Capitalists do, if people don't want to settle for a life of flipping burgers and having a roommate in an efficiency. A bachelors degree is the new high school diploma.
The neat thing is that libertarians and capitalists sneer at people at both ends here. If you want more than subsistence living, then you need to get off your lazy ass and make yourself a more valuable employee, so someone will pay you a higher wage. But once you take out loans to get a degree and the gamble doesn't pay off, then you sneer at the plebes a second time for taking out loans their dumb asses couldn't afford. It's a sneer-sneer scenario.
and the healthcare didn't exist two generations ago
What good are medical advances if you cannot afford them?
Speaking of naivete, this is the same country known for kidnapping sitting prime ministers of other nations and forcing them into signing confessions. If you were gay and outed while in Saudi Arabia, you'd be shitting your pants no matter how many billions you had.
Bullshit. He's not a Saudi citizen and unless he's caught in Riyadh cocksmoking a young buff Arab, they have no legal grounds.
This is the country that thinks nothing of kidnapping a sitting prime minister of another country and forcing him to read a pre-written confession. If you were gay in the head-chopping capital of the word, you'd be shitting your pants if you got outed no matter how many billions you had, or how chummy Tim Cook is with some of the royals.
Take every call seriously, but don't shoot the first person within two seconds of him walking out the door. Far too many cops are scared chickenshits, or get-their-gun-off types, neither of which has any business being a cop or possessing a firearm.
The root of the problem is there are far, far too many laws and regulations, many related to the "War On (some) Drugs". Having so many laws and regulations means you need a large number of jackboots to enforce them.
Hmm, sounds a little Randian. SWAT teams aren't generally used for possible zoning or pollution violations, if that's what you were going for.
Then you know false or misleading calls happen all the time.
You can NEVER treat a call like a hoax due to liability issues. I
It doesn't have to mean blowing off calls like when Michael B Jordan tries to order a pizza. I can mean noticing that the house you're going to doesn't match the description being given over the phone so the first person who walks out the door isn't shot in two seconds.
Your cited injuries are certainly no worse than, frex, hair bleach in the eyes, and there's just not that much skill differential between PT and *everything else*.
I think PT is still quite a bit more broad than that. Aside form not herniating disks and ripping tendons, PT's rehab people that do have those injuries. And as 80% of any weight loss plan is dieting, you'd want something healthy, not crazy like the grapefruit diet, and watching out for eating disorders. And that fifty year old diabetic who's suddenly huffing and puffing - is he winded and just needs a break, a packet of sugar, or should you be getting the gym's defibrillator just in case? Hair stylists don't have to worry about any of that.
Easy question, easy answer. Families had one car because one parent was able to get a job out of high school that would pay for the house and the car. And the other parent could stay home with the kids. Whereas now, that house might have two TV's in it and a two-stall garage for both cars - but that's because both parents have to work to pay for said house and cars, while working on their $100k plus in student loans.
Says the person typing on a disposable device that only governments could afford a generation ago as they wait in line to visit a place that only the 1% could visit two generations ago on a machine that only the 1% could afford two generations ago.
Blow it out your ass, Old Economy Steve. You think having a smartphone is a real trade for having five figures in student loan debt, having to pay four figures in health insurance costs before one cent of medical is covered, making both parents work instead of one, for less wages with no pension? GTFO
If you quit your job and work as a Wal-Mart greeter, you may be working the same number of hours per week, but is your standard of living going to remain the same?
Critics of automation miss the point. Nobody works for the sake of work -- people strive to create value, which helps pay our salaries and feed our families. Automation effectively opens the door for more new endeavors that will elevate our species to greater heights. Just as past generations turned away the mines for better careers, modern workers whose jobs are altered by automation will blah blah blah blah
The US workforce has been on a downward trajectory for the last four decades. Not just because of automation, but it sure hasn't helped. The auto worker that loses his job to a robot isn't moving to a higher plane of enlightenment designing self-driving cars for Uber, he's going to be an Uber driver for far less money than he was making before.
You can read Trump's executive order [whitehouse.gov] or Obama's executive order [ucsb.edu] yourself, but basically it boils down to human rights abuses, muzzling the press, violently suppressing your political opponents, etc. Not necessarily a threat, just "quit being such a dictatorship!"
Which is all delusional nazi bullshit. Dreaded human rights abuses like....not renewing a broadcasting license for a station that supported the 2002 coup. If that station were in the United States, they would have all gone to prison for treason.
