Deflation is no poison, you are a tool of government propaganda, brainwashed to the core, completely without any sense or understanding. Deflation was the reality of 19th century USA economy, the period of time, when the standard of living of an average American has gone up by orders of magnitude faster than at any point in time. In fact during the 'scary deflationary' period the standard of living for Americans has gone up, but during the government induced inflation the standard of living was and is falling.
Deflation is great for people who have less, they can afford more with less. Deflation is apparently also great for investments, which is shown by history, specifically because more savers are created during deflation, who are able to lend money to the most productive uses, so deflation grows savings, inflation destroys savings. Guess which the world needs to grow the economy... but of course you are so brain washed and brain dead, you will guess wrong.
In fact deflation does NOT stop people from buying consumer goods that they need, this is patently absurd, it's absolutely absurd given a very SIMPLE COUNTEREXAMPLE: CREDIT CARDS. People are buying today on credit cards, which means that they are willing to pay MORE for the goods that they are buying today rather than saving their money and not using credit cards (which means paying for the privilege of using the borrowed money today) they will not save and buy tomorrow to avoid extra borrowing costs, they will instead buy today. That's what time preference is - buying today rather than tomorrow is actually also a function of cost of money.
In any case, you are 100% wrong on all of your economic ideas that were beaten into your stupid head for the entire duration of your pathetic thoughtless life.
Inflation is only useful to force people to buy ONE THING: INVESTMENTS.
The only thing that people will NOT buy today if those things will become cheaper tomorrow are INVESTMENTS. If you know for a fact that your purchase will be valued lower in a year than today, you will not buy an investment like that, so the only thing that the government promotes people buying with inflated money supply are investments, which would cost LESS in a year (thanks to deflation, which is what the USA economy is apparently needing, which is why that is the natural progression that the economy would take right now, given so much misalignment in resource allocation).
Right, but if you advertise your place as being 'shared for free', you'll not have any lack of takers, who will mooch off of you for as long as you do this. By putting a price on it you both, put a priority on the people that you are sharing with and your guest shares on your costs of running that apartment (or did you think that taxes and mortgage and utilities and insurance pay for themselves?)
I fully support ideas of Marx where it concerns the abolition of the State and income tax resistance.
Given the nature of today's date, let's go further.
Marx insisted that the bourgeois exploits the proletariat through the "constant revolutionising of production and uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions". So let's declare revolutionizing of production to be illegal and prohibit any form of non-incremental but sudden advances where it concerns production, manufacturing and technology. Introduction of personal computers was not an incremental step, introduction of the Internet itself, the combustion engine, powered flight, nuclear power, molecular biology and DNA based technology, and more, none of these are evolutionary, these are revolutionary technologies and must be abolished, prohibited and abandoned in favor of more evolutionary technologies and production techniques, which do not serve to undermine the status quo of the every day lives of the proletariat.
Of-course all private property must be abolished, inequality must be squashed, this has to start with the 1% but it cannot stop there, it must be taken to its logical conclusion. As long as we have inequality there can be no true Marxism / Communism, so we have to find the lowest common denominator, which everybody must agree, is the ultimate goal that provides the conformity necessary to prevent rise of capital formation. Let's find that lowest common denominator taking into account that private property starts with our own bodies, let's look beyond the obvious, such as land, factories, cars, houses, and such, let's look at the root of this evil, the moment of conception itself. Nobody can be allowed to utilize naturally occurring DNA based advantages, which are also manifestation of private property and thus capital formation, we must eradicate this inequality at the moment of formation. This requires that all sperm and eggs used in conception are equalized, there can be no deviation from the standards and norms in order to achieve maximum parity.
Of-course among the already living there are other forms of inequalities that can also be addressed immediately. There are, after all, people who through no fault of their own lost limbs, eyesight, normal functioning of their natural bodies, which is where the problem of inequality is very sharply observed. Nobody should be in a position to utilize his or her property to rise above the normal, thus normal must be understood to be the poorest in all properties, including body functions and capabilities. This means that upon reaching a certain age, all people must undergo a mandatory equalization procedure, consisting of the following elements: * Removal of limbs * Lobotomy * Removal of other discriminating organs, such as eyes, tongue, nose, external genitalia.
Only by ensuring that no person can reasonably elevate his or her worldly status via acquiring possessions, especially if starting from an unequal playing field, which includes having more in terms of body capabilities than anybody else, only then can true Marxism / Communism be built in the land of equality and parity.
You were never a libertarian to switch to socialism, you were and currently remain a simple-minded pile of goo that has no will or ideas of its own.
Socialists, leftists, social conservatives is what destroyed the USA economy, libertarians were the people that created it out of nothing before the socialist / fascist thieves destroyed it (and when I say fascist and socialists, I mean these specific subsets of the larger collectivist mob).
