Of course, corporations do not want to pay more than necessary for a worker.
Of course not. They want someone else to pay for it so they can keep the difference. Capitalism is supposed to be about making a better product, not manipulating wages to artificially inflate earnings.
Cheaper (assuming similar quality) means more production overall and that is better.
There's no free lunch. Most of the time, cheaper isn't really cheaper. It's still the same price, but someone else just happens to be paying for it, like former employees, the community, government, vendors, etc.
The net effect is an overall increase in economic production.
For everyone except employees.
Sure, the people making big money don't like making less, but at the same time, consumers get less for their money by paying, indirectly, large wages.
Like those paid to upper management, which are 400 times the average employee?
Consumers also get less for their money by paying for millions of unemployed neighbors. Business has responsibilities beyond their earnings.
rather than re-train and start a new career in a discipline that's in demand.
Fine. Name three job categories in demand for an unemployed factory worker. Factory jobs are in demand, by the way. Someone has to make all the shit Wal-Mart shovels. Business just doesn't want to pay the market rate.
Oh, sure. It's easy to declare that someone else has some extra responsibilities, isn't it?
Yep. They get access to the capital markets, infrastructure, retail markets, etc., so they have a responsibility to provide a good product and to employ people to make that product.
because of improvements in data center technologies.
No. It's because business finds it much more convenient to unfairly require employees to compete constantly for their own jobs. The workplace is now a sour, hostile, toxic environment for everyone except management and shareholders.
Everyone else: customers, employees, vendors, neighborhoods, the community and government, have to pay double and triple in the form of higher prices, constant irritating advertising, shitty quality, poor service, dirty stores, empty shelves, lost tax revenue and rude employees.
Employers have responsibilities beyond their earnings. Few are meeting them.
Mr. Media Executive? If you're looking for a "major concern," how about the fact that most of the shows suck harder than an industrial vacuum hooked up to a gas turbine?
Have you watched the shit you're shoveling lately? It is awful. Face-down in bubbling warm shit awful. It's enough to make a brave man weep into a PA system.
And then the commercials. Oh great humpity fuck, some of the commercials on television are enough to make someone want to projectile vomit their shoes for a 90-yard touchdown. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't broadcast at intervals more frequent than a dry-heaving hummingbird. And yes, most of the people watching have already re-financed their house eight times this week.
Try working on the quality, there, Captain Meetings. Maybe then people will actually watch your channel.
They're being broadcast for free in the first place. What's the difference?
And yes, people have been and will STILL PAY and PAY WELL for DVDs of shows they can get for free. Been to Best Buy lately? They've got about 40 yards, five shelves high of television shows on DVD that have been available for FREE broadcast almost continuously. Can't keep them in stock, even the shitty shows.
Radiologists are getting outsourced because x-ray machines produce shitty images and there simply aren't enough radiologists being trained to meet demands in the US & Canada.
There's no point in going to school for years if your job is going to be shipped blue-label to elsewhere. But that's okay, because we'll have 40,000% profits next quarter!
Oh, we have a nine-figure trade deficit? Ahh, what do those economists know? Probably paying them too much too.
It's almost past the point where it matters any more. People seem to be willing to allow companies to squat and shit all over their neighbors to save a few dollars on salaries.
What I'd like to hear is exactly how our payment-based economy is going to work when there is no longer any such thing as a paycheck, or even better, when education has been devalued to the point where nobody cares about going to school any more.
I wonder if companies think about that as they are wiping their ass on the tablecloth.
Why is it in every review they make the point to emphasize "this is not full of revolutionary new gameplay"?
Because the game media (and therefore the entire entertainment media) is only impressed with companies that spend enormous amounts of money on "new, unproven technologies," therefore they must remind everyone that every other project is "not different enough."
Without such confusion, they wouldn't be able to write articles like "Polar Express is an awful movie and oh yeah, someone wasted umpty billion dollars making it" or "the Incredibles is the finest artistic achievement since the Marriage of Figaro, and they should have spent more."
If you've played Metroid Prime, you've essentially played Metroid Prime 2
Sounds like the game industry is making great progress. Very impressive. Innovative sequels. Consistent gameplay experience. Mountains of cash followed by the inevitable layoff of the entire team. Outstanding. A real achievement.
Maybe you're bitter that you have some fancy doctorate degree or something and it's not helping you obtain a steady career.
Wow, a fancy doctorate degree? Is that like a fancy pair of shoes? Most of the people I know, including myself, have long since given up on a steady career.
