The one that stood out more than others is Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque. It's an old book by modern standards but I think the plot will never get old, if anything it's only getting more relevant in our every day reality.
Oh, somebody who doesn't hate America, you are a true Patriot, a true America Lover. You know what is good for America, you know that inflation is good for America, because you are a true believer in the American dream of providing a social security net for everybody, and the evil 1% and the evil people with savings are the ones standing in between the paradise of 2% inflation and total chaos.
Now, that I am done with toxic sarcasm... People like me I don't know, I know myself. I know very well how money is created in this system. If you bothered to actually read my past comments or my journal you wouldn't be embarrassing yourself by saying things like that. I am too painfully aware how the money is created and how it *should* be created instead of how it is created.
You, on the other hand are a perfect example of somebody buying the propaganda hook, line and sinker. Including the complete and utter 'inflation is good' nonsense, the complete and utter nonsense on the 2% inflation is good. You are 100% oblivious on the history of the 2% number. Do you *KNOW* where that number originally came from? Do you *KNOW*? No you do not know. You do not know that the 2% number was named as a specific inflation ceiling in Australia many decades ago, so that that when inflation hit that number, the government would stop increasing the money supply and would promote deflationary policies. *YOU* do not know, you want to tell me what I understand or don't understand?
Did *YOU* know that inflation was measured completely differently when Nixon was in charge and that over the last 50 years the measurement system was adjusted to under-report the actual inflation by manufacturing a way to measure it that would show provide a much lower number, by removing items from inflation calculations that were used when Nixon introduced the wage and price controls, when inflation (as counted then) hit the 4% ceiling?
I don't believe you, or most anybody understands anything on this topic at all, not even close, not even the definition of the word, not in any meaningful way that puts us even on the same level, the same plane of understanding to intersect and to talk about it in a meaningful manner.
Great Depression was created by inflation, you don't understand that one bit. The late 30s recession was started by inflation, the Fed buying bad UK debt from France. The recession was the bursting of the stock market bubble created by the Fed and the Depression was *CREATED* by Hoover and FDR. They created it, they deepened and worsened it, and it didn't end up until the end of war allowed restructuring of the debts and massive cuts to taxes and to government spending.
Basically you and I cannot talk about this subject, because you are stuck deep in a swamp of complete and utter nonsense, propaganda and misinformation.
As to the government 'always' controlling the money supply, no it did not. The government did not control the supply of gold and silver. Mint is not control of supply of money, it was only in control of supply of minted coins. Coins are only a shape of money, not the money itself.
Quite frankly (to borrow your turn of phrase), there is nothing that you can bring to this discussion.
but didn't you hear everybody say that the inflation is too low, it's under 2%, if you go by the official numbers and 'inflation is good for the economy, because it makes you go out and buy stuff' and 'deflation is bad for the economy, it makes you save money'.
Didn't you hear all this stuff? Why do you hate America, why do you not simply believe all that stuff and be happy that you live in a wonderful world of nonsensical government controlling money supply, nonsensical government manipulated interest rates, government regulating businesses and making sure that everybody pays and gets their 'fair share'?
Why do you hate America by saying things that do not support the official government propa... information provided to you by your friendly local or not so local 'news' source?
mindful that each flush & brush costs him about 43 cents to his privatized water provider.
- as opposed to the collectivists, who actually believe that water and purification is free and will go on forever driven by decree as opposed to by competition to provide the water.
Just to be safe, Joe Conservative boils his drinking water.
- actually has the latest greatest water purification system that takes care of purifying/cleaning the water before it is served.
Joe steps outside and coughsâ"the pollution is especially bad today, but the smokiest cars are the cheapest ones, so everyone buys âem
- that one is fairly simple, developing countries have the most pollution, since everything is created from scratch. It takes wealthy economies to start worrying about the purity of the environment. So you are describing a very poor economy, I guess you cannot imagine that a free economy can be wealthy (though the wealthiest economy in the world were built on freedom, be it USA in 19th century or the economy that is becoming uber wealthy today - Chinese).
enough toll money for the 3 different private roads he must drive to work.
- except in the free market everybody tries to make money by supplying the best next thing, so instead of having to carry around the cash for 3 different private roads, the driver simply has a transponder that works everywhere and automatically takes the payment while ensuring that the customer only pays for what he uses.
There is no public transportation, so traffic is backed up and his 10 mile commute takes an hour.
