A lot of minimum wage job, that nobody want to do, wouldn't be filled anymore as well. Let's face it, who wants to pick up the trash ?
If I just needed a few extra hours wages to pay for a treat on top of my minimum income, I'd quite happily pick up trash for a couple of days a week. It gets you out of the house and doing some exercise, as a minimum.
Most people want to work - I have enough money to never need to work another day in my life, yet I still enjoy being productive. Those who say they don't, and that they only work because they have to - those who project their negative image of themselves on the whole of humanity - those who, surprisingly enough, nevertheless seem keen with the idea of earning more than the minimum - are welcome to retire. And to see how it goes for them.
I don't see your point. I don't define myself by my work, there are many other things I'd rather do. But if I retired tomorrow, I'd be living on a pittance. If there was this national minimun income, I'd also still be living on a relative pittance.
People are still going to have to work to pay for nice houses, cars, holidays or whatever, it just means that if the worst comes to the worst at least they won't starve or freeze to death. That is hardly unreasonable in a civilized society.
Perhaps more importantly it would remove the unequal bargaining power of employers over employees. If you can just walk away from your job and know you'll be OK until you get another one, you will put up with a lot less shit.
So, according to you, if the majority decides that slavery should be legal, we should just "have to accept that"? According to you, if the majority decides that Jews should be deprived of their property, liberty, and/or life, we should just "have to accept that"? That's the way fasicst think; it reveals a lot about you.
The fact that you can equate paying taxes with Slavery or the Holocaust reveals an awful lot more about you.
Will they censor names from the cases? If not depending on the case, some of the involved might object...
No, they're public records. Unless a judge had ordered that someone's name wasn't revealed (e.g. if a witness was a special forces soldier or spy or something) the names are available for anyone to see already.
I'm your pretty average hillbilly with a college degree. I can cook a soufflé
I'm your pretty average lumberjack, and I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers, I put on women's clothing, and hang around in bars.
As I understood it the $70k is a minimum, not what everybody is being paid at Gravity. But otherwise, you're right. Look at Norway, for example, which has a lot of Marx-flavored "equality" and nobody really trying to get better or even start a business, because there's almost no incentive to do so, and plenty of incentive to just meander along.
You've obviously never been to Norway or met any Norwegians.
My nearest supermarket is a five-minute walk. Three minutes in the opposite direction is a traditional "wet" market. Another ten minutes beyond that is another supermarket (though I usually take a bus for that one). Some things are farther away, but this city has excellent public transit, so nothing is more than about 35~40 minutes away.
But how DO you shop when you need more than a carton of milk?
How do you haul around15-20 bags of groceries, 12 pack of beer, etc....from the stores to bus(es) to home?
I'm a single guy right now, and I couldn't carry all the stuff I buy weekly on public transport, hell, some times I have trouble fitting it all in my car..especially on a Costco run.
Don't supermarkets deliver where you live?
I have a car, but I'd rather pay someone else to do my shopping. I know you're missing out on the fun of selecting the freshest looking fruit and veg, but who really cares?
That's why wikipedia also shows deaths per billion vehicle kilometres. The US is far from the worst country in the world on this basis, but it still lags behind most Scandinavian and Western European countries.
Yes, basically the same proportions if by basically the same you mean the ratios drop by half.
The US is still significantly higher by either measure. The original claim was that "Americans are far better drivers than Europe". This is clearly not the case, unless by "Europe" you mean "Russia".
Not according to wikipedia.. the US's fatality rate per 100,000 people is 11.6 against 4.9 in France, 6.2 in Italy and 3.5 in the UK. Norway is 2.9, Sweden 3 and it's only the poorer East European countries that are close to the US figure.
This is about knowledge, the single most important thing in all of existence. If you don't like learning, you might as well kill yourself now because there is no point to your life.
But it's a bit difficult to care about learning when you're starving to death, don't you think?
With access to steel wool from the kitchen and some copper wire and a battery from a smoke detector, I think I could fashion some kind of phone detonated exploding hacksaw bomb. Then take the drugs.
In fact, forget the steel wool, copper wire, battery, phone and hacksaw blades.
It's the same with a lot of hardware, e.g. the Saturn V. We couldn't just build a new one, we would have to reverse engineer a lot of it from the ones we have left
over.
It's the old IKEA problem. You never keep the instructions.
It's illegal to sell some things like this (moon rocks, etc.). That either creates free (aka "black") market pressures, or for the fully law-abiding, incentives to dispose.
It's like kidneys - there's both a massive abundance and a massive shortage because the price mechanism is made illegal in the market. As usual, people suffer and die when the politicians get involved.
In addition, the anti-free market, statist "murder is a crime" laws artificially inflate the cost of hiring a hitman.
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A lot of minimum wage job, that nobody want to do, wouldn't be filled anymore as well. Let's face it, who wants to pick up the trash ?
If I just needed a few extra hours wages to pay for a treat on top of my minimum income, I'd quite happily pick up trash for a couple of days a week. It gets you out of the house and doing some exercise, as a minimum.
Most people want to work - I have enough money to never need to work another day in my life, yet I still enjoy being productive. Those who say they don't, and that they only work because they have to - those who project their negative image of themselves on the whole of humanity - those who, surprisingly enough, nevertheless seem keen with the idea of earning more than the minimum - are welcome to retire. And to see how it goes for them.
I don't see your point. I don't define myself by my work, there are many other things I'd rather do. But if I retired tomorrow, I'd be living on a pittance. If there was this national minimun income, I'd also still be living on a relative pittance.
