Actually, Deflation is neither good or bad. Inflation is neither good nor bad. Excessive amounts of either are generally bad. What people want is a stable currency. Unstable currencies are bad. Especially Fiat Currencies.
BitCoin is deflationary currency by default. There is no way to inflate BitCoin, short of massive amounts of CPU time.
If we are trading one FIAT currency for another, one that is immune to Government interference is probably the better one.
Sure it does. You're excluding the downtick caused by kids not getting in trouble as much, and going down the path of crime.
At worst, it is gonna be a wash. At best, it will dramatically lower incarceration rates (see, #1 indicator list above), even if you're correct that SOME men will end up in jail on wife beater charges. But then again, you're probably too damn afraid to try it... because change is hard.
Here's a news flash. The rich can always avoid taxes. The poor do not pay taxes. The middle class is in neither group. Taxes are regressive.
The only "fair" tax is one that everyone can avoid equally. My suggestion is a velocity tax on money. Its kind of like a "flat tax" but instead of taxing incomes, or sales, it taxes transfers of money between institutions. The rich don't want to transport millions of dollars by hand.;) The more you move money around (Think hedge funds/wall street types) the more you're taxed. Everyone can avoid taxes by long term investing and using cash. The better the economy, the more revenue is generated.
Being offended isn't the same as demanding people lose their job/business because someone won't bake you a cake. As for the the QB taking a knee over being "oppressed" by "white society" is laughable, considering what he is doing, his parents and upbringing. If he is being "oppressed" it is because he is an idiot for not knowing how good he actually has it.
Being in "Technology" in a K-12 environment, I can assure you that very few K-12 teachers have the skill set, desire or otherwise any ability to teach students at any level "coding". I can assure you that for all the people who say they "want" to teach coding (admin, teachers, staff, IT), they don't have a clue how to even start.
Further, I would suggest to you, that far too many teachers come from the Liberal Arts side of colleges, and do not have the math/sciences background to begin to teach programming, even at a rudimentary level.
(side note) I recently saw a post on a social media outlet where all the Christian Right Wingers were outraged over 3rd graders being taught the scientifically correct terms for body parts, I mean, I get that makes them uncomfortable and all that. But what horrified me was that 3/7 was considered a "B" grade on the assessment. Participation Trophy grading isn't helping anyone.
100% correct. However, when emphasis is place on social engineering for politically correct populace, you don't have room for basics. Which explains a lot about the current snowflake crowd.
We don't need "free" schools. We functionally have very inexpensive education, even at university level, getting to "Free" isn't going to be all that helpful. Especially when you consider something like 2/3 of all jobs do not require college education at all. What we need are people who can function in jobs that do not require college, but far too many people are functioning at less than even High School level education, even accounting for their diploma. We have people who cannot do trade jobs because they were educated in "college prep" High school courses, that left them lacking basic skills needed to function in society.
These are the students who take College courses in all sorts of liberal arts degree programs that have NO functional job outlooks once they do graduate. They graduate college, can't get the 100K year job with their "Womyns Studies" degree, unless they are hired by the next college to teach that course work. Meanwhile we have to import workers to do jobs that Americans believe are "beneath" them, like construction, auto repair.... you know the 2/3 of jobs that do not require college coursework.
Trapping people in broken down marriages is better for the kids than being a kid of a single parent, statistically. Kids of single parents are more likely to become single parents, especially if they are girls. It is really bad for being a girl being raised by a single mother, as you are way more likely to become a single mother in poverty than just about anything else.
The whole point is, we're screwing successive generations because we don't want to be hard on the current generation. And this is how you breed (pun intended) generational welfare enslavement (pun intended) . The most racist, misogynistic hateful outlook is one that isn't looking out for whats best for the kids, because it leads those kids into poverty... and single parenthood.
Keep on making those kinds of statements, and you'll never understand how Hillary lost. Mocking people ("deplorable") is a great way to win arguments... in liberal circles. Keep it up snowflake.
