The home-division died in 1984, but I was working for what was left of their arcade division in the late 90's. Then they got bought by someone in the 2000's in order to get the name. THAT is probably the company being talked about here.
Our political system is full of neocons and neoliberals. Progressives haven't been up to bat as a political power in this country since WWII.
Old labels fade, and are switched out for those less familiar. But the thoughts behind them remain the same. "Progressives" are just the "Leftist" version of "Neocon". Either of which could accurately describe Hillary Clinton or Barak Omama,
Let's try rescuing "Liberal" in the classical European sense, as someone who believes in equality of opportunity instead of equality of outcomes.
Why do you believe that planetary origin modellers don't include chaos in their models.
Why do you assume they do? Computer models are an extension of the always-flawed thought processes of the humans who make them. If the humans don't (or won't) think of something, it won't be in the models the computers are crunching. See every climate change simulation that doesn't take our Sun's periodic cycles into account. Or which hasn't considered the short and long-term effects of the BP oil spill on action of the Gulf Stream.
ALL simulations are, by necessity, simplifications of a problem and its parameters. We can't precisely model everything because we don't understand reality precisely, and even if we could, the processing power required would exceed that of every device on earth combined. So we simplify. We use abstractions. We guess at what's important. And then we see if what the models predict can be proven. Given a problem with any real level of complexity, we're almost certain to get something very wrong in the underlying structure of the model.
Your side has lost the debate because you bring no intellectual value to the table other than calling the people you disagree with fascists and racists like a bunch of children.
I'm sorry but isn't that basically how Trump won?
Yes, that is how Trump won. That's also how the Republican party is continuing to win. Because despite their many flaws, the left has nothing to offer the American public but childish temper tantrums.
Yeah, damn those progressives and their hatred of immigrants, unwillingness to deal with members of minority religions, hatred of homosexuals amd cripples, authoritarian leanings and appeals to religious authority... oh wait, that's a conservative I just described. Now are you going to complain to me about safe spaces and the war on christmas?
No, I'm just going to point out the hypocritical racism and bigotry inherent in dividing everyone into politically convenient groups based on race/gender/sexuality and then punishing them socially if they don't then act, speak, or vote in accordance with your dogmatic, narrow-minded preconceptions. "Individual Justice" is what we all need. Not "Social Justice" group non-think imposed with force, by trust fund "warriors" who never actually interact with those they pretend to "help". Just so they can slap each other on the back in a useless virtue-signaling circle-jerk.
Try taking a drive through the ghost cities of Pontiac, Michigan. Or Camden, New Jersey. There you will see what "progressivism" (i.e. Globalist Socialism) has done to what were once affluent, vibrant cities full of people and jobs. Then you will understand how someone like Trump managed to get elected.
You aren't the resistance, you're just establishment tools. Or "useful idiots" as Lenin would say.
Politically: 'Progressives' are reactionaries, hoping to return to the politics of the 1930s.
It would be more honest to call them "Regressives". Since what they're pushing is limits to free speech that will ultimately destroy the democratic process.
I've raised my black lab from when she was a pup. Both my Wife and I work from home, so she gets tons of social interaction with us. We're attuned not just verbally, but in terms of body language too.
I can tell her "Go give [family member] a kiss" and she'll do it. She understands "go inside" or "you can come along" when we're all getting in the van. If she's sitting in my seat, I say "Scooch", and she moves. "Do you want to play ball?" gets her really excited. So does the word "Grandpa", because my father-in-law is her favorite person in the world.
When she was a pup we went on a lot of trail hikes off-leash, and we organically developed some commands like "wait" with no formal training. I call "wait", and she'll stop and wait until I catch up. It worked the first time I said it. If I say "go on", she'll run on ahead. If she's hanging back, all I have to say is "come on", or whistle. If she starts running off toward a lake, I say "NO!" and "come". She then sheepishly walks back to me, disappointed but obedient.
