Next you will be asking for a description of Walmart. Not everyone lives in the US. Flipkart is 20-30 times bigger than Walmart in India and bigger than Amazon as well. Google has tried breaking into the Indian market with Google Wallet and has had its ass handed to it in the fintech field by PayTM. And India allows 100% foreign ownership in tech so its not a protected market like China. Its just that there are folks in India who didnt leave to come to Silicon Valley to run Google and Microsoft. So there are plenty of smart people and now that the competition is on the field of who has the most brains rather than the most natural resources (US prosperity is built on the Texas and California oil booms and war profiteering from WW1 and WW2), US companies are not the obvious winners. So what do you do? You buy the winners.
If you are that sensitive to sun maybe dont live in a hot and sunny climate. Many people from the global South cant stand the Snow. Should they be rooting for Global Warming? It would be morally equivalent to what you are doing - desroy the planet so you can live in a part of the planet you are not evolved for.
So Amazon now has a video echo in your bedroom. It also knows your purchase history. So every time you have sex it knows (AI used to detect the sounds of sex. The camera makes it even easier). It knows how many condoms you ordered and hence how many you have left. So next time you go to have sex an Amazon drone will come to your window and knock and your Amazon Echo will ask "Do you need a condom? Say yes to purchase!!" Profit!!!!
Given the high rent in California many people with jobs are homeless or living out of cars. They need to save money so ordering on Amazon makes sense. They can use smartphones to order but need an address for delivery. Till now they have been using Amazon lockers. Now they can get it delivered to their car.
Do you get it regularly cleaned to remove the gunk from gas which collects at the bottom? Mine after 5 years is only at 80% capacity as if I go below that gunk starts to enter the engine
POA=Power of Attorney but you knew that The Ultimate miles you get from a Chase card can be transferred to air miles but they can also be used through the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal to buy cash tickets with no blackout dates with 1.5 cent per point (if you have the Chase Reserve, 1.25 if you have the Chase Preferred). Air miles are valuable to folks who like to travel. if you dont like to travel this might not be for you
China has offered US and European Chipmakers 1 Trillion dollars in Govt matching funds if they set up a chip design ecosystem in Shanghai. Everyone is scrabbling for these funds by setting up their own Chip shops. Its the new.com boom. Doesnt matter if you have a working chip as long as you can get the matching funds and exit
If you use the Chase Freedom card and Paypal option on these sites you are getting back 5 points each of which is worth 1.25 AA miles which are worh 1.5 cent each so you get 10% back and pay 1.82%. How about you giving me a financial POA
The prosperity of US is built partly on the fact that its considered a safe haven for investments. Doesnt matter if you are a corrupt Chinese bureacrat, a Nigerian scamster, a Rwandan genocidal warlord, a Korean monopolist Chaebol kingpin, a south American drug kingpin, a corrupt Indian politician, an inbred European ex Royal with ill gotten Nazi loot; The US welcomes all investments.
The US does not grab your property for personal crimes. It only confiscates property belonging to nation states it has disagreements with.
So once you have made your money and would like to go clean you invest it in USA and retire to the US.
This reputation is hard won and many a constituional and moral principle has been sacrificed for this key pillar of prosperity.
You dont want to endanger it just to feel some Schadenfreude over the Chinese losing money on their investments.
Rather you should keep rooting for a booming US economy with constant inflow of foreign money. A booming economy lifts all boats.
Most US citizens do not pay the full tuition. Only foreign students pay the full tuition and these students subsidize the resident students who get a much reduced tuition as well as scholarships, assistantships and loans subsidized by the taxpayer. With Trump turning the US into an unwelcome place the number of foreign students has fallen this year. The colleges see the trend and in another 2-3 years will start running into real cash flow problems so they are selling while the assets still have value.
At one time every able bodied man was supposed to turn out for the defense of the village whenever the feudal lord ordered it. We then evolved into professional volunteer armies and today the concept of the draft has gone away.
