Ironically, the ones who scream the loudest against helping the "unwashed masses" are the Jesus people. Conservative Christians seem fundamentally not capable of allowing someone else a basic standard of life. And yes, that makes them bad people.
Well, since no one will be employed, it wont much matter what it costs. Rest assured that it will be more than we can afford. Then... back to lords and surfs.
Sorry, but this is bullshit. How are the poor people going to get any money when there is no work? Most of the Jesus people in America would rather see those people die on the streets than to give them "hand outs". Could everyone in America be fed, housed, clothed, educated and entertained with only 10% of the people working? Of course they could. But, this will never happen. The religious right will never allow it.
No, it is not overblown. Stop for a moment and think about the bigger picture. What happens when everything is automated? Where will you work? How will you pay your mortgage? Do you think that engineering cannot be automated? In time, it will be. Are you a manager? Do you think all those managers will be needed when there are workers? It does not take a crystal ball to see that this is the path we are on.
Of course it is not a shock. That is the entire basis for the western economy. Eliminate all costs, i.e. jobs, until there is no one left who can afford to by your discount product.
I know, I know... I am a communist, socialist and all the rest of it, but it makes sense. There are 1 basic rule of capitalism. Survival of the fittest. It turns out, however, that survival of the fittest is not always the best approach when you want to hold a society together. That is why we have things like anti monopoly rules. The "end game" for capitalism is to eliminate all competition so that in the end, there is only one. This of course is massively short sighted, given that most of the population will won't have jobs and then cannot afford to buy your stuff. Especially since most so many people in the US firmly believe that if you lose your job, you should be homeless and starve to death if you cannot find a new job in time. Being good the Christians that they are. That is same with automation, It should not be allowed. Can low level jobs be replaced with robots? Of course they can. But what the fuck are the people going to do for work? Is everyone going to be a manager? Is everyone going to start their own business? No, of course not. Instead, those people will go hungry. They will go without insurance. Their kids will not have an education. This is bad for everyone. Of course, we all know that we are at a point where most food items and "stuff" can be made nearly with complete automation. We can produce enough for every single person to eat and have a place to live and clothes on their back. But... We wont. Because those people are lazy, and should die. Right? Eventually, that will happen. Or at least I hope. But until that time, those people "need" jobs. You do not "need" a cheaper iphone. You only "want" cheaper stuff. Next time you shop at a discount store, ask yourself.. why is this item so much cheaper than the local mom and pop shop? What is this really costing me?
She is exactly right. I wonder, where does it say that singers / actors deserve vast sums of money? Why do governments try to protect these businesses which the people have decided are not worth the amount of money they are asking for? Where is the free market love everyone is talking about?
And that is the point. It is "content", not news anymore. Hardly anyone is "reporting" on anything. Look at nearly every single tech site. They only just regurgitate press releases from this or that manufacture or "report" on what was written on some other site. Everything they post is skin deep drivel. Most of the "so called" news sites are nothing more than click bait at best and attempts to brainwash the masses into adopting the political message of whoever owns the site. There are a couple of sites which I do carry a subscription to, but those are the few who really take the time to research their articles.
Google would be doing us a favor to just delist nearly all sites.
I am sure this has nothing to do with it...... But, if your employee is not full time, there is no obligation to offer health insurance, vacation, or sick time as large companies currently need to do. Seems like Amazon would save a ton of money by having everyone move to "part time".
This seems to be clearly part of a larger campaign against the US. Whether true or not, I think that many of the smaller countries and even some of the larger ones feel that America has been the unchecked bully for far too long. Continuously chastising others while performing those same actions. Do as I say, not as I do. I can imagine that these players are working in concert to destabilize America with attacks designed to make the average American lose trust in the government and lose faith in the entire political system.
I fully expect that in the next 2-3 month there will be several new “leaks” which are vastly more damaging to the democratic party than the current batch which only proves the primary was rigged.
Combine this with the fact that for many in Russia, the cold war never ended and you have an obvious conclusion.
Do yourself a favor and have a look at the youtube video in the NPR link. It was produced by the war department. It's fascinating. I especially like how the solders were handling the fuel rods in t-shirts and no protective equipment at all. I am quite sure every single one of those poor guys died a horrible death not long after.
As someone who lost two children to random genetic mutations during the 3rd trimester, I can say that I would have given anything be have been able to edit out those errors. Alas, thanks to piece of shit bible thumpers like OP, this was not to be. There is no reason whatsoever to force babies to be born with disabilities simply because some asshat thinks god doesnt like it.