Protection from competitors? That's a socialist or a fascist value, not a libertarian one, libertarian values exclude government protections to anybody and at anybody's expense.
Preserving the status quo? That's socialist or fascist values, libertarians expect the market to change at any time.
Fat government contracts? That's a socialist or a fascist value.
Massive amounts of money flowing to corrupt politicians? That's the result of socialism and fascism, more correctly: collectivist mobocracy that is willing to sell any principle for a promise of a lunch paid by money out of somebody else's pockets.
Creating debt slaves? That's a socialist or a fascist value, not a libertarian one at all. Debt slaves are created by governments spending beyond their means.
Unemployment is not a problem anyway from point of view of libertarians, the market clears at a correct prices, however socialists and or fascists prevent the prices from being discovered within market settings.
Should anybody earn any particular level of wages? No, there is no rule that says anybody is entitled to anybody's money. Of-course the economy during more libertarian times in the USA grew value of wages, while lowering costs year to year before socialist and or fascists took over the individual freedoms and allowed the government to usurp unauthorized powers.
Shareholder value must be maximized of-course, in a free market economy people are shareholders as much as they are employees.
You are a socialist, which means you are a brainless gnat.
Except all of these business related regulations and taxes and inflation produce the exact opposite results. So if you wanted to have fewer cars on the roads, you'd have to have a very efficient transit system and this includes very accessible (as in a very cheap) taxi service.
It's when anybody can afford a cab ride and cabs are extremely accessible (easy to order, so there is no shortage) you'll reduce number of cars on the roads, not when you create artificial barriers to entry, which keep prices up and prevent many people from even thinking about using cabs, so instead they drive cars.
I guess I should now grovel at your throne and beg for forgiveness, or something like that?
- what you should do is shut your trap whenever you have an urge to spew diarrhoea of the kind you have here. You "created" jobs by buying stuff?
You have no idea when the jobs are created, what it takes to bring stuff to the shelves (figuratively or literally), before any purchase is made, many tons of work is done that precedes 'your highness, the consumer'. People put in their own money to create products, people spend their own time to create products, if this means hiring others, that's what is done and all of it is done before you see 1 item on any of the shelves.
Every single product, even products that are currently sold, all of them are created by investors paying salaries. Even if the product is a proven success, the money for salaries comes from revenues that could otherwise already be pure profits, a decision is made to create more products at every step of the way and you are not in any way the reason for anything, Mr. turning consumer goods into shit.
I created my products and I still keep creating new lines of products and employing people to do it without asking you for a dime first, you have no idea what you are talking about, you never had an idea of what you are talking about, you will never have an idea of what you are talking about. You shouldn't be begging me for forgiveness, you should be thanking your lucky stars that people exist that are not you who do this shit so you can turn perfectly fine consumer products into piles of shit.
As to 1930s, the gov't wouldn't allow the prices to drop and would rather print tons of money to buy perfectly fine consumer goods, especially food items and throw them into ditches and cover them with dirt just to avoid the absolutely necessary deflation and falling prices. So the people suffered twice, first time when the gov't damaged the economy by creating the enormous piles of money starting in 1925 to buy bad UK debt from France and thus inflating the bubbles in the stock market, and then, after the market correction, the second time with all of the gov't nonsense aimed at 'fixing' the problem - all of the money printing and asset buying that took place to prevent falling prices (just the way they do it today with housing, stock market and bond market), they hurt the people the second time by preventing prices from falling enough that the people could actually afford to buy food that they needed.
Any of the suffering and starvation and market damage and unemployment that resulted from the implosion of that stock market bubble was caused by the government that was working full time in full gear to prevent prices from falling as they should have. But as I said, you will know nothing.
What I think is irrelevant, but here it is: I think any living person that is working or has ever worked for any level of central government should be banished and imprisoned for crimes against humanity regardless of their records. I have 0 interest and 0 respect for anybody that has ever held any public office. A (current or former) public official talking about privacy and rights is a huge joke upon all individuals.
I think it is everybody's responsibility to stop participating in government oppression, as in: stop voting, stop sending them there, stop allowing them to be elected, stop allowing them to rule you, stop paying all taxes of-course.
How precious, a former POTUS talks about freedoms and rights and privacy, so cute.
He added, "For the last two or three years, when I want to write a highly personal letter to a foreign leader, or even some American leaders, I hand-write it and mail it, because I feel that my telephone calls and my email are being monitored, and there are some things I just donâ(TM)t want anybody to know except me and my wife."
- yeah, well, good luck with that. If the Internet and the phones are tapped, what are the chances that none of the dead-tree communications are tapped?
You pay for access to the network of your provider and this has nothing to do with the provider - supplier communications.
In the real world suppliers pay for delivery and trucks cost more than bicycles to deliver larger goods, the costs are baked into your purchase.
I agree with only one argument: there shouldn't be any government subsidies from anybody to anybody, but of-course there shouldn't be any income related taxes either, any government projects beyond minimal protection of individual freedoms.