"Drop it" doesn't always work when we're playing ball, but if I put my hands on my hips like I'm mad, she'll do it. I also have to be careful about my body language, because she can read when I intend to pick up the ball and go inside. That's when she hangs back. I have to make sure that I don't change whatever I was doing with my arms/posture when I was intending to throw.
If you've rarely used a Mac, then you haven't had time to discover it properly. You're expecting it to be as complex as a Windows PC, and it just isn't. Part of your problem is a Windows-Learned lack of trust in the OS to do its job properly.
Plus, it seems that you haven't touched a Mac in years. There are 3 buttons in the upper-left hand corner of the window. The red one closes, the yellow one minimizes, and the green one toggles the app to full-screen. If you want to "maximize", double-click the title bar (or Alt-click the green button). The window will expand, *keeping the same aspect ratio*, to fill as much of the screen as it can. This is useful when you need to also work with a file window or the desktop (where plugged-in drives appear). But you can also just drag out the right edge of the window to fill the screen if you want, and the OS will remember that the next time you start the app. If you want all of your windows out of the way for a moment, hit F11. To get them back, hit F11 again.
MacOS seems like it's designed for people that want to be taught how to use their computers. Stuff is easy enough to do once you've been shown how. But a lot is not easily discoverable by simply poking around. It's like they assume their users are computer phobic.
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It's a design philosophy. The essentials are easy to figure out for a new user. As they become more advanced though, they'll discover great features like being able to preview any file by tapping the space bar. A time-saver like no other.
I switched from being a hard-core PC user, to a mostly Mac user, about 10 years ago. I've never had any problem quickly figuring out how to do 95% of what I need to do on MacOS. Nor do I have to constantly fix, tweak, workaround, and reinstall the OS, as I've had to do hundreds of times in Windows over the years.
Hell, I spend more time keeping the kids' Win7 gaming PC running than I do managing my 3 Macs. Which means that instead of thinking about the OS all the time, I can just get my work done.
It is the same with everything on macOS, nothing just works, everything has some complicate arcane enchantment you have to utter to get it to do anything at all. And still they market it as simple to use, so people think THEY are the stupid ones. Notice how over 50% of the howto computer books in bookstores are on how to use Apple product, despite being less than 5% of the market?
Oh please. Compare MacOS's single, and very simple "System Preferences" panel to Windows' multiple separate (and inconsistently designed) control panels. Every setting in MacOS is 2-3 clicks away. But in Windows 10 it's a challenge just to find the proper network settings panel. Or the buried panel that controls your firewall and other security settings that Microsoft doesn't want you to turn off.
It's equal parts crappy design and overly-complex options. It's easier, for instance, to install a 3rd-Party Xbox 360 wireless adapter on MacOS than it is on Windows, the OS it was actually designed to work with.
MacOS: Download a free driver. Play Games. Works better with Steam than "native" Mac Joysticks.
Win10: 1) Find the Device Manager (Good luck for most normal folks). 2) Find the "Unknown Device" (usually amongst many) that represents the adapter. 3) Right-click on said "Unknown Device", and "Install Driver". 4) Tell Windows you'll find the driver yourself. 5) Navigate though a huge list of built-in drivers until you find the "Xbox 360 Wireless Controller". 6) Click through the warnings that Windows throws up. 7) Play games.
Option 5) Press the F4 button (or the rocket ship on a default dock install) to bring up LaunchPad. Watch all of your apps appear in an iOS-like grid view. Pick Safari.
Option 6) Drag your applications folder to the dock, then right-click and set it to a grid view. You now have the best possible way to launch any app, short of pinning it to the dock.
Option 7) Hold CMD-Space to start Siri. Say "Start Safari".
It's not Capitalism, it's the fact that employers are legally prohibited from administering cognitive tests to prospective employees. So instead everyone is expected to have a 4-year college degree to show that their IQ is above room temperature, and that they have the ability to carry-through on long-term goals.
If the private sector were allowed to administer something like the military's vocational aptitude battery, then they could zero in on the type of employees they need for a particular job, instead of making every job require a 4-year degree.
