It seems to me that owning an iPhone shows that you are more concerned about image over function/capability. Which is also a pretty strong indicator of being rich
you have hit the nail on the head. I'm a volunteer in a local entrepreneur group and we have been trying to figure out why our membership is declining. My long-term suspicion has been that it tracks the availability of a social safety net. I did a quick Google while writing this and found this very interesting article from back in 2015
about how welfare availability makes people more willing to take a risk on starting a business.
so if we want more startups, more entrepreneurial activity, make sure everybody gets healthcare from the public sector, not from your employer. Make sure food stamps are relatively easy to get. And, try to do something about rent because it's too damn high!
in addition to what guruevi said, there is also transportation for medical appointments locally and the nearest major city, access to special education programs the kid, social worker support for parent and children. Zero co-pay health coverage and no payroll taxes.
If this family member was to take a mythical job paying 60,000 a year, roughly 30% of that would go into various taxes and fees leaving 42,000. Assume a generous employer-based plan that only costs $1000 a month for a family plan (12,000 per year) leaving $30,000. A two bedroom apartment in a city near work would cost $2500 a month or $30,000 a year leaving nothing. Adding in the cost of a public transit pass ($350 per month or $4200 a year) lost hours from work from school and doctor visits as well as the time inefficiencies of public transit which would add up to something like two or three days a month. Then there's food, clothing and other essentials for living not yet paid for.
Okay 60,000 was too low but I was shooting for equivalent to what this family member is living with now.
There are some that would feel that this family member is getting too much. I argue instead that we are settling for too little.
really?? I have family members on SSDI. They want to work but all the jobs they can do would set them back financially if they lost SSDI. To cover all the benefits they have on ssdi, they would need a job paying at least 60k/year. I've been near homeless once in my life and never spend (or spent) money on cigarettes, liquor, lottery tickets, drugs, or tattoos. I was put in that place because of uncovered medical expenses.
Many economists concluded long ago that it would be too expensive, especially when compared with the cost of programs to create new jobs and train people for them
Training people is all well and good but you need employers to hire that 60yr old coal miner retrained as a web developer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/po...
truth on the ground shows the libertarian approach is let them starve *slowly*.
I suggest we live up to the libertarian ideal of the second amendment. Give all those without work a rifle and all the ammo they can use. Let them use firearms to supply themselves with food and money as well as defend themselves against rich and powerful.
try this for a model. you buy a monthly pass from distributor. That pass in your rss reader give you access to the content sources. the content sources take your reads and get paid in proportion to the articles you read. there should be multiple pass distributors. we would need a way to bar exclusive content arrangements.
but only once. I am not going to pay for multiple newspaper subscriptions. I want a netflix type subscription where I pay one party and I have access to all the news out there.
It looks like population growth was a little slower than the growth in construction labor. However, I don't believe growth in population is directly linked to growth in employment in a particular field. For example, my father moved machinery for living. He always had about six people working for him. He was able to keep increasing his revenue because by using mechanical accessed, forklifts, cranes etc., he was able to take on more, bigger and more profitable projects. If he didn't have these mechanical assists, he would've needed to of employed two or three times the number of people to keep up with the same workload.
Another, admittedly anecdotal, story in the same vein is that with telephone operators. Back in the early days of telephones, you required a human to establish connection between two telephones. Because of the growth in phone adoption, the demand for operators was so large that it was predicted that everyone would need to be a phone operator. Obviously that didn't happen, mechanical switches were invented and now almost 9000 people are employed as telephone operators. A far cry from the entire population of the United States.
We have many examples of how technology eliminates jobs and we also have many examples of how the dislocation caused by those technology changes (old jobs go away, new jobs are created) take at least a generation or two to work its way to the system as the people working the old jobs die off and the new crop of babies grow up and start working. A great example of this dislocation is in the photography industry. Kodak employed a quarter million people in the Rochester area. Now it's about 6000. Companies like Instagram have taken over the chunks of the photography industry and they employee maybe 20 or 30 people. What's the future for that quarter million people that used to work for Kodak?
If the pattern holds, AI will eliminate at least half of the current jobs, it will create some new ones but these jobs won't do current potential employees any good, those jobs will be filled by the kids currently in grade school. The question is now what do we do with these people that can't work because their jobs don't exist and no one is willing to spend the money on retraining them to new jobs or, if they are retrained, be willing to hire them even though they are Olds?
if you take an honest look, most social infrastructure (roads, schools, prisons, law enforcement, food and medical safety, etc) delivers better results than private industry. when government fails, it is usually from fake state actors starving the project of the money it needs to function.
require the 49% interest in the company be allocated to employees. hand out stock annually to employees, dilute existing shares when 49% pool is exhausted.
require all content platforms to be available on all devices. no more games like the amazon / google youtube conflict.
related is requiring all content (movies, video, books) to be available on all content platforms at the same price. Content houses need to recognise that the content is the brand, not the production house.
all services have an api so third parties can build on the ecosystem and you always have access to your data.