You must an individual freedom to own and operate private property without government stealing it from you and throwing you to jail or murdering you. Everything else must be purely a function of the market, if you don't get it, then it is you, who is an idiot.
And yet, AT&T wants more money because they think they have the right to charge Netflix more to pass through their tollbooth.
- it's not their 'tollbooth', it's their road. On a road you can charge different rates for different types of vehicles, this is the same situation. An eighteen wheeler can cause more damage to the road that requires more maintenance than a motorcycle, this is the same thing: a movie that needs to be streamed a million times takes up much more capacity and energy and basically uses the system much more than millions of small individual requests do.
I post an ad, you call, first I want to hear clarity of voice and ideas. I ask you to come by to meet and to see the place.
When you do, I ask you to tell me about yourself. Then I tell you about the company and the projects and technologies we use. I tell you what I am looking for in an employee. Then I ask you to ask me questions. Then I let you go ask a few questions to the current team members.
You come back, I tell you to think about it and send me a message.
Since I hire people with very little upfront experience, I don't expect them to be able to know much, I train the people and I tell them this upfront. I also tell them right away that they only start getting paid when they become productive team members, which means that they start contributing tangible code to a project that ends up used in the project. Until they become productive team members they are not paid, they are unpaid interns.
I have to like the person and they have to like the place and the projects. If this clicks we start. There are no 'gotcha' questions, there is not much technical interview at all. I tell them about the tech we use and the projects we run and I let them think about it.
OTOH when I need specialised help of an experienced developer/manager I always get a contractor that I am either familiar with or that somebody that I know can vouch for.
Wait, didn't you know that you are submitting your tax data to IRS on VOLUNTARY basis? As in, if you ask them whether you must submit the data, if it is forced upon you, they will tell you that it is voluntary?
But good luck to you if you try to exercise voluntarism and not submit that data...
..... #SSH pass in log inet proto tcp from any to $ext_if port ssh pass out log inet proto tcp from any to $ext_if port ssh pass log quick proto tcp from $SSH_ALLOW_IPs to $ext_if port ssh \
flags S/SA keep state pass log quick proto tcp from any to $ext_if port ssh \
flags S/SA keep state \
(max-src-conn 15, max-src-conn-rate 5/3, \
overload <bruteforce> flush global) .....
The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording âoe100 percentâ of a foreign countryâ(TM)s telephone calls
- sure, sure, 'foreign'. Maybe they can do it in a foreign country, maybe they can't, but you can be damn certain that is what they are doing in the USA.
Don't be a douche and at least acknowledge that this theft is done upon somebody's death upon money and property that was already taxed (stolen from) by the likes of you many times over, and it is a death tax.
None of your fucking business what I buy and how much I pay. You don't like a particular type of a device, don't buy it. If you like a device and it doesn't do what you want, get a competing product or get an adapter. Also fuck off, if I want a device with a UNIQUE (as in one off, no other than mine has it) charger connector, I MUST BE ABLE TO HAVE IT.
I must be able to have a device with an connector that nobody else has on purpose. Somebody steals it, at least they have to get a non-existing adapter or even modify the device and it must be MY CHOICE to buy a device with a completely non-standard equipment and none of you, motherfucking collectivist cocksuckers, can dictate what equipment I can and cannot buy, and to avoid stupid questions, yes I mean anything at all, including nuclear materials, plans, equipment and bombs if I wanted to.
Between their mothers and the fuckers of their mothers, these motherfuckers don't know which end is up and how to get their collective heads out of each other's collective asses.
What a bunch of useless, time wasting, circle jerking, cocksucking, cum swapping pieces of stink.
Forcing people to STOP INNOVATION, forcing people to have a particular MONOPOLISED idea of a product, PREVENTING COMPETITION, destroying choices, preventing consumers from having choices..........
So if tomorrow somebody comes up with a new type of a device and they had an idea to provide a different type of a charger that is not based on the same technology, now they cannot.
Fuck them, the corrupt pieces of shit that they are. Good intentions can go fuck themselves. People are not supposed to be slaves of these dictator rulers, as they perceive themselves. Let's just wait for the inevitable economic demise of that conglomerate.
Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down
- won't happen even if they tried, that is because once there is a rush of buying in any particular industry, the supply of the mines would be going down with this constant demand, the prices would quickly rise to many times 50 Billion. Beyond that new supply would immediately be created in order to satisfy this demand. There would be MORE coal mines, not less, because people would see it as an opportunity to make money on this sale.
Clearly environmentalist have no clue about economics.
Wrong, there is no solution in tariffs, the solution is in completely open markets and absence of government intrusion into business and money. This will eventually be imposed by the market, as the government will finally finish the economy off, and then you'll quickly find out that in order to buy something that is produced locally you first have to create the production facilities for it and you don't have them. In order to have production facilities, the real productive infrastructure you need sound money and you don't have that either of-course, and as you said, USA will default on all of its debts (by inflation) and thus nobody will lend USA money at low interest rates, making it impossible for USA to get hands on real investment capital.
