they're not left wing. They're mostly trial lawyers opposed to tort reform that would put them out of business (not that tort reform's a good thing, lawsuits are about the only thing keeping mega-corps in check). Anyway if you want to know more on the difference see here. Also look up a Youtube channel called "Secular Talk".
given that by the time this makes it up to SCOTUS it'll have 2, maybe 3 Trump nominees. Trump has not shown himself a fan of the 5th (or any other constitutional right) unless he's invoking it.
when poor people had access to health care due to the medicaid expansion they used it.
That "Cycle of Poverty" bullshit you're spouting comes from right wing "Think Tanks" set up to justify abandoning the poor. If you track back who's telling you that and look at who belongs to those tanks you'll find industry lobbyists all the way down.
People moving around out of desperation isn't how you end poverty. It's how you shuffle the poor around. And you have no idea how bad things were before the Great Society. Or you're actively choosing to ignore it. Or those "Think Tanks" are doing it for you. The outcomes the same.
Poverty ends first with food. Women need food while their kids are gestating so those kids don't have mental problems. It goes on to clean, lead free air & water. Again, prevent mental problems. Next is education. Lots of it. All the way to college. That won't stop poverty, since we're running out of work (Automation & productivity increases for the win) but it will create a population smart enough to solve those problems. All that takes money, and if you think the 1% is going to pay for it by choice you haven't been paying attention to the last 1000 years of human civiliazion.
People aren't starving because of food stamps and other welfare programs. Those programs are mostly allowed to exists because agribusiness lobbies for them. But even they've been losing to the "Cut my Taxes" lobby.
At the end of the day everything you wrote is something you're telling yourself to feel better about cutting your taxes while abandoning the poor. I sincerely hope you're better than that, will realize what you're doing and stop it. Keep in mind, when the 1%ers are done with the poor, you're next.
you get out of paying unemployment insurance, and my tax dollars make up the difference. Everybody wins (except me and the Intern that doesn't really have unemployment insurance).
is prosecutions for breaking the law. You can't prosecute somebody if they didn't break the law. If you don't like it call your congress critter. While you're at it tell them to end the war in Iraq & Afghanistan. Finally, tell you you vote, vote in primaries, and if you don't hear that they've done what you told them you'll be voting against them in the primary. Congress folks don't care about the General, they've gerrymandered their districts so they'll always win. They're terrified of losing their primaries.
when you're hungry enough everything tastes good. This is mostly about cost. The healthier options cost more. This lets them cut the program and pocket the difference somewhere else. The people who did this are not good people. Don't kid yourself.
and vote the corrupt people out. And if you're not in SF vote in your local elections. You're giving up way too easy. The solution isn't to give up and let the chips fall were they may. That's been tried (Industrial Revolution) and it didn't end well. Luddites weren't just anti-tech noobs. They were people facing starvation when their livelihoods went away. Where do you think all those wars came from? We didn't fight 'em just because somebody offed a Duke.
during the industrial revolution. There was decades of misery, poverty and wars while technology caught up. Christ, did you forget WWI & II? You really think we fought those wars because somebody offed a Duke?
As for Venezuela, they're a single product economy (oil) in free fall because the Saudis dropped a shit ton of the stuff to kill US Shale. In any sane world the rest of the planet would bail them out until the price of oil rebounded instead of gleefully reveling in their misfortune.
I got a better idea. How 'bout we don't leave things to the "market". When has a bad situation _ever_ been improved by leaving it alone and hoping for the best?
Yes, fixing the problems Automation causes is hard. But that doesn't mean you give up. If it was easy we wouldn't be freaking out about it.
After you get the money you have to put honest people in charge of it and kick them out if they become dishonest. Civilization isn't a one and done. There are no guiding principles that will lead to a decent society. You have to keep working at it non stop until the day you die.
a Robot, for tax purposes, is a machine used to produce goods or provide services. This means an ATM is a robot and a urinal isn't.