"This is a very tough mental field. The campaigns to teach everyone to code make it seem like it's house work. Anyone can do it. I think they are finally realizing it's not so."
Yeah, nobody outside the field understands that the language is only part of it. The real work is breaking down a problem into a series of logical steps. A vast majority of the population simply will never be able to do this.
Yeah, by the time you've seen the third project with the exact same spelling, spacing, and punctuation mistakes, you know you have a problem. In my case six students out of 24 had copy-pasted their code. Cue crying and angry parents saying that it was supposedly OK because they all got together as a study group and manually copied their 100 lines of code verbally (yeah right).
My local mall has both a Microsoft Store, and an Apple Store. So before buying my iPad Pro, I walked into the Microsoft Store to look at a Surface. The first one blue-screened when I woke it up, the second started "bouncing" its screen up and down the moment I touched the pen to it. The 3rd one worked, but they had no actual art software on it that I could try drawing or painting in. I left with the two MS employees each trying to fix one of the malfunctioning Surface tablets.
This was a year or so after I walked in there to look at a 3D printer, but they couldn't get it working because the Surface tablet it was connected to decided to stop talking to it, and they weren't allowed to connect it to anything but a Surface tablet (rolls eyes).
Needless to say I'm not impressed. I even tried out the Surface desktop when it came out, and the pen tracking was the worst I've ever seen. You literally can't draw anything close to a straight line, even with a ruler. I don't know how it got approved for manufacturing by Microsoft. Even the worst Wacom tablet blew that PoS away.
Even Frys doesn't carry the kinds of electronic parts that you need to do all electronics projects. It used to be that they only carried stuff for building audio gear. Now they've finally started stocking robotics/drone-oriented kits, but I still have to go online for most of what I need to tinker with.
Assuming that I know what the thing I need is called, and all of the other things that an expert at a shop could easily guide me through.
Jobs are not zero-sum. When lightbulbs put candle makers out of business, that freed up a lot of labor that found new and better things to do. When the computer revolution happened, a whole new sector of the economy was formed that required a new kind of worker. Population isn't a barrier to economic growth, but a requirement. You can't have a complex economy if you don't have enough people to specialize in niche things like LED chemistry, or synthetic rubber vulcanization. The more people you have, the more things your economy can potentially do at once.
But you have to have the right kind of business investment. And no, not government investment (mostly). Because those who invest in stuff that people really don't want should be punished by the market. That way we don't waste natural and human resources on follies. Like the dot-com bubble, Twitter, or high-speed rail whilst highway overpasses are falling down, dams are crumbling, and Silicon Valley public schools look like abandoned crack houses.
Point is... If nobody has jobs, it's not because there isn't enough potential stuff for everyone to do. It's because our previous systems of local government and business investment have been turned upside down. Instead of investing in their own states and cities, people dump their savings into the Wall Street lottery. Where only the top 10-20% of "investors" will ever redeem their fantasy-land "wealth". If that 401K money were instead starting small businesses in the places where the people with that money actually live, it would do a hell of a lot more good for all of us than it is doing now.
Maybe you would use that cushion to better yourself, but I don't believe that most people would. J.K. Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter novel while on public assistance, but how many other people just stagnate in the gutter instead? Answer: Most. By. Far.
Why? Because most people, especially in the lower tiers of society, aren't particularly gifted. They aren't particularly smart, creative, hard working, or forward-thinking. Unlike Zuckerberg's parents, who had the genetic talents and cultural habits needed to build wealth. Without those, he wouldn't have been able to do what he did, no matter how big a cushion he had.
How many lottery winners end up destitute in just a few years? Look it up, because it proves my point. Money by itself solves nothing. You have to understand what to do with it, and put off immediate gratifications for long-term goals.
A UBI will do nothing to curb homelessness, and would in fact make it worse.
