Kids have no choice in who their parents are, and typically only get SS if they have something like autism.
SNAPSNAP offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low-income individuals and families and provides economic benefits to communities. SNAP is the largest program in the domestic hunger safety net.
"We" were not a uniform body of people, but a series of waves of immigrants
And the part of the reason the US is the greatest economy on the planet (and also the world's leading culture, which is also monetizable) is due to immigration.
For example, consider these immigrants: Albert Einstein, I.M. Pei, John Muir, Joseph Pulitzer, Irving Berlin, Ang Lee, Cary Grant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eddie Van Halen, Rupert Murdoch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pamela Anderson, Dave Matthews, George Soros, Sergey Brin, Alexander Graham Bell, Marcus Goldman (Goldman Sachs), Pierre Omidyar (eBay), Theodore and Milton Deutschmann (Radio Shack), Maxwell Kohl (Kohl's), Daniel Aaron (Comcast), Sol Shenk (Big Lots!), Jerry Yang (Yahoo!), John W. Nordstrom (Nordstrom's), William Colgate (Colgate), Nathan Cummings (Sara Lee), E.I. du Pont, James L. Kraft, Charles Pfizer, William Procter, James Gamble, Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun / Arista Networks), Andy Grove (Intel)....
Those are of course the 1st gen immigrants. Think about how many 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants who are participating in expanding the US economy and culture (like me, for instance).
It's only natural that people who know and are related to each other would want first and foremost to support each other over any other randomly selected set of people.
Personally I don't care about people who theoretically share some kind of artificial division of humanity with me. Nationalism is a dangerous feeling that should be relegated to its proper recreational use. Man-made borders of a country are only means to achieving scalable governance.
I only care about the myself and my family and the things and people that are important to me. That is why the US is such a great and open country where people of all kinds can work together to create amazing economic and cultural growth. That is the American way!
All barriers to economic freedom reduce everyone's potential. Everyone is different, and mathematically we know that if everyone can specialize in what they are most productive at (whether that is management, computer programing, being a nanny, being a house cleaner), total productivity of humanity is maximized.
It should be illegal to require a person's high school graduation date on a resume.
Currently younger people are not a protected class (at a Federal level) against age discrimination in the US. Only workers over 40 years old are a protected class. (Some states may have other age protections).
Or, you know, have parents who cannot afford to put food on the table.
If you are over 62 you can get Social Security - in 2013 over $670 billion was spent on OASI. Poor people make more in Social Security than they put in, even accounting for inflation.
I know people who came to the US with no education, no money, no command of the english language. no legal status, etc. and they are able to work hard and provide for their families just fine.
You really have to screw up in the US to actually go hungry. Getting addicted to drugs, doing crime, etc. is one way to go down that path.
I shouldn't have called out meth, there are only about 350,000 meth addicts in the US. There are 7 million people opiate addicts (heroine, pain meds), and 1.5 million cocaine addicts.
A poll of the IGM panel of economic experts found them about 50/50 to the question "Raising the federal minimum wage to $9 per hour would make it noticeably harder for low-skilled workers to find employment.".
Would be interesting to ask the question about $15/hour.
I suspect if you asked economists about $100/hour, they would all suspect greater levels of unemployment.
Take a look at Henry Ford, the prototypical example, who paid his factory workers far more than anyone else so that they could actually afford to buy the cars they were making, kickstarting an entire industry by selling cars to people other than the rich.
This is a complete myth. Ford payed people more because he needed workers with more physical stamina to work on the assembly line rather than the more "craft like" production of vehicles. Also he wanted to reduce turnover, as new employees had to be trained up on the new assembly line, so he felt he had to pay workers more than his competitors to hold on to talented workers (before the wage rise, Ford hired almost 3 employees to keep one). And he also ran a secret police to ensure that they did not drink at home and did not cheat on their wives and that the wives did not work to ensure maximum productiveness. If you did not live up to the Ford concept of a good worker, you did not get the bonus that brought you up to $5 a day.
Ford employed 14,000 workers. This was not enough to "kickstart an industry". Car production in the year before the pay rise was 170,000, in the year of it 202,000. Moreover, even if all of his workers bought a car every year, it would be about $7 million of additional sales, but the wage rise cost $9 million.
Seattle currently has a 16.6% unemployment rate for youth age 16-24 (based on this data.
I'd be glad to wager that by 2020, the unemployment rate for youth age 16-24 in Seattle will be higher than 16.6%, with $50 going to a charity of your choice.
pay a local teen $20 every 2 weeks to mow my lawn,
Did you pay Social Security? Because if not, you are probably breaking the law. You may actually also be breaking the law if the teen did not have a work permit.
