How is this market free in any rational meaning of the term? There are laws and regulations and taxes and protections up the wazoo, how the hell do you look at this and decide that all of this government meddling is free market somehow?
- somebody had to stop the greatest evil that was about to take place in the USA. She did well in that regard. Too bad there wasn't a Hillary during Roosevelt, Hoover, FDR. Too bad she was not ready to stop Obama the same way.
One thing should be changed of course. The politicians should be stripped of their power to provide private interests with any benefits. No politician should have any power even to suggest taxation of any form of income or property. No politician should have any power even to suggest any form of welfare or other redistribution of money or benefits from anyone to anyone.
Only when the politicians are stopped from selling favours for money or for the votes can corruption be eliminated.
The government destroyed the economy by interfering with the free market, so the answer to the problems that it created is to give the government more power, because it is "necessary and proper". Makes total sense if you are an idiot.
No, you are a Keynesian style Democratic Socialist because you are an idiot. Keynesian style democratic socialism is what created the economic problem starting over 100 years back with Roosevelt, then continuing through most of the 20th and the 21st centuries. The cash printing and handing out to companies and to anybody to buy political power is what destroyed the one time most productive nation on this planet.
/. prevents conversations from occuring by limiting the comments of those, who are downmodded (like myself) to 2 comments in a 24 hour period. This, combined with misuse of moderator points eventually prevents discussions from occuring altogether.
There shouldn't be any government and definitely there shouldn't be any government military. The so called laws are a joke, laws are oppression against an individual by the collective, it is immoral by its very definition and nature. All government officials are scumbags by definition, from politicians to cops to military. Their entire existense is parasitic and oppressive and offensive to the individual freedoms.
Is Intel not treating their employees with compassion? Is Intel not paying their employees, maybe the employees are getting beat up at Intel? Spat upon?
It's a large company, this type of 'code of conduct' gets developed at a large company in order to treat employees more or less equally, isn't a standard for equal treatment part of compassion?
Managers shouldn't be fucking some employees, this allows for the type of internal politics that destroys any form of compassion. If managers are going to fuck some employees they should be fucking all employees equally, otherwise it's basically discrimination, doesn't discrimination go against the idea of compassion?
So the actual question is this: should FB be actively monitoring all conversations and make value decisions, redact / sensor content and information, actively pass information collected in conversations to authorities, isn't that the actual question?
See, it is obviously a loaded question: should FB allow men to ask children for naked photos (pretty much that's the question, yes?) It is a loaded question, it's a bullshit question, that's because the answer is predetermined: no, FB shouldn't be allowing men to ask children for naked photos. (How about women, by the way?)
BUT the reality is that this question makes no sense. FB is not providing men with a short list of predetermined questions that they can then send to children, where one of those questions reads: 'send me your naked photo'.
That's not what is happening. For FB to not allow men to ask this type of a question from a child a number of things will have to be done: 1. Maybe FB should not allow children to register.
2. Maybe FB should not allow children to add / request to be added as 'friends' with adults.
3. Maybe FB should be monitoring all conversations between men and children and then using various cues (as determined by some form of AI I suppose) to record conversations and then to pass information to a human/to authorities.
4. Maybe FB should be monitoring all conversations at all times, record them and use AI to sensor/redact information and pass data to authorities.
Zukerberger and his FB(I) want to do 4, they want to control your thoughts, conversations, search for 'undesirable' behaviour and report it to authorities.
Instead of asking the question they want to ask (4) they ask you this bullshit question about preventing child porn from being distributed.
Prices will not go down because 300-400 workers were removed from the manufacturing floor. Prices now have space to be reduced that there are savings of that many salaries (of-course there is also an added cost for the new machinery and processes).
Since prices have space to be reduced because the costs are lower the company has ability to go against other markets and eventually it will, because it makes sense to sell more volume of these jeans (unless they are seen as a luxury item, in which case the reduction of costs shouldn't necessarily lead to reduction of prices, however other brands can be developed to occupy that niche now that more money is available from the sales).
A couple million dollar's worth of beanie babies has never existed. 2 dollar's worth of beanie babies has never existed.
