Jokes aside, income disparity is the main problem in the modern world. Either we put income ceilings in place or we tax the rich with no hope of fiscal escape.
There is nothing wrong with income disparity. Only those envious of other's wealth and zero ambition see the world as you do. As for your last sentence... All you have to do is look at Detroit for an example of what happens when you overtax the rich. They move away and let it fall to ruin. Can't say as I blame them. This UBI experiment is going to do the exact same thing. It will encourage those who are apathetic to stick around, as well as encourage the job creators to move away.
Eh, no. Not everybody is trainable to be a brain surgeon.
2. There are plenty of jobs available for anyone's skill set and talents.
Agreed.
3. Sometimes, one's talents and abilities just aren't marketable and one is stuck in the hopeful masses trying to get a job at Walmart or an Amazon warehouse.
Nothing wrong with a Walmart or Amazon warehouse job. Good choice if one is looking to further their education for something better in the long term.
The biggest fallacy that I see is that there are plenty of jobs for everyone. Even now with this great low-unemployment is employers complaining how they can't get "qualified" people.
What does that mean?
Not sure how you reconcile this point with point #2. It is true that good tech jobs are having trouble finding "qualified people" Most every job posted has the list of basic requirements for the job. If the job requirement states "Security + required" it's kind of a no brainier. Some people just don't get that they need more than an ethnic studies degree to be employable.
Lack of training? Lack of education? Lack of experience? Using it as an excuse to age/race/gender discriminate?
When I was a youngster, many companies had training programs.
Most tech companies do have training programs. That doesn't mean that companies don't want a set amount of training before you show up for your first day of work though. Just because you have a college degree doesn't mean you are done with your training. Tech companies especially, do expect you to stay current with technology, as such many offer training in various forms.
Finally, we are a merit based society. If you don' want to do what it takes to meet the job requirements, that has nothing to do with your age/race/gender. It is not a companies responsibility to fix systemic issues in society (unless that is their actual stated goal.) Hope you enjoy your job at Walmart... they do at least offer a path to promotion.
Back in the day, if you payed with a credit card, you were considered an adult by default. Not sure if that still applies with all the new charge to your phone capabilities.
I'm looking at Pruitt's wording, and I have to say, he isn't incorrect the way he worded it. CO2 isn't the primary cause of climate change. That would be the Milankovich cycles. CO2 is causing it to change at an accelerated rate though. Semantics, but whatever.
This... YouTube creators are not YouTube's customers, they are the product. The customers are the advertisers, and thus the only ones YouTube cares about.
>As a single white male, I was at the bottom of the hiring list. Bell Telephone HR told me as much. I qualified well for their employ, but they needed more people who didn't look like me.
Jobs that didn't prefer white males in the 70s? Jesus F. Christ, that's a bold lie right there.
Hate to burst your modern day bias bubble, but the 1970's were all about affirmative action. If you were white, they would take you only if there wasn't a lesser qualified minority who applied for the same job. GP's experience holds true.
Easily fixed. Vote for a tax-the-rich party, start one if need be. (And no, that is not socialism. Socialists do worse than merely taxing.)
Tax the rich is what we have now. Some people call it a progressive tax system. The concept of "tax the rich" really does have the negative externality of reducing available minimum wage jobs to the poor. It's the opposite of what you want to do. Between this and our inability to do anything other than increase welfare benefits, we now have a system where it's better to stay on welfare than to get a good entry level job. Talk about a race to the bottom.
No, the morons that put him there are the people who voted for him.
You don't get to fob of your stupidity on the opposition candidate.
I can't speak for others, but I certainly voted "against" Hillary and not "for" Trump. Not that unreasonable to assume others voted the same way. Not everyone who voted for Trump wears a MAGA hat. However, I would gladly wear a Hillary for Prison hat.
Not a drastic change from the status quo, but it will be interesting to see how fast other states follow California's lead, as they do with vehicle emissions, etc.
In New Mexico or Arizona where the sun shines 300 days a year, economically quite probable. In Portland Oregon... Not so much.
