I haven't been to google but I've been told these workers have a different color badge, and that color doesn't enable them to get free food at the cool cafeterias there.
The "expenses" thing is a lie. Food and energy are commodities and they cost the same everywhere you go. My friend making $6000 a month in Ireland pays the same as I do in Argentina for 1kg of meat. But my salary is under $1000 a month.
The difference with our countries is that we also have lower standards of living. Not all our roads are paved, we don't get to eat meat as many times a week as you do, etc.
And the "it's ok to pay them less" just perpetuates that. And it has another consequence: immigration. Americans dont want no immigrants terking ther jerbs but what are we going to do? It's silly for me to stay here for $10K a year when I could move to europe, work the same hours, but do 6x as much.
The world doesn't become better if people keep moving to better places. Paying 1st world wages those people would enable them to have a better living and that's it. Inflation is a monetary problem and nothing else.
OK then why are most latin american countries, poor? You have broad spectrum of open economies (such as chile) to full dictatorship socialism (venezuela). And they are ALL poor. ALL of them. Maybe the problem isn't socialism after all.
Son, are you dumb? Didn't you read what I just wrote?
This isn't a thing that happens from one day to another. It's a process that takes decades. Latin America is a huge market but useless because the US only sees LATAM as a strategic resources reserve and keeps all these economies underdeveloped so they won't use up those minerals. God forbid they develop and start having money, and defense, and ally with "evil" countries such as China or Russia.
Do you think Venezuela is poor because of socialism? The country with the largest oil reserves in the world is poor because the US decided it should be that way.
No, the market is just too saturated. Time to open up the market to the next billion people. Let developed nations make actual efforts to take africa, latin america, and asia from poverty and there's a billion more potential clients.
Thunderf00t on youtube keeps making videos about them. They caught them removing snow from the tiles with a shovel and taking photos of the clean tiles, claiming they kept themselved clear of snow.
The problem is, even with your fanboy defense of corporate tax fraud, you are still paying taxes. They aren't. Focus on changing the laws so YOU pay no taxes. Don't worry about fighting their fight. They have deeper pockets and more lobbyists than you.
Some african country now has a problem with onions, I think from the Netherlands. When small producers started to develop in that country, very industrialized european farming started dumping their onions on them. The problem with this is that it's just MONEY NOW. If you put all people out of work, no one can buy your product. It's silly to destroy economies for a couple seasons of produce. It's worse when those out of work, desperate people invade your country because they have no other recourse (it's either starve or join a militia. Or probably both). First world countries need to start working with poor countries in a way that would benefit both. The USA has a fantastic opportunity with Latin America as a workforce twice the size of the US, well educated, rich in resources. But they decide to mess with their economies (Condor Plan) to keep them from developing, and just serve as a strategic minerals reserve, and prefer to do business with the enemy (China). Weird people, these americans.
I literally just read some news on Facebook about Russia stalking submarine cables. Some nutcase then took the opportunity to spread her bullshit. She claimed "if most communications go through cables, then satellites are FAKE. Why would we keep satellites in space if we have fiber? Submarine cables are the PROOF that men have never been to the moon, and not even space". These nutcases claim the only thing "up there" are balloons. And that's how communications used to be.
Did your analysis include historical "grocery store location", and compare the number of grocery stores over the last decade vs the number of dollar stores last decade?. Oh yeah, it didn't.
McDonald's sells cheap food. This is the reason why, in America, "fresh food" is expensive. A "free country" where the "free market" has decided it has to be cheaper for a person to drive several miles to a mcdonald's every day and get their food is cheaper than having stuff in the pantry and cooking at home.
Are you sure there are no "government subsidies" somewhere, skewing your "free market" theories? Because I'm all for free market, but the USA doesn't play fair with free trade. They offer you a "free trade agreement" with zero tariffs for your country. Except after the tariffs they have another layer of regulations that keep your product from being sold in the USA. For example, Argentina has been trying to sell lemons in the US. We can produce them cheaply. But we have quotas on how many we can sell and they need to be a certain size and color... I thought it was a free market and the market would solve it? Why so many regulations? Try selling corn to the USA and let me know how it goes. Ah yes, We have to subsidize these farmers, or they'll lose their jobs.
No. Conspiracy theories thrive because people are emotional and refuse to believe things that go against their interests, and want a justification of why things aren't the way they want. The more complex the explanation is, the more people believe it's a conspiracy.
