a bunch of wealthy capitalists tired of paying $100k/yr for a decent programmer are. Pull your head out of your ass. Not everything you don't like is the fault of SJWs. They're a small, vocal minority. Like religious nuts. The difference is the left ignores their nuts when it comes to policy. This is no different. Getting women into tech isn't a left wing policy. It's a right wing one used to depress wages. Hell, Beth Warren wrote a book on it ("The Two Income Trap"). Go read it sometime. It's great.
that you're reaching for your gun the military won't be on your side anymore. They'll be looking at how you live and afraid they're gonna be there. That's what's happened with every military in human history. Every now and then a Generalissimo will rile them into action, but again, all you'll be doing is changing masters. You'll still be a slave.
because it's still a viable career. I've said this before, I'll say it again: Bring the jobs and us parents will bring the kids. Until they stop outsourcing and pushing for cheap labor imports we're not going to encourage our kids to go into programming unless the kid's such a natural that they rise above that cheap foreign labor.
don't raise our taxes to offset the job losses from our automation.
Fun fact: GM shut down production at factories for 3 months because they'd flooded the market with too many vehicles. That was due to productivity increases from automation/robotics.
Demand for workers falls. Why is it people treat supply and demand as a never-ending cornucopia of benefit. Raw, unfettered capitalism has a downside. Who knew?
is what you're referring to, and it's mostly B.S. Papa John's could give every employee usable health insurance for.25 cents a pizza + the cost of their yearly Super Bowl free pizza promo. Giving farm workers a livable wage ($15/hr) would add.06 cents to a pound of potatoes.
All that automation means labor isn't as big a part of the equation anymore. It also means we produce more than enough. There's enough food on earth to feed everyone. We don't have a food problem, we have a distribution problem.
My point is: The race to the bottom is real, but it's not because we're so damn efficient or Walmart's prices are too low. It's because we allow it. We abandoned a large percentage of our populace. Largely because it irks us to pay taxes to raise them up and because we're afraid of losing freedom to the large organizations needed to do the raising (e.g. gov't). The ironic thing is we lose more than those taxes as the ruling class bite into our incomes and we lose more freedom as they clamp down to keep us under control.
last I checked they killed one (unimportant) General who was being careless in Afghanistan. Nobody who mattered was killed in 'Nam. If you never get to touch the ruling class you're just blowing smoke. Go live in the mountains and every now and then come down and blow up a school bus. Congrats, you've just accomplished all you're going to with violence. But outside of those (middle class or poor) school kids you blew up (or maybe shot with guns) you've done squat. Well, not squat. Your actions will be used to cement the ruling classes power when they get "Tough on Terror".
Congressmen don't write their own bills, especially corrupt ones like this, so I'm not going to chalk this up to stupidity. It makes me wonder what bit of nastiness is behind all this...
and honestly didn't work the last time. The French revolution was a mess and an almost complete failure. Sure, lots of the ruling class died, but they were just replaced by a different and potentially worse ruling class. Things didn't get better for the peasantry until two world wars killed enough of them that they were in demand for labor. And our current ruling class is busy rolling back those gains in the guise of protecting us from terrorism...
You're gonna have a ruling class. Always. Accept it and move on and start asking how you can mitigate the damage they do.
will last all of 5 minutes against a modern military. And as long as that military is fed and taken care of they'll turn on the citizens who are starving in the streets instead of joining them. They always have in over 5000 years of recorded history.
So yeah, sorry. It's a threat. And an empty one at that.
you have a ruling class, you just don't like to acknowledge them. You'll never get rid of them ( wealth and privilege gains you entry and you're not getting rid of that any time soon) but there's a lot more you could do to reign them in if you'd stop pretending they don't exist.
is an end to extremism. But there's an elephant in the room here. Going against extremism means going against the basic concept of deeply held religious beliefs. Not the "feelings" but the actual, raw beliefs. If one is going to be rational and believe in religion then one has to accept that most religions demand some pretty extreme things from their followers, especially the Judeo-Christian variety.
Basically, going after extremism for real is a very, very touchy subject...
If they wanted to tackle extremism they would do that by going after the things that make people take things like religion and political beliefs to their extremes.
so long as they're not recording a conversation and just filming the animal abuse then you haven't broken any wiretapping laws. It's one of the consequences of animals being purely (and largely unregulated) property. Nice try though. Really nice.
there's records of them getting together and discussing how to make a wedge issue that would divide the working class and settling on abortion. They didn't even try to hide it because they didn't need to. It's a perfect wedge issue because it's so divisive. Just look at what they named it ("Pro-Life"/"Pro-Choice").
and so is that Fred shmuck. Adding apostrophes to his name and the name of some crap book he wrote won't distract from that fact.
