But 1% growth is not very significant growth. Especially considering that 1% is probably mostly skewed towards wealthy people. I'll be conservative and say that the top 5% wealthiest are taking half of that 1% because they own everything after all, they're the ones drawing the most profit from it. That leaves 0.5% for the average person. No matter how you slice it, it sucks.
Get off your high horse. Even if the tolls pay for the entire construction and maintenance of the highway, which I doubt, and even if the developers are paying to maintain the roads long after they finished building in that area, which I doubt, then there is still fire stations, police stations, garbage pickup, water, sewage. Are you on health insurance? You realize if you get seriously ill, others plan members will be picking up the tab for you right?
I find most of the technology today could be so awesome if everything would integrate. Unfortunately, monopolization of the internet as all that destroyed that possibility.
I think different jurisdictions may have different ideas, like the drinking age. I would pick 18-19. Or perhaps work it in with a post-secondary education fund or something. Really there is a lot you could do with it.
I've been trying to explain this distinction for some time now but was never able to word it well. Profit used to come from growth and expanding into new markets. But now there is nowhere left for them to grow, so they start to focus on saving inward. It is a completely different phase of capitalism.
They are averaging around 3.4%, but it depends who you ask. There are several reasons why you have to take 5% with a grain of salt:
* It is weighted towards the wealthy.
* Inflation is down right now at 1.2% but it was 2.8% summer of last year which leaves 2% for the worker, wow. This year gas will be more expensive so inflation will probably exceed last summer.
* Exceedingly many jobs are temporary and term positions.
Raising minimum wage is not the answer. It's a terrible band-aid solution. It only makes it harder for companies to employ the students and young workers, whom minimum wage was intended for. The root of the problem is that now more and more people make minimum wage and people have to live on it. So now people are saying, "oh people need to have a living wage". But that's not what minimum wage was for! Companies that hire adults who are trying to live should be paying a living wage.
You aren't getting it. If I can buy twice as much because prices are cheaper, then SO CAN EVERYONE ELSE. The benefit of my hard work is spread to anyone that wants that product, which only benefits the company directly. I just want to be paid the money so I can be the one to decide how it is used.
Well, working less per week could be part of it but my slant was more about my salary reflecting a growth in ability and overall productivity. That 'worth' should increase per hour no matter how many hours you work.
They're investors, are they not supposed to understand that they are taking a risk with their money? Maybe those millionaire wall-street bankers shouldn't have life so easy.
Besides, as a person who has built many useful things in his personal time, no, you don't need the lure of great wealth for people to innovate. You just need people that enjoy what they are doing or actually want to help. There are plenty of them out there.
Well that's not to say it couldn't be something in between. That's not to say we couldn't talk for ten years about everything that was not done in the purist sense of what Marx intended and what the ramification of those were.
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But 1% growth is not very significant growth. Especially considering that 1% is probably mostly skewed towards wealthy people. I'll be conservative and say that the top 5% wealthiest are taking half of that 1% because they own everything after all, they're the ones drawing the most profit from it. That leaves 0.5% for the average person. No matter how you slice it, it sucks.
Is Mick Jagger a citizen of Canada? Why would he be treated in Canada?
Lol.. 1% a year is all it takes. That's what the 1% are saying, for sure.
Get off your high horse. Even if the tolls pay for the entire construction and maintenance of the highway, which I doubt, and even if the developers are paying to maintain the roads long after they finished building in that area, which I doubt, then there is still fire stations, police stations, garbage pickup, water, sewage. Are you on health insurance? You realize if you get seriously ill, others plan members will be picking up the tab for you right?
What do you mean by "up significantly"? The highest number I've seen so far is 5%. That should be a single year raise beyond inflation.
The trend won't continue. Gas prices are going up and the end of the Obama economy (which started in 2014) is coming.
Skype has been doing this for years. This was the point of Skype from its very inception.
I find most of the technology today could be so awesome if everything would integrate. Unfortunately, monopolization of the internet as all that destroyed that possibility.
I think different jurisdictions may have different ideas, like the drinking age. I would pick 18-19. Or perhaps work it in with a post-secondary education fund or something. Really there is a lot you could do with it.
I've been trying to explain this distinction for some time now but was never able to word it well. Profit used to come from growth and expanding into new markets. But now there is nowhere left for them to grow, so they start to focus on saving inward. It is a completely different phase of capitalism.
Bravo! How long were you waiting in the wings with that one??
Wow, New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner is pretty slow on the uptake.
Where were all these people back when Facebook was still in the process of overtaking everyone?
IF they want a kid they want a kid, if they want an adult, they want an adult. Pay kids like kids, and adults like adults.
If you want to call me a freeloader then so be it. At least I'm a freeloader with a wife and not bankrupt.
They are averaging around 3.4%, but it depends who you ask. There are several reasons why you have to take 5% with a grain of salt:
* It is weighted towards the wealthy.
* Inflation is down right now at 1.2% but it was 2.8% summer of last year which leaves 2% for the worker, wow. This year gas will be more expensive so inflation will probably exceed last summer.
* Exceedingly many jobs are temporary and term positions.
Raising minimum wage is not the answer. It's a terrible band-aid solution. It only makes it harder for companies to employ the students and young workers, whom minimum wage was intended for. The root of the problem is that now more and more people make minimum wage and people have to live on it. So now people are saying, "oh people need to have a living wage". But that's not what minimum wage was for! Companies that hire adults who are trying to live should be paying a living wage.
I probably don't even want to buy the stuff my company makes.
Jobs are not being replaced with equivalent jobs. When my parents worked, temporary work was hard to get. Now that's all there is.
Why do you think Trump wants to build a wall so badly? Thank about it.
You aren't getting it. If I can buy twice as much because prices are cheaper, then SO CAN EVERYONE ELSE. The benefit of my hard work is spread to anyone that wants that product, which only benefits the company directly. I just want to be paid the money so I can be the one to decide how it is used.
Well, working less per week could be part of it but my slant was more about my salary reflecting a growth in ability and overall productivity. That 'worth' should increase per hour no matter how many hours you work.
So what makes this more than an anecdote? It is one job out of the entire economy.
They're investors, are they not supposed to understand that they are taking a risk with their money? Maybe those millionaire wall-street bankers shouldn't have life so easy.
Besides, as a person who has built many useful things in his personal time, no, you don't need the lure of great wealth for people to innovate. You just need people that enjoy what they are doing or actually want to help. There are plenty of them out there.
Well that's not to say it couldn't be something in between. That's not to say we couldn't talk for ten years about everything that was not done in the purist sense of what Marx intended and what the ramification of those were.
Then Marx was mostly right about capitalism.
Also, am I not supposed to benefit more for being a good worker? How do lower prices reward me as an individual? Sorry for double comment.