Because wages are generally only a fraction of the cost of goods sold, raising wages doesn't result in anywhere near as much of an increase in prices
The natural experiment is the fracking lands of North Dakota, where labor is so scarce that the market wage for McDonalds starts at $10.50/hour and they get a $300 signing bonus - but the Big Macs cost $1 more than usual.
That's the nature of capitalist society, capitalism naturally breeds inequality. Marx's analysis of capitalism still holds true.
On the other hand, Communism kills tens of millions of people through starvation (Ukrainian "famine", Great Leap Forward, etc.). So you gotta make the call if you want the poor to starve or to just be unequal.
To employers, slavery is a proper wage since nothing beats free.
To employers, the proper wage is the market clearing wage where employees accept the wages offered by the employer. For every employer who pays below the market wage, another pays the market wage, and the worker choses the employer who pays more.
Unless of course you decide to distort the market by having price controls, such as the minimum wage, which econ 101 says the employer has to either raise prices (possibly reducing overall sales) or employ more productive people. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
lack of a minimum living wage means that the taxpayer is forking out vast quantities of money to subsidise businesses by allowing them to employ people without paying them a living wage.
Without those subsidies, those people might have to study in high school and go to college in order to make a living...terrifying!
But instead, with the $15 minimum wage, we will have businesses only hiring the people who are productive at $15 per hour, and leave everyone else completely unemployed.
If you lay people off because the minimum wage is raised, who takes over the work those people did?
You can chose to only hire people who are clearly more productive, take fewer chances on hiring less experienced people, or you can reduce fringe benefits (for example, now employees have to purchase their uniform, breaks are more enforced to stay to the limit of the law, no more free meal, etc.)
Besides if you have to raise your prices, likely you will have less business anyway.
AO-13 was not in geosynchronous orbit, but a highly elliptical orbit with apogee near geosync distance (40,000 km), but perigee much lower (2500 km). You worked the satellite at apogee because it basically hung in the air there, and then briefly whisked around the planet to quickly to track around perigee. Transmitters tended to be 25 watts, which is more than most hand-held devices.
Folks tended to use yagi antennas with at least 15 dB gain to work AO-13 at apogee (typically 10 directing elements, here is an image).
On the other hand, I've talked to ISS astronauts with a 5W handheld transceiver and a rubber duck antenna. ISS is only 370 km away, plus it "sees" less of the planet so there is less interference from other RF sources.
Rs12821256, genotype (C;C) has "2x higher likelihood of blond hair" according to SNPedia (based on earlier work), but this new article claims the G allele is associated with blonde hair. Not sure what that means...
Optical SETI is the way to go. A 10-meter diameter visible telescope has a gain 80 dB greater than that of the 300-meter Arecibo dish.
Current NIF lasers can deliver petawatts for nanoseconds, and could easily outshine the sun during their pulse if provided with a reasonably large telescope.
But, even they try very hard to distance themselves from Iran, the land of the batshit crazy.
I just met a guy who claimed "Iranian" heritage. His (muslim) family left "Iran" in the 1800's, and moved to Lahore.
On the other hand, I live in a neighborhood with Jews most of which moved from the Islamic Republic of Iran shortly after they revolution. They call themselves "Persian".
As per Wikipedia, the term "Eran" is found to refer to Iran in a 3rd-century Sassanid inscription, meaning "Land of the Aryans".
On the other hand, the country has been known in the West as "Persia" from the Greeks "Persis", meaning land of the Persians. There are Persians in Iran, but not all Iranians are Persians. Some Iranians are Lurs, Ossetians, Kurds, Pashtuns, Balochs, and Tajiks.
In 1935, Reza Shah requested that the international community refer to the country as Iran.
There was no union in North Carolina...you have to do what administration wants or you get fired at the end of the year.
Oh noes, you have to do what your boss says?
If the administrators were idiots, the solution is not to make it impossible to fire teachers for disobeying their bosses, the solution is to get non-idiot administrators.
In the free market, idiot bosses run their companies into the ground and they shut down. In public schools, idiot administrators keep getting to spend public funds and rarely get fired.
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Kids have no choice in who their parents are, and typically only get SS if they have something like autism.
SNAP SNAP offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low-income individuals and families and provides economic benefits to communities. SNAP is the largest program in the domestic hunger safety net.
"We" were not a uniform body of people, but a series of waves of immigrants
And the part of the reason the US is the greatest economy on the planet (and also the world's leading culture, which is also monetizable) is due to immigration.
