Hey Pandas, What Would You Really Like To Rant About?

ALOTTTTT

Effect means to impact, Affect means the impact. Effective means creates a lot of affect and affective is stupid and means to emotionally impact. So effect means to cause affect. Effective is a different use of the word effect, but also a qualitatively good and like effect, but lots of it. And Affective! Is hardly f*****g related to the rest of the words

Anything about Socialism. I am basically arguing against every left-wing policy here. Please debate me, so I can change my arguments. Above all, be respectful. We're only disagreeing about economics here.

1. Universal Basic Healthcare
This is a horrible idea. If people don't have to work, they won't work.
"But if we make working conditions better, people would want to work!"
Maybe you can 'improve conditions'. However, how in the world are you supposed to make work fun?

Improve conditions all you like, janitors still have to clean poop, police officers still get shot at, teachers still have to prepare classes, doctors still perform exhausting surgeries, firefighters still rush into burning buildings, etc.

Ask yourself: no matter how much you can 'improve conditions', would you still rather work than play video games, read, draw, walk at the park, watch movies, hike, etc?

2. Universal Healthcare
How would you fund this? Taxes. Who pays the taxes? Everyone. What if someone doesn't want to pay because they don't need the services (they're really healthy people that rarely see the doctor)? The government goes up and points a gun at his head.

I am fine with paying for some services because I like and need them. However, you're forcing me to pay (through taxes) for healthcare I do not need. Change the system all you want. Just don't increase taxes.

3. Regulation
I agree with most of you when you say that corporations are too powerful. However, my answer to limiting their power lies in LOWERING regulations, as regulations cause a practice known as rent-seeking.

When the government wields power over the economy, companies will seek to weild this power. They will manipulate regulations and licenses to prevent competition and to hurt competitors.

For example, Amazon is trying to create an internet sales tax to hurt eBay. The AMA has for a long time tried to make obtaining medical licenses harder, stifling competition and giving themselves monopoly prices. Regulations make it cost about 1 billion to bring a new drug onto the market. Why? Because the big pharma doesn't want the new competition.

Lowering regulations will force big companies to compete fairly, and not through market manipilution. This will obviously drive down costs and drive up quality, which in and of itself could be a solution to the horrible healthcare in the US.

4. Minimum Wage.
There are many alternatives to increasing wages, such as resigning, striking, and unionizing.

The minimum Wage also hurts the employees as well. Let's say you're a janitor. The government makes a minimum wage of 1,000,000 for all janitors. This won't turn ANY janitors into a millionaire. It will get every single janitor fired overnight, and create a black market in janitorial services.

Let's also pretend you're an unskilled worker at Amazon. Then, the government makes you get paid as much as a neurosurgeon. The Amazon Execs will think, "Hey, we're paying them as much as a neurosurgeon, when they are not even NEAR that value. What's the point in keeping them? Let's just fire them all and hire actually skilled people who are worth the money."

5. Tax the Rich
Now, I am not against taxing the rich. However, I am saying that it won't work. Whenever taxes increase, the rich take all their money, assets, and Jobs away from this economy and to another country.

One example is Sweden in the 1970s, when they massively increased taxes of all kinds. What happened? Every single rich person, including Bjorn Borg the tennis player, the founder of Ikea, and a movie director, they all left. In the end, Sweden was begging for them to come back.

Another example is closer to home. The US Congress decided to tax yacht sales. What happened? The rich stopped buying yachts overnight. The industry got annihilated, losing 90% of its revenue. 30 years later, they still haven't recovered.

This is a challenge to all those 'socialists' on BP. Please respectfully debate me here.

I'm spewing about DNA.... the stuff every living thing has... it has tried so many different variations... from cells to humans and everything in between.
It just keeps going on and on ...at the moment humans are the latest and greatest variation / carrier...unfortunately this variant has learnt how to change/adapt its environment instead of living with it... to the obvious detriment of the planet we live on.

Shaking my fist at you DNA.

The word "harass".
I was taught in high school that the proper pronounciation is "Hair us".
Definitely Not " her Ass"
Every once in a long while I will hear someone in the media pronounce it correctly. I usually say a very heart felt
THANK-YOU!

Boomers; we don’t have the money to move out our parents’ homes. It gotten too expensive after you’ve acquired your second summer home. That’s cool, but what’s the point? You’re saving a house that won’t be touched for years until you remember it that you have it.

Another thing, pick up the slack on technology. Resumé are online, paper ones gets shredded before they can be filtered thru.

People who object to the new Texas abortion ban. But since this site is so left leaning there’s no point, I’ll just get downvoted and buried.

I've found my way to the feminist side of YouTube and TikTok, and it opened my eyes about rights. I will rant to anybody who will listen why dress code is stupid, women should not have to pay hospital fees after being SA, and that over all men are trash.