BTW all the SEs screaming about Software jobs being outsourced, how many of you drive american cars or use US made TV?
Well, apparently that particular offshoring cycle was perfectly OK since it tossed the blue-collars out of work. You're right. Now that those particular hawks -- insatiable for profit -- have come back for even more predatory feeding, the newest batch of victims are crying foul (fowl?) since they never believed that they merited being prey.
It does make me laugh a bit when I see some Bachelor's-degreed person eating the same shit of underqualified work that I've had to eat for all my working life. They were entirely accepting that my work status was intrinsically downgraded since I had no degree (you see, apparently work experience is worth nothing). Now that the same superqualification effect is reducing their own merits to zero, they are crying foul. Sad... but justified.
Your conclusion is flawed. Space flights can take place with greater usefulness from equatorial countries. As soon as this so-called useful industry is quantified, it will move by thousands of tons of equipment and craft within 10 years to an equatorial zone that promotes cheap labor, lack of zoning, lack of environmental controls and worker protections, etc. And America will be smack-dab back into the same Depressionary times, having lost the momentum of an industry ONCE AGAIN to the vicious elite who seek greater profits no matter what.
All this blather about "the next boom" just ignores the point that ALL value-added arrangements can be offshored in this world of extreme mobility of capital, materials and energy. As soon as some nitwit checks his spreadsheet and sees that profits from change have approached a critical value, he then makes the orders and -- like dolts -- the workers pack up their equipment (and thus their very livelihoods) and ship them overseas to the next pack of desperate, monetized natives.
America will figure into this cycle too, as the middle class is progressively destroyed and a Third World status continues to expand around the cities. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't started to see it directly in my own city... Toledo OH, which is really just a Third World micronation disguised as an American city. The elite are forcing us to accept a massive fall in our standard of living to prepare us for the next cycle of now-global predatory capitalism.
The cyberpunk novels released over the years are turning out to be prescient. Entire cultures will be cast into huge surges and sags of disparate personal wealth just to make it easier for another millionaire or billionaire to be created. That's the entire point.
How much fucking further did Carly have to crash HP before you start making noises about how little worth she had? The debates on this topic revolve around HER, and HER compensation, and HER severance... all done while HP was crashing under HER administration. The buck stops with her, nitwit. Or do concerns of merit never seem to apply to the executive class when things go bad?
Stop mouthing the Republican talking points. You're fucking awful at it.
If I were an HP shareholder, I'd be demanding executives heads on platters about now...
Maybe you ARE. Do you hold interests in mutual funds? Check into it and see. Let your concerns start flowing upward at least through your funds agents, as you make your point that the stock of such a corporation doesn't belong in any moral mutual fund.
If we're to start the game of apportioning blame, then we should well notice that the shareholders of said corporation are the ones who should have NOT rewarded Carly Fiorina for such terrible performance.
But shareholders hardly "own" or "control" corporations. Not any more. The vast majority of them are actually on a ride that the institutional shareholders are taking them on. As well, the Imperial American Executive Corps is providing most of the remaining directive authority.
Ultimately, We The People decided that we WANTED an Empire that runs on Human blood and suffering. Many more Carlys are waiting in the wings, chafing at the bit to get appointed into other executive positions to continue the decades-long War Against the Middle Class.
Vox populi? It's more like vox populissimo. Populism itself has fallen out of fashion. Those who beat the drums of a public voice are roundly laughed at. Wealth is guiding most social vectors now, not morality... hence the complete undoing of Western culture.
I like that idea. Unfortunately, in America, we can have a guy lose against a dead man, and he's still politically viable. We should have a rule that says if you lose to a dead guy, a houseplant, or NOTA, then you're barred from that office for some time.
That will just mean that some non-campaigning "interim" or "acting" bureaucrat will fill the post.
But that wasn't the point. The point of NOTA is to FORCE offices or positions into emptiness if the people demand it via the NOTA method. If an implemented NOTA only allows bureaucrats to fill offices by appointment since "the people unwisely chose to FAIL to fill this position" (as I imagine some entrenched political animal would say), then nothing will change. In fact, it would get worse: Every NOTA'd position would then be filled with an appointed crony by the establishment, and I'm sure that would suit said establishment just fine since they get to more directly choose cronies instead of waving them like distraction flags in front of the body politic first.
