economically. Not at his income level. There's little doubt he's got a healthy golden parachute. Being afraid for things like surveillance generally requires quite a bit of economic insecurity. You have to believe the world can and will turn on you at some point, which is an odd thought to have if you've spent all or most of your adult life without worrying about money. It's an entirely different outlook on life you'd only get from a member of the ruling class. The 20th century equivalent to "Let them eat cake".
but everybody I know on the VA loves the stuff and would sooner chop their own arms and legs off than go back to "private" insurance. I do know one bloke who's a friend of a friend that says medical care on the Res is fine, but it's one of the tribes flush with Casino money out of Arizona so take that with some salt. Things could be different for the poorer tribes.
I thought that too at first. But it takes a long time to ship from China. They've probably built up significant stocks they're anticipating demand will be effectively zero after they sell through those stocks.
the constant battles on the part of doctors to get paid by insurance companies who's single goal is to not pay. In no other part of my life are my goals (getting care) and the service provider's goals (not paying for that care) so diametrically opposed. I've got family members with nasty health complications from easily treatable problems that were let go because the doctor didn't want to order tests in case they came back negative. If a test comes back negative the doctors never get paid.
Come to think of it I see this in one other place. B2B transactions. In so many of them business A won't pay the invoice for business B until A needs B's services again. I read somewhere Don Trump is famous for that, but having worked for small businesses it's so common he could just be going with the flow.
It was completely clear from context I was speaking metaphorically. You're building a straw man to dodge issues.
Again, $12/hr is not quite a bit of money. Spend some time on google looking at prices across the country. Ask yourself what it costs to raise a child (something most of society agrees anyone should be able to do). Look up what even an 800 sq/ft home costs, let alone a 1200 sq/ft home.
What _preceeded_ the Dark Ages was the collapse of Rome. What _caused_ them was conservativism used to prevent the working class from taking the wealth and privilage of the ruling class. When someone says "Dark Ages" they're referring to almost 1200 years of human history with little or no progress. Shit, Rome just collapsed again. Did we start another Dark Age? No, because a few libtards managed to put the breaks on "Austerity" and the madness and lies it represents.
I'll tell you the same thing I tell everybody else: Go Read "A people's history of the United States". Read some Gore Vidal too while you're at it. Listen to what Bill Nye tells adults when the kids aren't around. You and people like you are dragging us all down. If that's you're goal (e.g. if you're a shill for the 1%) Bravo Sir, you're doing a fine job. But if you have the slightest bit of human decency in you stop being foolish.
and I didn't quit, but I cut it back. Honestly I could cancel the dvd plan and wouldn't notice, but certain members of my family insist on having it (even if they barely use it, go figure).
But don't be fooled into think gov't subsidies are what's making college a bubble. It's how the subsides are awarded. Instead of directly funding public Universities we guarantee expensive loans issued by the 1%.
Meritocracy has always been a myth. The fact is very few poor kids can make it without a _lot_ of outside help. Poverty doesn't motivate to escape, it crushes all in it's wake. Don't let the occasional genius freak of nature of random success story fool you there...
it's not even the boomers buying up the housing (not that it helps). The reason housing prices are skyrocketing is we're out of cheap, already developed land. You see, house builders don't run water lines, power lines, phone lines roads and Internet lines. That's all been paid for by that Tax Payer. Then they swoop in, use cheap Mexican labor to throw up a few houses and net a massive payday.
Well we've been cutting taxes and infra structure spending for decades. Since Reagan and that damn Laffer Curve crap with his voodoo economics. We're out of cheap land. The home builders aren't going to develop that land without the taxpayer footing the bill. So nobody's building (hardly anyway).
Behind every billionaire in the world is a whole mess 'o socialism. Dog eat dog capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich.
if I could be guaranteed a job. A Buddy of mine once moved to one of those cheap places with lots of jobs (redacted for privacy reasons). He came with a job lined up. That job went away. No harm, no foul. He just grabbed the paper to get another job. Turns out all those job offers were different listings for the same few jobs (most were gov't contract jobs that were basically social programs, and after 30 years of tax cuts were few and far between).
Places like that are fly paper. You come in, put down a few roots and blamo, you're trapped. Now you've got a house a mortgage and kids in school. You can't just up and move. You try to sell that house but find out it's basically worthless because there's lots of folks with the same idea as you.