- what an ignoramus. Prior to government takeover the best MASS transportation was provided completely privately.
On the way, he drops his 12 year old daughter off at the clothing factory she works at.
- again, assuming a poor economy, so this is not an economy that is developed yet you are describing I take it? As to working at a factory, I imagine the robots will do better than 12 year olds in most cases.
Paying for kids to go to private school until theyâ(TM)re 18 is a luxury
- and it's stupid. Why should everybody be going to school 'until they are 18'? There is no value in everybody wasting their formative years at school, some people belong at school and some people do not. Some people may belong in trade schools, it should be a completely private and personal choice. Free market discovers the price points that work for different population segments.
You don't make most money by serving the rich, you make most money by serving the vast majority of people out there, schools will be cheaper and better if done without government involvement and without any government money, without government created inflation, without government insurance for loans, etc.
Times are hard and thereâ(TM)re no social safety nets.
- in the West times are hard *because* the entire system was a so called 'safety net' pyramid scam. China is the fastest developing society, there are no safety nets, everybody is getting cheap products and services, education and health care while saving up to 50% of their earnings, and that 50% *is the safety net* and it's an actual safety net, with an actual capital behind it as opposed to the pyramid scams that the West is running.
He gets to work 5 minutes late and misses the call for Christian prayer, and is immediately docked by his employer.
- ha! nonsense. I am an employer, I could not care less about anybody's religion unless it interferes with work (and it never did so far).
He is not feeling well today, but has no health insurance
- maybe he does, maybe he doesn't, but it wouldn't be attached to his employer, it would be his own, thu
if you are so expensive that replacing you with a machine is a viable capital expense, then the human will be getting nothing, the machine will be doing the work. That was the point GP was making. Your ideology hazes your vision.
I think it would be more fun to have Eric Cartman voice it. Respect My Authority, biatch. But Morgan Freeman' s voice is what Zuckerberg would go for, of course he wants to think that he can have voice of god as his Butler.
The worst thing about being a human is to share the Universe with the stupid and with the anti-individualistic collectivists, with people who want to steal from you, with the jealous. As to the comment you replied to, do you honestly believe the dopey cunts are only in the 'white' population?
2 people: one produces food, the other produces nothing. One eats, the other one does not.
If part of food simply taken away from the person who produces it by force to give that to the person who does not produce it, that's clear as day, nobody can argue that it is a simple case of theft.
3 people: Person A produces meat. Person B produces bread. Person C produces nothing.
A and B can trade meat and bread with each other. If some meat and some bread are taken away by force from A and from B and given to C, then again, it is clear theft, however it also allows C to trade meat with B for bread and allows C to trade bread with A for meat, but person C also has to eat.
So person C eats some bread stolen from B, eats some meat stolen from A and can trade with A and B, but he trades what A and B could trade with each other without C in the picture and A and B would be better off because C wouldn't have eaten part of the product.
This is the model of what is going to happen, basically the people that are productive trade with each other not for money, as in for pieces of paper, but for a promise of future consumption, ability to trade the money for the goods and services that other productive people are supplying.
Nobody can buy any new supply of anything from people that are not productive, that are not working, not producing, not supplying. These people live off the violence of the State against the productive people, this will end up with the productive people moving more and more of their production elsewhere and trying to avoid the theft in every way.
Of-course the productive people are then named: leaches on the society, which is absolutely gloriously amazing, because it is absolute nonsense, but the collectivists will never understand the nonsense because their power depends on not understanding the nonsense.
You are saying Java encourages bad design 'principals'?:). Seriously? I think it is not going to be easy to find a language (language, not a framework) that 'encourages' good design 'principals'. OK, I think languages so not encourage good or bad design principles at all. I think a language is a tool for a job and choosing an incorrect tool for a particular type of a job makes it difficult to have any 'design principles' . However I must say that I find the Java ecosystem trying extremely hard to encourage pretty good design principle, reusing code, using libraries, more or less defining APIs. I would agree with this though: the syntactic sugar edded since Java 5 is trying hard to masquerade, to hide the difference between a good and a bad programmer. Of course the good programmer will still produce more modular, more readable, easier testable (and even easier provable) code than a bad programmer, but syntactic sugar is trying to make it more difficult not less to immediately see and evaluate the difference. What language promotes 'good design principles', a functional one? I can create absolute nonsense and garbage in any language, that much I can promise.