We should have the legal teeth to hamstring a decadent political process. But where I live (Toledo OH) I find people voting 2-1 for amending the city charter to remove their rights to vote on certain items. Democracy is simply too inconvenient for too many people. Sad, isn't it?
The choice of NOTA is one not of notice, but legal force. When an office is up for grabs, but enough people say NOTA, then the office goes unoccupied until an election is held that also has enough people voting for a real candidate.
The NOTA option might be better called "LEAVE THIS OFFICE OR POSITION EMPTY UNTIL YOU PROVIDE BETTER CANDIDATES". Which is why I said "starvation".
Sometimes revolution (hopefully peaceful) is inevitable if a political system is to reform.
I agree, but I'd rather not shoot people when it's clear that most people will run things more honestly upon the knowledge that yes, shooting will happen, and that yes, they will be targeted when it happens. Having forebrains, why can't we Humans understand inevitability?
In all fairness, yes, that's one way. However, since ballots across America are filled with career politicians, it becomes clear that the votes are corralled into a system of corruption by these shepherds of sin.
And in too many cases, local races have unopposed "candidates". All it takes to emplace these people into office is their own vote.
You can say that this all examples the overall failure of opposition. I agree. My viewpoint and yours are simply not mutually exclusive. We can use opposition along the lines that you stated, on top of a NOTA system that I stated. If corruption can't be rooted out by your method, we then have a good chance of rooting it out with mine.
... so that the next step (shooting people) will not have to be tried. Capice?
If people worried about every lying thieving politician and corporate officer, the world would stop dead in its tracks because nothing would ever get done.
Not to serve up a flip answer, but perhaps that's what needs to happen. For example, we need to have the selection "NONE OF THE ABOVE" for each ballot choice in any election, to have the option to force the political system to endure starvation instead of a mandatory minimum feeding.
The system of corruption generally takes steps to make the environment safe for corruption. This tends to expand corruption. And such expansion crashes the system eventually. Knowing this, we should understand and prefer to have the harsh measure of medicine over the comfortable safety of increasing numbness (until the gangrene sets in and the limb falls off).
Corrupt systems have to be fixed one way or another. Either they get fixed by eternal vigilance, or they are fixed by extinction. People have to understand that even by making no choice whatsoever, they've still made a choice, hence they've still selected or supported an outcome.
You don't have to go that far. Before 911, it was well enshrined in at least American thought, that the government should wholly represent business interests in the privatizing of profit while socializing costs. Hence, Hypercapitalism was destroying any rational idea of the commons and the public domain. Too many Westerners are completely sold on the idea of exclusive ownership of property, and that property itself has a very broad definition.
Just wait until the utility companies pressure the government into granting them exclusive wind-power rights. As silly as it sounds, they'll "own" the wind. THAT is how broadly property will be defined.
The public domain is merely being cashed out by millions of people just to mint a few more millionaires that most of those millions of people hope to become (but obviously cannot). That's all it is: Society as a lottery.
Well, I wouldn't exactly say that, but yes, millions of welfare recipients are depending on us workers. It's also true that as we workers start to fall into the pit of employment uncertainty and rising personal costs, then we will make adjustments to the welfare state to compensate (since you can't tax the poor to provide for the poorer). Working harder will only turn us into wage slaves to a predatory system for the insatiable needs of capitalist owners as well as rising numbers of welfarers.
This sort of center cannot hold. Such a system will snap like a dried twig under the rising stresses it is enduring. Which is why I'm so critical against the middle classes when they start bleating about losing sick days, vacation, health benefits and the like -- as if these things can even compare to people losing careers and falling out of the middle class entirely.
We need to go back to eating the rich. Progressive taxation was the answer that allowed America's middle class to prosper without being slapped into wage slavery by the upper class. Progressive taxation helped immensely to make America a stable, First World country. The proof is incontrovertible. America's history itself demonstrates it. But the modern era of middle classes hoping (falsely) to get rich off of stock portfolios has destroyed that system. They refuse to tax wealth since they imagine (falsely) that they will attain those lofty heights of wealth themselves. And so the absurdly envious middle classes are getting what they deserve. They are going to get it good and hard.
