but that doesn't work in America unless you're healthy. You need the bargaining power of your business to keep your rates low if you're going to actually _use_ healthcare.
This goes both ways too. A friend worked for a small company. He had some pretty major health problems (cancer). He was politely told that if he signed up for the company health insurance he'd be fired. This is legal in my state.
But you're right, healthcare shouldn't be coupled to employment. Every civilized country (and some not so civilized) in the world has single payer of some sort except the United States.
but they don't and they don't want to (it would hit moral hard).
Furthermore there is nothing wrong with giving workers extra protections. As a worker you already have a significant disadvantage (you've got less money and you work for a living as opposed to owning things for a living). If that balance is not redressed somehow you get oligarchy and totalitarianism like we had in the era of robber barons & company stores.
Don't be afraid to have a sense of entitlement. You work for a living. You earned it.
that's the option. When you have a natural monopoly you write laws to keep things from going south. Or you let them go south (often out of a slavish devotion to laissez faire economics) and live with the consequences.
and they might even survive. Yeah, it's technically 4.83 months, but since when is any construction project on time?
That said, it's probably not a good idea if you value human life. And at any rate it's really just a distraction/vanity project. I'll believe Trump is concerned for our future when he makes good on his campaign promise of Universal Healthcare.
she doesn't. She lives in her district, Queens NY. Try maintaining _two_ households with two sets of bills sometime. I did it for a time while waiting to move family up to where I was after taking a new job and it hurt.
They system is rigged against poor and working class in a million little ways. This is one of them.
what matters is that 60-80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck (depending on what you consider "paycheck to paycheck", $400 in the bank gets you 60%, $1000 gets you 80%).
Said it before, say it again: Until we fix the economy for working class Americans all this talk of climate change is just talk. Climate change is years from now but rent's due today.
why, if it wasn't for the magic spell placed on Washington DC that keeps lobbyists out who knows what would happen.
The reason this is being discussed is that left wing congress folks like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who don't sell out have a hard time affording life in DC and back home at the same time. The pressure is there on purpose, it's to make them crack and sell out for the money needed for a decent living. $174k sounds like a lot of money until you're trying to maintain two households, one of them in an expensive city.
On a side note this is also why Ted Cruz started pushing Term limits. The pro corporate right wing don't care of they cycle out a bought and paid for politician every 8 years. But getting rid of long time senators like Bernie or preventing AOC from getting her sea legs and passing Medicare for All? That's priceless.
and inflation is 4.5% for necessities (food, shelter, healthcare, education, etc). Forget getting ahead, the only way to stay ahead of rent increases is to get a new job every couple years.
if you've got a 4 year degree I know you're at least stable enough as a human being to make it through a 4 year degree. It's not about how good or bad you are as a worker, it's about knowing that your life is at least nominally stable. That stability is valuable because it means, for example, that you're unlikely to suddenly quit because you have to care for a sick relative or you got in trouble with the law (or a family member did), etc.
Businesses want predictability more than performance except at the top end of employees.
and Stallman's pretty obsessed with not being tracked. I don't think he likes others being tracked either, but given that cell phones have killed payphones (I even stopped seeing them in the really poor neighborhoods where I work) there are just times when you can't get away from it.
Me? I don't care so much for tracking. I'm more worried about economic attacks on me and mine, e.g. things like cutting my access to medical care, education, my wages, etc. Take care of those things and the tracking problems solve themselves.
By pro corporate anti regulation folks. There's no shortage of alternative browsers either so you'll have a tough time arguing anti competitive is a thing here.
and went back to work where you likely depended heavily on Amazon in one fashion or another.
Going camping for two weeks isn't the same thing as actually living without modern infrastructure permanently. Go do that for 5-10 years and then we'll talk.
There's been a massive consolidation and monopolization push going on for at least 30 years. Companies that were broken up in the 50s and 60s have bought their way back to monopoly status.
There's several problems with this:
1. Massive increases in efficiency and outsourcing mean less jobs.
2. Constant price hikes because of a lack of real competition.
3. Enormous concentration of political power the likes of which we haven't seen since the robber barons.
I could go on and on. This is just one example where boycotting doesn't work anymore. It's why folks on the left say capitalism is broken. You literally _can't_ vote with your dollars.
The closest you could get is to try hiding out in a Nevada desert. Of course as soon as you try to use what little water they have there a mega corp'll want to sue you so they can bottle it and sell it back to you.