So if by "where it's at" you mean "reliable gainful employment" then yeah, everybody wants to live there.
"Starve the Beast". It's part of a larger right wing conspiracy to defund public programs so that taxes can be cut. They're not even hiding it. I do wish crazy people hadn't cooped the word "conspiracy" because when a real conspiracy is going on (two or more people working together to do something bad) nobody will believe you. You don't even need to make a straw man. It's like there's one for you already...
This "The problem with Millennials is they're not constantly being berated for every failure" narrative that the right wing think tanks love so much? Educators. Real Educators who have studied how to improve people independent of whether the improvement increases some companies bottom line have found that children need lots and lots of positive reinforcement. In the absence of that they get conditioned to failure and start making unconscious decisions to sabotage themselves in order to bring their perception of themselves as failures with reality.
This encouragement (everybody gets a good star) is expensive and difficult, so you're run of the mill right wing think tank doesn't like it so much (since they're primary goal is to cut taxes, and most of this sorta thing goes on at public schools). But the outcome, while not as beneficial for the ruling class is _very_ beneficial for the working class.
Probably without realizing it (and probably completely in jest ) you're repeating a right wing talking point that's part of a larger conversation aimed at defunding public schools. Please, think before you post. The spread of this sort of uninformed nonsense is tearing down some of our most valuable institutions and puts guys like Trump in the forefront of our national politics...
plus automation. That really is all there is to it. The Baby boomers had the advantage of the cold war keeping factories from moving overseas. I can't compete with Cancer Villages and people who lack food security. When I try my wages go down. Who know?
more to do with China. Movies have to be watered down until they translate across cultural boundaries. That plus there was a golden age in the 70s and 80s when directors like Ridley Scott were given carte blanc to make whatever they wanted. A few high profile bombs and some focus groups later and everything was crap.
not just to help the poor, but because I'm sick and tired of all the social distortions and general nastiness that results from so much money being dumped in the hands of so few. Letting guys like Sheldon Adelson & the Kock bros. run amok is against everybody's interests except for them and a few of their best paid lackeys. Money is power, and nobody should have that much power.
you're right the narrative is deeply broken. That's true as well. Employers don't really take care of employees and they cheerfully throw them to the wolves first chance they get. That's not the point. The point is we as a society let them get away with murder in service to that narrative.
Again, the claim isn't debatable. Any honest economist will tell you $12/hr isn't enough for those things. Take note of what I choose to list. It's all things that relate to long term economic security. Again, go do some googling. Read the fark politics tab for a few weeks. It'll do you some good to find out how awful the world really is for 90% of the human race.
Um.... wow. You really missed the whole point on the dark age. I didn't say we _were_ in a new dark age, I said we were heading for one. What caused the Dark Ages was the 1% of the time preventing any advancement in human civilization to prevent them from being ousted from power by widespread societal changes. This was largely accomplished by wealth inequality coupled with violence and the use of religious propaganda. Basically rampant conservativism. We're not there yet. We're heading there. I would like very much for us to stop. You're actions and belief systems are getting us there. Please stop. Really. Please. Stop.
With the exception of the occasional mad man anything evil that gets done is done for the sake of controlling access to or the use of wealth. People don't generally want to watch random blokes for the fun of it (rule 34 excepted). They're looking to hurt you because you're threatening either their money or their master's money.
Rather than worry about a symptom of wide spread institutional evil ( surveillance ) why not attack root causes ( wealth inequality and the desire of a lucky few to preserve the privileges such a system grants them).
but the effect is the same. The phrase you're looking for is "Job Creators". That's what the 1% call the social contract. It's a different slant on the narrative (a right wing one as opposed to a left wing one) but it's effectively the same base narrative. To wit: If you work hard and play by the rules you'll do good.
And when did I mention human history? If you wanna go back further life was nasty, brutish and short. We had 1200 years of dark ages when there was literally no human progress so that a lucky few could maintain their opulent status quo. As I think I implied this social contract is largely bullshit. It's a narrative to keep you from questioning why you struggle for existence so that the ruling class can have private jets and castles.
Again, did I even bring up how Uber's model functions? The point is that it's a "new" model different than employment that purports to achieve the same thing. My point is it's all smoke and mirrors. A ruse to take away what few gains Unions won in the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s.
