Of course, another possiblity is that free markets, low taxes, and minimal regulation really DO result in greater worker prosperity.
Working against your thesis is the fact that some people who live in countries with strong unions, regulated markets, and high taxes want to move to the US. Their reason cannot have been that they were propagandized.
Since you've been propagandized by unions from a young age, let me explain how workers become wealthy: by owning the means of their production (yes, Marx was right... just not in the details). Workers save their money. Banks loan their money to businesses. Businesses buy machines. Workers become more productive. Businesses have to pay workers more because of their greater production. Workers get higher pay. Workers save their money. Banks loan their money..... and there's no end to this process.
Now, if you want to break this process, just form a union to coerce businesses into paying the workers more, by threatening lower worker productivity. The business doesn't have as much money to invest, because they're cutting a larger piece for the workers out of the same pie. Plus, the business would be unwise to invest, because the union might destroy the marginal value of the investment by carrying out their threat.
Unions fuck workers. Up the butt. And then take credit for it. And morons like you think "wow, I've just had sex! Isn't that wonderful!"
But we don't know that unions work. Yes, unions were present when workers became more wealthy, but non-unionized workers became more wealthy too, AND union membership has been going down for most of the century, and workers have STILL been getting more wealthy.
If you REALLY had a minimum wage, you would also have guaranteed unemployment for anybody less productive than the minimum wage. You know, the dole. Oh, wait, you really DO have a dole in the UK, don't you. I hope that people on the dole realize that they can't get a job not because jobs don't exist, but instead because SOMEBODY ELSE is earning the money that could be used to hire them.
The problem with workers gathering together is that it's usually not voluntary (and in the US the Demofuckheads are talking about making it less voluntary by having the union goons watch you sign your ballot, and then read it to see how you voted). I'm 100% in favor of voluntary collective action. It's when people talk about coercive collective action that I reach for my gun.
Unions didn't do anything for anybody. The only reason employers were able to increase compensation for anybody is because of increasing productivity due to capital investments. Yes, that's right, capitalists gave the workers higher pay, more time off, and greater safety, not unions. Capitalists didn't WANT to do this, it's just a matter of how free markets work. Workers get paid for their productivity, EVEN IF that productivity is the result of better tools.
Pile of crap. Unions KILLED the Rutland Railroad. The Rutland had to save costs, and the union opposed the new operating conditions (which would have forced everybody to spend a night away from home on every run.) The Rutland was a viable railroad, carrying milk to urban markets, but NOOOOOOO, the f'ing union had to kill it.
Um, HELLO! I'm allowed to use Toyota's trademark to describe their cars. I'm allowed to show their logo on their car. I'm allowed to caption my photo "Toyota" if it's a photo of a Toyota car. You can *always* use a trademark honestly.
Uhhhhhhhh, Gnash has been in the last three Ubuntu distros, and http://mojo.handhelds.org/ has compilations of Gnash, so you can indeed run Flash on ARM.
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You mean Gnash? It already runs fine on the ARM processor. And PPC and MIPS, and *-64.
It's not a question of DJB being too lazy to implement BIND zonefiles. It's more a question that BIND zonefiles must die because they're astoundingly difficult to parse, and even if they weren't, they're prone to user edit failures. Ever forgotten a dot at the end of a name? I haven't -- not since switching to djbdns.
There's not enough value in implementing DNSSEC. That is, of course, why you're proposing a law. Laws are needed to get people to do things that are irrational.
Some yard engines are now built as modular hybrids, with three engine bays. One of the engines can be replaced by a bank of batteries, so you don't need to run the engines for short pulls or shoves. The engines are standard (large) Cummings diesels, mounted on pallets. So at least in theory it would be straightforward to replace them with gas turbines that only run when needed to charge the battery.
well, the globe *is* warming, just as it has done every 1500+-500 years for at least 60 cycles. The hoax is the anthropogenic part of global warming. If man were causing global warming, how do you explain the other 59 warming and cooling cycles? Joe the Plumber's ancestors and their campfires?
Women with really long fingernails are useless, but I guess that's part of the reason for having them. "Look at me! I'm useless! I must be good at something I'm not doing right now and which I'll never do with you because you're not good enough!"
I'd buy one, sure, but there's no T-Mobile coverage where I live, and the phone is locked so I can't buy it and then switch carriers. I just have to wait for the Verizon Android phone.
That's a "well duh" condition, don't you think? There's plenty of open source 501(c)3s. E.g. if you wrote a Python program, the Python Software Foundation would be a likely receipient.
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Well, until we figure out how to invoke the placebo effect without needing to LIE to patients, perhaps there is a use for alternative medicine?
Of course, another possiblity is that free markets, low taxes, and minimal regulation really DO result in greater worker prosperity.
Working against your thesis is the fact that some people who live in countries with strong unions, regulated markets, and high taxes want to move to the US. Their reason cannot have been that they were propagandized.