The time is now to regulate and take control of this situation.
the job would pay minimum wage. Maybe less (they could "Uberify" it).
Being a Data Scientist means math. Lots and lots of math. Really hard math like the kind very few people can do. Now, if you fully supported students you'd probably have plenty of them. But that means taxes for the wealthy, and we can't have that. After all, a 70% marginal tax rate means a guy making $10/hr only keeps $3 a day, right? So we'll import H1-Bs. Lots of them, and you'll pay out of pocket for your kid's college or go into debt like crazy. Because we're all about pulling the ladder up behind us...
it's a negotiating tactic. Because at this point when corporations (our defacto Ruling Class) break the law we have to negotiate with them to see how much of the law they will follow. Like a peasant begging it's king for relief.
the lives of my friends and family, sure. But the lives of the 45,000 Americans who will die of completely preventable diseases this year for no good reason.
sooner or later somebody who could have gone to jail is going to kill someone who's photogenic. In a country of 350+ million it's inevitable. Better to send 1000 innocent men to jail than let 1 guilty man go free. At least for the sake of your political career.
all drugs, including the hard ones. Treat those (Heroine and the like) as medical conditions from start to finish. You go to a government facility, get your fix, and the moment you come down you're in treatment. Pass Medicare for All (it'll save $5 trillion a year) so we're sure there's care for everyone.
and the GOP figured they could pin the shutdown on them and tank their polls. It's a cheap political move that shows the GOP will throw America under a bus for their own political goals.
It's also terrorism. I mean, what else do you call it when you're using fear (in this case fear of the economic impacts of a gov't shutdown) to achieve a political end?
You just reminded me of this. TL;DR: the rich under fund the government, loan the gov't the money to operate and collect the interest on it. Then we pay the interest with our tax dollars.
Last I heard they'll deal if he puts DACA on the table for real (and not just a pinky promise not to deport them for 3 years which is what he just offered).
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but that doesn't work in America unless you're healthy. You need the bargaining power of your business to keep your rates low if you're going to actually _use_ healthcare.
This goes both ways too. A friend worked for a small company. He had some pretty major health problems (cancer). He was politely told that if he signed up for the company health insurance he'd be fired. This is legal in my state.
But you're right, healthcare shouldn't be coupled to employment. Every civilized country (and some not so civilized) in the world has single payer of some sort except the United States.
but they don't and they don't want to (it would hit moral hard).
Furthermore there is nothing wrong with giving workers extra protections. As a worker you already have a significant disadvantage (you've got less money and you work for a living as opposed to owning things for a living). If that balance is not redressed somehow you get oligarchy and totalitarianism like we had in the era of robber barons & company stores.
Don't be afraid to have a sense of entitlement. You work for a living. You earned it.
that's the option. When you have a natural monopoly you write laws to keep things from going south. Or you let them go south (often out of a slavish devotion to laissez faire economics) and live with the consequences.
and they might even survive. Yeah, it's technically 4.83 months, but since when is any construction project on time?
That said, it's probably not a good idea if you value human life. And at any rate it's really just a distraction/vanity project. I'll believe Trump is concerned for our future when he makes good on his campaign promise of Universal Healthcare.
and maybe Mitch McConnell? Asking for a friend.
she doesn't. She lives in her district, Queens NY. Try maintaining _two_ households with two sets of bills sometime. I did it for a time while waiting to move family up to where I was after taking a new job and it hurt.
They system is rigged against poor and working class in a million little ways. This is one of them.
what matters is that 60-80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck (depending on what you consider "paycheck to paycheck", $400 in the bank gets you 60%, $1000 gets you 80%).
Said it before, say it again: Until we fix the economy for working class Americans all this talk of climate change is just talk. Climate change is years from now but rent's due today.
why, if it wasn't for the magic spell placed on Washington DC that keeps lobbyists out who knows what would happen.
The reason this is being discussed is that left wing congress folks like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who don't sell out have a hard time affording life in DC and back home at the same time. The pressure is there on purpose, it's to make them crack and sell out for the money needed for a decent living. $174k sounds like a lot of money until you're trying to maintain two households, one of them in an expensive city.
