No. This is more like an automaker made a vehicle with no radio. You could only buy a radio if you bought it from the automaker's dealership. And whoever made the radio paid the dealership 30% of whatever they sold the radio for. So they have to mark it up 43% to come out on par.
I bought a Chevy. It drives down the road. It does what it needs to do. But everyone else is listening to music, getting navigation tips, answering calls. I don't have any of that. So I want something. The only people that make my radio have to charge me 43% more to make their profit. That $200 radio just cost me almost $300. And if they don't mark up that extra $86 bucks, their competitor will and it gets the sale instead of them on every Chevy.
How do you feel about anti-trust when it's not the developer losing 30% but you losing 43%?
Yes, it's really a weird scenario. In the US our streets are excellent in much of the country. But even in those areas, people live out in the suburbs making real public transportation a serious problem. This takes half the problem, people in suburbs needing to get into the cities and kind of resolves it... except for the fact that people in suburbs bought cars because they all have to get to work on time in the morning and also go grocery shopping and also have kids. Uber can't realistically solve this problem without having a large number of the cars that we already have sitting in garages. And Uber can solve half the problem in a city, getting cheaply from one place to another without finding a bus... except that they can't. Because Uber can't function near-term without self driving cars and that's their division that's killing them. Even if the did solve it... no city would want them because they kill existing public transportation which is already a problem. Companies like Uber can only be of any use if 1) Self driving divisions are successful and then approved in targeted communities 2) they are prey. After Uber dies, if it has put enough work into self-driving, another company eats it, puts its IP to use. I just find the whole thing silly, because they are solving problems that kind of exist but not really, not how they think they do. Problem they kind of grasp, people need to get from point A to point B and they don't have convenient transportation. The solution to this isn't self driving cars, it's pulling people into the cities they have fled. That is a huge hurdle, but if investors threw money into making cities more liveable it has to be cheaper than throwing something like a billion dollars a year into a car that sits around and waits for your call to drive you from point A to point B.
I didn't realize that. I was wondering why they did not have the standard movie covers. I actually don't like it very much that they change it from the box covers I recognize. But I see the point in why they do it.
Recruiters fault? When I see something like this I wonder if it is the recruiter not passing along the cancellation info. Maybe a little revenge, probably just not caring since the person isn't making them a dime and they have a 100 other contacts up for interviews.
I've seen this at my employer which is not in the tech field. They've actually had all staff meetings and told us "You're lucky to even have a job." Turnover rate is like 30-40% per year. It worked for them when the employees they staffed had to take jobs at McDonalds. Now they are in demand and my employer doesn't know how to keep them. I'm not even sure if my employer realizes it needs to keep them. Now we have important jobs being staffed by temp workers for months. And often transitioning out one temp worker for another. I am old enough that I'm not near a millenial, but I don't see how a business can survive that doesn't strongly back their employees. My workplace has gotten so negative that they are paying new employees much more than they were a few years ago. I don't see how that's a solid business plan, to pay someone more to put up with how you treat them? When I first started working at the company their basic pitch was that working conditions would be very good compared to the competition so pay wouldn't be quite as good. And they had a lot of happy employees anyway.
Google has changed the game though. The cost doesn't have to be the rider's cash. $1 is enough for their contract. The real funding would come from advertisers and vendors in the portal. If you had 1400 people traveling to a specific area for a specific reason, you have a pretty good guess who they are and what they like. That's some good target advertising.
I remember my first hard drive something like 30 years ago. Talked my mom into buying it for my computer so I wouldnt have to constantly switch 3.5 floppies. Probably for my Keef The Thief game. Maybe Sorcerers Get all The Girls. It was like 100 or 200 bucks. I immediately deleted some files that I didn't put on there so that I'd have more storage space. Oops, that was MS-DOS. An expensive trip to the computer repair shop and a threat from my mom led to me reading the manuals carefully and ultimately to my future career in computers. After all the talk over the years about not being able to increase the storage capacity I think we are just about at that point that it doesn't matter about increasing capacity on physical hard drives. The replacements in 5 years will just be big enough and cheaper. Goodbye hard drives.
