The Soviet Union, for all it's many and well-documented flaws, achieved for the average citizen a huge increase in standard of living compared with the system it replaced.
A factor of capitalism? Son, exploitation of workers is the heart of capitalism. If you don't alienate the product of another man's labor, you're never going to have very impressive "profits".
Yup, cellphones constantly spy on everyone, and the government officials in charge of that spying are totally corrupt. Anyone who doesn't enthusiastically support predatory capitalism is a terwawrist.
In other news, the Pope is Catholic, and water is wet.
WTF does it mean to "high hat" someone? Yes, yes, I looked in Urban Dictionary. Do other people actually use that term?
The AMA is a "professional organization" - in other words, a union for wealthy workers with political connections. Obviously their tactics are different than the tactics employed by labor unions. Nevertheless, AMA provides collective representation to physicians, and it's primary concern is maintaining high pay for docs.
Alas, it appears the reality is that even you cannot immediately quit and get a 100% raise.
Note, the 100% wage increase claim was made by different user. I myself would not venture to guess how much increase to expect, though I certainly would expect it to be significant. Another benefit one might reasonably expect is ending the abusive labor practices which have become commonplace in the industry.
Your personal wages may well have gone up because your skill & seniority increased. That doesn't mean wages have been increasing across the board. In my observation, typical wages for any given role in Silicon Valley have been pretty stagnant for about a decade. During that period cost of living has increased very substantially.
I doubt we're gonna agree on this. You hate unions because you feel that you and your buddies are ever so super awesome. Well huzzah and good for you!
The rest of us see the proletarianization of software development, see the stagnant wages and bad working conditions. We call bullshit on your superiority complex. We see that an experienced developer in Silly Valley today has a lower standard of living than an assembly line worker fifty years ago. We see our friends burnt out and broke. We see nerds treated like subhuman work dogs, while silverspoon nepotists reap all the financial rewards. We see a bleak future if we continue down the current path.
Maybe you're okay with that, but it's not what I signed up for. It seems more and more people are feeling the same way.
If they were based in India, they'd actually need to turn a profit. Fedgov's quantitative easing free money spigot is only available to American capitalists who went to the right (American) university and who play golf at the right (American) country club.
Aren't total taxes a fair bit lower in Canada than in California? So I've heard - but I know not to believe everything you hear about tax rates. Especially from the semi-official media outlets, whose reporting often hugely understates real tax rates.
Few economists think it's a good idea to have trade policies that protect workers, because most economists work for organizations that directly profit from the impoverishment of workers.
In other news, very few waiters think everyone should dine at home.
Also, it seems that many younger programmers have been propagandized into a useful delusion. They sincerely believe that if they enthusiasticallyâ cooperate with abusive labor practices and kiss enough ass, someday they will graduate from running dog to capitalist. Never mind that winning the startup lottery has little correlation with individual work performance and very very rarely lifts one from the working class to the owning class.
The steel industry, like almost all heavy industry in the United States, was willfully destroyed by public policy. It could just as well have been preserved, had the American ruling class decided that was in their best interest.
The "free market" is found only in propaganda writing and in the credulous imaginations of small-minded followers. Look around and see what's really happening.
What fantasy land are you living in? If you can quit your job and immediately get another job at much higher pay - well, dude, go for it. Right now. Get off/. and get the ball rolling! Show us lazy sons if bitches how it's done!
Or maybe you were just pulling that shit out of your ass. Because I think most people here know that nominal wages in the tech industry have been stagnant for a decade.
Whenever you see the word "lawful", you know something bad for the common people is being done in the name of DUH LAW.
Remember boys & girls: "rule of law" just means "rule of lawyers". All the great human calamities of the 20th century - the trenches of WWI, the Armenian genocide, the Jewish holocaust in Germany, the atomic holocaust at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the allied firebombing of Berlin and Tokyo, Stalin's purges, the American chemical warfare against the Vietnamese people, the Soviet war against the Afghan people, the firebombing of Bagdad, etc etc - were all 100% unambiguously "lawful".
Virtuous laws and their just administration can be a great benefit to a people. Badlaws are worse than nothing.
I don't know of anyone who thinks the Russian FSB & friends are somehow better than the American alphabet soup agencies. But pretty much everyone thinks the American agencies should not be conducting mass surveillance on their own people.
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Actually they earn more money for the same role, and bring much higher risk to the company. But thanks for playing anyways!
The Soviet Union, for all it's many and well-documented flaws, achieved for the average citizen a huge increase in standard of living compared with the system it replaced.
A factor of capitalism? Son, exploitation of workers is the heart of capitalism. If you don't alienate the product of another man's labor, you're never going to have very impressive "profits".
Damn straight! Those filthy low skill plebs should go die in the street like dogs, and be thankful for it.
