Once income passes a certain point, it is detrimental to the rest of society.
Trivial case is if 1 person gets 100% of the societies income, everyone else will either starve or murder the 1 person.
About 1980, we passed from a reasonable 50x income for the wealthy to the over 500x income today. It's not reasonable. By punitive, I mean take 90% of annual income over a certain multiple of the national average income.
I'd like to get back to 50x. With a national average income of about 50k in 2009, that would mean over 2,500,000 (well under.4% of the population) would be taxed at a very high rate.
"C"apitalism is not. I could call it crony capitalism or corporate capitalism. The point is that under genuine capitalism, we could benefit from lower prices. Under our current form of capitalism, we are prohibited from reimporting products sold for 10% of the price elsewhere.
It wouldn't matter if your income was stagnate or dropping if you could buy movies for $2.49 (like in china) or your blood pressure medicine for 10 cents (as in many other countries).
It's broken right now. A tiny elite has seized control of the top for themselves and they are passing these jobs to their children. As a result, these jobs (which could be done effectively by many others) keep an unreasonably high compensation level.
Particularly noticeable is the outrageous compensation for the executive class. The employees create as much value working 72 hours a week as the executive but get no extra pay. By being allowed to work people 72 hours a week, unemployment is artificially sustained. The original reason for time and a half was to increase employment. But now they put everyone on salary (yet there is no way most salary jobs meet the "exempt" status requirements-- it's just to risky to fight in most cases).
Chinese compensation is inflating at 100% in some industries and over 20% in most industries. It's painful- but in about 10 years their competitive advantage will be gone, they'll be cheaper than automation so they will grow an internal economy for a while.
But yea, I agree until then (and for the next 4 to 6 years) it's pretty brutal- indian labor too. Indian lawyers, doctors, and radiologists are doing outsourced work.
I don't think you get it. Machines are good enough to replace human workers.
Not just information jobs but also manual jobs (especially manual jobs will be disappearing fast over the next decade since robots have fallen to $15k per year least costs with SLA's that keep them doing 2.5 shifts worth of work per day).
How do you tax a company that has 20 billion gross revenue and only 1600 employs compared to the old model of 20 billion gross revenue and 35,000 employees (one already exists). Project that forward a few years and you have a 20 billion dollar company with 80 employees.. and most of the benefit going to about 10 of the employees.
Many knowledge jobs are being automated out of existence. As soon as you can define the rules for the job, it's automated- no stable employment. Self training costs big bucks but the jobs don't pay commensurately.
It's a paradigm shift. And without jobs- no mass market of people to buy products. It's wonderful for a few companies when only a few companies are doing it. They make huge profits for themselves- but once enough companies do it- no mass market and a lot of unemployed who are going to get increasingly pissed off at being screwed.
Jar Jar and Palpatine were the only characters who raised any emotion.
Jar Jar was irritating (the ONLY character to irritate Liam Nelson's otherwise emotionless jedi) and fun.
The rest of the actors (some of whom have been quite good elsewhere) were squashed. It had to be the director since it was so consistent across all the actors.
And no, I won't be seeing these movies. I imagine a lot will. I might see the originals tho the sand of that grossly fake arm firing first (come on, you have a million bucks to fix the fake arm to where it looks real and instead it looks like a flat piece of paper).
So I might see the second one. Probably not the third one because a) It's only half of a good movie. b) They erased the "real" darth vador and replaced him with the younger anakin. That really pisses me off - even when i think about it. They get all pissy about protecting the "integrity" of their films then they make massive changes and erase actors from existence.
I am happy that my intense pirating of 7gigabytes of material from the 1950's (which should really be out of copyright now anyway but in any case doesn't risk fierce enforcement in any case) will now disappear as noise amid the enormous amount of legal data I get in openoffice updates and netflix.
Turns out Lesbians have a much higher divorce rate than gay males.
So Females are involved in over 50% of divorces. (- hehe, it's a fact!)
I speculate that Females are much more likely to "pull the trigger" when unhappy than men are. This may be because of their emotional state or it could be the divorce laws favor them. In any case, Females also initiate the majority of straight marriages too.
Wow... That's so far out of touch with mainstream america.
Detroit is shedding jobs left and right at 25 dollars an hour and shooting for 20 dollars an hour.
If union editors made 2/3 the pay, there would be more jobs, certain projects would be viable which are not now (and used to be viable).
3 grand a week is absolutely fabulous pay.
And everything is relative. If everyone is making 2 grand a week, houses cost one price. If everyone is making 3 grand a week, then things get bid up.
That's part of the problem with america right now-- anything involving human labor is bid up to the point things that were easy to do in the 50's are now impossible and we are losing opportunities over seas.
Don't get me wrong, their wages are too low (and coming up fast so the problem should be mitigated a great deal by 2020.