And those channels are not grouped at all on their guide. I imagine this is for the purpose of making you feel like there's a lot of content by forcing you to scroll past 50 channels to see the next channel you want to look at. Instead I can't remember what my choices are because they are all separated by 2 minutes of screwing around with the remote. I wish they'd give up that nonsense and group them by genre or let you custom filter/sort them. Of course, all of that is nonsense considering that it could be delivered over internet instead. I'm 44 and even I'm young enough that I'd rather download the shows or stream them from CW or AMC rather than remember what time they are on, make sure to sit down at the TV, and fight the remote to get to the right station. If I don't happen to have an outage right then.
Always down here too. And the box they hooked up is garbage. We went down for a few hours one day. I called for service and it came back up. I let the tech come out any way to figure out what the problem was. He said it goes down all the time and the service department doesn't get notifications when their people take it down to fix something. He asked me to call and just cancel the service call as he wasn't going to really look at anything. I told him fine. Called in and I couldn't make it past the automated attendant to reach the service department.
I had mostly good fast internet service through Comcast. But also Very high prices Bundle full of garbage Terrible customer service Using my service to semi-secretly sell service to others Typical million channels of garbage, semi-goodstuff would have still been more on top of too much. And now threatening to be anti-competitive or throttle my service. Their internet could be as fast as they could get it, it was overcharged and bundled with garbage, and forced to subsidize their wifi access point division.
Some years ago I sent a link to a website out to some people in the company. They had asked for a recommendation for a website that could do X. They all replied along the lines of how could I send them that link. Turns out there was all kinds of inappropriate ads and what not that I had never seen. Now I don't send anything out that I haven't tested out at work. I'm not trying it on my personal PC without javascript blocked.
Even worse than that. It wasn't purely a "change in circumstances". Real estate brokers and banks were intentionally colluding to drive up real estate prices to non-sustainable prices (housing bubble) and often times selling people on variable rate mortgages. The banks jacked the rates, the housing bubble crashed. No one could move for a job because they couldn't sell their house. Because they couldn't move they had no way to get a new job if they lost their old one. Then when they forclosed on the homes that they cheated people out of, they wouldn't resell them, instead sitting on them waiting for the market to go up, destroying the value of all the other homes in the neighborhood with a glut of vacant homes. Then the government made us bail them out, so they gave themselves bonuses. All they did is destroy the middle class and the upperwardly moving lower class. You can find the wreckage still in many cities in America. You drive through a city like Flint Michigan, you can see homes all collapsing. Someone who didn't know better might wonder why people wouldn't take care of your house. But how are you going to replace a roof when the new roof costs more than the entire house. Maybe more than all the houses on your block. At the time people wanted those senior bank managers lynched. A decade later their ravages of the middle class are still around, but there are those that were protected, neighborhoods that weren't affected, adults that were too young to remember. But it's sad. These people destroyed many more lives than 400. Let me tell you, it's hard to move. It's hard to move when it's not your choice. But when you watch your children losing their home, that's something you could never forgive. Personally I'd consider bankrupting America as something akin to treason.The idea that they give someone 20k for stealing their home, that's an incredible insult not just from the bank but also by America.
In 60 years we have pretty much destroyed our natural sleep habits. Kevin Rose had a really good podcast with Kevin Walker about sleep and the dangers of losing it.
Zombies, AI, virus, Frankenstein, the Tower of Babel... they are all the same fear/warning/lesson. We aren't as smart as we think we are and the closer we get to trying to beat nature/god/the universe, it will backfire and we will suffer for it.
Because those things require skill and training. They very likely aren't smart enough for those jobs. Or maybe there aren't opportunities in their area. Do you honestly want that lady that couldn't give you the correct change or the guy who couldn't read to hold the mustard on your burger to be in charge of the plumbing in your house?