Socialism is the end of the road, inevitable or not, it finishes off the productive class and causes massive poverty until the productive class is allowed to restore itself by reducing the government enough that it no longer matters and is no longer a barrier to free market capitalism, which is what in fact grows economies.
Absolutely, unregulated currency does rock! Except that this currency have no value unlike for example real money, which is gold.
Gold does not need to be regulated, yet gold can still be stolen.
If you want insurance for your gold, buy it in the private free market capitalist system, there is no need for any government involvement in gold, but it happens anyway because government wants to steal your gold, steal your purchasing power, destroy real money.
You think THIS is bad? How about the fact that US dollar has lost over 99% of its value (purchasing power) since the Federal reserve was established? How about the fact that USD is just a piece of paper without any value behind it, JUST LIKE BITCOINS. The only difference is, you have a corrupt monopoly system (government) constantly increasing the supply of the USD (and I can absolutely include every other fiat currency on the planet that is governed by central banks).
The only real money is gold and it can be stolen and government shouldn't be either providing any form of fake insurance, which is simply a moral hazard, nor should it be involved with trying to define what purchasing power of gold is in the first place. If there one role for government in the money department, it can be standardization of size of a specific type of coin, something that is easy to recognize, but EVEN THERE there is actually no need for government involvement! This can absolutely be done by private companies and it is.
"Robber baron" is an honourable title for a person who started entire industries that satisfied demand of entire new markets with completely new products, something you couldn't do even if you were to tax every single human on this planet until the end of time.
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Fuck those greedy shitbag motherfuckers.
- I hope you do mean the customers, right? The BUYERS of the product, because the market (in this case being IBM) RESPONDS to customer demand. If IBM could increase its market share and thus sell more units of whatever by RAISING prices on their goods, they would.
IBM, like any other company, responds to the desires of the market and it is trying to serve as much market as possible, and clearly IBM (and other companies, but not you) realises that to do that it needs to LOWER prices, or at least (in the age of huge government created inflation) by not raising prices as much.
So the "greedy shitbag motherfuckers" are the clients, people who buy the products. You disagree? Do you ever buy a MORE expensive product rather than a LESS expensive product if you can discriminate that way? Do you shop on Amazon? Do you go to stores on sale days? Do you shop at WalMart or really any store that imports goods rather than selling American made (ha, find me that)?
So it is YOU, who is a "greedy shitbag motherfucker", but I don't blame you for wanting to pay less, I actually agree with that, I am ALSO a "greedy shitbag motherfucker", I want to pay less. I want to save money, I want to use it to grow my business or maybe to buy more stuff.
But of-course you don't really think before you put that garbage into comments, so don't worry about it, it's not really directed at you, I am just generally replying to nonsense, I guess cause somebody has to do it.
Ha ha ha ha, so would you only do it to IBM or would you also do it to companies that produce goods that are imported into USA from other countries, like iPads for example, but not only that. Pretty much EVERYTHING you consume is produces somewhere else, why don't you "place an embargo" on everything that is imported then?
Do you know why? Because currently USA ends up NOT paying for ANYTHING it imports. USA prints worthless US dollars and Treasuries and the foreigners take that garbage and exchange it for the good stuff that they create, they give away things that Americans want and they only take worthless paper as a 'payment', but it's not a payment. You can't actually exchange that paper for anything worthwhile produced in USA, so it's actually just paper.
You are not going to embargo anything, it's going to be the exact opposite - the rest of the world will embargo the US dollar eventually. You should pray they don't do it sooner, cause that will hit right where it hurts.
Why? To make eggs cheaper and more plentiful in order TO MAKE MONEY. That's why. In order to make money the billionaires are investing their own capital into this venture, which may bring down the cost of eggs and allow a wider, more accessible distribution of the product to people who couldn't afford the product before now, in process the billionaires will make billions of dollars or of whatever currency they work in more, that's why. That's how the free market solves problems of standard of living, unlike government solutions, free market solutions are based on pure self interest - making money for oneself, but in order to do so, the investor has to make a product that the market will pay for with profits, even though the final price will be cheaper.
Of-course what free market capitalism giveth, government taketh away, there will be a government based battle around this egg issue. Because gov't is big and the mob allowed it to meddle with businesses and with money and taxes, there will be an attempt to fight against this new product not by making the existing product better or cheaper, but first of all by using gov't threat of violence to limit the new product, by setting artificial costs that shouldn't be there. Regulations, taxes, price controls will be used to attempt and prevent the new product from reaching the markets (if the product works). Who will suffer at the end? People who won't see the new product to its fullest potential at least for a while.
