No offence, but how or why the fuck would you want to disrupt payroll?
You can mis-manage a company in every single way for years at a time, paying taxes late, exasperating suppliers and pissing off customers, but the first pay day when things go wrong and your staff aren't paid you're dead.
All kidding aside, this is the company where being drunk on the job and having sex with coworkers on company property became such a problem, they had to send out an official memo telling their employees to stop getting drunk and fucking each other at work. At an HR company!
Sounds like a clever bit of free advertising to me. I imagine job applications rocketed after the 'leak' of that memo.
"So, Mr Jones, what do you feel you could bring to the zenefits table?"
"Well, I'm certainly excited by the drunken-sex-in-a-stairwell opportunities."
If you start off by categorizing all taxation as theft, you can only logically conclude that there should be no taxation at all. Clearly in this libertarian nirvana UBI wouldn't exist, but then neither would civilization in general.
As someone who's mother is also on welfare, please provide instructions for how she can leverage that into getting a nice car instead of just barely surviving.
There are several ways to do it. A common method is to use a fake address, but actually live in a household with a combined income above the threshold. Then if you want to work, do it under the table for cash, or have the paycheck made out to someone else. Another method, is when granny dies, just bury her out in the backyard, and continue to cash her checks.
Disclaimer: I used to live in Appalachia, so I learned a lot about welfare cheating from my relatives.
I think OP meant "how can my non-criminal mother on welfare get a nice car". Otherwise, you might just as well say "become a crystal meth dealer".
Hardly anyone is going to want to just barely survive for free
There are plenty of people on welfare, doing just that.
At the moment, people get caught in the "welfare trap" where the marginal benefit of working is effectively zero, in which case it is illogical to work.
Because you want to fucking live better, that's why! People will always want more.
For some people, better = sitting on the couch.
Yes, but those people are already not exactly going to be doctors, engineers or billionaire entrepreneurs, so what does it matter unless you have some philosophical/ethical objection to laziness?
I'm sure you could survive now by working 15 hours a week at minimum wage, never going out and eating cold baked beans out of a can in some shitty little room every night, most people want a bit more out of life than that, and that doesn't mean buying Ferraris.
I'm glad for the experiment. However, I cannot see how Universal Basic Income would not simply lower the nominal value of money. Once everyone has X, that X is no longer worth anything. If you get $2,000 per month for nothing, and you rent an apartment from me, guess how much I'm going to charge you for it? More than $2,000.
Why would having a UBI overturn the basic economic law of supply and demand?
You can charge $3000 for your apartment, and your customers will be people who do extra work on top of the UBI. There will be other people charging $1000 (for an inferior apartment) whose customers will be those who only have UBI.
Arguments that equate UBI with pure communism, so that everyone has exactly the same amount of money and assets, are strawmen arguments.
An example: a couple of years ago when Cameron went to Brussels to negotiate the agreement so he would campaign for Remain, all british news reported
him as having brought EC to it's knees...
Let me guess, you read that in the Daily Mail?
If you'd also looked at the BBC, Guardian, Times or other reputable source, you would know that the general consensus was that Cameron failed.
95%+ of CNNs political donations go Democrat. For most people that would make them Hardcore Lefty.
I'm sure Americans get tired of hearing this, but the Democrats are not "Lefty" by any reasonable global standard. Certainly in European terms, they're centre-right, while the Republicans are right.
My complaint is the way the original article threw "Kremlin backed" out there, as if that were unusual. BBC is backed by the British
The BBC is very far from a government controlled institution. The normal criticism from right wingers is that it is too lefty-independent. Except in times of war, it tries scrupulously to avoid being blindly pro-government.
The awful thing is that people believe that stuff, and make irreversible, hugely important decisions based on it.
There was a woman on Question Time last week. For those not in the UK, Question Time is a BBC programme where the public can ask a panel of politicians and invited guests questions. She stated that she was going to vote remain, but the day before the vote was in the supermarket and saw some bananas, which reminded her of the straight bananas lie and caused her to change her mind.