I used to think this too. Then I saw how bad off kids are that are in poverty. Those kids aren't going to make it. And that group is growing, not shrinking. Middle class is a generation from gone. Middle class kids getting by because their parents helped them out with a car and down payment and college. Each generation less able to help their kids get started. You know what gave all those parents a boost way back? Government programs after WWII. There just aren't enough jobs for everyone to survive on the pay for those jobs. That right there is a recipe for revolution. You'd be surprised how close we are. About 6 million people in the incarceration/probation system. That's not a huge percentage but you'd be surprised what desperate people can do when they get a seed to grow around.
haha, right, if their whole plan revolves around data centers not using GPUs for the competition then I think they are in trouble. If AMD can crush them by just undercutting them and selling to anyone for data centers then AMD get the larger cut without the risk and at the same time castrates nVidia. I don't see the game plan there.
We actually do know. Because there is released footage. It's in the first link. He looks confused. A bright spotlight is shining in his face from across the street. Police hidden behind his neighbor's truck yell at him to "walk this way". He raises his hands when an officer screams "show your hands". Maybe just following the police orders he was given. Maybe so he can see "this way" while I blinding light is being shone in his eyes. Then someone shoots him. One guy. Not everyone. Not the guy at the police car in the driveway. But after being told to "walk this way" and to "show your hands" he does both those directions and they shoot him anyway. This is incredibly scary. This is a normal citizen by any accounts. No one has come forwards and said it is a 3 time violent offender trying to cover themselves. They show up at his house at night time, give him directions, then gun him down in his own doorway. This could be anyone. This could be your son, this could be your daughter, this could be your wife, your husband. It could be you. What we don't have is any data if there were other reasons besides the phone call to lead them to believe there was a hostage situation. We don't have anything in that video that shows whether or not they think this is the guy that the call was from. We don't know if anyone checked with the person on the phone with the swatting perpetrator to find out that he was still talking to the officer/operator at the time that this guy was in the doorway obviously not talking to the operator/officer. I mean, we know they shot him anyway so I don't assume they checked. But we don't know. Maybe someone did and that's why no one else but the one officer shot the victim. If someone showed up at my house at night while shining a bright light in my eyes from across the street and was yelling at me from across the street I doubt I could follow the directions as well as this guy did. But it was clear in the video he did follow their directions. And they shot him anyway. The guy had training. There is no pretending he didn't intend to kill him. There is no pretending he didn't know what he was doing. He wasn't some guy off the street. He was the SWAT team. That's why it's murder. Not because someone got shot in a mistake. But because a team specially trained to deal with these situations still shot an unarmed innocent civilian in his doorway after following the directions of the trained tactical team. It's not enough for the special weapons officer that shot him to go up for murder. The one who cleared him for the team needs to lose his job. The one who cleared him on bill of mental health needs to lose his job. The guy who approved him for the team needs to lose his job. The person who hired those other people needs to lose his job. When a murder of an innocent civilian happens to "protect the life" of a cop instead of the other way around then everyone up the chain needs to be held accountable. That's the only way to keep violent criminals from holding dangerous positions in the police department.
Evidence of planned obsolescence? Are you asking how he knows that Apple knew that their hardware would fail after a year? What evidence that they knew it would have a diminished life or are you asking for what evidence that they covered it up?
I think it's very clear from all the news coverage that Apple was very well aware that their phones would only last a year and made a choice between the processor and the battery. The processor made it look like they need a newer phone, the battery would have been clearly their fault.
Apple isn't necessarily bad for that. They are just foolish for covering it up.
Who cares. It doesn't matter who is lying and why. And they all are. Politicians and big business are going to screw you over either way and there's nothing you can do about it. Be a good person in your community and hope it trickles up because despite Reagan and Trump I don't believe anything trickles down. And that's not exactly a slam on Trump, I hate all politicians equally regardless of party affiliation. My understanding is the top 2 bribers/campaign contributors were in for almost a 100 mil each. There is no way the rest of us can compete with that level of influence.
