No, they'll probably transfer most of it to fiscal havens, helping to fund drug lords and terrorists.
Have you heard about the Broken Window Fallacy? If these guys get money for nothing and recirculate it, the overall economy in the end gains nothing. The money that passes though these guys could have been used to produce useful goods and services instead of feeding the pleasures of fat greedy pigs.
Here in Portugal there's been a permanent "crisis" since I can remember.
Employers are always threatening, not realising how they hurt their employees dedication and motivation.
Also, if people perceive a crisis, they'll buy less stuff, hurting the companies in the end.
Adding insult to injury, the industry big bosses, TV pundits and politicians are always screaming bloody murder about our labour laws, claiming they're the most restrictive in Europe (which is a lie). And then the same stupid assholes complain they can't get foreign investment. If they're chasing away foreign investors with their stupid whining, what the fuck do they expect?
Yes, I live in Portugal. But in the north of Europe and the USA I've seen old engineers working in companies. They make decent money and are very respected.
Round here, the only respectable occupations are commercial and managerial.
But I know alot with the same sentiments and effectively migrating to management hoping they'll make their big bucks, often resulting in incompetent management.
Yeah, I know this perfectly. In my country, if you're not a manager by 30, you're a loser. That results in a lot of people moving into management that shouldn't be there, and would be useful doing other things.
Also, companies treat engineers like shit and then complain they can't employ good engineers. There aren't any. They're all too busy being bad managers.
Where I live, I make the equivalent of USD 29.000 a year. It looks low, but it's really not bad around here. I have no idea how it is in New York, though. Maybe for a NY standard I'm below the poverty line.
But if the programmer makes N and his boss makes 10 times that by adding very little value, yes, the programmer is being blood-sucked.
If they are making too much, they are sucking a lot of money out of the system. The finance system doesn't produce anything, so they're sucking money out of the real economy (and the investors). If this blood-sucking is stopped on its tracks, the overall economy will be more efficient. Out with those fucking leaches!
With that, I'd much rather live in Europe, regardless of the dumb environmental laws, because I prefer the excellent mass transit of Germany to the miles and miles of open highways here in Texas
You can thank the "dumb environmental laws" for that.
What a huge steaming pile of made up bullshit. Are you that delusional or just trolling?
Except acid rain was a fraud. And the ozone hole still oscillates.
Acid rain or ozone hole are not big problems because mankind has DONE SOMETHING about them. If we had been sitting on our asses like all you denialists think we should, it would rain acid everywhere and there would be no ozone.
And rain forests grow better with more CO2 in the air.
And they burn a lot better when it's hotter and there's no water. Anyway, it's not global warming that threatens the rain forest more, it's man directly through deforestation. And global does prevent the forest to build up again after being burned down for timber and agriculture. Nice strawman.
And of course species go extinct all the time - after all, we do believe in natural selection, right?
Not by any chance at the current rates. There has never ever been such a reduction of biodiversity outside of castastrophic events.
It's just a matter of layers of bullshit. The first layer was that global warming wasn't happening. This one was torn to shreds decades ago, but only now we're starting to see people admitting it. Now, there's the second layer, which is "the warming is not caused by man". Of course this one is also proven bullshit, but wait some 20 years until the deniers start giving in. When all layers have been demolished, the deniers will bet it all on their last argument "pink unicorns and fairies don't fly in circles". That will be a tough one to tear down, I admit.
Here in Europe we've had environmental laws for decades, fuels are a lot more expensive, and we have a far better energy efficiency overall than you Americans. We haven't died, we're still here. So, what do you mean by "changing our entire civilization"? Stopping your insanely wasteful and unsustainable way of living that depletes the whole planet? Well, I wouldn't call it "civilization"...
The demand at night is a lot lower. This is a big problem for power companies, because it's not viable to shutdown the generators at night. Stop inventing imaginary problems.
Having people working under your supervision adds to your power, does not divide it. This is a basic management principle. Bosses that don't delegate tasks can only stagnate when they reach their physical limits. Unfortunately many managers are too stupid to understand this.
Aren't the posts subjected to revision before being published? Please be consistent with your units! Who can read this mess of standard and non-standard units? Fahrenheits and then square metres and then miles. What the fuck?
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I that salary enough for Germany? I had the impression the Germans make a lot more money than us (Portuguese).
So, every country in Europe has the "most restrictive labour laws in Europe"? That's funny.
No, they'll probably transfer most of it to fiscal havens, helping to fund drug lords and terrorists.
Have you heard about the Broken Window Fallacy? If these guys get money for nothing and recirculate it, the overall economy in the end gains nothing. The money that passes though these guys could have been used to produce useful goods and services instead of feeding the pleasures of fat greedy pigs.
But do you live in NY?
Here in Portugal there's been a permanent "crisis" since I can remember.
