Since you are ignorant, I googled it for you. China $32 billion in 2016 (external climate aid) India $11 billion (internal budget) (The US is becoming irrelevant)
Looks like the CIA has completely pwned Windows and of course, now the whole world has access. Windows has never been secure and only a fool would plan to keep using Windows. Wake up, morons!
I think there's a pretty clear line between managing people and technical product development. Musk is very technically literate and actively directs technical product development.
The scientific information is definitely legal. The problem is that the publishers have it locked up and have made it illegal to distribute. The US is not really the land of the free. It's an extreme corporate kleptocracy where people have no rights. The corporations have the rights and the power. The people exist to serve the corporations. Government works for the corporations, not for the people. They have made it illegal to spread scientific information.
Access to data is crucial. It's difficult (or impossible) to get access to the data behind scientific papers. A publishing model where you published your paper, the data and your methods would really open up science and lead to real progress. Journals are really hindering access.
Hard to take time off work to get an education if you're supporting yourself and others. Plus, fewer jobs for workers. Universal basic income would help a lot.
Education is only for the few who are blessed with rich parents. Everyone else gets the "basic" education which barely qualifies them for a minimum wage job.
I'd rather live on welfare than have a minimum wage job. Society will need to face up to the fact that jobs (even shitty jobs) are going away and there will be a lot of people who just won't be able to get a job. Universal basic income is one way to make sure people have enough to live on even when there are no jobs.
Tesla isn't selling a music streaming service. They are selling cars. The cars come with music streaming at no charge. Why would they pay Apple, Spotify, etc. a premium price when they can easily license music themselves for less cost.
Teslas already allow streaming from your own device over Bluetooth. They also have "TuneIn" (on line radio directory) and "Slacker" (like Pandora, Spotify, etc.) streaming built into the head unit. These are included free with the purchase of the car. I imagine that Tesla will want to keep offering music services and not be dependent on outside companies which may change their policies, terms, etc. at any time. I doubt there is much development time. They just need to negotiate for rights to music and playlists. It's really quite easy. (Easier than a cup holder... it's all software.)
Back in the good old days (Eisenhower), the top tax rate was 90%. It worked really well then. Lots of jobs, prosperity, public works, etc. Reagan started to lower top rates and it's been downhill ever since.
I believe the headline says "Just 14 people make 500,000 tons of steel...". This is wrong. These people are not making steel. They take steel that somebody else has made and turn it into wire. They are making wire, not steel.
The value of something is what you can get for it on the market. The inputs have nothing to do with the value, except that it likely won't be made in the first place if the thing's value isn't greater than the sum of the value of the inputs.
Marx was wrong about _everything_. He's batting 0.000 on historical predictions.
Not value... price. The cost of something is the sum of its inputs. The price is that you can get for it in the market. The value... is in the eye of the beholder.
Also, in such environment --- nobody will get rich selling the spoils from their factories, unless there's an economy of people to buy their products (If not, then the price will go down, until it approaches the now lower marginal cost of production which has been reduced due to the lower labor requirement).
Agreed. So, where will all these people with ready cash for buying the products get their cash from? You no doubt understand that there must be a significant volume of people making purchases so it can't be the 1% which sustain these factories. How will a significant portion of the 99% be able to make purchases when we reach this "next level" of which you speak? What is this next level? How does the transition to it begin and how do we all get the signal that we need to move to it? What or who makes the first moves?
That's easy. We just tax the 1% and redistribute the money to everyone else. Then everyone will have lots of money to buy stuff.
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Well, I read the book. There's a movie?
Godot?
Since you are ignorant, I googled it for you.
China $32 billion in 2016 (external climate aid)
India $11 billion (internal budget)
(The US is becoming irrelevant)
Looks like the CIA has completely pwned Windows and of course, now the whole world has access. Windows has never been secure and only a fool would plan to keep using Windows. Wake up, morons!
