The fact that you have had actual communication with your fund manager sets you apart from the masses.
That simply hasn't been my experience and I've been working for a while now. Again, I recomend you get a different fund. I'm not going to argue this. I've been involved with too many retirement funds to simply say "Ok, what ever you say." You in the US? I've never not been able to contact a fund administrator. Ever. And I'm certainly not alone.
1) You're language is bizarre, you sound like you "hate" me, some one you don't even know and has no impact on your life AT ALL, making you sound mental and childish (did you throw a tantrum after reading my post?)
2) Your statement is a blanket one and obviously incorrect, "all A are B" is logically possible but you know that its not true. OR: it is true and you hate your life becuase you work for something you hate; or: you live on a tropical island and you're typing on a collection of stones and looking into a coconut believing you are interacting on the internet. Either way I suggest you get a life. I hear ship model building is calming to the psyche. Oh, and get over yourself.
But your argument is that all corporations are managed by some greed-driven aliens that have no stake in your or my world, and that simply isn't the case either. Not all investment vehicles are mutual funds. Not all investments are divoraced from their investors. Not all "regular people" do not have access to their investments. Seems to me like you have a raw deal. The manager at my fund absolutely answers to me and the other people I work with. If not I take my money elsewhere. You might be advised to do the same.
This will not change until they fix the problems with corporations.
Then you have a long wait becuase corporations have worked the way you object to for as long as there have been corporations (and if think corps are a recent phenomena you don't know very much about them.) Corporations answer to one entity, their investors. Who are the investors? If you have a 401K- YOU. Retirees, pension funds, individual investors, hedge funds made up of other investment entities, if you save money in any way YOU are the person who causes these "problems" you're referrring to. Your only fix really is to remove any profit motive from yourself, so, fix away.
You're drilling down to far; I was only referenceing Apple's OWN view of itself, Microsoft, and IBM at the time the Mac I came out; again, reference "Pirates of Silicon Valley" if you don't get the ref.
Who are these "deniers"? Theists? Whatever, hell with them. Here's the problem: So we find a carbon-life friendly exo. So what? Assuming there's no life intelligent enough to exchange radio signals with (probably a good bet) our next best plan is to explore it with robots. I'd down with that. But Kepler-22b is 600 light years from here. That's too far to make it a useful exploration target unless some crazy advances are made in relativity and so on. Seriously. How does that change anything? It doesn't.
That was acceptable when there was no other option
Yeah, agreed. The cable providers continue to act like they are the Sh*t, so I don't care to "participate" (I don't have a cable bill). If they were a little more reasonable rather than charge a premium for their sh*t I'd probably have it. I like the History channel. But hell with them. I get what I need on the internet, and I don't pay $100+ a month for the priveledge. What a joke.
Indeed. Forget about a representative democracy, 9/11 has put the goal of a totalitarian bureaucracy in America quite over the top for the richest ~100,000 families who actually control the world. The final peice is in place- now we get the fruits of that labor. Watch now for the main goal to be set in motion- population control. These people are using every trick in the book- 9/11, the global warming myth, etc, to effect this goal. Read William Engdahl, anything you can find. This guy is the only person I've read who's not a crackpot and can see the entire game. He has a lot of stuff on youtube.
I disagree. I've shed myself of all habits of buying on credit and quite happy with the descision. I also however disgree with the view above that not using credit means you don't have a credit history. You have a credit record, whether you use it or not. When I am asked by an employer (hasn't happened yet, but if it does) I will simply answer that I choose not to use credit. The last time I had to turn on a service (a DSL line through AT&T) they simply remarked that I didn't have enough of a credit history for them to overlook the $99 deposit. So I paid the $100. Big deal. Not having a tangible credit history is something I miss terribly. Nor does it mean I don't have one. Not exactly.
Keep wishing for your mythical free-market to "fix things". Be prepared to wait a very, very long time for that to actually happen, however.
Yeah, about 60 years, the time it took China to go from its plethora of failed 5 year plans to the current FREE market economy it has now. I need convincing that any government has my best interests in mind. Some regulation is in order in same matters, sure, but everytime there's a problem you fools cry for more regulation. Well, we had a ton of regulation in place and what have the last 5 years brought?
I'm not disagreeing with this. But the people who have to most power to do anything about it, the Fed, refuse, making them the most culpable. Robbers will rob, those with the power to stop it have a duty to stop it. When you can't tell the cops from the robbers, the cops MUST take on more blame.
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As opposed to you, shilling for corporations, trying to claim that they are actually "accountable"?
What, when you attack you're being objective? (For the record, the above was an ad-hominem attack.)
Agreed, Marx got a bad rap.
The fact that you have had actual communication with your fund manager sets you apart from the masses.
That simply hasn't been my experience and I've been working for a while now. Again, I recomend you get a different fund. I'm not going to argue this. I've been involved with too many retirement funds to simply say "Ok, what ever you say." You in the US? I've never not been able to contact a fund administrator. Ever. And I'm certainly not alone.
