moving for better digs. When I say "water refugees" I mean the dirt poor leaving the state because there's no water. There'll be millions of them. Supply and demand dictates that a large influx of labor (supply) lowers demand (wages).
Heck, even the middle class won't be coming with tons of money. Those condos will be worthless when there's no potable water. It'll be like Detroit x1000. Assuming nothing is done about it. California's moving left, so they might actually step up and fix it.
this has the real potential to get them broadband where it's too expensive to run cable but with prices like this it's not really practical. You'd think they'd be more upset by that.
they were environmental initiatives meant to improve air quality. Some of them are better than others (Solar subsidies, alright. Cash for Clunkers? That was just stupid).
It'd be a bit like saying "Why isn't the Democrat's push for Diplomacy in Iran helping the working poor?". Those things have very little to do with each other. I mean, avoiding pointless wars that drain our coffers does, just like the poor breath dirty air. But it's not specifically intended for the poor or even working class except in as much as they are citizens...
For left wing programs that are for the poor, you've got Medicare for All, The Living Wage, Ending the Drug War, shutting down predatory lenders, Wall Street regulation... the list goes on and on. The left do great when it comes to helping the poor... when they're allowed to. Most of the time Goldman Sachs et al shuts them down.
It's about advertisers. It's the same reason you don't see boobs on Network TV. There's a small vocal group of nut jobs on both the left and right. The left calls then SJWs and the right Place but it's same thing, folks who enjoy and profit from getting offended and are given a disproportionate amount of power and voice. Advertisers have heeded them since advertising was a thing. Remember the Satanic Panic? The Comics Code. Same thing. It's about money and markets.
1. Yes, there is. It's the total number of votes. It has no legal bearing, but it does exist.
2. Yes, it is. Again, the electoral college is designed to dampen the effects of Democracy in order to protect the power of a landed owning ruling class. Trump won a lot of electoral votes, but in the districts that gave him his win he won by a slim margin. Had those districts flipped a few thousand votes out of millions we'd all be saying "Madam President".
You more than likely know all this and are just trolling.
If you're a Russian yourself then fine, carry on. I know a lot of them hit up/.. It's a popular site with a valuable demographic (males, 40+, some education, lean conservative).
If you're actually an American... well, I don't know what the hell you think you're doing, but it's going to bite you hard in the ass. You are not a member of the elite. You're not John Galt. You're not a superman. You're just like me: some angry, bitter schmuk who posts on a dumb tech forum. You're getting screwed over by the exact same things I am. The difference is I've seen the ruling class for what they are. I see voter suppression for what it is.
Eventually the folks you're lying down with will eat you and yours alive, regardless of if you're American or Russian. You can stop it. You and people like you. The only question is will you? Or will you go on believing your somehow one of "Them"? Again, we'll find out in 2 years...
"I wouldn't have died from the hangnail if my immune system wasn't weakened by lead poisoning and constant illness from the bullet wound I got 30 years ago"
Like I said, Hillary had a _lot_ of baggage, much of it manufactured by a multi-million dollar right wing apparatus that saw she was getting ready to run for president and so came at her like a ton of bricks. Now, as a presidential candidate it was her responsibility to defuse those attacks (as opposed to throwing fire on them like she did with that Benghazi silliness). But again, we're being hopelessly naive if we don't acknowledge the effect Russia had.
Trump represents a breakdown of every single sane process our civilization has. I don't mean that as hyperbole. _Everything_ had to go wrong to make something as disastrous as Trump happen. The real question is will we put the breaks on it in 2 years? Trump's by himself limited in the damage he can do (though his two SCOTUS nominees are going to wreck some havoc on our few remaining protections against mega-corps). The real problem is that he's encouraged the working class to turn away from solid policy and into Demagoguery like "Build the Wall!" as a solution to their problems. If that keeps up it'll end like it always does with oppressed minorities. We'll start by kicking the Hispanics out at the barrel of gun, follow it up by enslaving the blacks again and probably finish where the Nazis left off (hello there, Godwin).
