The idle rich have hobbies financed by their trust funds. You can consider a Basic Income scheme to be a trust fund for the rest of us. Then jobs can be seen as something fun to do to advance society, provide meaning to life, or bring in extra cash, above and beyond what is needed to eat and sleep under a roof
The big job for the next generation of political economics will be figuring out how to redesign our economy so that people who now must work for a living can do something else and still live. Something better than becoming a criminal or finding a sugar daddy.
The ad blocker needs to be able to learn. If a ad isn't yet known to be offensive, show it, but also give me a button to "block this and all similar ads". Then, maybe the system will learn which ads it really should be showing me.
I'm sorry that you got modded down. Your comments are interesting even if you are drawing the wrong conclusions.
Websites can detect ad blockers, so you or someone you work with should be able to tell you how many of your readers are using ad blockers. I'm sure you will find more than 1 ad blocker in use during a 5 day period. It's much easier to install an ad blocker than to file a formal complaint.
I know for me, it's the animated ads and the noisy ads. I can't read the article if there is something bouncing around the screen. I don't like sound either, especially if I'm in a public place. Sound will get me to close a tab really fast. It's faster to close a tab than to turn down the volume. With the animated stuff, I at least tried, reloading sometimes, in an attempt to get a less bothersome ad. Nothing is more frustrating than not being able to read an article because someone things that the ad is more important than the content.
When what people do becomes makework, then the people are called deadwood. Maybe they get laid off, or maybe they are bought out. Maybe they just work until they want to retire. But, one thing is for sure, deadwood is not replaced.
If there isn't a stigma against that, we need to invent one. The rich have lawyers and accountants to do what would be considered cheating if someone with less political clout tried to do something similar.
I agree. Furthermore, if you chop up programs so that this money can only be spent on this, and that money can only be spent on that, and nothing can be spent on anything fun, no matter how responsible someone is with the rest of his money, then you are asking for clever people who are not children to get as creative as corporate accountants in order to celebrate birthdays and other special occasions. I think if someone budgets so that they can treat themselves to steak or cake occasionally, it's not an abuse of the system.
Money is the oil that must be kept in circulation. If people can't eat and can't work because employers want to work some people hard and others not at all, then some things we consider antisocial (crime, begging, rioting, looting) become a more productive use of time and energy for the criminals, beggars, rioters, and looters. If taking from the rich is the only way, then debating the fairness politically would be less violent . BTW, the criminals, beggars, rioters, and looters may exist simply because they are the only ones that the elite and political class notice. Plenty of people want to be treated better, but don't have either the social skills or the anti social skills to get a soapbox.
Rent seekers have a long history of using the political system to get what they want. Much of what goes on in business is not productive, but rent seeking. Have you thought about how so many corporations are run by accountants and lawyers than by the people who actually design or make the products? It used to be, the C Suite was occupied by people with backgrounds in engineering, operations, manufacturing, and even marketing! At least the marketing department is focused on the customer, if not the product, instead of elaborate rent seeking schemes.
Many of the programs you list have stigmas attached by long histories that are not really rational. Social Security and Government pensions escape that by being described as deferred compensation or even "insurance". Whether or not the stigma is deserved is a political problem, but it affects the economic problem. UBI not only saves money by consolidating programs, it also allows the political debate to form which would reset stigmas that no longer make sense. The receivers of corporate welfare don't care about stigmas as long as the program is legal and available. Why should other parts of the economy be hobbled by obsolete moral issues?
Lack of distribution is the problem. Coupled with a lack of a market for the available labor. If all the workers could work twice as hard, the compensation would just be cut. An example is farming. A farmer can work all day if he wants to, but it may not increase his income. So, the government paid farmers to stop farming the old money crops. So a lot of land lay fallow. I think some of that is being repurposed as organic, but much sat unfarmed for years. A farmer could work twice as hard without making twice as much money. All it did was put too much of the wrong stuff into the system and into our diets.
Similarly with labor, a worker can't double his income by working twice as hard if no one will pay him to do so. If everyone wants to work twice as hard, the market will just cut the compensation.
Remember when an honest day's wage paid for an honest day's work? It might now make sense to pay people what they need as long as they stay out of trouble. Unemployed at home with decent food doing just about anything is better for society than hungry and homeless with nothing to do but riot or rob or loot.
