Of course you do. Children and slaves are highly productive workers. Slaves are many times more profitable than employees who are only interested a paycheck to support an easy lifestyle while slaves only require low quality food. As for child labor a healthy woman can easily pump out another one every year and they aren't intelligent enough to survive on their own and have loyalty to their parents. They also make great soldiers. Give them an AK47 and turn them lose. Their mothers are busy pumping out replacements so it doesn't matter how many get killed or run off.
While the Western world has eliminated these activities we still import materials from parts of the world where strong tribal and religious schisms exist. Their products are cheaper because of slavery and child labor and unscrupulous suppliers can make huge profits off of them.
Maybe I have misinterpreted the question. The speed of light is absolute. We can measure exactly how fast we are in motion in this universe. At least that is what I was taught in high school fifty years ago.
Exactly. My dad has thousands of hours driving experience as a farmer and truck driver, but at 83 he shouldn't drive but is too stubborn to let my mother drive him. I have the same experience he does but I hate to drive in the city at night. I can't judge where the next turn is going to be. My wife doesn't mind city driving but hates driving on the interstate, she says it's too boring. As a former farmer I love driving for hours in a straight line with the cruse control set.
There is a small Chinese restaurant in a strip mall near my home. It's been there for over thirty years. It has five or six tables and few if any customers. It is always open and you can get a meal, but you will be the only one there. It's family run and after school there is usually a child doing homework who will take your order if you come in and grandma will shout in Chinese to a man in the back and in a bit you get your food. No way that restaurant supports this family. Multiply that by hundreds or even thousands of small restaurants that for some reason are incredably profitable and you could launder billions of dollars.
Part of that fiber runs past my house. No one is hooked to though, they didn't get paid to do that. Dsl is not available either and cable service stops five poles from my house.
The poor in the US are "wealthier" because of transfer payments from the government. Seventeen trillion borrowed dollars went somewhere. Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean workers are wealthier because Americans have used that borrowed money to buy cars, cell phones, computers, tech support services, and more cheap plasticy things than you can think of. OPEC got some of it too.
A lot of freed up labor had to go on disability or is sitting on it's butt collecting welfare and unemployment.
My mistake, no readily visible signs. This tape was BURIED three feet under ground. Only after making a deep gouge with the backhoe did this tape appear in the teeth of the digging bucket. The warning was, " Don't dig any deeper! "
Rural area, miles from nowhere, No idea the phone company was piggy backing under the utility easement. The cable was buried deep with a warning tape so tragedy averted.
How about disabilities? I can't hold a book. If the text is large enough for me to read it also has to be a big book. I prop up my tablet, set the text up to a readable size, and tap the screen with my pinky to turn the page.
In my younger days I loved the library and have purchased thousands of books and magazines but I can't enjoy them now.
I bought some farm land that had a major electrical transmission line run across it. We just farmed between the poles. While cleaning out a drainage ditch, with my backhoe, I noticed a length of (not cable, thank God) red marking tape that read "Warning! Fiber". Apparently there was a cable burred underground along the path of the power lines. It must have been quite deep because I had dug a deep ditch on the other side of the field and hadn't hit it. There were no warning signs anywhere indicating cable buried.
Does Mr. Whittle think it was a good thing for millions NOT to have medical care? If you say they could always get mandated care then why should everyone be paying 40% more now? Where is the extra money going? The web site worked for me, my wife and son got coverage for $20 a month. WMMV.
A managed economy has to be "managed". Many jobs and services are needed but do not generate enough profit to pay a "living wage". Today desperate people take these jobs, sometimes working two, and depend on various government programs for food, housing, and healthcare. With a guaranteed income everyone who is healthy enough would still be required to look for work. Profitable businesses would pay a good portion of those profits in taxes that would go toward the guaranteed income while businesses with slim profits would pay few taxes but their employees would provide services to the community
The problem with unfettered capitalism is the less productive will be left to starve while total socialism fails because bureaucrats have no idea how to run an economy. You have to allow capitalist who are good at making money enough profits to keep them working but bleed enough away to support the excess population.
As a Canadian why would you put this comment in a thread about Window 8? As for the ACA so far a win for me. I am disabled and just got on Medicare. My wife quite her job to care for her elderly parents. She got a silver plan for her and our 22 year old college student son that with the subsidy cost us $19.20 a month.
Our healthcare system is a mess. Your ideas and those of AC are good but politically difficult to implement. With all its warts the ACA was passed so something that actually fixes the problem instead of propping up the current system might be doable.
Try telling the typical gun owning right winger (like me) that searching your house and confiscating all your guns is necessary to preserve your freedoms. How will we have any means to fight when the government decides that other freedoms are a problem , such as free speech, right to assemble, and need to be eliminated also?
Do away with drug prohibitions and bring jobs back to America to lower unemployment. The FBI was created to fight organized crime that became rampant with Prohibition during the Great Depression.
