Anything that I want fast access to I will simply memorize the hot keys for. I don't need a mess of tiny icons always eating up screen space. The Ribbon is also far more cryptic than the old menus were. Whenever I need to use a feature that I don't commonly use I have to slowly visually evaluate each little icon to try and figure out what it does and if that is what I need.
The salary even really depends on where you are at and how many jobs you've had. For me going from my first contract gig to GS was a very large pay increase. The pay raises were also significantly better and bonuses actually existed. Benefits were also all around better, and the vacation and sick time was impossibly better. Where I live as the sole bread winner in the family I bring in 50% more than the median household income. Of course I have friends who live in other parts of the country and I'd have to be 3 grades higher to come close to what they earn. Which is better really depends on what you want and where you decide to live.
Even where housing is much more affordable that is an excellent strategy. When I was single I purchased my home and rented room to some friends. They got incredibly low rent and I got more money for the mortgage.
Not really an aim bot. Aimbots typically give you one button to press that aims the weapon, and it might fire with the same keypress. It doesn't matter where you were already aiming or looking when you press that button the screen snaps to a target.
This system requires actually sighting in on the target and tagging it with a laser range finding system. The system uses some fancy image recognition software to then keep track of the target within your sight picture. When you then pull and hold the trigger the gun will fire only once you have aligned the gun in such a way that the system calculates you are aimed on the previously designated target.
"There's a reason that jurisdiction applies. You can't be legally required to do something in one country, and then legally required by another country to not do it."
That is incorrect. It might not seem very fair but it is the way it is. Jurisdiction though does mean that one court can't force an action to take place in another courts jurisdiction like sending in the police for a raid. But they can certainly compel the concerned party to take action via penalties imposed within their own jurisdiction.
As an example there was a man who upon divorcing his wife was accused by her of hiding millions of dollars over seas. I seem to remember that there was no actual evidence that the money still existed but the judge ruled him in contempt of court for not producing it. He was then held in jail for a decade or more, with no possibility of release until he produced the money or evidence of it's non-existence.
Being a multinational does not exempt a company from abiding by all laws and legal requests of the countries where they operate. If such was the case Hobby Lobby would have just incorporated in a country that doesn't require healthcare for employees and called it a day.
Google refuse to comply and accept whatever consequences the Chinese Courts were able to enforce on them. Which at the worst would be seizure of all Google assets in China and any other nation that China could convince to side with it.
If Google complied with the Chinese Courts and provide information that might violate US law, then they would have to accept the legal consequences of doing so here in the US. Which would likely mean being open to a civil lawsuit and possible criminal charges. The civil lawsuit could be for huge sums of money, although that is very unlikely. The criminal charges would at worst amount to some slap on the wrist fines and some negative publicity.
Either way I have no sympathy for any multinational that ends up in a legal bind like this. They made the choice to operate at a multinational level and part of that is the risk of conflicting laws and jurisdictions.
Meh, such is the risk of being a multinational corporation. Hell it's actually the same risk any corporation or individual takes on by living in any country. Regardless of where you are from you are subject to the current laws of that jurisdiction. In the case of multinationals they have deliberately made the decision to operate in many jurisdictions. They have small armies of lawyers to help keep things straight but there is always the risk that they will have to choose one jurisdictions laws over another and be liable for the consequences. The only thing they stand to potentially lose is what little positive repuation and physical assets they have in the jurisdiction that they don't pick. I've never seen a cake that let you eat it entirely and still posses it in all it's preconsumption glory.
I agree in general but that is not an absolute. We've seen ample evidence over the years of institutions like the police giving particular attention to black communities in a negative way. Simple possesion of an illegal narcotic is more likely to destroy your future job prospects as a young black man than if you belonged to any other ethnic group. And I don't know if that is because people of other ethnic groups treat them unfairly in the court system or if it is a self inflicted thing. I am always surprised by the extremely negative atitudes my succesful black co-workers have for any young black person who makes a poor decision. It's probably some mix of both those problems though.