I've got some fucking news for Mr. Arthur "PhD" Sorkin: Employers have managed to obsolete or de-value experience. In far too many fields of work, if you don't have a degree, you're essentially unhireable.
But that system of superqualification -- once allowed to exist -- continues to expand.
Now, legions of Bachelor-level degree holders are finding out that employers are making their degrees worthless too. After all, if you can make a man's 20-year computer experience worth nothing, then a lousy 4-year college stint can also be declared "worthless".
So it continues. And so it will swallow people like him, eventually. His PhD is ONLY worth whatever employers say it is worth. Like millions of others, he probably tolerated those below him being dismissed due to the superqualification effect.
He can be as miffed as he wants. He probably wanted a system where education became of subjective worth. I hope he understands that perhaps, just maybe, in the future he will stand up for the absolute value of a person's experience and education, no matter what levels those are.
Hmm. It also helps with resisting discrimination lawsuits to not have a paper trail for the people you dismissed outright. Application forms are the paper trail.
This all revolves about the old question: how big a harbor do we need to get this ship turned around? Taken to an extreme, for an arbitrary thin ship (we're talking paper-thin here), the answer is a harbor of near-zero area. That just sinks into the quagmire of fun mathematics, where you can get a bounded line turned around in essentially zero-area 2D space. All the line has to do is move along itself for some distance, make a tiny pivot from the inner end, and then move back along the new vector; repeat this process and you'll move the line 180 degrees in a 2D shape that looks like a flower with a gazillion petals (of infinitesimal area apiece, which leads to the essentially "zero area" conclusion when taken to the extreme of infinity).
The rounded triangular shape is also used in the Wankel rotary engine. I'm sure it has a name, but I don't recall at the moment.
Oh, boy, is somebody angry. Nobody owes you a living...
You are deflecting the real issue, Republican Mouth-boi. The real issue is that my countrymen owe me the opportunity to earn a living. So, yes, I AM owed something. Just like I owe my coutnrymen to buy American. We owe each other. Perhaps you've heard of this process. It's called a fucking SOCIAL CONTRACT. Google that a bit if you've never heard of it.
The government also doesn't have the right to work in concert with businesses to disenfranchise the working class (me) from earning a living. If it does try to do so, we have every right to overthrow it, violently if necessary.
You are only advocating crony capitalism and that leads directly to war. Congratulations. Perhaps you or your family will die in it. Your fucking stock portfolio isn't going to matter a hill of beans then. DUH.
Not sure, what you mean by "predatory" and "hyper-", but as for "looting" and "crony-" -- we have nothing of the kind. [...] Masters and slaves are not really possible in such a society.
You've caught the propaganda bug BAD. You must drive past the bad areas where you live by not daring to look right ot left... so you avoid noticing the slaves. Ever hear of "wage slavery"? Of course you have. But you are indulging otherwise in willful ignorance.
You parade such ignorance like a badge of merit. So I'm warning you now. Stop before you find yourself on the wrong side of a civil war. You'll just wind up dead. Who knows? I may be the one who pulls the trigger on you.
Why does an American schmuck deserve higher pay than a Thai or a Mexican one? By birthright?
By gum, you're right. With the latest unilateral 10% pay cut I was handed, I'll just pay 10% less rent to my landlord (with equal unilaterality), 10% less to each utility company, etc. If I have to make less, then so do they. Right?
Of course, my fucking sarcasm only examples the point. My pay is going DOWN, while rent and energy costs are going UP. I am forced to take the former, and of course I'm forced to take the latter.
Since you're so implicitly keen on the use of force in this fashion, I'd say that in another 20 years of this kind of thing, you'd better be armed when some real force gets used to fix this artificial disenfranchisement. The only thing that's going to support less than 10% of the population owning over 90% of everything, is paperwork. This paperwork is going to be ripped aside as people resort to physical force to correct this outrageous theft of the commons called "concentration of wealth".