Take for example Nikola Tesla. There is, especially in Latin America, a huge amount of people who believe in free energy (curiously they call it "energias libres" meaning free as in free speech, when they mean "energias gratis" meaning free as in free beer). For these people, Nikola Tesla was a messiah. He was the person who INVENTED electricity. Then he was stopped by the most evil person in history: Thomas Edison, who only wanted money and didn't know wany science. And because of this, we are now forced to pay for electricity. If only Tesla could have developed his "energy tower", we'd have free electricity for all mankind. But Tesla died, and thus, we can't have free power anymore. There is no other person who could develop this. We're doomed now. Damn Edison! That's what they honestly believe. It's all a conspiracy of corporations protected by governments (especially the US government), who want to force us to pay for something Tesla demonstrated is free. This is the conspiracy theory and it comes from people who just want to blame high energy costs to other factors, and not the fact that they mostly live in poor countries with low salaries.
The same goes for people who believe in "the car that runs on water and the patent was bought by Big Oil and the inventor killed".
Youtube is full of "free energy" videos of people turning lightbulbs on in thin air and have millions of views and thousands of comments claiming it's not fake, it's real, and thus, this proves everything Tesla said was right. But they're not Tesla, so they can't make it large scale.
There is always the "messiah complex" thing with conspiracy theorists. That things are "invented" by lone wolfes at their houses, and not in university or corporate labs (duh, obviously if they did that, corporations would steal their ideas).
Moon landing conspiracy theorists come up with the wildest explanations of why the moon landing is fake. One of them, I remember, was from a poor country and said "wow, we barely could make TV work at a few kilometers and it was really difficult, expensive, and in black and white, and this was in 1978, but the americans not only sent a rocket to the moon but also transmitted from the moon IN COLOR? It's obviously fake". This person wasn't even aware that "americans" had color TV in 1953, 16 years before people went to the moon. Or that americans sent TV signals to satellites in space in 1962. And those satellites were used to broadcast the moon landing live across the world. No. He lived in a poor country, with poor infrastructure, and he had a poor experience. So it must have been the same way for everyone everywhere.
In short, it's not about "official narrative", it's about people refusing to believe in the evidence presented, because they deeply believe in something.
Oh and the USA being in the middle of it is enough to prove the conspiracy. Russia though, is cool. Russia is our friend. Putin is a nice person but he's demonized by the USA. Venezuela is broke because the USA's sanctions (the country has been broke for years even though the US had no sanctions against them until a less than month ago, and the US is the biggest money supplier, paying Venezuela with actual money, while Russia is getting free oil from interests from loans given by Russia being paid with raw oil, at a rate they "restructure" the debt every few years and keep a continuous supply of free oil)
OK, so since Little Special Snowflake doesn't like ads, governments around the world have to work to pay for content for their citizens to consume. Nothing can go wrong with such plan. Nothing.
No. It just doesn't work that way. You propose only one person (the first one) can do "something" and the rest are just clones.
Also you're denying of access to information to the 90% of the world's population. The people who simply cannot afford to pay for every website they visit. not to mention all the people who simply don't have credit cards (newsflash: CCs are rare outside the "first world" and the issued cards usually are only local or national. International cards have requirements 90% of the world's population cannot meet)
no. there are no solutions. this is how things are. People DO NOT LIKE TO PAY FOR STUFF. Simple as that. And i'm not going to "subscribe" to every fucking website I visit *AND GIVE THEM ALL MY PERSONAL DATA SO THEY CAN BILL MY CREDIT CARD* just because some fucking nerd on slashdot doesn't like ads.
Ads are what keep the internet working. No ads means no internet. Ads are the "business model" not of a "website" but of the whole fucking thing. Take ads out of equation and you get the "academic" internet again.
You're incredibly verbose but ultimately so stupidly wrong.
Following your line of reasoning I can ask the question: why do you live? You live the same inane existence of billions of other people. You make no contributions to society and anything you "may" contribute is just irrelevant. Nothing matters. Coke is water with sugar. Ford sells rubber and steel. You breathe in valuable oxygen and expel nasty CO2. Unfortunately, due to whatever reasons, we're stuck with you.
Oh grow the fuck up, you idiot. You are not obligated toy buy anything in the ad. If you need Mama Government to protect you from those bad men who want to sell you stuff, then your issue is not the ads, but the fact that you're a child who acts purely on whims.
Sometimes I see an ad or two, but I don't feel the need to buy whatever shit that ad is trying to sell me.
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So you "were" in a poor country for two weeks, and now you can tell people like me, who live in such poor countries, what life is like over here?
Fuck you.
I haven't been to google but I've been told these workers have a different color badge, and that color doesn't enable them to get free food at the cool cafeterias there.
The "expenses" thing is a lie. Food and energy are commodities and they cost the same everywhere you go. My friend making $6000 a month in Ireland pays the same as I do in Argentina for 1kg of meat. But my salary is under $1000 a month.