If all of this sounds too far fetched, keep in mind that Climate change is going to start making water, and by extension food, scarce in about 20-30 years. The American working class are riled up by some moderately poor working conditions. When they don't have enough to eat all hell will break lose.
when I need to make it through the day but I couldn't sleep. As you get older you can't just keep pounding Red Bulls, they give you heart problems. But I still gotta make it through a day at work and I'm not expected to work less just because I'm tired and worn out. Heck, with inflation eating away at my pay and the threat of outsourcing and H1-B replacement I'm constantly trying to get ahead at my job. I feel like a shark, I have to keep moving or I stop breathing...
Modern life sucks. Especially in America's "Winner take all" system. It doesn't have to, but it does. What I don't get is why folks aren't more upset about it. We're so damned complacent. And when we do stand up for something it's just pointless violence. Never any real change. Never any real policy. Just pointless anger.
no matter what he does or says or what comes out. Hell, he's mad that he took Pence as his VP because it turns out the Evangelicals will support him no matter what. These same Evangelicals just elected a dead pimp
To me the Russian interference is like a vial of blood in a shark pool. It didn't take much, but without the vial there wouldn't have been a frenzy. And we shouldn't be surprised. Vlad Putin's specialty was information warfare for Christ's sake. It's not like we weren't warned. He saw a weakness (Hilary) and exploited it to weaken us further.
yes, Clinton could have won if she'd just taken Trump seriously. Also if she took notice of how badly beaten up the working class was. Her solution to everything was more education. For a woman who'd spent her entire life living large off the fruits of her education that makes sense. She's a classic left wing, elitest do gooder: she can't understand why folks don't just reach out their hands for all the money out there when it's all so easy. She's literally unable to comprehend that it's not so easy for most of us.
But all that said:
1. She still won the popular vote.
2. She lost by a razor thin margin. So thin that all she needed was to focus a bit more on the rust belt but...
3. By the same token that razor thin margin means that stuff that ordinarily shouldn't have mattered, mattered.
TL;DR; I think Clinton could have won if she tried harder, but I don't think she'd have lost without Russian interference and that last minute Oct surprise from Comey pushing Trump over the edge.
they want Californians to pay through the nose for water. While you're busy shit posting mildly racist right wing nonsense to Slashdot a small group of billionaires are buying up increasingly valuable water rights which they'll rent back to us.
If you're a Russian troll this doesn't concern you, but if you're in America you're about to get fucked. And yes, even if you're on the east coast since you'll have "water refugees" leaving the west and flooding your job market, lowering your wages...
and very pricey. I have several friends who are a bit off and you get zero help unless you're an active danger to yourself or those around you. That's where the "I cut myself to feel alive" thing actually comes from. When mentally ill people feel an attack coming on they usually can't get any help unless they're already violent, so they cut themselves.
But hey, would you risk a 2% income tax increase to pay for it all? Yeah, if we just taxed the upper income guys your taxes probably wouldn't go up, but again, nobody wants to risk it. Given that somewhere between 60-80% of us are paycheck to paycheck I don't know if I can blame them. Man, what a world...
this was a perfectly safe thing for the FCC to do. It was intensely unpopular, unlikely to pass. The whole thing only exists because California's right wing made it difficult to raise income taxes but the state needs money to fight the drought. So they come up with insane things to get around the rule that they can't just raise taxes when they need to.
Seriously, their taxes are like a one way ratchet. You can lower them with a simple majority but it takes a super majority to raise them. It's part of that whole "Starve the Beast" thing meant to crash the government so everything can be privatized.
why does it have to be that way? Your father says those things because he was brought up to think that way. He was brought up to think that way because somebody wanted him to.
I'd like to see your father step out of the thought box he was put in by his ruling class. Think of it this way instead:
1. Everybody gets paid what their worth, by law if necessary.
2. Everyone should get what they deserve, and we deserve a good life. Not because of who we are or who are dad is but because we're human beings.
Anything else but the above will turn into a race to the bottom sooner or later. Somebody else will crush your small business or you'll crush them. The winner won't be the best product, it'll be the most violent and amoral.
it was a recession, and it was over in less than 2 years. The economy recovered, the working class didn't. All that wealth went somewhere. It went to the top.
Wage growth has been flat since the 70s after adjusting for inflation. The rich get richer and everybody else gets poorer. This isn't click bait. It's a repeat pattern in our society that's gotten too big to ignore.
thanks to mergers and acquisitions there's relatively few companies to work for. Small businesses & startups don't have the resources to pay for healthcare so unless you don't need that you're stuck looking for a bigger one with a big enough risk pool to get good rates. Mix in H1-Bs and outsourcing and your loyalty becomes even less valuable.
