Perhaps laptops should be a local-for-hire service at airports for frequent travellers. Carry your SSD drive with you and plug it in at your destination.
There is a design system that applies to anything from agriculture to energy to economics, and that is fundamentally centered on ethics, in which the objective is obtaining a surplus and these are the "profits" after the sustainable needs of the system (think planet and people) are first satisfied. It's called Permaculture
The concept of a guaranteed minimum income could work within a system designed under these principles.
They won't - at least until one or several nations with seemingly less to lose surpasses the U.S. by embracing more forward-thinking policies. This is how empires fall and has always been so throughout recorded history.
On the contrary, the burger flipper now has less incentive to accept a low-paying wage for survival and can instead pursue more meaningful and better-paying positions. Effectively the company now has greater competition in the wage market.
You realize that comes off no different than saying the number one reason you can't be hired is because you have no skills. I presume you are on this forum because you work in a tech field, and that you set about developing skills in the field because it is a profession you desired. Why should the skill of self-promotion be any different? You'll need it to excel in life, whether you are a freelancer or not. Unless your daddy hired you, you managed to sell yourself enough to get a full-time gig, so I also think you are selling yourself short on this aspect and just need some self-confidence.
Anecdotal evidence suggests old executive talent fails to understand new business. Perhaps boards and stockholders should be creating an ageism story at the executive level if they want to influence the open market of compensation. More gains to be had at that level.
I understand you points. I wasn't assuming or prescribing anything, My comment was a reflection on just how deep the culture of car ownership has influenced our lives in ways few even question. Entire industries, from dealerships and insurance to filling-station convenience stores, are vested in personal car ownership.
At least that is my hope. The concept of car ownership is archaic. I look forward to the offloading all the associated penalty costs of car ownership in favour of a service model.
+1 The gut reaction to the term "socialism" and its association to the iron curtain communist meanies, without an understanding of what a social democracy truly represents, is exactly why the 1% neo-cons are now dictating the political and economic policies of North America - to the detriment of the majority of its citizens.
And most people still vote in favour of politicians who clearly are working for these CEOs and their cronies, not the average citizen. Before you can reasonably expect things to change, the public first needs to wake the f up and stop (re)electing these clowns. We're still a very long way from that, as most people still hold firm to the notion that "their party" deserves their vote.
Yyou don't get it. The brotherhood of multinational corporate executives are the ones running this show. They aren't going to outsource themselves - they're at the top of this ponzi scheme.
The MIAA mafia has no borders. This is just an example of using their political influence to get another nation's laws in conformance with their agenda.
the Canadian governments are puppets to their corporate overlords and have historically supported incumbent monopolies over competition and innovation.
I'll admit I have no idea of the link between fossil fuels and modern medicine. I was under the impression that most medicines are extractions of natural compounds. I can cite many examples of scalable food production systems that don't depend on fossil fuels, however, and demonstrations that industrial agriculture that is reliant on fossil fuels for fertilizer are non-sustainable beyond the constraints of supply - they degrade and deplete soil fertility in the long run, leading to desertification.
Have a look at the works of Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton, Alan Savory, Mark Shepard, Sepp Holzer, Willie Smits if you're interested.
If human civilization survives the fossil fuel crisis that is likely to occur, it may be better off in the long run. Second only, perhaps to religion, conflicts over fossil fuels have fueled the most inhuman acts in our history.
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Perhaps laptops should be a local-for-hire service at airports for frequent travellers. Carry your SSD drive with you and plug it in at your destination.
Seriously, the number of inappropriate posts on here is shameful.
"It's not the band I hate, it's the fans"
Golden Goose, meet clever.
There is a design system that applies to anything from agriculture to energy to economics, and that is fundamentally centered on ethics, in which the objective is obtaining a surplus and these are the "profits" after the sustainable needs of the system (think planet and people) are first satisfied.
It's called Permaculture
The concept of a guaranteed minimum income could work within a system designed under these principles.
They won't - at least until one or several nations with seemingly less to lose surpasses the U.S. by embracing more forward-thinking policies. This is how empires fall and has always been so throughout recorded history.
On the contrary, the burger flipper now has less incentive to accept a low-paying wage for survival and can instead pursue more meaningful and better-paying positions. Effectively the company now has greater competition in the wage market.
You realize that comes off no different than saying the number one reason you can't be hired is because you have no skills. I presume you are on this forum because you work in a tech field, and that you set about developing skills in the field because it is a profession you desired. Why should the skill of self-promotion be any different? You'll need it to excel in life, whether you are a freelancer or not.
Unless your daddy hired you, you managed to sell yourself enough to get a full-time gig, so I also think you are selling yourself short on this aspect and just need some self-confidence.
Anecdotal evidence suggests old executive talent fails to understand new business.
Perhaps boards and stockholders should be creating an ageism story at the executive level if they want to influence the open market of compensation. More gains to be had at that level.
I understand you points. I wasn't assuming or prescribing anything, My comment was a reflection on just how deep the culture of car ownership has influenced our lives in ways few even question. Entire industries, from dealerships and insurance to filling-station convenience stores, are vested in personal car ownership.
At least that is my hope. The concept of car ownership is archaic. I look forward to the offloading all the associated penalty costs of car ownership in favour of a service model.
So I can heat my home with cardboard waste and tree trimmings from my yard.
+1 - it isn't the party, stupid. When you have institutionalized a 2-party system, what are the odds that they're just different shades of the same?
+1
The gut reaction to the term "socialism" and its association to the iron curtain communist meanies, without an understanding of what a social democracy truly represents, is exactly why the 1% neo-cons are now dictating the political and economic policies of North America - to the detriment of the majority of its citizens.
The most successful independent game of all time is essentially 3D pixel art.
Sure, looks like fun, but I still want my cup of Joe after playing ;)
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buy a french press or a proper espresso machine and learn to make a decent cup of coffee without all the stupid prepackaged waste.
And most people still vote in favour of politicians who clearly are working for these CEOs and their cronies, not the average citizen. Before you can reasonably expect things to change, the public first needs to wake the f up and stop (re)electing these clowns. We're still a very long way from that, as most people still hold firm to the notion that "their party" deserves their vote.
Yyou don't get it. The brotherhood of multinational corporate executives are the ones running this show. They aren't going to outsource themselves - they're at the top of this ponzi scheme.
The MIAA mafia has no borders. This is just an example of using their political influence to get another nation's laws in conformance with their agenda.
the Canadian governments are puppets to their corporate overlords and have historically supported incumbent monopolies over competition and innovation.
No problem - California can ship all of its desert sand to New Orleans to sustain their levees against the rising ocean tides.
Fingers, meet dike.
I'll admit I have no idea of the link between fossil fuels and modern medicine. I was under the impression that most medicines are extractions of natural compounds.
I can cite many examples of scalable food production systems that don't depend on fossil fuels, however, and demonstrations that industrial agriculture that is reliant on fossil fuels for fertilizer are non-sustainable beyond the constraints of supply - they degrade and deplete soil fertility in the long run, leading to desertification.
Have a look at the works of Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton, Alan Savory, Mark Shepard, Sepp Holzer, Willie Smits if you're interested.
Reboot to anything resembling existing society is doubtful, but I don't think that needs to be such a tragic epitaph.
http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/...
If human civilization survives the fossil fuel crisis that is likely to occur, it may be better off in the long run. Second only, perhaps to religion, conflicts over fossil fuels have fueled the most inhuman acts in our history.
they're contemplating building a moat around the White House.