I agree, they do seem to have writing bad forms down to an art. That said a large number of people using the same horrible form is better than them each writing their own equally horrible non-standard form and then insisting on having their form represented in the electronic system. They literally ended up with a database larger than Oracle could handle. They exceded the data file limit per table space some years ago, and it is estimated that 60% of that data is basically trash, but they have no good way of sorting it all out.
I can't speak for what it is like in Silicon Valley but where I work in the deep south I would estimate that at least 30% of my fellow tech workers are of African ancestry.
I would consider a car payment as an acceptable way of doing business. I wouldn't recommend a brand new car, but a good used car is a great option. I would rather accept the extra cost of a little interest on a $15000 purchase than take that much money out of investments of savings. The savings of course isn't going to be earning nearly as much interest as the loan but the point of savings is having an immediately available supply of cash in cash of emergency or job loss, I like to keep a six months supply. The rest goes into market indexed investments which for me have averaged nearly 20% in the last twelve months, and around 10% per year over the last decade. Both my car payment and mortgage are under 5%, paying for them in cash would be foolhardy.
I managed to build my credit without ever getting a co-sign, mainly because my Father hates the whole credit rating system and so refuses to participate. I remember going to get a cell phone and because I didn't have a credit history at all being required to pay several hundred dollars as a deposit, that happened a couple times in a five year period. At some point in there I took out a small, $2000, 18 month personal loan from my credit union to buy a used car with a 12% interest rate again because I had no credit history to speak of. That interest rate while ugly on the face of it wasn't all that bad as 12% on a couple grand that gets paid off fast isn't really much of an issue. So five years after first discovering I had no credit rating I wanted to buy a house. I went and spoke to a mortgage lender and as it turned out I now had a great credit rating, 780 or so. My only history was a couple cell phone contracts, that personal loan, my landline/DSL bill, and a steady job for 3 years. Getting a good credit rating isn't really very difficult it just takes some time and stability.
I carry a single credit card now with a relatively low limit for unforseeable circumstances. For example I've encountered at least one rental car place that would not accept a debit card no matter how high of a balance it had but insisted on a credit card instead. And a couple times I've tried to pay for something with my check card and had it fail because the credit unions system was down briefly.
That is correct but the system is still idiotic and has tons of room for improvement. The amount of effort that medical providers have to put into resolving billing is insane and we still get arcane statements on a regular basis. It seems that every insurance company uses different codes and terms for the same services. And doctors of all sorts insist on using different terms for the same services. This makes for a huge problem when it comes to whether or not something gets covered by insurance.
This kind of problem is actually part of why the Military Health System is so screwed up. The military is chronically short of qualified doctors and of course has to pay them more than luitenants to have any chance of attracting them. So they send them to a school where they learn how to salute and wear a uniform and then gives them a rank commensurate with their pay rather than experience. This makes for a lot of officer bloat in the military hospitals and clinics. The one thing the military is usually decent at, standardization, goes out the window because at least half of these officers doesn't want to use a standard form, or insists on mis-using the standard form. This results in duplicated data on a massive scale in the database system because you can't be sure which records are actually duplicates because no one follows a standard.
I actually had my gas shutoff a few years back because the gas companies electronic system was jacked. I had automatic payments setup for years, I believe 6 years of electronic payments without trouble. Then they changed the system or something and rather than emailing me or phoning the number on record they sent snail mail which I might read once every six months. So despite them sending me email on a regular basis the only way they tried to contact me in regards to payment was snail mail. IDIOTS.
The only bill I have now that isn't automatic is strangely enough my mortgage through a largely online bank. This bank insists that to set up automatic mortgage payments that I must snail mail a hard copy of a signed form. This bank will let you deposit checks with a cell phone photo and do all manner of other electronic banking, but you can't set up an automatic payment that way or over the phone. I've had mortgages through two other banks that had no problem establishing automatic payments either online or over the phone
I think it was Nova that did a very interesting piece on the intelligence failures around 9/11 that made the most sense to me. The short story is that the CIA was actively investigating some of the hijackers and suspected they were on the verge of doing something. The CIA was very interested in actually getting the bust for whatever cock waiving reasons. So when the suspects entered the USA and the CIA should have brought the FBI on board instead they just decided to wait and hope that they didn't do something in the US. There was actually an FBI agent on the CIA team who was threatened with having his career wrecked if he notified his FBI superiors. So basically the nations worst terrorist attack was allowed to happen because some jack asses didn't want to share any credit with another agency on a career making bust.
