Hiding Under The Unction Stone

Chapter 2 of Mazeworks is here! Mazeworks Chapter 2: Cover

So simple....

"Is any of this true?" "No. The fact this person tried to represent his opinion with Rick Sanchez is telling; he's a dumb person's idea of what a genius is, where intelligence is little different from wizardry." "Well, who takes the low paying jobs in a healthy capitalist society?" "Ideally, people just entering the workforce. In America you would get those people from either new citizens or teenagers." "What about the kids making our iPhones versus the CEOs?" "Tim Cook made 74.3 million dollars last year compared to over 200 million iphones sold. That's 37 cents per phone despite his company creating the things, and that's assuming they're the only product Apple makes. It's not." "But what about the kids being enslaved to-? "Fern, the fact that China enslaves its own citizens is an endorsement of capitalism, not a condemnation of it." "Well they could pay them better" "Ignoring that they're enslaved for the moment and all money we paid them would go to the Chinese government: If they had better opportunities for money they'd take them. Moreover, the iPhone itself was not created by those 'children' (probably adults, for the record), it was created by the company this guy is condemning." "So capitalism *doesn't* reward ownership?" "Of course it does, but that's not even half as clever a rebuttal as he thinks it is. It's the core foundation of a free market: I own this, you want it, you can't just take it from me. You have to give me something I want in exchange. You work hard so that you can get your hands on something and trade it up. You buy a sickle so you can better farm your crops. You buy a flock of sheep so you can sell the wool. That includes companies." "But what does the CEO provide if the workers are the ones making and developing the product?" "CEOs are managers. They decide the overall direction of the company. Tim Cook may not have invented the iPhone, but he's directing Apple's current manufacturing and marketing strategies, as well as serving as Apple's public face. This is a good and necessary job to ensure that Apple is able to continue hiring employees." "If the people who come from nothing are exceptions, then why do they get promoted?" "Rich people are ALWAYS the exception, Fern. That's not really the point. The fact that a man like Elon Musk can make thousands of millionaires with the stroke of a pen is an endorsement of capitalism." "Okay but if those are still exceptions and millions live in poverty because of-" "Fern, poverty has been in free fall since capitalism as a concept was developed." "How is that possible?" "Because rich people then go on to employ others, and those people can then use money they wouldn't have otherwise had. For every Tim Cook or Jeff Bezos there's millions upon millions of people collecting a paycheck that they wouldn't be able to get if those billionaires didn't exist. More rich people is a good thing." "Does capitalism really need poverty to function?" "No. It just needs two people to each have something the other one wants.

Breaking: ICE agents used a clever disguise as city workers to get an illegal alien to come out and move his car. Once he came outside, 8 agents jumped out and detained him. 🤣

The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations directed by Donald Trump resulted in an algae infestation, leading workers to pour hydrogen peroxide into the water. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.

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