The difference with our countries is that we also have lower standards of living. Not all our roads are paved, we don't get to eat meat as many times a week as you do, etc.
And the "it's ok to pay them less" just perpetuates that. And it has another consequence: immigration. Americans dont want no immigrants terking ther jerbs but what are we going to do? It's silly for me to stay here for $10K a year when I could move to europe, work the same hours, but do 6x as much.
The world doesn't become better if people keep moving to better places. Paying 1st world wages those people would enable them to have a better living and that's it. Inflation is a monetary problem and nothing else.
Go away.
Really, you don't look any smarter for that comment. You just look like any other smug idiot.
"the underemployment problem that comes from increasing wage floors"
Best I can do is $1/wk. Take it or leave it pal.
Yeah.
OK then why are most latin american countries, poor? You have broad spectrum of open economies (such as chile) to full dictatorship socialism (venezuela). And they are ALL poor. ALL of them.
Maybe the problem isn't socialism after all.
Son, are you dumb? Didn't you read what I just wrote?
This isn't a thing that happens from one day to another. It's a process that takes decades. Latin America is a huge market but useless because the US only sees LATAM as a strategic resources reserve and keeps all these economies underdeveloped so they won't use up those minerals. God forbid they develop and start having money, and defense, and ally with "evil" countries such as China or Russia.
Do you think Venezuela is poor because of socialism? The country with the largest oil reserves in the world is poor because the US decided it should be that way.
No, the market is just too saturated.
Time to open up the market to the next billion people. Let developed nations make actual efforts to take africa, latin america, and asia from poverty and there's a billion more potential clients.
Thunderf00t on youtube keeps making videos about them. They caught them removing snow from the tiles with a shovel and taking photos of the clean tiles, claiming they kept themselved clear of snow.
Man... it's SOLAR FREAKIN ROADWAYS all over again.
Well, I have this this thing called a "refrigerator". You should try it some day.
Don't tell that to a communist around here, they put nordic countries as examples of successful socialism.
The problem is, even with your fanboy defense of corporate tax fraud, you are still paying taxes. They aren't.
Focus on changing the laws so YOU pay no taxes. Don't worry about fighting their fight. They have deeper pockets and more lobbyists than you.
As a user I can't choose if I want to see unskippable ads or not though.
Some african country now has a problem with onions, I think from the Netherlands. When small producers started to develop in that country, very industrialized european farming started dumping their onions on them.
The problem with this is that it's just MONEY NOW. If you put all people out of work, no one can buy your product. It's silly to destroy economies for a couple seasons of produce. It's worse when those out of work, desperate people invade your country because they have no other recourse (it's either starve or join a militia. Or probably both).
First world countries need to start working with poor countries in a way that would benefit both.
The USA has a fantastic opportunity with Latin America as a workforce twice the size of the US, well educated, rich in resources. But they decide to mess with their economies (Condor Plan) to keep them from developing, and just serve as a strategic minerals reserve, and prefer to do business with the enemy (China). Weird people, these americans.
I literally just read some news on Facebook about Russia stalking submarine cables. Some nutcase then took the opportunity to spread her bullshit. She claimed "if most communications go through cables, then satellites are FAKE. Why would we keep satellites in space if we have fiber? Submarine cables are the PROOF that men have never been to the moon, and not even space".
These nutcases claim the only thing "up there" are balloons. And that's how communications used to be.
Did your analysis include historical "grocery store location", and compare the number of grocery stores over the last decade vs the number of dollar stores last decade?. Oh yeah, it didn't.
McDonald's sells cheap food. This is the reason why, in America, "fresh food" is expensive. A "free country" where the "free market" has decided it has to be cheaper for a person to drive several miles to a mcdonald's every day and get their food is cheaper than having stuff in the pantry and cooking at home.
Are you sure there are no "government subsidies" somewhere, skewing your "free market" theories? Because I'm all for free market, but the USA doesn't play fair with free trade. They offer you a "free trade agreement" with zero tariffs for your country. Except after the tariffs they have another layer of regulations that keep your product from being sold in the USA. For example, Argentina has been trying to sell lemons in the US. We can produce them cheaply. But we have quotas on how many we can sell and they need to be a certain size and color... I thought it was a free market and the market would solve it? Why so many regulations? Try selling corn to the USA and let me know how it goes. Ah yes, We have to subsidize these farmers, or they'll lose their jobs.
I mean, Ikea sells pizza. I don't know why anyone would expect a furniture store to sell pizza but... here we are.