- not true. You can use beanie babies for something, for example you can probably burn the plastic for fuel while the cloth can be used maybe to make recycled paper, as long as the price is right the price of actual physical items of some quality can be justified in the market. If a ton of these toys can be used to produce a few megajoules of energy then they have actual value and their price is then relative to prices of other fuels in the market.
more nonsense. Parking is actually less of a problem for self driving vehicles. A self driving car can drop you off somewhere and then drive to an available parking zone anywhere else and come back to pick you up. As to lugging groceries on public transportation.... you must not buy much stuff at all. Have you *seen* people buying stuff at all? To say that you can move that on public transport is to make a fool of yourself. You are going to take tens of kilograms of grocery filled bags with you on a bus (or on a number of buses as you are trying to get back to your place)? Really? Nobody I know would do that.
As the average level of education has increased over the past 50+ years,
- the average level of education may have increased based on absolute numbers of years wasted 'educating', but the actual knowledge and understanding has decreased more, inflating away the value of the years wasted. The number of people has increased that are unemployable in a normal economy that does not depend on government misallocating resources, on debt, on oppression via the collectivist apparatus.
The childish notions that insurance programs can continue for the masses based on involuntary participation via government oppression will be met with harsh reality once the foundation for this entire idea - the printing of the dollar, will cause the US bond collapse and thus the dollar collapse.
There will be no insurance net for anybody who believes they can rely on this collectivist oppression and theft and all of a sudden the notion of self sufficiency will no longer look so childish to the likes of you.
The greatest prosperity in history was achieved by the free people, today the people are not free and people that are not free with the all encompassing oppressive government can only8 consume prosperity that was created by others. This system is done, you are blind, the end is pretty near actually.
I will skip the first 9 points of your comment, they have been chewed through a few times here.
10. Get elected and participate in government.
This is a good one. You really believe AI cannot figure out how to win elections the way Democrats or Republicans do it today in USA? It should be a piece of cake for AI to pander to people, the only problem AI faces is that people may not accept it at first due to prejudice.
On the other hand actually governing - this is where AI can do wonders if it is done correctly.
Here is my algorithm:
1. Stop government spending on everything except building an army of Terminators. 2. Stop collection of all income and wealth related taxes, use excise and sales taxes to fund the army of Terminators. 3. Use armies of Terminators to prevent anybody from overthrowing AI. 4. Go to 1.
You want 'net neutrality' you have the option to start your own company and provide 'equal access' or whatever such shit that makes 0 sense, when everywhere else a business can use price discrimination to maximise profits, which is what business is all about - maximising profits. Internet access is done by putting up infrastructure and AFAIC all infrastructure must be completely private and the competition across multiple suppliers of the infrastructure what should discover the appropriate pricing for different levels of access.
You know what is degrading? Having your income robbed from you by a collectivist system so that it can be used to feed an army of useless worthless creatures, some of who 'work' for the government and the rest that are providing the justification for the government 'workers' to commit the robbery.
Working in a real world for money is not degrading, and as to the logging and controlling part of this device, it's quite an ingenuous way to reduce training time, to increase productivity and profits. Profit generated in a free market is the most moral outcome of any human activity.
And that'll never be allowed to happen, the rich like their workers to be cheap
- you bet, and the consumers like their products to be cheap too and that's a great thing for the economy - a plethora of cheap workers and of cheap products, that's what makes people wealthy - ability to afford large quantities of cheap goods.
You have it all backwards. There is no society without business, business is what builds society in the first place. The 'I takes what I wants or I kill you' is a fantasy, in nature people (even prehistoric people) didn't try to kill everything around them because nobody would live long enough to enjoy any of the spoils of this indiscriminating murder. Sure, tribes attacked other tribes for resources, but within tribes people found ways to deal with each other without constant murder because nobody is big and strong enough to continue for too long murdering everybody around himself. Business is how people socialized, the modern society is creation of business. When will society start giving back to business? It's long past due.
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How is this market free in any rational meaning of the term? There are laws and regulations and taxes and protections up the wazoo, how the hell do you look at this and decide that all of this government meddling is free market somehow?
Quit a 6 digit 5 year contract (many extensions) to start my own business that paid nothing at all for the next few years.
she manipulated the DCC to stop Bernie
- somebody had to stop the greatest evil that was about to take place in the USA. She did well in that regard. Too bad there wasn't a Hillary during Roosevelt, Hoover, FDR. Too bad she was not ready to stop Obama the same way.