People are actually eating Mammoths today. Not that they are fresh kills, but I was pretty sure there have been recorded sales of Mammoth Steak from specimens found frozen.
I think it's an extrapolation of the idea that if you had a perfect knowledge of a system's current state and the laws governing that system you could then predict any future state and any prior state.
From the pictures I saw it looked like it was survivable so long as you weren't in the rear seats. The front of the passenger compartment was intact and whatever fire there was doesn't look like it was very extensive. There might be some melting of the upholstery.
The last "Israeli spy" I remember hearing about was actually someone who volunteered to spy for the Israeli's. The Israeli's made agreeable sounds and then called the US State department or whoever to notify them that they had been approached by so-and-so who was offering to spy for them.
Some Russians were caught who were acting as couriers for real spies here in the USA. And there was some acknowledgement from the NSA awhile back that they knew or assumed they had at least one Russian spy on the inside that they couldn't identify. And there was a Chinese industrial spy caught some time ago.
I wouldn't say that we're catching ally spies all the time. Periodically catching spies, of any alignment, might be more accurate.
I do not contend that companies who have an effective monopoly can not do good things or produce inovation. However an effective monopoly is still not worth the risk because it is ripe for abuse We don't even have to get to monopoly levels to see private industry engaging in politics to limit and hamper new entrants to the market.
Unemployment is a sketchy measure, or at least the numbers we get from the BLS is anyway. That said the current unemployment is pretty middle of the road, in the last 40 years it has been worse and it has been better. I didn't intend that as a blanket statement and certainly not in absolute terms. I was trying to say that when a factory lets 500 menial laborers go and replaces them with robots and 50 people. The 500 that were let go aren't necessarily going to have any job opportunities. Some of them might get hired back as part of the 50, but it isn't likely and the other 450 aren't just going to fall into a new job because we aren't creating new jobs for that kind of work. Those people are actually likely to end up working some other job that is even worse for worse pay. You can visit just about any part of the rust belt to see the results of industry moving on technologically and geographically.
I don't know that there is a coined name for it but the idea that you are creating jobs by investing in the stock market is a joke. The only time your investment in the stock market is going to a company seeking funding to do anything like create jobs, is when you buy stock directly from the company. Most stock you purchase is being bought from some other investor that bought it hoping to sell it for a profit. And guess what they will do once you give them the money, they'll just buy some more from someone else. That money is not creating jobs except in the rare case that someone pulls out their cash and starts up some new venture that actually employs people or you buy stock from a company that is raising cash for expansion, and even in that case there is a good chance they are just going to buy robots to replace their menial workers.
Walmart and other companies that rely on unskilled labor are not competing for workers by any stretch of the imagination. I've never known someone who worked there and got a solid 40 hours a week and got raises consistently because they'd be too hard to replace. Shit, even the contracting company I worked for a few years back didn't do that and in theory we were a scarce commodity.
Welfare programs are definitely a boon and a curse. And like I said before capitalism has it's good and bad just like every other system out there, it is simply a matter of figuring out how to use it best.
Capitalism can achieve all of those things but it does lead to monopolies. There is plenty of historical examples including our own robber baron periods here in the USA. The solution of course is to have a regulated capitalist economy. Of course the problem with that is that the bigger fish still end up with an inordinately loud voice when it comes to writing and passing regulation, so the solution often becomes just another part of the problem.