Prescription niacin does have a different formulation from over-the-counter niacin and more importantly, you are guaranteed it will have exactly the amount of niacin it says on the label. Unlike OTC vitamins where the ingredients list is more advisory rather than actual. For a multitude of examples of capitalism in action, Google "vitamin fraud"
Major releases are for revenue enhancement. Bug fixes are there to keep the customer from getting totally pissed off. Quite frankly, it doesn't matter what package it is, fix the damn bugs. I need to get my work done, not build workarounds.
There's been a lot of good comments about giving them a relatively short i.e. three-month notification. However I would take this as an opportunity to set up a part-time work or consulting arrangement with your employer for another year or two. They get to keep corporate knowledge around and you get increased flexibility.
and I mean *ALL*. every bit of VPN and encrypted data you generate should be sent to the FBI so they won't have to work so hard to collect what they want. I'm sure they have enough storage and bandwidth to handle it.
As someone who is disabled and depending on speech recognition, I've often wondered how to reconcile the need for security with accessibility systems need for deep access into applications. I think the industry is taking the approach of telling disabled people "sucks to be you, go make a living selling pencils on the street corner".
Deep access is needed because the information present in a GUI is insufficient for building grammars speech recognition environments. But even if we could live with the GUI, accessibility needs are wide open holes in system security. When you're disabled, you need to automate common tasks and you need to make decisions about state of the application in order to do the right thing. For example, if I want to download bank statements from the bank, I should be able to automate and automate naming the given PDF the right name but I can't. However giving me that capability would transfer enormous power not just to me but to any attacker.
It's time to start spending all of those tech billions to sending disabled people to that happy farm in the country where your parents sent your dog when it got old. I'm all for this cause I'm tired of arguing with developers about why accessibility is a needed and important part of giving a disabled person independent and satisfying life.
https://www.space.com/22391-re...
the nasa DC-X did the first boost-hover-land cycle in 1993. Nasa proved it could be done but tech was not advanced enough to take it further.
We are running out of ideas because we stoped funding the sources of ideas like Xerox Park or Bell Labs. Innovation takes money and when all of the money chases development, not research, you run out of ideas to develop.
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It seems to me that owning an iPhone shows that you are more concerned about image over function/capability. Which is also a pretty strong indicator of being rich
you have hit the nail on the head. I'm a volunteer in a local entrepreneur group and we have been trying to figure out why our membership is declining. My long-term suspicion has been that it tracks the availability of a social safety net. I did a quick Google while writing this and found this very interesting article from back in 2015 about how welfare availability makes people more willing to take a risk on starting a business.
so if we want more startups, more entrepreneurial activity, make sure everybody gets healthcare from the public sector, not from your employer. Make sure food stamps are relatively easy to get. And, try to do something about rent because it's too damn high!
in addition to what guruevi said, there is also transportation for medical appointments locally and the nearest major city, access to special education programs the kid, social worker support for parent and children. Zero co-pay health coverage and no payroll taxes.
If this family member was to take a mythical job paying 60,000 a year, roughly 30% of that would go into various taxes and fees leaving 42,000. Assume a generous employer-based plan that only costs $1000 a month for a family plan (12,000 per year) leaving $30,000. A two bedroom apartment in a city near work would cost $2500 a month or $30,000 a year leaving nothing. Adding in the cost of a public transit pass ($350 per month or $4200 a year) lost hours from work from school and doctor visits as well as the time inefficiencies of public transit which would add up to something like two or three days a month. Then there's food, clothing and other essentials for living not yet paid for.
Okay 60,000 was too low but I was shooting for equivalent to what this family member is living with now.
There are some that would feel that this family member is getting too much. I argue instead that we are settling for too little.
really?? I have family members on SSDI. They want to work but all the jobs they can do would set them back financially if they lost SSDI. To cover all the benefits they have on ssdi, they would need a job paying at least 60k/year. I've been near homeless once in my life and never spend (or spent) money on cigarettes, liquor, lottery tickets, drugs, or tattoos. I was put in that place because of uncovered medical expenses.
Many economists concluded long ago that it would be too expensive, especially when compared with the cost of programs to create new jobs and train people for them
Training people is all well and good but you need employers to hire that 60yr old coal miner retrained as a web developer.
or just replicating the past?
https://www.washingtonpost.com... https://www.fiercepharma.com/s... Most of pharma's "R&D" is spent on marketing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/po... truth on the ground shows the libertarian approach is let them starve *slowly*. I suggest we live up to the libertarian ideal of the second amendment. Give all those without work a rifle and all the ammo they can use. Let them use firearms to supply themselves with food and money as well as defend themselves against rich and powerful.
