Yeah people who can afford six acres of lawn suffer much more stress than those working three jobs to pay the rent on their shitty apartment and don't have health insurance.
Giant corridors with a single path, like dungeons in World of Warcraft, that famous console game? And yeah you can't climb or fly in console games, especially not Assassin's Creed.
Consider that wealth of average person is constantly growing (normal western workers live like kings used to live a few hundred years ago). So it might not matter in the future that water is expensive if everyone can afford it.
It will be expensive because it's scarce. You can have all the money in the world it's not going to make it rain.
If the government is doing something profitable, they shouldn't be doing it. With all likelihood, if something is profitable, a guided free market should be able to manage it much more efficiently.
Except of course that government has massively better economies of scale and doesn't have the corporate need for massive executive salaries and dividends.
Is it not better for profits to be put back into public services and shoring up public finances than siphoned away by the rich?
Maybe if you'd read more as a child you'd be capable of understanding what he was saying and respond accordingly, rather than replying to what you think he said, or wished he'd said.
Some people are pretty insecure and look for reasons to be offended.
The thing about the BBC, is that right-wing people thing it's left-wing, and left-wing people think it's right-wing.
You complain about them not questioning the necessity of government spending, others complain about them not questioning the necessity of government cuts.
When both sides thinks something is biased, it probably isn't.
The thing is, foreigners may speak English when they're trying to sell you something. But when it's the other way round, they often expect you to speak theirs.
I think the arrogance of the anglosphere is part of the reason the US and the UK have such poor balance of trade: they turn up to trade shows expecting everyone to speak English like when they go on holiday to Mexico/Spain, only to find out they don't. Meanwhile the multilingual Germans run away with all the orders.
Apple is a Chinese company with American executives. Can Dell and Facebook even be classified as tech companies? One screws imported components together, the other is a media company.
Some people say it doesn't matter where the product is manufactured, because the design is where all the money is, but then why does America have such a poor balance of trade compared to manufacturing countries like Germany and China?
You're going to have to explain to me what this actually means. Native Americans and Anglo-Saxons are pretty different things. I doubt that even one in a million Americans can legitimately call themselves Anglo-Saxon.
I don't understand why people make this claim, but I see it over and over again. There are several things to remember that completely undermine this. First, government doesn't have to provide a positive return on investment. A business has to make a profit in order to continue to exist, a government agency or regulation does not.
That profit is the inefficiency. If something costs $1 to provide, the government can provide it for $1. Whereas a private, for-profit company will add on another ten cents for executive bonuses, and another ten cents profit for the shareholders, so it now costs $1.20.
Private companies also have to compete, which means wasted money on unsold stock, advertising, kick-backs, excess capacity, and general lower economies of scale.
Solving the deficit would mean a massive cut-back in government spending. This would mean millions thrown out of work. This means less consumer demand, therefore less demand for manufactured products, therefore less engineering jobs required.
When schools and hospitals are being closed down, and when roads are being dug up and turned into dirt tracks to save on maintenance costs, when tens of millions are living on the streets, and when people are dying of starvation in the streets when food stamps are cut, no-one will tolerate government spending on your fancy Manhattan projects.
You want to reform schools, but have no idea how, so you spout empty platitudes about 'making children the focus of schools'. Just sounds like meaningless bullshit to me, the sort of empty slogans spouted by politicians who have no idea what they're doing.
Like most angry people on the Internet, you don't like something but have no idea how to do anything about it
It'll never happen. The American establishment requires bread and circuses to distract the masses from the destruction of their nation. Cheap corn provides the junk food that keeps people thinking they've got it good. I've heard Americans unironically stating that the US is better than Northern Europe because McDonald's is cheaper.
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Yeah people who can afford six acres of lawn suffer much more stress than those working three jobs to pay the rent on their shitty apartment and don't have health insurance.
Five acres of maintained lawn is pretty wasteful and expensive. All that water, fertiliser, pesticide, oil, not to mention a waste of the land.
Land is a finite resource, and it's division and use is the interest of everyone.
