Why you must live in the Big Rock Candy Mountains, where the rivers flow whiskey and cigarettes grow on trees.
Everything that is consumed must first be produced. If everyone works 20 hours a week or not at all, then there will be, long term, less than half the goods available compared to a land where everyone works 40 hours a week.
Greece's chickens are coming home to roost; they're carrying avian flu and riots.
With tougher labor laws they won't whine that they are on the threshold of going out of business, they'll whine because they've gone out of business.
Tougher labor laws cause at least 3 problems: a company's expenses rise because labor laws make labor more expensive, a company's expenses rise because it has to hire someone to ensure that the company adheres to the labor laws, and a company's expenses rise because it's paying more taxes to the government for people to enforce the labor laws. Lose, lose, lose. The product the company made will now be too expensive to make here, and a company in Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, et al. will fill the vacuum.
The assets will be sold, and the employees will be paid their severance package. They also get paid for unused vacation days, and after the vacation days are over they also get paid unemployment benefits.
You seem to have the curious opinion that the physical plant is actually owned by Mandriva, not leased. Do you also think that things like the computers and desks of a bankrupt company will sell for more than 10 cents on the dollar?
Where do you think the money for unused vacation days is coming from? The magical money fairy? The repossessed copier?
They had already gotten what they worked for. They were stamping their feet and demanding severance money from a company that didn't have the money, and not caring if they destroyed the company and the lives of the superior employees who still worked there. Nasty, stupid children acting just as expected.
the shareholders decided to bail instead of pay their debts
What part of "limited liability" of the stockholders of publicly traded corporations do you not understand? Do you think it reasonable that you hand over to your stockbroker $1000 to buy shares of XYZ Corp., and 3 years later the sheriff is knocking at your door demanding $300,000 to pay XYZ's debt?
And you're going to search every household to make sure that there aren't too many children, are you? What punishment are you going to mete out for black market life extending chemicals, massa?
There is no governmental right to interfere with my harmless actions, whether that involves the substances I consume or the children I make with another consenting adult, so long as I support them.
Older people tend to be more careful, although that's partially a function of declining vitality. Many older people have learned from the fatal mistakes of others. Just by process of elimination, after fools kill themselves off, only the timid remain. Hey - Is this how the meek inherit the earth? Arrgh!
With direct genome editing, human evolution becomes a surplus concept. The limitation of human change becomes the knowledge of what gene changes do and the mechanical ability to change the genes accordingly.
When the quality of life drops even lower for the masses of humanity and hunger & disease take millions of lives daily, someone will have to decide...
Sez you. I despise the mindset that concludes "someone will have to decide", with the usually hidden follow-on "and enforce it". Moreover, it's far more likely that individual choice will prevent that condition from ever happening.
You seem to be assuming that the treatments that lead to extremely long life will be secrets, beyond the ken of a basement chemist or small organizations that want their own. Governments are currently unable to stop meth and crack labs, do you really think government will be able to stop much more valuable life extending substances and procedures?
Technology advances, and long-life treatments are unlikely to be single ingredient. It's reasonable to think that some aspects will be available at a reasonable price, and that Joe Sixpack will be able to buy another 150 years, even if he can't afford 250 years.
And the odd question of who cleaned the toilets in the super secret invisible mountain utopia. When I ask that one of Rand fans they go all catatonic and recite Manchurian Candidate style: "They were very happy because they were paid REALLY, REALLY WELL"
Did you miss the passages in Atlas Shrugged where various heroes endured substantial physical hardships? It looks as if your prejudices blinded you to those sections. The nuisance of toilet cleaning is nothing by comparison.
No Objectivist would say that a character was happy because he was paid well, but that is the sort of thing that an ignoramus or liar would claim. Rand was explicit about the need of a person to do valuable work.
What you see as "One-dimensional characters" I see as characters whose lives mean something.
Atlas Shrugged is about the consequences of principles. If characters don't have consistent principles (what you call one-dimensional) then the tie of principles to consequences is weakened or broken.
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Employment at will is a state-by-state decision, not nationwide.
Why you must live in the Big Rock Candy Mountains, where the rivers flow whiskey and cigarettes grow on trees.