Is it? I am surprised, I see it everywhere, I run my business on the software that is almost completely written in Java, it is all server side and it doesn't use any of those Commercial Flag JVM settings to run things like Flight Recorder.
Is the JVM dead? Is the JDK dead?
In fact maybe the Flight Recorder is *WORTH THE MONEY* for those people who are using it if they keep using it.
How is Java dead because some enterprise tools for it are not free as in beer?
I want my goddamn nuclear car, I want a car with some sort of a small sized nuclear reactor. Slow nuclear... transfusion/transfusion/subfusiin/submission, I don't care, I want it now.
I love Uber, I vote for Uber with my money. They are excellent, they are everything a company should be, and fuck cooperation, fuck collaboration, fuck governments, fuck socialism, collectivism, fascism, communism of all types. They should be arrogant and they should not cooperate, they should win, that's the only yardstick for success.
Yes, but that's the point of having a business: to make profit. If you are making profit as a business, you are doing right by your customers. Labour needs to be hired in the beginning because the capital is not there to acquire capital assets, however operational costs can be paid out of the revenues (if there are revenues, if there aren't revenues then hiring labour is much more difficult, somebody has to provide the investment before any revenues will appear).
That's an absolutely normal path for a business, it should be expected and desired.
Specific working conditions define whether a worker is an employee or is a contractor
- I had to deal with this a couple of months back, one of my people worked as a contractor for four months and then he decided he wanted to switch to the payroll and I switched him. A year later the government decides that he should have been an 'employee' from the start.
After a few phone calls they agreed that he was a contractor during that time period.
So why was he a contractor and not a permanent employee? He was in and out of the office whenver he wanted, I didn't demand exact working hours from him, he could work any time. If he wanted to outsource the job to somebody else I would not care because I needed him to do specific tasks. He presented me with an invoice and I paid that way. He used his own equipment, he spent part of the time working from home, part of the time working in the office. His hourly pay was actually reduced when I switched him to the payroll (he worked more hours but made less per hour, though his cost to me stayed almost the same, I got more hours of his work per day, but I did have to pay source deductions, but that's part of his total compensation and I don't care if I pay your salary to you in full or to you partially and partially to a third party, which is the government in that case).
Obviously we negotiated on his hourly compensation before the start of the gig.
So yes, he was a contractor, but so are Uber drivers, they bring their own equipment, they decide their own hours, they do not get special training provided by the company, etc.
Yeah, you should take your own advice and 'go read up on slavery', maybe you can at some point realise that slavery was a government tool, it was government sanctioned and it was used by the government as well. Certainly private sector can and did use slavery, however with industrialization and automation the free labour is much more attractive, it requires much less upfront capital expense and the slaves will not do more than the basic bare minimum to stay alive and not get punished.
I know that I would not choose a slave to work in my company today and I run a private business. I prefer free people, who can quit and go somewhere else and compare, they can come from somewhere else and I can hire them, I don't have to worry where they sleep, what they eat, how they are clothed, whether they should see a doctor, that's their personal life and decisions, I pay the money they earned and they take care of themselves, it's a much more efficient system than slavery.
As to EPA and other government agencies, I disagree completely, we don't need any oppressive systems with a top down approach, sponsored by stolen (sorry, taxed) money, we need to satisfy personal people's demands, and if the personal demand is for clean air and the people are willing to sacrifice to get it (as in pay for that to have that) they will have it just like any other product and service they buy.
Yes, let's do, let's mandate that all government employees wear yellow stars, that all government employees are moved from their offices to a garbage dump, hopefully a nuclear waste dump, maybe asbestos garbage dump, radioactive asbestos garbage dump with sulphuric acid fumes all over the place. I like that idea. I don't see it as unethical and I don't care if it's illegal.
I advocate for destruction of every government department, my natural desire is to destroy every one of them and to fire all those real people doing their real bidding.
Same here, I would love for *every* department of the US government to do this and I would *LOVE* for Trump to shut down every US government department.
And this is in the wake of all the western countries coming up with their versions of the nonsensical "anti terrorism" laws, which include a demand that all software and all services include backdoors "for government". I care less about money theft like the SWIFT attacks, I care less about terrorist attacks, all of them combined together, I care less about the criminals on the streets than about the criminals in the halls of the governments. They are the terrorists that we should worry about, they terrorise, steal, rape, murder and start and run wars, they lie to get the idiotic populations on board. And the populations are mostly idiotic in mass, these governments come from the populations, they are not actually lizards from space.