That's why this idea is getting traction. It's hard to understand why you would rob peter to pay paul and why wealth redistribution is a positive good. It's easy to understand "Tax the robots that took my jerb!". You want this, because the alternative is dystopia. Hell, we don't even have to question that. Go read up on what happened during the industrial revolution. There was 80 years of horrific poverty until tech caught up and employed people again.
I'm dead serious. And you're right, these thoughts are going on in your head. I'm a bit over analytical (which is a nice way of saying I'm neurotic) so I think about these things.
I'm not good at recognizing crazy. I can't read people's faces and body language. I probably have mild Asperger syndrome. I know my brother does. So I can't shield my kid from them. She's young and naive so neither can she.
Yes, there's plenty of good poor people but here's the rub: There's a _lot_ of money in American. Now, we've been giving most of it to the 1% for about 20 years now, but there's still a lot out there. If you're unable to score a piece of it odds are good there's something wrong. Maybe not with you, but with someone close to you. Again, we're talking odds. I'm playing the odds here. I've spent the last 5 years getting my ass kicked by the US economy. I'm right on the edge of solvency. I can't take risks. Again, I'm American, so no safety net. No socialized medicine. No housing assistance (Section 8 has an 8 year wait list) no food stamps ($8/hr and 25 hours a week won't get you an apartment but it _will_ disqualify you from food stamps).
I don't share these thoughts with my kid. When she's old enough and has a college education her environment will protect her. She'll live in a well to do suburb and when it starts going down hill she'll move. Her kids will go to a nice school where poor kids can't afford to live. If those poor kids try to go to the nice school their parents will get arrested (google it). We use property taxes to segregate the poor and avoid paying for their services here in American.
You're experiencing all that too, you just don't notice it. It's done for you by city planners and your city council. It's all couched in nice terms about low taxes and paying for your own kid's education and all sorts of other things. Pointing stuff like this out really touches a nerve. Nobody likes to acknowledge the distortions in our society....
and you're kids will naturally avoid crazies or it's being done for you by living in a really nice neighborhood. That's something nobody thinks about or talks about. I'm just given a voice to the very real class divides that exist in America. It's bound to make everybody uncomfortable since we preach equality while setting up systems like these to enforce class. I've had more than one British friend comment that American is much more socially stratified than the UK...
Trump didn't wheel & deal his way out of bankruptcy. His bankruptcy attorney's told him what to do and he did it. There's an interview with one of his bankrupcy accountants talking about it that surfaced during the campaign.
Rich Crazies get reigned in by their families who don't want them blowing through the fortune. Most of the rich aren't crazy. What they're doing is perfectly rational and perfectly awful. Kinda like that Mark Twain quote but in reverse.
we've got a very regressive tax system. Instead of demanding that get fixed we just keep demanding more tax breaks. The tax breaks go to the very rich, gov'ts run out of money & can't raise taxes on the rich so they raise taxes on the poor through new regressive taxes. Lather, rinse, repeat. There's a name for it. It's called "Starve the Beast". It means intentionally breaking the government so people lose faith in it. It's really a form of terrorism ( inciting fear for political gain, what else would you call it?) but that word is so loaded nowadays you can't use it for anything meaningful.
I buy my kid Apple because they help her fit in with the kinds of folks I want her associating with. Having an iPhone with iMessage lets her network with other kids. Moreover those kids are at least well enough off to afford an iPhone (well, their parents are). I know there's lots and lots of exceptions, but as screwed up as it is to say this they're still exceptions. It's not about snobbery, it's about keeping her away from crazies. They girls with $100 pre-paid cells and $300 celeron laptops are just plain more likely to have issues.
If there's one and only one thing I've learned in life it's you need to learn to spot and keep crazies out of your life. And one (rather nasty) way to do that is to use money as a gatekeeper. This goes for everything. Where you life, what you drive, what schools you go to. The mentally ill have a hard time being stable long enough to afford nice things.
is another's time management. If you view technology as interesting and exciting then spending hours managing security settings and learning which repositories are safe (and occasionally cleaning up when one goes rouge after it gets bought out by a spammer) isn't a big deal.