Giant corridors with a single path, like dungeons in World of Warcraft, that famous console game? And yeah you can't climb or fly in console games, especially not Assassin's Creed.
It will be expensive because it's scarce. You can have all the money in the world it's not going to make it rain.
Except of course that government has massively better economies of scale and doesn't have the corporate need for massive executive salaries and dividends.
Is it not better for profits to be put back into public services and shoring up public finances than siphoned away by the rich?
What exactly is the point in your statistic, comparing degreed professionals to unskilled grunt workers?
And six hours a day, have you ever known a teacher?
Does it control for their parents' socioeconomic status in their home country?
Maybe if you'd read more as a child you'd be capable of understanding what he was saying and respond accordingly, rather than replying to what you think he said, or wished he'd said.
Some people are pretty insecure and look for reasons to be offended.
Why not do away with school boards? If the US examples are anything to go by, they're just a way of politicising education.
You must be of the school that believes you can fatten a pig by weighing it.
A test culture means little learning, just endless revision and practicing exam technique.
Very few stores are 24/7, and it's usually those big supermarkets with terrible quality food and ridiculous mark-ups.
The thing about the BBC, is that right-wing people thing it's left-wing, and left-wing people think it's right-wing.
You complain about them not questioning the necessity of government spending, others complain about them not questioning the necessity of government cuts.
When both sides thinks something is biased, it probably isn't.
The thing is, foreigners may speak English when they're trying to sell you something. But when it's the other way round, they often expect you to speak theirs.
I think the arrogance of the anglosphere is part of the reason the US and the UK have such poor balance of trade: they turn up to trade shows expecting everyone to speak English like when they go on holiday to Mexico/Spain, only to find out they don't. Meanwhile the multilingual Germans run away with all the orders.
Because people not starving to death is more important than right-wing ideology.
Apple is a Chinese company with American executives.
Can Dell and Facebook even be classified as tech companies? One screws imported components together, the other is a media company.
Some people say it doesn't matter where the product is manufactured, because the design is where all the money is, but then why does America have such a poor balance of trade compared to manufacturing countries like Germany and China?
Um yeah. The NHS is known for its relative efficiency and its accessibility to the people.
How do you get rid of off-shoring in a global market?
You mean American? They're the ones with the rotten teeth. I wonder if they had Wonderbread in the Stone Age.
You're going to have to explain to me what this actually means. Native Americans and Anglo-Saxons are pretty different things. I doubt that even one in a million Americans can legitimately call themselves Anglo-Saxon.
That profit is the inefficiency. If something costs $1 to provide, the government can provide it for $1. Whereas a private, for-profit company will add on another ten cents for executive bonuses, and another ten cents profit for the shareholders, so it now costs $1.20.
Private companies also have to compete, which means wasted money on unsold stock, advertising, kick-backs, excess capacity, and general lower economies of scale.
Solving the deficit would mean a massive cut-back in government spending. This would mean millions thrown out of work. This means less consumer demand, therefore less demand for manufactured products, therefore less engineering jobs required.
When schools and hospitals are being closed down, and when roads are being dug up and turned into dirt tracks to save on maintenance costs, when tens of millions are living on the streets, and when people are dying of starvation in the streets when food stamps are cut, no-one will tolerate government spending on your fancy Manhattan projects.
You want to reform schools, but have no idea how, so you spout empty platitudes about 'making children the focus of schools'. Just sounds like meaningless bullshit to me, the sort of empty slogans spouted by politicians who have no idea what they're doing.
Like most angry people on the Internet, you don't like something but have no idea how to do anything about it
It'll never happen. The American establishment requires bread and circuses to distract the masses from the destruction of their nation. Cheap corn provides the junk food that keeps people thinking they've got it good. I've heard Americans unironically stating that the US is better than Northern Europe because McDonald's is cheaper.
It's not really the same. In Europe, the idea is to smash up the other team's city, not your own. That would be retarded.
Actually, taxes in the UK are pretty average. Higher than the US, but lower than most civilised countries.
The point of reclaiming lost taxes is that we don't need to cut the budget as far, which would cause misery to millions of people.