Your adjusting for inflation, which is what makes things more expensive to the person earning the same money year in and year out, like your earlier example. Inflation is built into our system and it's designed to funnel money to the capital holders at the expense of the labor. You can't just wave away inflation, which means a real dollar difference in what things cost people. Even small managed inflation causes rent seeking to make sure your money isn't eroded away. Your economic theory is sound, but your real world experience is slanted...
For example in one year you could have $20,000 being defined within the scope of middle class, and then the next year it could be defined as poverty, even though the person making $20,000 a year has not become less wealthy.
Yes, they are poorer. everything is always increasing in price. Mainly due to the rent seeking our capitalist system encourages. Alot of people think it's due to the lack of a gold standard, but it's an inherent flaw in the system. Look at cost tables from centuries ago and you see that the cost of a chicken was the same for generations. Now the cost fluctuates wildly, but always creeps up slowly. There are people alive who remember nickel candy bars. Vending machines carried them for 50 cents when I was little and in a decade or two they have doubled in prices.
This is 90% due to rent seeking of those with capital. They have money and they need to make it grow.
Yes, neither income coming in or wealth accumulated measure middle class. Middle class refers to a group that has both disposable income and leisure time. If your making a ton of money that all goes out with no ability to save, you aren't middle class, even if it looks that way from the outside. If your forced to sell off possessions at loss every month, you aren't middle class. Middle class refers to and requires stability.
If it was only people with hands competing with people with shovels there would be no problem. The problem has more to do with the systematic protection of those with shovels, to insure that those with hands have to rent shovels and pay penalties and fees to keep using the shovels while usually paying out of pocket for repairs and normal wear and tear. The shovel owners have warehouses full of shovels that they hoard and keep adding too, while they only rent out the worn out shovels that the renter is forced to repair and upgrade. Everytime a shovel renter manages to buy a shovel the existing shovel owners edge them out of the market so they can't rent that shovel out and they are eventually forced to sell their shovel at a loss.
Meanwhile the shovel owners pretend that the vast amount of law enforcement needed to keep their boot the necks of the shovel renters, and the vast expense of courts to deal with shovel contracts and other legal framework that clearly benefits the shovel owners, is free to them and should be payed for by shovel renters. They are too busy amassing and counting their excess shovels and they would rather pay for nice shovel shelves then contribute to anything that might benefit anyone beyond themselves.
I disagree. The ending went from dragged out too rushed, a difficult feat. It didn't tie into the rest of the story and basically igd iored all anything that was inconvenient and would need any sort of explanation.
----SPOILER----
Rand gets burned out and is somehow delighted to spend the rest of his life without channeling (unlike any other character). Somehow his "marriage" bonds survive this ordeal (unlike warder bonds or any other type of one power bond). He rides off into the sunset with his harem of wealthy women happy to see that he is safe and content that he will visit them and their beds occasionally. Everyone else thinks Rand is dead because he somehow switched bodies with Moridan who everyone is content not to worry about (odd).
The ebook will still be safely backup up on my calibre (or it's successor) server. I wont be tempted to throw it away because the space it takes up is negligible. When my children want to read it or loan it to their kids they won't have to deal with losing it or waiting until we visit grandpa. It won't get worn out when the kids read it in the bathroom or while their slurping up cereal. I could continue, but I think you get the point.
Well, with your own test, youtube is streaming. You can skip to the end of the file. If you try to download the file you will get a video fragment starting at the point you skipped forward to.
There is a cost to line-iteming that out. I don't object to it being shown, but then you end up with stuff like the phone companies do, advertise 19.99 and then you get your bill and it's 32.57 due to all the fee's and surcharges. Those should be included in any advertised price. How can you compare costs and have a workable free market when half the costs are hidden. I could honestly care less about the companies overhead.
Also, Company A might figure out that the cost to providing is x, because they are a crappy company. Company B figures the cost is X, based market rate, but they only really spend x/3. What do they report? Meanwhile company C is lean and mean and the provide the same services for x/4. Your demand is just asking to be abused by accounting tricks.
I don't think you can have a zfs system fail and move it directly to new hardware like you can with vmware handling the drivers and standardizing the hardware that the OS sees.
I agree, a SAN, or zfs does mimic many of the advantages.