Similarly in the future people will work if they want to not because they have been drafted to. Today everyone has to work or starve - there is no real choice.
With an UBI, work becomes a choice and the workers will be much more professional as they would have CHOSEN to work rather than forced to.
Raising barriers doesnt make you the only stable state. Countries like Germany and Japan would attract more Elon Musks and Sergey Brins if USA creates an image of itself being in it only for its own interests.
The sophistication of the US economy needs technical folks. If the economy could afford to pay more it would already be paying more to attract more. It is paying what it can afford. At that price point there are not enough technical folks in the US to meet the sophistication of the economy.
Your argument is akin to any woman will sleep with a guy given enough money. Yeah probably given a billion dollars probably true but every guy cannot afford a billion dollars every time hes horny so its a nothingburger of an argument.
If the aim is to reduce traffic you want to get those who can afford to drive by cars to use mass transit. The only way to do that is make sure mass transit is not crowded with the poor. The market economy solution for that is to charge more so the poor dont use mass transit. You solve your traffic issues as well as make mass transit self funding. Once mass transit is self funding it can expand. As it expands it will become more and more cheaper due to economies of scale till at some point the poor can afford to use it and the price will still be a profit making one. What about the poor's transportation needs during the transition phase. Thats what Uber is for. Let the poor use Uber. After all their the subsidy is being paid by VCs not the general taxpayer.
And the US does the same with Wheat and Corn . In a fair world no way can a high cost of living country like the US afford to export cheap agricultural produce but thats where farm subsidies come in. I was really hoping the govt shutdown had gone on longer like 6 months or so. Then the red states would realize that how much they suck at the federal teat.
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Next you will be asking for a description of Walmart. Not everyone lives in the US. Flipkart is 20-30 times bigger than Walmart in India and bigger than Amazon as well. Google has tried breaking into the Indian market with Google Wallet and has had its ass handed to it in the fintech field by PayTM. And India allows 100% foreign ownership in tech so its not a protected market like China. Its just that there are folks in India who didnt leave to come to Silicon Valley to run Google and Microsoft. So there are plenty of smart people and now that the competition is on the field of who has the most brains rather than the most natural resources (US prosperity is built on the Texas and California oil booms and war profiteering from WW1 and WW2), US companies are not the obvious winners. So what do you do? You buy the winners.
If you are that sensitive to sun maybe dont live in a hot and sunny climate. Many people from the global South cant stand the Snow. Should they be rooting for Global Warming? It would be morally equivalent to what you are doing - desroy the planet so you can live in a part of the planet you are not evolved for.
No need to create complicated AI chips. Just use brains from convicts.
You forgot Amazon Mechanical Turk
So Amazon now has a video echo in your bedroom. It also knows your purchase history. So every time you have sex it knows (AI used to detect the sounds of sex. The camera makes it even easier). It knows how many condoms you ordered and hence how many you have left. So next time you go to have sex an Amazon drone will come to your window and knock and your Amazon Echo will ask "Do you need a condom? Say yes to purchase!!"
Profit!!!!
Given the high rent in California many people with jobs are homeless or living out of cars. They need to save money so ordering on Amazon makes sense. They can use smartphones to order but need an address for delivery. Till now they have been using Amazon lockers. Now they can get it delivered to their car.
Do you get it regularly cleaned to remove the gunk from gas which collects at the bottom? Mine after 5 years is only at 80% capacity as if I go below that gunk starts to enter the engine
POA=Power of Attorney but you knew that
The Ultimate miles you get from a Chase card can be transferred to air miles but they can also be used through the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal to buy cash tickets with no blackout dates with 1.5 cent per point (if you have the Chase Reserve, 1.25 if you have the Chase Preferred).
