Bullshit! Do US universities use special books that German's can't use? Are US students given special knowledge in secret US university basements that the rest of the world doesn't have access to? Do US university teachers use special CIA classified teaching methods that are unknown to the rest of the planet. Both countries give you a piece of paper that say you passed a bunch of tests. THAT IS ALL. No secret sauce, no special herbs, no recipe passed down from generation to generation.
Q: We are "protecting an industry" from whom exactly?
A: Other companies who can provide the same or better service for the same or better price.
Q: And how are we doing that?
A: By raising taxes so that the consumer has to pay more for products.
Q: Then we are not generating jobs or products, we're simply transferring wealth from one group (certain consumers) to another group (certain businesses and industries), right?
If you watch the Youtube video its just a weight held by magnets. I can wrap rubber bands around the steering wheel and it would accomplish the same thing. Might as well send a cease and desist to Youtube for showing how to circumvent the system. And if I tell my friends how to do it, will I get a cease and desist letter too?
When you buy a product on a shelf, you're already crowdfunding, just after the fact. How many times have you looked up the founders "competence or experience" when buying a lock at Home Depot? What difference does it make if I crowdfund the lock before it's made or after its on a shelf.
Can you post a link to a VC that specializes in lock startups, maybe has some locksmiths and infosec guys on the board. And after you get VC funding, the VC firm audits your hardware/software right? And then has a 3rd party do another audit, right? All paid out-of-pocket by the VC, right?
An "experiment" that's been tried a thousand times over. Cap prices below market prices and you get a shortage. Cap prices above market prices and you get a surplus. Supply & demand 101, econ 101, common sense 101, operating a lemonade stand 101.
Why would a taxi company even try to develop self driving cars? Why not wait for the pro's to get it right and just purchase the hardware/software from them. Here's a list of companies in the self-driving car sector: GM, Google, Daimler-Bosch, Ford, Volkswagen Group, BMW-Intel-FCA, Aptiv, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, Tesla, Toyota, Audi, Nissan, Peugeot,........
To those numbers add at least $20k for pensions, health insurance, summer off. Add to that other benefits such as tenure, which is unheard of in any public or private business and industry. If any teacher feels their pay is too low, QUIT. If any teacher feels their labor is worth more in the private sector, QUIT. But no, they'll just cry and whine, blame parents for any and all issues, refuse any kind of metric or merit based system, and hide behind their unions and tenure.
And yet the typical High School graduate in the Netherlands will have the same job prospects as the typical High School graduate in the US, which are either working at McDonald's or Starbucks. Which coincidentally are the same job prospects that a High School dropout has. Hmmm. If they only had a college degree......Here you go: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpwAOHJsxg)
I love how your post says the problem is not funding, but then blames low teacher pay. Here you go: "The typical elementary school teacher received $75,160 last year, while middle and high school teachers collected slightly less at $75,020." (https://www.dailynews.com/2015/03/21/lausd-educators-typically-earned-75504-last-year/) If you can't teach basic reading/writing/math/history for $75k a year, plus summer off, QUIT. There is no shortage of people who can teach basic skills for $75k. But why quit when you can cry all the way to the bank and get tenure in the process.
Really? So if Ford was offering a 10mpg car and Honda was offering a 35mpg comparable car, you gonna buy the Ford? How many car manufacturers are out there? You are free to buy from the most fuel efficient car maker. And buying a more fuel efficient car saves you money, so why would you need a law to force you to buy the more fuel efficient model? Why not a law to force CPU makers minimum flops? Or RAM makers minimum Ram speeds? Or hard driver makers minimum terabytes?
And you can google for websites which independently test various vitamin/supplements. (https://labdoor.com/rankings/multivitamins). Reputable companies which provide quality vitamins/supplements are dime a dozen, its not rocket science. Also note that non-prescription vitamins and drugs ("capitalism in action") are dirt cheap, versus FDA approved prescription drugs (government in action) such as Niacor, Epipen, etc are only affordable to lottery winners.
"Although niacin, a type of vitamin B3, is available in over-the-counter forms for less than $5 per 100 tablets, some doctors still prefer to use the [overpriced prescription] version"
Translation: Doctors get a kickback from prescribing a vitamin. Clueless patients fill the prescription and send it to their insurance. Everybody loses except doctors and drug companies.
"approved by the US Food and Drug Administration"
Translation: FDA approved vitamins that other vitamin manufacturers either cant get approval for or have to spend a fortune to get.