5) they own houses and/or have family locally which makes it difficult to move.
try this for a model. you buy a monthly pass from distributor. That pass in your rss reader give you access to the content sources. the content sources take your reads and get paid in proportion to the articles you read. there should be multiple pass distributors. we would need a way to bar exclusive content arrangements.
Yes, that is exactly what I wanted... ;-)
but only once. I am not going to pay for multiple newspaper subscriptions. I want a netflix type subscription where I pay one party and I have access to all the news out there.
If the market is so good for developers, why do very good programmers in their 60s, who have current skills, have such a hard time finding work?
take the profit out of rent seeking behaviour.
Jan 1, 2018 326.97 million
Jul 1, 1939 130.88 million growth 2.5 times
It looks like population growth was a little slower than the growth in construction labor. However, I don't believe growth in population is directly linked to growth in employment in a particular field. For example, my father moved machinery for living. He always had about six people working for him. He was able to keep increasing his revenue because by using mechanical accessed, forklifts, cranes etc., he was able to take on more, bigger and more profitable projects. If he didn't have these mechanical assists, he would've needed to of employed two or three times the number of people to keep up with the same workload.
Another, admittedly anecdotal, story in the same vein is that with telephone operators. Back in the early days of telephones, you required a human to establish connection between two telephones. Because of the growth in phone adoption, the demand for operators was so large that it was predicted that everyone would need to be a phone operator. Obviously that didn't happen, mechanical switches were invented and now almost 9000 people are employed as telephone operators. A far cry from the entire population of the United States.
We have many examples of how technology eliminates jobs and we also have many examples of how the dislocation caused by those technology changes (old jobs go away, new jobs are created) take at least a generation or two to work its way to the system as the people working the old jobs die off and the new crop of babies grow up and start working. A great example of this dislocation is in the photography industry. Kodak employed a quarter million people in the Rochester area. Now it's about 6000. Companies like Instagram have taken over the chunks of the photography industry and they employee maybe 20 or 30 people. What's the future for that quarter million people that used to work for Kodak?
If the pattern holds, AI will eliminate at least half of the current jobs, it will create some new ones but these jobs won't do current potential employees any good, those jobs will be filled by the kids currently in grade school. The question is now what do we do with these people that can't work because their jobs don't exist and no one is willing to spend the money on retraining them to new jobs or, if they are retrained, be willing to hire them even though they are Olds?
if you take an honest look, most social infrastructure (roads, schools, prisons, law enforcement, food and medical safety, etc) delivers better results than private industry. when government fails, it is usually from fake state actors starving the project of the money it needs to function.
Prescription niacin does have a different formulation from over-the-counter niacin and more importantly, you are guaranteed it will have exactly the amount of niacin it says on the label. Unlike OTC vitamins where the ingredients list is more advisory rather than actual. For a multitude of examples of capitalism in action, Google "vitamin fraud"
Major releases are for revenue enhancement. Bug fixes are there to keep the customer from getting totally pissed off. Quite frankly, it doesn't matter what package it is, fix the damn bugs. I need to get my work done, not build workarounds.
There's been a lot of good comments about giving them a relatively short i.e. three-month notification. However I would take this as an opportunity to set up a part-time work or consulting arrangement with your employer for another year or two. They get to keep corporate knowledge around and you get increased flexibility.
and I mean *ALL*. every bit of VPN and encrypted data you generate should be sent to the FBI so they won't have to work so hard to collect what they want. I'm sure they have enough storage and bandwidth to handle it.
As someone who is disabled and depending on speech recognition, I've often wondered how to reconcile the need for security with accessibility systems need for deep access into applications. I think the industry is taking the approach of telling disabled people "sucks to be you, go make a living selling pencils on the street corner".
Deep access is needed because the information present in a GUI is insufficient for building grammars speech recognition environments. But even if we could live with the GUI, accessibility needs are wide open holes in system security. When you're disabled, you need to automate common tasks and you need to make decisions about state of the application in order to do the right thing. For example, if I want to download bank statements from the bank, I should be able to automate and automate naming the given PDF the right name but I can't. However giving me that capability would transfer enormous power not just to me but to any attacker.
It's time to start spending all of those tech billions to sending disabled people to that happy farm in the country where your parents sent your dog when it got old. I'm all for this cause I'm tired of arguing with developers about why accessibility is a needed and important part of giving a disabled person independent and satisfying life.
https://www.space.com/22391-re... the nasa DC-X did the first boost-hover-land cycle in 1993. Nasa proved it could be done but tech was not advanced enough to take it further.
porn and cat videos...
We are running out of ideas because we stoped funding the sources of ideas like Xerox Park or Bell Labs. Innovation takes money and when all of the money chases development, not research, you run out of ideas to develop.
news flash. equifax is a private company.