I generally get about a 1.5-2.5% raise. But inflation is around 4.5% for food, shelter, education & transportation; which is 90% of my expenses (I don't do much leisure activity). I average about a 1.75% paycut every year. That money isn't gone, it's going somewhere. This is where the last 10 years of wealth inequality came from.
I remember a story when one of the old Kmart's closed down. A woman started at $3/hr in the mid 1970s and ended around $9 bucks an hour in 2018. Trouble was, $3/hr inflation adjusted in 1970 had $16/hr in buying power. She lost over 1/3 of her pay after 40 years or work.
Put another way, if minimum wage kept pace with productivity it'd be over $20/hr right now. Then again, 86% of the lost manufacturing jobs were lost to automation, not the Chinese & Mexico...
but Amazon's the #1 place for odd ball snacks and assorted dry goods. Plus there's bulk. I buy curry mix from them because it's 1/3 the price I pay in town, but I buy it bulk. I can't imagine they don't make profit on that. Maybe they mean a generic thing of pretzels. Are folks actually buying that?
There's the notion, planted in our heads by a right wing propaganda machine, that opportunity should be the goal. e.g. that it's wrong to focus on outcomes at all. It's used as a round about attack on social programs. It's part of the broader "bootstrap" narrative that encourages folks who don't have financial security to accept their lot in life.
There's a third option between equal opportunity and equal outcome the right wing doesn't want anyone talking about: everybody gets a decent life. Maybe not an extraordinary life, but a decent one. Food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation and a modicum of leisure. The idea is nobody is left behind. In the 50s, 60s and 70s we looked forward to those days. Up until the 80s when the powers that be bared their fangs at the working class who up until then was well on their way to that goal.
Remember, past a certain amount of money it's not money anymore, it's power. Or put another way, you can't have the rich without the poor. And finally put another, sillier way, the stripper at your local joint isn't hanging around for your winning personality. Money talks, but it's a lot louder for people who don't have enough of it to get by.
this is literally an app to help working class folks find beaches they could go to because by a rich guy who denied them access to said beaches...
It's a bit like having a fracking magnate list of all the places where it's safe to drink the water provided. Sure, it's nice to have and it's nice the fracker feels guilty for making your water flammable, but it'd be even nicer if the water wasn't made flammable in the first place....
We don't need to give them special power in exchange for nice things, we're already giving them vast amounts of money in exchange for those nice things.
Pure equality does have it's place: in the law. If they law doesn't apply equally then it's not the law. You're confusing equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.
before folks figured this out, and you got lucky and are in a major city where they were rolled out.
The rest of the country isn't so lucky. Nobody's rolling out much fiber anymore, and the ones that are are the major players (AT&T & Comcast) doing it here and there when they're paid by a specific municipality and that municipality is one of the rare ones that doesn't let them take the money and run.
I'm pretty sure if you put it to a vote folks wouldn't want the cars on public roads yet. Especially the kinds of conservative folks who frequent Arizona (that's literal conservatives, e.g. folks who are slow to implement change, not to be confused with the colloquial definition of "conservative", e.g. someone who's politically far right wing).
It's purposefully difficult to get a vote on things in most jurisdictions. The rules are complex and require a ton of manual labor in the form of signatures. Generally only people with money can do it, and folks with money want the cars on the road because they're planning on making a killing off them.
humanity no. We need more and better information and technology (and yes, technology is really just information that's been applied) or eventually our civilization will collapse just like all the prior ones did. It's like a race you're trying to stay ahead of.
And thanks to robots & automation we don't need very many to generate concrete value. The lack of work for people to do in a society built around trading work for food is a major problem. 86% of the manufacturing jobs lost to the US were to robots, not Mexicans or the Chinese. We're wasting our time fighting outsourcing when we need to come up with new ways to distribute wealth.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, especially ones like this that are pretty likely just foreign nationals stirring up trouble. On the plus side even I can spot this one. It's not nearly as good as the ones I saw during the last two elections.