We've been there for a long time. The semi-humorous side effect is all the liberals freaking out at all the power Trump is going to have, being the same liberals who were cheerfully encouraging Obama's "Pen and Phone" tyranny. They never bothered to think at some point someone with whom they disagree with might also have said "pen and phone". And now they are all for limiting the power of the President... that is until they get their guy/gal into office, and then let the hypocrisy show itself again.. again.
I would dare say, that someone has to go outside of the "group think", especially in sciences. Even if they are wrong. We should encourage people to be their best regardless of how right (or wrong) they are. I would postulate that we are more wrong than we think we are, and until we challenge ourselves with alternate theories, no mater how bizarre they are, we'll continue to be limited.
I would suggest to you, that it isn't just "quality education" but that it is paired with a keen mind. Now, take a half a step back, and realize that there are thousands of "keen minds" that are not meeting up with "quality education" and think about how wasted possibilities are. We literally are spending tons of money on "Special needs" kids who are NEVER going to be productive, and always require special care, at the expense of all the other students.
The problem with Liberalism is that it rarely accounts for limited resources, and tends to allocate the existing resources not based on need, but rather based on equalized outcomes. That's okay if we're willing to accept the opportunity costs associated with such a policy. But then we can't complain about the lost opportunities when they happen.
Now, we need a push so that kids the math, writing and science skills they'll need because the schools are failing horribly at those - especially science.
That's because we are too damn busy creating socially correct humans, and having spent more time on "Susie has two mommies" and "Mohammed it a nice Muslim" and dildos and bongs that we have raised a bunch of politically correct humans who are otherwise useless people.
You can see this in all sorts of ways, but the most telling was the election protests where a bunch of college kids thought it was a good idea to walk out on the interstate at night... that is, until one of them was hit by a car. I'll bet they know all the right things to say about the LGBTQLMNOP, but they don't have enough sense to not play on the highway.
TBH, a lot of Trump and Hillary Supporters are stupid. The vast majority of people didn't like either one, but felt obligated to pick one of those two. The people who didn't like either, but felt compelled aren't really stupid, they are conditioned and programmed by the elites to feel irrelevant and as such are occasionally unpredictable. The goal here was to get Hillary Elected. All the stars were aligned for that to happen. And now, all those elites are looking pretty damn dumb.
It is not paying people to pursuit anything. The whole idea of "Basic Income" is a drive to the lowest common denominator and eventually it will fail as nobody does anything, and no income is being taxed to pay for the people who aren't doing anything. The assumption is that people who don't have to do anything, will want to do something that is productive, instead of sitting at home playing XBox, and whining about Trump.
Not everyone is cutout to be an artist, singer, entertainers, and even if a significant portion are, only the really "famous" (e.g. See Thomas Kincade) artists will ever make money, and schlocky mass produced "art" isn't all that artistic. (see also William Hung singer)
When people are free of a financial burden they will be free to innovate and pursue their dreams.
That is the theory at least. The reality is, not everyone is cutout to be an innovator. Watch a few episodes of Shark Tank to see how people waste their time on projects that have no commercial value thinking the world needs their invention.
Basic Income is a horrible idea, that is doomed for all the reasons people don't want to think about.
My dad had this saying... "Things of value tend to be hard to achieve and desired by many"
Do the "hard" things that nobody else wants to do, not the easy things that are easily replaced by substitutes. This is why hand crafted items will have value, while mass produced things won't have value. My time is limited, therefore I choose to do that which makes me valuable.;-)
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Actually, Deflation is neither good or bad. Inflation is neither good nor bad. Excessive amounts of either are generally bad. What people want is a stable currency. Unstable currencies are bad. Especially Fiat Currencies.
BitCoin is deflationary currency by default. There is no way to inflate BitCoin, short of massive amounts of CPU time.
If we are trading one FIAT currency for another, one that is immune to Government interference is probably the better one.
Sure it does. You're excluding the downtick caused by kids not getting in trouble as much, and going down the path of crime.