That's exactly the example I was giving people after seeing Star Wars. Home is better than away now. Games are better at home. Movies are better at home. Is a bigger screen better? For Star Wars I sat in the front row with a sore neck barely able to see the screen. I had to pee of course so I missed 10 minutes of the movie. Then I got to hear my kids complain about the noisy person next to them and the stupid kids behind them kicking the seat. If it wasn't for the fact that every time I see my Google feed there are 5 articles with spoilers in the title of the article I wouldn't even go see the "blockbusters".
Yes they would. Because more of them would have jobs. And they would have jobs at better wages and more hours. And because of that they could shop at better stores. And spend more money wherever they wished. This is not just some thinking experiment. This was tested when cars were coming out. This one guy had an idea that if he paid his workers more then they would have enough money to buy his product. So Walmart is a great example of the opposite. And it is not in some kind of dispute about what it does. It is very well documented what it does. Move into an area. Sell at a loss or incredibly low margin to shut out competition in the area. When there is little competition they make sure wages for work drops, prices can increase to the amount they want them, but the supply side really suffers because now supplier X has no other store in the area to sell their product. So now supplier X has to drop their price and their profit margin because Walmart demands it. Walmart now controls to some extent what the market can bear and it can also control what split of the profits they make from the supplier.
Require businesses and media that reports this issue to follow every "Not Enough Qualified ______" with the obvious qualifier "For the Salary Offered." Then all of these stories make a lot more sense. America is currently throwing a fortune into "STEM". Because of the false claim of a shortage of workers when the real answer is a shortage of pay. All they are going to do is crash the tech economy when they flood the market with all the new tech workers that realize they can't make enough money to pay back debt and have to drop out of science and tech altogether. I've seen it in another field here and it's not pretty. Flood of workers means unemployment, low wages, and no bargaining power. It won't take long for them to all refuse to work in tech and just throw their degree in the garbage. 2020: More CS majors behind the counter at Starbucks than at the tables.
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No. This is more like an automaker made a vehicle with no radio. You could only buy a radio if you bought it from the automaker's dealership. And whoever made the radio paid the dealership 30% of whatever they sold the radio for. So they have to mark it up 43% to come out on par.
I bought a Chevy. It drives down the road. It does what it needs to do. But everyone else is listening to music, getting navigation tips, answering calls. I don't have any of that. So I want something. The only people that make my radio have to charge me 43% more to make their profit. That $200 radio just cost me almost $300. And if they don't mark up that extra $86 bucks, their competitor will and it gets the sale instead of them on every Chevy.
How do you feel about anti-trust when it's not the developer losing 30% but you losing 43%?
Yes, it's really a weird scenario. In the US our streets are excellent in much of the country. But even in those areas, people live out in the suburbs making real public transportation a serious problem. This takes half the problem, people in suburbs needing to get into the cities and kind of resolves it... except for the fact that people in suburbs bought cars because they all have to get to work on time in the morning and also go grocery shopping and also have kids. Uber can't realistically solve this problem without having a large number of the cars that we already have sitting in garages. And Uber can solve half the problem in a city, getting cheaply from one place to another without finding a bus... except that they can't. Because Uber can't function near-term without self driving cars and that's their division that's killing them. Even if the did solve it... no city would want them because they kill existing public transportation which is already a problem.
Companies like Uber can only be of any use if 1) Self driving divisions are successful and then approved in targeted communities 2) they are prey. After Uber dies, if it has put enough work into self-driving, another company eats it, puts its IP to use.
I just find the whole thing silly, because they are solving problems that kind of exist but not really, not how they think they do. Problem they kind of grasp, people need to get from point A to point B and they don't have convenient transportation. The solution to this isn't self driving cars, it's pulling people into the cities they have fled. That is a huge hurdle, but if investors threw money into making cities more liveable it has to be cheaper than throwing something like a billion dollars a year into a car that sits around and waits for your call to drive you from point A to point B.
I didn't realize that. I was wondering why they did not have the standard movie covers. I actually don't like it very much that they change it from the box covers I recognize. But I see the point in why they do it.