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moving for better digs. When I say "water refugees" I mean the dirt poor leaving the state because there's no water. There'll be millions of them. Supply and demand dictates that a large influx of labor (supply) lowers demand (wages).
Heck, even the middle class won't be coming with tons of money. Those condos will be worthless when there's no potable water. It'll be like Detroit x1000. Assuming nothing is done about it. California's moving left, so they might actually step up and fix it.
this has the real potential to get them broadband where it's too expensive to run cable but with prices like this it's not really practical. You'd think they'd be more upset by that.
they were environmental initiatives meant to improve air quality. Some of them are better than others (Solar subsidies, alright. Cash for Clunkers? That was just stupid).
It'd be a bit like saying "Why isn't the Democrat's push for Diplomacy in Iran helping the working poor?". Those things have very little to do with each other. I mean, avoiding pointless wars that drain our coffers does, just like the poor breath dirty air. But it's not specifically intended for the poor or even working class except in as much as they are citizens...
For left wing programs that are for the poor, you've got Medicare for All, The Living Wage, Ending the Drug War, shutting down predatory lenders, Wall Street regulation... the list goes on and on. The left do great when it comes to helping the poor... when they're allowed to. Most of the time Goldman Sachs et al shuts them down.
he right Puritans but it's same thing
Can't stand mobile keyboards.
It's about advertisers. It's the same reason you don't see boobs on Network TV. There's a small vocal group of nut jobs on both the left and right. The left calls then SJWs and the right Place but it's same thing, folks who enjoy and profit from getting offended and are given a disproportionate amount of power and voice. Advertisers have heeded them since advertising was a thing. Remember the Satanic Panic? The Comics Code. Same thing. It's about money and markets.
1. Yes, there is. It's the total number of votes. It has no legal bearing, but it does exist.
/.. It's a popular site with a valuable demographic (males, 40+, some education, lean conservative).
2. Yes, it is. Again, the electoral college is designed to dampen the effects of Democracy in order to protect the power of a landed owning ruling class. Trump won a lot of electoral votes, but in the districts that gave him his win he won by a slim margin. Had those districts flipped a few thousand votes out of millions we'd all be saying "Madam President".
You more than likely know all this and are just trolling.
If you're a Russian yourself then fine, carry on. I know a lot of them hit up
If you're actually an American... well, I don't know what the hell you think you're doing, but it's going to bite you hard in the ass. You are not a member of the elite. You're not John Galt. You're not a superman. You're just like me: some angry, bitter schmuk who posts on a dumb tech forum. You're getting screwed over by the exact same things I am. The difference is I've seen the ruling class for what they are. I see voter suppression for what it is.
Eventually the folks you're lying down with will eat you and yours alive, regardless of if you're American or Russian. You can stop it. You and people like you. The only question is will you? Or will you go on believing your somehow one of "Them"? Again, we'll find out in 2 years...
it's more like saying:
"I wouldn't have died from the hangnail if my immune system wasn't weakened by lead poisoning and constant illness from the bullet wound I got 30 years ago"
Like I said, Hillary had a _lot_ of baggage, much of it manufactured by a multi-million dollar right wing apparatus that saw she was getting ready to run for president and so came at her like a ton of bricks. Now, as a presidential candidate it was her responsibility to defuse those attacks (as opposed to throwing fire on them like she did with that Benghazi silliness). But again, we're being hopelessly naive if we don't acknowledge the effect Russia had.
Trump represents a breakdown of every single sane process our civilization has. I don't mean that as hyperbole. _Everything_ had to go wrong to make something as disastrous as Trump happen. The real question is will we put the breaks on it in 2 years? Trump's by himself limited in the damage he can do (though his two SCOTUS nominees are going to wreck some havoc on our few remaining protections against mega-corps). The real problem is that he's encouraged the working class to turn away from solid policy and into Demagoguery like "Build the Wall!" as a solution to their problems. If that keeps up it'll end like it always does with oppressed minorities. We'll start by kicking the Hispanics out at the barrel of gun, follow it up by enslaving the blacks again and probably finish where the Nazis left off (hello there, Godwin).