That's kinda backwards except at unusually ignorant companies. When a system works without fail, that means it is properly funded and staffed. It is possible that it is over-funded and overstaffed, so it is something that would likely be reviewed. But, few managers thing that a system that crashes regularly is normal. That would indicate incompetence or or possibly good people not allowed to do their job. So if a good system deteriorate and it correlates to changes in staffing and/or funding, that would be noticed. If it isn't noticed by higher management, IT management should have the metrics to make a report showing it over time. I know correlation isn't causation, but it makes for a decent argument.
not to mention banks of giant capacitors to keep your voltage and current in phase, reclosers and other safety systems to enable quick recovery from interruptions due to small trees or animals on the line, and humans who can respond quickly to more severe and dangerous problems.
There was a time when IBM preferred to hire Liberal Arts majors and teach them to code than to hire CS majors. Not sure how IBM hires now, but coding doesn't require a CS degree. All it needs is someone who doesn't mind spending lots of time writing detailed instructions and can tease unambiguous specifications out of the managers. If anything, it should be easier for someone without a CS degree to code now that the languages are becoming more idiot proof. Not that Liberal Arts people are idiots. But, hiring managers are if all they know how to do is hire CS majors for every job that involves using a computer.
Urine may be mostly harmless, but if someone can get close enough to pee, they can get close enough to dump small quantities of something else. It sounds like the reservoir has a security problem, not a urine problem. Now that it has been publicized, the government is open to lawsuits or even false alarms from people who want to cause trouble without actually going anywhere near the water.
It's called a work bench. Time was, engineers always had a workbench with a tall chair called a stool as well as a desk which was used to stack free magazines on.
People are much better at thinking of what we already have and making it better in quantifiable directions. That is what that Byte cover is showing, what we already had, just smaller. So called "disruptive" changes, where we go off in a new direction, is much harder to predict, but when it's done, we get the "why didn't someone think of this already" sort of talk. So many companies are focused on optimizing what we already have instead of playing with ideas without a ROI that is obvious to the people controlling the money. That's why I think technology companies should be managed by engineers and people who read a lot of sci fi.
It literally said "exporting water". Only way to make it true is to consider evaporation to be a form of exportation, maybe if the wind blows it into another jurisdiction. Sounds to me that they should recapture the water in the curing barn if they can't encourage it to rain again within their watershed.
In the meantime, I'll make a point of not eating crop grown in California, plenty of locally grown around here, except for pistachios and I can get them from outside of California, too. That would do more to reduce water consumption in California than the Asian alfalfa export argument since I'm not in Asia and can't influence the consumption of alfalfa in Asia. But, what about the California economy? Seems it would hurt if people stopped farming.
How does it help California for Americans to go vegan when the problem you choose to highlight is alfalfa shipped to Asia? The flow of your post seems to indicate we (Americans who aren't in California) should stop eating any product of California. Then, suddenly you started talking about alfalfa, which I don't eat, and beef, which I require to be grass fed in Georgia. I don't think much California beef gets shipped to the east, it's the cornfed stuff from the Midwest we gotta watch out for.
Quality of Life is not factored into to Adjusted salary rankings, but is ranked separately. The rankings are almost inversely correlated with Austin in 2nd to last place and Atlanta in last place for Quality of Life.
Quality of Life is not factored in, but is ranked separately. The rankings are almost inversely correlated With Adjusted Salary 1st place winner Austin in 2nd to last place, and 2nd place for Adjusted Salary Atlanta in dead last place for quality of life.
Terms are poorly defined because a lot of issues are still being worked out. Language tends to lag. People work things out for themselves privately. But when they want to discuss things, they need labels. Originally, all the labels were ugly medical sounding terms (or worse) that imply they are sick or immoral, in need of a cure, not just different. Words with healthy connotations did not exist. So when they go public, they must invent words. People don't all invent the same words even for the same situation and not everyone in the sexual configuration discussion has the same situation. The "normals" frequently aren't aware of the issues at all until they encounter the words, then society at large works on these issues, and eventually the terminology stabilizes. It takes awhile.
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Uber drivers and their cars are just standing in until self driving cars are more of a thing.