So drug company gets a government monopoly on a vitamin that doctors are all too eager to prescribe to their patients for $300 a pop.
The ignorance on this thread is exponentially increasing. Court fees are paid by the plaintiffs, the patent holder who sues the patent infringer. The defending party doesn't pay court fees.
It's called patent fees, look it up. You pay a fee for application review, pay a fee for after it is granted, pay a renewal fee every 3, 7, and 11 years. So they are paying for their court fees and then some. And if your argument is court fees, then why not just raise court fees for patent cases?
The argument against basic income is not about laziness, it's where the money comes from. Gather 5 of your friends and implement basic income. Those who earn less than the BI gets paid by money collected from those who earn more than the BI. Post back the results. Do it among 10, 20, or 30 of friends, all without the need for any government or politicians. Good luck.
Yes, high currency will kill your exports, and low currency will increase your exports. Do you know why? Because lowering the currency is lowering the price of your exports. So instead of selling a pound of apples to Canada and getting $1 Canadian dollar back, you sell it for $0.7 Canadian dollars. Yeah, you will increase exports and earn less for your exports, so what's the point? As long as you want to export and get nothing in return, sell your exports for free and you will export an infinite amount of products. And if your currency is lower, anything you import will be more expensive.
How does reducing the price of exports and increasing the price of imports help the poor???
High value currency is what you strive for, not low currency. See Zimbabwe, Argentina, Weimar Republic, and every other country who's had a currency collapse. High currency does not erode competitiveness, why weren't Zimbabwe and Weimar Republic more competitive when their currencies went to 0? Think of it this way, would you hold bitcoins if it dropped in value everyday? Or if it could be mined to infinity by politicians who think it's "too expensive"?
Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you shoot someone: We have to ban guns. Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you watch a political commercial:We have to ban political commercials Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you hit someone with a bat: We have to ban bats Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you rob a bank: We have to ban banks Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you hack into a computer: We have to ban computers Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you drive him home even though you're drunk: We have to ban cars Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you stab someone with a knife:We have to ban knives Imagine your boss comes to you and demands_______:We have to ban jobs.
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Bullshit! Do US universities use special books that German's can't use? Are US students given special knowledge in secret US university basements that the rest of the world doesn't have access to? Do US university teachers use special CIA classified teaching methods that are unknown to the rest of the planet. Both countries give you a piece of paper that say you passed a bunch of tests. THAT IS ALL. No secret sauce, no special herbs, no recipe passed down from generation to generation.
Q: We are "protecting an industry" from whom exactly?
A: Other companies who can provide the same or better service for the same or better price.
Q: And how are we doing that?
A: By raising taxes so that the consumer has to pay more for products.
Q: Then we are not generating jobs or products, we're simply transferring wealth from one group (certain consumers) to another group (certain businesses and industries), right?
A: Exactly.
If you watch the Youtube video its just a weight held by magnets. I can wrap rubber bands around the steering wheel and it would accomplish the same thing. Might as well send a cease and desist to Youtube for showing how to circumvent the system. And if I tell my friends how to do it, will I get a cease and desist letter too?
When you buy a product on a shelf, you're already crowdfunding, just after the fact. How many times have you looked up the founders "competence or experience" when buying a lock at Home Depot? What difference does it make if I crowdfund the lock before it's made or after its on a shelf.
Can you post a link to a VC that specializes in lock startups, maybe has some locksmiths and infosec guys on the board. And after you get VC funding, the VC firm audits your hardware/software right? And then has a 3rd party do another audit, right? All paid out-of-pocket by the VC, right?
An "experiment" that's been tried a thousand times over. Cap prices below market prices and you get a shortage. Cap prices above market prices and you get a surplus. Supply & demand 101, econ 101, common sense 101, operating a lemonade stand 101.
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https://www.e-education.psu.ed...
Why would a taxi company even try to develop self driving cars? Why not wait for the pro's to get it right and just purchase the hardware/software from them. Here's a list of companies in the self-driving car sector: GM, Google, Daimler-Bosch, Ford, Volkswagen Group, BMW-Intel-FCA, Aptiv, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, Tesla, Toyota, Audi, Nissan, Peugeot, ........
To those numbers add at least $20k for pensions, health insurance, summer off. Add to that other benefits such as tenure, which is unheard of in any public or private business and industry. If any teacher feels their pay is too low, QUIT. If any teacher feels their labor is worth more in the private sector, QUIT. But no, they'll just cry and whine, blame parents for any and all issues, refuse any kind of metric or merit based system, and hide behind their unions and tenure.