If all of this sounds too far fetched, keep in mind that Climate change is going to start making water, and by extension food, scarce in about 20-30 years. The American working class are riled up by some moderately poor working conditions. When they don't have enough to eat all hell will break lose.
when I need to make it through the day but I couldn't sleep. As you get older you can't just keep pounding Red Bulls, they give you heart problems. But I still gotta make it through a day at work and I'm not expected to work less just because I'm tired and worn out. Heck, with inflation eating away at my pay and the threat of outsourcing and H1-B replacement I'm constantly trying to get ahead at my job. I feel like a shark, I have to keep moving or I stop breathing...
Modern life sucks. Especially in America's "Winner take all" system. It doesn't have to, but it does. What I don't get is why folks aren't more upset about it. We're so damned complacent. And when we do stand up for something it's just pointless violence. Never any real change. Never any real policy. Just pointless anger.
no matter what he does or says or what comes out. Hell, he's mad that he took Pence as his VP because it turns out the Evangelicals will support him no matter what. These same Evangelicals just elected a dead pimp
To me the Russian interference is like a vial of blood in a shark pool. It didn't take much, but without the vial there wouldn't have been a frenzy. And we shouldn't be surprised. Vlad Putin's specialty was information warfare for Christ's sake. It's not like we weren't warned. He saw a weakness (Hilary) and exploited it to weaken us further.
yes, Clinton could have won if she'd just taken Trump seriously. Also if she took notice of how badly beaten up the working class was. Her solution to everything was more education. For a woman who'd spent her entire life living large off the fruits of her education that makes sense. She's a classic left wing, elitest do gooder: she can't understand why folks don't just reach out their hands for all the money out there when it's all so easy. She's literally unable to comprehend that it's not so easy for most of us.
But all that said:
1. She still won the popular vote.
2. She lost by a razor thin margin. So thin that all she needed was to focus a bit more on the rust belt but...
3. By the same token that razor thin margin means that stuff that ordinarily shouldn't have mattered, mattered.
TL;DR; I think Clinton could have won if she tried harder, but I don't think she'd have lost without Russian interference and that last minute Oct surprise from Comey pushing Trump over the edge.
they want Californians to pay through the nose for water. While you're busy shit posting mildly racist right wing nonsense to Slashdot a small group of billionaires are buying up increasingly valuable water rights which they'll rent back to us.
If you're a Russian troll this doesn't concern you, but if you're in America you're about to get fucked. And yes, even if you're on the east coast since you'll have "water refugees" leaving the west and flooding your job market, lowering your wages...
and very pricey. I have several friends who are a bit off and you get zero help unless you're an active danger to yourself or those around you. That's where the "I cut myself to feel alive" thing actually comes from. When mentally ill people feel an attack coming on they usually can't get any help unless they're already violent, so they cut themselves.
But hey, would you risk a 2% income tax increase to pay for it all? Yeah, if we just taxed the upper income guys your taxes probably wouldn't go up, but again, nobody wants to risk it. Given that somewhere between 60-80% of us are paycheck to paycheck I don't know if I can blame them. Man, what a world...
this was a perfectly safe thing for the FCC to do. It was intensely unpopular, unlikely to pass. The whole thing only exists because California's right wing made it difficult to raise income taxes but the state needs money to fight the drought. So they come up with insane things to get around the rule that they can't just raise taxes when they need to.
Seriously, their taxes are like a one way ratchet. You can lower them with a simple majority but it takes a super majority to raise them. It's part of that whole "Starve the Beast" thing meant to crash the government so everything can be privatized.
that they won't pocket the ad revenue from the extra traffic.
why does it have to be that way? Your father says those things because he was brought up to think that way. He was brought up to think that way because somebody wanted him to.
I'd like to see your father step out of the thought box he was put in by his ruling class. Think of it this way instead:
1. Everybody gets paid what their worth, by law if necessary.
2. Everyone should get what they deserve, and we deserve a good life. Not because of who we are or who are dad is but because we're human beings.
Anything else but the above will turn into a race to the bottom sooner or later. Somebody else will crush your small business or you'll crush them. The winner won't be the best product, it'll be the most violent and amoral.
it was a recession, and it was over in less than 2 years. The economy recovered, the working class didn't. All that wealth went somewhere. It went to the top.