That isn't even true for non-science fiction shows.
Executives have destroyed popular shows repeatedly.
The individual show may be wonderful so they move it to a different night to try and get viewers to watch a set of shows. Frequent moves meant that I missed an entire half season of stargate universe.
Executives are incented for bonuses- not to build successful 10 year shows. Actors are incented to make big money- not to build successful 10 year shows.
Executives mess with and censor the creative teams all the time.
Sometimes, it's good. More often it bowlderizes the shows.
Sci Fi was probably not sustainable. In part because Sci Fi (not SF) became mainstream. And because networks are about profits- and reality programming (Wrestling shows and ghost shows) are more profitable than Sci Fi shows.
It's not if the shows were profitable. The question was, "Could we find something MORE profitable to put in the same time slot".
That's a big shift from 30 years ago. 30 years ago, if a show was profitable, it stayed on. Now, if it can make 1 million but you have another show that will make 1.5 million, then you cancel the first show.
The salaries of actors doesn't help. The salaries of editors and directors doesn't help. They've bid themselves into a place where they will be unemployed rather than working- but if they do get work, the money is great. 30 years ago, they made less but it was easier to get work.
Ultimately, there is a huge glut of entertainment right now. I'm in the process of cutting back on cable. $90 a month was unjustifiable. Now, I'm starting to think $62 is unjustifable. $40 was always my comfort level.
There is more free/cheap stuff than I could watch for the next 5 years if I didn't have to work. Why should I pay a premium just to see something in the first 90 days?
So we should let professional baseball players participate in high school baseball?
How about little league?
What I said was, I want to find a game which doesn't cater to people who have more time. I had that already in Everquest. Hell, until I went to the dallas fan faire and pointed out to the devs that every major mob spawned at 3pm CST while I was at work and so I'd never even SEEN the mobs up, much less had a shot at them, one group of people who could be off for two hours during the day got everything. You had 8000 people on the server an 32 people got everything. Sound fair?
Retired people and students can (and do) play 18+ hours a day.
I always wished there was a game I could subscribe to that you could only play 4 hours a day (and maybe less than 100 hours a month to force you to take days off).
Or that they would limit leveling rate, regardless of how many hours you played, you could only pop "x" levels per month.
It would help them with game balance and content creation too. As players' wouldn't be max level 12 hours after the new expansion came out.
Apparently you don't live in a location with any dimensionality to the terrain. yea.. you can be driving in the shadow of a hill or building and then bam, you are in the full sun.
From the sound of it, this was morning sun straight in the eyes.
A train can move the goods about 400+ miles per gallon. Ships have even better ratios.
Carrying the goods from another continent to the shipyard and then from the shipyard to your city uses very little energy.
Putting the goods on a truck to carry it around with other goods also uses very little energy. (a few hundred goods move all over the city for less than a tank of fuel).
Getting in the car yourself and going to pick it up at the store uses a a gallon or two for just that one product. If you get multiple products then you may come out ahead a bit. if you go and it's not there then you wasted fuel for nothing.
The point was that moving products all over the world in huge transportation vehicles may use less fuel than moving it a shorter distance in a small paneled truck or worse in your own car.
He is blue and glows. At one point, he changes his size to be 40' tall so he can move around some heavy equipment. At that point, his penis is about 8" diameter and 2' long and swings around. He never gets aroused.
Same things happened in the comic book but the penis wasn't moving and it was blue, not glowing, and it was more of a bart simpson penis than a realistic penis.
If he wasn't still wearing a g-string during the vietnam war when he was hundreds of feet tall, then he would have had a slong larger than a man.
there is the funny scene of him splitting into two temporal instances and making love to his girlfriend- she gets confused and upset and leaves the room... to find him working in the other room at the same time.
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Once income passes a certain point, it is detrimental to the rest of society.
Trivial case is if 1 person gets 100% of the societies income, everyone else will either starve or murder the 1 person.
About 1980, we passed from a reasonable 50x income for the wealthy to the over 500x income today. It's not reasonable. By punitive, I mean take 90% of annual income over a certain multiple of the national average income.
I'd like to get back to 50x. With a national average income of about 50k in 2009, that would mean over 2,500,000 (well under .4% of the population) would be taxed at a very high rate.
capitalism is wonderful.
"C"apitalism is not. I could call it crony capitalism or corporate capitalism. The point is that under genuine capitalism, we could benefit from lower prices. Under our current form of capitalism, we are prohibited from reimporting products sold for 10% of the price elsewhere.
It wouldn't matter if your income was stagnate or dropping if you could buy movies for $2.49 (like in china) or your blood pressure medicine for 10 cents (as in many other countries).
