Where does that figure even come from?
Much like the eclipse, they got them from where the sun don’t shine.
The U.S. Department of Who the Fuck Cares, Let People Look at a Fucking Eclipse.
Fucking Biden and his librul boongoggles.
Under a Trump administration, we could get back to looking directly at the Eclipse again
Trump would cancel all eclipses that affect blue states, so all of them, and would insist that people Don’t Look Up.
I’m tired
It can’t be lost if it doesn’t exist
Now do the math for everyone eating Taco Bell just before their shift
“Will cost America”
Haha no. It will not cost working class people a cent. Which is most of America.
It won’t cost the bosses anything either cause people will likely make up for the lost time later.
Came here to say this… you beat me to it.
Certainly cost me a pretty penny to travel to see it. But that’s not the narrative NBC is looking for
Ya I paid $100 in gas and $100 for a camp site on someone’s private land (same place I camped in 2017). Well worth it tho.
Well you know capitalism. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
When corporate is losing money it’s “All of us in America lost 700 million in productivity”
But when profits are higher than ever before it’s “Sorry there’s no bonus this year, we’re giving our CEO a 50 million dollar parachute. We know you worked hard so here’s a thank you card and a candy bar”
Wait… You get a candy bar?! Lucky!
Haha. Jokes on you then cuz I got 6 cookies and a printed thank you card.
So what, it’s about $ 2 per capita.
“Anyone who took off the day of the eclipse is not entitled to a candy bar.”
People get PTO. It’s built into the cost of hiring workers. From the traffic last night, a LOT of them used vacation time, and probably generated tourism revenue as they traveled to see the eclipse.
My dad definitely used his accrued vacation to post up in a nice hotel in Texas. Lots of people did the same.
But this isn’t about that. It’s about this ingrained labor culture that permeates our society. If corporate isn’t doing good then our media will sound the alarms about how every single American must be suffering and all the average Joe’s problems are because those asshole day laborers took the productivity away.
Same song as when the pandemic forced work from home. The media spent years telling us how selfish those people were. Not even because the companies weren’t still making comparable money, but because office buildings were losing tenants.
But they’d never frame that as offices becoming out dated in the age of technology. It’s obviously the selfish workers who won’t think of the poor leeches that need them to rent their office spaces or the poor middle managers who suddenly become obsolete when everything can be done from a living room.
I don’t believe anything NBC says about anything anymore
Fuck NBC
Please tell me this isn’t real
OK, this is the second time in my life that I read a headline that is even not clickbaity enough for what the article itself delivers. My $deity who tf thought this was a good idea?
Why is this one of the most flabbergasting things I’ve read in a long time
Is this real??
Wow, that was easy to confirm. https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eclipse-2017/solar-eclipse-will-cost-america-almost-700-million-lost-productivity-n793801
The article or the estimate? Because the article is real but statistics can be created to suit your needs.
The article. Thank you.
Fucking Spacer’s Choice I swear on the law.
Truly sad part? The tourism benefit from it was estimated at 6$ billion… but NBC doesn’t want that.
Consumer money doesn’t matter where it gets spent. It stays in the economy pretty much no matter what.
The benefit of tourism to the (destination) economy is that outside money is coming in. That’s it.
What you say makes sense, but GDP measurement is weird. If I sell you a brick for $1 and then I buy it back the next day, for $1 I think that GDP goes up by $2.
Decided to do some math of what I could totally see a corporate media outlet headline saying.
“Weekends are costing America $11,199,999,999,968 a year. Is it time to end weekends?”
You should round that up to $11,200,000,000,000 to make the number look bigger
And then there will be the article about how much productivity is lost while people are sleeping.
Remind me again why people from “non-shithole” countries would want to move to the US? The priorities on display here are beyond belief.
Even some us people from shit hole countries are waking up to the truth that is better to stay or just go to some other non US owned piece of land
Would you rather have a base income with the associated purchasing power of 30k+ minimum wage (e.g. all those 15/hr minimum states) or would you rather live in a country where the middle class wage is 12k or less.
Keep in mind:
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Airfare is the same everywhere. Saving $300 in the US for a flight is practically trivial even at minimum wage compared to earning $1000/mo pretax or less.
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Electronics cost the same everywhere.
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Everything imported costs more than the US in those shithole countries because the volume of imports is way less. A $10 container of hair gel in the US costs $30+ in latin american countries.
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Foreign style food is almost exclusively global american brands and/or incredibly expensive - eating domestically grown and produced foods are typical.
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Air conditioners are not affordable
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Electricity is commonly not stable, if it exists
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Things like public sewer systems are not guaranteed. Septic is common in a lot of places. Even non-well water can be hard to find in many places.
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There are no things like food pantries in third world countries. In the greater Boston area, food pantries are everywhere and will not turn away a hungry family.
There’s so many benefits to living here that we overlook completely. We look at social media and wish we were all millionaires. There are people out there making a couple thousand dollars a year and eating “cheap” local food but otherwise living in abject poverty who would do absolutely anything to jump our border to work illegally for less than minimum wage without ever collecting social security benefits or unemployment. That’s why they do.
I live in south America and even though I only make around 900-1000 dollars a month, I can afford a room, food, transportation, health insurance, going out with friends, entertainment, studies if I want to but who wants to waste money on study when I could be buying videogames, and save for investments.
Oh sure, it’s better than the poorest places on earth…
For the richest country on earth, that’s a comically low bar.
Oh sure, it’s better than the poorest places on earth…
Way more people live in the poorest places on earth than the US. We’re talking billions. ~652 million people live in latin america. ~1.4 billion people live in india. That’s 25% of human population right there and i’m ignoring eastern europe, lots of asia, lots of the middle east… all of africa (another 1.2 billion)
I feel like you may have misread the comment you’re replying to…
Those are all things people from “non-shithole” countries already have, and they almost certainly have even more
Not disagreeing, I agree there’s little reason why citizens of wealthy nations would come here. I’m just pointing out all the reasons why ‘shithole’ countries want in. Those things don’t really apply to countries that have living wages and good social supports.
US high wages by and large go to people who already have significant wealth. It’s all funneled upwards. All of the immigrants and the poors here work in indentured servitude to their feudal land lords. Sure slavery is gone but you still have a master who can decide your fate should they choose to… for most of us anyway.
Okay now compare it to somewhere like Denmark
Nobody wants to leave livable wages and good social support programs to move to a country that is very, very backwards.
Denmark’s population (~6m) is smaller than the state of Massachusetts (~7m).
~652 million people live in latin america. ~1.4 billion people live in india
That’s 25% of human population right there and i’m ignoring eastern europe, lots of asia, lots of the middle east…
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I think we need to start giving wedgies and noogies to data nerds who generate statistics like this. It’s a giod stepping off point to get us to the Butlerian Jihad.
Its the Butlerian Holy War now
It’s the duty of every worker to produce as little value as possible while working.
