80% of businesses fail in the first 5 years. A McDonald's franchise costs millions and requires a proven track record of business. Even a bloody Subway costs over $100k and no bank will just give you that money.
Now, if my daddy left me millions of dollars to invest and millions more to live off of if those investments didn't pan out you'd have a point. But we can't all be Donald Trump.
Lastly what you believe has little to no bearing on what actually happens in reality. You're not free so long as somebody controls your access to food, shelter and healthcare. And you're not secure in your freedom if even 1/3 of the populace lacks that security. Sooner or latter some demagogue will come along, mobilize them and turn them against you. I've got 5 thousand years of demagogues to back me up on that assertion. Real freedom can only be had when the working class has solidarity and nobody gets left behind. Until then you're just waiting for the next round of gestapos, guillotines and gulags..
there's too much competition for work. Mix in automation and there's even more. That's the trouble with Capitalism. It was thought up in a time of local craftsman. Adam Smith didn't see modern satellite based telecommunications coming.
if you're working long hours you're doing it wrong. Identify simple repetitive tasks and either automate them or give them to junior employees. Use the time you free up for complex added value tasks. Just make sure you're adding those kinds of things to your official list of duties and that everybody knows you're doing them. Not just for recognition but so bean counters don't fire you because on paper you don't have a job anymore:). Then use the value adds to get raises until you hit your salary cap and then either a promotion or leave the company as needed. Lather, rinse repeat.
Something ain't right. Yeah, you fire folks from time to time. Maybe even whole teams. But mass layoffs in sales? And at a time when Chromebooks and Tablets are threatening market share?
why not follow that to it's logical conclusion and drop everybody's wages to 1 cent/hr?
Yeah, I'm being facetious. But it's a core argument made by the other side (raise minimum wage to $200/hr!).
And yes, those studies are correct. They're correct because you'll see adults competing for jobs that only kids can hold right now. That's because only kids could make that little and survive. It's a minor thing since poor economic conditions forcing adults to take second jobs and increasing workload at school has forced most of them out of the job market anyway. It does, however, let you take their research out of context and make it look like raising the minimum wage hurts people that live off it; which is wrong.
it's the kind of positive make-work project that does good things for the local economy. The guys I know in the defense industry make 2-3x the going rate for the equivalent work (unless they're high-end math guys, Wallstreet gobbles those guys up for HFT).
that licensing guns is the first step to rounding them all up. Personally, if my gov't gets to the point where they're rounding up small arms I'm not going to be able to do much about it. I wouldn't last 5 minutes against a modern military. Hell, even Isis is being whittled down by the rather tepid force we toss at them (they just lost a couple major sources of income, Mosul).
Chrome is just an advertising platform for Google. It exists to make sure Microsoft didn't cut them out of ad revenue. They don't care what browser you use as long as you can see their ads.
every time it's been tried it's just resulted in the most violent psychopath in charge. What's needed is a society where nobody's left behind. Where nobody resorts to violence. If you've got enough disenfranchised folks without access to food and shelter that they're resulting to violence they'll be organized by somebody and used to seize power. Just like it did in China and the USSR.
You've got a chance right now, but it means voting while you can and voting for candidates that will take care of those teaming masses before they become some Demagogue's weapon.
the industrial revolution just put people out of work. Than about 50-80 years latter other tech caught up (plus two World Wars thinned the herd) and things got better.
There's a reason the Luddites existed and it wasn't because they were prototypical Amish. They lost their livelihoods and were starving in the streets. It takes decades for a society to adjust to these kinds of changes and in the meantime there's poverty, death and war. The difference today is information is widespread enough that we can see it coming and react if we want.
Or we could just keep telling ourselves everything is fine because eventually it might correct itself. But think of it like this: When in our lives has a complex problem been best solved by ignoring it and letting it sort itself out?
to make science work with public opinion? Scientists will never say "This is a fact". That's been exploited for as long as I can remember by shysters who say "Well, the scientists say they're not sure" when nothing could be further from the truth. It's a verbiage problem. But not one I see the scientists changing on since well, it's part of science that evidence changes you're belief...
not in the real world. What's really needed is a scientific approach to society. Which is to say: Recognize that no system will ever be prefect and will require constant adjustment. Accept that you can be wrong and that there is no bedrock to stand on. You're standing on a bedrock of Libertarianism. It'll crumble and when it does you won't move. What's worse, you'll grab everyone around you and try to force them to stand on that crumbling infrastructure with you.
