[goohle]

> Those investments only benefit very few people though

Buy stock and benefit (or take a loss) with them.

> Instead the government needs to invest in projects that create jobs for everyone.

Vote for such government or immigrate to a socialists country, Venezuela or North Korea. They have the lot of jobs.

[romwell]

>Buy stock and benefit (or take a loss) with them.

Buy stocks, and explain to your children why they won't get to eat for the year to come.

It will pay off in the long run!

And if they starve to death, well, that's savings right there!

.... You do realize that millions — if not most people under 40 in the US — don't have spare money to invest into papers that they can't eat today, do you?

Rent, food, transportation, medical expenses, educational expenses, and a small amount of spending on something that makes that life feel like it's maybe worth living — and oops, there goes the paycheck.

Funny how the rent is larger than mortgage, but you can't get a mortgage unless you save money, but you can't save money because you have rent to pay.

And everyone who's working to make a living is one car accident away from a medical bankruptcy. A fun lottery nearly all of us get to play, funny that.

>Vote for such government

Yay, I voted, and FPTP ensured that meant nothing. I voted for ranked choice, but peculiarly, the vote for that was based on the same system that I was trying to replace.

>or immigrate to a socialists country, Venezuela or North Korea. They have the lot of jobs.

False dichotomy much?

And these are the only two countries in the world with universal healthcare and government providing housing and services to its citizens, I guess? Not Sweden, no? Not even the UK, or any EU country? Oh wait, nobody is waiting for me there.

But more importantly, what basis do you have for telling people what to do?

Especially when you tell someone to move to another country. How about... No.

What the parent commenter is doing, and what I'll do, is we'll be damn sure to talk about what the government should do in all public forums whenever the opportunity presents itself, to raise the awareness ans steer the public discourse in the direction we want our country to move into, rather than shutting up and moving if our vote gives us nothing this election cycle.

And we'll make it obviously, blatantly clear that opinions like the one you presented — ”vote or leave" — are rubbish.

Bad faith rubbish that doesn't belong on HN.

So I'll ask you to stop. My basis for that are the guidelines of this forum. We could do with less trash here.