Yup, cellphones constantly spy on everyone, and the government officials in charge of that spying are totally corrupt. Anyone who doesn't enthusiastically support predatory capitalism is a terwawrist.
In other news, the Pope is Catholic, and water is wet.
It's what happens when we let alcoholics write the liquor laws.
That's what vim's :retab command is for.
DoesHound watch your commits? It will complain vigorously if you mix spaces and tabs in Python.
Secret laws, secret courts, tyranny
Most people in American prisons were convicted by means of coerced confession ("plea bargain") - just like in Stalin's USSR!
#EmptyTheGulag
Have you thought about writing a love poem for Emperor Trumpâ? They say he's the romantic type and might just enjoy it.
WTF does it mean to "high hat" someone? Yes, yes, I looked in Urban Dictionary. Do other people actually use that term?
The AMA is a "professional organization" - in other words, a union for wealthy workers with political connections. Obviously their tactics are different than the tactics employed by labor unions. Nevertheless, AMA provides collective representation to physicians, and it's primary concern is maintaining high pay for docs.
Alas, it appears the reality is that even you cannot immediately quit and get a 100% raise.
Note, the 100% wage increase claim was made by different user. I myself would not venture to guess how much increase to expect, though I certainly would expect it to be significant. Another benefit one might reasonably expect is ending the abusive labor practices which have become commonplace in the industry.
Your personal wages may well have gone up because your skill & seniority increased. That doesn't mean wages have been increasing across the board. In my observation, typical wages for any given role in Silicon Valley have been pretty stagnant for about a decade. During that period cost of living has increased very substantially.
I doubt we're gonna agree on this. You hate unions because you feel that you and your buddies are ever so super awesome. Well huzzah and good for you!
The rest of us see the proletarianization of software development, see the stagnant wages and bad working conditions. We call bullshit on your superiority complex. We see that an experienced developer in Silly Valley today has a lower standard of living than an assembly line worker fifty years ago. We see our friends burnt out and broke. We see nerds treated like subhuman work dogs, while silverspoon nepotists reap all the financial rewards. We see a bleak future if we continue down the current path.
Maybe you're okay with that, but it's not what I signed up for. It seems more and more people are feeling the same way.
Feed the Gulag!
You do know that the medical union (AMA) is the strongest union in America - right?
If they were based in India, they'd actually need to turn a profit. Fedgov's quantitative easing free money spigot is only available to American capitalists who went to the right (American) university and who play golf at the right (American) country club.
Aren't total taxes a fair bit lower in Canada than in California? So I've heard - but I know not to believe everything you hear about tax rates. Especially from the semi-official media outlets, whose reporting often hugely understates real tax rates.
Few economists think it's a good idea to have trade policies that protect workers, because most economists work for organizations that directly profit from the impoverishment of workers.
In other news, very few waiters think everyone should dine at home.
Because only communists had the courage to stand up for the interests of working people?
Also, it seems that many younger programmers have been propagandized into a useful delusion. They sincerely believe that if they enthusiasticallyâ cooperate with abusive labor practices and kiss enough ass, someday they will graduate from running dog to capitalist. Never mind that winning the startup lottery has little correlation with individual work performance and very very rarely lifts one from the working class to the owning class.
The steel industry, like almost all heavy industry in the United States, was willfully destroyed by public policy. It could just as well have been preserved, had the American ruling class decided that was in their best interest.
The "free market" is found only in propaganda writing and in the credulous imaginations of small-minded followers. Look around and see what's really happening.
What fantasy land are you living in? If you can quit your job and immediately get another job at much higher pay - well, dude, go for it. Right now. Get off /. and get the ball rolling! Show us lazy sons if bitches how it's done!
Or maybe you were just pulling that shit out of your ass. Because I think most people here know that nominal wages in the tech industry have been stagnant for a decade.
Whenever you see the word "lawful", you know something bad for the common people is being done in the name of DUH LAW.
Remember boys & girls: "rule of law" just means "rule of lawyers". All the great human calamities of the 20th century - the trenches of WWI, the Armenian genocide, the Jewish holocaust in Germany, the atomic holocaust at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the allied firebombing of Berlin and Tokyo, Stalin's purges, the American chemical warfare against the Vietnamese people, the Soviet war against the Afghan people, the firebombing of Bagdad, etc etc - were all 100% unambiguously "lawful".
Virtuous laws and their just administration can be a great benefit to a people. Badlaws are worse than nothing.
Perhaps. Or perhaps you just don't recognize your own faith.
Nice non sequitur!
I don't know of anyone who thinks the Russian FSB & friends are somehow better than the American alphabet soup agencies. But pretty much everyone thinks the American agencies should not be conducting mass surveillance on their own people.