"most of middle class Venezuela benefited from this high per capita income. Saying that it all went to the top 1% is just not true."
So you're saying all the income went to the top 5%?
Here's a hint: well run countries with reasonably equitable distribution of wealth just DON'T HAVE communist/socialist revolutions. That Venezuela's bourgeoisie still can't admit they fucked up is why they are still not worthy of returning to power.
Consider also in America all those smarmy Corporate Progressives who just cannot admit their economic policies have been a disastrous failure, leaving masses of their countrymen destitute and desperate. They have likewise demonstrated themselves unworthy of power.
Isn't that just the headline tax rate, before loopholes. It's a jobs program for tax attorneys. Once they get properly lawyered up, most big American companies pay a very low effective tax rate.
I ran my own email server for years. At first it wasn't hard. But eventually dealing with spam filtering because so laborious and burdensome that I gave it up and switched to a popular commercial email provider.
Which I suppose is exactly the outcome fesired by the organizations bankrolling spammers. So much easier to surveil a handful of centralized servers...
Widely hated anti-freedom candidate Hillary Clinton, after stealing the primary from popular and upstanding candidate Bernie Sanders, "won" the popular vote entirely due to widespread election fraud.
Fortunately the hubris of Clinton and her minions led them to neglect entirely the majority working class, whom she called deplorable. There still remain enough honest men in the public service that all Clinton's millions in bribes came to nought, and America was saved from a warlike and corrupt adminstration.
Thus the perfidious tragedy of Hillary Clinton ends on a comic note. Inherited aristocrat, capitalist dog, and former reality TV host Donald Trump was raised up as tribune of the people. Perhaps God does have a sense of humor.
Hey, fair is fair. If Uncle Sam gets to spy on everyone thanks to Big Brother Google, then Emperor Xi gets to spy on everyone thanks to the good comrades at Huawei.
Are you kidding, bro? Uber has done more in a few years to reduce drunk driving than all the public service announcements and all the police jackboot crackdown campaigns ever in history.
There are big problems with Uber's business model and their abusive labor practices. (How can they be the uncontested market leader, set their own prices, grossly underpay their workers, externalize their capital costs onto their workers - and still lose billions every year? Good old fashioned embezzlement??) But that doesn't mean there is no public benefit whatsoever from their service.
Such certainty! Such calm repose in confidence of the infalliblity of corporate and academic officialdom! Even in the face of your own valid arguments about the difficulty of proving something to be "true". Such serenity in ignoring all risk - only a fool could let mere evidence challenge the received TRUTH.
Brother, I admire your pious conviction. It is said that faith is a gift from God. Truly you have been blessed!
President Trump refuses to ignore mounting evidence of serious health risks, even when that threatens pharma corporate profits. Because he actually cares about the well-being of the American people.
Dude, look out - there's a Russian hiding under your bed!
Are you *really* so ignorant as to believe *everyone* who is against forced-vax is a Russian bot? Greens, hippies, small-c conservatives, libertarians, intellectuals, anarchists, and some religious faithful are all natural opponents of authoritarian quackery.
When your scream your appeal to your ersatz religion - "but but but muh SCIENCE(tm)!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!" - only credulous middle-brow bumpkins are moved. Anyone with real understanding of science, statistics, and/or history can see you are disingenuously sweeping risks under the table, while exaggerating the benefits of widespread coerced compliance.
Also note, Miss Winner was not legitimately convicted of anything by a jury of her peers. Instead she was coerced into making a false confession ("plea bargain") by a contemptible kangaroo court.
All convictions where the accused is railroaded into "confessing" are inherently illegitimate. That's some straight up Stalin bullshit that ought have no place in America.
Yup. The Kindle Paperwhite is a superior device. Read anywhere, never worry about battery life, and a pleasant & low distraction UI. Just barely pocket size. So it is easily carried without the display being too tiny. Ability to buy obscure books almost instantly if I see an interesting reference.
Amazon probably makes a lot more ebook sales on Kindle than anywhere else. I can't imagine buying an ebook to read on the laptop - I'll find a free copy somewhere. But that requires time & effort. If I can get a properly formatted version on the Kindle with near zero effort, and the price is right, they've got a sale.
Even tho it's just a fucking database entry saying I'm allowed to read the damned book.
I find it ironic that recruiters bellyache about "professionalism" when they're not offering professional salaries.
Pay enough that tech workers can afford to buy a home - in Surveillance Valley or New Jack City, not Bumfuck, Iowa - and maybe people will start giving a shit. Until then it's just a skilled labor McJob. Expect workers to treat it with all the respect it deserves, which is to say none.
The old adage never stops being true: pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Yup, gross. If Netflix starts forcing ads on its customers, I will stop being one of those customers.
I watch only a little, but I've been a Netflix subscriber for years. Netflix gets my business because the price is low and the user experience is good. Change either of those, and it's just not worth it for me.
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+1 informative
Obviously a feature. Not only is Big Brother Google always watching... he likes to invite his friends to watch, too.
"Otherwise quantitative easing in the last decade would have caused inflation."
Yup, prices for most things at least doubled - but there's no inflation! Sure, sure... Is that what they call "ostrich economics"?
"most of middle class Venezuela benefited from this high per capita income. Saying that it all went to the top 1% is just not true."
So you're saying all the income went to the top 5%?
Here's a hint: well run countries with reasonably equitable distribution of wealth just DON'T HAVE communist/socialist revolutions. That Venezuela's bourgeoisie still can't admit they fucked up is why they are still not worthy of returning to power.