The Milankovitch cycles have long known to be the cause of glacial-interglacial cycles. If we ignore the time before the Pleistocene, where the atmosphere was substantially different than today, and only focus on the last 500,000 years. The glacial-interglacial cycles have an approximate swing of 15 degrees. People are worried today about a 2 degree rise. When the temps continue to rise to those of the Eemian interglacial period, the seas will rise 25 feet, the planet will be about 4-5 degrees warmer than today and we will have to deal with a few more hurricanes/cyclones. All in all, humans have generally adapted well to these kinds of changes. Is CO2 responsible for the sharp rise we see? Probably, but at our current rate of fossil fuel consumption this problem will go away in 100 years or less as fossil fuel becomes less economical to produce.
It's the FUD demonizing CO2 in an effort to ruin our economy via taxation that I take umbrage with.
Not sure why you think a trade job doesn't have job security. They tend to be the most secure jobs out there. People will always need their car worked on or their plumbing fixed.
This argument has a fatal flaw, and unless you have ever been to Saudi Arabia, you probably won't know about it. Saudi Arabia is a two class system. Those who are Saudi Arabian citizens are of the elite class and have everything provided for them. Third country nationals (Pakistani, Ethiopian, Cambodian... et all.) do not have the same luxury. Instead they work for the Saudi's as little more than indentured slave labor.
This is the problem with UBI. Somebody has to do the menial work. If you are guaranteed UBI why would you choose to work as a garbage collector? There is no incentive to do so. UBI is the fastest way to destroy the middle class I can think of.
Huh? They're mostly doing great! Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, Norway... These are the non-shithole countries.
Those countries are not socialist countries. They are capitalistic countries with ever increasing social programs and extreme tax burdens on their citizens. The only reason they haven't collapsed yet, is because they have governments who don't massively overspend the revenue they take in. Do you really believe that the government of the USA can spend within their means? I don't.
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I want my free FB with no ads and no collection of my data.
Jokes aside, income disparity is the main problem in the modern world. Either we put income ceilings in place or we tax the rich with no hope of fiscal escape.
There is nothing wrong with income disparity. Only those envious of other's wealth and zero ambition see the world as you do. As for your last sentence... All you have to do is look at Detroit for an example of what happens when you overtax the rich. They move away and let it fall to ruin. Can't say as I blame them. This UBI experiment is going to do the exact same thing. It will encourage those who are apathetic to stick around, as well as encourage the job creators to move away.
The issues I see:
1. Everyone can be trained for any job.
Eh, no. Not everybody is trainable to be a brain surgeon.
2. There are plenty of jobs available for anyone's skill set and talents.
Agreed.
3. Sometimes, one's talents and abilities just aren't marketable and one is stuck in the hopeful masses trying to get a job at Walmart or an Amazon warehouse.
Nothing wrong with a Walmart or Amazon warehouse job. Good choice if one is looking to further their education for something better in the long term.
The biggest fallacy that I see is that there are plenty of jobs for everyone. Even now with this great low-unemployment is employers complaining how they can't get "qualified" people.
What does that mean?
Not sure how you reconcile this point with point #2. It is true that good tech jobs are having trouble finding "qualified people" Most every job posted has the list of basic requirements for the job. If the job requirement states "Security + required" it's kind of a no brainier. Some people just don't get that they need more than an ethnic studies degree to be employable.
Lack of training? Lack of education? Lack of experience? Using it as an excuse to age/race/gender discriminate?
When I was a youngster, many companies had training programs.
Most tech companies do have training programs. That doesn't mean that companies don't want a set amount of training before you show up for your first day of work though. Just because you have a college degree doesn't mean you are done with your training. Tech companies especially, do expect you to stay current with technology, as such many offer training in various forms.
Finally, we are a merit based society. If you don' want to do what it takes to meet the job requirements, that has nothing to do with your age/race/gender. It is not a companies responsibility to fix systemic issues in society (unless that is their actual stated goal.) Hope you enjoy your job at Walmart... they do at least offer a path to promotion.
I predict that nothing will come of this. 50 years ago maybe, but large corporations today live in the new paradigm of monopolistic acceptability.
I guess there are not very many of us left who still have the original (grandfathered) Unlimited plan that doesn't have any data caps.
Back in the day, if you payed with a credit card, you were considered an adult by default. Not sure if that still applies with all the new charge to your phone capabilities.
I'm looking at Pruitt's wording, and I have to say, he isn't incorrect the way he worded it. CO2 isn't the primary cause of climate change. That would be the Milankovich cycles. CO2 is causing it to change at an accelerated rate though. Semantics, but whatever.
Anyone working for a company
Which these people aren't doing.