And yet the typical High School graduate in the Netherlands will have the same job prospects as the typical High School graduate in the US, which are either working at McDonald's or Starbucks. Which coincidentally are the same job prospects that a High School dropout has. Hmmm. If they only had a college degree......Here you go: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpwAOHJsxg)
I love how your post says the problem is not funding, but then blames low teacher pay. Here you go: "The typical elementary school teacher received $75,160 last year, while middle and high school teachers collected slightly less at $75,020." (https://www.dailynews.com/2015/03/21/lausd-educators-typically-earned-75504-last-year/) If you can't teach basic reading/writing/math/history for $75k a year, plus summer off, QUIT. There is no shortage of people who can teach basic skills for $75k. But why quit when you can cry all the way to the bank and get tenure in the process.
Really? So if Ford was offering a 10mpg car and Honda was offering a 35mpg comparable car, you gonna buy the Ford? How many car manufacturers are out there? You are free to buy from the most fuel efficient car maker. And buying a more fuel efficient car saves you money, so why would you need a law to force you to buy the more fuel efficient model? Why not a law to force CPU makers minimum flops? Or RAM makers minimum Ram speeds? Or hard driver makers minimum terabytes?
And you can google for websites which independently test various vitamin/supplements. (https://labdoor.com/rankings/multivitamins). Reputable companies which provide quality vitamins/supplements are dime a dozen, its not rocket science. Also note that non-prescription vitamins and drugs ("capitalism in action") are dirt cheap, versus FDA approved prescription drugs (government in action) such as Niacor, Epipen, etc are only affordable to lottery winners.
"Although niacin, a type of vitamin B3, is available in over-the-counter forms for less than $5 per 100 tablets, some doctors still prefer to use the [overpriced prescription] version"
Translation: Doctors get a kickback from prescribing a vitamin. Clueless patients fill the prescription and send it to their insurance. Everybody loses except doctors and drug companies.
"approved by the US Food and Drug Administration"
Translation: FDA approved vitamins that other vitamin manufacturers either cant get approval for or have to spend a fortune to get.
So drug company gets a government monopoly on a vitamin that doctors are all too eager to prescribe to their patients for $300 a pop.
The ignorance on this thread is exponentially increasing. Court fees are paid by the plaintiffs, the patent holder who sues the patent infringer. The defending party doesn't pay court fees.
It's called patent fees, look it up. You pay a fee for application review, pay a fee for after it is granted, pay a renewal fee every 3, 7, and 11 years. So they are paying for their court fees and then some. And if your argument is court fees, then why not just raise court fees for patent cases?
So Amazon's in-store wifi will now be biased towards Amazon. Say it isn't so.
The argument against basic income is not about laziness, it's where the money comes from. Gather 5 of your friends and implement basic income. Those who earn less than the BI gets paid by money collected from those who earn more than the BI. Post back the results. Do it among 10, 20, or 30 of friends, all without the need for any government or politicians. Good luck.
Yes, high currency will kill your exports, and low currency will increase your exports. Do you know why? Because lowering the currency is lowering the price of your exports. So instead of selling a pound of apples to Canada and getting $1 Canadian dollar back, you sell it for $0.7 Canadian dollars. Yeah, you will increase exports and earn less for your exports, so what's the point? As long as you want to export and get nothing in return, sell your exports for free and you will export an infinite amount of products. And if your currency is lower, anything you import will be more expensive.
How does reducing the price of exports and increasing the price of imports help the poor???
High value currency is what you strive for, not low currency. See Zimbabwe, Argentina, Weimar Republic, and every other country who's had a currency collapse. High currency does not erode competitiveness, why weren't Zimbabwe and Weimar Republic more competitive when their currencies went to 0? Think of it this way, would you hold bitcoins if it dropped in value everyday? Or if it could be mined to infinity by politicians who think it's "too expensive"?
Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you shoot someone: We have to ban guns.
Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you watch a political commercial:We have to ban political commercials
Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you hit someone with a bat: We have to ban bats
Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you rob a bank: We have to ban banks
Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you hack into a computer: We have to ban computers
Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you drive him home even though you're drunk: We have to ban cars
Imagine your boss comes to you and demands you stab someone with a knife:We have to ban knives
Imagine your boss comes to you and demands_______:We have to ban jobs.