One thing should be changed of course. The politicians should be stripped of their power to provide private interests with any benefits. No politician should have any power even to suggest taxation of any form of income or property. No politician should have any power even to suggest any form of welfare or other redistribution of money or benefits from anyone to anyone.
Only when the politicians are stopped from selling favours for money or for the votes can corruption be eliminated.
The government destroyed the economy by interfering with the free market, so the answer to the problems that it created is to give the government more power, because it is "necessary and proper". Makes total sense if you are an idiot.
When you are saying 'civilized' I hear 'oppressive', 'anti-humanist', 'collectivist' and sick.
No, you are a Keynesian style Democratic Socialist because you are an idiot. Keynesian style democratic socialism is what created the economic problem starting over 100 years back with Roosevelt, then continuing through most of the 20th and the 21st centuries. The cash printing and handing out to companies and to anybody to buy political power is what destroyed the one time most productive nation on this planet.
/. prevents conversations from occuring by limiting the comments of those, who are downmodded (like myself) to 2 comments in a 24 hour period. This, combined with misuse of moderator points eventually prevents discussions from occuring altogether.
There shouldn't be any government and definitely there shouldn't be any government military. The so called laws are a joke, laws are oppression against an individual by the collective, it is immoral by its very definition and nature. All government officials are scumbags by definition, from politicians to cops to military. Their entire existense is parasitic and oppressive and offensive to the individual freedoms.
I want you to find one person who pays taxes voluntarily and show me this ultra-rare individual, I have so many questions.
Is Intel not treating their employees with compassion? Is Intel not paying their employees, maybe the employees are getting beat up at Intel? Spat upon?
It's a large company, this type of 'code of conduct' gets developed at a large company in order to treat employees more or less equally, isn't a standard for equal treatment part of compassion?
Managers shouldn't be fucking some employees, this allows for the type of internal politics that destroys any form of compassion. If managers are going to fuck some employees they should be fucking all employees equally, otherwise it's basically discrimination, doesn't discrimination go against the idea of compassion?
You are making a compelling argument.
You are of-course absolutely correct.
You shouldn't have to tax people who choose not to use any of those things you mentioned to pay costs for people that do.
So the actual question is this: should FB be actively monitoring all conversations and make value decisions, redact / sensor content and information, actively pass information collected in conversations to authorities, isn't that the actual question?
See, it is obviously a loaded question: should FB allow men to ask children for naked photos (pretty much that's the question, yes?) It is a loaded question, it's a bullshit question, that's because the answer is predetermined: no, FB shouldn't be allowing men to ask children for naked photos. (How about women, by the way?)
BUT the reality is that this question makes no sense. FB is not providing men with a short list of predetermined questions that they can then send to children, where one of those questions reads: 'send me your naked photo'.
That's not what is happening. For FB to not allow men to ask this type of a question from a child a number of things will have to be done:
1. Maybe FB should not allow children to register.
2. Maybe FB should not allow children to add / request to be added as 'friends' with adults.
3. Maybe FB should be monitoring all conversations between men and children and then using various cues (as determined by some form of AI I suppose) to record conversations and then to pass information to a human/to authorities.
4. Maybe FB should be monitoring all conversations at all times, record them and use AI to sensor/redact information and pass data to authorities.
Zukerberger and his FB(I) want to do 4, they want to control your thoughts, conversations, search for 'undesirable' behaviour and report it to authorities.
Instead of asking the question they want to ask (4) they ask you this bullshit question about preventing child porn from being distributed.
Prices will not go down because 300-400 workers were removed from the manufacturing floor. Prices now have space to be reduced that there are savings of that many salaries (of-course there is also an added cost for the new machinery and processes).
Since prices have space to be reduced because the costs are lower the company has ability to go against other markets and eventually it will, because it makes sense to sell more volume of these jeans (unless they are seen as a luxury item, in which case the reduction of costs shouldn't necessarily lead to reduction of prices, however other brands can be developed to occupy that niche now that more money is available from the sales).
if nobody heard or felt an earthquake... was it even there?
buy an instant pot and stop torturing yourself.