Recruiters fault?
When I see something like this I wonder if it is the recruiter not passing along the cancellation info. Maybe a little revenge, probably just not caring since the person isn't making them a dime and they have a 100 other contacts up for interviews.
I've seen this at my employer which is not in the tech field. They've actually had all staff meetings and told us "You're lucky to even have a job."
Turnover rate is like 30-40% per year. It worked for them when the employees they staffed had to take jobs at McDonalds. Now they are in demand and my employer doesn't know how to keep them. I'm not even sure if my employer realizes it needs to keep them.
Now we have important jobs being staffed by temp workers for months. And often transitioning out one temp worker for another.
I am old enough that I'm not near a millenial, but I don't see how a business can survive that doesn't strongly back their employees. My workplace has gotten so negative that they are paying new employees much more than they were a few years ago. I don't see how that's a solid business plan, to pay someone more to put up with how you treat them? When I first started working at the company their basic pitch was that working conditions would be very good compared to the competition so pay wouldn't be quite as good. And they had a lot of happy employees anyway.
Google has changed the game though. The cost doesn't have to be the rider's cash. $1 is enough for their contract. The real funding would come from advertisers and vendors in the portal. If you had 1400 people traveling to a specific area for a specific reason, you have a pretty good guess who they are and what they like. That's some good target advertising.
I remember my first hard drive something like 30 years ago. Talked my mom into buying it for my computer so I wouldnt have to constantly switch 3.5 floppies. Probably for my Keef The Thief game. Maybe Sorcerers Get all The Girls.
It was like 100 or 200 bucks. I immediately deleted some files that I didn't put on there so that I'd have more storage space. Oops, that was MS-DOS. An expensive trip to the computer repair shop and a threat from my mom led to me reading the manuals carefully and ultimately to my future career in computers.
After all the talk over the years about not being able to increase the storage capacity I think we are just about at that point that it doesn't matter about increasing capacity on physical hard drives. The replacements in 5 years will just be big enough and cheaper. Goodbye hard drives.
How do you cut the cord. the Cable companies own the internet company.
And those channels are not grouped at all on their guide. I imagine this is for the purpose of making you feel like there's a lot of content by forcing you to scroll past 50 channels to see the next channel you want to look at. Instead I can't remember what my choices are because they are all separated by 2 minutes of screwing around with the remote.
I wish they'd give up that nonsense and group them by genre or let you custom filter/sort them. Of course, all of that is nonsense considering that it could be delivered over internet instead.
I'm 44 and even I'm young enough that I'd rather download the shows or stream them from CW or AMC rather than remember what time they are on, make sure to sit down at the TV, and fight the remote to get to the right station. If I don't happen to have an outage right then.
Always down here too. And the box they hooked up is garbage. We went down for a few hours one day. I called for service and it came back up. I let the tech come out any way to figure out what the problem was. He said it goes down all the time and the service department doesn't get notifications when their people take it down to fix something. He asked me to call and just cancel the service call as he wasn't going to really look at anything. I told him fine. Called in and I couldn't make it past the automated attendant to reach the service department.
I had mostly good fast internet service through Comcast.
But also
Very high prices
Bundle full of garbage
Terrible customer service
Using my service to semi-secretly sell service to others
Typical million channels of garbage, semi-goodstuff would have still been more on top of too much.
And now threatening to be anti-competitive or throttle my service.
Their internet could be as fast as they could get it, it was overcharged and bundled with garbage, and forced to subsidize their wifi access point division.
Some years ago I sent a link to a website out to some people in the company. They had asked for a recommendation for a website that could do X.
They all replied along the lines of how could I send them that link.
Turns out there was all kinds of inappropriate ads and what not that I had never seen. Now I don't send anything out that I haven't tested out at work. I'm not trying it on my personal PC without javascript blocked.
