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Fun fact: Amazon fulfillment centers, where the vast majority of Amazon workers an tually work, are always located adjacent to KOA campgrounds because they do not pay workers enough for regional rents. Most never qualify for full time employment and most are contingent staff which can skirt other labor regulations. They euphemistically call this CamperForce… a nightmarish dystopian vision of employment.

Employees there may get $15-22 an hour plus a hundred or so a month “camping” stipend. Not sure how one calculates that to be “six figures.” Particularly when they are deliberately kept part time.

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@1"Progs wont rest until every person makes 100k and no less"

The horror

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3, whatever.

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"The fate
of the planet
shouldn't rely on
the generosity of billionaires"

so True!

neither should it
rely on the Capriciousness
of Greedy Profiteering Sociopaths

Codifying environmental
Destruction through
"our" Lawmakers.

there's only One fucking
Habitable Planet & this
one appears to a be a
Ticking Time Bomb

10

Campforce is a well known thing. It's an official Amazon program. They even made a movie about it.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/mv5dn8/in-the-prime-of-their-lives-0000544-v2n1

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Paying $1,800 per month for a 600 squ ft studio (plus $200 for parking), you’d want to make six figures or close to it!
Or you could go to Patagonia and REI for a tent and sleeping bag - at around $300.

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Regarding the unsurprisingly insipid "100k" comment:

Progressives won't rest until wages, cost of living, and social safety nets hit a large enough overlap in a Venn diagram that only the most hardcore "fuck your rules, I'll live how I want" folks are the ones living in tents to survive. And those people will regularly be offered resources and/or treatment to keep those numbers down as much as possible, too.

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@15: To be successful, get the Fentanyl off the streets. To do that you need to secure the southern border and go after China:

https://www.science.org/content/article/underground-labs-china-are-devising-potent-new-opiates-faster-authorities-can-respond

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@16: you do realize the "southern border" has never been "secure", and that "going after China" is meaningless, right? what do you plan to do, invade?

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Drippy gets the Slog Lifetime Achievement Award for Most Consistently Hollow Arguments.

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No compassion for the addicted:

"People are dying from overdose because they have nothing else going on in their lives & see no future for themselves but if it’s not some synthetic opioid from china it will be something else."

And they have the gall to call themselves progressives.

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@17: Enforcement, sanctions, diplomacy, creative thinking, and all sort of tools are available. But first we need a a committed administration with moral clarity.

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@23: You are forgetting what it's like to be high. Super high. Years ago, a dentist Rx'd my brother some Oxycontin for a filling (good lord!) and I snuck a couple. Man, after those you don't even think about "material needs" because you have everything in the universe you'd ever want and are in eternal bliss. Until it wears off and then there's only one thing and one thing only on your mind.

You grossly underestimate the powers and evils of addition. Unless you curtail the supply you'll never get to make your "pretty bog standard progressivism" have a snowballs chance in hell of ever working.

It will be an eternal battle against the drug lords, because the human condition is in an eternal battle. After all, we sweep and vacuum our houses of dirt constantly, same thing.

You're a ground zero of a coast elite. You have a high tech job in data science (or something like that) and live in the bay area.

(I'm one too, it's nothing to be ashamed of)

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@12: "What's the beef with Amazon?" Seriously?
Have you been hanging out with Elmer lately, Toby?

@17 Max Solomon: Elmer's just trolling for the sake of babbling stupidity until his motorized wheelchair finally collapses under his uneducated bulk. Wasting away in a dank, dark fruit cellar has got to be depressing.

@20 ManservantHecubus: Seconded.

@26: PrincessAngeline#2 for the WIN!!!!


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