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Deflation is no poison, you are a tool of government propaganda, brainwashed to the core, completely without any sense or understanding. Deflation was the reality of 19th century USA economy, the period of time, when the standard of living of an average American has gone up by orders of magnitude faster than at any point in time. In fact during the 'scary deflationary' period the standard of living for Americans has gone up, but during the government induced inflation the standard of living was and is falling.
Deflation is great for people who have less, they can afford more with less. Deflation is apparently also great for investments, which is shown by history, specifically because more savers are created during deflation, who are able to lend money to the most productive uses, so deflation grows savings, inflation destroys savings. Guess which the world needs to grow the economy... but of course you are so brain washed and brain dead, you will guess wrong.
In fact deflation does NOT stop people from buying consumer goods that they need, this is patently absurd, it's absolutely absurd given a very SIMPLE COUNTEREXAMPLE: CREDIT CARDS. People are buying today on credit cards, which means that they are willing to pay MORE for the goods that they are buying today rather than saving their money and not using credit cards (which means paying for the privilege of using the borrowed money today) they will not save and buy tomorrow to avoid extra borrowing costs, they will instead buy today. That's what time preference is - buying today rather than tomorrow is actually also a function of cost of money.
In any case, you are 100% wrong on all of your economic ideas that were beaten into your stupid head for the entire duration of your pathetic thoughtless life.
Inflation is only useful to force people to buy ONE THING: INVESTMENTS.
The only thing that people will NOT buy today if those things will become cheaper tomorrow are INVESTMENTS. If you know for a fact that your purchase will be valued lower in a year than today, you will not buy an investment like that, so the only thing that the government promotes people buying with inflated money supply are investments, which would cost LESS in a year (thanks to deflation, which is what the USA economy is apparently needing, which is why that is the natural progression that the economy would take right now, given so much misalignment in resource allocation).
You have a lame excuse for a brain.
Right, but if you advertise your place as being 'shared for free', you'll not have any lack of takers, who will mooch off of you for as long as you do this. By putting a price on it you both, put a priority on the people that you are sharing with and your guest shares on your costs of running that apartment (or did you think that taxes and mortgage and utilities and insurance pay for themselves?)
I fully support ideas of Marx where it concerns the abolition of the State and income tax resistance.
Given the nature of today's date, let's go further.
Marx insisted that the bourgeois exploits the proletariat through the "constant revolutionising of production and uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions". So let's declare revolutionizing of production to be illegal and prohibit any form of non-incremental but sudden advances where it concerns production, manufacturing and technology. Introduction of personal computers was not an incremental step, introduction of the Internet itself, the combustion engine, powered flight, nuclear power, molecular biology and DNA based technology, and more, none of these are evolutionary, these are revolutionary technologies and must be abolished, prohibited and abandoned in favor of more evolutionary technologies and production techniques, which do not serve to undermine the status quo of the every day lives of the proletariat.
Of-course all private property must be abolished, inequality must be squashed, this has to start with the 1% but it cannot stop there, it must be taken to its logical conclusion. As long as we have inequality there can be no true Marxism / Communism, so we have to find the lowest common denominator, which everybody must agree, is the ultimate goal that provides the conformity necessary to prevent rise of capital formation. Let's find that lowest common denominator taking into account that private property starts with our own bodies, let's look beyond the obvious, such as land, factories, cars, houses, and such, let's look at the root of this evil, the moment of conception itself. Nobody can be allowed to utilize naturally occurring DNA based advantages, which are also manifestation of private property and thus capital formation, we must eradicate this inequality at the moment of formation. This requires that all sperm and eggs used in conception are equalized, there can be no deviation from the standards and norms in order to achieve maximum parity.
Of-course among the already living there are other forms of inequalities that can also be addressed immediately. There are, after all, people who through no fault of their own lost limbs, eyesight, normal functioning of their natural bodies, which is where the problem of inequality is very sharply observed. Nobody should be in a position to utilize his or her property to rise above the normal, thus normal must be understood to be the poorest in all properties, including body functions and capabilities. This means that upon reaching a certain age, all people must undergo a mandatory equalization procedure, consisting of the following elements:
* Removal of limbs
* Lobotomy
* Removal of other discriminating organs, such as eyes, tongue, nose, external genitalia.
Only by ensuring that no person can reasonably elevate his or her worldly status via acquiring possessions, especially if starting from an unequal playing field, which includes having more in terms of body capabilities than anybody else, only then can true Marxism / Communism be built in the land of equality and parity.
In the spirit of Marxism / Communism access to all valuables must be open to all international claimants, so for example an American peasant must be sharing fruits of his labor with anybody in the world, including any Indian or Chinese or middle-eastern comrade and while taxes must be resisted by the majority, a minority must be forced to pay them anyway, and while the State
You were never a libertarian to switch to socialism, you were and currently remain a simple-minded pile of goo that has no will or ideas of its own.
