SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

Spurred by a bustling global economy that includes $17 trillion in new valuation and record highs for American stock markets, low-income earners in America are seeing their wages increase at a faster rate than any time during the last decade.

https://disrn.com/news/low-income-workers-experience-fastest-wage-increase-in-over-a-decade

@comradeagle
This is going to be a rough week.

@freemo
Ahh... I missed it because it's not there on that busy thread, at least here in fedilab... Found it on the web ui.

@freemo
Thanks! I don't know how I missed that.

@freemo
And I wish I knew a way to mute notifications on a specific thread. :/

@freemo I just finished reading Loserthink, Scott Adams' new book. On this very happening thread right now, it's tempting to reply to posts with photos of pages from this book. I found myself engaged in what he calls Loserthink early on, tried to pull back from debating the meanings of words, but moral equivalency, ends justifying means, and more unhelpful ways of thinking are quite readily on display. I'm glad I read the book recently.

Each of my kids got a stocking and 4 gifts for Christmas. But they can't have free reign over their gifts until their rooms are clean... Still not that motivated to clean their rooms. Maybe by next Christmas?

#parenting

@timorl @freemo
In the end, this seems to be about how the alternative right self identifies. But their own label is that it's different from, not part of the right. An alternative universe would not be a subset of the universe, but something different from but coexistent with. Mac OS is an alternative operating system, not a subset of windows OS.

So I don't think X and Alternative X are the same thing, by definition, but clearly 2 different and contrasting options.

As for shared values, I see shared values of the alt right and the left, you see values shared with the right. I suppose it's all a matter of perspective.

@Momma_Voke@social.quodverum.com
Can take off too protest ANYTHING? Seems like there's room for some pretty creative protests without violating school policy.

@timorl
Interesting. So if the label is alternative right, you take that to mean nothing more than a part of the right. I'm not sure I've heard that use of alternative before, I've always seen it used more or less as the dictionary defines it, which is to draw a clear distinction.

You're right, I don't identify with the evil motives you assign to the right, which makes it all seem like an effigy to attack, rather than any kind of objective perspective.

But I'm not a political theory expert. I tend to think along the spectrum of big centralized government power (left) to less government (right). But I know that's not how everyone sees things. Your spectrum seems to go from good (left) to bad (right).
@freemo

@bigl0af
I've got snow at my home in Denver right now. Sad that this is the last snow I'll ever see here.