Because in this conversation, Jobs is saying you can't. He says the PC is going away, and we're all going to submit to his vision of utopia. Fuck Steve Jobs, I will never buy an Apple product.
I just can't agree with that. Once a company has reached a status of market dominance, the only way it can stay on top is either
a) through truly being the best at what it does such that no competitor can provide a better or cheaper product to it's customers which means that the market is providing what the people want
or
b) through government interference in the form of patents, copyrights, support of abusive lawsuits, regulation to prevent entry to market, etc, etc.
I am still assuming of course that rule of law still applies, and that government would prosecute actual crimes such as murdering their competitors. I am only referring to direct interference with the market.
You're being unfair to the majority of small business owners (roughly half of America works for a small business) who make a modest income and pay their employees fairly. The mega-rich are a symptom of globalization and mega-corporations. Corporations who in many cases were given their vast through government influence of some kind (be it monopoly status, government contracts, etc.), so they're hardly a product of the free market.
As a fairly staunch free market supporter, you've made an interesting point in the "one dollar one vote" giving the wealthy undue influence in determining value. I'll have to mull that one over for a while. My capitalist brain needs some time to consume it.:)
So it takes a McDonald's employee in Denmark about an hour of work (after taxes) to purchase a happy meal from their own employer. What exactly is that high minimum wage doing to help him again? Here in the US the employee might make $8/hr, but the Happy Meal also costs $4. All you've done is inflate values and nothing has changed.
I've thought before that I'd happily take a 20% pay cut as long there was a corresponding 20% cut in my responsibilities. If everyone did that we should have close to zero unemployment, theoretically anyway. This whole 40 hour work week thing seems to be ingrained in the US mindset unfortunately.
Or we could learn to not blindly trust anybody, as the right and left seem to do for corporations and government respectively. Frankly, I trust neither.
I've started it twice now, but can never bring myself to keep playing. I played KOTOR and Jade Empire and Mass Effect just seems like another sequel to those games. Maybe I just don't like Bioware games. Someday I'll probably force myself to play further because everyone talks about how amazing it is, but I just haven't seen it.
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How are we going to use other computers when Jobs says they're going away? Apparently he thinks that we'll all be using iPads and PCs will disappear.
Maybe someday when you gather the courage to speak to a female, you'll find that not all women are puritanical virgins.
"History shows that people will tend to choose convenience over freedom."
Really? What percentage of American people own cars and what percentage rely solely on public transportation?
Because in this conversation, Jobs is saying you can't. He says the PC is going away, and we're all going to submit to his vision of utopia. Fuck Steve Jobs, I will never buy an Apple product.
If iPads are the future, Apple should stop selling Macs any day now, right?
Most people are stupid, yes. That's why Apple has such a large potential market. Products for intelligent people don't sell as well.
I'm willing to bet everything in Denmark costs more. Feel free to prove me wrong.
Really? White people who don't like Obama are routinely called racists. What rock did you just crawl from under?
Yes, the past of Europe other than Hitler is just so peaceful.
I just can't agree with that. Once a company has reached a status of market dominance, the only way it can stay on top is either
a) through truly being the best at what it does such that no competitor can provide a better or cheaper product to it's customers which means that the market is providing what the people want
or
b) through government interference in the form of patents, copyrights, support of abusive lawsuits, regulation to prevent entry to market, etc, etc.
I am still assuming of course that rule of law still applies, and that government would prosecute actual crimes such as murdering their competitors. I am only referring to direct interference with the market.
The people in your town could have refused to shop at WalMart. Looks like the people have spoken. Talk about democracy in action!
Wish I had mod points for you.
You're being unfair to the majority of small business owners (roughly half of America works for a small business) who make a modest income and pay their employees fairly. The mega-rich are a symptom of globalization and mega-corporations. Corporations who in many cases were given their vast through government influence of some kind (be it monopoly status, government contracts, etc.), so they're hardly a product of the free market.
As a fairly staunch free market supporter, you've made an interesting point in the "one dollar one vote" giving the wealthy undue influence in determining value. I'll have to mull that one over for a while. My capitalist brain needs some time to consume it. :)
So it takes a McDonald's employee in Denmark about an hour of work (after taxes) to purchase a happy meal from their own employer. What exactly is that high minimum wage doing to help him again? Here in the US the employee might make $8/hr, but the Happy Meal also costs $4. All you've done is inflate values and nothing has changed.
I paid that much in 2009 as well and never went to college. What's your point?
That's actually not a half bad idea.
Like Greece, huh? They're pretty prosperous I hear.
I've thought before that I'd happily take a 20% pay cut as long there was a corresponding 20% cut in my responsibilities. If everyone did that we should have close to zero unemployment, theoretically anyway. This whole 40 hour work week thing seems to be ingrained in the US mindset unfortunately.
No, the paranoia about security came long before anybody was pirating anything. Clearly you don't remember the furor over VHS.
Or we could learn to not blindly trust anybody, as the right and left seem to do for corporations and government respectively. Frankly, I trust neither.
Every time you spend your money you're voting in the free market.
I've started it twice now, but can never bring myself to keep playing. I played KOTOR and Jade Empire and Mass Effect just seems like another sequel to those games. Maybe I just don't like Bioware games. Someday I'll probably force myself to play further because everyone talks about how amazing it is, but I just haven't seen it.
And government gives you Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, and if you're so inclined, Bush.
Government with evil intentions makes private enterprise look downright saintly.
Worse. I'm a libertarian.