Florida Power and Light customer here. My last bill was $110 for 1183 kWhs. Rounds up to $.10 per kWh. Just saying.
My wife is an artist and HATES cfls. I kind of like the industrial lab look of cfls myself. They are great for porch lights, getting wet doesn't make them blow out like incandescents. Haven't tied any leds. As with unleaded gasoline and CAFE for cars we will probably be better off anyway.
There are many wonderful things, natural gas, FiOS internet service, and bus stops that are unfortunately unavailable where I live. The peace and space I have out in the country are well worth the disadvantages
My wife has selective hearing loss. The only way she can understand what people on television are saying is for me to put the sound setting on "voice". That filters out much of music and ambient sounds (what my wife calls air noises) . It sounds like an old transistor radio. Commercials are mostly music and other noise and even the shouting is less noticeable. 55" TV with 200 watt surround sound, I might as well be using an old 19" black and white set.
You forgot globalization. There is tremendous demand in the US for smart phones and flat screen TVs, yet no one in the US makes them, the jobs were created in China. We even import much of our food from China. A poor person will buy two cheap things from China instead of one quality item made in America. Raise tariffs and wall off the border. The capitalist will have to build factories here and hire Americans. Well paid workers can afford well made goods. In 1965 most people had a car and a television, both American made.
Remember, you get less of what you tax and more of what you subsidize. Tax the rich, you get less rich, subsidize the poor, you get more poor. Go ahead, gut that golden goose, then you can get ALL the gold in there.
Business must make some profit. If you own a business you want as much as possible. I was the production tech (started in 1996) in a facility that packed potatoes is small bags for grocery stores. We replaced our two hand operated spring scale baggers with four digital load cell automated baggers and doubled production (to 9000 5 lb bags per hour) without hiring any more workers. The digital scale machines (two-hundred fifty thousand dollars apiece) saved a $1000 per day each with more precise product weighing. The competing companies did the same thing so the owner had to lower his markup to remain competitive so actual profits didn't go up much. (I made $800 a week and a $6000 bonus most years so business was pretty good)
Most business do not automate or offshore to increase profits, they do it because their competitors did and they will be less profitable if they don't.
Some companies pay you for referring people who get hired. My son does contract law for a Fortune 50 company. He has twice gotten bonuses for referring someone.
The Government can do many things. It eliminated slavery. 2% of the US population died but that was a small price to pay. Your idea of sustainability could be enforced the same way Stalin enforced his new economy.
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Of course you do. Children and slaves are highly productive workers. Slaves are many times more profitable than employees who are only interested a paycheck to support an easy lifestyle while slaves only require low quality food. As for child labor a healthy woman can easily pump out another one every year and they aren't intelligent enough to survive on their own and have loyalty to their parents. They also make great soldiers. Give them an AK47 and turn them lose. Their mothers are busy pumping out replacements so it doesn't matter how many get killed or run off.
While the Western world has eliminated these activities we still import materials from parts of the world where strong tribal and religious schisms exist. Their products are cheaper because of slavery and child labor and unscrupulous suppliers can make huge profits off of them.
Maybe I have misinterpreted the question. The speed of light is absolute. We can measure exactly how fast we are in motion in this universe. At least that is what I was taught in high school fifty years ago.
Exactly. My dad has thousands of hours driving experience as a farmer and truck driver, but at 83 he shouldn't drive but is too stubborn to let my mother drive him. I have the same experience he does but I hate to drive in the city at night. I can't judge where the next turn is going to be. My wife doesn't mind city driving but hates driving on the interstate, she says it's too boring. As a former farmer I love driving for hours in a straight line with the cruse control set.
There is a small Chinese restaurant in a strip mall near my home. It's been there for over thirty years. It has five or six tables and few if any customers. It is always open and you can get a meal, but you will be the only one there. It's family run and after school there is usually a child doing homework who will take your order if you come in and grandma will shout in Chinese to a man in the back and in a bit you get your food. No way that restaurant supports this family. Multiply that by hundreds or even thousands of small restaurants that for some reason are incredably profitable and you could launder billions of dollars.
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Part of that fiber runs past my house. No one is hooked to though, they didn't get paid to do that. Dsl is not available either and cable service stops five poles from my house.
The poor in the US are "wealthier" because of transfer payments from the government. Seventeen trillion borrowed dollars went somewhere. Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean workers are wealthier because Americans have used that borrowed money to buy cars, cell phones, computers, tech support services, and more cheap plasticy things than you can think of. OPEC got some of it too.
A lot of freed up labor had to go on disability or is sitting on it's butt collecting welfare and unemployment.
My mistake, no readily visible signs. This tape was BURIED three feet under ground. Only after making a deep gouge with the backhoe did this tape appear in the teeth of the digging bucket. The warning was, " Don't dig any deeper! "
Rural area, miles from nowhere, No idea the phone company was piggy backing under the utility easement. The cable was buried deep with a warning tape so tragedy averted.
