This, exactly, is the problem. Every CEO of every major company these days is paid like a precious, one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable snowflake. Very few actually are. Thanks to my career choices I've worked directly with a good number of top-level executives in several companies from small to 5000+ employees.
OK, but why didn't you take the job then? You could have made dramatically more money.
The main "benefit" of capitalism is that it reinforces political conservatism (that is, the rule of the current elite) with relatively little violence, by heavily discounting the future.
I don't know if that's true, but any system based on predicting too much into the future is bound to fail because the future is hard to predict.
The path is clear, and Asimov guessed it in the 50s already -- Gaia -- a global consciousness, where the individual greed doesn't mean so much. It is a Communism on a telepathic level, if you will.
And it is coming.
And this is why capitalism will not be around for much longer. It totally puts the world upside down.
And what is the alternative? The benefit of capitalism is that it harnesses how people already are: greedy. For myself, I don't care that some people have much more than me, I am more worried that I don't have more. The biggest problem in the US right now is access to healthcare, but no one has a reasonable plan.
Yeah. That's possible because socialism is poorly defined. So poorly defined that it's better to not use the word, and say your idea using your own words. I shouldn't have gotten caught up in this discussion.
Communism also worked well for the top of the pyramid in the USSR.
You might think so but top government officials were frequently killed, or sent to Siberia. Even Stalin, at the very top, died in his own vomit with his "friends" around him cursing him and wishing for his death. The top of thy pyramid was not comfortable until at least Breznev, and probably not then, either, although you were more likely to have decent heating and a car.
Vaping is still dramatically, dramatically better than smoking. If you have to choose between those two, then choose vaping every time. Even the summary itself says:
Public Health England advises they are much less harmful than smoking
one can argue having the LARGEST number of people healthy and able to work is best for the economy, so EVERYONE should have access to healthcare
This is a socialist argument, even though you called it a capitalist one. You are trying to decide what will be best for society as a whole, and get the government to implement it.
This is not a problem of "working with other banks," though, it's a problem of issuers getting hacked and losing money the way they deserve to have happen to them.
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This, exactly, is the problem. Every CEO of every major company these days is paid like a precious, one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable snowflake. Very few actually are. Thanks to my career choices I've worked directly with a good number of top-level executives in several companies from small to 5000+ employees.
OK, but why didn't you take the job then? You could have made dramatically more money.
The main "benefit" of capitalism is that it reinforces political conservatism (that is, the rule of the current elite) with relatively little violence, by heavily discounting the future.
I don't know if that's true, but any system based on predicting too much into the future is bound to fail because the future is hard to predict.
The path is clear, and Asimov guessed it in the 50s already -- Gaia -- a global consciousness, where the individual greed doesn't mean so much. It is a Communism on a telepathic level, if you will. And it is coming.
Uh......case in point.
And this is why capitalism will not be around for much longer. It totally puts the world upside down.
And what is the alternative? The benefit of capitalism is that it harnesses how people already are: greedy. For myself, I don't care that some people have much more than me, I am more worried that I don't have more. The biggest problem in the US right now is access to healthcare, but no one has a reasonable plan.
I don't think everyone was cheering. Most were saying, "Yeah, at work you should focus on work." There's a difference.
Who's talking about first class? I want a private jet. Preferably a big one. With a hot tub. Stop complaining, you prole.
Good to know. I just moved out of a room in Japan because I have bedbug bites all over my arms and leg. They avoided the other leg, apparently.
Yeah. That's possible because socialism is poorly defined. So poorly defined that it's better to not use the word, and say your idea using your own words. I shouldn't have gotten caught up in this discussion.
That is my dream, but lately I've scaled it back to business class flights and hotel rooms without bedbugs....
Of course haha. We worry about the security implications but the worst always turns out to be advertising. I'll take adblock on my luggage, please.
You could say a cell phone is just a fancy pocket watch. People use it as such, among other things.
Traditionally in a lot of places "police" actually were self funding. All you had to do was pay them protection money.
Ironically, he missed the biggest problem during his presidency, the dominance of the intelligence/enforcement complex.
I was going to say "Apoptosis." Like, "Apoptosis and the Happy Eggs." It's Death Meta.
Are you one of those who thinks it's also "normal for the Earth to warm up, therefore AGW can't exist?
AGW exists, it's just hyped beyond what the evidence warrants.
Do you have a point, or are you just bragging?
For what would I need more than 50,000 - 100,000 disposable income?
To be able to escape economy class airlines.....
Communism also worked well for the top of the pyramid in the USSR.
You might think so but top government officials were frequently killed, or sent to Siberia. Even Stalin, at the very top, died in his own vomit with his "friends" around him cursing him and wishing for his death. The top of thy pyramid was not comfortable until at least Breznev, and probably not then, either, although you were more likely to have decent heating and a car.
Public Health England advises they are much less harmful than smoking
Then there's Japan which has a higher suicide rate and a lower murder rate and is quite capitalist.
Japan is basically socialist. Healthcare, public transit, plenty of make-work construction projects, etc.
one can argue having the LARGEST number of people healthy and able to work is best for the economy, so EVERYONE should have access to healthcare
This is a socialist argument, even though you called it a capitalist one. You are trying to decide what will be best for society as a whole, and get the government to implement it.
Probably not. For example: https://www.independent.co.uk/...
Cool, thanks. Your first link is broken, though.
This is not a problem of "working with other banks," though, it's a problem of issuers getting hacked and losing money the way they deserve to have happen to them.
Why are you sure of that? There are plenty of slashdotters who work with boards.
But not entire reefs, all at the same time, over vast areas,
How much is normal? How often would you say this happens?