Slightly lower wages are a misleading concept when it also means cheaper goods and services in an economy.
Well, that's the problem, isn't it? It doesn't mean cheaper goods and services, it only mean greater profit for those who benefit from cheap labor.
Personally, I say people have a right to work and live where they want, but all the borders have to come down, not just the US ones. Only then will the (wage) slave trade become less profitable.
The problem for them is that is is absolute, in the most explicit fashion possible. Read it, and see how definitively absolute it actually is. And the sad fact is that there are too many people who do want it repealed. If we have a constitutional convention, the 1st amendment will be the first to die, followed closely by the second, and then the rest of the bill of rights. Then they will probably try to make it so Arnold can become prez.
Oh, I don't know. I suppose people could tune out the big money campaigns and vote for somebody different, but they don't want to take any unnecessary risks. I don't blame money for love of the same.
All of them, but the problem starts when somebody claims exclusive ownership. That's where the scarcity comes from. Water is the best example so far.
And Nestle corporation would like very much like to make the rules and ration it to "five litres of water we need for our daily hydration and the 25 litres we need for minimum hygiene" so they can bottle and sell at enormous profit the rest.
Scarcity is the life blood of your economic system. And most of its energy is spent keeping it that way through propaganda (the kind you repeat here), lobbying (bribing) government officials and through military action if necessary, much more than is being spent on product and distribution. You should know this. Big agriculture and pharma operate on the same principles. Speculation, it makes the world go 'round, not science or logic. Shortages are not natural, they are created for maximum profit. The number one rule is, "what the market will bear". Turn the screw until it breaks, and then back it off a quarter turn.
Natural resources are NOT scarce in any way. They are made scarce by economics. More money is spent denying access than than producing the product.
No, it can't. The QE money cannot exist without a sufficiently-debt-laden vehicle to support it. The existence of debt is what stabilizes the money supply, preventing the inflation that would result if the Federal Reserve did indeed just start printing money to build things.
I'm sorry. That con simply won't work on me. Try to find another fool that believes that crap.
You're back to your original point where you don't understand economics.
Yeah, I do. It is you that that doesn't understand human/animal behavior, and economics is just one aspect of it.
And as you argue about costs, you are only confirming my point as to what drives the availability of water, and why people are killing and dying for it.
That QE money can just as easily go towards building the plants and the ROI will go where it belongs. Your economics is a shell game, a con, all very easy to understand as the rest of us suffer what trickles down.
Not bad. We could build a thousand of these things for less than two weeks of "quantitative easing". So, I'm kind of back where I started. Our water supply remains controlled by the commodities market and the politicians that serves it.
You can always scale it up slowly with little barges. It just might be cheaper to let nature do the desalinating for us, and we can deal with collection and transport, which we have to do anyway. It seems you believe I think we should do it all at once. Well, I suppose that's a nice way of making any idea appear absurd. Better to fight wars over the one percent of the planet's water we presently use. That seems to be the cheapest way to do it, so far.
Nice troll. The simple fact is that business/politics regulates how much water we have and at what price, not the weather. The tech is just waiting for us to use it.
Turn those barges into giant rain barrels and find a way to use wave action to pump it ashore and the entire Sahara and the interior of Australia will be as fertile as Iowa farmland. Then watch the climate change!
The singular reason that humans suffer from water (or any other natural resource) shortage is that there is a disagreement over the price. It is because it is being treated as just another commodity for Wall Street to profit from instead of a vital resource that all people have a right to.
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The rougher areas, though, earned the nickname 'Chiraq' honestly and messily.
They name them after a former French president? That's strange..
Same difference these days.
someone please explain to me why you'd want to live in such a massive city?
Baseball, and beer, and also hookers
Hording a public thing you do not own and then scalping it won't go well, and will be banned by the courts.
Damn, I wish we would apply that to the IRS and the banks.
They are selling something the don't own, so it won't be around long.
Well, that should kill the real estate market, especially after all that mortgage fraud going around. The banks are selling stolen property.
Slightly lower wages are a misleading concept when it also means cheaper goods and services in an economy.
Well, that's the problem, isn't it? It doesn't mean cheaper goods and services, it only mean greater profit for those who benefit from cheap labor.
Personally, I say people have a right to work and live where they want, but all the borders have to come down, not just the US ones. Only then will the (wage) slave trade become less profitable.