1) You're language is bizarre, you sound like you "hate" me, some one you don't even know and has no impact on your life AT ALL, making you sound mental and childish (did you throw a tantrum after reading my post?) 2) Your statement is a blanket one and obviously incorrect, "all A are B" is logically possible but you know that its not true. OR: it is true and you hate your life becuase you work for something you hate; or: you live on a tropical island and you're typing on a collection of stones and looking into a coconut believing you are interacting on the internet. Either way I suggest you get a life. I hear ship model building is calming to the psyche. Oh, and get over yourself.
Now you're just creating windmills to joust out of your own mind. B'gone.
I'm not going to argue with you, you obviously have an agenda.
Anti education? Interesting, I thought we were sharing a point. Count me out of your petty little world I guess.
But your argument is that all corporations are managed by some greed-driven aliens that have no stake in your or my world, and that simply isn't the case either. Not all investment vehicles are mutual funds. Not all investments are divoraced from their investors. Not all "regular people" do not have access to their investments. Seems to me like you have a raw deal. The manager at my fund absolutely answers to me and the other people I work with. If not I take my money elsewhere. You might be advised to do the same.
Most of the MBAs I've met are totally worthless. I'm guessing an MBA is an easy award. Why else would the schools churn out to many of them?
This will not change until they fix the problems with corporations.
Then you have a long wait becuase corporations have worked the way you object to for as long as there have been corporations (and if think corps are a recent phenomena you don't know very much about them.) Corporations answer to one entity, their investors. Who are the investors? If you have a 401K- YOU. Retirees, pension funds, individual investors, hedge funds made up of other investment entities, if you save money in any way YOU are the person who causes these "problems" you're referrring to. Your only fix really is to remove any profit motive from yourself, so, fix away.
You're drilling down to far; I was only referenceing Apple's OWN view of itself, Microsoft, and IBM at the time the Mac I came out; again, reference "Pirates of Silicon Valley" if you don't get the ref.
Apple has become IBM (see pirates of silicon valley), that's about the best way to spin this whole thing.
Who are these "deniers"? Theists? Whatever, hell with them. Here's the problem: So we find a carbon-life friendly exo. So what? Assuming there's no life intelligent enough to exchange radio signals with (probably a good bet) our next best plan is to explore it with robots. I'd down with that. But Kepler-22b is 600 light years from here. That's too far to make it a useful exploration target unless some crazy advances are made in relativity and so on. Seriously. How does that change anything? It doesn't.
That was acceptable when there was no other option
Yeah, agreed. The cable providers continue to act like they are the Sh*t, so I don't care to "participate" (I don't have a cable bill). If they were a little more reasonable rather than charge a premium for their sh*t I'd probably have it. I like the History channel. But hell with them. I get what I need on the internet, and I don't pay $100+ a month for the priveledge. What a joke.
Participatory government is dead.
Indeed. Forget about a representative democracy, 9/11 has put the goal of a totalitarian bureaucracy in America quite over the top for the richest ~100,000 families who actually control the world. The final peice is in place- now we get the fruits of that labor. Watch now for the main goal to be set in motion- population control. These people are using every trick in the book- 9/11, the global warming myth, etc, to effect this goal. Read William Engdahl, anything you can find. This guy is the only person I've read who's not a crackpot and can see the entire game. He has a lot of stuff on youtube.
Perhaps, I suspect they actually have about the same risk.
Are these activities without credit? I haven't had a problem doing any of these things, I use an ATM card.
I disagree. I've shed myself of all habits of buying on credit and quite happy with the descision. I also however disgree with the view above that not using credit means you don't have a credit history. You have a credit record, whether you use it or not. When I am asked by an employer (hasn't happened yet, but if it does) I will simply answer that I choose not to use credit. The last time I had to turn on a service (a DSL line through AT&T) they simply remarked that I didn't have enough of a credit history for them to overlook the $99 deposit. So I paid the $100. Big deal. Not having a tangible credit history is something I miss terribly. Nor does it mean I don't have one. Not exactly.
Seriously, the private sector is no longer held accountable for almost anything these days.
I'm sure Bernie Madoff will be disagreeing with you.
Keep wishing for your mythical free-market to "fix things". Be prepared to wait a very, very long time for that to actually happen, however.
Yeah, about 60 years, the time it took China to go from its plethora of failed 5 year plans to the current FREE market economy it has now. I need convincing that any government has my best interests in mind. Some regulation is in order in same matters, sure, but everytime there's a problem you fools cry for more regulation. Well, we had a ton of regulation in place and what have the last 5 years brought?
The Stanford Linear Accelerator isn't on that map.
...for pointing due to the antenna size."
And now the Russians know what the rest of the world knew- do not contract with Comcast to provide internet connectivity.
Why? We now need a law to keep people from saying stupid things? Let 'em fumble.
Kind of sounds like you're implying UEFI roms aren't going to work with unsigned os's, am I getting that right?
I'm not disagreeing with this. But the people who have to most power to do anything about it, the Fed, refuse, making them the most culpable. Robbers will rob, those with the power to stop it have a duty to stop it. When you can't tell the cops from the robbers, the cops MUST take on more blame.