Contracts have nothing to do with government. A handshake is a contract as much as a piece of paper. I don't need a third party in a contract, the government party. Negotiation is between 2 sides, not three.
Obviously payroll tax is theft. To me this part does not matter much, it is only a part of the total compensation paid out to an employee, o don't care if I have to pay the source deductions to the employe or to the regime, however it is theft. An employee should be able to receive 100% of his compensation into his hands and invest, save or spend as he sees fit. Government steals that money, there is no fund behind it of any kind, there is only the transfer from the currently employed to the currently retired, and since the fund does not exist, to pay the currently retired the money comes from the tax on the currently employed but also from the future tax on the future employees in form of borrowing. The borrowing means taxation in the future. If you don't see all of this as theft, then I congratulate you, you have been properly 'educated'.
here we go, a collectivist tell an employer that his choices of where to hire people is 'theft'. Perfect! A great fat exclamation mark added to my previous comment.
Let's forget all of the basic services government provides without which our lives would be shit.
- I say that's nonsense, I don't need any form of government to have infrastructure, clean water, anything. Those things have been done privately forever, government is only a form of oppression added to steal from the productive people so that the less than productive and the unproductive can steal, that's all it is.
As to whether governments would be formed, history shows us that yes, governments always form, however that history was also based around the technologies that are at this point outdated. Today an individual is capable of moving across the boarders in hours, moving money in seconds, working, living, shopping, resting, paying taxes in all different countries (I follow the multi flag approach myself). I think in today's world there are much more chances to keep oppression through collectivization to minimum, especially given the simple reality that the government bubble is already big enough that when it blows it may take down many of the current governments and systems and at least for some time people may not be so keen as to rebuild the oppressive regimes, but we shall see.
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I am not a Buddhist also and I am too, offended. AFAIC it is MY philosophy that every man is for himself, not some Buddhists.
The one that stood out more than others is Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque. It's an old book by modern standards but I think the plot will never get old, if anything it's only getting more relevant in our every day reality.
Oh, somebody who doesn't hate America, you are a true Patriot, a true America Lover. You know what is good for America, you know that inflation is good for America, because you are a true believer in the American dream of providing a social security net for everybody, and the evil 1% and the evil people with savings are the ones standing in between the paradise of 2% inflation and total chaos.
Now, that I am done with toxic sarcasm... People like me I don't know, I know myself. I know very well how money is created in this system. If you bothered to actually read my past comments or my journal you wouldn't be embarrassing yourself by saying things like that. I am too painfully aware how the money is created and how it *should* be created instead of how it is created.
You, on the other hand are a perfect example of somebody buying the propaganda hook, line and sinker. Including the complete and utter 'inflation is good' nonsense, the complete and utter nonsense on the 2% inflation is good. You are 100% oblivious on the history of the 2% number. Do you *KNOW* where that number originally came from? Do you *KNOW*? No you do not know. You do not know that the 2% number was named as a specific inflation ceiling in Australia many decades ago, so that that when inflation hit that number, the government would stop increasing the money supply and would promote deflationary policies. *YOU* do not know, you want to tell me what I understand or don't understand?
Did *YOU* know that inflation was measured completely differently when Nixon was in charge and that over the last 50 years the measurement system was adjusted to under-report the actual inflation by manufacturing a way to measure it that would show provide a much lower number, by removing items from inflation calculations that were used when Nixon introduced the wage and price controls, when inflation (as counted then) hit the 4% ceiling?
I don't believe you, or most anybody understands anything on this topic at all, not even close, not even the definition of the word, not in any meaningful way that puts us even on the same level, the same plane of understanding to intersect and to talk about it in a meaningful manner.
Great Depression was created by inflation, you don't understand that one bit. The late 30s recession was started by inflation, the Fed buying bad UK debt from France. The recession was the bursting of the stock market bubble created by the Fed and the Depression was *CREATED* by Hoover and FDR. They created it, they deepened and worsened it, and it didn't end up until the end of war allowed restructuring of the debts and massive cuts to taxes and to government spending.
Basically you and I cannot talk about this subject, because you are stuck deep in a swamp of complete and utter nonsense, propaganda and misinformation.