Capitalism can create more jobs but if you hadn't noticed there has been a jobs problem of late, capitalism isn't exactly a panacea. And capitalism frequesntly just leads to fewer jobs because it is more profitable to do more with less workers involved. Increasing automation exacerbates this, and sure something new might come along that ends up employing all of those people that will be replaced by robots, but that is a pretty big maybe. Usually what we see is that a lot of low wage jobs are replaced by a few higher skill/higher wage jobs, but that isn't an even exchange as far as the economy and community is concerned, because one person with $1,000,000 doesn't spend as much money in the same way that 20 people with $50,000 each would. That one person will arguably still put all of that money back into the economy by investing in some assets or even just putting it in the bank, which means that money is then available to someone else. But at that point it is entering the economy at a very high level and will be used by someone else also high on the foodchain to further increase their wealth. Whereas if the money had instead gone to the 20 people a much higher portion of it would have entered the economy through smaller and likely local businesses, it would still eventually work it's way to the top with the current trends of wealth accumulation, but it would have done more to bolster the economy in the long run.
Starvation is definitely a mostly solved problem in the USA. But that is only because we spend a lot on welfare programs and charitable food programs, it isn't a result of capitalism meeting basic survival needs. In fact a number of companies rely on those welfare programs in order to supply a very cheap work force.
I'm not advocating for the USA to go to a 100% socialist economy, or even 50%. But I think there are definitely some areas where it is a very good fit and others where it is not, just like capitalism. I just wish we would spend more energy figuring out which solution is best for any given situation and get it implemented then waste energy and time debating the merits of different economic models as absolutes that will never actually be matched in reality.
Actually that is already baked into the H1B program. In theory the H1B employee has to be paid the going market rate for such great talent. The problem is that companies that are abusing this program and paying less than the market value strong arm the workers. If the worker tries to seek corrective action they get kicked out and a new minion is brought in. Under our legal system the rest of us can't file a lawsuit to correct the situation because we likely wouldn't be found to have legal standing, as we weren't H1B workers being treated unfairly.
Steel is a cheaper resource than aluminum by far. Steel is also much stronger and easier to work with. Sure it'll weigh a bit more but I would bet that this is more about economics than range of the vehicle.
I haven't tried to german option but for spanish if the hint/tip doesn't clear it up for you there is a button for discussion about the answer. Usually the top question and answer is what you need.
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Anything that I want fast access to I will simply memorize the hot keys for. I don't need a mess of tiny icons always eating up screen space. The Ribbon is also far more cryptic than the old menus were. Whenever I need to use a feature that I don't commonly use I have to slowly visually evaluate each little icon to try and figure out what it does and if that is what I need.
The salary even really depends on where you are at and how many jobs you've had. For me going from my first contract gig to GS was a very large pay increase. The pay raises were also significantly better and bonuses actually existed. Benefits were also all around better, and the vacation and sick time was impossibly better. Where I live as the sole bread winner in the family I bring in 50% more than the median household income. Of course I have friends who live in other parts of the country and I'd have to be 3 grades higher to come close to what they earn. Which is better really depends on what you want and where you decide to live.
Even where housing is much more affordable that is an excellent strategy. When I was single I purchased my home and rented room to some friends. They got incredibly low rent and I got more money for the mortgage.
Not really an aim bot. Aimbots typically give you one button to press that aims the weapon, and it might fire with the same keypress. It doesn't matter where you were already aiming or looking when you press that button the screen snaps to a target.
This system requires actually sighting in on the target and tagging it with a laser range finding system. The system uses some fancy image recognition software to then keep track of the target within your sight picture. When you then pull and hold the trigger the gun will fire only once you have aligned the gun in such a way that the system calculates you are aimed on the previously designated target.
"There's a reason that jurisdiction applies. You can't be legally required to do something in one country, and then legally required by another country to not do it."
That is incorrect. It might not seem very fair but it is the way it is. Jurisdiction though does mean that one court can't force an action to take place in another courts jurisdiction like sending in the police for a raid. But they can certainly compel the concerned party to take action via penalties imposed within their own jurisdiction.
As an example there was a man who upon divorcing his wife was accused by her of hiding millions of dollars over seas. I seem to remember that there was no actual evidence that the money still existed but the judge ruled him in contempt of court for not producing it. He was then held in jail for a decade or more, with no possibility of release until he produced the money or evidence of it's non-existence.
