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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • It’s mocking Trump and MAGA’s fantasy. For the workers it’s providing them with work that is unpleasant, poorly paid and painful. For the factory owners it is ending up with staff that just aren’t going to be productive.

    As for toiling for a pittance: Trump is trying to devalue the dollar and erode workers rights in a race to the bottom. Apart from the fact that, as others here have pointed out, the endgame would be automation the intermediary stage is pushing those in precarity and poverty into jobs that don’t benefit them in any meaningful way.

    But the Chinese, being somewhat keener students of human nature, have distilled those arguments into thirty seconds of comedy gold.





  • In the UK it’s called the Dragons’ Den. I mean I would be happy to watch some billionaires being fed to sharks, dragons or lions. Perhaps that could be the surprise element of the show, which species comes out of the gate. Kinda like Cabin In The Woods.

    Edit: we could have people standing round the edge of the arena holding home made placards offering advice: ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!’ ‘Go Tim’ ‘We’re all in it together!’.