For example, consider these immigrants: Albert Einstein, I.M. Pei, John Muir, Joseph Pulitzer, Irving Berlin, Ang Lee, Cary Grant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eddie Van Halen, Rupert Murdoch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pamela Anderson, Dave Matthews, George Soros, Sergey Brin, Alexander Graham Bell, Marcus Goldman (Goldman Sachs), Pierre Omidyar (eBay), Theodore and Milton Deutschmann (Radio Shack), Maxwell Kohl (Kohl's), Daniel Aaron (Comcast), Sol Shenk (Big Lots!), Jerry Yang (Yahoo!), John W. Nordstrom (Nordstrom's), William Colgate (Colgate), Nathan Cummings (Sara Lee), E.I. du Pont, James L. Kraft, Charles Pfizer, William Procter, James Gamble, Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun / Arista Networks), Andy Grove (Intel)....
Those are of course the 1st gen immigrants. Think about how many 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants who are participating in expanding the US economy and culture (like me, for instance).
It's only natural that people who know and are related to each other would want first and foremost to support each other over any other randomly selected set of people.
Personally I don't care about people who theoretically share some kind of artificial division of humanity with me. Nationalism is a dangerous feeling that should be relegated to its proper recreational use. Man-made borders of a country are only means to achieving scalable governance.
I only care about the myself and my family and the things and people that are important to me. That is why the US is such a great and open country where people of all kinds can work together to create amazing economic and cultural growth. That is the American way!
All barriers to economic freedom reduce everyone's potential. Everyone is different, and mathematically we know that if everyone can specialize in what they are most productive at (whether that is management, computer programing, being a nanny, being a house cleaner), total productivity of humanity is maximized.
No big surprise that the collapse of the unions in the late 60s and 70s coincided with the rise of minorities in blue collar/skilled labor.
Which minorities are those? African Americans? Since most African Americans have ancestors in this country going back over 200 years
African Americans were actively excluded from unions until the late 1960's, see Unions and Discrimination.
It should be illegal to require a person's high school graduation date on a resume.
Currently younger people are not a protected class (at a Federal level) against age discrimination in the US. Only workers over 40 years old are a protected class. (Some states may have other age protections).
You didn't think they were sent home, did you?
I know an H1-B holder who had to leave the country with his family (and kids who grew up in the US) when it came to and end.
So yes, they do send them home. Why don't you go talk to an H1-B visa holder...
Or, you know, have parents who cannot afford to put food on the table.
If you are over 62 you can get Social Security - in 2013 over $670 billion was spent on OASI. Poor people make more in Social Security than they put in, even accounting for inflation.
I know people who came to the US with no education, no money, no command of the english language. no legal status, etc. and they are able to work hard and provide for their families just fine.
You really have to screw up in the US to actually go hungry. Getting addicted to drugs, doing crime, etc. is one way to go down that path.
I shouldn't have called out meth, there are only about 350,000 meth addicts in the US. There are 7 million people opiate addicts (heroine, pain meds), and 1.5 million cocaine addicts.
A poll of the IGM panel of economic experts found them about 50/50 to the question "Raising the federal minimum wage to $9 per hour would make it noticeably harder for low-skilled workers to find employment.".
Would be interesting to ask the question about $15/hour.
I suspect if you asked economists about $100/hour, they would all suspect greater levels of unemployment.
Sure, there is no issue with starvation in the US
Because when you spend your money on Meth, there is no money left for food...
Take a look at Henry Ford, the prototypical example, who paid his factory workers far more than anyone else so that they could actually afford to buy the cars they were making, kickstarting an entire industry by selling cars to people other than the rich.
This is a complete myth. Ford payed people more because he needed workers with more physical stamina to work on the assembly line rather than the more "craft like" production of vehicles. Also he wanted to reduce turnover, as new employees had to be trained up on the new assembly line, so he felt he had to pay workers more than his competitors to hold on to talented workers (before the wage rise, Ford hired almost 3 employees to keep one). And he also ran a secret police to ensure that they did not drink at home and did not cheat on their wives and that the wives did not work to ensure maximum productiveness. If you did not live up to the Ford concept of a good worker, you did not get the bonus that brought you up to $5 a day.
Ford employed 14,000 workers. This was not enough to "kickstart an industry". Car production in the year before the pay rise was 170,000, in the year of it 202,000. Moreover, even if all of his workers bought a car every year, it would be about $7 million of additional sales, but the wage rise cost $9 million.
more details...
Walmart is the 900-kb gorilla
Note: THERE IS NO WALMART IN SEATTLE. The closest ones are in Bellevue.
Care to place a wager?
Seattle currently has a 16.6% unemployment rate for youth age 16-24 (based on this data.
I'd be glad to wager that by 2020, the unemployment rate for youth age 16-24 in Seattle will be higher than 16.6%, with $50 going to a charity of your choice.
pay a local teen $20 every 2 weeks to mow my lawn,
Did you pay Social Security? Because if not, you are probably breaking the law. You may actually also be breaking the law if the teen did not have a work permit.