Consider also in America all those smarmy Corporate Progressives who just cannot admit their economic policies have been a disastrous failure, leaving masses of their countrymen destitute and desperate. They have likewise demonstrated themselves unworthy of power.
Isn't that just the headline tax rate, before loopholes. It's a jobs program for tax attorneys. Once they get properly lawyered up, most big American companies pay a very low effective tax rate.
The economy in most large areas of America has been in a deep economic depression for decades.
Left vs right is a false dichotomy. So all arguments based thereupon are bound to be at least a little incoherent.
The fainting couch is right over that way...
Yes, totally agree. But I don't think that many people respect Google anymore, much less admire them.
I ran my own email server for years. At first it wasn't hard. But eventually dealing with spam filtering because so laborious and burdensome that I gave it up and switched to a popular commercial email provider.
Which I suppose is exactly the outcome fesired by the organizations bankrolling spammers. So much easier to surveil a handful of centralized servers...
It looks like our friends in Europe will soon make illegal the wasteful, environmentally irresponsible, & abusive practice of planned obsolescence.
Alas, our Congress finds lawful bribery far too lucrative to be bothered with protecting the people or from abusive corporations.
Widely hated anti-freedom candidate Hillary Clinton, after stealing the primary from popular and upstanding candidate Bernie Sanders, "won" the popular vote entirely due to widespread election fraud.
Fortunately the hubris of Clinton and her minions led them to neglect entirely the majority working class, whom she called deplorable. There still remain enough honest men in the public service that all Clinton's millions in bribes came to nought, and America was saved from a warlike and corrupt adminstration.
Thus the perfidious tragedy of Hillary Clinton ends on a comic note. Inherited aristocrat, capitalist dog, and former reality TV host Donald Trump was raised up as tribune of the people. Perhaps God does have a sense of humor.
"pathetic"
I think the preferred term is "little Eichmanns".
Hey, fair is fair. If Uncle Sam gets to spy on everyone thanks to Big Brother Google, then Emperor Xi gets to spy on everyone thanks to the good comrades at Huawei.
Are you kidding, bro? Uber has done more in a few years to reduce drunk driving than all the public service announcements and all the police jackboot crackdown campaigns ever in history.
There are big problems with Uber's business model and their abusive labor practices. (How can they be the uncontested market leader, set their own prices, grossly underpay their workers, externalize their capital costs onto their workers - and still lose billions every year? Good old fashioned embezzlement??) But that doesn't mean there is no public benefit whatsoever from their service.
NPM's audit function finds known, patched vulnerabilities in the dependency chain. That's all. ;)
Everyone who disagrees with me is emotionally unbalanced!!
Such certainty! Such calm repose in confidence of the infalliblity of corporate and academic officialdom! Even in the face of your own valid arguments about the difficulty of proving something to be "true". Such serenity in ignoring all risk - only a fool could let mere evidence challenge the received TRUTH.
Brother, I admire your pious conviction. It is said that faith is a gift from God. Truly you have been blessed!
President Trump refuses to ignore mounting evidence of serious health risks, even when that threatens pharma corporate profits. Because he actually cares about the well-being of the American people.
And all you can do is scream, "HERESY!!!!!!"
Dude, look out - there's a Russian hiding under your bed!
Are you *really* so ignorant as to believe *everyone* who is against forced-vax is a Russian bot? Greens, hippies, small-c conservatives, libertarians, intellectuals, anarchists, and some religious faithful are all natural opponents of authoritarian quackery.
When your scream your appeal to your ersatz religion - "but but but muh SCIENCE(tm)!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!" - only credulous middle-brow bumpkins are moved. Anyone with real understanding of science, statistics, and/or history can see you are disingenuously sweeping risks under the table, while exaggerating the benefits of widespread coerced compliance.
It's just another self-righteous Puritan educated in Massachusetts, trying to force their joyless, abstemious lifestyle onto everyone else.
Also note, Miss Winner was not legitimately convicted of anything by a jury of her peers. Instead she was coerced into making a false confession ("plea bargain") by a contemptible kangaroo court.
All convictions where the accused is railroaded into "confessing" are inherently illegitimate. That's some straight up Stalin bullshit that ought have no place in America.
Yup. The Kindle Paperwhite is a superior device. Read anywhere, never worry about battery life, and a pleasant & low distraction UI. Just barely pocket size. So it is easily carried without the display being too tiny. Ability to buy obscure books almost instantly if I see an interesting reference.
Amazon probably makes a lot more ebook sales on Kindle than anywhere else. I can't imagine buying an ebook to read on the laptop - I'll find a free copy somewhere. But that requires time & effort. If I can get a properly formatted version on the Kindle with near zero effort, and the price is right, they've got a sale.
Even tho it's just a fucking database entry saying I'm allowed to read the damned book.
I find it ironic that recruiters bellyache about "professionalism" when they're not offering professional salaries.
Pay enough that tech workers can afford to buy a home - in Surveillance Valley or New Jack City, not Bumfuck, Iowa - and maybe people will start giving a shit. Until then it's just a skilled labor McJob. Expect workers to treat it with all the respect it deserves, which is to say none.
The old adage never stops being true: pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Yup, gross. If Netflix starts forcing ads on its customers, I will stop being one of those customers.
I watch only a little, but I've been a Netflix subscriber for years. Netflix gets my business because the price is low and the user experience is good. Change either of those, and it's just not worth it for me.