Employers are always threatening, not realising how they hurt their employees dedication and motivation. Also, if people perceive a crisis, they'll buy less stuff, hurting the companies in the end.
Adding insult to injury, the industry big bosses, TV pundits and politicians are always screaming bloody murder about our labour laws, claiming they're the most restrictive in Europe (which is a lie). And then the same stupid assholes complain they can't get foreign investment. If they're chasing away foreign investors with their stupid whining, what the fuck do they expect?
Yes, I live in Portugal. But in the north of Europe and the USA I've seen old engineers working in companies. They make decent money and are very respected.
Round here, the only respectable occupations are commercial and managerial.
But I know alot with the same sentiments and effectively migrating to management hoping they'll make their big bucks, often resulting in incompetent management.
Yeah, I know this perfectly. In my country, if you're not a manager by 30, you're a loser. That results in a lot of people moving into management that shouldn't be there, and would be useful doing other things.
Also, companies treat engineers like shit and then complain they can't employ good engineers. There aren't any. They're all too busy being bad managers.
Where I live, I make the equivalent of USD 29.000 a year. It looks low, but it's really not bad around here. I have no idea how it is in New York, though. Maybe for a NY standard I'm below the poverty line.
But if the programmer makes N and his boss makes 10 times that by adding very little value, yes, the programmer is being blood-sucked.
If they are making too much, they are sucking a lot of money out of the system. The finance system doesn't produce anything, so they're sucking money out of the real economy (and the investors). If this blood-sucking is stopped on its tracks, the overall economy will be more efficient. Out with those fucking leaches!
That would mean the system favours skills and hard work over weaselisness. Sorry, that won't happen.
It annoys me like hell that people use this kind of arguments.
Maybe they are excellent programmers, but bad business men. It doesn't mean they deserve to have their blood sucked from them.
If you shift all the income from the workers to the managers, everybody will want to make business, and there'll be nobody left to do some work.
With that, I'd much rather live in Europe, regardless of the dumb environmental laws, because I prefer the excellent mass transit of Germany to the miles and miles of open highways here in Texas
You can thank the "dumb environmental laws" for that.
What a huge steaming pile of made up bullshit. Are you that delusional or just trolling?
Except acid rain was a fraud. And the ozone hole still oscillates.
Acid rain or ozone hole are not big problems because mankind has DONE SOMETHING about them. If we had been sitting on our asses like all you denialists think we should, it would rain acid everywhere and there would be no ozone.
And rain forests grow better with more CO2 in the air.
And they burn a lot better when it's hotter and there's no water. Anyway, it's not global warming that threatens the rain forest more, it's man directly through deforestation. And global does prevent the forest to build up again after being burned down for timber and agriculture. Nice strawman.
And of course species go extinct all the time - after all, we do believe in natural selection, right?
Not by any chance at the current rates. There has never ever been such a reduction of biodiversity outside of castastrophic events.
It's just a matter of layers of bullshit. The first layer was that global warming wasn't happening. This one was torn to shreds decades ago, but only now we're starting to see people admitting it. Now, there's the second layer, which is "the warming is not caused by man". Of course this one is also proven bullshit, but wait some 20 years until the deniers start giving in. When all layers have been demolished, the deniers will bet it all on their last argument "pink unicorns and fairies don't fly in circles". That will be a tough one to tear down, I admit.
Cool, let's just sit on our asses waiting for oil to go extinct. It's not like humans have the power to change anything, is it?
Here in Europe we've had environmental laws for decades, fuels are a lot more expensive, and we have a far better energy efficiency overall than you Americans. We haven't died, we're still here. So, what do you mean by "changing our entire civilization"? Stopping your insanely wasteful and unsustainable way of living that depletes the whole planet? Well, I wouldn't call it "civilization"...
I bet the billions of people living in coastal areas and desertifying regions are all very happy to agree with you.
It's called Bureaucracy. An organisation that works to keep itself up, not for the ends it was created for.
I guess all organisations, given enough time and money, will eventually evolve into bureaucracies.
Extremely short-sighted way of looking at it.
The demand at night is a lot lower. This is a big problem for power companies, because it's not viable to shutdown the generators at night. Stop inventing imaginary problems.
At long last, flies are useful for anything. I was always wondering why God created such a useless, disgusting, annoying creature.
So, the difference between a delusional madman and a prophet is the number of people he can convince that his delusions are true. Good point.
Having people working under your supervision adds to your power, does not divide it. This is a basic management principle. Bosses that don't delegate tasks can only stagnate when they reach their physical limits. Unfortunately many managers are too stupid to understand this.
Better yet, use the standard system by default and then put the US conversions in parenthesis, like in Wikipedia.
Aren't the posts subjected to revision before being published? Please be consistent with your units! Who can read this mess of standard and non-standard units? Fahrenheits and then square metres and then miles. What the fuck?