You are right, but in high regulatory with labor being very expensive because of government intervention, the optimal number of jobs is (and will increasingly be) the minimal number of jobs.
We'll just see more and more capital applied to reduce jobs to an absolute minimum if there are more and more regulations that make employees more expensive than what the market dictates.
If it just happened that we could automate every job that we have today, then the cost of production would become nearly nill, that's what automation is about - reduction of costs of production.
With free production, the prices for any good produced are again trivial, that's what profit motive does, by the way - reduce prices. There still HAS TO BE profit in this, so whatever people end up doing, they have to be able to pay something for the things they receive.
OTOH if we can automate everything, including production of automation (so you get your magic wand basically, any good you want - here it is, you are a wizard now), then the cost is truly trivial, as eventually everybody will have access to one of these machines and will have the machine itself eventually.
THAT is your 'basic income' - a machine or a combination of machines that eventually cost nothing to anybody to produce and operate and they can give you what you need.
Until this is true, there cannot be 'basic income', because until you have self re-producing machines that do your work for you, somebody has to do the work and people don't generally want to work for somebody else for nothing.
1. Nobody is my lord. You have your lords in gov't right now telling you what you can and cannot do. Ron Paul is the opposite of a 'lord', a guy who would stay out of your life.
2. The goal of work is to produce something for economy, not to give anybody a job so that they would have to spend their time working. That's what your lords, Keynesians want to do - to give you jobs.
All this nonsense about everybody just be given a job for the sake of them having jobs. Jobs are just means to the end, which is production of things people want and ability to generate income/profit.
The best thing that this society can achieve is to automate every single job that we do today, so that people can be freed up to do something else altogether. If you can't understand the basic principle that what we do today is trivial and we shouldn't be wasting our lives on it and instead we should be coming up with new, non-trivial things to do, while what we do should be automated away, then you are still stuck in cave-man mentality, AC.
Just like all other ways to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and speed, this is just one of them.
Any company that produces anything should be aiming towards having as few employees as possible, this includes using contractors, tools, computers, networks, robots, any kind of automation.
Hopefully it's going to be possible to run an entire company the size of H&M with only a few people at some point in the future.
Nonsense. Ron Paul is the exact opposite of what US government and Russian government represent today - lack of law. Lawlessness on the government level.
The laws must apply to the government just as well as they apply to individuals and the government must not be allowed to do things that individuals cannot do by law.
USA and Russia have similar problems, however what you call '1%' in USA consists of all sorts of people - mostly owners of businesses. Those are the people who actually run the economy. The MAKE the products that everybody wants and they profit in the process.
The problem in USA of-course is that a small number of the very rich (maybe 0.01%) found ways to subvert the law that applies to the government and they found a way to give themselves all sorts of privileges nobody should have.
However OTOH the about 50% found a way to give themselves something they didn't earn in USA as well, and it's paid by the top 50%.
USA has a problem, it's a different problem. USA can in fact return to the Constitution and can again have a government that lives by the law. It's going to be hard, but it does not have to be violent.
In Russia it will likely be violent before it gets better, and the problem with Russia is that since 1917 the working class the real 1% and the top 50% were systematically destroyed by the state, making sure that the population has little initiative by design and cannot imagine how not to be poor, how to work for themselves, how to start and run businesses.
People in Russia are learning this again, but it's a tiny percentage of people who are learning and are successful, and it's all despite the government, not because of it.
Of-course USA had the right idea and since about 1913 it also turned to the wrong side, but it can rediscover the right idea if it wanted to and it would take much less work to do it, because the initiative and self reliance haven't been bred out of people, so there are much fewer mental blocks.
But there are mental blocks, many are created by these false idea that socialism is good for economy and society. It's a false idea and it's slowly failing everywhere today, where it has been implemented.
Why should there be absolute right to land? For the same reason why there should be any law that protects personal liberties and rights.
It's because any possession is an expression of work of an individual and that's what individuals want to protect - fruits of their own labor. USA is on the wrong track. Most of the world does not in fact have property taxes, in Germany we don't pay any, but in fact in Germany it depends from locality to locality, but there are no federal level property taxes and people prefer to buy where there are no local property taxes either, which basically mostly removes them. There are land TRANSFER taxes. In Switzerland we have a canton tax on 'wealth', it's negotiable with the canton, just like the income tax, which is not a federal issue either (and we are making it go away soon completely).
