The amount of arable land in the world is fixed. Some people live on a thousand acres, some people live in a tenement building.
The amount of currency in the world is effectively fixed even in a fractional reserve system.
Concentrated wealth does not create jobs, distributed wealth does. If there is a demand for shoes (lots of people want and can afford shoes), there WILL be a shoe factory. If people cannot afford to buy new shoes every year then there will NOT be a shoe factory and no amount of tax cuts for the wealthy will cause there to be one.
Money goes where money is, like gravity. If it's not broken up and dispersed from time to time the gears will eventually grind to a halt. --this is why there will always be a death tax btw.
Yeah I've seen that. And I'm sure that more of that is inevitable if the way our economy works doesn't change. The behavior your describing is the -effect- of relative income inequality (trickle down supply-side economic policy) growing wider over the last 35 years. And it's going to get worse, much worse, and it's going to cost "us" a lot more to ignore than if we actively alter course.
Emotion based outrage, increase in crime rates, riots, and eventually violent revolution are the -predictable- effects of growing relative income inequality and loss of social mobility. And, as in the past, the powerful and elite are digging in their heels -which actually makes the situation worse.
The point is, this is not an issue specific to any generation or culture being more prone to jealousy than another. It's a predictable -response- of every human population in similar circumstances.
So if you could remake the world you would be a serf? Because under feudalism that's your only choice, and it doesn't matter how smart you are or how hard you work, your circumstance will NEVER improve.
If you're under the delusion that YOU would fare differently because you're (ahem) *special*, realize that what enables that delusion is the democracy and equality GIVEN to you by previous generations of socially conscious activists.
There are only so many chairs at the top, and NONE of them have your name on it peasant.
I have not seen any example of people being taught to hate the rich, nor have I seen anyone specifically bitching about people making something of themselves. Perhaps you do fear these ideas are being taught to the current generation, but if so, these fears are completely unfounded. In your position, I would re-examine the source of these fears and likely (going forward) disregard all information from these sources.
I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion(s) of the article, but on the general topic of income inequality I am certain that not addressing it as a problem will cost all of society more in the long term, and, a lot of research is being done wrt to cause and effect of income inequality. None of the articles produced by this research are motivated by jealousy, or a hatred for people that made something of themselves. They are motivated by the belief that our democracy at least, and our very nation possibly, are seriously threatened by income inequality.
You're a god damn idiot, trying to tie this to sex education in schools and labor unions. Not everything wrong in the world is connected to the handful of issues that literally define your identity. An identity made for you by the likes of the Heritage Foundation, Freedomworks, and Americans For Prosperity ( and dozens more ).
I swear, for most of my life I've tried to be gentle when it comes to politics and religion, but look what that's got us. People like you who troll forums and try to find every opportunity to regurgitate the propaganda you're too stupid to see through.
Next time you feel like stretching the current topic into a place where you can insert a not-so-witty, not-so-clever comment on big-guvment or unions, just SHUT THE FUCK UP.
I think the difference between this and other professions is we are constantly stacking up abstractions and making development more accessible to less skilled people. I didn't read the whole article (it seemed pointless) , but I'm going to guess he's advocating a drag-and-drop IDE for web sites or something equally stupid.
I flew to SF and interviewed at one of those companies. I interviewed with about 7 people. All of them were idiots, all of them were under 25, and all of them thought they were masters of the universe (well, the ruby-on-rails universe anyway). It was an eerie bizarro world experience I will never forget.
After 15 years at this I have met exactly ONE person who is both good at developing AND is socially clueless. Every other socially clueless person I've met sucks at this. So sick of this stereotype...does anyone else look at bigbang-theory and think "wtf, WHEN are we gonna be done with this shit?"
He's being sarcastic but he's NOT wrong, he's fucking dead right. Why is it so God Damned Important that the tech industry be 50/50? Shit, last time I personally saw a man in HR was like 6 years ago, why isn't anyone pissed about that? Seriously I want to know why this field -in particular- matters so fucking much with regard to gender. Already half the people I work with are half-assing it because they have no real interest in the work.
Personally I think the real problem is that jobs women actually WANT to do lack the status and pay they should have --we should fix that , not flood our cubicles with people who don't *really* want to be there.