BTW, side note.. If your god allows such suffering, then gives you the knowledge and power to end it, but somehow makes it forbidden for you to actually end it, I would say you may want to think about what kind of God you are worshiping. Cuz, that would be a seriously dick move.
Let me guess. All those people with cancer deserve to die because that is natures way? All those kids born with genetic diseases should be left to suffer because you think it is immoral to edit out those errors?
Why don't you get off your fucking high horse. People like you really grind my gears. The holier than tho crowd. You think you have the right to decide what is moral and what is not. I say, fuck you. You and your bible beating brethren are the reason medical progress has more or less come to a halt in the US.
That is because in Germany it is very expensive to fire your employees. In some cases, it is not possible at all. Germany does a good job of protecting the workers and in many cases, protecting the companies from their own short shortsightedness.
At the end of the last recession, Germany was one of the few countries perfectly positioned to take advantage of the upturn in demand precisely because they were not allowed to kick out 50% of their work force. This meant that the trained workers were already in place to ramp up production. While in other western countries, the most skilled workers, i.e. oldest and most expensive, were all on unemployment and could not get rehired since they wanted too much money. I guess it is hippy thinking on my part. I believe that companies have a right to make money, sure. But, they should not have the right to do so at the expensive of society as a whole. Especially as society is what allows them to make money in the first place. If everyone fucks everyone else all the time, then things wont tend to work out that well in the long run. IMHO anyhow.
"Why can't we find workers that will work for peanuts? They're all unemployed, they should be happy with anything!"
You would think so, but no. That is more of an American thing I think.
I am an American expat living in Germany. I was recently offered a job in Spain for a lot of money. Much more than I make in Germany. I don't speak a single word of Spanish. Poor German and English only. I actually thought about it, but at the end of the day, it's Spain. Great to visit, but not to live.
How can something physically point to an abstract like time? Like, holy shit guys, this thing is pointing left..that's the past!!! Yeah man, they're all pointing left..whoa!!
I cannot imagine how the orientation of a physical thing can have any correlation, whatsoever to time. Someone please explain this.
Really? I had a surface pro 3 for work, and I have to say that it was actually really great. I honestly never looked into their sales, so I really have no idea if the line was successful or not. I do know a few people who bought them though.
I was never able to understand the surface concept though. Not the pro, but the normal surface with an atom processor. What was the point? Wasnt it Windows, but not real Windows? Literally the ONLY reason to have Windows is to run your Windows applications. If you cannot do that, what is the point? Then just buy an Android tablet or iPad which has a lot of apps. available. I am sure it confused a lot of people who thought they were buying a windows computer and found out later it wasnt a real computer and they could not do any of their normal computer stuff.
The surface pro 3 though.... I miss the Pen. It was great for marking up documents for review, which is something i have to do a lot in my daily work. I have a yoga pro 3 now, but I am not too happy with the build quality so far. The screws keep popping out!!
Ok.. Here is only one recent study. http://www.pnas.org/content/11... There are loads out there.... it's very difficult to see how injecting fracking fluid thousands of feet below the groundwater can have any effect on it.
Are you joking? You fail to see how injecting a crap ton of chemicals below the water table can impact the water table? Really? You know that just because you put it in the ground, does not mean they stay down there, right?
BTW; the USGS website does say there are, though few, direct links between fracking and quakes.
To be honest, I have a very time to understand the pro-fracking movement in the US. It seems that public in general in America is very, very short sighted. There is actually a lot of evidence to support the premise that fracking not only pollutes the ground water, but also causes mild earth quakes.
Perhaps, in time, they will find out that it is safe. Who knows. But, right now there is a very reasonable doubt.
Here's the thing. Oil is important. We all know that. We depend on it for our modern world. Sure, there are substitutions for nearly every application of oil, but they are expensive. Thus would of course cause harm to the economy should we run out or stop using it all together.
Water, on the other hand. Is not important. It is literally life and death. We cannot live without the stuff. No ifs ands or buts about it. If we pollute all of our drinking water, we will all die. So, why the fuck would people take that chance? To save 15 or 20 bucks filling their gas tanks? It makes no sense.
I sometime wonder; maybe the whole plan IS to pollute the water. The oil companies are buying a lot of water rights and have been for a long time. So, if they pollute all the water except for the areas in which they control, they would have a monopoly on fresh drinking water. Then we would have a water cartel in place of an oil cartel. Forever raising the price of water and literally holding the life of the population in their hands.
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Ironically, the ones who scream the loudest against helping the "unwashed masses" are the Jesus people. Conservative Christians seem fundamentally not capable of allowing someone else a basic standard of life. And yes, that makes them bad people.
