The USA should be doing free trade agreements with everybody and his dog. This should include the free relocation of people between countries.
That way young people in the US could look for entry level positions where they are: outside the US.
But since you can't get over your protectionist nonsense, entry level positions will go to people in India, China or Mexico(ahem) who once they have experience under their belt, will go to rich countries and eat your lunch because they have got the battle wounds that who they know their shit.
Blame your government, politicians and your parochial mentality for the failure of the global market to work to the benefit of the skilled but novice US worker.
This idiotic idea that democracy, rule of law and workers protection is expensive has to be put to die.
You want to know why a US worker is more expensive?
Start with your calories. I am not joking. US men take 2618 calories/day, Indians for example consume 2156/day.
As for China I can't find precise numbers, but they almost eat no sugar and eat half as much meat and far less processed foods (this is changing, but the differences are still abysmal).
Carry on with your car. Most people in poorer countries use public transport, bicycles, scooters or small cars to travel short distances, in the US everybody wants to live in the suburbs (or suburbs of the suburbs) driving cars that in other countries would be best described as tanks. How much do you spend in your car? I, in London, a very expensive place mind you, don;t have a car, and for that fact I don't need $10000/year or thereabouts needed for all the car expenses.
People in India, China and other places will need even less to account for transport (season tickets in London public transport still cost $1500/year, a fortune for other people's standards).
Housing: modest flats in completely sanitised areas in India are a fraction of the cost of a comparable flat in a rich country, not because a conspiracy theory, but because there is not enough demand for them, thus prices come down.
And so on and so forth.
We in the West are expensive because our lifestyles are more expensive, people in other countries face the same perils but for historical and political situations are better place now to get hobs that were the exclusive preserve of people in rich countries.
As an unemployed person in the UK I am very happy for this development, it will force people in the West to be more realistic about how they go about their lives stopping the levels of exuberant consumerism.
There is not such a thing a global warming, and I think you know it.
The phenomenon is global climate change, because, well, climate will change, too soon for us to be able to do anything about it.
In some places you will get colder weather (the UK may see the Gulf Stream disappearing, which would make weather colder, it is not as cold as in similar latitudes only because of this).
It is also to be noted that in the past the UK used to have snow storms around once every 5 years, this storm has not been since for 18 years.
How you square that with your derided circle is up to you.
It is great science to get something right in general terms, even if you are missing the details.
A very apologetic Charles Darwin writing in his Origin of Species about exactly that is the best testament to this.
Same thing with climate change: we know the generalities, not necessarily all the exact details, that does not mean that the main conclussion is wrong....
If 10% of the history of this planet is not a sample big enough (or most importantly: relevant enough, since Earth not always had an atmosphere similar to the one we have now) then any meaningful discussion is beyond the realms of posibility.
I will let the people in Canada, Greenland and some flooded Islands close to disappear that they are imagining all those glaciers and ice melting (gosh, they are a bunch of idiots, to expect that things that haven't changed for thousands of years continue to be the same, how illogical people they are).
Get involved in the party closer to your heart and change things (it is what I did when I was in my country, a place far more dangerous than the UK for opposition politicians).
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If you have no job you may be officially poor.
So it would make great sense to just get a job (which actually would pay you a decent wage in other country).
The USA should be doing free trade agreements with everybody and his dog. This should include the free relocation of people between countries.
That way young people in the US could look for entry level positions where they are: outside the US.
But since you can't get over your protectionist nonsense, entry level positions will go to people in India, China or Mexico(ahem) who once they have experience under their belt, will go to rich countries and eat your lunch because they have got the battle wounds that who they know their shit.
Blame your government, politicians and your parochial mentality for the failure of the global market to work to the benefit of the skilled but novice US worker.
Are you talking about the group of countries that created the European Economic Area where there are no barriers to goods, capital and workers?
That is a funny definition of protectionism ....
This idiotic idea that democracy, rule of law and workers protection is expensive has to be put to die.
You want to know why a US worker is more expensive?
Start with your calories. I am not joking. US men take 2618 calories/day, Indians for example consume 2156/day.
As for China I can't find precise numbers, but they almost eat no sugar and eat half as much meat and far less processed foods (this is changing, but the differences are still abysmal).