If, OTOH, your interests are in say, Law, then you probably spend your days pouring over legal briefs instead of computer code. Speaking of Law, I never hear lawyers say "The problem with my clients is they're _lazy_". And I seldom hear Doctors saying that either. Sure, my doc tells me to eat better and exercise more, but he also recognizes that that's hard to do and takes a significant commitment. It's only computer techs that have this utter disdain for everyone who's not a computer tech.
and transforming into a company like Apple. They've more or less failed at that. 23% is a huge number in the corporate world. Somebody in Microsoft is freaking out over that I'm sure. Another quarter or two like that and their senior management will kill the line. Microsoft doesn't spend billions on branding, which come to think of it is probably why they can't hang with Apple.
because saying "Coke advertises with Neo-Nazis!" makes a great headline. Hell, we're talking about it now. It's too click-baity, so it was bound to go viral if youtube didn't kill it with fire.
the ads are mostly skippable anyway and 5 seconds so a youtuber can get some revenue doesn't bug me.
I have definitely noticed. I'm shopping for my kid's first car and you'd think after the google searches I've done I'd be inundated with car ads. But I think I've seen one. Hell, at one point I googled the ad to see if I could trigger it and no go.
Where demand for skills doesn't outstrip supply? Also, why do I make such crap wages with so little training opportunities that aren't paid for out of my pocket if supply is such an issue. It's almost as if somebody with a vested interest in having a bigger labor pool is pushing some kind of narrative. But they wouldn't do that, would they?
I never liked the 2DS because I wanted the clamshell design to protect my screens. But the 3D is useless to my eyes. It just gives me headaches as I try to focus it. $150 is a bit more than I want to spend but if history is any indicator these'll be $100 come November.
Seriously, the last thing major investors (the kind that run Goldman Sachs) want is disruption. Just keep the gravy train going and fire off a little war every now and then and they're happy. Nobody wants another Google, Netflix or Square changing the landscape. Well, nobody Congress is listening too anyway.
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they're not left wing. They're mostly trial lawyers opposed to tort reform that would put them out of business (not that tort reform's a good thing, lawsuits are about the only thing keeping mega-corps in check). Anyway if you want to know more on the difference see here. Also look up a Youtube channel called "Secular Talk".
given that by the time this makes it up to SCOTUS it'll have 2, maybe 3 Trump nominees. Trump has not shown himself a fan of the 5th (or any other constitutional right) unless he's invoking it.
when poor people had access to health care due to the medicaid expansion they used it.
That "Cycle of Poverty" bullshit you're spouting comes from right wing "Think Tanks" set up to justify abandoning the poor. If you track back who's telling you that and look at who belongs to those tanks you'll find industry lobbyists all the way down.
People moving around out of desperation isn't how you end poverty. It's how you shuffle the poor around. And you have no idea how bad things were before the Great Society. Or you're actively choosing to ignore it. Or those "Think Tanks" are doing it for you. The outcomes the same.
Poverty ends first with food. Women need food while their kids are gestating so those kids don't have mental problems. It goes on to clean, lead free air & water. Again, prevent mental problems. Next is education. Lots of it. All the way to college. That won't stop poverty, since we're running out of work (Automation & productivity increases for the win) but it will create a population smart enough to solve those problems. All that takes money, and if you think the 1% is going to pay for it by choice you haven't been paying attention to the last 1000 years of human civiliazion.
People aren't starving because of food stamps and other welfare programs. Those programs are mostly allowed to exists because agribusiness lobbies for them. But even they've been losing to the "Cut my Taxes" lobby.
At the end of the day everything you wrote is something you're telling yourself to feel better about cutting your taxes while abandoning the poor. I sincerely hope you're better than that, will realize what you're doing and stop it. Keep in mind, when the 1%ers are done with the poor, you're next.
you get out of paying unemployment insurance, and my tax dollars make up the difference. Everybody wins (except me and the Intern that doesn't really have unemployment insurance).
is prosecutions for breaking the law. You can't prosecute somebody if they didn't break the law. If you don't like it call your congress critter. While you're at it tell them to end the war in Iraq & Afghanistan. Finally, tell you you vote, vote in primaries, and if you don't hear that they've done what you told them you'll be voting against them in the primary. Congress folks don't care about the General, they've gerrymandered their districts so they'll always win. They're terrified of losing their primaries.