1. Russian mafia-government buys the votes with promises of the dole.
2. The only thing 'capitalist' about it is that a limited number of people are making a capital for themselves alright.
3. The mafia-bosses on the top of the political pyramid are making sure that nobody knows or hears about any viable alternatives, the 'Channel 1' is bought and paid for (and the rest of the channels are heavily monitored and censored, maybe even self-censored). Only a small percentage of the country is on the Internet, and it's mainly the younger people. The majority of folks don't know that there are alternatives, that's how successful the mafia-bosses on top are at what they do.
4. The nationalist agenda is just a cover to create a false sense of 'unity'. For example Putin and Medvedev love to talk about USA and other Western nations trying to undermine the Russian government in order to take over and give Russia to some nefarious people.
Easy - say that you have nothing that would prevent you from looking at the case impartially. What is the problem?
Look at it impartially and when you see government abusing its power and create wrong laws, acquit the defendant. Of-course all government laws passed since about 1913 should be nullified, but it doesn't prevent you from being impartial.
What is described is a network that allows employers and contractors to come together at a global (Internet based) exchange, which increases the efficiencies and productivity.
Sure, part of the software described is used to monitor and evaluate the work of the contractor, but as the story states - competitive contractors see their hourly rates increase by a factor of 3-4, so this is good for allocating resources.
A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not a journalist when she posted online that an Oregon lawyer acted criminally during a bankruptcy case, a decision with implications for bloggers around the country.
the government, including the judges want to shut you up. Shut up and do as you told, consumer number (*insert social security code here*).
I hope you are right, because if you are right then everything that I see wrong with the system is likely not real and just is part of my 'idiot' mind.
I am not having this 'conversation' to promote anything except the idea that maybe your own workers and your own government are a bigger threat to your data than somebody in another country selling server time, which is their business model and they can either do it right and succeed or do it wrong and fail.
My argument is that the first people one has to be cautious about are his own employees/coworkers. Second in line is your government, and that's why jurisdiction of where the data is stored is important. Hackers are always an issue, but they are not the same level of issue and your data has no priority in the cloud before anybody else's data and it has no useful context.
The job of server farm administration is to keep it running, keep it safe, if they don't do their job then people don't use them, they fail as a business - market at work.
Scroll to minute 19:06 of that audio file to listen about this very issue - that's an interview with a guys who has been fighting the government of USA on the issue of notifying the juries of their right to nullify the conviction based on an unjust law and what the government does to shut him up.
In many cases maybe your data is even more secure in a cloud than on your own servers, especially if you choose your 'cloud' carefully (outside of your country/jurisdiction).
The real threats to your data are your own employees and your government. The outside 'hackers' come as a very distant third.
I don't know what neocommunists are, but hopefully they are people who stand for the individual rights and they inform other people of their rights so that nobody forgets they have rights.
The Constitution is always "interpreted" when the politicians/judges are trying to do something that is against the idea, on which the country was founded.
They don't 'interpret' the document when they are not trying to subvert and destroy it.
Supreme Court, like all other government institutions has failed the country by abandoning the Constitution and aligning with special privileges.
By the way, do not forget your rights if you become a jury - NULLIFICATION.
You are not there only to find guilt of the defendant, you are there to question the morality of the law itself. Do not be bullied by the judges, who tell you that they are the law and you must only judge based on the law itself. Always remember - any proceeding where the individual is standing against the government in any way, it's likely that the government is doing the wrong thing.
Do not go along, prevent the unjust laws from existing by acquitting the defendant based on the law being unjust.
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You are right, but in high regulatory with labor being very expensive because of government intervention, the optimal number of jobs is (and will increasingly be) the minimal number of jobs.
We'll just see more and more capital applied to reduce jobs to an absolute minimum if there are more and more regulations that make employees more expensive than what the market dictates.
If it just happened that we could automate every job that we have today, then the cost of production would become nearly nill, that's what automation is about - reduction of costs of production.