Even worse than that. It wasn't purely a "change in circumstances". Real estate brokers and banks were intentionally colluding to drive up real estate prices to non-sustainable prices (housing bubble) and often times selling people on variable rate mortgages. The banks jacked the rates, the housing bubble crashed. No one could move for a job because they couldn't sell their house. Because they couldn't move they had no way to get a new job if they lost their old one. Then when they forclosed on the homes that they cheated people out of, they wouldn't resell them, instead sitting on them waiting for the market to go up, destroying the value of all the other homes in the neighborhood with a glut of vacant homes. Then the government made us bail them out, so they gave themselves bonuses. All they did is destroy the middle class and the upperwardly moving lower class.
You can find the wreckage still in many cities in America. You drive through a city like Flint Michigan, you can see homes all collapsing. Someone who didn't know better might wonder why people wouldn't take care of your house. But how are you going to replace a roof when the new roof costs more than the entire house. Maybe more than all the houses on your block.
At the time people wanted those senior bank managers lynched. A decade later their ravages of the middle class are still around, but there are those that were protected, neighborhoods that weren't affected, adults that were too young to remember. But it's sad. These people destroyed many more lives than 400. Let me tell you, it's hard to move. It's hard to move when it's not your choice. But when you watch your children losing their home, that's something you could never forgive.
Personally I'd consider bankrupting America as something akin to treason.The idea that they give someone 20k for stealing their home, that's an incredible insult not just from the bank but also by America.
In 60 years we have pretty much destroyed our natural sleep habits. Kevin Rose had a really good podcast with Kevin Walker about sleep and the dangers of losing it.
Zombies, AI, virus, Frankenstein, the Tower of Babel... they are all the same fear/warning/lesson. We aren't as smart as we think we are and the closer we get to trying to beat nature/god/the universe, it will backfire and we will suffer for it.
15 year old cons yahoo or whoever into giving up an email account. Wrong person is going to jail.
Because those things require skill and training. They very likely aren't smart enough for those jobs. Or maybe there aren't opportunities in their area. Do you honestly want that lady that couldn't give you the correct change or the guy who couldn't read to hold the mustard on your burger to be in charge of the plumbing in your house?
I used to think this too. Then I saw how bad off kids are that are in poverty. Those kids aren't going to make it. And that group is growing, not shrinking. Middle class is a generation from gone. Middle class kids getting by because their parents helped them out with a car and down payment and college. Each generation less able to help their kids get started. You know what gave all those parents a boost way back? Government programs after WWII.
There just aren't enough jobs for everyone to survive on the pay for those jobs. That right there is a recipe for revolution. You'd be surprised how close we are. About 6 million people in the incarceration/probation system. That's not a huge percentage but you'd be surprised what desperate people can do when they get a seed to grow around.
haha, right, if their whole plan revolves around data centers not using GPUs for the competition then I think they are in trouble. If AMD can crush them by just undercutting them and selling to anyone for data centers then AMD get the larger cut without the risk and at the same time castrates nVidia. I don't see the game plan there.
We actually do know. Because there is released footage. It's in the first link. He looks confused. A bright spotlight is shining in his face from across the street. Police hidden behind his neighbor's truck yell at him to "walk this way". He raises his hands when an officer screams "show your hands". Maybe just following the police orders he was given. Maybe so he can see "this way" while I blinding light is being shone in his eyes. Then someone shoots him. One guy. Not everyone. Not the guy at the police car in the driveway.
But after being told to "walk this way" and to "show your hands" he does both those directions and they shoot him anyway.
This is incredibly scary. This is a normal citizen by any accounts. No one has come forwards and said it is a 3 time violent offender trying to cover themselves. They show up at his house at night time, give him directions, then gun him down in his own doorway. This could be anyone. This could be your son, this could be your daughter, this could be your wife, your husband. It could be you.
What we don't have is any data if there were other reasons besides the phone call to lead them to believe there was a hostage situation. We don't have anything in that video that shows whether or not they think this is the guy that the call was from. We don't know if anyone checked with the person on the phone with the swatting perpetrator to find out that he was still talking to the officer/operator at the time that this guy was in the doorway obviously not talking to the operator/officer. I mean, we know they shot him anyway so I don't assume they checked. But we don't know. Maybe someone did and that's why no one else but the one officer shot the victim.
