Whatever you force McDonalds to give workers in a minimum wage raise will be paid for by McDonalds customers in higher prices, even if McDonalds doesn't fire people. Since McDonalds customers are predominantly lower income, it's basically a regressive tax.
If you raise the minimum wage 100% and McDonalds increases their prices 10%, have the "predominately lower income" customers been regressively taxed?
Oh, so they ONLY have to raise prices 25%? Yeah, that's not going to hurt anyone already barely scraping by on a fixed income.
If costs go up by 25% but your income goes up by 100% (the example he cited with doubling pay while increasing a burger price by $0.75), are you better or worse off?
This is an experiment. If Seattle's unemployment rate goes up, you MUST accept the fact that raising the minimum wage kills jobs. If it goes down, then you MUST accept the fact that you are living in some sort of magical fantasyland where economic laws don't apply, and should immediately set about breaking windows and starting nuclear wars with aliens to improve the economy.
The trouble with economic experiments is that you cannot isolate a single variable. No matter what happens with the unemployment rate, you cannot state a causal relationship between the minimum wage and unemployment rate. Also, unemployment rate is a lose indicator of jobs. One can posit a situation where the number of unemployed has increased while at the same time a number of unfilled positions have been created yet are unfilled due to misaligned skill-sets between the unemployed worker pool and positions.
I hate mowing my lawn, if I can hire someone to do it at $10/hour, I'll do it. At $15/hour I can't afford to hire someone and I'll do it myself
There is work to be done: mowing your lawn. There is someone doing the work: you or someone you pay $10 per hour.
In both cases, there is a job being done. Someone that could be doing something else is mowing your lawn. In one case you are spending your time doing something else while someone is mowing your lawn, in the other case, you are mowing your lawn while someone else is doing something else. In both cases, that something else could be something like a "job". Maybe you are paying someone $10 and hour to mow your lawn and you take that time to earn $60 an hour being a masseur. Maybe they are earning $15 an hour working at Burger King while you are mowing your lawn.
The fact that *you* may do work yourself or outsource it does not create the job: the lawn needing mowing does.
What a lot of this comes down to is what I feel is an incorrect assumption; that minimum wage jobs are life-long careers, and that we intend for someone to work as an unskilled laborer for their entire life.
I do not know where you live, but where I live opportunities to rise out of the minimum-wage-job as life-long career are touted as existing but actually do not. Good education is too expensive and free education is a joke. Living expenses in locales that have good infrastructure and transportation are high enough to incentivize living with a partner as soon as possible--which has a human tendency to lead to children. Access to affordable, quality health care is too expensive and prices are set to amounts easily payable by the insured by out-of-reach of out-of-pocket payers.
Until we provide affordable, quality healthcare, education and housing to everyone we just keep living a lie about a meritocracy.
These are my monthly bills. Student loan $300 My take home pay after taxes is $1100 a month.
This here is one of the largest problems with the US economy: education costs one 1/3 of one's take home pay for decades (not to mention all the accrued interest).
At those rates, it might be better to forgo the education and make $15 minimum wage (almost $2,000 per month). For no student loan payment one can make almost double.
Then I misunderstood what you meant by "software tied to your geographical location". If you mean the App Store uses your IP address to present different Apps for purchase sure, but to me software being tied to a geographical location connotes that the software will only work in a certain geographical location and leaving that location will disable it.
They also understand the use-case of the majority: wanting a device that works for them without needing in-depth knowledge of the underlying software and hardware. That's a large part of their success. Many technologists do have in-depth knowledge and find their products too limiting but many technologists then assume the entire market is like themselves when its not.
Are all Apple public statements this arrogant? They're running those horrid (and long) commercials right now showing people using iDevices in all kinds of contrived circumstances, too.
No. Many jokes if later presented as factual opinions do, though.
No one has every made a joke that exaggerated or generalized about a population. Nope, never. All statements everyone makes are always serious attempts to mind read.
Can you feel the self-awareness failure yet? Cook generalises about millions of users, but he's not the one at fault here; the commenter asks a question about one person (Cook) but apparently now he's "generalis[ing] about millions of people."
Fool boy, see me after class.
In humour, the punch line is often a generalization or exaggeration to emphasis the crux of the joke. At a feel-good conference where a corporation speaks to an assembled crowd of developers already invested in their platform jokes which rib the competition while bolstering the egos of the assembled developers are common.
I found Cook's joke rather stupid and groan-worthy but I also see it for what it is and do not assume those are his personal thoughts about millions of people. Did you feel the statement was meant to be a serious exegesis regarding millions of people?
Geographical? What? You do know the App Store isn't an actual store in the mall, right?
