to get out of paying unemployment, pay roll taxes, benefits and minimum wage. They did it to taxi drivers for ages but it used to be mostly immigrants and the occasional ex-con 7 years past his sentence.
It wasn't right when we did it to them, but expanding it into the economy as a whole is bad juju for the entire workforce. It puts downward pressure on everybody's wages.
Give you a vasectomy. I've heard it's better now, but 20 years ago no reputable doctor would. You could go to planned Parenthood and they'd do it but the doc would be a third string or a newbie.
In my 30s and it's amazing how many guys if met who's wives for pregnant on the pill. I knew a few that out right admitted they stopped taking it without telling their partner. Often because the mother in law was anxious for grandchildren...
It's long and doesn't have too much I haven't seen already elsewhere:
It talks about 3 new job classes: Trainer
Data scientists. This is that hard part. It's the part with all the math. This isn't going to be a big job creator because, well, that math is _hard_.
Explainer
Project Management job. Easy enough to do, but it'll be 1 job per product line at a company. e.g. an entire Voice Response system for a large company will generate 1 job. Smaller companies won't have this because they won't write their own VR, they'll buy one, and the vendor will have 1 Explainer and a few salesmen.
Again, not a big job creator.
Sustainer
The AI equivalent to IT support. Will generate some jobs for certain. IT always does. But likely to generate fewer jobs that the AI takes over. Why? Because this is an immediate, long term cost sink, like IT always is. So if it makes more jobs than the AI replaces then AI isn't cost effective/competitive.
As far as AI taking jobs, They found 10% of the work is Human only, 35% automatable and 55% can be 'augmented'.
He's hoping the increased economic output will offset the job losses and sites Canada expecting $16 billion in new economic activity.
I think they guy's being naive there. 35% of jobs can concieveably go away. 55% can have a productivity boost that would let companies do layoffs.
He's hoping we'll "Grow our way out". e.g. they'll be markets for products and such. I'm not sure that's possible. For one thing the environment might not let us. For example, there's not enough metals on the plant to give everybody a car. China is industrializing and becoming a new market. India too. But to do it they're putting out huge amounts of carbon and filling the oceans with plastic.
These are solvable problems, but then there's the social ones. How do you distribute that $16 billion? Who's going to buy all the products when 35% lose their jobs to automation and maybe another 20% to productivity increases due to augmentation?
Finally there's the ruling class. We've got one. They were kings of old but today their the CEOs of boardrooms. Go look into it, it's the same people sitting on the board of directors for every company. Every now and then you can join their ranks, but that doesn't make them anything else but kings and queens. Hereditary wealth that doesn't like to share.
Why does that matter? Because the King didn't need the Serfs to buy their products. The King doesn't need us. If you already own everything you don't care if you can sell stuff. Your power and wealth comes from already owning it all, not from building it and selling it. Wealth inequality is the worst since the 30s and getting worse (America just shifted $1 trillion to the top in the form of a tax cut that was put on the national credit card).
What I'm saying is we don't have the social and technological resources to "grow our way out". If we don't all want to live through another Dark Ages we'd better do something fast...
then unless you're from an unusually long lived family you'll be dead before the problems you caused come home to roost.
I know, I know, what about your children. Thing is, it's taboo to say you don't care about kids, especially your own, but I guarantee you that the "I got mine, FU" crowd exists and doesn't care.
This is the problem we're having: We are not negotiating with people in good faith. You can't reason with the people raping the earth and leaving a disaster for the next generation because they're being reasonable. Evil. But perfectly reasonable. You can't win negotiations with a bad faith actor when you act in good faith.
in my experience. Certainly not in my city. Around here taxes like this are meant to be regressive. In other words, they disproportionately impact the poor and working class so that the wealthy don't have to pay taxes for the services they use. It lets states cut income taxes for top earners without sacrificing services that either go to those earns or that are too popular/essential to cut.
Lotteries, Sales Tax, flat Vehicle Taxes (and flat taxes in general, like alcohol tax) are all good examples of regressive taxation. The goal is to have a tax system that applies (mathematically) equally to all while ignoring the very real differences between a millionaire and the lower working class.
because of problems with their foundry. It's especially funny/sad because of the famous "Real men own Fabs" line they throw at AMD when AMD got out of chip fabrication.
AMD is currently doing great because the chip fabricator that makes their chips didn't have any issues.
For me, the lesson here is that you're never safe unless you're so rich and well connected that nothing touches you (think Donald Trump). In other words, if you're a working class stiff you're always under water.