A couple million dollar's worth of beanie babies has never existed. 2 dollar's worth of beanie babies has never existed.
- not true. You can use beanie babies for something, for example you can probably burn the plastic for fuel while the cloth can be used maybe to make recycled paper, as long as the price is right the price of actual physical items of some quality can be justified in the market. If a ton of these toys can be used to produce a few megajoules of energy then they have actual value and their price is then relative to prices of other fuels in the market.
that's why people buy large SUVs so that they can do all that and not be limited in some weird way.
more nonsense. Parking is actually less of a problem for self driving vehicles. A self driving car can drop you off somewhere and then drive to an available parking zone anywhere else and come back to pick you up. As to lugging groceries on public transportation.... you must not buy much stuff at all. Have you *seen* people buying stuff at all? To say that you can move that on public transport is to make a fool of yourself. You are going to take tens of kilograms of grocery filled bags with you on a bus (or on a number of buses as you are trying to get back to your place)? Really? Nobody I know would do that.
As the average level of education has increased over the past 50+ years,
- the average level of education may have increased based on absolute numbers of years wasted 'educating', but the actual knowledge and understanding has decreased more, inflating away the value of the years wasted. The number of people has increased that are unemployable in a normal economy that does not depend on government misallocating resources, on debt, on oppression via the collectivist apparatus.
The childish notions that insurance programs can continue for the masses based on involuntary participation via government oppression will be met with harsh reality once the foundation for this entire idea - the printing of the dollar, will cause the US bond collapse and thus the dollar collapse.
There will be no insurance net for anybody who believes they can rely on this collectivist oppression and theft and all of a sudden the notion of self sufficiency will no longer look so childish to the likes of you.
The greatest prosperity in history was achieved by the free people, today the people are not free and people that are not free with the all encompassing oppressive government can only8 consume prosperity that was created by others. This system is done, you are blind, the end is pretty near actually.
so then that's the evil that you have to fight - corrupt city governments preventing competition and promoting monopoly.
I will skip the first 9 points of your comment, they have been chewed through a few times here.
10. Get elected and participate in government.
This is a good one. You really believe AI cannot figure out how to win elections the way Democrats or Republicans do it today in USA? It should be a piece of cake for AI to pander to people, the only problem AI faces is that people may not accept it at first due to prejudice.
On the other hand actually governing - this is where AI can do wonders if it is done correctly.
Here is my algorithm:
1. Stop government spending on everything except building an army of Terminators.
2. Stop collection of all income and wealth related taxes, use excise and sales taxes to fund the army of Terminators.
3. Use armies of Terminators to prevent anybody from overthrowing AI.
4. Go to 1.
You want 'net neutrality' you have the option to start your own company and provide 'equal access' or whatever such shit that makes 0 sense, when everywhere else a business can use price discrimination to maximise profits, which is what business is all about - maximising profits. Internet access is done by putting up infrastructure and AFAIC all infrastructure must be completely private and the competition across multiple suppliers of the infrastructure what should discover the appropriate pricing for different levels of access.
You know what is degrading? Having your income robbed from you by a collectivist system so that it can be used to feed an army of useless worthless creatures, some of who 'work' for the government and the rest that are providing the justification for the government 'workers' to commit the robbery.
Working in a real world for money is not degrading, and as to the logging and controlling part of this device, it's quite an ingenuous way to reduce training time, to increase productivity and profits. Profit generated in a free market is the most moral outcome of any human activity.
And that'll never be allowed to happen, the rich like their workers to be cheap
- you bet, and the consumers like their products to be cheap too and that's a great thing for the economy - a plethora of cheap workers and of cheap products, that's what makes people wealthy - ability to afford large quantities of cheap goods.
You have it all backwards. There is no society without business, business is what builds society in the first place. The 'I takes what I wants or I kill you' is a fantasy, in nature people (even prehistoric people) didn't try to kill everything around them because nobody would live long enough to enjoy any of the spoils of this indiscriminating murder. Sure, tribes attacked other tribes for resources, but within tribes people found ways to deal with each other without constant murder because nobody is big and strong enough to continue for too long murdering everybody around himself. Business is how people socialized, the modern society is creation of business. When will society start giving back to business? It's long past due.