Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Tell that to conservatives that say to cut taxes and social services.
Homer is smarter than all conservatives combined
Homer’s brain is anyway, the thoughts don’t usually make it all the way through Homer.
It’s a shame that removing the crayon didn’t work for RFK.
The worm ate it
S-M-R-Ter you mean.
Woo hoo!
Does that include a peanut?
Its fucking painful that its headline worthy that taxes were used for the betterment of the places they were paid in.
Yeah hate to live in a world where expected behaviour becomes our paradise.
How DARE he use MY Tax Money to make MY Life EASIER! EVERYONE knows Tax Money is meant for RICH PEOPLE and NO ONE else!
Wait wait wait. You’re telling me that if you offer fair compensation for labor the people performing that labor will do the job they’re hired for?
Son of a gun. Who’d of thunk it!
Ok, but all that money wasted on streets could have gone to a private pocket of a nepo tech startup promising AI billboards that would feed ads to ppl & the city would subsidise to “promote innovation”.
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You mean paying contractors exorbitant rates for
slaveprison laborers being paid $2.00/hr while the executives pocket most of the money?That’s oddly specific, did I miss something?
No, not that I know of.
It was intentionally oddly specific for purely comedic reasons.Doesn’t mean it won’t happen several times anyway.
Fair enough, cheers!
And some of that money will come back and the cycle will continue.
A basic thing that capitalists can’t grasp.
They can grasp it, but they do not care. Sidewalks being cleared doesn’t affect you if you are driving everywhere.
Or privileged enough to WFH/pause working when there weather turns.
This is great, but I love that he gave the school kids of New York an actual, honest-to-god snow day. No remote class, no logging on.
$30/hr, $45/hr overtime
Yea… that’s how time & a half works…
A lot of seasonal workers are exempt from earning overtime.
Outside NY, the MAGA faithful condemn this and would rather have the money diverted to billionaires who will one day descend as prophesised, to give them their land of milk and honey
And some people said that “socialism doesn’t have any incentives”
I can’t tell if this is a joke, satire, or sarcasm. Nothing in the post indicates anything related to socialism, nor are there any incentives mentioned. The mayor simply offered fair compensation for labor. I would even say that $40 an hour is still a relatively small amount of money.
Roosevelt did the same thing too when soldiers came back from the war and couldn’t find work and their government Bonds were expired. He designed a lot of unification projects like bridges and all sorts of projects while those bridges are beautiful and they’re still standing today showing that we don’t have to do things cheap and we can still help people that’s grades are under that our governments to do that invest in their people.
Roosevelt as in Franklin Delano Roosevelt? He was already dead when the war was over. His successor, Harry Truman, could have implemented this policy?
You’re probably right. Still it was a shit move and somewhere we were off the gold standard. More shit moves.
I saw so many people commenting on social media how they have never seen the sidewalks and streets cleared that fast in New York. He is winning people over quickly.
What did they mock him for? Too expensive? Won’t work?
Probably both, yeah. They’re not exactly known for being objectively right about things…
How will he ever make a profit?!
For an example of how crucial it is too keep roads accessible and decongested, look at the Philippines. Metro Manila is currently losing 3.5 billion pesos PER DAY due to the constant congestion, and is on track for that loss reaching 6 billion. An average company employee might earn somewhere between 20-30k per month there, so 3.5 billion is a lot of money by Filipino measure.
$30/hr is insanely low for NYC. I guarantee I couldn’t live on it there…
$30/hour is about $60K/year.
That’s an absolutely livable wage in NYC. You might need a roommate, but it’s easily achievable. I lived there for almost a decade (recently), but since you shouldn’t trust random people on the internet, here’s the MIT living wage calculator:
- Manhattan: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36061
- Brooklyn: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36047
- Bronx: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36005
- Staten Island: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36085
- Queens: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36081
As a single adult with no kids, you’re just barely under the “living” wage in most of those, but well above “poverty” in all of them. In any borough, with a roommate, you’re cruising comfortably (see the “2 Adults (Both Working): 0 Children” column). In the Bronx, as a single adult with no kids, $30 is above the living wage mark.
It’s also worth noting, people may live outside the city, but take a train or subway in for work. Living just outside the city brings costs down quite a bit.
I don’t know if you have ever seen snow before but… this isn’t a full time job.
I mean… It’s temporary snow removal. Let’s call it seasonal. So like not full time.
Then don’t think of it as $30/hr wages. Think of it as almost $500 for two days on top of your normal job. Or I don’t know who helped out, but maybe it’s almost $500 for two days a high schooler can use for snything