Until we are each and every one a God unto itself we'll be vulnerable to change. Progressivism can be summed up with the old "I only know I know nothing". It's only principle is to take care of everyone because all humanity deserves a good life simply by being born human. e.g. nobody gets left behind. After that it's just about how you get there. The end justify the means, and if you screw up (and you will) you bend in the wind and change. The entire system becomes one of careful measurement and continuous improvement. E.g. Science.
and the coup happened when the voter rolls leaked. There's mounting evidence (including an article from the WSJ, not exactly a WaPo style liberal rag) that those leaked voter rolls were shared with the Republicans and would have played a crucial roll in their victory.
there's no such thing as a law that's not enforced. That said, blind obedience to a 200 year old document written mostly by wealthy land owners protecting their interests probably isn't the answer either. I'd like to see our entire system of gov't reworked into something less prone to oligarchy. But folks learn in school it's the best of the world and it's hard to shake stuff you learned when you were a kid.
since it's from a Nuclear Industry think tank, but they might have a point. Nuclear power produces very little waste. The trouble isn't the amount, it's that it's insanely dangerous and that companies have a long history of not caring where they throw their waste so long as it's cheap. You'd need a population that super pro-regulation and government oversight to make it work. Otherwise sooner or later some asshat will come along, buy off a few Senators (or whatever your local equivalent is) and toss the waste in some poor community (probably one with a disenfranchised minority of some sort, every nation's got at least one).
it's practically a social network; and one you only get with an iPhone. Android's never managed to come up with anything like it. I think mostly because the various handset manufacturers all wanted to do it themselves. You need a single standard for that.
but I'm not sure they don't. I don't know enough about the country except that they're economy is in permanent recession and their only solution so far has been to try and get more women to work. I've also read that income inequality is worse over there than here in the States, which outside of the 2nd world is hard to imagine. If this spread some of that money around it'd be a good thing. Nationalism has so far been the only reliable way to pry money from the hands of the ruling class short of a plague or war crashing the population.
but folks are still going to get heat stroke and die. I've read articles about folks in India working through the heat and getting kidney failure because they didn't drink enough. They couldn't stop working, needed the money...
Those kind of conditions are going to create widespread social unrest. Demagogues will take advantage of it and rise to power and start wars. Stuff like this is how you get WWIII.
since we heavily subsidize the infrastructure needed to deliver power. Those subsidies are allowed because they benefit everyone. But the well to do have a much larger voice in this country than the poor. Since Citizen's United that's even part of our legal system. If they no longer benefit from the grid they won't want to pay for it. The poor won't get tax cuts (they never do) but they will get service cuts. In deserts where temps top 100 F they'll be an increase in deaths.
just because data shows two providers doesn't mean they both work. Buddy of mine fought with his DSL provider for years before breaking down and buying cable. It was twice as much.
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80% of businesses fail in the first 5 years. A McDonald's franchise costs millions and requires a proven track record of business. Even a bloody Subway costs over $100k and no bank will just give you that money.
Now, if my daddy left me millions of dollars to invest and millions more to live off of if those investments didn't pan out you'd have a point. But we can't all be Donald Trump.
Lastly what you believe has little to no bearing on what actually happens in reality. You're not free so long as somebody controls your access to food, shelter and healthcare. And you're not secure in your freedom if even 1/3 of the populace lacks that security. Sooner or latter some demagogue will come along, mobilize them and turn them against you. I've got 5 thousand years of demagogues to back me up on that assertion. Real freedom can only be had when the working class has solidarity and nobody gets left behind. Until then you're just waiting for the next round of gestapos, guillotines and gulags..
there's too much competition for work. Mix in automation and there's even more. That's the trouble with Capitalism. It was thought up in a time of local craftsman. Adam Smith didn't see modern satellite based telecommunications coming.
if you're working long hours you're doing it wrong. Identify simple repetitive tasks and either automate them or give them to junior employees. Use the time you free up for complex added value tasks. Just make sure you're adding those kinds of things to your official list of duties and that everybody knows you're doing them. Not just for recognition but so bean counters don't fire you because on paper you don't have a job anymore :). Then use the value adds to get raises until you hit your salary cap and then either a promotion or leave the company as needed. Lather, rinse repeat.
Something ain't right. Yeah, you fire folks from time to time. Maybe even whole teams. But mass layoffs in sales? And at a time when Chromebooks and Tablets are threatening market share?
why not follow that to it's logical conclusion and drop everybody's wages to 1 cent/hr?
Yeah, I'm being facetious. But it's a core argument made by the other side (raise minimum wage to $200/hr!).
And yes, those studies are correct. They're correct because you'll see adults competing for jobs that only kids can hold right now. That's because only kids could make that little and survive. It's a minor thing since poor economic conditions forcing adults to take second jobs and increasing workload at school has forced most of them out of the job market anyway. It does, however, let you take their research out of context and make it look like raising the minimum wage hurts people that live off it; which is wrong.
Something like "for every complex problem there is a solution that is simple elegant and wrong".
For anyone planning on mailing a kitten.
Things that are wrong often make sense. There's a word for it now, truthiness.
and you'd have half the country freaking the heck out. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader whether that's a good thing or not.
it's the kind of positive make-work project that does good things for the local economy. The guys I know in the defense industry make 2-3x the going rate for the equivalent work (unless they're high-end math guys, Wallstreet gobbles those guys up for HFT).
that licensing guns is the first step to rounding them all up. Personally, if my gov't gets to the point where they're rounding up small arms I'm not going to be able to do much about it. I wouldn't last 5 minutes against a modern military. Hell, even Isis is being whittled down by the rather tepid force we toss at them (they just lost a couple major sources of income, Mosul).
