to his competitors. When he was competing the competitions were pretty friendly and it didn't occur to anyone he'd lie to them. He gave them a routine that was massive overwork. They tried to stick to it and of course burned themselves out.
What's the old saying? Never ask a man how he made his first million. Odds are if someone didn't inherit it or win the lottery they did something awful to get it.
Most can't, and then get told they're a failure as a human being when they can't. The worst thing is lots of them believe it. That's where the race to the bottom starts.
for my entire adult life, so you're forgive me if I'm just a wee bit too cynical not to question the motives of a company at the forefront of the gig economy (who's business model contributes to me being unable to afford to buy a home).
there's a massive round of layoffs as redundancies are eliminated or people are forced to work harder to hang onto their crap jobs. If you wanted efficiency, well you got it.
if you buy a new phone. I did that for my kid's cracked screen because I tried getting it replaced a week before she went to college only to find out it takes 2 weeks to get a replacement.
but seeing as how we're not really a democracy I don't see how it matters. Wake me up when we've switched to a parliamentary system with no voter registration process and an executive elected by popular vote.
Make a law that you can only donate to a candidate directly and only if you can personally vote for them. Then limit the amount you can donate to something along the lines of $500 dollars or less. Punish violations by banning any and all people from holding public office. Then require anyone who holds an office above dog catcher to retire from public life after their term is served. Problem solved.
and solidarity. While the rest of the electorate is worried their guns'll get taken away or that their wife/daughter might someday need an abortion to survive they vote one and only one way. It's the same reason folks over 65 are powerful. So long as you don't fuck with their medicare you can set fire to the rest of the world.
goes to education. Most of the money spent at a private prison goes to the people running the prison. Our priorities are just fine, provided you run a private prison and/or own stock in one.
At least not right now. Things like cloths, soap, house good, etc are often half the price on Amazon. There's a phrase for it: The High Cost Of Being Poor. Meaning you're too poor to take advantage of cost saving measures.
if it were we'd have a lot less problems in the world. Folks are great at holding inconsistent ideas. I'll refrain from naming names, but it's been all the rage with humanity for thousands of years.
but they popularized it with the Apple I/II. On the Smart Phone front they broke the stranglehold that the cell companies had that had stagnated technology in the West. They brought Unix to the desktop without having to fight with your wi-fi. Heck the whole Personal Digital Assistant thing was theirs (Siri).
They've done cutting edge before. This isn't it. And that's kinda telling. At the moment their following, not leading.
It's single _payer_. We're not nationalizing care and it's not a government take over of health care (whatever Rush & Hannity tells ya). We're just changing who pays the bills. The bills still get paid. Those jobs go from being crap jobs with shit benefits and no job security to government jobs with all the benefits and protections therein.
There's an excellent chance we're going to move to single payer in the next 20 years. The big money isn't in care, it's in being a middle man that skims 10% off the top. A shift to single payer gets rid of most if not all of those middle men...
This is vigilantism, which outside of 90s arcade beat'em ups is not a good thing. The rule of law says force should only be used by the government and then is very, very, very tightly controlled and regulated. Notice I said 'force' not violence. There's a difference. The government only uses violence as an act of war. A cop uses just enough force to subdue; more is excessive and gets the cop fired and possibly prosecuted (yeah, I know the practical reality isn't always the same but we're talking principles and ideas here).
"Let's all be Rational!" just doesn't have much of a ring to it. Elections are decided by the emotional. e.g. voters who can be swayed one way or another. If you push for rationality you'll just lose when the other side uses clear slogans and emotions to get votes. This is one of those "How the sausage is made" aspects of politics.
Globalism isn't necessarily the problem. The problem is abandoning the poor and working class. Everytime anyone's done that a populist like Trump has ridden a wave of fear and discontent to power and bad stuffs happened. If you want things to settle down you'll have to get behind the side that makes sure folks are taken care of. That is and always will be the left. I suppose you could skip the label if it makes you feel better, but it'll make it harder to rally folks to the cause.
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so yeah, there's that too.
to his competitors. When he was competing the competitions were pretty friendly and it didn't occur to anyone he'd lie to them. He gave them a routine that was massive overwork. They tried to stick to it and of course burned themselves out.
What's the old saying? Never ask a man how he made his first million. Odds are if someone didn't inherit it or win the lottery they did something awful to get it.