With free production, the prices for any good produced are again trivial, that's what profit motive does, by the way - reduce prices. There still HAS TO BE profit in this, so whatever people end up doing, they have to be able to pay something for the things they receive.
OTOH if we can automate everything, including production of automation (so you get your magic wand basically, any good you want - here it is, you are a wizard now), then the cost is truly trivial, as eventually everybody will have access to one of these machines and will have the machine itself eventually.
THAT is your 'basic income' - a machine or a combination of machines that eventually cost nothing to anybody to produce and operate and they can give you what you need.
Until this is true, there cannot be 'basic income', because until you have self re-producing machines that do your work for you, somebody has to do the work and people don't generally want to work for somebody else for nothing.
1. Nobody is my lord. You have your lords in gov't right now telling you what you can and cannot do. Ron Paul is the opposite of a 'lord', a guy who would stay out of your life.
2. The goal of work is to produce something for economy, not to give anybody a job so that they would have to spend their time working. That's what your lords, Keynesians want to do - to give you jobs.
All this nonsense about everybody just be given a job for the sake of them having jobs. Jobs are just means to the end, which is production of things people want and ability to generate income/profit.
The best thing that this society can achieve is to automate every single job that we do today, so that people can be freed up to do something else altogether. If you can't understand the basic principle that what we do today is trivial and we shouldn't be wasting our lives on it and instead we should be coming up with new, non-trivial things to do, while what we do should be automated away, then you are still stuck in cave-man mentality, AC.
Just like all other ways to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and speed, this is just one of them.
Any company that produces anything should be aiming towards having as few employees as possible, this includes using contractors, tools, computers, networks, robots, any kind of automation.
Hopefully it's going to be possible to run an entire company the size of H&M with only a few people at some point in the future.
Good stuff, H&M.
Nonsense. Ron Paul is the exact opposite of what US government and Russian government represent today - lack of law. Lawlessness on the government level.
The laws must apply to the government just as well as they apply to individuals and the government must not be allowed to do things that individuals cannot do by law.
USA and Russia have similar problems, however what you call '1%' in USA consists of all sorts of people - mostly owners of businesses. Those are the people who actually run the economy. The MAKE the products that everybody wants and they profit in the process.
The problem in USA of-course is that a small number of the very rich (maybe 0.01%) found ways to subvert the law that applies to the government and they found a way to give themselves all sorts of privileges nobody should have.
However OTOH the about 50% found a way to give themselves something they didn't earn in USA as well, and it's paid by the top 50%.
USA has a problem, it's a different problem. USA can in fact return to the Constitution and can again have a government that lives by the law. It's going to be hard, but it does not have to be violent.
In Russia it will likely be violent before it gets better, and the problem with Russia is that since 1917 the working class the real 1% and the top 50% were systematically destroyed by the state, making sure that the population has little initiative by design and cannot imagine how not to be poor, how to work for themselves, how to start and run businesses.
People in Russia are learning this again, but it's a tiny percentage of people who are learning and are successful, and it's all despite the government, not because of it.
Of-course USA had the right idea and since about 1913 it also turned to the wrong side, but it can rediscover the right idea if it wanted to and it would take much less work to do it, because the initiative and self reliance haven't been bred out of people, so there are much fewer mental blocks.
But there are mental blocks, many are created by these false idea that socialism is good for economy and society. It's a false idea and it's slowly failing everywhere today, where it has been implemented.
Why should there be absolute right to land? For the same reason why there should be any law that protects personal liberties and rights.
It's because any possession is an expression of work of an individual and that's what individuals want to protect - fruits of their own labor. USA is on the wrong track. Most of the world does not in fact have property taxes, in Germany we don't pay any, but in fact in Germany it depends from locality to locality, but there are no federal level property taxes and people prefer to buy where there are no local property taxes either, which basically mostly removes them. There are land TRANSFER taxes. In Switzerland we have a canton tax on 'wealth', it's negotiable with the canton, just like the income tax, which is not a federal issue either (and we are making it go away soon completely).