No. I'm wondering exactly what the paragons of business plan on replacing education with, since they are so quick to replace everything else, including their neighbors. I suppose it will be very easy to advertise to people who can't read.
There is no "social agreement" and you are incredibly ignorant of the way this society works.
If there were no social agreement, there would be no education. Nobody has any reason to get an education at all if there is no social value to it. Right now, there is very little social value to education, which explains why 50% of the people in L.A. county, for example, are illiterate.
And I know exactly how this society works: tall dollars are all that matters.
he only involvment you want to have with a business is when you pick up your paycheck.
Oh, I might be willing to buy a product from time to time. I could do with about 99.999999999% less advertising too.
You think it's bad that EA hires fresh-faced grads eager to become slaves?
No. I think it's bad when businesses expect to fill their plates three and four times at the free market buffet, then leave a dollar tip and take a nice thick shit on the new tablecloth before they leave.
See, we all live here. Just because I own a house doesn't give me the right to pile rhinoceros shit as high as possible in my front yard. Now I could argue I can do anything I want with my property, but the other people who live there also have the right not to have to walk past a buzzing mountain of shit every day.
Go to school, go to college, and get a stable high-paying job.
That's the "social agreement" we all made. It's why parents work four jobs to send their kids to college. We kept our part of the bargain. Businesses didn't. Ours is the first generation to have a worse standard of living than our parents.
That arrangement has never been a guarantee; nor should it.
Yeah, it should. If someone goes to medical school, or law school, or becomes an engineer, society should reward them. Otherwise we are making education worthless.
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Good example. Instead of paying an employee, the company expects the customer to do the work for free.
Someone else pays for it, company pockets the difference, employee loses their job. Same shit, different day.
Hooray for business.
Of course, corporations do not want to pay more than necessary for a worker.
Of course not. They want someone else to pay for it so they can keep the difference. Capitalism is supposed to be about making a better product, not manipulating wages to artificially inflate earnings.
Cheaper (assuming similar quality) means more production overall and that is better.
There's no free lunch. Most of the time, cheaper isn't really cheaper. It's still the same price, but someone else just happens to be paying for it, like former employees, the community, government, vendors, etc.
The net effect is an overall increase in economic production.
For everyone except employees.
Sure, the people making big money don't like making less, but at the same time, consumers get less for their money by paying, indirectly, large wages.
Like those paid to upper management, which are 400 times the average employee?
Consumers also get less for their money by paying for millions of unemployed neighbors. Business has responsibilities beyond their earnings.
rather than re-train and start a new career in a discipline that's in demand.
Fine. Name three job categories in demand for an unemployed factory worker. Factory jobs are in demand, by the way. Someone has to make all the shit Wal-Mart shovels. Business just doesn't want to pay the market rate.
Employees don't make jobs. They use them.
Companies don't own jobs, they use them.
Oh, sure. It's easy to declare that someone else has some extra responsibilities, isn't it?
Yep. They get access to the capital markets, infrastructure, retail markets, etc., so they have a responsibility to provide a good product and to employ people to make that product.
If the technology or cheaper labor exists, shouldn't businesses make use of them
No.
Cheaper isn't better. It's just cheaper. Business is about more than earnings.
Nah. People are too busy pointing and laughing at people who lose their jobs.
.5% since the late 70s.
Real wages have increased only
Don't panic - this in 10-20 years time.
About the time current graduates start applying for home loans.
because of improvements in data center technologies.
No. It's because business finds it much more convenient to unfairly require employees to compete constantly for their own jobs. The workplace is now a sour, hostile, toxic environment for everyone except management and shareholders.
Everyone else: customers, employees, vendors, neighborhoods, the community and government, have to pay double and triple in the form of higher prices, constant irritating advertising, shitty quality, poor service, dirty stores, empty shelves, lost tax revenue and rude employees.
Employers have responsibilities beyond their earnings. Few are meeting them.
Mr. Media Executive? If you're looking for a "major concern," how about the fact that most of the shows suck harder than an industrial vacuum hooked up to a gas turbine?
Have you watched the shit you're shoveling lately? It is awful. Face-down in bubbling warm shit awful. It's enough to make a brave man weep into a PA system.
And then the commercials. Oh great humpity fuck, some of the commercials on television are enough to make someone want to projectile vomit their shoes for a 90-yard touchdown. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't broadcast at intervals more frequent than a dry-heaving hummingbird. And yes, most of the people watching have already re-financed their house eight times this week.
Try working on the quality, there, Captain Meetings. Maybe then people will actually watch your channel.
They're being broadcast for free in the first place. What's the difference?
