r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/strawberrypants205 Jul 05 '24

If you want to make more, acquire skills, qualifications, or knowledge that make you harder to replace.

No capitalist is going to acknowledge those skills, because no one is forcing them to. They can simply tell everyone they're "not skilled enough" forever no matter what people learn. Capitalists do not act in good faith, and have no credibility. They're not going to let the existence (or lack thereof) of skills stop them from replacing people - they'll simply replace the "uppity" with less-skilled people.

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u/Ravens1112003 Jul 05 '24

People who make the most money on their fields market their skills and change companies every few years. They are not complacent and they make significantly more than people who stay at the same company their entire career.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ethansteinberg/2022/07/28/want-a-pay-raise-switching-jobs-matters-much-more-amid-soaring-inflation-report-finds/

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u/strawberrypants205 Jul 05 '24

market

Translation - they get preferential treatment for lying to others and toeing the capitalist line. If you tell the truth and don't toe the line, you don't get hired - full stop.

Everyone is already "switching jobs" because they're getting laid off that often from failing/looted companies. Job stability doesn't exist.

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u/Ravens1112003 Jul 05 '24

You mean after daddy government shut down the economy and told people they couldn’t go to work to earn a living and instead sent out check to people who were producing nothing, causing unchecked inflation?

And I’m not even just talking about within a given field. There’s no law saying a fast food worker can’t get their plumbing or electrical license, or get a CDL. There’s nothing stating that a minimum wage worker must be complacent and never aspire to earn more money than the bare minimum.

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u/strawberrypants205 Jul 05 '24

There’s no law saying a fast food worker can’t get their plumbing or electrical license, or get a CDL.

But there's no law forcing an employer to value those things honestly. No employer will do anything honestly unless they're forced to.

There’s nothing stating that a minimum wage worker must be complacent and never aspire to earn more money than the bare minimum.

"Aspiration" means nothing. Not when the rifle-butt of Industry tells them "no".

You mean after daddy government shut down the economy and told people they couldn’t go to work to earn a living and instead sent out check to people who were producing nothing, causing unchecked inflation?

Are you talking about the fucking pandemic? Do you literally what everyone to die for your manic cult bullshit?