Being a multinational does not exempt a company from abiding by all laws and legal requests of the countries where they operate. If such was the case Hobby Lobby would have just incorporated in a country that doesn't require healthcare for employees and called it a day.
That's easy to answer:
Google refuse to comply and accept whatever consequences the Chinese Courts were able to enforce on them. Which at the worst would be seizure of all Google assets in China and any other nation that China could convince to side with it.
If Google complied with the Chinese Courts and provide information that might violate US law, then they would have to accept the legal consequences of doing so here in the US. Which would likely mean being open to a civil lawsuit and possible criminal charges. The civil lawsuit could be for huge sums of money, although that is very unlikely. The criminal charges would at worst amount to some slap on the wrist fines and some negative publicity.
Either way I have no sympathy for any multinational that ends up in a legal bind like this. They made the choice to operate at a multinational level and part of that is the risk of conflicting laws and jurisdictions.
Meh, such is the risk of being a multinational corporation. Hell it's actually the same risk any corporation or individual takes on by living in any country. Regardless of where you are from you are subject to the current laws of that jurisdiction. In the case of multinationals they have deliberately made the decision to operate in many jurisdictions. They have small armies of lawyers to help keep things straight but there is always the risk that they will have to choose one jurisdictions laws over another and be liable for the consequences. The only thing they stand to potentially lose is what little positive repuation and physical assets they have in the jurisdiction that they don't pick. I've never seen a cake that let you eat it entirely and still posses it in all it's preconsumption glory.
I agree in general but that is not an absolute. We've seen ample evidence over the years of institutions like the police giving particular attention to black communities in a negative way. Simple possesion of an illegal narcotic is more likely to destroy your future job prospects as a young black man than if you belonged to any other ethnic group. And I don't know if that is because people of other ethnic groups treat them unfairly in the court system or if it is a self inflicted thing. I am always surprised by the extremely negative atitudes my succesful black co-workers have for any young black person who makes a poor decision. It's probably some mix of both those problems though.
I agree, they do seem to have writing bad forms down to an art. That said a large number of people using the same horrible form is better than them each writing their own equally horrible non-standard form and then insisting on having their form represented in the electronic system. They literally ended up with a database larger than Oracle could handle. They exceded the data file limit per table space some years ago, and it is estimated that 60% of that data is basically trash, but they have no good way of sorting it all out.
I can't speak for what it is like in Silicon Valley but where I work in the deep south I would estimate that at least 30% of my fellow tech workers are of African ancestry.
I would consider a car payment as an acceptable way of doing business. I wouldn't recommend a brand new car, but a good used car is a great option. I would rather accept the extra cost of a little interest on a $15000 purchase than take that much money out of investments of savings. The savings of course isn't going to be earning nearly as much interest as the loan but the point of savings is having an immediately available supply of cash in cash of emergency or job loss, I like to keep a six months supply. The rest goes into market indexed investments which for me have averaged nearly 20% in the last twelve months, and around 10% per year over the last decade. Both my car payment and mortgage are under 5%, paying for them in cash would be foolhardy.
I managed to build my credit without ever getting a co-sign, mainly because my Father hates the whole credit rating system and so refuses to participate. I remember going to get a cell phone and because I didn't have a credit history at all being required to pay several hundred dollars as a deposit, that happened a couple times in a five year period. At some point in there I took out a small, $2000, 18 month personal loan from my credit union to buy a used car with a 12% interest rate again because I had no credit history to speak of. That interest rate while ugly on the face of it wasn't all that bad as 12% on a couple grand that gets paid off fast isn't really much of an issue. So five years after first discovering I had no credit rating I wanted to buy a house. I went and spoke to a mortgage lender and as it turned out I now had a great credit rating, 780 or so. My only history was a couple cell phone contracts, that personal loan, my landline/DSL bill, and a steady job for 3 years. Getting a good credit rating isn't really very difficult it just takes some time and stability.
I carry a single credit card now with a relatively low limit for unforseeable circumstances. For example I've encountered at least one rental car place that would not accept a debit card no matter how high of a balance it had but insisted on a credit card instead. And a couple times I've tried to pay for something with my check card and had it fail because the credit unions system was down briefly.
