Um, it takes 40 minutes to get from Richmond to Montgomery (i.e. you work at a tech firm in SOMA) on BART, which is the longest possible distance of the commutes I mentioned.
If the commute is to the Peninsula (but this was about SF) then there are plenty of other options.
And the GDP per capita is $48,000...so if the income were distributed evenly, the average family of four should be pulling in something like $200,000 big ones.
You should call it the Kennedy / Johnson / Nixon / Ford / Carter / Reagan / Bush / Clinton / Bush / Obama economy. Seriously, the basic economic policy in the US has not changed at all, only the delivery mechanisms (jobs programs vs. interest rate vs. tax cuts).
I highly recommend you read this paper. Even if you disagree with Brenner's conclusions, the historical data should be enlightening.
Actually the corporate profit rate is not at record high, far from it. The unbalanced growth over the past 40 years has enriched a very few, but has not led to economic stability or robust businesses.
But I lived in the Bay Area making $30k and I felt like I was doing fine
That's where I'm at right now. In "actual SF" the only difference would be an additional $500 or so in rent, which would only cut into my miscellaneous entertainment a little bit, and leave my craft beer purchases totally unaffected.
Let's say in addition to $18,000 / yr on rent, you spend $2,000 / mo. on food, and the same amount on each on health care and discretionary spending. That's $90,000 / yr. You probably pay about $35,000 in taxes, leaving you with $90,000.
So you should be breaking even if you are spending literally $4,000 on food and luxury items every month.
Wall street supports such moves by increasing your stock price.
Wall Street does so at its own peril. Look at corporate profits over that same period (1970 - present). All the labor suppression in the world couldn't save the corporate rate of profit.
You don't have to go far at all, or even choose a bad neighborhood. Think, Point Richmond, Richmond Annex, El Cerrito, Daly City, South SF...not to mention much of Oakland (you only think it's dangerous).
You're wrong, the cost of living is not as high as you think.
If you are the sole earner for a family of four, 80k could be tough (depending on your neighborhood and if you want to own). However, if you are a "kid coming out of college," you probably support no more than one additional person (who may or may not also work) and are looking to rent. $1500 for a two bedroom unit is steep compared to other parts of the country, but hardly unaffordable on $80k/yr.
Fortunately the utilities have no alternative but to meter at the premises because there isn't a separate line to every customer. Otherwise we could be stuck with metering before transmission losses (something like 70%).
I do not mean to imply something special about this time in history or the location, but would also make this wager for the ancient inhabitants of Africa, Asia, India or the Americas of perhaps 2,000 to 6,000 years ago.
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Um, it takes 40 minutes to get from Richmond to Montgomery (i.e. you work at a tech firm in SOMA) on BART, which is the longest possible distance of the commutes I mentioned.
If the commute is to the Peninsula (but this was about SF) then there are plenty of other options.
And the GDP per capita is $48,000...so if the income were distributed evenly, the average family of four should be pulling in something like $200,000 big ones.
You should call it the Kennedy / Johnson / Nixon / Ford / Carter / Reagan / Bush / Clinton / Bush / Obama economy. Seriously, the basic economic policy in the US has not changed at all, only the delivery mechanisms (jobs programs vs. interest rate vs. tax cuts).
I highly recommend you read this paper. Even if you disagree with Brenner's conclusions, the historical data should be enlightening.
Actually the corporate profit rate is not at record high, far from it. The unbalanced growth over the past 40 years has enriched a very few, but has not led to economic stability or robust businesses.
if one underpaid worker tries to demand better compensation, they'll just be replaced with someone else
This is, in a nutshell, why capital wants high unemployment. The larger the reserve labor force, the faster uppity punks get replaced.
Bullshit. It doesn't take much reading to get a feeling for what's really going on.
But I lived in the Bay Area making $30k and I felt like I was doing fine
That's where I'm at right now. In "actual SF" the only difference would be an additional $500 or so in rent, which would only cut into my miscellaneous entertainment a little bit, and leave my craft beer purchases totally unaffected.
Let's say in addition to $18,000 / yr on rent, you spend $2,000 / mo. on food, and the same amount on each on health care and discretionary spending. That's $90,000 / yr. You probably pay about $35,000 in taxes, leaving you with $90,000.
So you should be breaking even if you are spending literally $4,000 on food and luxury items every month.
Wall street supports such moves by increasing your stock price.
Wall Street does so at its own peril. Look at corporate profits over that same period (1970 - present). All the labor suppression in the world couldn't save the corporate rate of profit.
Yup, sounds about right, except if you come over to the right side of the Bay you can get a second bedroom or an office for that money.
You don't have to go far at all, or even choose a bad neighborhood. Think, Point Richmond, Richmond Annex, El Cerrito, Daly City, South SF...not to mention much of Oakland (you only think it's dangerous).
BTW 80k to start in SF seems pretty horrible
You're wrong, the cost of living is not as high as you think.
If you are the sole earner for a family of four, 80k could be tough (depending on your neighborhood and if you want to own). However, if you are a "kid coming out of college," you probably support no more than one additional person (who may or may not also work) and are looking to rent. $1500 for a two bedroom unit is steep compared to other parts of the country, but hardly unaffordable on $80k/yr.
Until non-Microsoft compilers can implement the technique.
But the keyboard shortcuts still work.
Plenty of Windows games crash if you minimize them or switch to windowed mode. The recent Bethesda RPGs for example.
You hit the nail. Thinking about ethical programs is premature when we don't have semantic programs.
None of the high hopes for AI can ever be realized without a semantic machine.
As far as I know, Mark Kelley has not been stripped of his rank as implied in the summary.
Any two species are separated by all their genes that differ. It's tautological.
Once the adopted parents find out and open a restaurant they'll be gone fast.
OK, now I'm thinking it's neutral with respect to the taste of the children. Your traded-away tasty children will still get eaten...
Fortunately the utilities have no alternative but to meter at the premises because there isn't a separate line to every customer. Otherwise we could be stuck with metering before transmission losses (something like 70%).
Sorry, loose wording on my part. Even some primates leave fruit to ferment in order to get drunk later.
According to PubMed FAS does lead to stunted growth, but in particular ways that would be apparent in recovered skeletons.
No doubt. Even TFA states that due to those latter factors the problem (if real) will be resolved before its impacts are too severe.
I do not mean to imply something special about this time in history or the location, but would also make this wager for the ancient inhabitants of Africa, Asia, India or the Americas of perhaps 2,000 to 6,000 years ago.
-TFA
Only to the extent that people who ever use birth control never reproduce.