People aren't homeless because they're poor, but because they're spending all their money on drugs. Or they have mental problems and need someplace to go that can care for them properly. In many cases, both. I've known guys who were homeless, and they admitted to me that once they chose not to be homeless, they got off the streets within a week. There are plenty of shelters and charities that can help people who have the right attitude. But most don't.
There was a study done in San Francisco in the early 00's that profiled your typical homeless person. They would receive, on average, about $1200 a month in benefits of various sorts. But instead of pooling their money with friends to get off the streets for good, they would binge on drugs in a flophouse for 3 days, and then spend the rest of the month begging until the next check came in.
and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon etc are managing to produce these just fine, thanks.The cable-cutters are getting tired of paying for 200-channel packages they watch maybe a dozen from (i.e. Disney/ABC/ESPN , or Discovery channels). The major sports leagues are starting to offer streaming options , once people can get live sports online without a cable contract those companies are utterly fscked.
Not just "fine", but clearly superior shows. If you pay directly for what you actually watch, the content (GASP!) get's better. Fancy that.
Cord cutters are smart, thoughtful people, and Netflix, Amazon, etc. are producing the kind of content that we like. Just ask yourself if "House of Cards", "The Man in the High Castle", "Jennifer Jones", "Orange is the New Black", "Marco Polo", or "Stranger Things" would ever have been green-lit by a traditional network, much less renewed for multiple seasons. A good show doesn't even have to be super-popular to keep getting renewed, so long as it strongly appeals to one of the key demographics these services have identified. They're not selling commercial-time, so raw views don't matter. They just need your sub-demographic to have a reason, every month, to keep paying your subscription fee.
You should move to northern Indianapolis then. Fiber all the way to the box baby! No caps!
The FiOS wall-to-box connection is actually kind of a pain though, because the FiOS cable cracks whenever the kids mess with the tangle of stuff behind the TV. Every once in a while we have to call the provider out to replace it.
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The home-division died in 1984, but I was working for what was left of their arcade division in the late 90's. Then they got bought by someone in the 2000's in order to get the name. THAT is probably the company being talked about here.
Our political system is full of neocons and neoliberals. Progressives haven't been up to bat as a political power in this country since WWII.
Old labels fade, and are switched out for those less familiar. But the thoughts behind them remain the same. "Progressives" are just the "Leftist" version of "Neocon". Either of which could accurately describe Hillary Clinton or Barak Omama,
Let's try rescuing "Liberal" in the classical European sense, as someone who believes in equality of opportunity instead of equality of outcomes.
Why do you believe that planetary origin modellers don't include chaos in their models.
Why do you assume they do? Computer models are an extension of the always-flawed thought processes of the humans who make them. If the humans don't (or won't) think of something, it won't be in the models the computers are crunching. See every climate change simulation that doesn't take our Sun's periodic cycles into account. Or which hasn't considered the short and long-term effects of the BP oil spill on action of the Gulf Stream.
ALL simulations are, by necessity, simplifications of a problem and its parameters. We can't precisely model everything because we don't understand reality precisely, and even if we could, the processing power required would exceed that of every device on earth combined. So we simplify. We use abstractions. We guess at what's important. And then we see if what the models predict can be proven. Given a problem with any real level of complexity, we're almost certain to get something very wrong in the underlying structure of the model.
Your side has lost the debate because you bring no intellectual value to the table other than calling the people you disagree with fascists and racists like a bunch of children.
I'm sorry but isn't that basically how Trump won?
Yes, that is how Trump won. That's also how the Republican party is continuing to win. Because despite their many flaws, the left has nothing to offer the American public but childish temper tantrums.
Yeah, damn those progressives and their hatred of immigrants, unwillingness to deal with members of minority religions, hatred of homosexuals amd cripples, authoritarian leanings and appeals to religious authority... oh wait, that's a conservative I just described. Now are you going to complain to me about safe spaces and the war on christmas?