The idle rich have hobbies financed by their trust funds. You can consider a Basic Income scheme to be a trust fund for the rest of us. Then jobs can be seen as something fun to do to advance society, provide meaning to life, or bring in extra cash, above and beyond what is needed to eat and sleep under a roof
The big job for the next generation of political economics will be figuring out how to redesign our economy so that people who now must work for a living can do something else and still live. Something better than becoming a criminal or finding a sugar daddy.
The ad blocker needs to be able to learn. If a ad isn't yet known to be offensive, show it, but also give me a button to "block this and all similar ads". Then, maybe the system will learn which ads it really should be showing me.
I'm sorry that you got modded down. Your comments are interesting even if you are drawing the wrong conclusions.
Websites can detect ad blockers, so you or someone you work with should be able to tell you how many of your readers are using ad blockers. I'm sure you will find more than 1 ad blocker in use during a 5 day period. It's much easier to install an ad blocker than to file a formal complaint.
I know for me, it's the animated ads and the noisy ads. I can't read the article if there is something bouncing around the screen. I don't like sound either, especially if I'm in a public place. Sound will get me to close a tab really fast. It's faster to close a tab than to turn down the volume. With the animated stuff, I at least tried, reloading sometimes, in an attempt to get a less bothersome ad. Nothing is more frustrating than not being able to read an article because someone things that the ad is more important than the content.
When what people do becomes makework, then the people are called deadwood. Maybe they get laid off, or maybe they are bought out. Maybe they just work until they want to retire. But, one thing is for sure, deadwood is not replaced.
If there isn't a stigma against that, we need to invent one. The rich have lawyers and accountants to do what would be considered cheating if someone with less political clout tried to do something similar.
I agree. Furthermore, if you chop up programs so that this money can only be spent on this, and that money can only be spent on that, and nothing can be spent on anything fun, no matter how responsible someone is with the rest of his money, then you are asking for clever people who are not children to get as creative as corporate accountants in order to celebrate birthdays and other special occasions. I think if someone budgets so that they can treat themselves to steak or cake occasionally, it's not an abuse of the system.
Money is the oil that must be kept in circulation. If people can't eat and can't work because employers want to work some people hard and others not at all, then some things we consider antisocial (crime, begging, rioting, looting) become a more productive use of time and energy for the criminals, beggars, rioters, and looters. If taking from the rich is the only way, then debating the fairness politically would be less violent . BTW, the criminals, beggars, rioters, and looters may exist simply because they are the only ones that the elite and political class notice. Plenty of people want to be treated better, but don't have either the social skills or the anti social skills to get a soapbox.
Rent seekers have a long history of using the political system to get what they want. Much of what goes on in business is not productive, but rent seeking. Have you thought about how so many corporations are run by accountants and lawyers than by the people who actually design or make the products? It used to be, the C Suite was occupied by people with backgrounds in engineering, operations, manufacturing, and even marketing! At least the marketing department is focused on the customer, if not the product, instead of elaborate rent seeking schemes.
Many of the programs you list have stigmas attached by long histories that are not really rational. Social Security and Government pensions escape that by being described as deferred compensation or even "insurance". Whether or not the stigma is deserved is a political problem, but it affects the economic problem. UBI not only saves money by consolidating programs, it also allows the political debate to form which would reset stigmas that no longer make sense. The receivers of corporate welfare don't care about stigmas as long as the program is legal and available. Why should other parts of the economy be hobbled by obsolete moral issues?
Lack of distribution is the problem. Coupled with a lack of a market for the available labor. If all the workers could work twice as hard, the compensation would just be cut. An example is farming. A farmer can work all day if he wants to, but it may not increase his income. So, the government paid farmers to stop farming the old money crops. So a lot of land lay fallow. I think some of that is being repurposed as organic, but much sat unfarmed for years. A farmer could work twice as hard without making twice as much money. All it did was put too much of the wrong stuff into the system and into our diets.
Similarly with labor, a worker can't double his income by working twice as hard if no one will pay him to do so. If everyone wants to work twice as hard, the market will just cut the compensation.
Remember when an honest day's wage paid for an honest day's work? It might now make sense to pay people what they need as long as they stay out of trouble. Unemployed at home with decent food doing just about anything is better for society than hungry and homeless with nothing to do but riot or rob or loot.
They aren't hidden from whoever controls them.
internal? the human body can be described as a torus with the alimentary canal being the hole, therefore external to the real human body.
