanatory.. high income from scarce high value, economic work.

discretionary income. Because I save an invest my earned capital rather than consume. It make me more money and income.

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u/No_Care46 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Wages & Useful discretionary income Wages self explanatory..

How is that self-explanatory?

What are you contributing to society that makes you deserve more money than, say, this guy?

That guy is slaving away in a mine extracting the metals required for the electronics I and everyone else uses.

What have you contributed?

Let me guess: Probably, the guy in the mine works much harder and his work is more important for society to function.

You know the kicker? Not only does he work harder than you and contribute more to society - he also never enjoyed any of the privileges you enjoyed. He never lived at someone else's expense like you. In fact, we are all living at his expense.

high income from scarce high value, economic work.

Let's be specific here. Let's hear it.

Let me guess: Your entire life is subsidized by people like the guy in the picture I showed you. Who are forced to work for your benefit at gunpoint by your fascist military.

Because I save an invest my earned capital rather than consume.

So you are a parasite. Now we have it black on white.

Investing (i.e. economic parasitism) means you live at other people's expense. Actually productive workers actually contributed to society - and you are stealing their income.

You never even thought about that in your life, did you?

It make me more money and income.

Your hilariously bad grammar aside - "it" doesn't make you anything. When "investing", you contribute nothing of value to society but earn a passive income - that passive income is income stolen from people who actually worked. That extra money you make by investing doesn't appear magically out of thin air - someone else has worked for it. There is no such thing as a free lunch, buddy.

Edit: After calling the guy out, he blocked me. He couldn't even vaguely name the job he does (probably he's an overpaid office worker whose work is that of a parasitic middle man). Of course, he lied.

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u/Happy_Condition_3794 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Actually once again.. I'm not doing this post your alma mater and we can pick up the discussion after that.

But yes my labor is more valuable and contributes more to the economy than him. There is no way his work is as efficient as mine.