As to the government 'always' controlling the money supply, no it did not. The government did not control the supply of gold and silver. Mint is not control of supply of money, it was only in control of supply of minted coins. Coins are only a shape of money, not the money itself.
Quite frankly (to borrow your turn of phrase), there is nothing that you can bring to this discussion.
but didn't you hear everybody say that the inflation is too low, it's under 2%, if you go by the official numbers and 'inflation is good for the economy, because it makes you go out and buy stuff' and 'deflation is bad for the economy, it makes you save money'.
Didn't you hear all this stuff? Why do you hate America, why do you not simply believe all that stuff and be happy that you live in a wonderful world of nonsensical government controlling money supply, nonsensical government manipulated interest rates, government regulating businesses and making sure that everybody pays and gets their 'fair share'?
Why do you hate America by saying things that do not support the official government propa... information provided to you by your friendly local or not so local 'news' source?
Don't you know that if you 'hate America' you will be downmoded, we don't need your gloom here. Things are good, they are great, couldn't be better. The beatings will continue until moral improves.
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. Borg.
mindful that each flush & brush costs him about 43 cents to his privatized water provider.
- as opposed to the collectivists, who actually believe that water and purification is free and will go on forever driven by decree as opposed to by competition to provide the water.
Just to be safe, Joe Conservative boils his drinking water.
- actually has the latest greatest water purification system that takes care of purifying/cleaning the water before it is served.
Joe steps outside and coughsâ"the pollution is especially bad today, but the smokiest cars are the cheapest ones, so everyone buys âem
- that one is fairly simple, developing countries have the most pollution, since everything is created from scratch. It takes wealthy economies to start worrying about the purity of the environment. So you are describing a very poor economy, I guess you cannot imagine that a free economy can be wealthy (though the wealthiest economy in the world were built on freedom, be it USA in 19th century or the economy that is becoming uber wealthy today - Chinese).
enough toll money for the 3 different private roads he must drive to work.
- except in the free market everybody tries to make money by supplying the best next thing, so instead of having to carry around the cash for 3 different private roads, the driver simply has a transponder that works everywhere and automatically takes the payment while ensuring that the customer only pays for what he uses.
There is no public transportation, so traffic is backed up and his 10 mile commute takes an hour.
- what an ignoramus. Prior to government takeover the best MASS transportation was provided completely privately.
On the way, he drops his 12 year old daughter off at the clothing factory she works at.
- again, assuming a poor economy, so this is not an economy that is developed yet you are describing I take it? As to working at a factory, I imagine the robots will do better than 12 year olds in most cases.
Paying for kids to go to private school until theyâ(TM)re 18 is a luxury
- and it's stupid. Why should everybody be going to school 'until they are 18'? There is no value in everybody wasting their formative years at school, some people belong at school and some people do not. Some people may belong in trade schools, it should be a completely private and personal choice. Free market discovers the price points that work for different population segments.
You don't make most money by serving the rich, you make most money by serving the vast majority of people out there, schools will be cheaper and better if done without government involvement and without any government money, without government created inflation, without government insurance for loans, etc.
Times are hard and thereâ(TM)re no social safety nets.
- in the West times are hard *because* the entire system was a so called 'safety net' pyramid scam. China is the fastest developing society, there are no safety nets, everybody is getting cheap products and services, education and health care while saving up to 50% of their earnings, and that 50% *is the safety net* and it's an actual safety net, with an actual capital behind it as opposed to the pyramid scams that the West is running.
He gets to work 5 minutes late and misses the call for Christian prayer, and is immediately docked by his employer.
- ha! nonsense. I am an employer, I could not care less about anybody's religion unless it interferes with work (and it never did so far).
He is not feeling well today, but has no health insurance
- maybe he does, maybe he doesn't, but it wouldn't be attached to his employer, it would be his own, thu
if you are so expensive that replacing you with a machine is a viable capital expense, then the human will be getting nothing, the machine will be doing the work. That was the point GP was making. Your ideology hazes your vision.
I think it would be more fun to have Eric Cartman voice it. Respect My Authority, biatch. But Morgan Freeman' s voice is what Zuckerberg would go for, of course he wants to think that he can have voice of god as his Butler.
The worst thing about being a human is to share the Universe with the stupid and with the anti-individualistic collectivists, with people who want to steal from you, with the jealous. As to the comment you replied to, do you honestly believe the dopey cunts are only in the 'white' population?
