Automation drives down costs and prices, which increases demand
It drives down costs but it doesn't necessarily drive down prices.
Even if it did, and bread halved in price, I doubt I'd buy double the quantity. There's plenty of things that you can only use so much of.
Automation creates many jobs in other companies, like the companies that supply the automation equipment, that program it, and that perform training and maintenance, plus all their suppliers.
If those added up to the jobs being lost then they wouldn't be doing it because it would cost more, not less.
Your reasoning about the economy is as faulty as is the reasoning people employ for perpetual motion machines: you focus on a single step, but neglect the other interactions that happen.
No it isn't. I know the difference between physics and economics, thank you very much.
AmiMoJo thinks ISIS are just misunderstood, their cultural vandalism is a form of performance art, and the 9-11 attacks were valid retribution for deposing Saddam Hussein.
As Robert S. McNamara said, "Satire, trolling and propaganda are best when they walk a fine line between being extreme enough to be effective and yet mundane enough to be believable."
A light sprinkling - ideally gay ones or a bit of pegging - here and there.
Some old fashioned cabbies are independent contractors too, in that they get use of the vehicle, medallion/permit and despatching service for either an hourly fee or a percentage of the take, and then what's left is theirs.
Uber is different because disruptive apps! On the interwebs!
the proper response is to give the user insight into the trade-offs of a new or changing requirement.
They don't want insight into... ummm... whatever it was you just said. They don't understand whatever it is you said, and they couldn't if they tried, because they can't be bothered.
They want a pony. You're just a goddam secretary (why don't you just type faster) and they'll go crying to your boss if they don't get it by this afternoon.
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It drives down costs but it doesn't necessarily drive down prices.
Even if it did, and bread halved in price, I doubt I'd buy double the quantity. There's plenty of things that you can only use so much of.
If those added up to the jobs being lost then they wouldn't be doing it because it would cost more, not less.
No it isn't. I know the difference between physics and economics, thank you very much.
The real news is that Arkansas has libraries.
How about a robot that stabs anybody who starts shooting?
Perhaps he realises it was wrong to invade Poland?
Twaddle.
Atheist - believes god(s) don't exist.
Agnostic - not sure either way, or believes it's not possible to know.
Apostate - an ex believer.
Usually about 3. Then 5. Then two months, then a year.
He's comments sucked? WTF does that mean?
Of course there is. If it wasn't the case, they wouldn't be doing it because it wouldn't cost less.
AmiMoJo thinks ISIS are just misunderstood, their cultural vandalism is a form of performance art, and the 9-11 attacks were valid retribution for deposing Saddam Hussein.
I've been in meetings where it started going that way, and the boss suggested (i.e. told us, but nicely) to sort it out later among ourselves.
"Shall we report back?"
"To me when you're done, short summary to the group next week."
And then we finished the rest of the agenda and went to the pub.
Replacing someone you practically own and pay next to nothing with something you actually own and don't need to pay at all is a big step?
Unless it's possible to be 37.2% contractor and 62.8% employee then there totally is an exact dividing line; you're either on one side or the other.
Now it might not be easy to determine where the line is, but that's not the same thing as it not existing.
I keep seeing posts like this. If they aren't song lyrics, they should be.
He said "join the civilised world".
I bet they're sorry now.
Sorry.
I believe that is called a perverse incentive. One of my favourite mannijmunt konsepts.
Well so is communism.
Hey, roman_mir, GTFO of my account!
That would be newsworthy in and of itself.
As Robert S. McNamara said, "Satire, trolling and propaganda are best when they walk a fine line between being extreme enough to be effective and yet mundane enough to be believable."
A light sprinkling - ideally gay ones or a bit of pegging - here and there.
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Some old fashioned cabbies are independent contractors too, in that they get use of the vehicle, medallion/permit and despatching service for either an hourly fee or a percentage of the take, and then what's left is theirs.
Uber is different because disruptive apps! On the interwebs!
I thought that, and then I thought "surely there's more to it, or why is everyone talking about it?"
And then I figured technology is as prone to hemline oscillation and varying tie widths as the clothing industry.
They don't want insight into ... ummm ... whatever it was you just said. They don't understand whatever it is you said, and they couldn't if they tried, because they can't be bothered.
They want a pony. You're just a goddam secretary (why don't you just type faster) and they'll go crying to your boss if they don't get it by this afternoon.
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