The problem for them is that is is absolute, in the most explicit fashion possible. Read it, and see how definitively absolute it actually is. And the sad fact is that there are too many people who do want it repealed. If we have a constitutional convention, the 1st amendment will be the first to die, followed closely by the second, and then the rest of the bill of rights. Then they will probably try to make it so Arnold can become prez.
...surely disease isn't the fault of the rich...
But we give them too much control over the price of medicine.
...UK which is becoming increasingly like the 51st state in legal/civil rights terms.
All of you are wagging the dog. The UK has always led the way for repressive action in Oceania. It is the US that is following.
Oh, I don't know. I suppose people could tune out the big money campaigns and vote for somebody different, but they don't want to take any unnecessary risks. I don't blame money for love of the same.
I thought the laws were suppose to be what the majority wanted, you know "democratically".
They are what the majority wants, the majority of dollars, one dollar one vote. What could be more "democratic"?
I bet Democrats look at Putin with envy.
Maybe the "conservative" ones, but it shows much more strongly inside the republican sect.
Well, if you're rich, you need their labor to keep you that way, and to feel safe...
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Change human nature, and you won't need a government. Everybody will cooperate.
All of them, but the problem starts when somebody claims exclusive ownership. That's where the scarcity comes from. Water is the best example so far.
And Nestle corporation would like very much like to make the rules and ration it to "five litres of water we need for our daily hydration and the 25 litres we need for minimum hygiene" so they can bottle and sell at enormous profit the rest.
Scarcity is the life blood of your economic system. And most of its energy is spent keeping it that way through propaganda (the kind you repeat here), lobbying (bribing) government officials and through military action if necessary, much more than is being spent on product and distribution. You should know this. Big agriculture and pharma operate on the same principles. Speculation, it makes the world go 'round, not science or logic. Shortages are not natural, they are created for maximum profit. The number one rule is, "what the market will bear". Turn the screw until it breaks, and then back it off a quarter turn.
Natural resources are NOT scarce in any way. They are made scarce by economics. More money is spent denying access than than producing the product.
No, it can't. The QE money cannot exist without a sufficiently-debt-laden vehicle to support it. The existence of debt is what stabilizes the money supply, preventing the inflation that would result if the Federal Reserve did indeed just start printing money to build things.
I'm sorry. That con simply won't work on me. Try to find another fool that believes that crap.
You're back to your original point where you don't understand economics.
Yeah, I do. It is you that that doesn't understand human/animal behavior, and economics is just one aspect of it.
And as you argue about costs, you are only confirming my point as to what drives the availability of water, and why people are killing and dying for it.
That QE money can just as easily go towards building the plants and the ROI will go where it belongs. Your economics is a shell game, a con, all very easy to understand as the rest of us suffer what trickles down.
...this plant cost only $34 million to build...
Not bad. We could build a thousand of these things for less than two weeks of "quantitative easing". So, I'm kind of back where I started. Our water supply remains controlled by the commodities market and the politicians that serves it.
The USA will someday be remembered as the most destructively amoral group of vicious savages ever to walk the face of the earth.
Because they are.
That's just not true. Why just the other day I read that a policeman petted a dog before he shot it.
Exactly. Has anyone ever seen a big depositor waiting in line at the bank?
You can always scale it up slowly with little barges. It just might be cheaper to let nature do the desalinating for us, and we can deal with collection and transport, which we have to do anyway. It seems you believe I think we should do it all at once. Well, I suppose that's a nice way of making any idea appear absurd. Better to fight wars over the one percent of the planet's water we presently use. That seems to be the cheapest way to do it, so far.
So, are you implying that we were on the "dark side" during the revolutionary, WWI, and WWII, and Korean wars?
*What do you think Columbus do
When he come here in 1492
He said to Pocahontas "Acki Vachi Vachi Voo..."*
Nice troll. The simple fact is that business/politics regulates how much water we have and at what price, not the weather. The tech is just waiting for us to use it.
Turn those barges into giant rain barrels and find a way to use wave action to pump it ashore and the entire Sahara and the interior of Australia will be as fertile as Iowa farmland. Then watch the climate change!
The singular reason that humans suffer from water (or any other natural resource) shortage is that there is a disagreement over the price. It is because it is being treated as just another commodity for Wall Street to profit from instead of a vital resource that all people have a right to.