You are failing to account for lost opportunity. Things I can't do for 2 hours also cost me. So it isn't $10 an hour. It is, at the very least, $20 + 2 hours salary.
Right. Because you work 24/7/365 and there's just no way you could possibly spend 2 hours doing something OTHER than working.
As it stands right now, it doesn't make financial sense for me to spend so much on a movie (over $20 for a ticket and snacks) unless the movie is spectacular.
That's about $10/hr.
How many things are you going to PAY to do, outside of your house, that costs that little? How cheap can you be?
For me, the movie doesn't have to be "spectacular" - it just has to be "interesting enough"....and sadly, such content is hard to come by these days.
most human societies worked out how to raise their kids, within an extended family, with gender based division of labor, over the millennia.
Yes...and how does that work out when you nearest family member (outside of your household) is hundreds of miles away?
Or are you advocating we all just live in whatever shit town our parents live in, with all of its associated lack of opportunity and jobs, and constrain ourselves to only breeding with people who are similarly trapped?
You're free not to buy Apple's products. Go by something from a manufacturer that is more to your liking. What's the problem?
Apple's 2017 Q3 iPhone sales market share was around 19%. Apple is hardly a monopoly here. It's not even CLOSE! If you don't like its products, buy someone else's.
Because the quality of life likely wouldn't be as good as if you worked. If everybody receives a check for $24k a year for doing nothing, it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to lead a good life on that, you'll be able to afford food, shelter and medical care and probably not a lot else without working.
So, if you like to literally hang out at the beach every day, that might work, but for any hobby that involves much money you'll need another source of income.
I agree entirely. However, how does this apply to the current crop of welfare degenerates who are not working now? Every one (actual disabled people excluded) of them COULD have a better life if they bothered to clean up their act, get educated, and get a job. But that's too much WORK!! Plenty of them will not even CONSIDER doing ANY of that, provided that they can get free resources from people who do.
What's more, the days of large numbers of people working are drawing to an end. Which shouldn't be a surprise given how much time is wasted on pointless bullshit at work.
Why don't you step out of your fucked up little echo chamber and take a good, hard look at the world.
I'm all for people donating their resources as they see fit. What I oppose is people demanding I donate my resources for them to spend as they see fit as well.
What's yours can easily become theirs if they ever decide to stop having mercy and simply take it...
Unemployment is very low in both the US and Canada. We need more education and/or foreign workers because there are not enough skilled workers for almost any field.
You can create more skilled workers from local stock, you don't have to import them.
The trick, you see, is to create adequate incentives for people to become skilled workers. GIVING THEM ALL KINDS OF FREE SHIT DOES JUST THE OPPOSITE!
If you give me free money, free housing, free food, free healthcare, free child care, free cell phones, free this, free that and free the other, why the fuck should I get off my ass and work instead of hanging out at the beach all day and creating babies that you'll pay for?
Whenever I meet someone that uses Oracle ERP, I always ask them if they are happy with it, and would they still make the same decision if they could do it over again. So far, this many people have said yes: 0.
When the rich move out of the city, it is called "White flight", which is bad. When the rich move into the city, it is called "Gentrification", which is bad.
I think you may be close to a breakthrough, buddy. You should consider the possibility that rich people are just bad.
When the rich move out of the city, it is called "White flight", which is bad. When the rich move into the city, it is called "Gentrification", which is bad.
Realistically, AAPL is up only 2.5% vs same day last week. But if you think it's only going up and up, then by all means, mortgage your house and load up.
Why do you suppose that AAPL only only got a 2.5% bump when earnings went up almost 16%? Somebody smarter than you is a bit nervous.
If you're only looking at things from a week-to-week perspective, then by all means, please continue doing so.
Why do you suppose AAPL is at an all-time high, up 19% this year, 28% in the past year, 300% in the past five years and 840% in the last 10 years?
If you actually wanted to integrate the tech population (or any of the upper middle class in most cities), the best way to do that would be to force everyone to send their kids to the public school system (and make sure the individual districts are uniform).
That would be a great way to encourage people to telecommute from locations WITHOUT such tyranny, and for businesses to relocate to such locations as well.
I can tell you this much. If the (east coast shit hole) city I live in passed such a requirement, I would move right the fuck out of it...and we're not even particularly well off either.
Pretty much all drugs come from them taking some thing they found in nature (e.g. my blood medication, wich is one of the most popular in the world, literally came from a snake poison suggested by a shaman), and then cluelessly tinkering with it, to see what the modified variants will do.
If that's all it takes, then how come YOU are not doing the same thing and making billions?
And if a company looks at the situation and decides to NOT bother investing in a new drug that solves XYZ problem, and therefore NOBODY gets access to that drug. That's helpful? Fuck that.
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You are failing to account for lost opportunity. Things I can't do for 2 hours also cost me. So it isn't $10 an hour. It is, at the very least, $20 + 2 hours salary.
Right. Because you work 24/7/365 and there's just no way you could possibly spend 2 hours doing something OTHER than working.
As it stands right now, it doesn't make financial sense for me to spend so much on a movie (over $20 for a ticket and snacks) unless the movie is spectacular.
That's about $10/hr.
How many things are you going to PAY to do, outside of your house, that costs that little? How cheap can you be?
For me, the movie doesn't have to be "spectacular" - it just has to be "interesting enough"....and sadly, such content is hard to come by these days.
