The work more physically suited to men was done mostly by men. Women, physically suited to different work, tended to be solving problems the same way. Sewing, cooking, midwifery, teaching, and so on.
What a lot of this comes down to is that the class of people who are cognitively rich and economically middle class went through a weird period where consumer-driven culture lessened the opportunities and needs to show that kind of DIY capability (probably due to the unfixability of some things and the move to two-employed-parent families).
It's nice to think that there's a resurgence of this kind of thing. I think for the capable, it adds to a sense of self-determination in life, and hence happiness.
Don't be so sure. It seems great at first, but one of the things you might not anticipate is the revenge effect of a low noise noise floor. I moved from a horribly noisy situation to a much quieter one. It's great until you adjust. Then, little sounds that you'd never notice before start becoming a real problem. The thud of a closing car door a few hundred feet away, or the sounds of a second hand on an old fashioned clock, or any number of other things really can become distracting, even to the point of causing anxiety. Unless you're basically in the woods, in which case the sounds of your own house can become like a raging cacophony. White noise becomes a refuge. You wait for the rain.
My wife worked with some talented therapists and had no doubts there could be enormously beneficial aspects to working with insightful, skilled professionals.
To expect anything from a special education teacher that would be more than minimal classroom management modifications is probably not realistic in all but the very wealthiest (top 1%) schools, which have multiple secondary educational aids and extremely small class sizes. The special education classrooms in most districts are loaded up with kids with other behavioral problems that are likely to further exacerbate the issues someone on the spectrum with experience.
So you're acknowledging that the intended funding is exclusionary, because there's not enough to include boys, too. Nice. And you make an analogy that girls are like a diseased patient. Nicer.
It should be apparent to an experienced software engineer that over time, better engineering teams will reduce the fluff. That doesn't happen in a SOC project. It happens over several years of iterative development, and tightening up of requirements.
I don't believe anyone's had any significant loss of funds under the FDIC umbrella. Only a few days separated from your cash as they part out the failed bank.
Right, but under the Federal Reserve, the dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power. Who gives a shit about the number in the bank account? It's the value.
A nuclear engineer friend of mine explains that investment in such beneficial technologies is hampered by legitimate fears that new projects will be shut down due to irrational, fear-based regulatory policy.
Because there's no way a national government would allow its chartered monopolistic currency issuing bank to help commercial banks profit at the expense of taxpayers.
Thank you so much for this wonderful post. You do a great job explaining the real benefits of home schooling while destroying the strawman arguments agaisnt it.
I think you're missing his point. The public schools reinforce tribal behavior. The more people who don't get that experience, the better off everybody is.
I never found myself capable of navigating the social realities of schools. I found that the minute I entered the workforce, I was able to deal with the social realities with ease. None of the "socialization" I got in school applied. Adult society is different from school society/youth culture.
This kind of thing, in a small but significant way, starts to tip the social balance further in favor of males who are wealthy enough/risk tolerant enough to take a chance on this kind of thing to dominate against younger males.
On the side of the wealthier males, it could tend to change certain workplace dynamics. Not sure what exactly that would do, but without economic growth, it could lead to slightly more workplace conflict.
On the risk tolerant side, I see a risk of widespread increases in antisocial behavior as young, aggressive males amp-up their natural tendencies. Violence and crime are likely results. Given that we're already past the societal stage where we kill off lower-class males in wars of attrition, we're going to be facing an unprecedented dynamic with larger numbers of aggressive males than society is accustomed to.
From the feeling that jobs are going to be at minimum wage rates, to the fact that there is extremely heavy H-1B competition for every single position, be it an entry level coder on up, to the fact that it is looked down upon [1]... all gets people to look for other professions.
Why is my experience that this is not the case? Why are we seeing extremely low unemployment rates (2.5%) in software engineering? Why are wages for software engineers averaging at about 6 figures, and one of the few careers where wages are not totally stagnant and falling behind inflation? Why do I get the distinct impression that people with more education and less income are somewhat envious (possibly even resentful) of the success I've enjoyed?