Now, you don't know me, and more importantly you don't know the OP. You're judgement that his viewpoint ( or mine ) regarding this particular program and the mindset behind it are a reflection of a derogatory view towards women generally, is out of line. You have no reason to think he would 'drive women away' because just because he disagrees with you. So shut it.
I think that time and space aren't relative at all, they are the same thing. I mean the expansion of space and the passage of time are the same thing. The implication is the time travel is impossible because both the future and the past do not exist.
Matter with mass slows down the expansion of space and so it also slows the passage of time. Time slows near a black hole. The vast emptiness between galaxies allows the space between to expand more and more rapidly.
Perhaps if space expands too fast it rips and the foam becomes a flood of energy->matter everywhere, all at once, and this new matter suddenly and uniformly slows down the expansion everywhere.
It's an image that works very well in my imagination, but I have no advanced math skills...It started forming because I always hear physicists in documentaries (in the same breath) say that time and space are the same thing but then go on to explain them distinctly. It's something that always bothers me.
I would agree that from most perspectives Supermicro does better than the alternatives (dell etc.), -except- when it comes to IPMI. They are notorious for sucking at this. They really put a lot of effort and attention into making their bmc web interface look awesome and then they half-ass the command line IPMI interface. Every time.
For a moment, let go of the myth that inefficient government is some kind of natural law and not propaganda, and read this: http://www.muninetworks.org/co...
Why does the Free Market only allow powerful and wealthy individuals to force change? I really really don't understand why organized labor, or boycotts for that matter, is --morally-- wrong for so many people.
Is there some natural law that says if you don't have a lot of money you have to take what's handed to you? Like it's some kind of sin to say to your neighbor "Hey I don't like what these guys are doing, so us good people should not patronize/work for them."
When all the business owners get together and cooperate to bust unions and socialize the idea that unions are immoral isn't that EXACTLY THE SAME THING?
Fifty years ago most wage-earning Americans were in favor of Unions. A shit ton of money and effort have been expended during the last 50 years to change YOUR view on the matter. Just sayin...
Since Reagan we have had a supply-side economy. Under Clinton and still under Obama. That's the whole story right there. Doesn't matter who you voted for since the 80's.
You've had it YOUR WAY FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS AND GUESS WHAT? YOUR WAY SUCKS.
The (greater) point of a job is not to attract money for the worker to spend, but rather to increase the productivity of the worker over the level of his consumption
No. The point of EVERYTHING is for money to move around. When money sits in one place (like an overseas bank) it is literally a drain on the economy (this is why there is a death tax). So no, the greater point of a job is that money gets moved around.
For almost 40 motherfucking years we've had an economy driven by supply side economic principles (yes, even under Clinton). Your principles apparently. Know this, it is a lie. Even Bush's own economist has admitted it. Reagan, the guy who started this nightmare, did it for ideological reasons not because it's technically a good idea. Well, it is if you're one of the 1% making money hand over fist but it sucks for the rest of us.
Almost everyone's standard of living has DROPPED. Understand? We've done it your way for decades and everything sucks now.
I know, I know, I've seen the factory worker on TV getting laid off and STILL holding on to the broken ideology (yours) of the unregulated free market. He was about to be homeless and..you know what fuck it. You're probably just as brain washed as that guy, but with an education.
Oh shut it, I could spend all day finding papers for you and your mind wouldn't change. That's just a fact. The papers are there (New Jersey and other studies) you go find them if you want, I won't because you're hopeless. You're not interested in solving any problems, only in a world that fits your indoctrinated ideology.
In a recent review of the literature, Professor Richard Freeman of Harvard, a widely respected labor economist, wrote: "At the level of the minimum wage in the late 1980s, moderate legislated increases did not reduce employment and were, if anything, associated with higher employment in some locales."
In discussing the minimum wage, Robert M. Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently told the New York Times, "The main thing about (minimum wage) research is that the evidence of job loss is weak. And the fact that the evidence is weak suggests that the impact on jobs is small."
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Once again, -after- someone else makes something I think, wow that's so obvious.
The amount of arable land in the world is fixed. Some people live on a thousand acres, some people live in a tenement building.
The amount of currency in the world is effectively fixed even in a fractional reserve system.