That is correct but the system is still idiotic and has tons of room for improvement. The amount of effort that medical providers have to put into resolving billing is insane and we still get arcane statements on a regular basis. It seems that every insurance company uses different codes and terms for the same services. And doctors of all sorts insist on using different terms for the same services. This makes for a huge problem when it comes to whether or not something gets covered by insurance.
This kind of problem is actually part of why the Military Health System is so screwed up. The military is chronically short of qualified doctors and of course has to pay them more than luitenants to have any chance of attracting them. So they send them to a school where they learn how to salute and wear a uniform and then gives them a rank commensurate with their pay rather than experience. This makes for a lot of officer bloat in the military hospitals and clinics. The one thing the military is usually decent at, standardization, goes out the window because at least half of these officers doesn't want to use a standard form, or insists on mis-using the standard form. This results in duplicated data on a massive scale in the database system because you can't be sure which records are actually duplicates because no one follows a standard.
I actually had my gas shutoff a few years back because the gas companies electronic system was jacked. I had automatic payments setup for years, I believe 6 years of electronic payments without trouble. Then they changed the system or something and rather than emailing me or phoning the number on record they sent snail mail which I might read once every six months. So despite them sending me email on a regular basis the only way they tried to contact me in regards to payment was snail mail. IDIOTS.
The only bill I have now that isn't automatic is strangely enough my mortgage through a largely online bank. This bank insists that to set up automatic mortgage payments that I must snail mail a hard copy of a signed form. This bank will let you deposit checks with a cell phone photo and do all manner of other electronic banking, but you can't set up an automatic payment that way or over the phone. I've had mortgages through two other banks that had no problem establishing automatic payments either online or over the phone
I think it was Nova that did a very interesting piece on the intelligence failures around 9/11 that made the most sense to me. The short story is that the CIA was actively investigating some of the hijackers and suspected they were on the verge of doing something. The CIA was very interested in actually getting the bust for whatever cock waiving reasons. So when the suspects entered the USA and the CIA should have brought the FBI on board instead they just decided to wait and hope that they didn't do something in the US. There was actually an FBI agent on the CIA team who was threatened with having his career wrecked if he notified his FBI superiors. So basically the nations worst terrorist attack was allowed to happen because some jack asses didn't want to share any credit with another agency on a career making bust.
People are actually eating Mammoths today. Not that they are fresh kills, but I was pretty sure there have been recorded sales of Mammoth Steak from specimens found frozen.
I think it's an extrapolation of the idea that if you had a perfect knowledge of a system's current state and the laws governing that system you could then predict any future state and any prior state.
From the pictures I saw it looked like it was survivable so long as you weren't in the rear seats. The front of the passenger compartment was intact and whatever fire there was doesn't look like it was very extensive. There might be some melting of the upholstery.
The Business Insider link said that he was resusitated but died later.
The last "Israeli spy" I remember hearing about was actually someone who volunteered to spy for the Israeli's. The Israeli's made agreeable sounds and then called the US State department or whoever to notify them that they had been approached by so-and-so who was offering to spy for them.
Some Russians were caught who were acting as couriers for real spies here in the USA. And there was some acknowledgement from the NSA awhile back that they knew or assumed they had at least one Russian spy on the inside that they couldn't identify. And there was a Chinese industrial spy caught some time ago.
I wouldn't say that we're catching ally spies all the time. Periodically catching spies, of any alignment, might be more accurate.
I do not contend that companies who have an effective monopoly can not do good things or produce inovation. However an effective monopoly is still not worth the risk because it is ripe for abuse We don't even have to get to monopoly levels to see private industry engaging in politics to limit and hamper new entrants to the market.