Poor, but also agriculturally very rich. If the current administration only could maintain farming and some industry beside oil...
They would love to, but Venezuela doesn't have the money to out-subsidize American crops that are then dumped into the market via NAFTA.
DO TELL how you would start a business when your competitors can run with what would be losses, perpetually.
Silly libertarians, recoiling over such minor issues like mass starvation and dictatorship.
Shitbag Ameircans, pretending to GAF about human rights in countries not down with American hegemony, but couldn't care less about the worst dictatorships on the planet that you're busy selling arms to, like the Saudi's. If you were reality-based, you would support Venezuela's democratic socialism, as it tripled the country's GDP and lifted millions out of generational destitution.
Basing all their decisions on one commodity is a sure fire way to collapse an economy when alternative sources for said commodity exist. The problem isn't the people (rarely is), it is the government that knows better than everyone else what's good for everyone else. I'm sure the leaders in that country aren't suffering.
Venezuela has an ideal climate for agriculture. But they import food because NAFTA has dumped subsidized crops into the market below the cost of production. As with most American complaints on Venezuela, this one needs to be aimed at the nearest mirror.
That would be the CIA and the rich/bourgeois in Venezuela finding excuses for regime change. Capitalists DGAF about starving people before democratic socialists took over, and you'll go right back to not GAF if you install a CIA toady.
Whoa, triggered imperialist capitalist is triggered.
by Maduro, a compulsive liar prototype dictator
If he was a dictator there wouldn't be an opposition party. You want an actual dictatorship, look to your imperialist capitalist buddies in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf coast monarchies.
Most of the world is traded in US dollars, which is the only thing that fuels your $1.4+ trillion annual war budget and maintains your 20+ trillion in debt. Once that bubble pops....you're fucked. Who's gonna be the clown then?
If the regulations actually prevent the dangerous and stupid and illegal behavior on the part of the licensed or unlicensed actor then where do the stories come from I wonder?
Because regulation is completely pointless because you can't eliminate the behavior entirely? This is why you never go Full Libertarian - we will always have car crashes, so might as well let 10 year olds drink and drive at 100 mph.
The rag was in the tank for Hillary Clinton, and for Obama before that. Both are right-wingers, which makes Salon right-wing as well. As is their race baiting, which seeks to divide people on race so they don't pay attention to class.
f the government is tyrannical and the people rise up and use their dick extenders to secure a free state then it isn't a "rebellion"
That's the definition of a rebellion. It doesn't matter how virtuous or depraved the rebels or the government are, if you're rebelling against the government.....it's a rebellion.
You think China cares about the best interest of the world? Russia too? Your hippie idealism is adorable. Let me know where your emerald forest is filled with fairies and unicorns, I'd like to live there too.
I see you went with a non-response, red herring & non sequitur sandwich for lunch today.
The 1988 Civic was actually in the Subcompact class
The 1988 Civic was a whopping 8 inches shorter in wheelbase than the 2018 Civic. So, very little fundamental difference between 30 years, despite the pedantry.
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Not when one person was able to pay the mortgage. Whereas now the mom and the 17 yo may both be working to forestall foreclosure. Really.
Even billionaires like Bloomberg use mass transit. WYP?
Capitalists do, if people don't want to settle for a life of flipping burgers and having a roommate in an efficiency. A bachelors degree is the new high school diploma.
The neat thing is that libertarians and capitalists sneer at people at both ends here. If you want more than subsistence living, then you need to get off your lazy ass and make yourself a more valuable employee, so someone will pay you a higher wage. But once you take out loans to get a degree and the gamble doesn't pay off, then you sneer at the plebes a second time for taking out loans their dumb asses couldn't afford. It's a sneer-sneer scenario.
What good are medical advances if you cannot afford them?
Speaking of naivete, this is the same country known for kidnapping sitting prime ministers of other nations and forcing them into signing confessions. If you were gay and outed while in Saudi Arabia, you'd be shitting your pants no matter how many billions you had.
This is the country that thinks nothing of kidnapping a sitting prime minister of another country and forcing him to read a pre-written confession. If you were gay in the head-chopping capital of the word, you'd be shitting your pants if you got outed no matter how many billions you had, or how chummy Tim Cook is with some of the royals.