For 5 thousand years of recorded history if we left anything that really mattered (food production, health care, education, transportation) to the unorganized masses of people it either didn't get done, got done really badly or only got done for the really rich. Everytime people banded together and agreed that there was a minimum that should be done by and for people motherfucking shit got done. That got us to the moon. It cured diseases that plagued us for centuries. It's why we've never had a repeat of the dust bowl/Great Depression.
Said it before, say it again: Don't leave the free market in charge of anything more important than a Twinkie. And keep an eye on 'em while they're making that Twinkie or they'll fill it with sawdust.
they revel in it. Most of these are folks who, for whatever reason, didn't get what they wanted out of life. They're bitter as hell about that and what others to suffer the same fate. I've seen it on the left too with some LGBT folks I know who get upset when the younger generation doesn't face as much bullying. The difference being that when I call the LGBTs on it they snap out of it and realize they're being jerks. The right wing just double down.
I think it's a basic childish (animalistic?) desire for "fairness". They got knocked up and/or knocked/someone up too soon and it ruined their lives. They can't bear the thought of someone else "getting away" with it. The suffered for their mistakes and they'll be damned if everybody else doesn't. As the saying goes, Misery Loves Company.
and so long as that's true I'll be against it. With any Nuclear power plant you're gonna have massive maintenance costs and a conga line of capitalists ready to promise the free market will lower those costs. Then they'll do what they did in Fukushima: Ignore maintenance and run the plants far beyond their lifecycle until a disaster blows up in their faces. And they'll get away scott free because nobody nowhere anywhere every hold the wealthy accountable (and no, the Fukushima folks haven't been held accountable; 6 years and counting. And no, a few inquires that are going precisely nowhere don't count).
Find a way to get people to oppose privatization of public resources or a way to make it cheaper to run a safe plant than an unsafe one. Until then Nuclear can go suck eggs.
privacy is for the ruling class. I can guarantee there's exception processing in place for anyone who makes over a certain amount of money. They have personal assistants who make more than you and will see to it.
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a bunch of wealthy capitalists tired of paying $100k/yr for a decent programmer are. Pull your head out of your ass. Not everything you don't like is the fault of SJWs. They're a small, vocal minority. Like religious nuts. The difference is the left ignores their nuts when it comes to policy. This is no different. Getting women into tech isn't a left wing policy. It's a right wing one used to depress wages. Hell, Beth Warren wrote a book on it ("The Two Income Trap"). Go read it sometime. It's great.
that you're reaching for your gun the military won't be on your side anymore. They'll be looking at how you live and afraid they're gonna be there. That's what's happened with every military in human history. Every now and then a Generalissimo will rile them into action, but again, all you'll be doing is changing masters. You'll still be a slave.
because it's still a viable career. I've said this before, I'll say it again: Bring the jobs and us parents will bring the kids. Until they stop outsourcing and pushing for cheap labor imports we're not going to encourage our kids to go into programming unless the kid's such a natural that they rise above that cheap foreign labor.
how do you distribute that wealth from automation without making it feel like stealing?
now say 20 hail Laffers and repent ye sinner!
don't raise our taxes to offset the job losses from our automation.
Fun fact: GM shut down production at factories for 3 months because they'd flooded the market with too many vehicles. That was due to productivity increases from automation/robotics.
Demand for workers falls. Why is it people treat supply and demand as a never-ending cornucopia of benefit. Raw, unfettered capitalism has a downside. Who knew?
is what you're referring to, and it's mostly B.S. Papa John's could give every employee usable health insurance for .25 cents a pizza + the cost of their yearly Super Bowl free pizza promo. Giving farm workers a livable wage ($15/hr) would add .06 cents to a pound of potatoes.
All that automation means labor isn't as big a part of the equation anymore. It also means we produce more than enough. There's enough food on earth to feed everyone. We don't have a food problem, we have a distribution problem.
My point is: The race to the bottom is real, but it's not because we're so damn efficient or Walmart's prices are too low. It's because we allow it. We abandoned a large percentage of our populace. Largely because it irks us to pay taxes to raise them up and because we're afraid of losing freedom to the large organizations needed to do the raising (e.g. gov't). The ironic thing is we lose more than those taxes as the ruling class bite into our incomes and we lose more freedom as they clamp down to keep us under control.
last I checked they killed one (unimportant) General who was being careless in Afghanistan. Nobody who mattered was killed in 'Nam. If you never get to touch the ruling class you're just blowing smoke. Go live in the mountains and every now and then come down and blow up a school bus. Congrats, you've just accomplished all you're going to with violence. But outside of those (middle class or poor) school kids you blew up (or maybe shot with guns) you've done squat. Well, not squat. Your actions will be used to cement the ruling classes power when they get "Tough on Terror".