Google it. Which feels iconic in this context.
when you're hungry enough everything tastes good. This is mostly about cost. The healthier options cost more. This lets them cut the program and pocket the difference somewhere else. The people who did this are not good people. Don't kid yourself.
and vote the corrupt people out. And if you're not in SF vote in your local elections. You're giving up way too easy. The solution isn't to give up and let the chips fall were they may. That's been tried (Industrial Revolution) and it didn't end well. Luddites weren't just anti-tech noobs. They were people facing starvation when their livelihoods went away. Where do you think all those wars came from? We didn't fight 'em just because somebody offed a Duke.
during the industrial revolution. There was decades of misery, poverty and wars while technology caught up. Christ, did you forget WWI & II? You really think we fought those wars because somebody offed a Duke?
As for Venezuela, they're a single product economy (oil) in free fall because the Saudis dropped a shit ton of the stuff to kill US Shale. In any sane world the rest of the planet would bail them out until the price of oil rebounded instead of gleefully reveling in their misfortune.
I got a better idea. How 'bout we don't leave things to the "market". When has a bad situation _ever_ been improved by leaving it alone and hoping for the best?
Yes, fixing the problems Automation causes is hard. But that doesn't mean you give up. If it was easy we wouldn't be freaking out about it.
After you get the money you have to put honest people in charge of it and kick them out if they become dishonest. Civilization isn't a one and done. There are no guiding principles that will lead to a decent society. You have to keep working at it non stop until the day you die.
a Robot, for tax purposes, is a machine used to produce goods or provide services. This means an ATM is a robot and a urinal isn't.
That's why this idea is getting traction. It's hard to understand why you would rob peter to pay paul and why wealth redistribution is a positive good. It's easy to understand "Tax the robots that took my jerb!". You want this, because the alternative is dystopia. Hell, we don't even have to question that. Go read up on what happened during the industrial revolution. There was 80 years of horrific poverty until tech caught up and employed people again.
I'm dead serious. And you're right, these thoughts are going on in your head. I'm a bit over analytical (which is a nice way of saying I'm neurotic) so I think about these things.
I'm not good at recognizing crazy. I can't read people's faces and body language. I probably have mild Asperger syndrome. I know my brother does. So I can't shield my kid from them. She's young and naive so neither can she.
Yes, there's plenty of good poor people but here's the rub: There's a _lot_ of money in American. Now, we've been giving most of it to the 1% for about 20 years now, but there's still a lot out there. If you're unable to score a piece of it odds are good there's something wrong. Maybe not with you, but with someone close to you. Again, we're talking odds. I'm playing the odds here. I've spent the last 5 years getting my ass kicked by the US economy. I'm right on the edge of solvency. I can't take risks. Again, I'm American, so no safety net. No socialized medicine. No housing assistance (Section 8 has an 8 year wait list) no food stamps ($8/hr and 25 hours a week won't get you an apartment but it _will_ disqualify you from food stamps).
I don't share these thoughts with my kid. When she's old enough and has a college education her environment will protect her. She'll live in a well to do suburb and when it starts going down hill she'll move. Her kids will go to a nice school where poor kids can't afford to live. If those poor kids try to go to the nice school their parents will get arrested (google it). We use property taxes to segregate the poor and avoid paying for their services here in American.
You're experiencing all that too, you just don't notice it. It's done for you by city planners and your city council. It's all couched in nice terms about low taxes and paying for your own kid's education and all sorts of other things. Pointing stuff like this out really touches a nerve. Nobody likes to acknowledge the distortions in our society....
and you're kids will naturally avoid crazies or it's being done for you by living in a really nice neighborhood. That's something nobody thinks about or talks about. I'm just given a voice to the very real class divides that exist in America. It's bound to make everybody uncomfortable since we preach equality while setting up systems like these to enforce class. I've had more than one British friend comment that American is much more socially stratified than the UK...