Wage growth has been flat since the 70s after adjusting for inflation. The rich get richer and everybody else gets poorer. This isn't click bait. It's a repeat pattern in our society that's gotten too big to ignore.
thanks to mergers and acquisitions there's relatively few companies to work for. Small businesses & startups don't have the resources to pay for healthcare so unless you don't need that you're stuck looking for a bigger one with a big enough risk pool to get good rates. Mix in H1-Bs and outsourcing and your loyalty becomes even less valuable.
I generally get about a 1.5-2.5% raise. But inflation is around 4.5% for food, shelter, education & transportation; which is 90% of my expenses (I don't do much leisure activity). I average about a 1.75% paycut every year. That money isn't gone, it's going somewhere. This is where the last 10 years of wealth inequality came from.
I remember a story when one of the old Kmart's closed down. A woman started at $3/hr in the mid 1970s and ended around $9 bucks an hour in 2018. Trouble was, $3/hr inflation adjusted in 1970 had $16/hr in buying power. She lost over 1/3 of her pay after 40 years or work.
Put another way, if minimum wage kept pace with productivity it'd be over $20/hr right now. Then again, 86% of the lost manufacturing jobs were lost to automation, not the Chinese & Mexico...
but Amazon's the #1 place for odd ball snacks and assorted dry goods. Plus there's bulk. I buy curry mix from them because it's 1/3 the price I pay in town, but I buy it bulk. I can't imagine they don't make profit on that. Maybe they mean a generic thing of pretzels. Are folks actually buying that?
There's the notion, planted in our heads by a right wing propaganda machine, that opportunity should be the goal. e.g. that it's wrong to focus on outcomes at all. It's used as a round about attack on social programs. It's part of the broader "bootstrap" narrative that encourages folks who don't have financial security to accept their lot in life.
There's a third option between equal opportunity and equal outcome the right wing doesn't want anyone talking about: everybody gets a decent life. Maybe not an extraordinary life, but a decent one. Food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation and a modicum of leisure. The idea is nobody is left behind. In the 50s, 60s and 70s we looked forward to those days. Up until the 80s when the powers that be bared their fangs at the working class who up until then was well on their way to that goal.
Remember, past a certain amount of money it's not money anymore, it's power. Or put another way, you can't have the rich without the poor. And finally put another, sillier way, the stripper at your local joint isn't hanging around for your winning personality. Money talks, but it's a lot louder for people who don't have enough of it to get by.
this is literally an app to help working class folks find beaches they could go to because by a rich guy who denied them access to said beaches...
It's a bit like having a fracking magnate list of all the places where it's safe to drink the water provided. Sure, it's nice to have and it's nice the fracker feels guilty for making your water flammable, but it'd be even nicer if the water wasn't made flammable in the first place....
We don't need to give them special power in exchange for nice things, we're already giving them vast amounts of money in exchange for those nice things.
Pure equality does have it's place: in the law. If they law doesn't apply equally then it's not the law. You're confusing equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.
before folks figured this out, and you got lucky and are in a major city where they were rolled out.
The rest of the country isn't so lucky. Nobody's rolling out much fiber anymore, and the ones that are are the major players (AT&T & Comcast) doing it here and there when they're paid by a specific municipality and that municipality is one of the rare ones that doesn't let them take the money and run.
I'm pretty sure if you put it to a vote folks wouldn't want the cars on public roads yet. Especially the kinds of conservative folks who frequent Arizona (that's literal conservatives, e.g. folks who are slow to implement change, not to be confused with the colloquial definition of "conservative", e.g. someone who's politically far right wing).
It's purposefully difficult to get a vote on things in most jurisdictions. The rules are complex and require a ton of manual labor in the form of signatures. Generally only people with money can do it, and folks with money want the cars on the road because they're planning on making a killing off them.
humanity no. We need more and better information and technology (and yes, technology is really just information that's been applied) or eventually our civilization will collapse just like all the prior ones did. It's like a race you're trying to stay ahead of.
And thanks to robots & automation we don't need very many to generate concrete value. The lack of work for people to do in a society built around trading work for food is a major problem. 86% of the manufacturing jobs lost to the US were to robots, not Mexicans or the Chinese. We're wasting our time fighting outsourcing when we need to come up with new ways to distribute wealth.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, especially ones like this that are pretty likely just foreign nationals stirring up trouble. On the plus side even I can spot this one. It's not nearly as good as the ones I saw during the last two elections.