Correct, it is a net loss and it is a modern version of Communism and to implement this full scale will require negation of property rights and nationalization of production.
2 people: one produces food, the other produces nothing. One eats, the other one does not.
If part of food simply taken away from the person who produces it by force to give that to the person who does not produce it, that's clear as day, nobody can argue that it is a simple case of theft.
3 people:
Person A produces meat.
Person B produces bread.
Person C produces nothing.
A and B can trade meat and bread with each other. If some meat and some bread are taken away by force from A and from B and given to C, then again, it is clear theft, however it also allows C to trade meat with B for bread and allows C to trade bread with A for meat, but person C also has to eat.
So person C eats some bread stolen from B, eats some meat stolen from A and can trade with A and B, but he trades what A and B could trade with each other without C in the picture and A and B would be better off because C wouldn't have eaten part of the product.
This is the model of what is going to happen, basically the people that are productive trade with each other not for money, as in for pieces of paper, but for a promise of future consumption, ability to trade the money for the goods and services that other productive people are supplying.
Nobody can buy any new supply of anything from people that are not productive, that are not working, not producing, not supplying. These people live off the violence of the State against the productive people, this will end up with the productive people moving more and more of their production elsewhere and trying to avoid the theft in every way.
Of-course the productive people are then named: leaches on the society, which is absolutely gloriously amazing, because it is absolute nonsense, but the collectivists will never understand the nonsense because their power depends on not understanding the nonsense.
You are saying Java encourages bad design 'principals'? :). Seriously? I think it is not going to be easy to find a language (language, not a framework) that 'encourages' good design 'principals'. OK, I think languages so not encourage good or bad design principles at all. I think a language is a tool for a job and choosing an incorrect tool for a particular type of a job makes it difficult to have any 'design principles' . However I must say that I find the Java ecosystem trying extremely hard to encourage pretty good design principle, reusing code, using libraries, more or less defining APIs. I would agree with this though: the syntactic sugar edded since Java 5 is trying hard to masquerade, to hide the difference between a good and a bad programmer. Of course the good programmer will still produce more modular, more readable, easier testable (and even easier provable) code than a bad programmer, but syntactic sugar is trying to make it more difficult not less to immediately see and evaluate the difference. What language promotes 'good design principles', a functional one? I can create absolute nonsense and garbage in any language, that much I can promise.
Is it? I am surprised, I see it everywhere, I run my business on the software that is almost completely written in Java, it is all server side and it doesn't use any of those Commercial Flag JVM settings to run things like Flight Recorder.
Is the JVM dead?
Is the JDK dead?
In fact maybe the Flight Recorder is *WORTH THE MONEY* for those people who are using it if they keep using it.
How is Java dead because some enterprise tools for it are not free as in beer?
I want my goddamn nuclear car, I want a car with some sort of a small sized nuclear reactor. Slow nuclear ... transfusion/transfusion/subfusiin/submission, I don't care, I want it now.
I love Uber, I vote for Uber with my money. They are excellent, they are everything a company should be, and fuck cooperation, fuck collaboration, fuck governments, fuck socialism, collectivism, fascism, communism of all types. They should be arrogant and they should not cooperate, they should win, that's the only yardstick for success.
Yes, but that's the point of having a business: to make profit. If you are making profit as a business, you are doing right by your customers. Labour needs to be hired in the beginning because the capital is not there to acquire capital assets, however operational costs can be paid out of the revenues (if there are revenues, if there aren't revenues then hiring labour is much more difficult, somebody has to provide the investment before any revenues will appear).
That's an absolutely normal path for a business, it should be expected and desired.
Specific working conditions define whether a worker is an employee or is a contractor
- I had to deal with this a couple of months back, one of my people worked as a contractor for four months and then he decided he wanted to switch to the payroll and I switched him. A year later the government decides that he should have been an 'employee' from the start.
After a few phone calls they agreed that he was a contractor during that time period.
So why was he a contractor and not a permanent employee? He was in and out of the office whenver he wanted, I didn't demand exact working hours from him, he could work any time. If he wanted to outsource the job to somebody else I would not care because I needed him to do specific tasks. He presented me with an invoice and I paid that way. He used his own equipment, he spent part of the time working from home, part of the time working in the office. His hourly pay was actually reduced when I switched him to the payroll (he worked more hours but made less per hour, though his cost to me stayed almost the same, I got more hours of his work per day, but I did have to pay source deductions, but that's part of his total compensation and I don't care if I pay your salary to you in full or to you partially and partially to a third party, which is the government in that case).