Concentrated wealth does not create jobs, distributed wealth does. If there is a demand for shoes (lots of people want and can afford shoes), there WILL be a shoe factory. If people cannot afford to buy new shoes every year then there will NOT be a shoe factory and no amount of tax cuts for the wealthy will cause there to be one.
Money goes where money is, like gravity. If it's not broken up and dispersed from time to time the gears will eventually grind to a halt. --this is why there will always be a death tax btw.
Yeah I've seen that. And I'm sure that more of that is inevitable if the way our economy works doesn't change. The behavior your describing is the -effect- of relative income inequality (trickle down supply-side economic policy) growing wider over the last 35 years. And it's going to get worse, much worse, and it's going to cost "us" a lot more to ignore than if we actively alter course.
Emotion based outrage, increase in crime rates, riots, and eventually violent revolution are the -predictable- effects of growing relative income inequality and loss of social mobility. And, as in the past, the powerful and elite are digging in their heels -which actually makes the situation worse.
The point is, this is not an issue specific to any generation or culture being more prone to jealousy than another. It's a predictable -response- of every human population in similar circumstances.
Wow. Please record some of your observations and discussions and upload them to youtube. OMG I will send you money if you do.
So if you could remake the world you would be a serf? Because under feudalism that's your only choice, and it doesn't matter how smart you are or how hard you work, your circumstance will NEVER improve.
If you're under the delusion that YOU would fare differently because you're (ahem) *special*, realize that what enables that delusion is the democracy and equality GIVEN to you by previous generations of socially conscious activists.
There are only so many chairs at the top, and NONE of them have your name on it peasant.
Exactly. Also, our thermostats should be set at either 0(c) or 100(c).
I have not seen any example of people being taught to hate the rich, nor have I seen anyone specifically bitching about people making something of themselves. Perhaps you do fear these ideas are being taught to the current generation, but if so, these fears are completely unfounded. In your position, I would re-examine the source of these fears and likely (going forward) disregard all information from these sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
https://www.google.com/webhp?c...
I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion(s) of the article, but on the general topic of income inequality I am certain that not addressing it as a problem will cost all of society more in the long term, and, a lot of research is being done wrt to cause and effect of income inequality. None of the articles produced by this research are motivated by jealousy, or a hatred for people that made something of themselves. They are motivated by the belief that our democracy at least, and our very nation possibly, are seriously threatened by income inequality.
You're a god damn idiot, trying to tie this to sex education in schools and labor unions. Not everything wrong in the world is connected to the handful of issues that literally define your identity. An identity made for you by the likes of the Heritage Foundation, Freedomworks, and Americans For Prosperity ( and dozens more ).
I swear, for most of my life I've tried to be gentle when it comes to politics and religion, but look what that's got us. People like you who troll forums and try to find every opportunity to regurgitate the propaganda you're too stupid to see through.
Next time you feel like stretching the current topic into a place where you can insert a not-so-witty, not-so-clever comment on big-guvment or unions, just SHUT THE FUCK UP.
I think the difference between this and other professions is we are constantly stacking up abstractions and making development more accessible to less skilled people. I didn't read the whole article (it seemed pointless) , but I'm going to guess he's advocating a drag-and-drop IDE for web sites or something equally stupid.
I flew to SF and interviewed at one of those companies. I interviewed with about 7 people. All of them were idiots, all of them were under 25, and all of them thought they were masters of the universe (well, the ruby-on-rails universe anyway). It was an eerie bizarro world experience I will never forget.
After 15 years at this I have met exactly ONE person who is both good at developing AND is socially clueless. Every other socially clueless person I've met sucks at this. So sick of this stereotype...does anyone else look at bigbang-theory and think "wtf, WHEN are we gonna be done with this shit?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
He's being sarcastic but he's NOT wrong, he's fucking dead right. Why is it so God Damned Important that the tech industry be 50/50? Shit, last time I personally saw a man in HR was like 6 years ago, why isn't anyone pissed about that? Seriously I want to know why this field -in particular- matters so fucking much with regard to gender. Already half the people I work with are half-assing it because they have no real interest in the work.
Personally I think the real problem is that jobs women actually WANT to do lack the status and pay they should have --we should fix that , not flood our cubicles with people who don't *really* want to be there.