We are all victims of these lies, of decades of deception by the Daily Mail and many other parts of our media. Our democracy has failed.
What really gets me about the straight banana story (which I believe was one of the inventions of that legendary journalist Boris Johnson) is that even if it was true who really cares?
Fusion energy is not only possible, but alreay available in excessive quantities, readily available at no cost to us from the big ball-shaped fusion reactor in the center of our solar system
Not an object most most slashdotters are familiar with, of course.
It is easy to tell geeks to just get over themselves, normal-up, force themselves to be more extroverted, force themselves to like the things that women want them to like, etc.
A woman goes to her doctor and says "I'm a clinically depressed, agoraphobic, pathologically shy introvert" so he advises her to cheer up, and get out and meet more people.
I don't see middle management, accountants, receptionist or clerical staff going anywhere any time soon.
That is primarily because the claims about AI/human equivalent robots are so ridiculously inflated. If we were anywhere close to it, virtually all current jobs would soon disappear, leaving a few poets and musicians able to do something only humans could.
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a hassle to cut the nuts into tiny pieces.
You have way too much time on your hands.
If you want nuttiness and crunchiness in your rice, add nuts.
Also, remove the rice. Just eat the nuts.
It's a great substitute for brown rice
Anything is a good substitute for brown rice. Dog biscuits, mouldy cheese, sawdust, literally anything.
I don't drink alcohol.
Yeah, but, you are aware that there's an invention called alcohol, and this invention is enjoyed by many people, right?
You can mis-manage a company in every single way for years at a time, paying taxes late, exasperating suppliers and pissing off customers, but the first pay day when things go wrong and your staff aren't paid you're dead.
All kidding aside, this is the company where being drunk on the job and having sex with coworkers on company property became such a problem, they had to send out an official memo telling their employees to stop getting drunk and fucking each other at work. At an HR company!
Sounds like a clever bit of free advertising to me. I imagine job applications rocketed after the 'leak' of that memo.
"So, Mr Jones, what do you feel you could bring to the zenefits table?"
"Well, I'm certainly excited by the drunken-sex-in-a-stairwell opportunities."
protecting themselves from governmental theft
If you start off by categorizing all taxation as theft, you can only logically conclude that there should be no taxation at all. Clearly in this libertarian nirvana UBI wouldn't exist, but then neither would civilization in general.
As someone who's mother is also on welfare, please provide instructions for how she can leverage that into getting a nice car instead of just barely surviving.
There are several ways to do it. A common method is to use a fake address, but actually live in a household with a combined income above the threshold. Then if you want to work, do it under the table for cash, or have the paycheck made out to someone else. Another method, is when granny dies, just bury her out in the backyard, and continue to cash her checks.
Disclaimer: I used to live in Appalachia, so I learned a lot about welfare cheating from my relatives.
I think OP meant "how can my non-criminal mother on welfare get a nice car". Otherwise, you might just as well say "become a crystal meth dealer".
Hardly anyone is going to want to just barely survive for free
There are plenty of people on welfare, doing just that.
At the moment, people get caught in the "welfare trap" where the marginal benefit of working is effectively zero, in which case it is illogical to work.
Because you want to fucking live better, that's why! People will always want more.
For some people, better = sitting on the couch.
Yes, but those people are already not exactly going to be doctors, engineers or billionaire entrepreneurs, so what does it matter unless you have some philosophical/ethical objection to laziness?
I'm sure you could survive now by working 15 hours a week at minimum wage, never going out and eating cold baked beans out of a can in some shitty little room every night, most people want a bit more out of life than that, and that doesn't mean buying Ferraris.
I'm glad for the experiment. However, I cannot see how Universal Basic Income would not simply lower the nominal value of money. Once everyone has X, that X is no longer worth anything. If you get $2,000 per month for nothing, and you rent an apartment from me, guess how much I'm going to charge you for it? More than $2,000.