So, you don't think the developed economies of the world who have benefited by trashing the planet should pay something to help clean it up?
I think there's a pretty clear line between managing people and technical product development. Musk is very technically literate and actively directs technical product development.
The scientific information is definitely legal. The problem is that the publishers have it locked up and have made it illegal to distribute.
The US is not really the land of the free. It's an extreme corporate kleptocracy where people have no rights. The corporations have the rights and the power. The people exist to serve the corporations. Government works for the corporations, not for the people. They have made it illegal to spread scientific information.
Access to data is crucial. It's difficult (or impossible) to get access to the data behind scientific papers.
A publishing model where you published your paper, the data and your methods would really open up science and lead to real progress.
Journals are really hindering access.
Ah! But then you would be holding a powered on cell phone which is illegal.
Why are you holding a powered down cell phone at a red light?
"Time off" is expense as well as time.
UBI would allow people to continue their education without starving, going homeless or racking up large debt.
You're lucky.
In the US most students end up with a big college debt. Banks do really well. Students suffer.
I agree. Bachelor degree should be free.
Hard to take time off work to get an education if you're supporting yourself and others. Plus, fewer jobs for workers.
Universal basic income would help a lot.
Education is only for the few who are blessed with rich parents.
Everyone else gets the "basic" education which barely qualifies them for a minimum wage job.
I'd rather live on welfare than have a minimum wage job. Society will need to face up to the fact that jobs (even shitty jobs) are going away and there will be a lot of people who just won't be able to get a job.
Universal basic income is one way to make sure people have enough to live on even when there are no jobs.
Tesla isn't selling a music streaming service. They are selling cars. The cars come with music streaming at no charge. Why would they pay Apple, Spotify, etc. a premium price when they can easily license music themselves for less cost.
Musk says he spends 80% of his time on technical product development.
Teslas already allow streaming from your own device over Bluetooth. They also have "TuneIn" (on line radio directory) and "Slacker" (like Pandora, Spotify, etc.) streaming built into the head unit. These are included free with the purchase of the car.
I imagine that Tesla will want to keep offering music services and not be dependent on outside companies which may change their policies, terms, etc. at any time.
I doubt there is much development time. They just need to negotiate for rights to music and playlists. It's really quite easy. (Easier than a cup holder... it's all software.)
Back in the good old days (Eisenhower), the top tax rate was 90%. It worked really well then. Lots of jobs, prosperity, public works, etc.
Reagan started to lower top rates and it's been downhill ever since.
Universal Basic Income... it's coming.
I believe the headline says "Just 14 people make 500,000 tons of steel...".
This is wrong. These people are not making steel. They take steel that somebody else has made and turn it into wire.
They are making wire, not steel.
The value of something is what you can get for it on the market. The inputs have nothing to do with the value, except that it likely won't be made in the first place if the thing's value isn't greater than the sum of the value of the inputs.
Marx was wrong about _everything_. He's batting 0.000 on historical predictions.
Not value... price. The cost of something is the sum of its inputs. The price is that you can get for it in the market. The value... is in the eye of the beholder.
Also, in such environment --- nobody will get rich selling the spoils from their factories, unless there's an economy of people to buy their products (If not, then the price will go down, until it approaches the now lower marginal cost of production which has been reduced due to the lower labor requirement).
Agreed. So, where will all these people with ready cash for buying the products get their cash from? You no doubt understand that there must be a significant volume of people making purchases so it can't be the 1% which sustain these factories. How will a significant portion of the 99% be able to make purchases when we reach this "next level" of which you speak? What is this next level? How does the transition to it begin and how do we all get the signal that we need to move to it? What or who makes the first moves?
That's easy.
We just tax the 1% and redistribute the money to everyone else. Then everyone will have lots of money to buy stuff.
I wouldn't be caught dead at Walmart... or Whole Foods.
They are both manipulative, corrupt retailers (each in their own way).