And you know that all content is not sold in all countries, right?
And is therefore tied to your geographical location.
I think "geographical" in this context is region-lock bit. I don't believe the iPhone uses the GPS to detect you moving geographically and disables software you purchased in the US when you are in the UK. I don't think the software is actually tied to your geographical location. Also, it's a pretty unfair comparison since the Google Play store does the same thing from what I understand. That said, I agree region-locking is dumb and bad business but let's stay to the facts when comparing.
So if I install an OS other than iOS onto my iPhone, can I claim to be comparing iPhone to Android? Cyanogenmod is an advantage to Android of course, but the majority of users will use what comes out of the box so it's best to compare those. Every user can of course change the status quo by installing third-party software on their hardware but that's hardly the majority.
Then how come the only criticism ever levied against it is the UI? Performance? Better than 7. Stability? Better than 7. Security? Better than 7. System requirements? Better than 7. The only thing you can legitimately criticize are subjective components like the interface, which some people like myself actually *prefer* to the start menu.
One needs to not only compare Windows 8 against Windows 7 for Windows 7 is not Window 8's only competition.
Snowden didn't turn himself in because he would not have gotten a trial of his peers under the American justice system. He will be given a closed-door non-jury military tribunal. Isn't that obvious? This is part of the reason why he is hiding outside the US's reach.
Machine time is cheap. What do I care that it takes a couple of hours to rebuild some binaries over night? The speed benefit, which might be minor in many cases, is real but not the biggest benefit. The biggest benefit is being able to say system-wide that I'd rather use Qt and not Gtk and have all my current and future binaries built to order.
I'm not wasting my time for a speed benefit, I am spending my machine's down time reducing my surface area and moving parts which has several benefits.
Well I think there's a significant difference here between rather mundane conventional devices and trying to needlessly tie everything into the internet. What benefit is there to having, say, a washing machine that connects to the internet? Or a refrigerator? Or a microwave? Lighting could have a utility as related to the security system. But controlling your HVAC system through the internet?
This is not to say I'm saying that no one should have these things. I'm very libertarian about most things. So people should be able to spend their money on any kind of fluff that the wish. I simply can't understand why anyone would want such a set up. Hell, if nothing else this system is probably going to cost thousands of dollars to implement into a home. Money that could probably be better spent buying high quality appliances that aren't tired into an Apple system.
I too do not know where this all might lead, but that's the beauty of innovation: sometimes unexpected advancements happen. I can see having a refrigerator one could query the contents of remotely could be useful at times. The cost (in terms of risk, privacy and cost) probably outweighs the benefit today but the steps today lead to the steps tomorrow and so forth. Not wanting to participate in these steps makes a lot of sense--I don't either--but not seeing the appeal is blind to advancements we haven't conceived yet.
Do you mean new games that require newer hardware, or do you mean they removed support for games entirely--including those already installed on the device? Hardware obsolescence is not something new and yes perhaps its faster in iOS devices than large desktops but it existing and being faster on devices where you squeeze more power/heat into a smaller package is not surprising or now.
doesn't support even the simplest things like time-aware do not disturb.
That is pretty surprising. I suppose they don't support newer iOS versions on the hardware and they did not see the point in back-porting a new feature? That does suck, I'll give you that one but it kind of goes along with the first point above.
Every single 3 year old connecter for every single iDevice is no longer compatible.
My three-year-old device still works just fine with my three-year-old connector. I have no idea what you mean here, unless you mean my new device does not work with my three-year-old connector?
While I get that in three years there might be new hardware with new software and new features, but I don't really believe that today's hardware and software will stop working. You seem to be confusing wanting new shiny bling with being forced to upgrade or have useless hardware. By that standard, my five-year-old thermostat should work with my iPhone without having to be replaced, and then should work with my iImplant also without having to be replaced.
If you begin by stating you will never understand something, then there's really not much point in trying to learn about it is there? You've already set yourself a very high bias.
I agree that home automation doesn't really have much return for its risk today but do you really feel home automation is a pointless area to explore? Do you still wash all your clothes by hand and line dry them? Do you not use a microwave? Do you not use an automatic dish washer? Do you not use a thermostat? Those all came out of this sort of push.
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If you're retired and living off savings, are you better or worse off? All you are doing is helping one class at the expense of another.
That's is generally what social economics is about, many choices are such and we must as a society choose.
That still says "using the software" to be, but I'd have to ask my lawyer. It's clearly labeled a software license agreement.
Whatever you force McDonalds to give workers in a minimum wage raise will be paid for by McDonalds customers in higher prices, even if McDonalds doesn't fire people. Since McDonalds customers are predominantly lower income, it's basically a regressive tax.
