Sean Mooney

I don't have a preferred party. Stop with that hacky line of argument. It makes your whole point invalid. Even more so than just ignoring what someone said and arguing that something that proves them right is right. I thank you for constantly pointing out what I said is accurate, but I don't need it. Maybe go back to your insipid argument this morning and try to put that into the land of coherence.

You are obtuse at this point as you are misrepresenting what I said and my argument to try and win. Get over yourself. The research points out that there were markups on important things that hurt but in overall trends things are flat. So they do acknowledge that some things were affected and some are not. So we are in this mess because of two parties, two presidents, a pandemic, and corporate greed. Additionally, there are a lot of assumptions in the study if you read it. Maybe the skeleton didn't tell you that.

I did defend it WITH QUOTES FROM THE ARTICLE IN THE VIDEO ITSELF. The video is operating from the POV that all of this is on corporate greed- as Queen Dipshit Elizabeth Warren argued. I never made that argument. The article on CNN and the study it mentions does say there is something in the markups but it isn't all of it. So the video points out what I said is correct. You are choosing to argue against the entirety of what I said because you are not understanding the video you shared.

So then, you still have not read what I actually wrote and instead are choosing to focus on the last two words of the post...A post where I said this: "So we are in this mess because of two parties, two presidents, a pandemic, and corporate greed." The latter of which I said has "some" blame. Not all, not most, "some." I know you had a rough morning trying to bob and weave all over different arguments and looking foolish in the process but this is a bad afternoon you are now having.

I suggest you read my post again. I didn't assign all the blame to corporate greed and said it is somewhat involved. The quote I used as well- FROM THE SAME ARTICLE THE GUY IN THE VIDEO YOU POSTED TALKS ABOUT- does say there are some markup issues that hurt things. Maybe then you can look up a video with a dude with a bobo doll in the background to help support his point of view.

Clearly I listed a bunch of things and said all of those things together are doing it. It isn't one or the other. You countered with a video done by a guy with a skeleton behind him. Looking at the article on CNN it shows these quotes as well: "The Fed researchers did find that some companies exercised pricing power by raising prices above their production costs – a gap known as markups....For instance, markups spiked for gasoline, cars and other goods in 2021. Likewise, there were increased markups for repair, general merchandise, laundry, personal care and other services, according to the Fed."

https://datausa.io/profile/soc/fast-food-and-counter-workers#:~:text=Employed people-,The workforce of Fast food and counter workers in 2022,29 years (79%2C170 people).

FWIW- As of 2022- there were about 773K workers in the fast food/counter service industry. Almost 79% of the employment are people between 16-29...About 300K in the 16-19 age range and then 20-24 is the next highest concentration and 25-29 is after that but about a third of the 20-24 age range workforce. So you are looking at about 38% of the workforce being a teen and then the remaining 62% are not. Additionally- to the discussion at hand earlier- 55% of the people working at a fast food place have either a college degree, or have done college work of some kind.

You note that when asked twice he couldn't name anybody..

I'll pour one out for you homey. Anyway- back to the thread- kind of sad that the company has been in bankruptcy protection for years and underperforming and is now laying off workers and trying to misdirect the anger away from the company itself.

Sad...just sad stuff from you

The people in here were having a nice conversation in here despite differences of opinion. You came in spouting your typical nonsense not adding anything to the discussion. You are continuing to do that by saying "OH I win a message board disagreement...." I'm sorry your life is that empty dude. Maybe you'll find a girl one day

What are you talking about? I'm sorry you don't understand the topic at hand so you have to attack

Yeah...you are clearly the loser here keeping message board score.

Okay board Urkel

It would be shorter to list the things Eternal Dummy does understand. You'd only need like one line of paper.

No I see the nuance, I understand it. You are overly simplistic in your thinking about it and what you are saying.

You don't see the blatant contradictions in what you are arguing. It's amusing at this point.

correlation does not imply causation. You know for someone who wants to say individuals are doing things in a vacuum you certainly want to handwave away corporate America as being affected by many outside factors. Corporations will be okay without you stumping for them.

So bad decisions put you in poverty but you can't make good decisions to improve your lot in life?

So you are born without the ability to be a physicist or an NBA point guard (among other jobs)?

This is silly. The business could stay open. They are closing and using an easy scapegoat to get out of personal, or corporate, responsibility.

You could've been an NBA point guard or physicist. You just didn't work hard enough to develop those skills

Perhaps....but decisions in this world don't happen in vacuums.

That is overly simplistic in many cases