Chrome is just an advertising platform for Google. It exists to make sure Microsoft didn't cut them out of ad revenue. They don't care what browser you use as long as you can see their ads.
every time it's been tried it's just resulted in the most violent psychopath in charge. What's needed is a society where nobody's left behind. Where nobody resorts to violence. If you've got enough disenfranchised folks without access to food and shelter that they're resulting to violence they'll be organized by somebody and used to seize power. Just like it did in China and the USSR.
You've got a chance right now, but it means voting while you can and voting for candidates that will take care of those teaming masses before they become some Demagogue's weapon.
the industrial revolution just put people out of work. Than about 50-80 years latter other tech caught up (plus two World Wars thinned the herd) and things got better.
There's a reason the Luddites existed and it wasn't because they were prototypical Amish. They lost their livelihoods and were starving in the streets. It takes decades for a society to adjust to these kinds of changes and in the meantime there's poverty, death and war. The difference today is information is widespread enough that we can see it coming and react if we want.
Or we could just keep telling ourselves everything is fine because eventually it might correct itself. But think of it like this: When in our lives has a complex problem been best solved by ignoring it and letting it sort itself out?
Mostly because between the two you can make a single app that works on mobile, tablet & desktop.
to make science work with public opinion? Scientists will never say "This is a fact". That's been exploited for as long as I can remember by shysters who say "Well, the scientists say they're not sure" when nothing could be further from the truth. It's a verbiage problem. But not one I see the scientists changing on since well, it's part of science that evidence changes you're belief...
not in the real world. What's really needed is a scientific approach to society. Which is to say: Recognize that no system will ever be prefect and will require constant adjustment. Accept that you can be wrong and that there is no bedrock to stand on. You're standing on a bedrock of Libertarianism. It'll crumble and when it does you won't move. What's worse, you'll grab everyone around you and try to force them to stand on that crumbling infrastructure with you.
Until we are each and every one a God unto itself we'll be vulnerable to change. Progressivism can be summed up with the old "I only know I know nothing". It's only principle is to take care of everyone because all humanity deserves a good life simply by being born human. e.g. nobody gets left behind. After that it's just about how you get there. The end justify the means, and if you screw up (and you will) you bend in the wind and change. The entire system becomes one of careful measurement and continuous improvement. E.g. Science.
and the coup happened when the voter rolls leaked. There's mounting evidence (including an article from the WSJ, not exactly a WaPo style liberal rag) that those leaked voter rolls were shared with the Republicans and would have played a crucial roll in their victory.
there's no such thing as a law that's not enforced. That said, blind obedience to a 200 year old document written mostly by wealthy land owners protecting their interests probably isn't the answer either. I'd like to see our entire system of gov't reworked into something less prone to oligarchy. But folks learn in school it's the best of the world and it's hard to shake stuff you learned when you were a kid.
since it's from a Nuclear Industry think tank, but they might have a point. Nuclear power produces very little waste. The trouble isn't the amount, it's that it's insanely dangerous and that companies have a long history of not caring where they throw their waste so long as it's cheap. You'd need a population that super pro-regulation and government oversight to make it work. Otherwise sooner or later some asshat will come along, buy off a few Senators (or whatever your local equivalent is) and toss the waste in some poor community (probably one with a disenfranchised minority of some sort, every nation's got at least one).
it's practically a social network; and one you only get with an iPhone. Android's never managed to come up with anything like it. I think mostly because the various handset manufacturers all wanted to do it themselves. You need a single standard for that.
but I'm not sure they don't. I don't know enough about the country except that they're economy is in permanent recession and their only solution so far has been to try and get more women to work. I've also read that income inequality is worse over there than here in the States, which outside of the 2nd world is hard to imagine. If this spread some of that money around it'd be a good thing. Nationalism has so far been the only reliable way to pry money from the hands of the ruling class short of a plague or war crashing the population.
but folks are still going to get heat stroke and die. I've read articles about folks in India working through the heat and getting kidney failure because they didn't drink enough. They couldn't stop working, needed the money...
Those kind of conditions are going to create widespread social unrest. Demagogues will take advantage of it and rise to power and start wars. Stuff like this is how you get WWIII.
since we heavily subsidize the infrastructure needed to deliver power. Those subsidies are allowed because they benefit everyone. But the well to do have a much larger voice in this country than the poor. Since Citizen's United that's even part of our legal system. If they no longer benefit from the grid they won't want to pay for it. The poor won't get tax cuts (they never do) but they will get service cuts. In deserts where temps top 100 F they'll be an increase in deaths.
just because data shows two providers doesn't mean they both work. Buddy of mine fought with his DSL provider for years before breaking down and buying cable. It was twice as much.