If someone showed up at my house at night while shining a bright light in my eyes from across the street and was yelling at me from across the street I doubt I could follow the directions as well as this guy did. But it was clear in the video he did follow their directions. And they shot him anyway. The guy had training. There is no pretending he didn't intend to kill him. There is no pretending he didn't know what he was doing. He wasn't some guy off the street. He was the SWAT team. That's why it's murder. Not because someone got shot in a mistake. But because a team specially trained to deal with these situations still shot an unarmed innocent civilian in his doorway after following the directions of the trained tactical team.
It's not enough for the special weapons officer that shot him to go up for murder. The one who cleared him for the team needs to lose his job. The one who cleared him on bill of mental health needs to lose his job. The guy who approved him for the team needs to lose his job. The person who hired those other people needs to lose his job. When a murder of an innocent civilian happens to "protect the life" of a cop instead of the other way around then everyone up the chain needs to be held accountable. That's the only way to keep violent criminals from holding dangerous positions in the police department.
Evidence of planned obsolescence? Are you asking how he knows that Apple knew that their hardware would fail after a year? What evidence that they knew it would have a diminished life or are you asking for what evidence that they covered it up?
I think it's very clear from all the news coverage that Apple was very well aware that their phones would only last a year and made a choice between the processor and the battery. The processor made it look like they need a newer phone, the battery would have been clearly their fault.
Apple isn't necessarily bad for that. They are just foolish for covering it up.
Who cares. It doesn't matter who is lying and why. And they all are. Politicians and big business are going to screw you over either way and there's nothing you can do about it. Be a good person in your community and hope it trickles up because despite Reagan and Trump I don't believe anything trickles down.
And that's not exactly a slam on Trump, I hate all politicians equally regardless of party affiliation. My understanding is the top 2 bribers/campaign contributors were in for almost a 100 mil each. There is no way the rest of us can compete with that level of influence.
That's exactly the example I was giving people after seeing Star Wars. Home is better than away now. Games are better at home. Movies are better at home.
Is a bigger screen better? For Star Wars I sat in the front row with a sore neck barely able to see the screen. I had to pee of course so I missed 10 minutes of the movie. Then I got to hear my kids complain about the noisy person next to them and the stupid kids behind them kicking the seat.
If it wasn't for the fact that every time I see my Google feed there are 5 articles with spoilers in the title of the article I wouldn't even go see the "blockbusters".
Yes they would. Because more of them would have jobs. And they would have jobs at better wages and more hours. And because of that they could shop at better stores. And spend more money wherever they wished.
This is not just some thinking experiment. This was tested when cars were coming out. This one guy had an idea that if he paid his workers more then they would have enough money to buy his product.
So Walmart is a great example of the opposite. And it is not in some kind of dispute about what it does. It is very well documented what it does. Move into an area. Sell at a loss or incredibly low margin to shut out competition in the area. When there is little competition they make sure wages for work drops, prices can increase to the amount they want them, but the supply side really suffers because now supplier X has no other store in the area to sell their product. So now supplier X has to drop their price and their profit margin because Walmart demands it. Walmart now controls to some extent what the market can bear and it can also control what split of the profits they make from the supplier.
Require businesses and media that reports this issue to follow every "Not Enough Qualified ______" with the obvious qualifier "For the Salary Offered."
Then all of these stories make a lot more sense.
America is currently throwing a fortune into "STEM". Because of the false claim of a shortage of workers when the real answer is a shortage of pay.
All they are going to do is crash the tech economy when they flood the market with all the new tech workers that realize they can't make enough money to pay back debt and have to drop out of science and tech altogether. I've seen it in another field here and it's not pretty. Flood of workers means unemployment, low wages, and no bargaining power. It won't take long for them to all refuse to work in tech and just throw their degree in the garbage.
2020: More CS majors behind the counter at Starbucks than at the tables.