Google is a massive hub for information. Facebook is a social hub for most people. Fortnite's a pretty decent PUBG clone that happens to run on lower end hardware. It's hit a critical mass that means it's probably not going away or anything. But, well, I thought the same thing about Angry Birds....
hiring is meaningless these days. For the last 11 years or so companies have been "hiring" and not filling the positions. They're just gathering resumes to use in case they need to fill somebody in a hurry after they push them too far and they quit. Since the economy never really recovered after 2008 (at least not if you make
As an added bonus it lets them go to Congress every year and claim there's X million positions open they'd just love to fill but there aren't enough Americans and pretty please can we increase that pesky H1-B cap?
they've been posted to/. Also EA just fired a bunch. In all cases they're firing engineers. The sort of people you need to keep the company going.
When you start doing that it's usually because you're prepping for a recession. That's why people care. The Fed is talking about interest rate cuts to slow things down, but that's still up in the air and it's a long way from what's needed (specifically, more banking regulation to put the kibash on the the sort of gambling that got us into the 2008 crash that's been given the go ahead again these last two years; plus some Keynesian subsidies ).
It pisses me off. Since I've been born there's been a recession every 10 years like clockwork. Everytime it happens the middle class takes a permanent pay cut and a hit to their assets and the 1% scoops those pay, benefits and assets up at bargain prices. It's one of the reasons wages are shrinking or stagnant for everybody not at the top.
in white supremacist rhetoric and memes, whether he realizes it or not. And the Southern Strategy has been used consistently to get white voters to vote against their own best interests as well as mine. These sort of petty race politics are how the ruling class divide us and get us fighting among ourselves while they take all the good stuff for themselves.
On the plus side Bernie Sanders has been calling this out in his rallies as part of a broader call for working class unity. I'd like to see more politicians doing that. I'm so sick of watching angry white men get taken advantage of while also being dragged down with them.
He gets the rejections in about 2 hours or less, even if it's late at night. There are scam jobs out there ($40k/yr, 80hr/week, bring your own car, no we don't pay mileage, yes you will drive all over this 150+ mile wide city) and there's the weekend graveyards, and there's the folks offering $10/hr for 6+ years of experience and training. Everybody else demands a college degree because, well, they can get it. And if all else fails there's the H1-B program.
every year you get older after 25 it's harder to get a job. Companies want young folks with just enough training to do the job. So it's important to consider how you spend those early, high value years of your career.
The trouble with these sorts of phony degrees is they won't get you past HR filters designed to hire and H1-B over an American. You need a 4 year degree for that. During the last recession folks with proper, 4 year degrees in useful fields (medical, business, legal, STEM, etc) were largely unaffected. They're also only about 20% of the population...
The trouble with this is that it's no substitute for a proper, 4 year degree in today's job market. Should it be that way? Probably not. But are we going to pass a law? End the H1-B program? Stop immigration? Ban offshoring? No, of course not. We live in the world the way it is, not the way it should be.
if they do manage to find you a job you'll be in deep if you ever lose it. These days you can't make it past an HR filter unless you've got a 4 year degree from a proper University. My bud's been looking for months and the only thing he can get is weekend graveyards where they're so desperate they'll take anything with a pulse. He's had a few of those, they don't last because they're always working to offshore you...
In 1990 this would have worked. But in 1990 I could crack open a book, read it, and go get a job making $70k/yr writing code because that was before H1-Bs and offshoring.
We've successfully brought back indentured servitude. This will go nicely with those Debtors Prisons we bought back years ago and the modern slavery this is prison labor.
cheap phone and it felt that way. My provider loaded a breakout clone on it. Really simple, just ball, 10x10 colored blocks and a paddle. Kind of thing that make the Atari 2600 a household name in the late 70s/early 80s.
It was dog slow. Unplayably so. I mean, I know it's a cheap phone and all, but come-on. It's a clone of Atari breakout.
shutting down coal plants. They're trying to replace the coal jobs via the Green New Deal. The "Green" part is incidental to the "New Deal" part. It's a jobs program to give a real answer to the question "What do we do with all these out of work coal miners in Ohio that swing presidential elections?". The answer is to give them jobs doing something we want done anyway (replacing old, dirty coal plants with wind and solar).
but the difference is that when the Dems were called on it they made changes. When the GOP is called on it they deny, evade, lie, double down, and do it all over again.
this is about fixing serious vulnerabilities in the existing machines. The 4 Senators would settle for a new "version" without the obvious, glaring vulnerabilities that make it child's play to game elections.
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to get out of paying unemployment, pay roll taxes, benefits and minimum wage. They did it to taxi drivers for ages but it used to be mostly immigrants and the occasional ex-con 7 years past his sentence.