Socialists, leftists, social conservatives is what destroyed the USA economy, libertarians were the people that created it out of nothing before the socialist / fascist thieves destroyed it (and when I say fascist and socialists, I mean these specific subsets of the larger collectivist mob).
Protection from competitors? That's a socialist or a fascist value, not a libertarian one, libertarian values exclude government protections to anybody and at anybody's expense.
Preserving the status quo? That's socialist or fascist values, libertarians expect the market to change at any time.
Fat government contracts? That's a socialist or a fascist value.
Massive amounts of money flowing to corrupt politicians? That's the result of socialism and fascism, more correctly: collectivist mobocracy that is willing to sell any principle for a promise of a lunch paid by money out of somebody else's pockets.
Creating debt slaves? That's a socialist or a fascist value, not a libertarian one at all. Debt slaves are created by governments spending beyond their means.
Unemployment is not a problem anyway from point of view of libertarians, the market clears at a correct prices, however socialists and or fascists prevent the prices from being discovered within market settings.
Should anybody earn any particular level of wages? No, there is no rule that says anybody is entitled to anybody's money. Of-course the economy during more libertarian times in the USA grew value of wages, while lowering costs year to year before socialist and or fascists took over the individual freedoms and allowed the government to usurp unauthorized powers.
Shareholder value must be maximized of-course, in a free market economy people are shareholders as much as they are employees.
You are a socialist, which means you are a brainless gnat.
Except all of these business related regulations and taxes and inflation produce the exact opposite results. So if you wanted to have fewer cars on the roads, you'd have to have a very efficient transit system and this includes very accessible (as in a very cheap) taxi service.
It's when anybody can afford a cab ride and cabs are extremely accessible (easy to order, so there is no shortage) you'll reduce number of cars on the roads, not when you create artificial barriers to entry, which keep prices up and prevent many people from even thinking about using cabs, so instead they drive cars.
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I guess I should now grovel at your throne and beg for forgiveness, or something like that?
- what you should do is shut your trap whenever you have an urge to spew diarrhoea of the kind you have here. You "created" jobs by buying stuff?
You have no idea when the jobs are created, what it takes to bring stuff to the shelves (figuratively or literally), before any purchase is made, many tons of work is done that precedes 'your highness, the consumer'. People put in their own money to create products, people spend their own time to create products, if this means hiring others, that's what is done and all of it is done before you see 1 item on any of the shelves.
Every single product, even products that are currently sold, all of them are created by investors paying salaries. Even if the product is a proven success, the money for salaries comes from revenues that could otherwise already be pure profits, a decision is made to create more products at every step of the way and you are not in any way the reason for anything, Mr. turning consumer goods into shit.
I created my products and I still keep creating new lines of products and employing people to do it without asking you for a dime first, you have no idea what you are talking about, you never had an idea of what you are talking about, you will never have an idea of what you are talking about. You shouldn't be begging me for forgiveness, you should be thanking your lucky stars that people exist that are not you who do this shit so you can turn perfectly fine consumer products into piles of shit.
As to 1930s, the gov't wouldn't allow the prices to drop and would rather print tons of money to buy perfectly fine consumer goods, especially food items and throw them into ditches and cover them with dirt just to avoid the absolutely necessary deflation and falling prices. So the people suffered twice, first time when the gov't damaged the economy by creating the enormous piles of money starting in 1925 to buy bad UK debt from France and thus inflating the bubbles in the stock market, and then, after the market correction, the second time with all of the gov't nonsense aimed at 'fixing' the problem - all of the money printing and asset buying that took place to prevent falling prices (just the way they do it today with housing, stock market and bond market), they hurt the people the second time by preventing prices from falling enough that the people could actually afford to buy food that they needed.
Any of the suffering and starvation and market damage and unemployment that resulted from the implosion of that stock market bubble was caused by the government that was working full time in full gear to prevent prices from falling as they should have. But as I said, you will know nothing.
What I think is irrelevant, but here it is: I think any living person that is working or has ever worked for any level of central government should be banished and imprisoned for crimes against humanity regardless of their records. I have 0 interest and 0 respect for anybody that has ever held any public office. A (current or former) public official talking about privacy and rights is a huge joke upon all individuals.
I think it is everybody's responsibility to stop participating in government oppression, as in: stop voting, stop sending them there, stop allowing them to be elected, stop allowing them to rule you, stop paying all taxes of-course.
How precious, a former POTUS talks about freedoms and rights and privacy, so cute.
He added, "For the last two or three years, when I want to write a highly personal letter to a foreign leader, or even some American leaders, I hand-write it and mail it, because I feel that my telephone calls and my email are being monitored, and there are some things I just donâ(TM)t want anybody to know except me and my wife."
- yeah, well, good luck with that. If the Internet and the phones are tapped, what are the chances that none of the dead-tree communications are tapped?