And yes, people have been and will STILL PAY and PAY WELL for DVDs of shows they can get for free. Been to Best Buy lately? They've got about 40 yards, five shelves high of television shows on DVD that have been available for FREE broadcast almost continuously. Can't keep them in stock, even the shitty shows.
Non-issue.
and the snap... phone owner drops back and rolls right with five receivers in the pattern, throws a LONG SIDELINE PASS
WHAM!! No more nagging phone.
Radiologists are getting outsourced because x-ray machines produce shitty images and there simply aren't enough radiologists being trained to meet demands in the US & Canada.
There's no point in going to school for years if your job is going to be shipped blue-label to elsewhere. But that's okay, because we'll have 40,000% profits next quarter!
Oh, we have a nine-figure trade deficit? Ahh, what do those economists know? Probably paying them too much too.
more jobs will be retained in the west for skilled personnel.
Like doctors, lawyers, radiologists, etc. all of whom are being outsourced as fast as middle management can complete the paperwork.
It's almost past the point where it matters any more. People seem to be willing to allow companies to squat and shit all over their neighbors to save a few dollars on salaries.
What I'd like to hear is exactly how our payment-based economy is going to work when there is no longer any such thing as a paycheck, or even better, when education has been devalued to the point where nobody cares about going to school any more.
I wonder if companies think about that as they are wiping their ass on the tablecloth.
Oh, and the main character's name is "Samus?" Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
"If it isn't broken, don't fix it."
How about "if it isn't broken, make a sequel?"
Why is it in every review they make the point to emphasize "this is not full of revolutionary new gameplay"?
Because the game media (and therefore the entire entertainment media) is only impressed with companies that spend enormous amounts of money on "new, unproven technologies," therefore they must remind everyone that every other project is "not different enough."
Without such confusion, they wouldn't be able to write articles like "Polar Express is an awful movie and oh yeah, someone wasted umpty billion dollars making it" or "the Incredibles is the finest artistic achievement since the Marriage of Figaro, and they should have spent more."
If you've played Metroid Prime, you've essentially played Metroid Prime 2
Sounds like the game industry is making great progress. Very impressive. Innovative sequels. Consistent gameplay experience. Mountains of cash followed by the inevitable layoff of the entire team. Outstanding. A real achievement.
Did you know hurricanes increase strawberry Pop Tarts sales 7-fold?
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
I don't think anybody has any reason to pay for some unknown web browser
Except for the people who helped Opera achieve a 700% revenue increase.
a seven-fold increase in revenue
is there room for a non-free browser in the market?
If not, what are they selling? Office furniture on eBay?
With Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari all free, is there room for a non-free browser in the market
Rivers, lakes and rain are all free. Bottled water is a $5 billion industry.
Education is worthless itself.
Well, there you go. Can't argue with that.
Maybe you're bitter that you have some fancy doctorate degree or something and it's not helping you obtain a steady career.
Wow, a fancy doctorate degree? Is that like a fancy pair of shoes? Most of the people I know, including myself, have long since given up on a steady career.
No. I'm wondering exactly what the paragons of business plan on replacing education with, since they are so quick to replace everything else, including their neighbors. I suppose it will be very easy to advertise to people who can't read.
There is no "social agreement" and you are incredibly ignorant of the way this society works.
If there were no social agreement, there would be no education. Nobody has any reason to get an education at all if there is no social value to it. Right now, there is very little social value to education, which explains why 50% of the people in L.A. county, for example, are illiterate.
And I know exactly how this society works: tall dollars are all that matters.
he only involvment you want to have with a business is when you pick up your paycheck.
Oh, I might be willing to buy a product from time to time. I could do with about 99.999999999% less advertising too.
You think it's bad that EA hires fresh-faced grads eager to become slaves?
No. I think it's bad when businesses expect to fill their plates three and four times at the free market buffet, then leave a dollar tip and take a nice thick shit on the new tablecloth before they leave.
See, we all live here. Just because I own a house doesn't give me the right to pile rhinoceros shit as high as possible in my front yard. Now I could argue I can do anything I want with my property, but the other people who live there also have the right not to have to walk past a buzzing mountain of shit every day.
Go to school, go to college, and get a stable high-paying job.
That's the "social agreement" we all made. It's why parents work four jobs to send their kids to college. We kept our part of the bargain. Businesses didn't. Ours is the first generation to have a worse standard of living than our parents.
That arrangement has never been a guarantee; nor should it.
Yeah, it should. If someone goes to medical school, or law school, or becomes an engineer, society should reward them. Otherwise we are making education worthless.