Most can't, and then get told they're a failure as a human being when they can't. The worst thing is lots of them believe it. That's where the race to the bottom starts.
to change everybody's mind.
now at last we can focus on the real threat, Dihydrogen Monoxide
for my entire adult life, so you're forgive me if I'm just a wee bit too cynical not to question the motives of a company at the forefront of the gig economy (who's business model contributes to me being unable to afford to buy a home).
there's a massive round of layoffs as redundancies are eliminated or people are forced to work harder to hang onto their crap jobs. If you wanted efficiency, well you got it.
a. Require minimum standards as well as proper funding for schools while ending Visa abuse.
b. Require the iPhone to be repariable.
c. Hold school later in the day as study after study shows is optimal while having a proper mass transit system so they kids can get there.
d. Stop pretending the free market exists, let alone can solve problems more important than a twinkie.
if you buy a new phone. I did that for my kid's cracked screen because I tried getting it replaced a week before she went to college only to find out it takes 2 weeks to get a replacement.
but seeing as how we're not really a democracy I don't see how it matters. Wake me up when we've switched to a parliamentary system with no voter registration process and an executive elected by popular vote.
Government Regulation, or even the threat of it, works.
Make a law that you can only donate to a candidate directly and only if you can personally vote for them. Then limit the amount you can donate to something along the lines of $500 dollars or less. Punish violations by banning any and all people from holding public office. Then require anyone who holds an office above dog catcher to retire from public life after their term is served. Problem solved.
and solidarity. While the rest of the electorate is worried their guns'll get taken away or that their wife/daughter might someday need an abortion to survive they vote one and only one way. It's the same reason folks over 65 are powerful. So long as you don't fuck with their medicare you can set fire to the rest of the world.
in the guy that used to take Bill to strip joints.
goes to education. Most of the money spent at a private prison goes to the people running the prison. Our priorities are just fine, provided you run a private prison and/or own stock in one.
At least not right now. Things like cloths, soap, house good, etc are often half the price on Amazon. There's a phrase for it: The High Cost Of Being Poor. Meaning you're too poor to take advantage of cost saving measures.
if it were we'd have a lot less problems in the world. Folks are great at holding inconsistent ideas. I'll refrain from naming names, but it's been all the rage with humanity for thousands of years.
nobody just comes out and says their business is failing. He's up to something. Something awful enough to throw his entire industry under the bus.
but they popularized it with the Apple I/II. On the Smart Phone front they broke the stranglehold that the cell companies had that had stagnated technology in the West. They brought Unix to the desktop without having to fight with your wi-fi. Heck the whole Personal Digital Assistant thing was theirs (Siri).
They've done cutting edge before. This isn't it. And that's kinda telling. At the moment their following, not leading.
It's single _payer_. We're not nationalizing care and it's not a government take over of health care (whatever Rush & Hannity tells ya). We're just changing who pays the bills. The bills still get paid. Those jobs go from being crap jobs with shit benefits and no job security to government jobs with all the benefits and protections therein.
copying Amazon?
There's an excellent chance we're going to move to single payer in the next 20 years. The big money isn't in care, it's in being a middle man that skims 10% off the top. A shift to single payer gets rid of most if not all of those middle men...
This is vigilantism, which outside of 90s arcade beat'em ups is not a good thing. The rule of law says force should only be used by the government and then is very, very, very tightly controlled and regulated. Notice I said 'force' not violence. There's a difference. The government only uses violence as an act of war. A cop uses just enough force to subdue; more is excessive and gets the cop fired and possibly prosecuted (yeah, I know the practical reality isn't always the same but we're talking principles and ideas here).
"Let's all be Rational!" just doesn't have much of a ring to it. Elections are decided by the emotional. e.g. voters who can be swayed one way or another. If you push for rationality you'll just lose when the other side uses clear slogans and emotions to get votes. This is one of those "How the sausage is made" aspects of politics.
Globalism isn't necessarily the problem. The problem is abandoning the poor and working class. Everytime anyone's done that a populist like Trump has ridden a wave of fear and discontent to power and bad stuffs happened. If you want things to settle down you'll have to get behind the side that makes sure folks are taken care of. That is and always will be the left. I suppose you could skip the label if it makes you feel better, but it'll make it harder to rally folks to the cause.
suppressing free speech and controlling national discourse will massively help Theresa May's reelection bid.
Oh. You mean the terrorism thing. Yeah, I suppose you're right there.