Congressmen don't write their own bills, especially corrupt ones like this, so I'm not going to chalk this up to stupidity. It makes me wonder what bit of nastiness is behind all this...
and honestly didn't work the last time. The French revolution was a mess and an almost complete failure. Sure, lots of the ruling class died, but they were just replaced by a different and potentially worse ruling class. Things didn't get better for the peasantry until two world wars killed enough of them that they were in demand for labor. And our current ruling class is busy rolling back those gains in the guise of protecting us from terrorism...
You're gonna have a ruling class. Always. Accept it and move on and start asking how you can mitigate the damage they do.
will last all of 5 minutes against a modern military. And as long as that military is fed and taken care of they'll turn on the citizens who are starving in the streets instead of joining them. They always have in over 5000 years of recorded history.
So yeah, sorry. It's a threat. And an empty one at that.
you have a ruling class, you just don't like to acknowledge them. You'll never get rid of them ( wealth and privilege gains you entry and you're not getting rid of that any time soon) but there's a lot more you could do to reign them in if you'd stop pretending they don't exist.
is an end to extremism. But there's an elephant in the room here. Going against extremism means going against the basic concept of deeply held religious beliefs. Not the "feelings" but the actual, raw beliefs. If one is going to be rational and believe in religion then one has to accept that most religions demand some pretty extreme things from their followers, especially the Judeo-Christian variety.
Basically, going after extremism for real is a very, very touchy subject...
from our world's completely lack of basic services and human decency. Fantastic.
by using the loaded word "entitled". For some reason that's a dirty word in America. We don't feel we're entitled to anything 'round here.
If they wanted to tackle extremism they would do that by going after the things that make people take things like religion and political beliefs to their extremes.
so long as they're not recording a conversation and just filming the animal abuse then you haven't broken any wiretapping laws. It's one of the consequences of animals being purely (and largely unregulated) property. Nice try though. Really nice.
there's records of them getting together and discussing how to make a wedge issue that would divide the working class and settling on abortion. They didn't even try to hide it because they didn't need to. It's a perfect wedge issue because it's so divisive. Just look at what they named it ("Pro-Life"/"Pro-Choice").
and so is that Fred shmuck. Adding apostrophes to his name and the name of some crap book he wrote won't distract from that fact.
For 5 thousand years of recorded history if we left anything that really mattered (food production, health care, education, transportation) to the unorganized masses of people it either didn't get done, got done really badly or only got done for the really rich. Everytime people banded together and agreed that there was a minimum that should be done by and for people motherfucking shit got done. That got us to the moon. It cured diseases that plagued us for centuries. It's why we've never had a repeat of the dust bowl/Great Depression.
Said it before, say it again: Don't leave the free market in charge of anything more important than a Twinkie. And keep an eye on 'em while they're making that Twinkie or they'll fill it with sawdust.
they revel in it. Most of these are folks who, for whatever reason, didn't get what they wanted out of life. They're bitter as hell about that and what others to suffer the same fate. I've seen it on the left too with some LGBT folks I know who get upset when the younger generation doesn't face as much bullying. The difference being that when I call the LGBTs on it they snap out of it and realize they're being jerks. The right wing just double down.
I think it's a basic childish (animalistic?) desire for "fairness". They got knocked up and/or knocked/someone up too soon and it ruined their lives. They can't bear the thought of someone else "getting away" with it. The suffered for their mistakes and they'll be damned if everybody else doesn't. As the saying goes, Misery Loves Company.
and so long as that's true I'll be against it. With any Nuclear power plant you're gonna have massive maintenance costs and a conga line of capitalists ready to promise the free market will lower those costs. Then they'll do what they did in Fukushima: Ignore maintenance and run the plants far beyond their lifecycle until a disaster blows up in their faces. And they'll get away scott free because nobody nowhere anywhere every hold the wealthy accountable (and no, the Fukushima folks haven't been held accountable; 6 years and counting. And no, a few inquires that are going precisely nowhere don't count).
Find a way to get people to oppose privatization of public resources or a way to make it cheaper to run a safe plant than an unsafe one. Until then Nuclear can go suck eggs.
which is also going to be unregulated. We elected a president and congress who's stated goal is to eliminate regulations. Why is anyone surprised?
privacy is for the ruling class. I can guarantee there's exception processing in place for anyone who makes over a certain amount of money. They have personal assistants who make more than you and will see to it.
they come ready-trained in whatever obscure tech you want them to be. And that training was _cheap_.