Unemployment is a sketchy measure, or at least the numbers we get from the BLS is anyway. That said the current unemployment is pretty middle of the road, in the last 40 years it has been worse and it has been better. I didn't intend that as a blanket statement and certainly not in absolute terms. I was trying to say that when a factory lets 500 menial laborers go and replaces them with robots and 50 people. The 500 that were let go aren't necessarily going to have any job opportunities. Some of them might get hired back as part of the 50, but it isn't likely and the other 450 aren't just going to fall into a new job because we aren't creating new jobs for that kind of work. Those people are actually likely to end up working some other job that is even worse for worse pay. You can visit just about any part of the rust belt to see the results of industry moving on technologically and geographically.
I don't know that there is a coined name for it but the idea that you are creating jobs by investing in the stock market is a joke. The only time your investment in the stock market is going to a company seeking funding to do anything like create jobs, is when you buy stock directly from the company. Most stock you purchase is being bought from some other investor that bought it hoping to sell it for a profit. And guess what they will do once you give them the money, they'll just buy some more from someone else. That money is not creating jobs except in the rare case that someone pulls out their cash and starts up some new venture that actually employs people or you buy stock from a company that is raising cash for expansion, and even in that case there is a good chance they are just going to buy robots to replace their menial workers.
Walmart and other companies that rely on unskilled labor are not competing for workers by any stretch of the imagination. I've never known someone who worked there and got a solid 40 hours a week and got raises consistently because they'd be too hard to replace. Shit, even the contracting company I worked for a few years back didn't do that and in theory we were a scarce commodity.
Welfare programs are definitely a boon and a curse. And like I said before capitalism has it's good and bad just like every other system out there, it is simply a matter of figuring out how to use it best.
Capitalism can achieve all of those things but it does lead to monopolies. There is plenty of historical examples including our own robber baron periods here in the USA. The solution of course is to have a regulated capitalist economy. Of course the problem with that is that the bigger fish still end up with an inordinately loud voice when it comes to writing and passing regulation, so the solution often becomes just another part of the problem.
Capitalism can create more jobs but if you hadn't noticed there has been a jobs problem of late, capitalism isn't exactly a panacea. And capitalism frequesntly just leads to fewer jobs because it is more profitable to do more with less workers involved. Increasing automation exacerbates this, and sure something new might come along that ends up employing all of those people that will be replaced by robots, but that is a pretty big maybe. Usually what we see is that a lot of low wage jobs are replaced by a few higher skill/higher wage jobs, but that isn't an even exchange as far as the economy and community is concerned, because one person with $1,000,000 doesn't spend as much money in the same way that 20 people with $50,000 each would. That one person will arguably still put all of that money back into the economy by investing in some assets or even just putting it in the bank, which means that money is then available to someone else. But at that point it is entering the economy at a very high level and will be used by someone else also high on the foodchain to further increase their wealth. Whereas if the money had instead gone to the 20 people a much higher portion of it would have entered the economy through smaller and likely local businesses, it would still eventually work it's way to the top with the current trends of wealth accumulation, but it would have done more to bolster the economy in the long run.
Starvation is definitely a mostly solved problem in the USA. But that is only because we spend a lot on welfare programs and charitable food programs, it isn't a result of capitalism meeting basic survival needs. In fact a number of companies rely on those welfare programs in order to supply a very cheap work force.
I'm not advocating for the USA to go to a 100% socialist economy, or even 50%. But I think there are definitely some areas where it is a very good fit and others where it is not, just like capitalism. I just wish we would spend more energy figuring out which solution is best for any given situation and get it implemented then waste energy and time debating the merits of different economic models as absolutes that will never actually be matched in reality.
Actually that is already baked into the H1B program. In theory the H1B employee has to be paid the going market rate for such great talent. The problem is that companies that are abusing this program and paying less than the market value strong arm the workers. If the worker tries to seek corrective action they get kicked out and a new minion is brought in. Under our legal system the rest of us can't file a lawsuit to correct the situation because we likely wouldn't be found to have legal standing, as we weren't H1B workers being treated unfairly.
Steel is a cheaper resource than aluminum by far. Steel is also much stronger and easier to work with. Sure it'll weigh a bit more but I would bet that this is more about economics than range of the vehicle.
I haven't tried to german option but for spanish if the hint/tip doesn't clear it up for you there is a button for discussion about the answer. Usually the top question and answer is what you need.