Everything that is consumed must first be produced. If everyone works 20 hours a week or not at all, then there will be, long term, less than half the goods available compared to a land where everyone works 40 hours a week.
Greece's chickens are coming home to roost; they're carrying avian flu and riots.
You posted the same thing, word for word, earlier this week. You are boring. And Red Hat's profits and sales are increasing.
And other people learn not to set up a business in France. Whoopee, a win for civilization.
Does the phrase "beating a dead horse" mean anything to you?
With tougher labor laws they won't whine that they are on the threshold of going out of business, they'll whine because they've gone out of business.
Tougher labor laws cause at least 3 problems: a company's expenses rise because labor laws make labor more expensive, a company's expenses rise because it has to hire someone to ensure that the company adheres to the labor laws, and a company's expenses rise because it's paying more taxes to the government for people to enforce the labor laws. Lose, lose, lose. The product the company made will now be too expensive to make here, and a company in Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, et al. will fill the vacuum.
You seem to have the curious opinion that the physical plant is actually owned by Mandriva, not leased. Do you also think that things like the computers and desks of a bankrupt company will sell for more than 10 cents on the dollar?
Where do you think the money for unused vacation days is coming from? The magical money fairy? The repossessed copier?
What part of the difference between an employee and an ex-employee do you not understand?
They had already gotten what they worked for. They were stamping their feet and demanding severance money from a company that didn't have the money, and not caring if they destroyed the company and the lives of the superior employees who still worked there. Nasty, stupid children acting just as expected.
What part of "limited liability" of the stockholders of publicly traded corporations do you not understand? Do you think it reasonable that you hand over to your stockbroker $1000 to buy shares of XYZ Corp., and 3 years later the sheriff is knocking at your door demanding $300,000 to pay XYZ's debt?
And you're going to search every household to make sure that there aren't too many children, are you? What punishment are you going to mete out for black market life extending chemicals, massa?
There is no governmental right to interfere with my harmless actions, whether that involves the substances I consume or the children I make with another consenting adult, so long as I support them.
Older people tend to be more careful, although that's partially a function of declining vitality. Many older people have learned from the fatal mistakes of others. Just by process of elimination, after fools kill themselves off, only the timid remain. Hey - Is this how the meek inherit the earth? Arrgh!
Are you going to head the police force that searches every building and cave in the world, looking for illicit age-reversing chemical factories?
Please use a spell checker.
The brains of young people have a some plasticity, and that is surely a goal of reversing aging.
It may be that as things are forgotten, the cells and connections that made up those memories will be used for new memories.
With direct genome editing, human evolution becomes a surplus concept. The limitation of human change becomes the knowledge of what gene changes do and the mechanical ability to change the genes accordingly.
It varies by the individual. Many old people just become worn down and give up the fight to stay alive.
Joy, fulfillment. Making the world a better place. Emotional reasons and an eye to mankind's future are reasons that won't go away.
"Forcibly sterilized" ... Would you like to guess the mean life expectancy of someone whose occupation is sterilization by force?
Sez you. I despise the mindset that concludes "someone will have to decide", with the usually hidden follow-on "and enforce it". Moreover, it's far more likely that individual choice will prevent that condition from ever happening.
Except for the street cop, those will all be robot jobs.
You seem to be assuming that the treatments that lead to extremely long life will be secrets, beyond the ken of a basement chemist or small organizations that want their own. Governments are currently unable to stop meth and crack labs, do you really think government will be able to stop much more valuable life extending substances and procedures?
Technology advances, and long-life treatments are unlikely to be single ingredient. It's reasonable to think that some aspects will be available at a reasonable price, and that Joe Sixpack will be able to buy another 150 years, even if he can't afford 250 years.
Life expectancy in China is now over 75 years.
Did you miss the passages in Atlas Shrugged where various heroes endured substantial physical hardships? It looks as if your prejudices blinded you to those sections. The nuisance of toilet cleaning is nothing by comparison.
No Objectivist would say that a character was happy because he was paid well, but that is the sort of thing that an ignoramus or liar would claim. Rand was explicit about the need of a person to do valuable work.
What you see as "One-dimensional characters" I see as characters whose lives mean something.
Atlas Shrugged is about the consequences of principles. If characters don't have consistent principles (what you call one-dimensional) then the tie of principles to consequences is weakened or broken.