It wasn't right when we did it to them, but expanding it into the economy as a whole is bad juju for the entire workforce. It puts downward pressure on everybody's wages.
Give you a vasectomy. I've heard it's better now, but 20 years ago no reputable doctor would. You could go to planned Parenthood and they'd do it but the doc would be a third string or a newbie.
In my 30s and it's amazing how many guys if met who's wives for pregnant on the pill. I knew a few that out right admitted they stopped taking it without telling their partner. Often because the mother in law was anxious for grandchildren...
if you run private prisons it's not in your interest. You want them back.
where the company wants to float an idea that might be offensive but wants plausible deniability in case it is.
It's long and doesn't have too much I haven't seen already elsewhere:
It talks about 3 new job classes:
Trainer
Data scientists. This is that hard part. It's the part with all the math. This isn't going to be a big job creator because, well, that math is _hard_.
Explainer
Project Management job. Easy enough to do, but it'll be 1 job per product line at a company. e.g. an entire Voice Response system for a large company will generate 1 job. Smaller companies won't have this because they won't write their own VR, they'll buy one, and the vendor will have 1 Explainer and a few salesmen.
Again, not a big job creator.
Sustainer
The AI equivalent to IT support. Will generate some jobs for certain. IT always does. But likely to generate fewer jobs that the AI takes over. Why? Because this is an immediate, long term cost sink, like IT always is. So if it makes more jobs than the AI replaces then AI isn't cost effective/competitive.
As far as AI taking jobs, They found 10% of the work is Human only, 35% automatable and 55% can be 'augmented'.
He's hoping the increased economic output will offset the job losses and sites Canada expecting $16 billion in new economic activity.
I think they guy's being naive there. 35% of jobs can concieveably go away. 55% can have a productivity boost that would let companies do layoffs.
He's hoping we'll "Grow our way out". e.g. they'll be markets for products and such. I'm not sure that's possible. For one thing the environment might not let us. For example, there's not enough metals on the plant to give everybody a car. China is industrializing and becoming a new market. India too. But to do it they're putting out huge amounts of carbon and filling the oceans with plastic.
These are solvable problems, but then there's the social ones. How do you distribute that $16 billion? Who's going to buy all the products when 35% lose their jobs to automation and maybe another 20% to productivity increases due to augmentation?
Finally there's the ruling class. We've got one. They were kings of old but today their the CEOs of boardrooms. Go look into it, it's the same people sitting on the board of directors for every company. Every now and then you can join their ranks, but that doesn't make them anything else but kings and queens. Hereditary wealth that doesn't like to share.
Why does that matter? Because the King didn't need the Serfs to buy their products. The King doesn't need us. If you already own everything you don't care if you can sell stuff. Your power and wealth comes from already owning it all, not from building it and selling it. Wealth inequality is the worst since the 30s and getting worse (America just shifted $1 trillion to the top in the form of a tax cut that was put on the national credit card).
What I'm saying is we don't have the social and technological resources to "grow our way out". If we don't all want to live through another Dark Ages we'd better do something fast...
then unless you're from an unusually long lived family you'll be dead before the problems you caused come home to roost.
I know, I know, what about your children. Thing is, it's taboo to say you don't care about kids, especially your own, but I guarantee you that the "I got mine, FU" crowd exists and doesn't care.
This is the problem we're having: We are not negotiating with people in good faith. You can't reason with the people raping the earth and leaving a disaster for the next generation because they're being reasonable. Evil. But perfectly reasonable. You can't win negotiations with a bad faith actor when you act in good faith.
in my experience. Certainly not in my city. Around here taxes like this are meant to be regressive. In other words, they disproportionately impact the poor and working class so that the wealthy don't have to pay taxes for the services they use. It lets states cut income taxes for top earners without sacrificing services that either go to those earns or that are too popular/essential to cut.
Lotteries, Sales Tax, flat Vehicle Taxes (and flat taxes in general, like alcohol tax) are all good examples of regressive taxation. The goal is to have a tax system that applies (mathematically) equally to all while ignoring the very real differences between a millionaire and the lower working class.
because of problems with their foundry. It's especially funny/sad because of the famous "Real men own Fabs" line they throw at AMD when AMD got out of chip fabrication.
AMD is currently doing great because the chip fabricator that makes their chips didn't have any issues.
so yeah, not so sure that'll work.
For me, the lesson here is that you're never safe unless you're so rich and well connected that nothing touches you (think Donald Trump). In other words, if you're a working class stiff you're always under water.