If you raise the minimum wage 100% and McDonalds increases their prices 10%, have the "predominately lower income" customers been regressively taxed?
Oh, so they ONLY have to raise prices 25%? Yeah, that's not going to hurt anyone already barely scraping by on a fixed income.
If costs go up by 25% but your income goes up by 100% (the example he cited with doubling pay while increasing a burger price by $0.75), are you better or worse off?
This is an experiment. If Seattle's unemployment rate goes up, you MUST accept the fact that raising the minimum wage kills jobs. If it goes down, then you MUST accept the fact that you are living in some sort of magical fantasyland where economic laws don't apply, and should immediately set about breaking windows and starting nuclear wars with aliens to improve the economy.
The trouble with economic experiments is that you cannot isolate a single variable. No matter what happens with the unemployment rate, you cannot state a causal relationship between the minimum wage and unemployment rate. Also, unemployment rate is a lose indicator of jobs. One can posit a situation where the number of unemployed has increased while at the same time a number of unfilled positions have been created yet are unfilled due to misaligned skill-sets between the unemployed worker pool and positions.
Example of low wages creating jobs:
I hate mowing my lawn, if I can hire someone to do it at $10/hour, I'll do it. At $15/hour I can't afford to hire someone and I'll do it myself
There is work to be done: mowing your lawn.
There is someone doing the work: you or someone you pay $10 per hour.
In both cases, there is a job being done. Someone that could be doing something else is mowing your lawn. In one case you are spending your time doing something else while someone is mowing your lawn, in the other case, you are mowing your lawn while someone else is doing something else. In both cases, that something else could be something like a "job". Maybe you are paying someone $10 and hour to mow your lawn and you take that time to earn $60 an hour being a masseur. Maybe they are earning $15 an hour working at Burger King while you are mowing your lawn.
The fact that *you* may do work yourself or outsource it does not create the job: the lawn needing mowing does.
What a lot of this comes down to is what I feel is an incorrect assumption; that minimum wage jobs are life-long careers, and that we intend for someone to work as an unskilled laborer for their entire life.
I do not know where you live, but where I live opportunities to rise out of the minimum-wage-job as life-long career are touted as existing but actually do not. Good education is too expensive and free education is a joke. Living expenses in locales that have good infrastructure and transportation are high enough to incentivize living with a partner as soon as possible--which has a human tendency to lead to children. Access to affordable, quality health care is too expensive and prices are set to amounts easily payable by the insured by out-of-reach of out-of-pocket payers.
Until we provide affordable, quality healthcare, education and housing to everyone we just keep living a lie about a meritocracy.
These are my monthly bills.
Student loan $300
My take home pay after taxes is $1100 a month.
This here is one of the largest problems with the US economy: education costs one 1/3 of one's take home pay for decades (not to mention all the accrued interest).
At those rates, it might be better to forgo the education and make $15 minimum wage (almost $2,000 per month). For no student loan payment one can make almost double.
Then I misunderstood what you meant by "software tied to your geographical location". If you mean the App Store uses your IP address to present different Apps for purchase sure, but to me software being tied to a geographical location connotes that the software will only work in a certain geographical location and leaving that location will disable it.
So if I install an OS other than iOS onto my iPhone, can I claim to be comparing iPhone to Android?
If you can do so without violating the terms of use then it's a start, at least.
My iPhone hardware does not have any terms of use. The software does and if I am replacing it, then they don't apply, do they?
If it hasn't been made clear, it was a joke. A bad one, but a joke nonetheless.
They also understand the use-case of the majority: wanting a device that works for them without needing in-depth knowledge of the underlying software and hardware. That's a large part of their success. Many technologists do have in-depth knowledge and find their products too limiting but many technologists then assume the entire market is like themselves when its not.
Are all Apple public statements this arrogant? They're running those horrid (and long) commercials right now showing people using iDevices in all kinds of contrived circumstances, too.
No. Many jokes if later presented as factual opinions do, though.
No one has every made a joke that exaggerated or generalized about a population. Nope, never. All statements everyone makes are always serious attempts to mind read.
Can you feel the self-awareness failure yet? Cook generalises about millions of users, but he's not the one at fault here; the commenter asks a question about one person (Cook) but apparently now he's "generalis[ing] about millions of people."
Fool boy, see me after class.
In humour, the punch line is often a generalization or exaggeration to emphasis the crux of the joke. At a feel-good conference where a corporation speaks to an assembled crowd of developers already invested in their platform jokes which rib the competition while bolstering the egos of the assembled developers are common.
I found Cook's joke rather stupid and groan-worthy but I also see it for what it is and do not assume those are his personal thoughts about millions of people. Did you feel the statement was meant to be a serious exegesis regarding millions of people?