No, I'm just going to point out the hypocritical racism and bigotry inherent in dividing everyone into politically convenient groups based on race/gender/sexuality and then punishing them socially if they don't then act, speak, or vote in accordance with your dogmatic, narrow-minded preconceptions. "Individual Justice" is what we all need. Not "Social Justice" group non-think imposed with force, by trust fund "warriors" who never actually interact with those they pretend to "help". Just so they can slap each other on the back in a useless virtue-signaling circle-jerk.
Try taking a drive through the ghost cities of Pontiac, Michigan. Or Camden, New Jersey. There you will see what "progressivism" (i.e. Globalist Socialism) has done to what were once affluent, vibrant cities full of people and jobs. Then you will understand how someone like Trump managed to get elected.
You aren't the resistance, you're just establishment tools. Or "useful idiots" as Lenin would say.
In what context?
Politically: 'Progressives' are reactionaries, hoping to return to the politics of the 1930s.
It would be more honest to call them "Regressives". Since what they're pushing is limits to free speech that will ultimately destroy the democratic process.
Moving forward towards what exactly?
This.
And what if the past was, in many ways, better? Change for change sake is not "progress", but chaos.
I'll second what the other guy said.
I've raised my black lab from when she was a pup. Both my Wife and I work from home, so she gets tons of social interaction with us. We're attuned not just verbally, but in terms of body language too.
I can tell her "Go give [family member] a kiss" and she'll do it. She understands "go inside" or "you can come along" when we're all getting in the van. If she's sitting in my seat, I say "Scooch", and she moves. "Do you want to play ball?" gets her really excited. So does the word "Grandpa", because my father-in-law is her favorite person in the world.
When she was a pup we went on a lot of trail hikes off-leash, and we organically developed some commands like "wait" with no formal training. I call "wait", and she'll stop and wait until I catch up. It worked the first time I said it. If I say "go on", she'll run on ahead. If she's hanging back, all I have to say is "come on", or whistle. If she starts running off toward a lake, I say "NO!" and "come". She then sheepishly walks back to me, disappointed but obedient.
"Drop it" doesn't always work when we're playing ball, but if I put my hands on my hips like I'm mad, she'll do it. I also have to be careful about my body language, because she can read when I intend to pick up the ball and go inside. That's when she hangs back. I have to make sure that I don't change whatever I was doing with my arms/posture when I was intending to throw.
If you've rarely used a Mac, then you haven't had time to discover it properly. You're expecting it to be as complex as a Windows PC, and it just isn't. Part of your problem is a Windows-Learned lack of trust in the OS to do its job properly.
Plus, it seems that you haven't touched a Mac in years. There are 3 buttons in the upper-left hand corner of the window. The red one closes, the yellow one minimizes, and the green one toggles the app to full-screen. If you want to "maximize", double-click the title bar (or Alt-click the green button). The window will expand, *keeping the same aspect ratio*, to fill as much of the screen as it can. This is useful when you need to also work with a file window or the desktop (where plugged-in drives appear). But you can also just drag out the right edge of the window to fill the screen if you want, and the OS will remember that the next time you start the app. If you want all of your windows out of the way for a moment, hit F11. To get them back, hit F11 again.
MacOS seems like it's designed for people that want to be taught how to use their computers. Stuff is easy enough to do once you've been shown how. But a lot is not easily discoverable by simply poking around. It's like they assume their users are computer phobic.
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It's a design philosophy. The essentials are easy to figure out for a new user. As they become more advanced though, they'll discover great features like being able to preview any file by tapping the space bar. A time-saver like no other.
I switched from being a hard-core PC user, to a mostly Mac user, about 10 years ago. I've never had any problem quickly figuring out how to do 95% of what I need to do on MacOS. Nor do I have to constantly fix, tweak, workaround, and reinstall the OS, as I've had to do hundreds of times in Windows over the years.
Hell, I spend more time keeping the kids' Win7 gaming PC running than I do managing my 3 Macs. Which means that instead of thinking about the OS all the time, I can just get my work done.