You pay for access to the network of your provider and this has nothing to do with the provider - supplier communications.
In the real world suppliers pay for delivery and trucks cost more than bicycles to deliver larger goods, the costs are baked into your purchase.
I agree with only one argument: there shouldn't be any government subsidies from anybody to anybody, but of-course there shouldn't be any income related taxes either, any government projects beyond minimal protection of individual freedoms.
You must an individual freedom to own and operate private property without government stealing it from you and throwing you to jail or murdering you. Everything else must be purely a function of the market, if you don't get it, then it is you, who is an idiot.
And yet, AT&T wants more money because they think they have the right to charge Netflix more to pass through their tollbooth.
- it's not their 'tollbooth', it's their road. On a road you can charge different rates for different types of vehicles, this is the same situation. An eighteen wheeler can cause more damage to the road that requires more maintenance than a motorcycle, this is the same thing: a movie that needs to be streamed a million times takes up much more capacity and energy and basically uses the system much more than millions of small individual requests do.
See, I even used an appropriate car analogy.
I post an ad, you call, first I want to hear clarity of voice and ideas. I ask you to come by to meet and to see the place.
When you do, I ask you to tell me about yourself. Then I tell you about the company and the projects and technologies we use. I tell you what I am looking for in an employee. Then I ask you to ask me questions. Then I let you go ask a few questions to the current team members.
You come back, I tell you to think about it and send me a message.
Since I hire people with very little upfront experience, I don't expect them to be able to know much, I train the people and I tell them this upfront. I also tell them right away that they only start getting paid when they become productive team members, which means that they start contributing tangible code to a project that ends up used in the project. Until they become productive team members they are not paid, they are unpaid interns.
I have to like the person and they have to like the place and the projects. If this clicks we start. There are no 'gotcha' questions, there is not much technical interview at all. I tell them about the tech we use and the projects we run and I let them think about it.
OTOH when I need specialised help of an experienced developer/manager I always get a contractor that I am either familiar with or that somebody that I know can vouch for.
Wait, didn't you know that you are submitting your tax data to IRS on VOLUNTARY basis? As in, if you ask them whether you must submit the data, if it is forced upon you, they will tell you that it is voluntary?
But good luck to you if you try to exercise voluntarism and not submit that data...
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just saying...
The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording âoe100 percentâ of a foreign countryâ(TM)s telephone calls
- sure, sure, 'foreign'. Maybe they can do it in a foreign country, maybe they can't, but you can be damn certain that is what they are doing in the USA.
Don't be a douche and at least acknowledge that this theft is done upon somebody's death upon money and property that was already taxed (stolen from) by the likes of you many times over, and it is a death tax.
None of your fucking business what I buy and how much I pay. You don't like a particular type of a device, don't buy it. If you like a device and it doesn't do what you want, get a competing product or get an adapter. Also fuck off, if I want a device with a UNIQUE (as in one off, no other than mine has it) charger connector, I MUST BE ABLE TO HAVE IT.
I must be able to have a device with an connector that nobody else has on purpose. Somebody steals it, at least they have to get a non-existing adapter or even modify the device and it must be MY CHOICE to buy a device with a completely non-standard equipment and none of you, motherfucking collectivist cocksuckers, can dictate what equipment I can and cannot buy, and to avoid stupid questions, yes I mean anything at all, including nuclear materials, plans, equipment and bombs if I wanted to.
Between their mothers and the fuckers of their mothers, these motherfuckers don't know which end is up and how to get their collective heads out of each other's collective asses.
What a bunch of useless, time wasting, circle jerking, cocksucking, cum swapping pieces of stink.
Forcing people to STOP INNOVATION, forcing people to have a particular MONOPOLISED idea of a product, PREVENTING COMPETITION, destroying choices, preventing consumers from having choices..........
So if tomorrow somebody comes up with a new type of a device and they had an idea to provide a different type of a charger that is not based on the same technology, now they cannot.
Fuck them, the corrupt pieces of shit that they are. Good intentions can go fuck themselves. People are not supposed to be slaves of these dictator rulers, as they perceive themselves. Let's just wait for the inevitable economic demise of that conglomerate.
Ok, Hitler, and how are you going to achieve that exactly? Papiere bitte?
Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down
- won't happen even if they tried, that is because once there is a rush of buying in any particular industry, the supply of the mines would be going down with this constant demand, the prices would quickly rise to many times 50 Billion. Beyond that new supply would immediately be created in order to satisfy this demand. There would be MORE coal mines, not less, because people would see it as an opportunity to make money on this sale.
Clearly environmentalist have no clue about economics.