That they're not following the contract is readily demonstrable. Again, this has nothing to do with reality. This is a narrative. Uber pays about $12/hr with no benefits after accounting for the cost of a vehicle. Less if you're city's median income is lower. You can't buy a house, pay for a child's college or save for retirement with that. You can google the statistics to prove that. I can't be arsed right now.
The point is we're being fed a load of old bull. We're being tricked. The gains the working class made (and fought and died for) are being taken away and we're gradually slipping into a new dark age. Thanks a lot.
Uber can do terrible things and be Honest. Instead focus on how they break the perceived social contract between employee and employer. If you worked hard and played by the rules your employer would take care of you and let you have an OK life and die reasonably content. Whether this was true or not it's _suppose_ to be true. Uber breaks all that and so far nobody's noticed or cared.
and everything to do with limiting bandwidth and exposure (there's a pun in there somewhere). I'm guessing they got a few cease and desists from porn companies for folks bit torrenting stuff. As an added bonus you don't have creepy dudes huffing and puffing at a McDonalds or Starbucks (well, not as many anyway)
not very much anyway. What made food prices spike was George Bush Jr deregulating the commodities market. You used to have to take possession of a commodity before you could sell/trade in it. Bush Jr did away with that. It's up there with Iraq and New Orleans for worst things he did in his presidency. Now we've got billionaires skimming 20% off the top of our food supply while adding no value/security to the farmers. They're just rent seeking parasites.
Now that he's no longer in the running for Veep he's gonna use the bump to sell as many of his books & merchant to frightened old people as he can. As for how extreme his nonsense is, it's kinda like when the Nigerian scammers write nonsense about long lost princes. You want to weed out the less bat shit crazies so you don't waste you're time with anyone who isn't a mark.
The sad thing is a major half of American politics revolves around this. I forgot who but somebody on/. pointed out that for the rest of the world thinking about the country with the most nukes/largest military tolerating this much crazy is unnerving...
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why we're friends with these guys? Oh yeah, cheap oil for our cars. Well I guess it's either that or the bus...
economically. Not at his income level. There's little doubt he's got a healthy golden parachute. Being afraid for things like surveillance generally requires quite a bit of economic insecurity. You have to believe the world can and will turn on you at some point, which is an odd thought to have if you've spent all or most of your adult life without worrying about money. It's an entirely different outlook on life you'd only get from a member of the ruling class. The 20th century equivalent to "Let them eat cake".
but everybody I know on the VA loves the stuff and would sooner chop their own arms and legs off than go back to "private" insurance. I do know one bloke who's a friend of a friend that says medical care on the Res is fine, but it's one of the tribes flush with Casino money out of Arizona so take that with some salt. Things could be different for the poorer tribes.
I thought that too at first. But it takes a long time to ship from China. They've probably built up significant stocks they're anticipating demand will be effectively zero after they sell through those stocks.
the constant battles on the part of doctors to get paid by insurance companies who's single goal is to not pay. In no other part of my life are my goals (getting care) and the service provider's goals (not paying for that care) so diametrically opposed. I've got family members with nasty health complications from easily treatable problems that were let go because the doctor didn't want to order tests in case they came back negative. If a test comes back negative the doctors never get paid.
Come to think of it I see this in one other place. B2B transactions. In so many of them business A won't pay the invoice for business B until A needs B's services again. I read somewhere Don Trump is famous for that, but having worked for small businesses it's so common he could just be going with the flow.
It was completely clear from context I was speaking metaphorically. You're building a straw man to dodge issues.
Again, $12/hr is not quite a bit of money. Spend some time on google looking at prices across the country. Ask yourself what it costs to raise a child (something most of society agrees anyone should be able to do). Look up what even an 800 sq/ft home costs, let alone a 1200 sq/ft home.
What _preceeded_ the Dark Ages was the collapse of Rome. What _caused_ them was conservativism used to prevent the working class from taking the wealth and privilage of the ruling class. When someone says "Dark Ages" they're referring to almost 1200 years of human history with little or no progress. Shit, Rome just collapsed again. Did we start another Dark Age? No, because a few libtards managed to put the breaks on "Austerity" and the madness and lies it represents.