It is the same with everything on macOS, nothing just works, everything has some complicate arcane enchantment you have to utter to get it to do anything at all. And still they market it as simple to use, so people think THEY are the stupid ones. Notice how over 50% of the howto computer books in bookstores are on how to use Apple product, despite being less than 5% of the market?
Oh please. Compare MacOS's single, and very simple "System Preferences" panel to Windows' multiple separate (and inconsistently designed) control panels. Every setting in MacOS is 2-3 clicks away. But in Windows 10 it's a challenge just to find the proper network settings panel. Or the buried panel that controls your firewall and other security settings that Microsoft doesn't want you to turn off.
It's equal parts crappy design and overly-complex options. It's easier, for instance, to install a 3rd-Party Xbox 360 wireless adapter on MacOS than it is on Windows, the OS it was actually designed to work with.
MacOS: Download a free driver. Play Games. Works better with Steam than "native" Mac Joysticks.
Win10:
1) Find the Device Manager (Good luck for most normal folks).
2) Find the "Unknown Device" (usually amongst many) that represents the adapter.
3) Right-click on said "Unknown Device", and "Install Driver".
4) Tell Windows you'll find the driver yourself.
5) Navigate though a huge list of built-in drivers until you find the "Xbox 360 Wireless Controller".
6) Click through the warnings that Windows throws up.
7) Play games.
Option 5) Press the F4 button (or the rocket ship on a default dock install) to bring up LaunchPad. Watch all of your apps appear in an iOS-like grid view. Pick Safari.
Option 6) Drag your applications folder to the dock, then right-click and set it to a grid view. You now have the best possible way to launch any app, short of pinning it to the dock.
Option 7) Hold CMD-Space to start Siri. Say "Start Safari".
I've also seen some studies that show a correlation between low vitamin D levels during pregnancy, and autistic births.
Gotta love capitalism.
It's not Capitalism, it's the fact that employers are legally prohibited from administering cognitive tests to prospective employees. So instead everyone is expected to have a 4-year college degree to show that their IQ is above room temperature, and that they have the ability to carry-through on long-term goals.
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If the private sector were allowed to administer something like the military's vocational aptitude battery, then they could zero in on the type of employees they need for a particular job, instead of making every job require a 4-year degree.
"This is a very tough mental field. The campaigns to teach everyone to code make it seem like it's house work. Anyone can do it. I think they are finally realizing it's not so."
Yeah, nobody outside the field understands that the language is only part of it. The real work is breaking down a problem into a series of logical steps. A vast majority of the population simply will never be able to do this.
Yeah, by the time you've seen the third project with the exact same spelling, spacing, and punctuation mistakes, you know you have a problem. In my case six students out of 24 had copy-pasted their code. Cue crying and angry parents saying that it was supposedly OK because they all got together as a study group and manually copied their 100 lines of code verbally (yeah right).
My local mall has both a Microsoft Store, and an Apple Store. So before buying my iPad Pro, I walked into the Microsoft Store to look at a Surface. The first one blue-screened when I woke it up, the second started "bouncing" its screen up and down the moment I touched the pen to it. The 3rd one worked, but they had no actual art software on it that I could try drawing or painting in. I left with the two MS employees each trying to fix one of the malfunctioning Surface tablets.
This was a year or so after I walked in there to look at a 3D printer, but they couldn't get it working because the Surface tablet it was connected to decided to stop talking to it, and they weren't allowed to connect it to anything but a Surface tablet (rolls eyes).
Needless to say I'm not impressed. I even tried out the Surface desktop when it came out, and the pen tracking was the worst I've ever seen. You literally can't draw anything close to a straight line, even with a ruler. I don't know how it got approved for manufacturing by Microsoft. Even the worst Wacom tablet blew that PoS away.
It's not really the hardware that's crap, but their software.
FYI: We have a Frys in Indianapolis.
Even Frys doesn't carry the kinds of electronic parts that you need to do all electronics projects. It used to be that they only carried stuff for building audio gear. Now they've finally started stocking robotics/drone-oriented kits, but I still have to go online for most of what I need to tinker with.