Capitalism is a great idea. Unfortunately, predatory-, looting-, crony- or hyper-capitalism is NOT. You cannot have a real society composed of masters and slaves.
What good are these "massive wages" you believe in (like the tooth fairy) if you can't spend it because you are working all the time?
What do you think the monthly payment on a half-million-dollar house is for? TO SUCK UP ALL THAT MONEY THAT YOU WON'T OTHERWISE HAVE TIME TO SPEND. Duh.
How considerate of the property-owning class to have arranged this for us!
Kudos to your wife. Of course, I blame the managers. With management like that, no wonder companies fail. Anyone who allocates hours for minutes of work, that is then de facto automated, deserves to end up unemployed themselves. Just think of all the productive work they could have had your wife do instead. {shakes head}
CEOs: Their 'customers' are the shareholders. Most of their shareholders are not investors, they are speculators. Speculators care about short term only.
Funny that you would so nonchalantly mention mining efficiency, while also failing to mention that modern mining methods have shifted into micro-processing modes (or whatever they call it).
When you sift tons of ore to recover mere grams of gold, you had BETTER BE efficient. But that just tells us something about gold's real availability. The lodes and veins are going, hence we have moved on to less efficient ores.
THAT'S a trend that you failed to mention. And it DOES suggest that it's going to be harder to win gold from the ground. Micro-processing is energy-intensive, and as you may have heard, energy prices are going UP.
Well, what you might have meant instead is that the United States has the most corrupt political system in comparison to its own expectations. There are many other nations with very corrupt politics, but its very acculturated. In the USA, there is a large expectation that there will be no bribery, vote fraud, etc.
This is one of the largest problems in the USA. The country's practices are highly divergent from the country's intentions.
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BTW all the SEs screaming about Software jobs being outsourced, how many of you drive american cars or use US made TV?
... but justified.
Well, apparently that particular offshoring cycle was perfectly OK since it tossed the blue-collars out of work. You're right. Now that those particular hawks -- insatiable for profit -- have come back for even more predatory feeding, the newest batch of victims are crying foul (fowl?) since they never believed that they merited being prey.
It does make me laugh a bit when I see some Bachelor's-degreed person eating the same shit of underqualified work that I've had to eat for all my working life. They were entirely accepting that my work status was intrinsically downgraded since I had no degree (you see, apparently work experience is worth nothing). Now that the same superqualification effect is reducing their own merits to zero, they are crying foul. Sad
Your conclusion is flawed. Space flights can take place with greater usefulness from equatorial countries. As soon as this so-called useful industry is quantified, it will move by thousands of tons of equipment and craft within 10 years to an equatorial zone that promotes cheap labor, lack of zoning, lack of environmental controls and worker protections, etc. And America will be smack-dab back into the same Depressionary times, having lost the momentum of an industry ONCE AGAIN to the vicious elite who seek greater profits no matter what.
... Toledo OH, which is really just a Third World micronation disguised as an American city. The elite are forcing us to accept a massive fall in our standard of living to prepare us for the next cycle of now-global predatory capitalism.
All this blather about "the next boom" just ignores the point that ALL value-added arrangements can be offshored in this world of extreme mobility of capital, materials and energy. As soon as some nitwit checks his spreadsheet and sees that profits from change have approached a critical value, he then makes the orders and -- like dolts -- the workers pack up their equipment (and thus their very livelihoods) and ship them overseas to the next pack of desperate, monetized natives.
America will figure into this cycle too, as the middle class is progressively destroyed and a Third World status continues to expand around the cities. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't started to see it directly in my own city
The cyberpunk novels released over the years are turning out to be prescient. Entire cultures will be cast into huge surges and sags of disparate personal wealth just to make it easier for another millionaire or billionaire to be created. That's the entire point.
How much fucking further did Carly have to crash HP before you start making noises about how little worth she had? The debates on this topic revolve around HER, and HER compensation, and HER severance ... all done while HP was crashing under HER administration. The buck stops with her, nitwit. Or do concerns of merit never seem to apply to the executive class when things go bad?