It's broken right now. A tiny elite has seized control of the top for themselves and they are passing these jobs to their children. As a result, these jobs (which could be done effectively by many others) keep an unreasonably high compensation level.
Particularly noticeable is the outrageous compensation for the executive class. The employees create as much value working 72 hours a week as the executive but get no extra pay. By being allowed to work people 72 hours a week, unemployment is artificially sustained. The original reason for time and a half was to increase employment. But now they put everyone on salary (yet there is no way most salary jobs meet the "exempt" status requirements-- it's just to risky to fight in most cases).
Chinese compensation is inflating at 100% in some industries and over 20% in most industries. It's painful- but in about 10 years their competitive advantage will be gone, they'll be cheaper than automation so they will grow an internal economy for a while.
But yea, I agree until then (and for the next 4 to 6 years) it's pretty brutal- indian labor too. Indian lawyers, doctors, and radiologists are doing outsourced work.
You know what we need to get full employment?
Laws saying you have to pay double time to salary workers when they work over 50 hours.
It would also exacerbate the automation problem this article points out.
The other shoe is taxing the wealthy again. For property, for income (of all kinds).
Punitively once their income gets high enough.
It works in many countries and the people there are happy.
I don't think you get it.
Machines are good enough to replace human workers.
Not just information jobs but also manual jobs (especially manual jobs will be disappearing fast over the next decade since robots have fallen to $15k per year least costs with SLA's that keep them doing 2.5 shifts worth of work per day).
How do you tax a company that has 20 billion gross revenue and only 1600 employs compared to the old model of 20 billion gross revenue and 35,000 employees (one already exists). Project that forward a few years and you have a 20 billion dollar company with 80 employees.. and most of the benefit going to about 10 of the employees.
Many knowledge jobs are being automated out of existence. As soon as you can define the rules for the job, it's automated- no stable employment. Self training costs big bucks but the jobs don't pay commensurately.
It's a paradigm shift.
And without jobs- no mass market of people to buy products. It's wonderful for a few companies when only a few companies are doing it. They make huge profits for themselves- but once enough companies do it- no mass market and a lot of unemployed who are going to get increasingly pissed off at being screwed.
Jar Jar and Palpatine were the only characters who raised any emotion.
Jar Jar was irritating (the ONLY character to irritate Liam Nelson's otherwise emotionless jedi) and fun.
The rest of the actors (some of whom have been quite good elsewhere) were squashed. It had to be the director since it was so consistent across all the actors.
And no, I won't be seeing these movies. I imagine a lot will. I might see the originals tho the sand of that grossly fake arm firing first (come on, you have a million bucks to fix the fake arm to where it looks real and instead it looks like a flat piece of paper).
So I might see the second one. Probably not the third one because
a) It's only half of a good movie.
b) They erased the "real" darth vador and replaced him with the younger anakin. That really pisses me off - even when i think about it. They get all pissy about protecting the "integrity" of their films then they make massive changes and erase actors from existence.
I am happy that my intense pirating of 7gigabytes of material from the 1950's (which should really be out of copyright now anyway but in any case doesn't risk fierce enforcement in any case) will now disappear as noise amid the enormous amount of legal data I get in openoffice updates and netflix.
And yet, females of straight marriages typically suffer after divorces and do have problems finding a new mate, especially if they have children.
I think that may be changing rapidly as we move to a service economy tho.
Bitter!
Party of one!
Your table is ready.
Have to blow my mods on this one.
Turns out Lesbians have a much higher divorce rate than gay males.
So Females are involved in over 50% of divorces. (- hehe, it's a fact!)
I speculate that Females are much more likely to "pull the trigger" when unhappy than men are. This may be because of their emotional state or it could be the divorce laws favor them. In any case, Females also initiate the majority of straight marriages too.
Wow... That's so far out of touch with mainstream america.
Detroit is shedding jobs left and right at 25 dollars an hour and shooting for 20 dollars an hour.
If union editors made 2/3 the pay, there would be more jobs, certain projects would be viable which are not now (and used to be viable).
3 grand a week is absolutely fabulous pay.
And everything is relative. If everyone is making 2 grand a week, houses cost one price. If everyone is making 3 grand a week, then things get bid up.
That's part of the problem with america right now-- anything involving human labor is bid up to the point things that were easy to do in the 50's are now impossible and we are losing opportunities over seas.
Don't get me wrong, their wages are too low (and coming up fast so the problem should be mitigated a great deal by 2020.
That isn't even true for non-science fiction shows.
Executives have destroyed popular shows repeatedly.
The individual show may be wonderful so they move it to a different night to try and get viewers to watch a set of shows. Frequent moves meant that I missed an entire half season of stargate universe.
Executives are incented for bonuses- not to build successful 10 year shows.
Actors are incented to make big money- not to build successful 10 year shows.