Trump didn't wheel & deal his way out of bankruptcy. His bankruptcy attorney's told him what to do and he did it. There's an interview with one of his bankrupcy accountants talking about it that surfaced during the campaign.
Rich Crazies get reigned in by their families who don't want them blowing through the fortune. Most of the rich aren't crazy. What they're doing is perfectly rational and perfectly awful. Kinda like that Mark Twain quote but in reverse.
we've got a very regressive tax system. Instead of demanding that get fixed we just keep demanding more tax breaks. The tax breaks go to the very rich, gov'ts run out of money & can't raise taxes on the rich so they raise taxes on the poor through new regressive taxes. Lather, rinse, repeat. There's a name for it. It's called "Starve the Beast". It means intentionally breaking the government so people lose faith in it. It's really a form of terrorism ( inciting fear for political gain, what else would you call it?) but that word is so loaded nowadays you can't use it for anything meaningful.
I buy my kid Apple because they help her fit in with the kinds of folks I want her associating with. Having an iPhone with iMessage lets her network with other kids. Moreover those kids are at least well enough off to afford an iPhone (well, their parents are). I know there's lots and lots of exceptions, but as screwed up as it is to say this they're still exceptions. It's not about snobbery, it's about keeping her away from crazies. They girls with $100 pre-paid cells and $300 celeron laptops are just plain more likely to have issues.
If there's one and only one thing I've learned in life it's you need to learn to spot and keep crazies out of your life. And one (rather nasty) way to do that is to use money as a gatekeeper. This goes for everything. Where you life, what you drive, what schools you go to. The mentally ill have a hard time being stable long enough to afford nice things.
is another's time management. If you view technology as interesting and exciting then spending hours managing security settings and learning which repositories are safe (and occasionally cleaning up when one goes rouge after it gets bought out by a spammer) isn't a big deal.
If, OTOH, your interests are in say, Law, then you probably spend your days pouring over legal briefs instead of computer code. Speaking of Law, I never hear lawyers say "The problem with my clients is they're _lazy_". And I seldom hear Doctors saying that either. Sure, my doc tells me to eat better and exercise more, but he also recognizes that that's hard to do and takes a significant commitment. It's only computer techs that have this utter disdain for everyone who's not a computer tech.
In horrific poverty lacking food security.
and transforming into a company like Apple. They've more or less failed at that. 23% is a huge number in the corporate world. Somebody in Microsoft is freaking out over that I'm sure. Another quarter or two like that and their senior management will kill the line. Microsoft doesn't spend billions on branding, which come to think of it is probably why they can't hang with Apple.
because saying "Coke advertises with Neo-Nazis!" makes a great headline. Hell, we're talking about it now. It's too click-baity, so it was bound to go viral if youtube didn't kill it with fire.
the ads are mostly skippable anyway and 5 seconds so a youtuber can get some revenue doesn't bug me.
I have definitely noticed. I'm shopping for my kid's first car and you'd think after the google searches I've done I'd be inundated with car ads. But I think I've seen one. Hell, at one point I googled the ad to see if I could trigger it and no go.
Yeah, but I'm still paying a premium for a feature I would never use.
Where demand for skills doesn't outstrip supply? Also, why do I make such crap wages with so little training opportunities that aren't paid for out of my pocket if supply is such an issue. It's almost as if somebody with a vested interest in having a bigger labor pool is pushing some kind of narrative. But they wouldn't do that, would they?
I never liked the 2DS because I wanted the clamshell design to protect my screens. But the 3D is useless to my eyes. It just gives me headaches as I try to focus it. $150 is a bit more than I want to spend but if history is any indicator these'll be $100 come November.
Seriously, the last thing major investors (the kind that run Goldman Sachs) want is disruption. Just keep the gravy train going and fire off a little war every now and then and they're happy. Nobody wants another Google, Netflix or Square changing the landscape. Well, nobody Congress is listening too anyway.