Now, you don't know me, and more importantly you don't know the OP. You're judgement that his viewpoint ( or mine ) regarding this particular program and the mindset behind it are a reflection of a derogatory view towards women generally, is out of line. You have no reason to think he would 'drive women away' because just because he disagrees with you. So shut it.
Yeah sure.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
I think that time and space aren't relative at all, they are the same thing. I mean the expansion of space and the passage of time are the same thing. The implication is the time travel is impossible because both the future and the past do not exist.
Matter with mass slows down the expansion of space and so it also slows the passage of time. Time slows near a black hole. The vast emptiness between galaxies allows the space between to expand more and more rapidly.
Perhaps if space expands too fast it rips and the foam becomes a flood of energy->matter everywhere, all at once, and this new matter suddenly and uniformly slows down the expansion everywhere.
It's an image that works very well in my imagination, but I have no advanced math skills...It started forming because I always hear physicists in documentaries (in the same breath) say that time and space are the same thing but then go on to explain them distinctly. It's something that always bothers me.
Supermicro boards do have a web gui interface to the BMC (not VNC) , but this is about IPMI which is a CLI to the BMC.
I would agree that from most perspectives Supermicro does better than the alternatives (dell etc.), -except- when it comes to IPMI. They are notorious for sucking at this. They really put a lot of effort and attention into making their bmc web interface look awesome and then they half-ass the command line IPMI interface. Every time.
Good points.
For a moment, let go of the myth that inefficient government is some kind of natural law and not propaganda, and read this:
http://www.muninetworks.org/co...
Why does the Free Market only allow powerful and wealthy individuals to force change? I really really don't understand why organized labor, or boycotts for that matter, is --morally-- wrong for so many people.
Is there some natural law that says if you don't have a lot of money you have to take what's handed to you? Like it's some kind of sin to say to your neighbor "Hey I don't like what these guys are doing, so us good people should not patronize/work for them."
When all the business owners get together and cooperate to bust unions and socialize the idea that unions are immoral isn't that EXACTLY THE SAME THING?
Fifty years ago most wage-earning Americans were in favor of Unions. A shit ton of money and effort have been expended during the last 50 years to change YOUR view on the matter.
Just sayin...
?? Are you a stupid person with a good vocabulary? Seriously, look and think. I did not contradict myself in any way shape or form.
Since Reagan we have had a supply-side economy. Under Clinton and still under Obama. That's the whole story right there. Doesn't matter who you voted for since the 80's.
You've had it YOUR WAY FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS AND GUESS WHAT? YOUR WAY SUCKS.
The (greater) point of a job is not to attract money for the worker to spend, but rather to increase the productivity of the worker over the level of his consumption
No. The point of EVERYTHING is for money to move around. When money sits in one place (like an overseas bank) it is literally a drain on the economy (this is why there is a death tax). So no, the greater point of a job is that money gets moved around.
For almost 40 motherfucking years we've had an economy driven by supply side economic principles (yes, even under Clinton). Your principles apparently. Know this, it is a lie. Even Bush's own economist has admitted it. Reagan, the guy who started this nightmare, did it for ideological reasons not because it's technically a good idea.
Well, it is if you're one of the 1% making money hand over fist but it sucks for the rest of us.
Almost everyone's standard of living has DROPPED. Understand? We've done it your way for decades and everything sucks now.
I know, I know, I've seen the factory worker on TV getting laid off and STILL holding on to the broken ideology (yours) of the unregulated free market. He was about to be homeless and..you know what fuck it. You're probably just as brain washed as that guy, but with an education.
Oh shut it, I could spend all day finding papers for you and your mind wouldn't change. That's just a fact. The papers are there (New Jersey and other studies) you go find them if you want, I won't because you're hopeless. You're not interested in solving any problems, only in a world that fits your indoctrinated ideology.
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/progr...
In a recent review of the literature, Professor Richard Freeman of Harvard, a widely respected labor economist, wrote: "At the level of the minimum wage in the late 1980s, moderate legislated increases did not reduce employment and were, if anything, associated with higher employment in some locales."
In discussing the minimum wage, Robert M. Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently told the New York Times, "The main thing about (minimum wage) research is that the evidence of job loss is weak. And the fact that the evidence is weak suggests that the impact on jobs is small."
Here's another one:
http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-...