I'll tell you the same thing I tell everybody else: Go Read "A people's history of the United States". Read some Gore Vidal too while you're at it. Listen to what Bill Nye tells adults when the kids aren't around. You and people like you are dragging us all down. If that's you're goal (e.g. if you're a shill for the 1%) Bravo Sir, you're doing a fine job. But if you have the slightest bit of human decency in you stop being foolish.
and I didn't quit, but I cut it back. Honestly I could cancel the dvd plan and wouldn't notice, but certain members of my family insist on having it (even if they barely use it, go figure).
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
But don't be fooled into think gov't subsidies are what's making college a bubble. It's how the subsides are awarded. Instead of directly funding public Universities we guarantee expensive loans issued by the 1%.
Meritocracy has always been a myth. The fact is very few poor kids can make it without a _lot_ of outside help. Poverty doesn't motivate to escape, it crushes all in it's wake. Don't let the occasional genius freak of nature of random success story fool you there...
it's not even the boomers buying up the housing (not that it helps). The reason housing prices are skyrocketing is we're out of cheap, already developed land. You see, house builders don't run water lines, power lines, phone lines roads and Internet lines. That's all been paid for by that Tax Payer. Then they swoop in, use cheap Mexican labor to throw up a few houses and net a massive payday.
Well we've been cutting taxes and infra structure spending for decades. Since Reagan and that damn Laffer Curve crap with his voodoo economics. We're out of cheap land. The home builders aren't going to develop that land without the taxpayer footing the bill. So nobody's building (hardly anyway).
Behind every billionaire in the world is a whole mess 'o socialism. Dog eat dog capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich.
if I could be guaranteed a job. A Buddy of mine once moved to one of those cheap places with lots of jobs (redacted for privacy reasons). He came with a job lined up. That job went away. No harm, no foul. He just grabbed the paper to get another job. Turns out all those job offers were different listings for the same few jobs (most were gov't contract jobs that were basically social programs, and after 30 years of tax cuts were few and far between).
Places like that are fly paper. You come in, put down a few roots and blamo, you're trapped. Now you've got a house a mortgage and kids in school. You can't just up and move. You try to sell that house but find out it's basically worthless because there's lots of folks with the same idea as you.
So if by "where it's at" you mean "reliable gainful employment" then yeah, everybody wants to live there.
right here.
"Starve the Beast". It's part of a larger right wing conspiracy to defund public programs so that taxes can be cut. They're not even hiding it. I do wish crazy people hadn't cooped the word "conspiracy" because when a real conspiracy is going on (two or more people working together to do something bad) nobody will believe you. You don't even need to make a straw man. It's like there's one for you already...
This "The problem with Millennials is they're not constantly being berated for every failure" narrative that the right wing think tanks love so much? Educators. Real Educators who have studied how to improve people independent of whether the improvement increases some companies bottom line have found that children need lots and lots of positive reinforcement. In the absence of that they get conditioned to failure and start making unconscious decisions to sabotage themselves in order to bring their perception of themselves as failures with reality.
This encouragement (everybody gets a good star) is expensive and difficult, so you're run of the mill right wing think tank doesn't like it so much (since they're primary goal is to cut taxes, and most of this sorta thing goes on at public schools). But the outcome, while not as beneficial for the ruling class is _very_ beneficial for the working class.
Probably without realizing it (and probably completely in jest ) you're repeating a right wing talking point that's part of a larger conversation aimed at defunding public schools. Please, think before you post. The spread of this sort of uninformed nonsense is tearing down some of our most valuable institutions and puts guys like Trump in the forefront of our national politics...
plus automation. That really is all there is to it. The Baby boomers had the advantage of the cold war keeping factories from moving overseas. I can't compete with Cancer Villages and people who lack food security. When I try my wages go down. Who know?
more to do with China. Movies have to be watered down until they translate across cultural boundaries. That plus there was a golden age in the 70s and 80s when directors like Ridley Scott were given carte blanc to make whatever they wanted. A few high profile bombs and some focus groups later and everything was crap.
not just to help the poor, but because I'm sick and tired of all the social distortions and general nastiness that results from so much money being dumped in the hands of so few. Letting guys like Sheldon Adelson & the Kock bros. run amok is against everybody's interests except for them and a few of their best paid lackeys. Money is power, and nobody should have that much power.
you're right the narrative is deeply broken. That's true as well. Employers don't really take care of employees and they cheerfully throw them to the wolves first chance they get. That's not the point. The point is we as a society let them get away with murder in service to that narrative.