People are still going to have to work to pay for nice houses, cars, holidays or whatever, it just means that if the worst comes to the worst at least they won't starve or freeze to death. That is hardly unreasonable in a civilized society.
Perhaps more importantly it would remove the unequal bargaining power of employers over employees. If you can just walk away from your job and know you'll be OK until you get another one, you will put up with a lot less shit.
So, according to you, if the majority decides that slavery should be legal, we should just "have to accept that"? According to you, if the majority decides that Jews should be deprived of their property, liberty, and/or life, we should just "have to accept that"? That's the way fasicst think; it reveals a lot about you.
The fact that you can equate paying taxes with Slavery or the Holocaust reveals an awful lot more about you.
Encryption is easy to break if you have the person with the key in a locked room and a $5 wrench (well, 5 quid spanner, for the UK).0
In the UK, if you don't give them the encryption key you can go to jail for up to two years. No spanners needed.
Will they censor names from the cases? If not depending on the case, some of the involved might object...
No, they're public records. Unless a judge had ordered that someone's name wasn't revealed (e.g. if a witness was a special forces soldier or spy or something) the names are available for anyone to see already.
I'm your pretty average hillbilly with a college degree. I can cook a soufflé
I'm your pretty average lumberjack, and I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers, I put on women's clothing, and hang around in bars.
Yes, when cybering, it is a known issue that you have no idea if that is a male or a female on the other end of the keyboard.
It's a male.
As I understood it the $70k is a minimum, not what everybody is being paid at Gravity. But otherwise, you're right. Look at Norway, for example, which has a lot of Marx-flavored "equality" and nobody really trying to get better or even start a business, because there's almost no incentive to do so, and plenty of incentive to just meander along.
You've obviously never been to Norway or met any Norwegians.
The countries that you listed are capitalist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
By the standards of Nineteenth Century capitalism when Marx was writing, all modern Western countries are socialist.
I have put a lot of time and effort and even straight-up money (via college and CE) into making myself worth what I earn
You are worth what your employer pays you.
Why the hell would I want a difficult job with real responsibilities?
Because it's more interesting.
I thought land and therefore house prices were lower in Australia than the UK? They certainly should be given the difference in population density.
But how DO you shop when you need more than a carton of milk?
How do you haul around15-20 bags of groceries, 12 pack of beer, etc....from the stores to bus(es) to home?
I'm a single guy right now, and I couldn't carry all the stuff I buy weekly on public transport, hell, some times I have trouble fitting it all in my car..especially on a Costco run.
Don't supermarkets deliver where you live?
I have a car, but I'd rather pay someone else to do my shopping. I know you're missing out on the fun of selecting the freshest looking fruit and veg, but who really cares?
That's why wikipedia also shows deaths per billion vehicle kilometres. The US is far from the worst country in the world on this basis, but it still lags behind most Scandinavian and Western European countries.
Per 100,000 US:France - 11.6 / 4.9 = 2.367 US:UK - 11.6 / 3.5 = 3.314 US:Germany - 11.6 / 4.3 = 2.698 US:Italy - 11.6 / 6.2 = 1.871 US:Russia - 11.6 / 18.6 = 0.624
Per billion vehicle-km US:France - 7.6 / 6.3 = 1.206 US:UK - 7.6 / 4.3 = 1.767 US:Germany - 7.6 / 4.9 = 1.551
Yes, basically the same proportions if by basically the same you mean the ratios drop by half.
The US is still significantly higher by either measure. The original claim was that "Americans are far better drivers than Europe". This is clearly not the case, unless by "Europe" you mean "Russia".
While in the UK, I rented a car and then drove around for a while (it is strange shifting with the left hand)
As someone right-handed from the UK, I find it weird driving a left hand drive car and having to take my right hand off the wheel to change gear.
Anyway, I thought Americans all drove automatics?
Americans are far better drivers than Europe
Not according to wikipedia.. the US's fatality rate per 100,000 people is 11.6 against 4.9 in France, 6.2 in Italy and 3.5 in the UK. Norway is 2.9, Sweden 3 and it's only the poorer East European countries that are close to the US figure.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that what kills most people who jump off tall bridges is hitting the water
Well yes, what else would it be?
And?
This is about knowledge, the single most important thing in all of existence. If you don't like learning, you might as well kill yourself now because there is no point to your life.
But it's a bit difficult to care about learning when you're starving to death, don't you think?
With access to steel wool from the kitchen and some copper wire and a battery from a smoke detector, I think I could fashion some kind of phone detonated exploding hacksaw bomb. Then take the drugs.
In fact, forget the steel wool, copper wire, battery, phone and hacksaw blades.
Hacksaw blades? For crying out loud, what century is this again?
They're a bit lighter and easier to conceal than a Sabre saw.
Fuck Star Wars, it's the Wizard of Oz in space.
Best. Description. Ever.
So what "inspired" the Apollo missions?
Yuri Gagarin.
It's the same with a lot of hardware, e.g. the Saturn V. We couldn't just build a new one, we would have to reverse engineer a lot of it from the ones we have left over.
It's the old IKEA problem. You never keep the instructions.
Money isn't everything.
You're right, there's also power.
And, except on slashdot, sex. With another person.
It's illegal to sell some things like this (moon rocks, etc.). That either creates free (aka "black") market pressures, or for the fully law-abiding, incentives to dispose.
It's like kidneys - there's both a massive abundance and a massive shortage because the price mechanism is made illegal in the market. As usual, people suffer and die when the politicians get involved.
In addition, the anti-free market, statist "murder is a crime" laws artificially inflate the cost of hiring a hitman.
Wanker.