Executives mess with and censor the creative teams all the time.
Sometimes, it's good. More often it bowlderizes the shows.
Sci Fi was probably not sustainable. In part because Sci Fi (not SF) became mainstream. And because networks are about profits- and reality programming (Wrestling shows and ghost shows) are more profitable than Sci Fi shows.
It's not if the shows were profitable. The question was, "Could we find something MORE profitable to put in the same time slot".
That's a big shift from 30 years ago. 30 years ago, if a show was profitable, it stayed on. Now, if it can make 1 million but you have another show that will make 1.5 million, then you cancel the first show.
The salaries of actors doesn't help. The salaries of editors and directors doesn't help. They've bid themselves into a place where they will be unemployed rather than working- but if they do get work, the money is great. 30 years ago, they made less but it was easier to get work.
Ultimately, there is a huge glut of entertainment right now. I'm in the process of cutting back on cable. $90 a month was unjustifiable. Now, I'm starting to think $62 is unjustifable. $40 was always my comfort level.
There is more free/cheap stuff than I could watch for the next 5 years if I didn't have to work. Why should I pay a premium just to see something in the first 90 days?
So we should let professional baseball players participate in high school baseball?
How about little league?
What I said was, I want to find a game which doesn't cater to people who have more time. I had that already in Everquest. Hell, until I went to the dallas fan faire and pointed out to the devs that every major mob spawned at 3pm CST while I was at work and so I'd never even SEEN the mobs up, much less had a shot at them, one group of people who could be off for two hours during the day got everything. You had 8000 people on the server an 32 people got everything. Sound fair?
Hey thanks to you and the other person suggesting things.
I will check them out.
Retired people and students can (and do) play 18+ hours a day.
I always wished there was a game I could subscribe to that you could only play 4 hours a day (and maybe less than 100 hours a month to force you to take days off).
Or that they would limit leveling rate, regardless of how many hours you played, you could only pop "x" levels per month.
It would help them with game balance and content creation too. As players' wouldn't be max level 12 hours after the new expansion came out.
Boy.. someone had no sense of humor today!
Or! The sun has modding points today!
Apparently you don't live in a location with any dimensionality to the terrain. yea.. you can be driving in the shadow of a hill or building and then bam, you are in the full sun.
From the sound of it, this was morning sun straight in the eyes.
If the victim is standing in the road and there is no warning that the blinding sun is coming, then it may just be an unfortunate accident.
Not unless you live next to a train track.
A train can move the goods about 400+ miles per gallon.
Ships have even better ratios.
Carrying the goods from another continent to the shipyard and then from the shipyard to your city uses very little energy.
Putting the goods on a truck to carry it around with other goods also uses very little energy. (a few hundred goods move all over the city for less than a tank of fuel).
Getting in the car yourself and going to pick it up at the store uses a a gallon or two for just that one product. If you get multiple products then you may come out ahead a bit. if you go and it's not there then you wasted fuel for nothing.
The point was that moving products all over the world in huge transportation vehicles may use less fuel than moving it a shorter distance in a small paneled truck or worse in your own car.
I think it's equivalent to the cases where they said an IP address is like a fingerprint.
What was the text of the facebook update?
"OMG, I just hit someone"
or
"So running late to work, traffic is rough today!"
or
"About to leave for work. Tired today"
Dr Manhatten has an ordinary penis.
He is blue and glows.
At one point, he changes his size to be 40' tall so he can move around some heavy equipment. At that point, his penis is about 8" diameter and 2' long and swings around. He never gets aroused.
Same things happened in the comic book but the penis wasn't moving and it was blue, not glowing, and it was more of a bart simpson penis than a realistic penis.
If he wasn't still wearing a g-string during the vietnam war when he was hundreds of feet tall, then he would have had a slong larger than a man.
there is the funny scene of him splitting into two temporal instances and making love to his girlfriend- she gets confused and upset and leaves the room... to find him working in the other room at the same time.
So.. he's still a man.
Compare Peter O'Toole in Creator and Peter O'Toole in "My favorite year".
Same character and yet different character.
And yea.. I completely agree with you. Some actors are typecast... other actors transcend type and disappear into the role.
I have mixed feelings about this.
I don't like recognizing the voices...
But the acting quality is *noticably* better than traditional animation.
Some of the recent Justice League and Batman movies are clearly a step above the past when it comes to writing and acting.
It's clear these professionals really do have some kind of rare talent.
If I don't look at the cast before the movie starts, I don't recognize them as often and just enjoy the higher quality acting.
Containerships and Trains can move those products more efficiently than you can if you drive 15 miles to pick it up.
Just sayin...
Plastics can be acquired from other kinds of oil.
If we would get over our irrational attitude towards hemp, that can produce prodigious quantities of oil.