Assuming that I know what the thing I need is called, and all of the other things that an expert at a shop could easily guide me through.
Jobs are not zero-sum. When lightbulbs put candle makers out of business, that freed up a lot of labor that found new and better things to do. When the computer revolution happened, a whole new sector of the economy was formed that required a new kind of worker. Population isn't a barrier to economic growth, but a requirement. You can't have a complex economy if you don't have enough people to specialize in niche things like LED chemistry, or synthetic rubber vulcanization. The more people you have, the more things your economy can potentially do at once.
But you have to have the right kind of business investment. And no, not government investment (mostly). Because those who invest in stuff that people really don't want should be punished by the market. That way we don't waste natural and human resources on follies. Like the dot-com bubble, Twitter, or high-speed rail whilst highway overpasses are falling down, dams are crumbling, and Silicon Valley public schools look like abandoned crack houses.
Point is... If nobody has jobs, it's not because there isn't enough potential stuff for everyone to do. It's because our previous systems of local government and business investment have been turned upside down. Instead of investing in their own states and cities, people dump their savings into the Wall Street lottery. Where only the top 10-20% of "investors" will ever redeem their fantasy-land "wealth". If that 401K money were instead starting small businesses in the places where the people with that money actually live, it would do a hell of a lot more good for all of us than it is doing now.
Maybe you would use that cushion to better yourself, but I don't believe that most people would. J.K. Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter novel while on public assistance, but how many other people just stagnate in the gutter instead? Answer: Most. By. Far.
Why? Because most people, especially in the lower tiers of society, aren't particularly gifted. They aren't particularly smart, creative, hard working, or forward-thinking. Unlike Zuckerberg's parents, who had the genetic talents and cultural habits needed to build wealth. Without those, he wouldn't have been able to do what he did, no matter how big a cushion he had.
How many lottery winners end up destitute in just a few years? Look it up, because it proves my point. Money by itself solves nothing. You have to understand what to do with it, and put off immediate gratifications for long-term goals.
A UBI will do nothing to curb homelessness, and would in fact make it worse.
People aren't homeless because they're poor, but because they're spending all their money on drugs. Or they have mental problems and need someplace to go that can care for them properly. In many cases, both. I've known guys who were homeless, and they admitted to me that once they chose not to be homeless, they got off the streets within a week. There are plenty of shelters and charities that can help people who have the right attitude. But most don't.
There was a study done in San Francisco in the early 00's that profiled your typical homeless person. They would receive, on average, about $1200 a month in benefits of various sorts. But instead of pooling their money with friends to get off the streets for good, they would binge on drugs in a flophouse for 3 days, and then spend the rest of the month begging until the next check came in.
and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon etc are managing to produce these just fine, thanks.The cable-cutters are getting tired of paying for 200-channel packages they watch maybe a dozen from (i.e. Disney/ABC/ESPN , or Discovery channels). The major sports leagues are starting to offer streaming options , once people can get live sports online without a cable contract those companies are utterly fscked.
Not just "fine", but clearly superior shows. If you pay directly for what you actually watch, the content (GASP!) get's better. Fancy that.
Cord cutters are smart, thoughtful people, and Netflix, Amazon, etc. are producing the kind of content that we like. Just ask yourself if "House of Cards", "The Man in the High Castle", "Jennifer Jones", "Orange is the New Black", "Marco Polo", or "Stranger Things" would ever have been green-lit by a traditional network, much less renewed for multiple seasons. A good show doesn't even have to be super-popular to keep getting renewed, so long as it strongly appeals to one of the key demographics these services have identified. They're not selling commercial-time, so raw views don't matter. They just need your sub-demographic to have a reason, every month, to keep paying your subscription fee.
You should move to northern Indianapolis then. Fiber all the way to the box baby! No caps!
The FiOS wall-to-box connection is actually kind of a pain though, because the FiOS cable cracks whenever the kids mess with the tangle of stuff behind the TV. Every once in a while we have to call the provider out to replace it.