Well, duh! The difference is that AMC makes money on concessions. MoviePass does not.
More than enough for me. I lucky if I see 3 movies per YEAR (in the movie theater).
Last movie was April (Infinity War). Next movie will be Mission Impossible.
I saw 2 movies in 2017.
I saw 3 movies in 2016.
So...yeah. Their service still costs more than its worth to me. I am not their target customer. I can't imagine I ever will be.
most human societies worked out how to raise their kids, within an extended family, with gender based division of labor, over the millennia.
Yes...and how does that work out when you nearest family member (outside of your household) is hundreds of miles away?
Or are you advocating we all just live in whatever shit town our parents live in, with all of its associated lack of opportunity and jobs, and constrain ourselves to only breeding with people who are similarly trapped?
You're free not to buy Apple's products. Go by something from a manufacturer that is more to your liking. What's the problem?
Apple's 2017 Q3 iPhone sales market share was around 19%. Apple is hardly a monopoly here. It's not even CLOSE! If you don't like its products, buy someone else's.
Because the quality of life likely wouldn't be as good as if you worked. If everybody receives a check for $24k a year for doing nothing, it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to lead a good life on that, you'll be able to afford food, shelter and medical care and probably not a lot else without working.
So, if you like to literally hang out at the beach every day, that might work, but for any hobby that involves much money you'll need another source of income.
I agree entirely. However, how does this apply to the current crop of welfare degenerates who are not working now? Every one (actual disabled people excluded) of them COULD have a better life if they bothered to clean up their act, get educated, and get a job. But that's too much WORK!! Plenty of them will not even CONSIDER doing ANY of that, provided that they can get free resources from people who do.
What's more, the days of large numbers of people working are drawing to an end. Which shouldn't be a surprise given how much time is wasted on pointless bullshit at work.
That's a great argument for having less people.
Why don't you step out of your fucked up little echo chamber and take a good, hard look at the world.
I'm all for people donating their resources as they see fit. What I oppose is people demanding I donate my resources for them to spend as they see fit as well.
What's yours can easily become theirs if they ever decide to stop having mercy and simply take it...
Only after I am out of ammo.
Sure, but you can't run a cheap prison in a civilzed country.
Oh, sure you can. Just treat prisoners as prisoners instead of hotel guests and college students.
right up until you get to the point where it is significantly cheaper to give these families a UBI rather than have any of them end up in prison.
That is entirely dependent on how your prison is run.
Unemployment is very low in both the US and Canada. We need more education and/or foreign workers because there are not enough skilled workers for almost any field.
You can create more skilled workers from local stock, you don't have to import them.
The trick, you see, is to create adequate incentives for people to become skilled workers. GIVING THEM ALL KINDS OF FREE SHIT DOES JUST THE OPPOSITE!
If you give me free money, free housing, free food, free healthcare, free child care, free cell phones, free this, free that and free the other, why the fuck should I get off my ass and work instead of hanging out at the beach all day and creating babies that you'll pay for?
Whenever I meet someone that uses Oracle ERP, I always ask them if they are happy with it, and would they still make the same decision if they could do it over again. So far, this many people have said yes: 0.
Nobody is happy with their ERP.
I think you may be close to a breakthrough, buddy. You should consider the possibility that rich people are just bad.
-5, Moron.
When the rich move out of the city, it is called "White flight", which is bad.
When the rich move into the city, it is called "Gentrification", which is bad.
+5, Insightful.
Fascinating
In the meantime, AAPL is up and up and up.
Realistically, AAPL is up only 2.5% vs same day last week. But if you think it's only going up and up, then by all means, mortgage your house and load up.
Why do you suppose that AAPL only only got a 2.5% bump when earnings went up almost 16%? Somebody smarter than you is a bit nervous.
If you're only looking at things from a week-to-week perspective, then by all means, please continue doing so.
Why do you suppose AAPL is at an all-time high, up 19% this year, 28% in the past year, 300% in the past five years and 840% in the last 10 years?
Someone smarter than you can look past last week.
stop writing smiley face backwards you dolt
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If you actually wanted to integrate the tech population (or any of the upper middle class in most cities), the best way to do that would be to force everyone to send their kids to the public school system (and make sure the individual districts are uniform).
That would be a great way to encourage people to telecommute from locations WITHOUT such tyranny, and for businesses to relocate to such locations as well.
I can tell you this much. If the (east coast shit hole) city I live in passed such a requirement, I would move right the fuck out of it...and we're not even particularly well off either.
In the meantime, AAPL is up and up and up. I hope it keeps it up. Even if you don't like its products, ya gotta like its stock (:
That doesn't stop you from developing something that isn't already patented.
Sure. But it's not because the government is limiting the opportunity. Big difference.
Nope. Gorillas have massive canines but they never eat meat.
Probably why humans endanger gorilla habitat, rather than gorillas endangering human habitat.
Instead of eating a plant and pretending like its meat, just eat meat and pretend its a plant.
Pretty much all drugs come from them taking some thing they found in nature (e.g. my blood medication, wich is one of the most popular in the world, literally came from a snake poison suggested by a shaman), and then cluelessly tinkering with it, to see what the modified variants will do.
If that's all it takes, then how come YOU are not doing the same thing and making billions?
And if a company looks at the situation and decides to NOT bother investing in a new drug that solves XYZ problem, and therefore NOBODY gets access to that drug. That's helpful? Fuck that.