That's kinda backwards except at unusually ignorant companies. When a system works without fail, that means it is properly funded and staffed. It is possible that it is over-funded and overstaffed, so it is something that would likely be reviewed. But, few managers thing that a system that crashes regularly is normal. That would indicate incompetence or or possibly good people not allowed to do their job. So if a good system deteriorate and it correlates to changes in staffing and/or funding, that would be noticed. If it isn't noticed by higher management, IT management should have the metrics to make a report showing it over time. I know correlation isn't causation, but it makes for a decent argument.
not to mention banks of giant capacitors to keep your voltage and current in phase, reclosers and other safety systems to enable quick recovery from interruptions due to small trees or animals on the line, and humans who can respond quickly to more severe and dangerous problems.
There was a time when IBM preferred to hire Liberal Arts majors and teach them to code than to hire CS majors. Not sure how IBM hires now, but coding doesn't require a CS degree. All it needs is someone who doesn't mind spending lots of time writing detailed instructions and can tease unambiguous specifications out of the managers. If anything, it should be easier for someone without a CS degree to code now that the languages are becoming more idiot proof. Not that Liberal Arts people are idiots. But, hiring managers are if all they know how to do is hire CS majors for every job that involves using a computer.
Urine may be mostly harmless, but if someone can get close enough to pee, they can get close enough to dump small quantities of something else. It sounds like the reservoir has a security problem, not a urine problem. Now that it has been publicized, the government is open to lawsuits or even false alarms from people who want to cause trouble without actually going anywhere near the water.
It's called a work bench. Time was, engineers always had a workbench with a tall chair called a stool as well as a desk which was used to stack free magazines on.
Are the wife and daughter men? He's still the man of the house, he just got outvoted.
People are much better at thinking of what we already have and making it better in quantifiable directions. That is what that Byte cover is showing, what we already had, just smaller. So called "disruptive" changes, where we go off in a new direction, is much harder to predict, but when it's done, we get the "why didn't someone think of this already" sort of talk. So many companies are focused on optimizing what we already have instead of playing with ideas without a ROI that is obvious to the people controlling the money. That's why I think technology companies should be managed by engineers and people who read a lot of sci fi.
It literally said "exporting water". Only way to make it true is to consider evaporation to be a form of exportation, maybe if the wind blows it into another jurisdiction. Sounds to me that they should recapture the water in the curing barn if they can't encourage it to rain again within their watershed.
In the meantime, I'll make a point of not eating crop grown in California, plenty of locally grown around here, except for pistachios and I can get them from outside of California, too. That would do more to reduce water consumption in California than the Asian alfalfa export argument since I'm not in Asia and can't influence the consumption of alfalfa in Asia. But, what about the California economy? Seems it would hurt if people stopped farming.
How does it help California for Americans to go vegan when the problem you choose to highlight is alfalfa shipped to Asia? The flow of your post seems to indicate we (Americans who aren't in California) should stop eating any product of California. Then, suddenly you started talking about alfalfa, which I don't eat, and beef, which I require to be grass fed in Georgia. I don't think much California beef gets shipped to the east, it's the cornfed stuff from the Midwest we gotta watch out for.
Not much about methodology, but they show more rankings and pretty visualizations
http://www.trinet.com/document... [trinet.com]
Quality of Life is not factored into to Adjusted salary rankings, but is ranked separately. The rankings are almost inversely correlated with Austin in 2nd to last place and Atlanta in last place for Quality of Life.
Big surprise, huh:
http://www.trinet.com/document... [trinet.com]
Quality of Life is not factored in, but is ranked separately. The rankings are almost inversely correlated With Adjusted Salary 1st place winner Austin in 2nd to last place, and 2nd place for Adjusted Salary Atlanta in dead last place for quality of life.
Terms are poorly defined because a lot of issues are still being worked out. Language tends to lag. People work things out for themselves privately. But when they want to discuss things, they need labels. Originally, all the labels were ugly medical sounding terms (or worse) that imply they are sick or immoral, in need of a cure, not just different. Words with healthy connotations did not exist. So when they go public, they must invent words. People don't all invent the same words even for the same situation and not everyone in the sexual configuration discussion has the same situation. The "normals" frequently aren't aware of the issues at all until they encounter the words, then society at large works on these issues, and eventually the terminology stabilizes. It takes awhile.