"One of the goals of any company is to manage it's workforce"
No, that may perhaps be a smaller goal of the human resources department or whatever, but the goal of the company as a whole is to make money: sell lots of good stuff at a reasonable profit. (If the "goal" were eliminating its own workforce, every company could trivially make that happen by disbanding! Profit!... er, GOOAAAALLLLL!.)
Your language equations are erroneous: "substantially equal" does not mean "equal in being substantial". It's not commutative.
"Maybe the universe where girls underperform in computer science and boys underperform in english language arts. Sort of like the one we're in, for example."
Is there a theory that the boys underperform in english -because of- the presence of girls?
"The impartial answer is that all deliberate killing is murder or that none is.."
That "impartial answer" is not only not accepted in military circles, but also neither in civilian law. There is a huge spectrum. "murder" is *unlawful* deliberate killing, which for example deliberate killing in self-defence isn't.
"The 'invisible hand' (rich land owners with huge water rights in this case)..."
Sorry, you're misusing terminology. The "invisible hand" is the effect of the market - of people freely competing to efficiently allocate resources between alternative uses. When you instead refer to "owners with huge water rights", you're outside the market: "water rights" are a government largesse, not a market.
"I'm for just straight up taxing everything.... Then you can use the revenue generated to balance the budget, institute another medicare expansion, etc..."
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"One of the goals of any company is to manage it's workforce"
No, that may perhaps be a smaller goal of the human resources department or whatever, but the goal of the company as a whole is to make money: sell lots of good stuff at a reasonable profit. (If the "goal" were eliminating its own workforce, every company could trivially make that happen by disbanding! Profit! ... er, GOOAAAALLLLL!.)
We can help the automation industry by providing more incentives for business to use their widgets! March for a "living wage"!
Solution there, it seems to me, is to create a watchable program.
Your language equations are erroneous: "substantially equal" does not mean "equal in being substantial". It's not commutative.
"Maybe the universe where girls underperform in computer science and boys underperform in english language arts. Sort of like the one we're in, for example."
Is there a theory that the boys underperform in english -because of- the presence of girls?
Plus, in what universe is "computer science" substantially equal to "english language arts"?
... as should unions?
Balderdash!
UK newspapers seem to consistently have high quality coverage of issues on this side of the pond.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/...
"But it's definitely helping far more than it's hurting."
Not around here ... feed-in-tarriff subsidies grossly penalize normal tax & rate-payers.
No, it's written by Matt Asay ... the Bennett Haselton of tech journalism.
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"The impartial answer is that all deliberate killing is murder or that none is.."
That "impartial answer" is not only not accepted in military circles, but also neither in civilian law. There is a huge spectrum. "murder" is *unlawful* deliberate killing, which for example deliberate killing in self-defence isn't.
Your first example is stretching the concept beyond the breaking point, and your others are only a little better.
That's a mildly interesting corner case ... war between belligerents being declared where?
"U.S murdered"
No. Killing the enemy is not murder.
... just waiting for someone to quote Team America.
... not really - under the GP's rules, you'd be out of line with that.
"The 'invisible hand' (rich land owners with huge water rights in this case)..."
Sorry, you're misusing terminology. The "invisible hand" is the effect of the market - of people freely competing to efficiently allocate resources between alternative uses. When you instead refer to "owners with huge water rights", you're outside the market: "water rights" are a government largesse, not a market.
"I'm for just straight up taxing everything. ... Then you can use the revenue generated to balance the budget, institute another medicare expansion, etc..."
tax & spend - the environment is just an excuse
You're victim-blaming here. The invisible hand barely had a hand in what's been happening.
The "virtual water" concept is unnecessary just to improve on real-water scarcity. Just price real-water properly.
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" What is the incentive for the BBC to spin ..."
To try to stay relevant - to try to justify their tax-income.
Yes, but it lets government bureaucrats play-act like they're entrepreneurs and brave businessguys and such.