Air miles are valuable to folks who like to travel. if you dont like to travel this might not be for you
China has offered US and European Chipmakers 1 Trillion dollars in Govt matching funds if they set up a chip design ecosystem in Shanghai. Everyone is scrabbling for these funds by setting up their own Chip shops. Its the new .com boom. Doesnt matter if you have a working chip as long as you can get the matching funds and exit
If you use the Chase Freedom card and Paypal option on these sites you are getting back 5 points each of which is worth 1.25 AA miles which are worh 1.5 cent each so you get 10% back and pay 1.82%. How about you giving me a financial POA
They were meant to double as bomb shelters hence the extra space for breathing air
Yup its called Leave Without Pay and "I am busy "
Most private universities also provide need based financial aid to residents
The prosperity of US is built partly on the fact that its considered a safe haven for investments. Doesnt matter if you are a corrupt Chinese bureacrat, a Nigerian scamster, a Rwandan genocidal warlord, a Korean monopolist Chaebol kingpin, a south American drug kingpin, a corrupt Indian politician, an inbred European ex Royal with ill gotten Nazi loot; The US welcomes all investments.
The US does not grab your property for personal crimes. It only confiscates property belonging to nation states it has disagreements with.
So once you have made your money and would like to go clean you invest it in USA and retire to the US.
This reputation is hard won and many a constituional and moral principle has been sacrificed for this key pillar of prosperity.
You dont want to endanger it just to feel some Schadenfreude over the Chinese losing money on their investments.
Rather you should keep rooting for a booming US economy with constant inflow of foreign money. A booming economy lifts all boats.
Most US citizens do not pay the full tuition. Only foreign students pay the full tuition and these students subsidize the resident students who get a much reduced tuition as well as scholarships, assistantships and loans subsidized by the taxpayer.
With Trump turning the US into an unwelcome place the number of foreign students has fallen this year. The colleges see the trend and in another 2-3 years will start running into real cash flow problems so they are selling while the assets still have value.
Your response shows the investment in VOA has worked
At one time every able bodied man was supposed to turn out for the defense of the village whenever the feudal lord ordered it. We then evolved into professional volunteer armies and today the concept of the draft has gone away.
Similarly in the future people will work if they want to not because they have been drafted to. Today everyone has to work or starve - there is no real choice.
With an UBI, work becomes a choice and the workers will be much more professional as they would have CHOSEN to work rather than forced to.
USA with barriers raised is the Great Depression. Your point is?
Raising barriers doesnt make you the only stable state. Countries like Germany and Japan would attract more Elon Musks and Sergey Brins if USA creates an image of itself being in it only for its own interests.
DOES NOT MATTER
The sophistication of the US economy needs technical folks. If the economy could afford to pay more it would already be paying more to attract more. It is paying what it can afford. At that price point there are not enough technical folks in the US to meet the sophistication of the economy.
Your argument is akin to any woman will sleep with a guy given enough money. Yeah probably given a billion dollars probably true but every guy cannot afford a billion dollars every time hes horny so its a nothingburger of an argument.
If the aim is to reduce traffic you want to get those who can afford to drive by cars to use mass transit. The only way to do that is make sure mass transit is not crowded with the poor. The market economy solution for that is to charge more so the poor dont use mass transit.
You solve your traffic issues as well as make mass transit self funding.
Once mass transit is self funding it can expand. As it expands it will become more and more cheaper due to economies of scale till at some point the poor can afford to use it and the price will still be a profit making one.
What about the poor's transportation needs during the transition phase. Thats what Uber is for. Let the poor use Uber. After all their the subsidy is being paid by VCs not the general taxpayer.
What about subsidies. The US has huge farm subsidies . What if these countries start imposing tariffs on agricultural produce?
And the US does the same with Wheat and Corn . In a fair world no way can a high cost of living country like the US afford to export cheap agricultural produce but thats where farm subsidies come in. I was really hoping the govt shutdown had gone on longer like 6 months or so. Then the red states would realize that how much they suck at the federal teat.
Are we doing insulting Acronyms. Let Play I Like this game!!!!
FORD= Freaking Overpriced Rusty Dumpster
GM=Garbage Metal
Chrysler=Chryst!! Let er rip.
TESLA= Totally Effeminate Southafrican likes America
Funny you knock the English given they invented the computer.