On a side note this is also why Ted Cruz started pushing Term limits. The pro corporate right wing don't care of they cycle out a bought and paid for politician every 8 years. But getting rid of long time senators like Bernie or preventing AOC from getting her sea legs and passing Medicare for All? That's priceless.
and inflation is 4.5% for necessities (food, shelter, healthcare, education, etc). Forget getting ahead, the only way to stay ahead of rent increases is to get a new job every couple years.
if you've got a 4 year degree I know you're at least stable enough as a human being to make it through a 4 year degree. It's not about how good or bad you are as a worker, it's about knowing that your life is at least nominally stable. That stability is valuable because it means, for example, that you're unlikely to suddenly quit because you have to care for a sick relative or you got in trouble with the law (or a family member did), etc.
Businesses want predictability more than performance except at the top end of employees.
e.g. the Mafia and the like?
and Stallman's pretty obsessed with not being tracked. I don't think he likes others being tracked either, but given that cell phones have killed payphones (I even stopped seeing them in the really poor neighborhoods where I work) there are just times when you can't get away from it.
Me? I don't care so much for tracking. I'm more worried about economic attacks on me and mine, e.g. things like cutting my access to medical care, education, my wages, etc. Take care of those things and the tracking problems solve themselves.
He's fighting the war harder than just about anyone, just on a different front.
By pro corporate anti regulation folks. There's no shortage of alternative browsers either so you'll have a tough time arguing anti competitive is a thing here.
and went back to work where you likely depended heavily on Amazon in one fashion or another.
Going camping for two weeks isn't the same thing as actually living without modern infrastructure permanently. Go do that for 5-10 years and then we'll talk.
perhaps intentionally.
There's been a massive consolidation and monopolization push going on for at least 30 years. Companies that were broken up in the 50s and 60s have bought their way back to monopoly status.
There's several problems with this:
1. Massive increases in efficiency and outsourcing mean less jobs.
2. Constant price hikes because of a lack of real competition.
3. Enormous concentration of political power the likes of which we haven't seen since the robber barons.
I could go on and on. This is just one example where boycotting doesn't work anymore. It's why folks on the left say capitalism is broken. You literally _can't_ vote with your dollars.
The closest you could get is to try hiding out in a Nevada desert. Of course as soon as you try to use what little water they have there a mega corp'll want to sue you so they can bottle it and sell it back to you.
The time is now to regulate and take control of this situation.
the job would pay minimum wage. Maybe less (they could "Uberify" it).
...
Being a Data Scientist means math. Lots and lots of math. Really hard math like the kind very few people can do. Now, if you fully supported students you'd probably have plenty of them. But that means taxes for the wealthy, and we can't have that. After all, a 70% marginal tax rate means a guy making $10/hr only keeps $3 a day, right? So we'll import H1-Bs. Lots of them, and you'll pay out of pocket for your kid's college or go into debt like crazy. Because we're all about pulling the ladder up behind us
it's a negotiating tactic. Because at this point when corporations (our defacto Ruling Class) break the law we have to negotiate with them to see how much of the law they will follow. Like a peasant begging it's king for relief.
the lives of my friends and family, sure. But the lives of the 45,000 Americans who will die of completely preventable diseases this year for no good reason.
I mistyped. It's $5 trillion over 10 years. It's Monday and brain's on auto.
Still pretty damn good. We could pay off the national debt in about 40 years. Not my lifetime, but my kid's.
sooner or later somebody who could have gone to jail is going to kill someone who's photogenic. In a country of 350+ million it's inevitable. Better to send 1000 innocent men to jail than let 1 guilty man go free. At least for the sake of your political career.
all drugs, including the hard ones. Treat those (Heroine and the like) as medical conditions from start to finish. You go to a government facility, get your fix, and the moment you come down you're in treatment. Pass Medicare for All (it'll save $5 trillion a year) so we're sure there's care for everyone.
The only downside is you won't be able to use our drug war against populations you don't like anymore. Yes, that includes dirty hippies.
and the GOP figured they could pin the shutdown on them and tank their polls. It's a cheap political move that shows the GOP will throw America under a bus for their own political goals.
It's also terrorism. I mean, what else do you call it when you're using fear (in this case fear of the economic impacts of a gov't shutdown) to achieve a political end?
You just reminded me of this. TL;DR: the rich under fund the government, loan the gov't the money to operate and collect the interest on it. Then we pay the interest with our tax dollars.
Last I heard they'll deal if he puts DACA on the table for real (and not just a pinky promise not to deport them for 3 years which is what he just offered).