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Wrong, there is no solution in tariffs, the solution is in completely open markets and absence of government intrusion into business and money. This will eventually be imposed by the market, as the government will finally finish the economy off, and then you'll quickly find out that in order to buy something that is produced locally you first have to create the production facilities for it and you don't have them. In order to have production facilities, the real productive infrastructure you need sound money and you don't have that either of-course, and as you said, USA will default on all of its debts (by inflation) and thus nobody will lend USA money at low interest rates, making it impossible for USA to get hands on real investment capital.
Socialism is the end of the road, inevitable or not, it finishes off the productive class and causes massive poverty until the productive class is allowed to restore itself by reducing the government enough that it no longer matters and is no longer a barrier to free market capitalism, which is what in fact grows economies.
Absolutely, unregulated currency does rock! Except that this currency have no value unlike for example real money, which is gold.
Gold does not need to be regulated, yet gold can still be stolen.
If you want insurance for your gold, buy it in the private free market capitalist system, there is no need for any government involvement in gold, but it happens anyway because government wants to steal your gold, steal your purchasing power, destroy real money.
You think THIS is bad? How about the fact that US dollar has lost over 99% of its value (purchasing power) since the Federal reserve was established? How about the fact that USD is just a piece of paper without any value behind it, JUST LIKE BITCOINS. The only difference is, you have a corrupt monopoly system (government) constantly increasing the supply of the USD (and I can absolutely include every other fiat currency on the planet that is governed by central banks).
The only real money is gold and it can be stolen and government shouldn't be either providing any form of fake insurance, which is simply a moral hazard, nor should it be involved with trying to define what purchasing power of gold is in the first place. If there one role for government in the money department, it can be standardization of size of a specific type of coin, something that is easy to recognize, but EVEN THERE there is actually no need for government involvement! This can absolutely be done by private companies and it is.
"Robber baron" is an honourable title for a person who started entire industries that satisfied demand of entire new markets with completely new products, something you couldn't do even if you were to tax every single human on this planet until the end of time.
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Fuck those greedy shitbag motherfuckers.
- I hope you do mean the customers, right? The BUYERS of the product, because the market (in this case being IBM) RESPONDS to customer demand. If IBM could increase its market share and thus sell more units of whatever by RAISING prices on their goods, they would.
IBM, like any other company, responds to the desires of the market and it is trying to serve as much market as possible, and clearly IBM (and other companies, but not you) realises that to do that it needs to LOWER prices, or at least (in the age of huge government created inflation) by not raising prices as much.
So the "greedy shitbag motherfuckers" are the clients, people who buy the products. You disagree? Do you ever buy a MORE expensive product rather than a LESS expensive product if you can discriminate that way? Do you shop on Amazon? Do you go to stores on sale days? Do you shop at WalMart or really any store that imports goods rather than selling American made (ha, find me that)?
So it is YOU, who is a "greedy shitbag motherfucker", but I don't blame you for wanting to pay less, I actually agree with that, I am ALSO a "greedy shitbag motherfucker", I want to pay less. I want to save money, I want to use it to grow my business or maybe to buy more stuff.
But of-course you don't really think before you put that garbage into comments, so don't worry about it, it's not really directed at you, I am just generally replying to nonsense, I guess cause somebody has to do it.
Ha ha ha ha, so would you only do it to IBM or would you also do it to companies that produce goods that are imported into USA from other countries, like iPads for example, but not only that. Pretty much EVERYTHING you consume is produces somewhere else, why don't you "place an embargo" on everything that is imported then?
Do you know why? Because currently USA ends up NOT paying for ANYTHING it imports. USA prints worthless US dollars and Treasuries and the foreigners take that garbage and exchange it for the good stuff that they create, they give away things that Americans want and they only take worthless paper as a 'payment', but it's not a payment. You can't actually exchange that paper for anything worthwhile produced in USA, so it's actually just paper.
You are not going to embargo anything, it's going to be the exact opposite - the rest of the world will embargo the US dollar eventually. You should pray they don't do it sooner, cause that will hit right where it hurts.
Why? To make eggs cheaper and more plentiful in order TO MAKE MONEY. That's why. In order to make money the billionaires are investing their own capital into this venture, which may bring down the cost of eggs and allow a wider, more accessible distribution of the product to people who couldn't afford the product before now, in process the billionaires will make billions of dollars or of whatever currency they work in more, that's why. That's how the free market solves problems of standard of living, unlike government solutions, free market solutions are based on pure self interest - making money for oneself, but in order to do so, the investor has to make a product that the market will pay for with profits, even though the final price will be cheaper.
Of-course what free market capitalism giveth, government taketh away, there will be a government based battle around this egg issue. Because gov't is big and the mob allowed it to meddle with businesses and with money and taxes, there will be an attempt to fight against this new product not by making the existing product better or cheaper, but first of all by using gov't threat of violence to limit the new product, by setting artificial costs that shouldn't be there. Regulations, taxes, price controls will be used to attempt and prevent the new product from reaching the markets (if the product works). Who will suffer at the end? People who won't see the new product to its fullest potential at least for a while.