The killer feature is portability and snapshot/template. You can clone machines quickly and move them to new hardware seamlessly (with the right licenses and backend). You can also make quick snapshot backups to backout changes or clone to new systems. With the right scripts you can scale up your cluster sizes dynamically.
Wow, you still believe that load of horse shit? Take your head out of the sand man! That itching and burning in your ass is not a hemorrhoid, it's the GOP and Fox double teaming you.
Well, the whole tax structure of the US is designed to value capital in over any sort of labor (mental, physical, specialized). There are certain types of labor valued more, but none are valued like a big pile of cash. That labor has taxes and an army of middle men taking a cut. The capital has the same army of middle men, but much lower tax rates and a general deference that never accompanies the value inherent in someone doing good work.
A side affect of this is a need for constant infusions of capital, to allow the existing capital to grow. Capital can't multiply on it's own, it takes some soft of labor to create capital. So our society needs places where labor can feed their capital into the capital system, without actually becoming part of that system. Home ownership is one of those places. 401k's, IRA's, and small stocks are another.
Traditionally bank accounts fulfilled part of that role, but with the advent of bank fees and shrinking wages, that avenue is much smaller.
The government should NOT be growing business or creating a business friendly climate. The government should be creating a level playing field and ensuring the rights of it's citizens are respected. We also use it to pool money to provide services like civil defense, legal framework, emergency & rescue services, healthcare, retirement/disability, etc...
It's funny to say this money is "earned" in a foreign country when It's often some accounting magic where IP is "sold" to an out of country division who then licenses it back to the in country entity. Maybe they do rents with physical items also, I'm not sure.
There is no conceivable way that this could be viewed as unfair or unethical. Those funds should have always been taxed.
From personal experience, they will have an excuse to budget a tv in every office (to watch for weather and new alerts). The tv will be used primarily to watch People's court and other daytime drivel.
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Your adjusting for inflation, which is what makes things more expensive to the person earning the same money year in and year out, like your earlier example. Inflation is built into our system and it's designed to funnel money to the capital holders at the expense of the labor. You can't just wave away inflation, which means a real dollar difference in what things cost people.
Even small managed inflation causes rent seeking to make sure your money isn't eroded away. Your economic theory is sound, but your real world experience is slanted...
hmmm... $30 a month for a "private" connections, which in the fine prints, isn't that private. Or, $40 / year for a vpn. Which should I choose?
Sure, and we'll all fly to moon colonies with our jetpacks.
For example in one year you could have $20,000 being defined within the scope of middle class, and then the next year it could be defined as poverty, even though the person making $20,000 a year has not become less wealthy.
Yes, they are poorer. everything is always increasing in price. Mainly due to the rent seeking our capitalist system encourages. Alot of people think it's due to the lack of a gold standard, but it's an inherent flaw in the system. Look at cost tables from centuries ago and you see that the cost of a chicken was the same for generations. Now the cost fluctuates wildly, but always creeps up slowly. There are people alive who remember nickel candy bars. Vending machines carried them for 50 cents when I was little and in a decade or two they have doubled in prices.
This is 90% due to rent seeking of those with capital. They have money and they need to make it grow.
Yes, neither income coming in or wealth accumulated measure middle class. Middle class refers to a group that has both disposable income and leisure time. If your making a ton of money that all goes out with no ability to save, you aren't middle class, even if it looks that way from the outside. If your forced to sell off possessions at loss every month, you aren't middle class.
Middle class refers to and requires stability.
Too true...
If it was only people with hands competing with people with shovels there would be no problem. The problem has more to do with the systematic protection of those with shovels, to insure that those with hands have to rent shovels and pay penalties and fees to keep using the shovels while usually paying out of pocket for repairs and normal wear and tear. The shovel owners have warehouses full of shovels that they hoard and keep adding too, while they only rent out the worn out shovels that the renter is forced to repair and upgrade. Everytime a shovel renter manages to buy a shovel the existing shovel owners edge them out of the market so they can't rent that shovel out and they are eventually forced to sell their shovel at a loss.
Meanwhile the shovel owners pretend that the vast amount of law enforcement needed to keep their boot the necks of the shovel renters, and the vast expense of courts to deal with shovel contracts and other legal framework that clearly benefits the shovel owners, is free to them and should be payed for by shovel renters. They are too busy amassing and counting their excess shovels and they would rather pay for nice shovel shelves then contribute to anything that might benefit anyone beyond themselves.