Carry on with your car. Most people in poorer countries use public transport, bicycles, scooters or small cars to travel short distances, in the US everybody wants to live in the suburbs (or suburbs of the suburbs) driving cars that in other countries would be best described as tanks.
How much do you spend in your car? I, in London, a very expensive place mind you, don;t have a car, and for that fact I don't need $10000/year or thereabouts needed for all the car expenses.
People in India, China and other places will need even less to account for transport (season tickets in London public transport still cost $1500/year, a fortune for other people's standards).
Housing: modest flats in completely sanitised areas in India are a fraction of the cost of a comparable flat in a rich country, not because a conspiracy theory, but because there is not enough demand for them, thus prices come down.
And so on and so forth.
We in the West are expensive because our lifestyles are more expensive, people in other countries face the same perils but for historical and political situations are better place now to get hobs that were the exclusive preserve of people in rich countries.
As an unemployed person in the UK I am very happy for this development, it will force people in the West to be more realistic about how they go about their lives stopping the levels of exuberant consumerism.
Solders are awesome in USia, if soldiers are as good those Taliban are lost...
Thanks for your kind offering.
It is very energy intensive, which is why it makes no money anywhere.
But if you can't be bothered to check a dictionary we can't do much for you and you wilful ignorance.
So we should do nothing and then wait for the weak to die off.
Much more humane than to pull all together and ensure the fewest possible amount of people suffer.
Do some of you ever studied logic or ethics?
I will let know all those people that in the last couple of decades have died in war zones or from starvation.
If we are such innovators then how it comes we can stop killing each other and distribute food to all?
Maybe we are not as clever as you think we are.
Somebody seriously claiming that less demand for something will actually increase its price.
Only in Slashdot.
There was never such agreement.
You can die of breathing too much oxygen or drinking too much water.
Substances that would be otherwise benign become prejudicial under certain circumstances.
Do you prepare for all possible imponderables in your life?
Assuming we lose 2 days or economic output every 20 years, is it justifiable to spend millions for equipment you will use once every 20 years?
It makes no sense to me to even think about being prepared for such unusual eventualities.
Before that you should have seen 2 or 3.
SOme people juggle with logic affected by their wishful thinking ....
There is not such a thing a global warming, and I think you know it.
The phenomenon is global climate change, because, well, climate will change, too soon for us to be able to do anything about it.
In some places you will get colder weather (the UK may see the Gulf Stream disappearing, which would make weather colder, it is not as cold as in similar latitudes only because of this).
It is also to be noted that in the past the UK used to have snow storms around once every 5 years, this storm has not been since for 18 years.
How you square that with your derided circle is up to you.
First of all, the phenomenon is referred to as global climate change, second regions in the poles, where all the ice is, are hotting up.
You may not believe it, but the evidence is overwhelming, it is just lazy fucks like you that keep grasping at the most stretch of straws...
It is great science to get something right in general terms, even if you are missing the details.
A very apologetic Charles Darwin writing in his Origin of Species about exactly that is the best testament to this.
Same thing with climate change: we know the generalities, not necessarily all the exact details, that does not mean that the main conclussion is wrong ....
Those straws are getting harder to grasp at ....
If 10% of the history of this planet is not a sample big enough (or most importantly: relevant enough, since Earth not always had an atmosphere similar to the one we have now) then any meaningful discussion is beyond the realms of posibility.
I will let the people in Canada, Greenland and some flooded Islands close to disappear that they are imagining all those glaciers and ice melting (gosh, they are a bunch of idiots, to expect that things that haven't changed for thousands of years continue to be the same, how illogical people they are).
I can easily find tons of information about the Industrial Revolution related spike.
Kindly point me to information about the spikes you mention.
Boring, boring, boring.
Great if you are an adult. A teenager? Boring.
Gosh, I was waiting for the first person to recommend this brick.
Get involved in the party closer to your heart and change things (it is what I did when I was in my country, a place far more dangerous than the UK for opposition politicians).
I frankly can't stand all this defeatist whining.
That is why we have no alternate governments from different parties.
Ever.
Oh, wait ...