Why would having a UBI overturn the basic economic law of supply and demand?
You can charge $3000 for your apartment, and your customers will be people who do extra work on top of the UBI. There will be other people charging $1000 (for an inferior apartment) whose customers will be those who only have UBI.
Arguments that equate UBI with pure communism, so that everyone has exactly the same amount of money and assets, are strawmen arguments.
sleeping bags on the floor and lots of food ordered off Seamless on the client's dime. It was a good life.
Yes, you keep telling yourself that.
An example: a couple of years ago when Cameron went to Brussels to negotiate the agreement so he would campaign for Remain, all british news reported him as having brought EC to it's knees...
Let me guess, you read that in the Daily Mail?
If you'd also looked at the BBC, Guardian, Times or other reputable source, you would know that the general consensus was that Cameron failed.
95%+ of CNNs political donations go Democrat. For most people that would make them Hardcore Lefty.
I'm sure Americans get tired of hearing this, but the Democrats are not "Lefty" by any reasonable global standard. Certainly in European terms, they're centre-right, while the Republicans are right.
My complaint is the way the original article threw "Kremlin backed" out there, as if that were unusual. BBC is backed by the British
The BBC is very far from a government controlled institution. The normal criticism from right wingers is that it is too lefty-independent. Except in times of war, it tries scrupulously to avoid being blindly pro-government.
they should add the Daily Express to the list as well, its just as bad
The Daily Express is a down market version of the Daily Mail, it's English Defence League rather than Oswald Moseley Blackshirts.
The Express is pure vitriolic shite from cover to cover but for some reason doesn't attract the same criticism as the Mail.
That's because it's much less popular, the Mail sells about four times as many copies as the Express.
The awful thing is that people believe that stuff, and make irreversible, hugely important decisions based on it.
There was a woman on Question Time last week. For those not in the UK, Question Time is a BBC programme where the public can ask a panel of politicians and invited guests questions. She stated that she was going to vote remain, but the day before the vote was in the supermarket and saw some bananas, which reminded her of the straight bananas lie and caused her to change her mind.
We are all victims of these lies, of decades of deception by the Daily Mail and many other parts of our media. Our democracy has failed.
What really gets me about the straight banana story (which I believe was one of the inventions of that legendary journalist Boris Johnson) is that even if it was true who really cares?
Fusion energy is not only possible, but alreay available in excessive quantities, readily available at no cost to us from the big ball-shaped fusion reactor in the center of our solar system
Not an object most most slashdotters are familiar with, of course.
Isn't NASA that place where liberals think there's global warming? How are clueless people like that going to get a car to fly?
#FakeNews #BoycottNASA #MAGA
On slashdot nowadays you pretty much have to put a big "THIS IS SARCASM" heading on a post if you don't want it taken literally.
This can be read as "businesses should focus on their employees and their customers, not their owners".
Now, explain why, exactly, someone should buy part of a business if they're not going to get some benefit from doing so....
No one's saying shareholders shouldn't get any benefit at all, only that the business shouldn't focus exclusively on them.
Yup, it's all the women's fault.
It is easy to tell geeks to just get over themselves, normal-up, force themselves to be more extroverted, force themselves to like the things that women want them to like, etc.
A woman goes to her doctor and says "I'm a clinically depressed, agoraphobic, pathologically shy introvert" so he advises her to cheer up, and get out and meet more people.
I don't see middle management, accountants, receptionist or clerical staff going anywhere any time soon.
That is primarily because the claims about AI/human equivalent robots are so ridiculously inflated. If we were anywhere close to it, virtually all current jobs would soon disappear, leaving a few poets and musicians able to do something only humans could.
Except the German economy is in stable growth... so not exactly a countrywide flood eh?
A good flood, tornado or other natural disaster can do you wonders for your GDP. The more it cost to fix the higher your GDP goes.
I believe that is known as the Broken Windows fallacy.