No, an *increase* in expected inflation rates devalues loans. The anticipated inflation rate is already priced in to loans. The Fed's program of purchasing loans in exchange for digital dollars provides a strong incentive for banks to lend at lower rates than they otherwise would, because they are able to ignore the likelihood of increasing inflation rates. Once you hand off the loan, why do you care what the rate of return will be on the debt?
You're not reading the news, are you? On this planet, the central bank loans money to the government and commercial and commercial banks at well below the inflation rate. The europeans are actually paying the Swiss to borrow their currency now! http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...http://www.theguardian.com/bus...
Tell you what - please take a look at the new money generated by the Fed to give to the banks in exchange for their "assets" since 2008. The banks will hold dollars instead of bonds and mortgage paper. They currently hold twice the amount of dollars in their excess reserves alone than existed in the monetary base prior to 2008. You don't think they're in a much better position because of the massive money creation that directly went to them? I get that the money's worth less and less, but what people never seem to comprehend is that whatever money is left after the debt collapse will have purchasing power. Only the banks will survive the cascading debt defaults, and as a result they will own everything.
I know exactly how money works. Money is durable, divisible, easily transported, maintains its value, and is resistant to decay. Gold is money. Promises to pay gold in exchange for notes are currency. Promises not to pay gold in exchange notes are fiat currency.
That's not correct. The recovery started after the war, due to the existence of pent-up demand for good and services backed by the available household/personal savings glut which had developed during the war.
Scarcity of goods and services is the closest thing to an intrinsic natural law in economics, but you're right, it is debated, but really only by Krugman (and those like him), who believes that destruction of goods leads to economic prosperity by "stimulating demand". Sane, honest people know better.
As soon as economics goes from measuring and describing, and steps into applying policy.... it utterly ceases to be a science.
Exactly. This is why Paul Krugman is a jerk, not an economist. When he said in the interview he envisioned economics as ideal for him, because it made him feel he could control the future, like in Asimov's "Foundation" books.
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The work more physically suited to men was done mostly by men. Women, physically suited to different work, tended to be solving problems the same way. Sewing, cooking, midwifery, teaching, and so on.
What a lot of this comes down to is that the class of people who are cognitively rich and economically middle class went through a weird period where consumer-driven culture lessened the opportunities and needs to show that kind of DIY capability (probably due to the unfixability of some things and the move to two-employed-parent families).
It's nice to think that there's a resurgence of this kind of thing. I think for the capable, it adds to a sense of self-determination in life, and hence happiness.
Don't be so sure. It seems great at first, but one of the things you might not anticipate is the revenge effect of a low noise noise floor. I moved from a horribly noisy situation to a much quieter one. It's great until you adjust. Then, little sounds that you'd never notice before start becoming a real problem. The thud of a closing car door a few hundred feet away, or the sounds of a second hand on an old fashioned clock, or any number of other things really can become distracting, even to the point of causing anxiety. Unless you're basically in the woods, in which case the sounds of your own house can become like a raging cacophony. White noise becomes a refuge. You wait for the rain.
My wife worked with some talented therapists and had no doubts there could be enormously beneficial aspects to working with insightful, skilled professionals.
To expect anything from a special education teacher that would be more than minimal classroom management modifications is probably not realistic in all but the very wealthiest (top 1%) schools, which have multiple secondary educational aids and extremely small class sizes. The special education classrooms in most districts are loaded up with kids with other behavioral problems that are likely to further exacerbate the issues someone on the spectrum with experience.
Some business people, after trying this, find they're better off paying for native talent.
So you're acknowledging that the intended funding is exclusionary, because there's not enough to include boys, too. Nice. And you make an analogy that girls are like a diseased patient. Nicer.
It should be apparent to an experienced software engineer that over time, better engineering teams will reduce the fluff. That doesn't happen in a SOC project. It happens over several years of iterative development, and tightening up of requirements.
I don't believe anyone's had any significant loss of funds under the FDIC umbrella. Only a few days separated from your cash as they part out the failed bank.
Right, but under the Federal Reserve, the dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power. Who gives a shit about the number in the bank account? It's the value.
Here: http://energyfromthorium.com/
A nuclear engineer friend of mine explains that investment in such beneficial technologies is hampered by legitimate fears that new projects will be shut down due to irrational, fear-based regulatory policy.
