"Full-time employment" is socialist nonsense. De facto there are no "employees", we all provide services to each other. Essentially, at some point the "social engineers" as part of their perpetual crusade of redesigning society decided that it is good idea (for them - because it is e.g. easier to quantify and exercise control) to standardize relationships between individual service providers and service consumers. Just look at this nonsense around Uber going on lately: government agents insist that they get to decide how to classify their drivers, as contractors or as "employees." Absurd.
"Mainstream economics" to the real scientific economics is like astrology to astronomy.
If you are interested in real understanding of economics, read Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, forget Keynes and Krugman.
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -- Friedrich von Hayek.
The only reason Keynesian "economics" views are so popular is that such "economists" provide "scientific" backing for politicians' plunder and manipulation of people.
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” Robert A. Heinlein
Looks like Slashdot has turned into statist / leftist news a while ago. ("you NEED the caring State and its goons to protect you from terrorists and blah blah")
Governments introduce prohibitions then get busy prosecuting their made up "crimes", and they have a nerve to demand total surveillance to enforce their bullshit? Haven't we learned anything from alcohol prohibition and the violent gangs which flourished thanks to it?
Besides, wars end. But this one looks like a perpetual source of "work" for governments, it is intended to be so.
The armed bureaucrats ("law enforcement") will keep using fear to intimidate people into surrendering more and more of their freedoms to them until we end up being their slaves in every way. Unless we resist.
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"Full-time employment" is socialist nonsense. De facto there are no "employees", we all provide services to each other. Essentially, at some point the "social engineers" as part of their perpetual crusade of redesigning society decided that it is good idea (for them - because it is e.g. easier to quantify and exercise control) to standardize relationships between individual service providers and service consumers. Just look at this nonsense around Uber going on lately: government agents insist that they get to decide how to classify their drivers, as contractors or as "employees." Absurd.
No IDs. Time to stop being numbered slaves of "The State."
Right, keep giving the government more power, the very same entity that enables the [quasi]monopolies like Comcast.
"Mainstream economics" to the real scientific economics is like astrology to astronomy. If you are interested in real understanding of economics, read Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, forget Keynes and Krugman. "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -- Friedrich von Hayek. The only reason Keynesian "economics" views are so popular is that such "economists" provide "scientific" backing for politicians' plunder and manipulation of people.
Try OrangeWebsite in Iceland.
Good. The cult of statism (worshiping the state and politicians) must die.
It's high time to stop caring how bureaucrats categorize things. (and people)
Just 11 years of government bullying? This must be the definition of freedom.
Don't do evil. * Except when an evil government demands it in order to allow us to continue making money.
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” Robert A. Heinlein
Looks like Slashdot has turned into statist / leftist news a while ago. ("you NEED the caring State and its goons to protect you from terrorists and blah blah")
It doesn't matter. There is no such things as "your jobs", it is not something you own, so no one can take from you something you don't own.
Time to move your US business to Hong Kong or elsewhere.
Tell me again, what makes you think that "US workers" are some kind of "superior humans" and should be treated supremely?
Stockholm syndrome much? Statism is a cult. Look up "Statism: The Most Dangerous Religion" on Youtube.
If you voted, don't complain. You wanted a master and you got one. If not, go to Youtube and look up "statism the most dangerous religion".
So Google will just relocate what's left of their operations in the UK away from these looters.
Intellectual Property is Neither Property, Nor Intellectual. Read this: http://christophercantwell.com...
"They took our jerbs!!!". Since when did /. become protectionist/leftist mouthpiece?
Governments introduce prohibitions then get busy prosecuting their made up "crimes", and they have a nerve to demand total surveillance to enforce their bullshit? Haven't we learned anything from alcohol prohibition and the violent gangs which flourished thanks to it? Besides, wars end. But this one looks like a perpetual source of "work" for governments, it is intended to be so.
Well, it is official: "the state" is there to protect entrenched vested interests. What the hell is "unfair competition"? Some commie speak?
The armed bureaucrats ("law enforcement") will keep using fear to intimidate people into surrendering more and more of their freedoms to them until we end up being their slaves in every way. Unless we resist.
I hope Google et al. will find a new way to not give any "fair share" demanded by useless bureaucrats.
Keep treating the "US workers" in a special way until a critical amount of companies relocate elsewhere along with "your" jobs...
So it is better and easier to get rid of the "government" altogether :) Who needs it? Do you?