That's unlikely because I had children young. I intend to be around for my great grandchildren.
I disagree. The ending went from dragged out too rushed, a difficult feat. It didn't tie into the rest of the story and basically igd iored all anything that was inconvenient and would need any sort of explanation.
----SPOILER----
Rand gets burned out and is somehow delighted to spend the rest of his life without channeling (unlike any other character). Somehow his "marriage" bonds survive this ordeal (unlike warder bonds or any other type of one power bond). He rides off into the sunset with his harem of wealthy women happy to see that he is safe and content that he will visit them and their beds occasionally.
Everyone else thinks Rand is dead because he somehow switched bodies with Moridan who everyone is content not to worry about (odd).
The ebook will still be safely backup up on my calibre (or it's successor) server. I wont be tempted to throw it away because the space it takes up is negligible. When my children want to read it or loan it to their kids they won't have to deal with losing it or waiting until we visit grandpa. It won't get worn out when the kids read it in the bathroom or while their slurping up cereal.
I could continue, but I think you get the point.
Well, with your own test, youtube is streaming. You can skip to the end of the file. If you try to download the file you will get a video fragment starting at the point you skipped forward to.
There is a cost to line-iteming that out. I don't object to it being shown, but then you end up with stuff like the phone companies do, advertise 19.99 and then you get your bill and it's 32.57 due to all the fee's and surcharges. Those should be included in any advertised price. How can you compare costs and have a workable free market when half the costs are hidden. I could honestly care less about the companies overhead.
Also, Company A might figure out that the cost to providing is x, because they are a crappy company. Company B figures the cost is X, based market rate, but they only really spend x/3. What do they report? Meanwhile company C is lean and mean and the provide the same services for x/4. Your demand is just asking to be abused by accounting tricks.
Dickbreath has a point.
I don't think you can have a zfs system fail and move it directly to new hardware like you can with vmware handling the drivers and standardizing the hardware that the OS sees.
I agree, a SAN, or zfs does mimic many of the advantages.
The killer feature is portability and snapshot/template. You can clone machines quickly and move them to new hardware seamlessly (with the right licenses and backend). You can also make quick snapshot backups to backout changes or clone to new systems. With the right scripts you can scale up your cluster sizes dynamically.
Wow, you still believe that load of horse shit? Take your head out of the sand man! That itching and burning in your ass is not a hemorrhoid, it's the GOP and Fox double teaming you.
Well, the whole tax structure of the US is designed to value capital in over any sort of labor (mental, physical, specialized). There are certain types of labor valued more, but none are valued like a big pile of cash. That labor has taxes and an army of middle men taking a cut. The capital has the same army of middle men, but much lower tax rates and a general deference that never accompanies the value inherent in someone doing good work.
A side affect of this is a need for constant infusions of capital, to allow the existing capital to grow. Capital can't multiply on it's own, it takes some soft of labor to create capital. So our society needs places where labor can feed their capital into the capital system, without actually becoming part of that system. Home ownership is one of those places. 401k's, IRA's, and small stocks are another.
Traditionally bank accounts fulfilled part of that role, but with the advent of bank fees and shrinking wages, that avenue is much smaller.
Which explains why he only got one term.
Old guy thinks kids are more liberal then ever and condemns them (mostly due to jealosy)
More news at 11.
Is that you Huckabee?
The government should NOT be growing business or creating a business friendly climate.
The government should be creating a level playing field and ensuring the rights of it's citizens are respected. We also use it to pool money to provide services like civil defense, legal framework, emergency & rescue services, healthcare, retirement/disability, etc...
No, I pay those with. It's a hidden tax. It would/should be part of your wage.
It's funny to say this money is "earned" in a foreign country when It's often some accounting magic where IP is "sold" to an out of country division who then licenses it back to the in country entity. Maybe they do rents with physical items also, I'm not sure.
There is no conceivable way that this could be viewed as unfair or unethical. Those funds should have always been taxed.
Thanks Obama!
Not with my trusty DVR.
From personal experience, they will have an excuse to budget a tv in every office (to watch for weather and new alerts). The tv will be used primarily to watch People's court and other daytime drivel.