This... YouTube creators are not YouTube's customers, they are the product. The customers are the advertisers, and thus the only ones YouTube cares about.
Pretty sure that /r/NSFW accounts for most of those views
>As a single white male, I was at the bottom of the hiring list. Bell Telephone HR told me as much. I qualified well for their employ, but they needed more people who didn't look like me.
Jobs that didn't prefer white males in the 70s? Jesus F. Christ, that's a bold lie right there.
Hate to burst your modern day bias bubble, but the 1970's were all about affirmative action. If you were white, they would take you only if there wasn't a lesser qualified minority who applied for the same job. GP's experience holds true.
More wealth to fewer people?
Easily fixed. Vote for a tax-the-rich party, start one if need be. (And no, that is not socialism. Socialists do worse than merely taxing.)
Tax the rich is what we have now. Some people call it a progressive tax system. The concept of "tax the rich" really does have the negative externality of reducing available minimum wage jobs to the poor. It's the opposite of what you want to do. Between this and our inability to do anything other than increase welfare benefits, we now have a system where it's better to stay on welfare than to get a good entry level job. Talk about a race to the bottom.
And which generation were these "well meaning but stupid parents" from again? Boomers, you say? How interesting.
Actually, parents of Millennials are Gen X. Not Boomers.
43 States require nothing more that a bank statement or student ID to register to vote. They show proof of residency, but not proof of citizenship.
No, the morons that put him there are the people who voted for him.
You don't get to fob of your stupidity on the opposition candidate.
I can't speak for others, but I certainly voted "against" Hillary and not "for" Trump. Not that unreasonable to assume others voted the same way. Not everyone who voted for Trump wears a MAGA hat. However, I would gladly wear a Hillary for Prison hat.
Not a drastic change from the status quo, but it will be interesting to see how fast other states follow California's lead, as they do with vehicle emissions, etc.
In New Mexico or Arizona where the sun shines 300 days a year, economically quite probable. In Portland Oregon... Not so much.
The Milankovitch cycles have long known to be the cause of glacial-interglacial cycles. If we ignore the time before the Pleistocene, where the atmosphere was substantially different than today, and only focus on the last 500,000 years. The glacial-interglacial cycles have an approximate swing of 15 degrees. People are worried today about a 2 degree rise. When the temps continue to rise to those of the Eemian interglacial period, the seas will rise 25 feet, the planet will be about 4-5 degrees warmer than today and we will have to deal with a few more hurricanes/cyclones. All in all, humans have generally adapted well to these kinds of changes. Is CO2 responsible for the sharp rise we see? Probably, but at our current rate of fossil fuel consumption this problem will go away in 100 years or less as fossil fuel becomes less economical to produce.
It's the FUD demonizing CO2 in an effort to ruin our economy via taxation that I take umbrage with.
Actually, we are all going to die... just not from climate change.
Not sure why you think a trade job doesn't have job security. They tend to be the most secure jobs out there. People will always need their car worked on or their plumbing fixed.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I shall call it a hamster.
UBI and UBA are common items in Saudi Arabia
This argument has a fatal flaw, and unless you have ever been to Saudi Arabia, you probably won't know about it. Saudi Arabia is a two class system. Those who are Saudi Arabian citizens are of the elite class and have everything provided for them. Third country nationals (Pakistani, Ethiopian, Cambodian... et all.) do not have the same luxury. Instead they work for the Saudi's as little more than indentured slave labor.
This is the problem with UBI. Somebody has to do the menial work. If you are guaranteed UBI why would you choose to work as a garbage collector? There is no incentive to do so. UBI is the fastest way to destroy the middle class I can think of.
I fail to see the down side of this approach.
Huh? They're mostly doing great! Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Canada,
Sweden, Norway... These are the non-shithole countries.
Those countries are not socialist countries. They are capitalistic countries with ever increasing social programs and extreme tax burdens on their citizens. The only reason they haven't collapsed yet, is because they have governments who don't massively overspend the revenue they take in. Do you really believe that the government of the USA can spend within their means? I don't.
I don't really care what the pseudo scientists say. If I die having sex and eating pasta, my life would be complete.
Perhaps I am missing something, but how is the GP wrong? A quick google search clearly shows that Ajit Pai was appointed to the FCC by Obama.
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Nothing wrong with greed. It's how shit gets done.