And you know that all content is not sold in all countries, right?
And is therefore tied to your geographical location.
I think "geographical" in this context is region-lock bit. I don't believe the iPhone uses the GPS to detect you moving geographically and disables software you purchased in the US when you are in the UK. I don't think the software is actually tied to your geographical location. Also, it's a pretty unfair comparison since the Google Play store does the same thing from what I understand. That said, I agree region-locking is dumb and bad business but let's stay to the facts when comparing.
So if I install an OS other than iOS onto my iPhone, can I claim to be comparing iPhone to Android? Cyanogenmod is an advantage to Android of course, but the majority of users will use what comes out of the box so it's best to compare those. Every user can of course change the status quo by installing third-party software on their hardware but that's hardly the majority.
Windows 8 is shit, from top to bottom.
Then how come the only criticism ever levied against it is the UI? Performance? Better than 7. Stability? Better than 7. Security? Better than 7. System requirements? Better than 7. The only thing you can legitimately criticize are subjective components like the interface, which some people like myself actually *prefer* to the start menu.
One needs to not only compare Windows 8 against Windows 7 for Windows 7 is not Window 8's only competition.
Snowden didn't turn himself in because he would not have gotten a trial of his peers under the American justice system. He will be given a closed-door non-jury military tribunal. Isn't that obvious? This is part of the reason why he is hiding outside the US's reach.
Machine time is cheap. What do I care that it takes a couple of hours to rebuild some binaries over night? The speed benefit, which might be minor in many cases, is real but not the biggest benefit. The biggest benefit is being able to say system-wide that I'd rather use Qt and not Gtk and have all my current and future binaries built to order.
I'm not wasting my time for a speed benefit, I am spending my machine's down time reducing my surface area and moving parts which has several benefits.
Both IE and Firefox run like shit especially when you have flash video's playing in websites you visit. Chrome, the fastest.
The solution isn't to brag about how fast your browser can play Flash videos, but to stop playing Flash videos.
what exactly does Beats have that Apple can't come up with by itself in an afternoon?
Already-signed, good deals licensing music recordings for streaming to customers.
Well I think there's a significant difference here between rather mundane conventional devices and trying to needlessly tie everything into the internet. What benefit is there to having, say, a washing machine that connects to the internet? Or a refrigerator? Or a microwave? Lighting could have a utility as related to the security system. But controlling your HVAC system through the internet?
This is not to say I'm saying that no one should have these things. I'm very libertarian about most things. So people should be able to spend their money on any kind of fluff that the wish. I simply can't understand why anyone would want such a set up. Hell, if nothing else this system is probably going to cost thousands of dollars to implement into a home. Money that could probably be better spent buying high quality appliances that aren't tired into an Apple system.
I too do not know where this all might lead, but that's the beauty of innovation: sometimes unexpected advancements happen. I can see having a refrigerator one could query the contents of remotely could be useful at times. The cost (in terms of risk, privacy and cost) probably outweighs the benefit today but the steps today lead to the steps tomorrow and so forth. Not wanting to participate in these steps makes a lot of sense--I don't either--but not seeing the appeal is blind to advancements we haven't conceived yet.
3 year old iPod Touch no longer supports games,
Do you mean new games that require newer hardware, or do you mean they removed support for games entirely--including those already installed on the device? Hardware obsolescence is not something new and yes perhaps its faster in iOS devices than large desktops but it existing and being faster on devices where you squeeze more power/heat into a smaller package is not surprising or now.
doesn't support even the simplest things like time-aware do not disturb.
That is pretty surprising. I suppose they don't support newer iOS versions on the hardware and they did not see the point in back-porting a new feature? That does suck, I'll give you that one but it kind of goes along with the first point above.
Every single 3 year old connecter for every single iDevice is no longer compatible.
My three-year-old device still works just fine with my three-year-old connector. I have no idea what you mean here, unless you mean my new device does not work with my three-year-old connector?
While I get that in three years there might be new hardware with new software and new features, but I don't really believe that today's hardware and software will stop working. You seem to be confusing wanting new shiny bling with being forced to upgrade or have useless hardware. By that standard, my five-year-old thermostat should work with my iPhone without having to be replaced, and then should work with my iImplant also without having to be replaced.
If you begin by stating you will never understand something, then there's really not much point in trying to learn about it is there? You've already set yourself a very high bias.
I agree that home automation doesn't really have much return for its risk today but do you really feel home automation is a pointless area to explore? Do you still wash all your clothes by hand and line dry them? Do you not use a microwave? Do you not use an automatic dish washer? Do you not use a thermostat? Those all came out of this sort of push.