Google is a massive hub for information. Facebook is a social hub for most people. Fortnite's a pretty decent PUBG clone that happens to run on lower end hardware. It's hit a critical mass that means it's probably not going away or anything. But, well, I thought the same thing about Angry Birds....
hiring is meaningless these days. For the last 11 years or so companies have been "hiring" and not filling the positions. They're just gathering resumes to use in case they need to fill somebody in a hurry after they push them too far and they quit. Since the economy never really recovered after 2008 (at least not if you make
As an added bonus it lets them go to Congress every year and claim there's X million positions open they'd just love to fill but there aren't enough Americans and pretty please can we increase that pesky H1-B cap?
and they don't take kindly to being cut out.
they've been posted to /. Also EA just fired a bunch. In all cases they're firing engineers. The sort of people you need to keep the company going.
When you start doing that it's usually because you're prepping for a recession. That's why people care. The Fed is talking about interest rate cuts to slow things down, but that's still up in the air and it's a long way from what's needed (specifically, more banking regulation to put the kibash on the the sort of gambling that got us into the 2008 crash that's been given the go ahead again these last two years; plus some Keynesian subsidies ).
It pisses me off. Since I've been born there's been a recession every 10 years like clockwork. Everytime it happens the middle class takes a permanent pay cut and a hit to their assets and the 1% scoops those pay, benefits and assets up at bargain prices. It's one of the reasons wages are shrinking or stagnant for everybody not at the top.
in white supremacist rhetoric and memes, whether he realizes it or not. And the Southern Strategy has been used consistently to get white voters to vote against their own best interests as well as mine. These sort of petty race politics are how the ruling class divide us and get us fighting among ourselves while they take all the good stuff for themselves.
On the plus side Bernie Sanders has been calling this out in his rallies as part of a broader call for working class unity. I'd like to see more politicians doing that. I'm so sick of watching angry white men get taken advantage of while also being dragged down with them.
He gets the rejections in about 2 hours or less, even if it's late at night. There are scam jobs out there ($40k/yr, 80hr/week, bring your own car, no we don't pay mileage, yes you will drive all over this 150+ mile wide city) and there's the weekend graveyards, and there's the folks offering $10/hr for 6+ years of experience and training. Everybody else demands a college degree because, well, they can get it. And if all else fails there's the H1-B program.
every year you get older after 25 it's harder to get a job. Companies want young folks with just enough training to do the job. So it's important to consider how you spend those early, high value years of your career.
The trouble with these sorts of phony degrees is they won't get you past HR filters designed to hire and H1-B over an American. You need a 4 year degree for that. During the last recession folks with proper, 4 year degrees in useful fields (medical, business, legal, STEM, etc) were largely unaffected. They're also only about 20% of the population...
The trouble with this is that it's no substitute for a proper, 4 year degree in today's job market. Should it be that way? Probably not. But are we going to pass a law? End the H1-B program? Stop immigration? Ban offshoring? No, of course not. We live in the world the way it is, not the way it should be.
Man, Jared and Ivanka need to go easy. That's nearly as many tweets as the old man did last month.
if they do manage to find you a job you'll be in deep if you ever lose it. These days you can't make it past an HR filter unless you've got a 4 year degree from a proper University. My bud's been looking for months and the only thing he can get is weekend graveyards where they're so desperate they'll take anything with a pulse. He's had a few of those, they don't last because they're always working to offshore you...
In 1990 this would have worked. But in 1990 I could crack open a book, read it, and go get a job making $70k/yr writing code because that was before H1-Bs and offshoring.
We've successfully brought back indentured servitude. This will go nicely with those Debtors Prisons we bought back years ago and the modern slavery this is prison labor.
cheap phone and it felt that way. My provider loaded a breakout clone on it. Really simple, just ball, 10x10 colored blocks and a paddle. Kind of thing that make the Atari 2600 a household name in the late 70s/early 80s.
It was dog slow. Unplayably so. I mean, I know it's a cheap phone and all, but come-on. It's a clone of Atari breakout.
shutting down coal plants. They're trying to replace the coal jobs via the Green New Deal. The "Green" part is incidental to the "New Deal" part. It's a jobs program to give a real answer to the question "What do we do with all these out of work coal miners in Ohio that swing presidential elections?". The answer is to give them jobs doing something we want done anyway (replacing old, dirty coal plants with wind and solar).
but the difference is that when the Dems were called on it they made changes. When the GOP is called on it they deny, evade, lie, double down, and do it all over again.
you're ok that 538 people get to decide how the country is run right?
this is about fixing serious vulnerabilities in the existing machines. The 4 Senators would settle for a new "version" without the obvious, glaring vulnerabilities that make it child's play to game elections.