Stop mouthing the Republican talking points. You're fucking awful at it.
If I were an HP shareholder, I'd be demanding executives heads on platters about now...
Maybe you ARE. Do you hold interests in mutual funds? Check into it and see. Let your concerns start flowing upward at least through your funds agents, as you make your point that the stock of such a corporation doesn't belong in any moral mutual fund.
If we're to start the game of apportioning blame, then we should well notice that the shareholders of said corporation are the ones who should have NOT rewarded Carly Fiorina for such terrible performance.
... hence the complete undoing of Western culture.
But shareholders hardly "own" or "control" corporations. Not any more. The vast majority of them are actually on a ride that the institutional shareholders are taking them on. As well, the Imperial American Executive Corps is providing most of the remaining directive authority.
Ultimately, We The People decided that we WANTED an Empire that runs on Human blood and suffering. Many more Carlys are waiting in the wings, chafing at the bit to get appointed into other executive positions to continue the decades-long War Against the Middle Class.
Vox populi? It's more like vox populissimo. Populism itself has fallen out of fashion. Those who beat the drums of a public voice are roundly laughed at. Wealth is guiding most social vectors now, not morality
I like that idea. Unfortunately, in America, we can have a guy lose against a dead man, and he's still politically viable. We should have a rule that says if you lose to a dead guy, a houseplant, or NOTA, then you're barred from that office for some time.
That will just mean that some non-campaigning "interim" or "acting" bureaucrat will fill the post.
But that wasn't the point. The point of NOTA is to FORCE offices or positions into emptiness if the people demand it via the NOTA method. If an implemented NOTA only allows bureaucrats to fill offices by appointment since "the people unwisely chose to FAIL to fill this position" (as I imagine some entrenched political animal would say), then nothing will change. In fact, it would get worse: Every NOTA'd position would then be filled with an appointed crony by the establishment, and I'm sure that would suit said establishment just fine since they get to more directly choose cronies instead of waving them like distraction flags in front of the body politic first.
We should have the legal teeth to hamstring a decadent political process. But where I live (Toledo OH) I find people voting 2-1 for amending the city charter to remove their rights to vote on certain items. Democracy is simply too inconvenient for too many people. Sad, isn't it?
The choice of NOTA is one not of notice, but legal force. When an office is up for grabs, but enough people say NOTA, then the office goes unoccupied until an election is held that also has enough people voting for a real candidate.
The NOTA option might be better called "LEAVE THIS OFFICE OR POSITION EMPTY UNTIL YOU PROVIDE BETTER CANDIDATES". Which is why I said "starvation".
Sometimes revolution (hopefully peaceful) is inevitable if a political system is to reform.
I agree, but I'd rather not shoot people when it's clear that most people will run things more honestly upon the knowledge that yes, shooting will happen, and that yes, they will be targeted when it happens. Having forebrains, why can't we Humans understand inevitability?
In all fairness, yes, that's one way. However, since ballots across America are filled with career politicians, it becomes clear that the votes are corralled into a system of corruption by these shepherds of sin.
... so that the next step (shooting people) will not have to be tried. Capice?
And in too many cases, local races have unopposed "candidates". All it takes to emplace these people into office is their own vote.
You can say that this all examples the overall failure of opposition. I agree. My viewpoint and yours are simply not mutually exclusive. We can use opposition along the lines that you stated, on top of a NOTA system that I stated. If corruption can't be rooted out by your method, we then have a good chance of rooting it out with mine.
Daryl refused to elaborate on which areas of the world he thought "looked" flat.
That's an easy one to answer: the heads of his corporate board members. It's hard to find such mathematically perfect flatness in available surfaces.
If people worried about every lying thieving politician and corporate officer, the world would stop dead in its tracks because nothing would ever get done.
Not to serve up a flip answer, but perhaps that's what needs to happen. For example, we need to have the selection "NONE OF THE ABOVE" for each ballot choice in any election, to have the option to force the political system to endure starvation instead of a mandatory minimum feeding.