Well, since no one will be employed, it wont much matter what it costs. Rest assured that it will be more than we can afford.
Then... back to lords and surfs.
Sorry, but this is bullshit.
How are the poor people going to get any money when there is no work? Most of the Jesus people in America would rather see those people die on the streets than to give them "hand outs".
Could everyone in America be fed, housed, clothed, educated and entertained with only 10% of the people working? Of course they could. But, this will never happen. The religious right will never allow it.
No, it is not overblown.
Stop for a moment and think about the bigger picture. What happens when everything is automated? Where will you work? How will you pay your mortgage? Do you think that engineering cannot be automated? In time, it will be.
Are you a manager? Do you think all those managers will be needed when there are workers?
It does not take a crystal ball to see that this is the path we are on.
Of course it is not a shock. That is the entire basis for the western economy. Eliminate all costs, i.e. jobs, until there is no one left who can afford to by your discount product.
I know, I know... I am a communist, socialist and all the rest of it, but it makes sense.
There are 1 basic rule of capitalism. Survival of the fittest.
It turns out, however, that survival of the fittest is not always the best approach when you want to hold a society together. That is why we have things like anti monopoly rules. The "end game" for capitalism is to eliminate all competition so that in the end, there is only one.
This of course is massively short sighted, given that most of the population will won't have jobs and then cannot afford to buy your stuff. Especially since most so many people in the US firmly believe that if you lose your job, you should be homeless and starve to death if you cannot find a new job in time. Being good the Christians that they are.
That is same with automation, It should not be allowed. Can low level jobs be replaced with robots? Of course they can. But what the fuck are the people going to do for work?
Is everyone going to be a manager?
Is everyone going to start their own business?
No, of course not. Instead, those people will go hungry. They will go without insurance. Their kids will not have an education.
This is bad for everyone.
Of course, we all know that we are at a point where most food items and "stuff" can be made nearly with complete automation. We can produce enough for every single person to eat and have a place to live and clothes on their back.
But... We wont. Because those people are lazy, and should die. Right?
Eventually, that will happen. Or at least I hope. But until that time, those people "need" jobs.
You do not "need" a cheaper iphone. You only "want" cheaper stuff.
Next time you shop at a discount store, ask yourself.. why is this item so much cheaper than the local mom and pop shop? What is this really costing me?
the iPhone comes with its own reality distortion filter, so.... you know..there's that.
She is exactly right.
I wonder, where does it say that singers / actors deserve vast sums of money? Why do governments try to protect these businesses which the people have decided are not worth the amount of money they are asking for? Where is the free market love everyone is talking about?
And that is the point. It is "content", not news anymore. Hardly anyone is "reporting" on anything. Look at nearly every single tech site. They only just regurgitate press releases from this or that manufacture or "report" on what was written on some other site.
Everything they post is skin deep drivel.
Most of the "so called" news sites are nothing more than click bait at best and attempts to brainwash the masses into adopting the political message of whoever owns the site.
There are a couple of sites which I do carry a subscription to, but those are the few who really take the time to research their articles.
Google would be doing us a favor to just delist nearly all sites.
I am sure this has nothing to do with it...... But, if your employee is not full time, there is no obligation to offer health insurance, vacation, or sick time as large companies currently need to do.
Seems like Amazon would save a ton of money by having everyone move to "part time".
This seems to be clearly part of a larger campaign against the US. Whether true or not, I think that many of the smaller countries and even some of the larger ones feel that America has been the unchecked bully for far too long. Continuously chastising others while performing those same actions. Do as I say, not as I do.
I can imagine that these players are working in concert to destabilize America with attacks designed to make the average American lose trust in the government and lose faith in the entire political system.
I fully expect that in the next 2-3 month there will be several new “leaks” which are vastly more damaging to the democratic party than the current batch which only proves the primary was rigged.
Combine this with the fact that for many in Russia, the cold war never ended and you have an obvious conclusion.
Do yourself a favor and have a look at the youtube video in the NPR link. It was produced by the war department. It's fascinating. I especially like how the solders were handling the fuel rods in t-shirts and no protective equipment at all.
I am quite sure every single one of those poor guys died a horrible death not long after.
http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
As someone who lost two children to random genetic mutations during the 3rd trimester, I can say that I would have given anything be have been able to edit out those errors. Alas, thanks to piece of shit bible thumpers like OP, this was not to be.
There is no reason whatsoever to force babies to be born with disabilities simply because some asshat thinks god doesnt like it.