Again, the claim isn't debatable. Any honest economist will tell you $12/hr isn't enough for those things. Take note of what I choose to list. It's all things that relate to long term economic security. Again, go do some googling. Read the fark politics tab for a few weeks. It'll do you some good to find out how awful the world really is for 90% of the human race.
Um.... wow. You really missed the whole point on the dark age. I didn't say we _were_ in a new dark age, I said we were heading for one. What caused the Dark Ages was the 1% of the time preventing any advancement in human civilization to prevent them from being ousted from power by widespread societal changes. This was largely accomplished by wealth inequality coupled with violence and the use of religious propaganda. Basically rampant conservativism. We're not there yet. We're heading there. I would like very much for us to stop. You're actions and belief systems are getting us there. Please stop. Really. Please. Stop.
You can only donate to campaigns you can vote in and you can only advertise your products and services.
With the exception of the occasional mad man anything evil that gets done is done for the sake of controlling access to or the use of wealth. People don't generally want to watch random blokes for the fun of it (rule 34 excepted). They're looking to hurt you because you're threatening either their money or their master's money.
Rather than worry about a symptom of wide spread institutional evil ( surveillance ) why not attack root causes ( wealth inequality and the desire of a lucky few to preserve the privileges such a system grants them).
but the effect is the same. The phrase you're looking for is "Job Creators". That's what the 1% call the social contract. It's a different slant on the narrative (a right wing one as opposed to a left wing one) but it's effectively the same base narrative. To wit: If you work hard and play by the rules you'll do good.
And when did I mention human history? If you wanna go back further life was nasty, brutish and short. We had 1200 years of dark ages when there was literally no human progress so that a lucky few could maintain their opulent status quo. As I think I implied this social contract is largely bullshit. It's a narrative to keep you from questioning why you struggle for existence so that the ruling class can have private jets and castles.
Again, did I even bring up how Uber's model functions? The point is that it's a "new" model different than employment that purports to achieve the same thing. My point is it's all smoke and mirrors. A ruse to take away what few gains Unions won in the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s.
That they're not following the contract is readily demonstrable. Again, this has nothing to do with reality. This is a narrative. Uber pays about $12/hr with no benefits after accounting for the cost of a vehicle. Less if you're city's median income is lower. You can't buy a house, pay for a child's college or save for retirement with that. You can google the statistics to prove that. I can't be arsed right now.
The point is we're being fed a load of old bull. We're being tricked. The gains the working class made (and fought and died for) are being taken away and we're gradually slipping into a new dark age. Thanks a lot.
Uber can do terrible things and be Honest. Instead focus on how they break the perceived social contract between employee and employer. If you worked hard and played by the rules your employer would take care of you and let you have an OK life and die reasonably content. Whether this was true or not it's _suppose_ to be true. Uber breaks all that and so far nobody's noticed or cared.
and everything to do with limiting bandwidth and exposure (there's a pun in there somewhere). I'm guessing they got a few cease and desists from porn companies for folks bit torrenting stuff. As an added bonus you don't have creepy dudes huffing and puffing at a McDonalds or Starbucks (well, not as many anyway)
not very much anyway. What made food prices spike was George Bush Jr deregulating the commodities market. You used to have to take possession of a commodity before you could sell/trade in it. Bush Jr did away with that. It's up there with Iraq and New Orleans for worst things he did in his presidency. Now we've got billionaires skimming 20% off the top of our food supply while adding no value/security to the farmers. They're just rent seeking parasites.
Now that he's no longer in the running for Veep he's gonna use the bump to sell as many of his books & merchant to frightened old people as he can. As for how extreme his nonsense is, it's kinda like when the Nigerian scammers write nonsense about long lost princes. You want to weed out the less bat shit crazies so you don't waste you're time with anyone who isn't a mark.
/. pointed out that for the rest of the world thinking about the country with the most nukes/largest military tolerating this much crazy is unnerving...
The sad thing is a major half of American politics revolves around this. I forgot who but somebody on