How about disabilities? I can't hold a book. If the text is large enough for me to read it also has to be a big book. I prop up my tablet, set the text up to a readable size, and tap the screen with my pinky to turn the page. In my younger days I loved the library and have purchased thousands of books and magazines but I can't enjoy them now.
I bought some farm land that had a major electrical transmission line run across it. We just farmed between the poles. While cleaning out a drainage ditch, with my backhoe, I noticed a length of (not cable, thank God) red marking tape that read "Warning! Fiber". Apparently there was a cable burred underground along the path of the power lines. It must have been quite deep because I had dug a deep ditch on the other side of the field and hadn't hit it. There were no warning signs anywhere indicating cable buried.
Does Mr. Whittle think it was a good thing for millions NOT to have medical care? If you say they could always get mandated care then why should everyone be paying 40% more now? Where is the extra money going? The web site worked for me, my wife and son got coverage for $20 a month. WMMV.
Who built your computer? That's where we went wrong.
A managed economy has to be "managed". Many jobs and services are needed but do not generate enough profit to pay a "living wage". Today desperate people take these jobs, sometimes working two, and depend on various government programs for food, housing, and healthcare. With a guaranteed income everyone who is healthy enough would still be required to look for work. Profitable businesses would pay a good portion of those profits in taxes that would go toward the guaranteed income while businesses with slim profits would pay few taxes but their employees would provide services to the community
The problem with unfettered capitalism is the less productive will be left to starve while total socialism fails because bureaucrats have no idea how to run an economy. You have to allow capitalist who are good at making money enough profits to keep them working but bleed enough away to support the excess population.
As a Canadian why would you put this comment in a thread about Window 8? As for the ACA so far a win for me. I am disabled and just got on Medicare. My wife quite her job to care for her elderly parents. She got a silver plan for her and our 22 year old college student son that with the subsidy cost us $19.20 a month.
Our healthcare system is a mess. Your ideas and those of AC are good but politically difficult to implement. With all its warts the ACA was passed so something that actually fixes the problem instead of propping up the current system might be doable.
I think you are exactly right.
Try telling the typical gun owning right winger (like me) that searching your house and confiscating all your guns is necessary to preserve your freedoms. How will we have any means to fight when the government decides that other freedoms are a problem , such as free speech, right to assemble, and need to be eliminated also?
Do away with drug prohibitions and bring jobs back to America to lower unemployment. The FBI was created to fight organized crime that became rampant with Prohibition during the Great Depression.
Florida Power and Light customer here. My last bill was $110 for 1183 kWhs. Rounds up to $.10 per kWh. Just saying.
My wife is an artist and HATES cfls. I kind of like the industrial lab look of cfls myself. They are great for porch lights, getting wet doesn't make them blow out like incandescents. Haven't tied any leds. As with unleaded gasoline and CAFE for cars we will probably be better off anyway.
There are many wonderful things, natural gas, FiOS internet service, and bus stops that are unfortunately unavailable where I live. The peace and space I have out in the country are well worth the disadvantages
My wife has selective hearing loss. The only way she can understand what people on television are saying is for me to put the sound setting on "voice". That filters out much of music and ambient sounds (what my wife calls air noises) . It sounds like an old transistor radio. Commercials are mostly music and other noise and even the shouting is less noticeable. 55" TV with 200 watt surround sound, I might as well be using an old 19" black and white set.
You forgot globalization. There is tremendous demand in the US for smart phones and flat screen TVs, yet no one in the US makes them, the jobs were created in China. We even import much of our food from China. A poor person will buy two cheap things from China instead of one quality item made in America. Raise tariffs and wall off the border. The capitalist will have to build factories here and hire Americans. Well paid workers can afford well made goods. In 1965 most people had a car and a television, both American made.
Remember, you get less of what you tax and more of what you subsidize. Tax the rich, you get less rich, subsidize the poor, you get more poor. Go ahead, gut that golden goose, then you can get ALL the gold in there.
Business must make some profit. If you own a business you want as much as possible. I was the production tech (started in 1996) in a facility that packed potatoes is small bags for grocery stores. We replaced our two hand operated spring scale baggers with four digital load cell automated baggers and doubled production (to 9000 5 lb bags per hour) without hiring any more workers. The digital scale machines (two-hundred fifty thousand dollars apiece) saved a $1000 per day each with more precise product weighing. The competing companies did the same thing so the owner had to lower his markup to remain competitive so actual profits didn't go up much. (I made $800 a week and a $6000 bonus most years so business was pretty good)
Most business do not automate or offshore to increase profits, they do it because their competitors did and they will be less profitable if they don't.
Some companies pay you for referring people who get hired. My son does contract law for a Fortune 50 company. He has twice gotten bonuses for referring someone.
The Government can do many things. It eliminated slavery. 2% of the US population died but that was a small price to pay. Your idea of sustainability could be enforced the same way Stalin enforced his new economy.
GDP includes government spending so the more the government spends the higher the GDP. Growth by increased spending is not real growth.