Since you've been propagandized by unions from a young age, let me explain how workers become wealthy: by owning the means of their production (yes, Marx was right ... just not in the details). Workers save their money. Banks loan their money to businesses. Businesses buy machines. Workers become more productive. Businesses have to pay workers more because of their greater production. Workers get higher pay. Workers save their money. Banks loan their money ..... and there's no end to this process.
Now, if you want to break this process, just form a union to coerce businesses into paying the workers more, by threatening lower worker productivity. The business doesn't have as much money to invest, because they're cutting a larger piece for the workers out of the same pie. Plus, the business would be unwise to invest, because the union might destroy the marginal value of the investment by carrying out their threat.
Unions fuck workers. Up the butt. And then take credit for it. And morons like you think "wow, I've just had sex! Isn't that wonderful!"
But we don't know that unions work. Yes, unions were present when workers became more wealthy, but non-unionized workers became more wealthy too, AND union membership has been going down for most of the century, and workers have STILL been getting more wealthy.
If you REALLY had a minimum wage, you would also have guaranteed unemployment for anybody less productive than the minimum wage. You know, the dole. Oh, wait, you really DO have a dole in the UK, don't you. I hope that people on the dole realize that they can't get a job not because jobs don't exist, but instead because SOMEBODY ELSE is earning the money that could be used to hire them.
The problem with workers gathering together is that it's usually not voluntary (and in the US the Demofuckheads are talking about making it less voluntary by having the union goons watch you sign your ballot, and then read it to see how you voted). I'm 100% in favor of voluntary collective action. It's when people talk about coercive collective action that I reach for my gun.
Unions didn't do anything for anybody. The only reason employers were able to increase compensation for anybody is because of increasing productivity due to capital investments. Yes, that's right, capitalists gave the workers higher pay, more time off, and greater safety, not unions. Capitalists didn't WANT to do this, it's just a matter of how free markets work. Workers get paid for their productivity, EVEN IF that productivity is the result of better tools.
Pile of crap. Unions KILLED the Rutland Railroad. The Rutland had to save costs, and the union opposed the new operating conditions (which would have forced everybody to spend a night away from home on every run.) The Rutland was a viable railroad, carrying milk to urban markets, but NOOOOOOO, the f'ing union had to kill it.
Um, HELLO! I'm allowed to use Toyota's trademark to describe their cars. I'm allowed to show their logo on their car. I'm allowed to caption my photo "Toyota" if it's a photo of a Toyota car. You can *always* use a trademark honestly.
Not plausible. Sorry.
Try http://mojo.handhelds.org/
Uhhhhhhhh, Gnash has been in the last three Ubuntu distros, and http://mojo.handhelds.org/ has compilations of Gnash, so you can indeed run Flash on ARM.
You mean Gnash? It already runs fine on the ARM processor. And PPC and MIPS, and *-64.
Ever used MegaBlox? More like MegaSux.
It's not a question of DJB being too lazy to implement BIND zonefiles. It's more a question that BIND zonefiles must die because they're astoundingly difficult to parse, and even if they weren't, they're prone to user edit failures. Ever forgotten a dot at the end of a name? I haven't -- not since switching to djbdns.
There's not enough value in implementing DNSSEC. That is, of course, why you're proposing a law. Laws are needed to get people to do things that are irrational.
Some yard engines are now built as modular hybrids, with three engine bays. One of the engines can be replaced by a bank of batteries, so you don't need to run the engines for short pulls or shoves. The engines are standard (large) Cummings diesels, mounted on pallets. So at least in theory it would be straightforward to replace them with gas turbines that only run when needed to charge the battery.
"Shut up, eight-millimeter-dick."
It just doesn't have the same ring as "pencil dick", sorry.
well, the globe *is* warming, just as it has done every 1500+-500 years for at least 60 cycles. The hoax is the anthropogenic part of global warming. If man were causing global warming, how do you explain the other 59 warming and cooling cycles? Joe the Plumber's ancestors and their campfires?
Women with really long fingernails are useless, but I guess that's part of the reason for having them. "Look at me! I'm useless! I must be good at something I'm not doing right now and which I'll never do with you because you're not good enough!"
I got mine for free at the Zaurus launch party. Wine, women, song, and an open source PDA. It doesn't get better than that.
3G is data. You're thinking (if one deigns to call it that) of voice.
I've never seen a pigs arse. Could you describe it to me (and no, "Just like a G1" won't cut it)?
I'd buy one, sure, but there's no T-Mobile coverage where I live, and the phone is locked so I can't buy it and then switch carriers. I just have to wait for the Verizon Android phone.
We weren't prevented from locking our baggage until a few years ago.
That's a "well duh" condition, don't you think? There's plenty of open source 501(c)3s. E.g. if you wrote a Python program, the Python Software Foundation would be a likely receipient.
Huh? The rich will pay plenty of taxes, and the ultra rich ultra plenty. Without loopholes, they'll start having to pay their fair share.