Take every call seriously, but don't shoot the first person within two seconds of him walking out the door. Far too many cops are scared chickenshits, or get-their-gun-off types, neither of which has any business being a cop or possessing a firearm.
Hmm, sounds a little Randian. SWAT teams aren't generally used for possible zoning or pollution violations, if that's what you were going for.
I was a 911 dispatcher for 8 years
Then you know false or misleading calls happen all the time.
It doesn't have to mean blowing off calls like when Michael B Jordan tries to order a pizza. I can mean noticing that the house you're going to doesn't match the description being given over the phone so the first person who walks out the door isn't shot in two seconds.
I think PT is still quite a bit more broad than that. Aside form not herniating disks and ripping tendons, PT's rehab people that do have those injuries. And as 80% of any weight loss plan is dieting, you'd want something healthy, not crazy like the grapefruit diet, and watching out for eating disorders. And that fifty year old diabetic who's suddenly huffing and puffing - is he winded and just needs a break, a packet of sugar, or should you be getting the gym's defibrillator just in case? Hair stylists don't have to worry about any of that.
Easy question, easy answer. Families had one car because one parent was able to get a job out of high school that would pay for the house and the car. And the other parent could stay home with the kids. Whereas now, that house might have two TV's in it and a two-stall garage for both cars - but that's because both parents have to work to pay for said house and cars, while working on their $100k plus in student loans.
Blow it out your ass, Old Economy Steve. You think having a smartphone is a real trade for having five figures in student loan debt, having to pay four figures in health insurance costs before one cent of medical is covered, making both parents work instead of one, for less wages with no pension? GTFO
If you quit your job and work as a Wal-Mart greeter, you may be working the same number of hours per week, but is your standard of living going to remain the same?
The US workforce has been on a downward trajectory for the last four decades. Not just because of automation, but it sure hasn't helped. The auto worker that loses his job to a robot isn't moving to a higher plane of enlightenment designing self-driving cars for Uber, he's going to be an Uber driver for far less money than he was making before.
Which is all delusional nazi bullshit. Dreaded human rights abuses like....not renewing a broadcasting license for a station that supported the 2002 coup. If that station were in the United States, they would have all gone to prison for treason.
They would love to, but Venezuela doesn't have the money to out-subsidize American crops that are then dumped into the market via NAFTA.
DO TELL how you would start a business when your competitors can run with what would be losses, perpetually.
Shitbag Ameircans, pretending to GAF about human rights in countries not down with American hegemony, but couldn't care less about the worst dictatorships on the planet that you're busy selling arms to, like the Saudi's. If you were reality-based, you would support Venezuela's democratic socialism, as it tripled the country's GDP and lifted millions out of generational destitution.
Venezuela has an ideal climate for agriculture. But they import food because NAFTA has dumped subsidized crops into the market below the cost of production. As with most American complaints on Venezuela, this one needs to be aimed at the nearest mirror.
That would be the CIA and the rich/bourgeois in Venezuela finding excuses for regime change. Capitalists DGAF about starving people before democratic socialists took over, and you'll go right back to not GAF if you install a CIA toady.
Whoa, triggered imperialist capitalist is triggered.
If he was a dictator there wouldn't be an opposition party. You want an actual dictatorship, look to your imperialist capitalist buddies in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf coast monarchies.
Most of the world is traded in US dollars, which is the only thing that fuels your $1.4+ trillion annual war budget and maintains your 20+ trillion in debt. Once that bubble pops....you're fucked. Who's gonna be the clown then?
Oooo! A 9% difference in length! Have you considered treatment for your condition?
Because regulation is completely pointless because you can't eliminate the behavior entirely? This is why you never go Full Libertarian - we will always have car crashes, so might as well let 10 year olds drink and drive at 100 mph.
Why - because you want to herniate a disk or tear a tendon in your leg because the trainer doesn't know what he's doing?
The rag was in the tank for Hillary Clinton, and for Obama before that. Both are right-wingers, which makes Salon right-wing as well. As is their race baiting, which seeks to divide people on race so they don't pay attention to class.
That's the definition of a rebellion. It doesn't matter how virtuous or depraved the rebels or the government are, if you're rebelling against the government.....it's a rebellion.
I see you went with a non-response, red herring & non sequitur sandwich for lunch today.
The 1988 Civic was a whopping 8 inches shorter in wheelbase than the 2018 Civic. So, very little fundamental difference between 30 years, despite the pedantry.