1. Russian mafia-government buys the votes with promises of the dole.
2. The only thing 'capitalist' about it is that a limited number of people are making a capital for themselves alright.
3. The mafia-bosses on the top of the political pyramid are making sure that nobody knows or hears about any viable alternatives, the 'Channel 1' is bought and paid for (and the rest of the channels are heavily monitored and censored, maybe even self-censored). Only a small percentage of the country is on the Internet, and it's mainly the younger people. The majority of folks don't know that there are alternatives, that's how successful the mafia-bosses on top are at what they do.
4. The nationalist agenda is just a cover to create a false sense of 'unity'. For example Putin and Medvedev love to talk about USA and other Western nations trying to undermine the Russian government in order to take over and give Russia to some nefarious people.
It's really a mafia-ran state right now.
Well, in USA and Canada and some other countries, but most of the world doesn't have property taxes.
It's just in US the individual and property rights have been destroyed.
It would be even funnier if they figured out how to take over these and then use them for their own purposes back against the enemy.
It's destruction of the freedom of speech and private property. Everything else follows.
Easy - say that you have nothing that would prevent you from looking at the case impartially. What is the problem?
Look at it impartially and when you see government abusing its power and create wrong laws, acquit the defendant. Of-course all government laws passed since about 1913 should be nullified, but it doesn't prevent you from being impartial.
What is described is a network that allows employers and contractors to come together at a global (Internet based) exchange, which increases the efficiencies and productivity.
Sure, part of the software described is used to monitor and evaluate the work of the contractor, but as the story states - competitive contractors see their hourly rates increase by a factor of 3-4, so this is good for allocating resources.
This is a good development, not a bad one.
A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not a journalist when she posted online that an Oregon lawyer acted criminally during a bankruptcy case, a decision with implications for bloggers around the country.
the government, including the judges want to shut you up. Shut up and do as you told, consumer number (*insert social security code here*).
Judges like to shut people up, by the way, listen to this starting at minute 19
And what makes the government where "the cloud" resides any more respectable of my privacy than my local government?
- well, that's an easy one.
If you have your data in some places like these, then you may want to consider places like these instead.
I hope you are right, because if you are right then everything that I see wrong with the system is likely not real and just is part of my 'idiot' mind.
I am not having this 'conversation' to promote anything except the idea that maybe your own workers and your own government are a bigger threat to your data than somebody in another country selling server time, which is their business model and they can either do it right and succeed or do it wrong and fail.
that's not my argument, nice straw man.
My argument is that the first people one has to be cautious about are his own employees/coworkers. Second in line is your government, and that's why jurisdiction of where the data is stored is important. Hackers are always an issue, but they are not the same level of issue and your data has no priority in the cloud before anybody else's data and it has no useful context.
The job of server farm administration is to keep it running, keep it safe, if they don't do their job then people don't use them, they fail as a business - market at work.
Scroll to minute 19:06 of that audio file to listen about this very issue - that's an interview with a guys who has been fighting the government of USA on the issue of notifying the juries of their right to nullify the conviction based on an unjust law and what the government does to shut him up.
In many cases maybe your data is even more secure in a cloud than on your own servers, especially if you choose your 'cloud' carefully (outside of your country/jurisdiction).
The real threats to your data are your own employees and your government. The outside 'hackers' come as a very distant third.
I don't know what neocommunists are, but hopefully they are people who stand for the individual rights and they inform other people of their rights so that nobody forgets they have rights.
The Constitution is always "interpreted" when the politicians/judges are trying to do something that is against the idea, on which the country was founded.
They don't 'interpret' the document when they are not trying to subvert and destroy it.
Supreme Court, like all other government institutions has failed the country by abandoning the Constitution and aligning with special privileges.
By the way, do not forget your rights if you become a jury - NULLIFICATION.
You are not there only to find guilt of the defendant, you are there to question the morality of the law itself. Do not be bullied by the judges, who tell you that they are the law and you must only judge based on the law itself. Always remember - any proceeding where the individual is standing against the government in any way, it's likely that the government is doing the wrong thing.
Do not go along, prevent the unjust laws from existing by acquitting the defendant based on the law being unjust.
I have an idea - do more iPhones, less weapons.
this way for you.
So that's what it comes down to!
First they stopped reading the fucking articles.
Then they stopped reading the fucking 'Scoops'.
Now they don't even bother with the title.
Do you even know what site you are on?