Because wages are generally only a fraction of the cost of goods sold, raising wages doesn't result in anywhere near as much of an increase in prices
The natural experiment is the fracking lands of North Dakota, where labor is so scarce that the market wage for McDonalds starts at $10.50/hour and they get a $300 signing bonus - but the Big Macs cost $1 more than usual.
That's the nature of capitalist society, capitalism naturally breeds inequality. Marx's analysis of capitalism still holds true.
On the other hand, Communism kills tens of millions of people through starvation (Ukrainian "famine", Great Leap Forward, etc.). So you gotta make the call if you want the poor to starve or to just be unequal.
To employers, slavery is a proper wage since nothing beats free.
To employers, the proper wage is the market clearing wage where employees accept the wages offered by the employer. For every employer who pays below the market wage, another pays the market wage, and the worker choses the employer who pays more.
Unless of course you decide to distort the market by having price controls, such as the minimum wage, which econ 101 says the employer has to either raise prices (possibly reducing overall sales) or employ more productive people. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
lack of a minimum living wage means that the taxpayer is forking out vast quantities of money to subsidise businesses by allowing them to employ people without paying them a living wage.
Without those subsidies, those people might have to study in high school and go to college in order to make a living...terrifying!
But instead, with the $15 minimum wage, we will have businesses only hiring the people who are productive at $15 per hour, and leave everyone else completely unemployed.
Australia has a minimum wage of about $15 right now. And the unemployment rate is less than 6%.
Those 20 and under can make less. 16-year-olds in Australia have a minimum wage of $6.03 AUD.
If you lay people off because the minimum wage is raised, who takes over the work those people did?
You can chose to only hire people who are clearly more productive, take fewer chances on hiring less experienced people, or you can reduce fringe benefits (for example, now employees have to purchase their uniform, breaks are more enforced to stay to the limit of the law, no more free meal, etc.)
Besides if you have to raise your prices, likely you will have less business anyway.
AO-13 was not in geosynchronous orbit, but a highly elliptical orbit with apogee near geosync distance (40,000 km), but perigee much lower (2500 km). You worked the satellite at apogee because it basically hung in the air there, and then briefly whisked around the planet to quickly to track around perigee. Transmitters tended to be 25 watts, which is more than most hand-held devices.
Folks tended to use yagi antennas with at least 15 dB gain to work AO-13 at apogee (typically 10 directing elements, here is an image).
On the other hand, I've talked to ISS astronauts with a 5W handheld transceiver and a rubber duck antenna. ISS is only 370 km away, plus it "sees" less of the planet so there is less interference from other RF sources.
Rs12821256, genotype (C;C) has "2x higher likelihood of blond hair" according to SNPedia (based on earlier work), but this new article claims the G allele is associated with blonde hair. Not sure what that means...
Optical SETI is the way to go. A 10-meter diameter visible telescope has a gain 80 dB greater than that of the 300-meter Arecibo dish.
Current NIF lasers can deliver petawatts for nanoseconds, and could easily outshine the sun during their pulse if provided with a reasonably large telescope.
That is a key assertion, especially if broadened to, say, the top 20%. What is your source?
Here is some info:
61% of U.S. households will break into the top 20% of incomes (roughly $111,000) for at least 2 consecutive years.
39% of U.S. households will break into the top 10% of incomes (roughly $153,000) for at least 2 consecutive years.
5% of U.S. households will break into the top 1% of incomes (roughly $360,000) for at least 2 consecutive years.
That said, 20% of U.S. households will fall into poverty (roughly $23,850 for a family of 4) for at least 2 consecutive years..
Source info here.
But, even they try very hard to distance themselves from Iran, the land of the batshit crazy.
I just met a guy who claimed "Iranian" heritage. His (muslim) family left "Iran" in the 1800's, and moved to Lahore.
On the other hand, I live in a neighborhood with Jews most of which moved from the Islamic Republic of Iran shortly after they revolution. They call themselves "Persian".
As per Wikipedia, the term "Eran" is found to refer to Iran in a 3rd-century Sassanid inscription, meaning "Land of the Aryans".
On the other hand, the country has been known in the West as "Persia" from the Greeks "Persis", meaning land of the Persians. There are Persians in Iran, but not all Iranians are Persians. Some Iranians are Lurs, Ossetians, Kurds, Pashtuns, Balochs, and Tajiks.
In 1935, Reza Shah requested that the international community refer to the country as Iran.
So it is complex...
There was no union in North Carolina...you have to do what administration wants or you get fired at the end of the year.
Oh noes, you have to do what your boss says?
If the administrators were idiots, the solution is not to make it impossible to fire teachers for disobeying their bosses, the solution is to get non-idiot administrators.
In the free market, idiot bosses run their companies into the ground and they shut down. In public schools, idiot administrators keep getting to spend public funds and rarely get fired.