The system of corruption generally takes steps to make the environment safe for corruption. This tends to expand corruption. And such expansion crashes the system eventually. Knowing this, we should understand and prefer to have the harsh measure of medicine over the comfortable safety of increasing numbness (until the gangrene sets in and the limb falls off).
Corrupt systems have to be fixed one way or another. Either they get fixed by eternal vigilance, or they are fixed by extinction. People have to understand that even by making no choice whatsoever, they've still made a choice, hence they've still selected or supported an outcome.
You don't have to go that far. Before 911, it was well enshrined in at least American thought, that the government should wholly represent business interests in the privatizing of profit while socializing costs. Hence, Hypercapitalism was destroying any rational idea of the commons and the public domain. Too many Westerners are completely sold on the idea of exclusive ownership of property, and that property itself has a very broad definition.
Just wait until the utility companies pressure the government into granting them exclusive wind-power rights. As silly as it sounds, they'll "own" the wind. THAT is how broadly property will be defined.
The public domain is merely being cashed out by millions of people just to mint a few more millionaires that most of those millions of people hope to become (but obviously cannot). That's all it is: Society as a lottery.
Well, I wouldn't exactly say that, but yes, millions of welfare recipients are depending on us workers. It's also true that as we workers start to fall into the pit of employment uncertainty and rising personal costs, then we will make adjustments to the welfare state to compensate (since you can't tax the poor to provide for the poorer). Working harder will only turn us into wage slaves to a predatory system for the insatiable needs of capitalist owners as well as rising numbers of welfarers.
This sort of center cannot hold. Such a system will snap like a dried twig under the rising stresses it is enduring. Which is why I'm so critical against the middle classes when they start bleating about losing sick days, vacation, health benefits and the like -- as if these things can even compare to people losing careers and falling out of the middle class entirely.
We need to go back to eating the rich. Progressive taxation was the answer that allowed America's middle class to prosper without being slapped into wage slavery by the upper class. Progressive taxation helped immensely to make America a stable, First World country. The proof is incontrovertible. America's history itself demonstrates it. But the modern era of middle classes hoping (falsely) to get rich off of stock portfolios has destroyed that system. They refuse to tax wealth since they imagine (falsely) that they will attain those lofty heights of wealth themselves. And so the absurdly envious middle classes are getting what they deserve. They are going to get it good and hard.
"I've got 2 words for you: SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
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I've got some fucking news for Mr. Arthur "PhD" Sorkin: Employers have managed to obsolete or de-value experience. In far too many fields of work, if you don't have a degree, you're essentially unhireable.
But that system of superqualification -- once allowed to exist -- continues to expand.
Now, legions of Bachelor-level degree holders are finding out that employers are making their degrees worthless too. After all, if you can make a man's 20-year computer experience worth nothing, then a lousy 4-year college stint can also be declared "worthless".
So it continues. And so it will swallow people like him, eventually. His PhD is ONLY worth whatever employers say it is worth. Like millions of others, he probably tolerated those below him being dismissed due to the superqualification effect.
He can be as miffed as he wants. He probably wanted a system where education became of subjective worth. I hope he understands that perhaps, just maybe, in the future he will stand up for the absolute value of a person's experience and education, no matter what levels those are.
Hmm. It also helps with resisting discrimination lawsuits to not have a paper trail for the people you dismissed outright. Application forms are the paper trail.
This all revolves about the old question: how big a harbor do we need to get this ship turned around? Taken to an extreme, for an arbitrary thin ship (we're talking paper-thin here), the answer is a harbor of near-zero area. That just sinks into the quagmire of fun mathematics, where you can get a bounded line turned around in essentially zero-area 2D space. All the line has to do is move along itself for some distance, make a tiny pivot from the inner end, and then move back along the new vector; repeat this process and you'll move the line 180 degrees in a 2D shape that looks like a flower with a gazillion petals (of infinitesimal area apiece, which leads to the essentially "zero area" conclusion when taken to the extreme of infinity).
The rounded triangular shape is also used in the Wankel rotary engine. I'm sure it has a name, but I don't recall at the moment.
Oh, boy, is somebody angry. Nobody owes you a living...