No. Conspiracy theories thrive because people are emotional and refuse to believe things that go against their interests, and want a justification of why things aren't the way they want. The more complex the explanation is, the more people believe it's a conspiracy.
Take for example Nikola Tesla. There is, especially in Latin America, a huge amount of people who believe in free energy (curiously they call it "energias libres" meaning free as in free speech, when they mean "energias gratis" meaning free as in free beer). For these people, Nikola Tesla was a messiah. He was the person who INVENTED electricity. Then he was stopped by the most evil person in history: Thomas Edison, who only wanted money and didn't know wany science. And because of this, we are now forced to pay for electricity. If only Tesla could have developed his "energy tower", we'd have free electricity for all mankind. But Tesla died, and thus, we can't have free power anymore. There is no other person who could develop this. We're doomed now. Damn Edison!
That's what they honestly believe. It's all a conspiracy of corporations protected by governments (especially the US government), who want to force us to pay for something Tesla demonstrated is free. This is the conspiracy theory and it comes from people who just want to blame high energy costs to other factors, and not the fact that they mostly live in poor countries with low salaries.
The same goes for people who believe in "the car that runs on water and the patent was bought by Big Oil and the inventor killed".
Youtube is full of "free energy" videos of people turning lightbulbs on in thin air and have millions of views and thousands of comments claiming it's not fake, it's real, and thus, this proves everything Tesla said was right. But they're not Tesla, so they can't make it large scale.
There is always the "messiah complex" thing with conspiracy theorists. That things are "invented" by lone wolfes at their houses, and not in university or corporate labs (duh, obviously if they did that, corporations would steal their ideas).
Moon landing conspiracy theorists come up with the wildest explanations of why the moon landing is fake. One of them, I remember, was from a poor country and said "wow, we barely could make TV work at a few kilometers and it was really difficult, expensive, and in black and white, and this was in 1978, but the americans not only sent a rocket to the moon but also transmitted from the moon IN COLOR? It's obviously fake". This person wasn't even aware that "americans" had color TV in 1953, 16 years before people went to the moon. Or that americans sent TV signals to satellites in space in 1962. And those satellites were used to broadcast the moon landing live across the world. No. He lived in a poor country, with poor infrastructure, and he had a poor experience. So it must have been the same way for everyone everywhere.
In short, it's not about "official narrative", it's about people refusing to believe in the evidence presented, because they deeply believe in something.
Oh and the USA being in the middle of it is enough to prove the conspiracy. Russia though, is cool. Russia is our friend. Putin is a nice person but he's demonized by the USA. Venezuela is broke because the USA's sanctions (the country has been broke for years even though the US had no sanctions against them until a less than month ago, and the US is the biggest money supplier, paying Venezuela with actual money, while Russia is getting free oil from interests from loans given by Russia being paid with raw oil, at a rate they "restructure" the debt every few years and keep a continuous supply of free oil)
OK, so since Little Special Snowflake doesn't like ads, governments around the world have to work to pay for content for their citizens to consume.
Nothing can go wrong with such plan.
Nothing.
No. It just doesn't work that way. You propose only one person (the first one) can do "something" and the rest are just clones.
Also you're denying of access to information to the 90% of the world's population. The people who simply cannot afford to pay for every website they visit. not to mention all the people who simply don't have credit cards (newsflash: CCs are rare outside the "first world" and the issued cards usually are only local or national. International cards have requirements 90% of the world's population cannot meet)
no. there are no solutions. this is how things are.
People DO NOT LIKE TO PAY FOR STUFF. Simple as that.
And i'm not going to "subscribe" to every fucking website I visit *AND GIVE THEM ALL MY PERSONAL DATA SO THEY CAN BILL MY CREDIT CARD* just because some fucking nerd on slashdot doesn't like ads.
Ads are what keep the internet working.
No ads means no internet. Ads are the "business model" not of a "website" but of the whole fucking thing. Take ads out of equation and you get the "academic" internet again.
You're incredibly verbose but ultimately so stupidly wrong.
Following your line of reasoning I can ask the question: why do you live? You live the same inane existence of billions of other people. You make no contributions to society and anything you "may" contribute is just irrelevant. Nothing matters. Coke is water with sugar. Ford sells rubber and steel. You breathe in valuable oxygen and expel nasty CO2. Unfortunately, due to whatever reasons, we're stuck with you.
Oh grow the fuck up, you idiot. You are not obligated toy buy anything in the ad. If you need Mama Government to protect you from those bad men who want to sell you stuff, then your issue is not the ads, but the fact that you're a child who acts purely on whims.
Sometimes I see an ad or two, but I don't feel the need to buy whatever shit that ad is trying to sell me.