BTW, side note.. If your god allows such suffering, then gives you the knowledge and power to end it, but somehow makes it forbidden for you to actually end it, I would say you may want to think about what kind of God you are worshiping. Cuz, that would be a seriously dick move.
I don't think it's unreasonable for people who post AC to be automatically punched in the face.
Let me guess. All those people with cancer deserve to die because that is natures way? All those kids born with genetic diseases should be left to suffer because you think it is immoral to edit out those errors?
Why don't you get off your fucking high horse. People like you really grind my gears. The holier than tho crowd. You think you have the right to decide what is moral and what is not. I say, fuck you. You and your bible beating brethren are the reason medical progress has more or less come to a halt in the US.
but is it??
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That is because in Germany it is very expensive to fire your employees. In some cases, it is not possible at all.
Germany does a good job of protecting the workers and in many cases, protecting the companies from their own short shortsightedness.
At the end of the last recession, Germany was one of the few countries perfectly positioned to take advantage of the upturn in demand precisely because they were not allowed to kick out 50% of their work force. This meant that the trained workers were already in place to ramp up production.
While in other western countries, the most skilled workers, i.e. oldest and most expensive, were all on unemployment and could not get rehired since they wanted too much money.
I guess it is hippy thinking on my part. I believe that companies have a right to make money, sure. But, they should not have the right to do so at the expensive of society as a whole. Especially as society is what allows them to make money in the first place.
If everyone fucks everyone else all the time, then things wont tend to work out that well in the long run. IMHO anyhow.
We gave it to them.
"Why can't we find workers that will work for peanuts? They're all unemployed, they should be happy with anything!"
You would think so, but no.
That is more of an American thing I think.
I am an American expat living in Germany. I was recently offered a job in Spain for a lot of money. Much more than I make in Germany. I don't speak a single word of Spanish. Poor German and English only.
I actually thought about it, but at the end of the day, it's Spain. Great to visit, but not to live.
Of course there is a need. How else shall they make a real time scan of your files to make sure you are not up to no good?
How can something physically point to an abstract like time?
Like, holy shit guys, this thing is pointing left..that's the past!!! Yeah man, they're all pointing left..whoa!!
I cannot imagine how the orientation of a physical thing can have any correlation, whatsoever to time. Someone please explain this.
Really?
I had a surface pro 3 for work, and I have to say that it was actually really great.
I honestly never looked into their sales, so I really have no idea if the line was successful or not. I do know a few people who bought them though.
I was never able to understand the surface concept though. Not the pro, but the normal surface with an atom processor. What was the point?
Wasnt it Windows, but not real Windows?
Literally the ONLY reason to have Windows is to run your Windows applications. If you cannot do that, what is the point? Then just buy an Android tablet or iPad which has a lot of apps. available.
I am sure it confused a lot of people who thought they were buying a windows computer and found out later it wasnt a real computer and they could not do any of their normal computer stuff.
The surface pro 3 though.... I miss the Pen. It was great for marking up documents for review, which is something i have to do a lot in my daily work.
I have a yoga pro 3 now, but I am not too happy with the build quality so far. The screws keep popping out!!
Ok.. ... it's very difficult to see how injecting fracking fluid thousands of feet below the groundwater can have any effect on it.
Here is only one recent study.
http://www.pnas.org/content/11...
There are loads out there.
Are you joking? You fail to see how injecting a crap ton of chemicals below the water table can impact the water table? Really?
You know that just because you put it in the ground, does not mean they stay down there, right?
BTW; the USGS website does say there are, though few, direct links between fracking and quakes.
To be honest, I have a very time to understand the pro-fracking movement in the US.
It seems that public in general in America is very, very short sighted.
There is actually a lot of evidence to support the premise that fracking not only pollutes the ground water, but also causes mild earth quakes.
Perhaps, in time, they will find out that it is safe. Who knows. But, right now there is a very reasonable doubt.
Here's the thing.
Oil is important. We all know that. We depend on it for our modern world. Sure, there are substitutions for nearly every application of oil, but they are expensive. Thus would of course cause harm to the economy should we run out or stop using it all together.
Water, on the other hand. Is not important. It is literally life and death. We cannot live without the stuff. No ifs ands or buts about it. If we pollute all of our drinking water, we will all die.
So, why the fuck would people take that chance? To save 15 or 20 bucks filling their gas tanks? It makes no sense.
I sometime wonder; maybe the whole plan IS to pollute the water. The oil companies are buying a lot of water rights and have been for a long time.
So, if they pollute all the water except for the areas in which they control, they would have a monopoly on fresh drinking water. Then we would have a water cartel in place of an oil cartel. Forever raising the price of water and literally holding the life of the population in their hands.