At worst, it is gonna be a wash. At best, it will dramatically lower incarceration rates (see, #1 indicator list above), even if you're correct that SOME men will end up in jail on wife beater charges. But then again, you're probably too damn afraid to try it ... because change is hard.
Here's a news flash. The rich can always avoid taxes. The poor do not pay taxes. The middle class is in neither group. Taxes are regressive.
The only "fair" tax is one that everyone can avoid equally. My suggestion is a velocity tax on money. Its kind of like a "flat tax" but instead of taxing incomes, or sales, it taxes transfers of money between institutions. The rich don't want to transport millions of dollars by hand. ;) The more you move money around (Think hedge funds/wall street types) the more you're taxed. Everyone can avoid taxes by long term investing and using cash. The better the economy, the more revenue is generated.
Being offended isn't the same as demanding people lose their job/business because someone won't bake you a cake. As for the the QB taking a knee over being "oppressed" by "white society" is laughable, considering what he is doing, his parents and upbringing. If he is being "oppressed" it is because he is an idiot for not knowing how good he actually has it.
Being in "Technology" in a K-12 environment, I can assure you that very few K-12 teachers have the skill set, desire or otherwise any ability to teach students at any level "coding". I can assure you that for all the people who say they "want" to teach coding (admin, teachers, staff, IT), they don't have a clue how to even start.
Further, I would suggest to you, that far too many teachers come from the Liberal Arts side of colleges, and do not have the math/sciences background to begin to teach programming, even at a rudimentary level.
(side note) I recently saw a post on a social media outlet where all the Christian Right Wingers were outraged over 3rd graders being taught the scientifically correct terms for body parts, I mean, I get that makes them uncomfortable and all that. But what horrified me was that 3/7 was considered a "B" grade on the assessment. Participation Trophy grading isn't helping anyone.
100% correct. However, when emphasis is place on social engineering for politically correct populace, you don't have room for basics. Which explains a lot about the current snowflake crowd.
We don't need "free" schools. We functionally have very inexpensive education, even at university level, getting to "Free" isn't going to be all that helpful. Especially when you consider something like 2/3 of all jobs do not require college education at all. What we need are people who can function in jobs that do not require college, but far too many people are functioning at less than even High School level education, even accounting for their diploma. We have people who cannot do trade jobs because they were educated in "college prep" High school courses, that left them lacking basic skills needed to function in society.
These are the students who take College courses in all sorts of liberal arts degree programs that have NO functional job outlooks once they do graduate. They graduate college, can't get the 100K year job with their "Womyns Studies" degree, unless they are hired by the next college to teach that course work. Meanwhile we have to import workers to do jobs that Americans believe are "beneath" them, like construction, auto repair .... you know the 2/3 of jobs that do not require college coursework.
Actually, the numbers do not back that shit up.
#1 Indicator of crime is poverty
#1 Indicator of poverty is single parent homes
#1 Indicator of single parent homes is not graduating high school.
You want to prevent crime / poverty ... there are three easy steps.
1) Graduate High School
2) Get a Job
3) Don't have kids until you are married (and over 21)
That's it. Period.
Trapping people in broken down marriages is better for the kids than being a kid of a single parent, statistically. Kids of single parents are more likely to become single parents, especially if they are girls. It is really bad for being a girl being raised by a single mother, as you are way more likely to become a single mother in poverty than just about anything else.
The whole point is, we're screwing successive generations because we don't want to be hard on the current generation. And this is how you breed (pun intended) generational welfare enslavement (pun intended) . The most racist, misogynistic hateful outlook is one that isn't looking out for whats best for the kids, because it leads those kids into poverty ... and single parenthood.