Obviously we negotiated on his hourly compensation before the start of the gig.
So yes, he was a contractor, but so are Uber drivers, they bring their own equipment, they decide their own hours, they do not get special training provided by the company, etc.
Yeah, you should take your own advice and 'go read up on slavery', maybe you can at some point realise that slavery was a government tool, it was government sanctioned and it was used by the government as well. Certainly private sector can and did use slavery, however with industrialization and automation the free labour is much more attractive, it requires much less upfront capital expense and the slaves will not do more than the basic bare minimum to stay alive and not get punished.
I know that I would not choose a slave to work in my company today and I run a private business. I prefer free people, who can quit and go somewhere else and compare, they can come from somewhere else and I can hire them, I don't have to worry where they sleep, what they eat, how they are clothed, whether they should see a doctor, that's their personal life and decisions, I pay the money they earned and they take care of themselves, it's a much more efficient system than slavery.
As to EPA and other government agencies, I disagree completely, we don't need any oppressive systems with a top down approach, sponsored by stolen (sorry, taxed) money, we need to satisfy personal people's demands, and if the personal demand is for clean air and the people are willing to sacrifice to get it (as in pay for that to have that) they will have it just like any other product and service they buy.
Yes, let's do, let's mandate that all government employees wear yellow stars, that all government employees are moved from their offices to a garbage dump, hopefully a nuclear waste dump, maybe asbestos garbage dump, radioactive asbestos garbage dump with sulphuric acid fumes all over the place. I like that idea. I don't see it as unethical and I don't care if it's illegal.
I advocate for destruction of every government department, my natural desire is to destroy every one of them and to fire all those real people doing their real bidding.
Same here, I would love for *every* department of the US government to do this and I would *LOVE* for Trump to shut down every US government department.
And this is in the wake of all the western countries coming up with their versions of the nonsensical "anti terrorism" laws, which include a demand that all software and all services include backdoors "for government". I care less about money theft like the SWIFT attacks, I care less about terrorist attacks, all of them combined together, I care less about the criminals on the streets than about the criminals in the halls of the governments. They are the terrorists that we should worry about, they terrorise, steal, rape, murder and start and run wars, they lie to get the idiotic populations on board. And the populations are mostly idiotic in mass, these governments come from the populations, they are not actually lizards from space.
Contracts have nothing to do with government. A handshake is a contract as much as a piece of paper. I don't need a third party in a contract, the government party. Negotiation is between 2 sides, not three.
Obviously payroll tax is theft. To me this part does not matter much, it is only a part of the total compensation paid out to an employee, o don't care if I have to pay the source deductions to the employe or to the regime, however it is theft. An employee should be able to receive 100% of his compensation into his hands and invest, save or spend as he sees fit. Government steals that money, there is no fund behind it of any kind, there is only the transfer from the currently employed to the currently retired, and since the fund does not exist, to pay the currently retired the money comes from the tax on the currently employed but also from the future tax on the future employees in form of borrowing. The borrowing means taxation in the future. If you don't see all of this as theft, then I congratulate you, you have been properly 'educated'.
property taxes are theft, so are income taxes. Hiring people is not theft.
here we go, a collectivist tell an employer that his choices of where to hire people is 'theft'. Perfect! A great fat exclamation mark added to my previous comment.
Let's forget all of the basic services government provides without which our lives would be shit.
- I say that's nonsense, I don't need any form of government to have infrastructure, clean water, anything. Those things have been done privately forever, government is only a form of oppression added to steal from the productive people so that the less than productive and the unproductive can steal, that's all it is.
As to whether governments would be formed, history shows us that yes, governments always form, however that history was also based around the technologies that are at this point outdated. Today an individual is capable of moving across the boarders in hours, moving money in seconds, working, living, shopping, resting, paying taxes in all different countries (I follow the multi flag approach myself). I think in today's world there are much more chances to keep oppression through collectivization to minimum, especially given the simple reality that the government bubble is already big enough that when it blows it may take down many of the current governments and systems and at least for some time people may not be so keen as to rebuild the oppressive regimes, but we shall see.