Because there's no way a national government would allow its chartered monopolistic currency issuing bank to help commercial banks profit at the expense of taxpayers.
Exactly how many nuclear disasters does it take before we figure out we should be using newer, safer, cleaner nuclear technology?
FTFY.
Thank you so much for this wonderful post. You do a great job explaining the real benefits of home schooling while destroying the strawman arguments agaisnt it.
He clearly states in his first statement he did student teaching.
I think you're missing his point. The public schools reinforce tribal behavior. The more people who don't get that experience, the better off everybody is.
I never found myself capable of navigating the social realities of schools. I found that the minute I entered the workforce, I was able to deal with the social realities with ease. None of the "socialization" I got in school applied. Adult society is different from school society/youth culture.
This kind of thing, in a small but significant way, starts to tip the social balance further in favor of males who are wealthy enough/risk tolerant enough to take a chance on this kind of thing to dominate against younger males.
On the side of the wealthier males, it could tend to change certain workplace dynamics. Not sure what exactly that would do, but without economic growth, it could lead to slightly more workplace conflict.
On the risk tolerant side, I see a risk of widespread increases in antisocial behavior as young, aggressive males amp-up their natural tendencies. Violence and crime are likely results. Given that we're already past the societal stage where we kill off lower-class males in wars of attrition, we're going to be facing an unprecedented dynamic with larger numbers of aggressive males than society is accustomed to.
From the feeling that jobs are going to be at minimum wage rates, to the fact that there is extremely heavy H-1B competition for every single position, be it an entry level coder on up, to the fact that it is looked down upon [1]... all gets people to look for other professions.
Why is my experience that this is not the case? Why are we seeing extremely low unemployment rates (2.5%) in software engineering? Why are wages for software engineers averaging at about 6 figures, and one of the few careers where wages are not totally stagnant and falling behind inflation? Why do I get the distinct impression that people with more education and less income are somewhat envious (possibly even resentful) of the success I've enjoyed?
No, an *increase* in expected inflation rates devalues loans. The anticipated inflation rate is already priced in to loans. The Fed's program of purchasing loans in exchange for digital dollars provides a strong incentive for banks to lend at lower rates than they otherwise would, because they are able to ignore the likelihood of increasing inflation rates. Once you hand off the loan, why do you care what the rate of return will be on the debt?
BTW - people don't loan TO the Central Bank, as you said, but borrow FROM it.
You're not reading the news, are you? On this planet, the central bank loans money to the government and commercial and commercial banks at well below the inflation rate. The europeans are actually paying the Swiss to borrow their currency now! http://www.bbc.com/news/busine... http://www.theguardian.com/bus...
Tell you what - please take a look at the new money generated by the Fed to give to the banks in exchange for their "assets" since 2008. The banks will hold dollars instead of bonds and mortgage paper. They currently hold twice the amount of dollars in their excess reserves alone than existed in the monetary base prior to 2008. You don't think they're in a much better position because of the massive money creation that directly went to them? I get that the money's worth less and less, but what people never seem to comprehend is that whatever money is left after the debt collapse will have purchasing power. Only the banks will survive the cascading debt defaults, and as a result they will own everything.
I know exactly how money works. Money is durable, divisible, easily transported, maintains its value, and is resistant to decay. Gold is money. Promises to pay gold in exchange for notes are currency. Promises not to pay gold in exchange notes are fiat currency.
That's not correct. The recovery started after the war, due to the existence of pent-up demand for good and services backed by the available household/personal savings glut which had developed during the war.
They've done some work on organs and muscles, but the strength/function doesn't seem to be very robust yet. It will happen eventually.
Scarcity of goods and services is the closest thing to an intrinsic natural law in economics, but you're right, it is debated, but really only by Krugman (and those like him), who believes that destruction of goods leads to economic prosperity by "stimulating demand". Sane, honest people know better.
As soon as economics goes from measuring and describing, and steps into applying policy .... it utterly ceases to be a science.
Exactly. This is why Paul Krugman is a jerk, not an economist. When he said in the interview he envisioned economics as ideal for him, because it made him feel he could control the future, like in Asimov's "Foundation" books.