... so you avoid noticing the slaves. Ever hear of "wage slavery"? Of course you have. But you are indulging otherwise in willful ignorance.
You are deflecting the real issue, Republican Mouth-boi. The real issue is that my countrymen owe me the opportunity to earn a living. So, yes, I AM owed something. Just like I owe my coutnrymen to buy American. We owe each other. Perhaps you've heard of this process. It's called a fucking SOCIAL CONTRACT. Google that a bit if you've never heard of it.
The government also doesn't have the right to work in concert with businesses to disenfranchise the working class (me) from earning a living. If it does try to do so, we have every right to overthrow it, violently if necessary.
You are only advocating crony capitalism and that leads directly to war. Congratulations. Perhaps you or your family will die in it. Your fucking stock portfolio isn't going to matter a hill of beans then. DUH.
Not sure, what you mean by "predatory" and "hyper-", but as for "looting" and "crony-" -- we have nothing of the kind. [...] Masters and slaves are not really possible in such a society.
You've caught the propaganda bug BAD. You must drive past the bad areas where you live by not daring to look right ot left
You parade such ignorance like a badge of merit. So I'm warning you now. Stop before you find yourself on the wrong side of a civil war. You'll just wind up dead. Who knows? I may be the one who pulls the trigger on you.
Why does an American schmuck deserve higher pay than a Thai or a Mexican one? By birthright?
By gum, you're right. With the latest unilateral 10% pay cut I was handed, I'll just pay 10% less rent to my landlord (with equal unilaterality), 10% less to each utility company, etc. If I have to make less, then so do they. Right?
Of course, my fucking sarcasm only examples the point. My pay is going DOWN, while rent and energy costs are going UP. I am forced to take the former, and of course I'm forced to take the latter.
Since you're so implicitly keen on the use of force in this fashion, I'd say that in another 20 years of this kind of thing, you'd better be armed when some real force gets used to fix this artificial disenfranchisement. The only thing that's going to support less than 10% of the population owning over 90% of everything, is paperwork. This paperwork is going to be ripped aside as people resort to physical force to correct this outrageous theft of the commons called "concentration of wealth".
Capitalism is a great idea. Unfortunately, predatory-, looting-, crony- or hyper-capitalism is NOT. You cannot have a real society composed of masters and slaves.
What good are these "massive wages" you believe in (like the tooth fairy) if you can't spend it because you are working all the time?
What do you think the monthly payment on a half-million-dollar house is for? TO SUCK UP ALL THAT MONEY THAT YOU WON'T OTHERWISE HAVE TIME TO SPEND. Duh.
How considerate of the property-owning class to have arranged this for us!
Greedy single male response: "I'm getting all the play money I want, so too bad for you."
Greedy CEO response: "I'm not paying you to be a husband and a father."
Sensible citizen response: "... er, can't we just shoot the first two guys who spoke above and live better lives without wage slavery?"
Kudos to your wife. Of course, I blame the managers. With management like that, no wonder companies fail. Anyone who allocates hours for minutes of work, that is then de facto automated, deserves to end up unemployed themselves. Just think of all the productive work they could have had your wife do instead. {shakes head}
CEOs: Their 'customers' are the shareholders. Most of their shareholders are not investors, they are speculators. Speculators care about short term only.
.Siggable Quote for 2005.
Nominated: Best
Funny that you would so nonchalantly mention mining efficiency, while also failing to mention that modern mining methods have shifted into micro-processing modes (or whatever they call it).
When you sift tons of ore to recover mere grams of gold, you had BETTER BE efficient. But that just tells us something about gold's real availability. The lodes and veins are going, hence we have moved on to less efficient ores.
THAT'S a trend that you failed to mention. And it DOES suggest that it's going to be harder to win gold from the ground. Micro-processing is energy-intensive, and as you may have heard, energy prices are going UP.
Well, what you might have meant instead is that the United States has the most corrupt political system in comparison to its own expectations . There are many other nations with very corrupt politics, but its very acculturated. In the USA, there is a large expectation that there will be no bribery, vote fraud, etc.
This is one of the largest problems in the USA. The country's practices are highly divergent from the country's intentions.