Keep on making those kinds of statements, and you'll never understand how Hillary lost. Mocking people ("deplorable") is a great way to win arguments ... in liberal circles. Keep it up snowflake.
some form of authoritarianism
We've been there for a long time. The semi-humorous side effect is all the liberals freaking out at all the power Trump is going to have, being the same liberals who were cheerfully encouraging Obama's "Pen and Phone" tyranny. They never bothered to think at some point someone with whom they disagree with might also have said "pen and phone". And now they are all for limiting the power of the President ... that is until they get their guy/gal into office, and then let the hypocrisy show itself again .. again.
Best argument for 2nd Amendment ever.
I would dare say, that someone has to go outside of the "group think", especially in sciences. Even if they are wrong. We should encourage people to be their best regardless of how right (or wrong) they are. I would postulate that we are more wrong than we think we are, and until we challenge ourselves with alternate theories, no mater how bizarre they are, we'll continue to be limited.
I would suggest to you, that it isn't just "quality education" but that it is paired with a keen mind. Now, take a half a step back, and realize that there are thousands of "keen minds" that are not meeting up with "quality education" and think about how wasted possibilities are. We literally are spending tons of money on "Special needs" kids who are NEVER going to be productive, and always require special care, at the expense of all the other students.
The problem with Liberalism is that it rarely accounts for limited resources, and tends to allocate the existing resources not based on need, but rather based on equalized outcomes. That's okay if we're willing to accept the opportunity costs associated with such a policy. But then we can't complain about the lost opportunities when they happen.
Yes.
It hurts the feelings of the precious snowflakes when you make fun of their preciousness.
Now, we need a push so that kids the math, writing and science skills they'll need because the schools are failing horribly at those - especially science.
That's because we are too damn busy creating socially correct humans, and having spent more time on "Susie has two mommies" and "Mohammed it a nice Muslim" and dildos and bongs that we have raised a bunch of politically correct humans who are otherwise useless people.
You can see this in all sorts of ways, but the most telling was the election protests where a bunch of college kids thought it was a good idea to walk out on the interstate at night ... that is, until one of them was hit by a car. I'll bet they know all the right things to say about the LGBTQLMNOP, but they don't have enough sense to not play on the highway.
TBH, a lot of Trump and Hillary Supporters are stupid. The vast majority of people didn't like either one, but felt obligated to pick one of those two. The people who didn't like either, but felt compelled aren't really stupid, they are conditioned and programmed by the elites to feel irrelevant and as such are occasionally unpredictable. The goal here was to get Hillary Elected. All the stars were aligned for that to happen. And now, all those elites are looking pretty damn dumb.
I self Identify as a robot!
Have Madonna Do it. She owes everyone who voted for Hillary a blowjob.
Define "fair and transparent" taxation?
Because, I can assure you that your definition and mine are different.
Why give a free education if the result of the education is unneeded for work?
To program the masses to accept the control from the elites.
BINGO!!!
See also Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
It is not paying people to pursuit anything. The whole idea of "Basic Income" is a drive to the lowest common denominator and eventually it will fail as nobody does anything, and no income is being taxed to pay for the people who aren't doing anything. The assumption is that people who don't have to do anything, will want to do something that is productive, instead of sitting at home playing XBox, and whining about Trump.
Not everyone is cutout to be an artist, singer, entertainers, and even if a significant portion are, only the really "famous" (e.g. See Thomas Kincade) artists will ever make money, and schlocky mass produced "art" isn't all that artistic. (see also William Hung singer)
When people are free of a financial burden they will be free to innovate and pursue their dreams.
That is the theory at least. The reality is, not everyone is cutout to be an innovator. Watch a few episodes of Shark Tank to see how people waste their time on projects that have no commercial value thinking the world needs their invention.
Basic Income is a horrible idea, that is doomed for all the reasons people don't want to think about.
almost everything will become completely free
My dad had this saying ... "Things of value tend to be hard to achieve and desired by many"
Do the "hard" things that nobody else wants to do, not the easy things that are easily replaced by substitutes. This is why hand crafted items will have value, while mass produced things won't have value. My time is limited, therefore I choose to do that which makes me valuable. ;-)
Businesses that don't value people, will soon be out of business. Unless AIs start spending money on their own that is.