Also, the interesting thing is, back in the late 90s to early 2000s when large numbers of people in the US started getting online, the slowly emerging conventional wisdom was "don't believe everything you see/read/hear on the internet".
I would say part of that is from the fact that at that time, many websites, blogs, email chains, etc looked pretty crude and not "professional" and slick like everything now is.
Fast forward to today, where ultra slick "social" sites and apps have made the big lies more likely to be believed, and the truth harder to get to.
Well, that's easily solved: just do as Europe did and import millions of unlettered muslims. We're already enjoying great benefits here in Europe in such diverse areas as population reduction (with deadly attacks on a weekly basis), elimination of our freedoms, and of course cultural genocide!
Since Europe doesn't have the manpower or financial resources to maintain the kind of "watch" they really need to keep a lid on their recent immigrant population, they will resort to using more and more "digital invasiveness", which is a cheaper and easier way of dealing with it.
In other words, Europe, like the US and other First World countries will become more and more police-state like to deal with the imagined and real threat from those populations, of which a very, very small number are actually any threat at all.
It would be ironic if "communist" (in almost no sense of the word) China managed to pull off a UBI, but would also offer huge propaganda benefits for the Chinese Communist Party, and Chinese nationalism in general (a potent and growing force). For that reason alone I would not be surprised if the government is thinking along those lines.
You just made the best point in this whole discussion, and you are right on the money.
The CCP is thinking exactly that: when less and less of their population actually works(and we all know its only a matter of time) they will be ahead of the curve in implementing what we "here in the West" call UBI.
In a "communist" country like China, it will be called something quite different, and they will probably have it fine tuned and working great by the time they really need to implement it.
Because if we manufactured here in the US then we can't burn billions of tons of high carbon heavy grade crude sludge to power those container ships that fill the pacific with a slowly swirling morass of plastic for sea birds to choke on, etc;
When I see things like this, I get a chuckle, or maybe a good belly laugh, at some of the burger names.
When I see some of the things people come up with to disparage something like McDonalds, I actually get a glimmer of hope for humanity.
It's a shit world, created by corporate lobbying and an undermining of the basic human rights.
The good news is that everything is changing all the time.
This surveillance world we live in is a phase we are going through.
It will end, one way or another.
The bummer is that we are the ones living in it now...
and also why the definition of "millenials" gradually expanded from people born in the late 90's all the way back to anyone born after 1975.
You make a good point, and one that has bothered me for a while.
It seems every year that goes by Gen X gets a smaller "range in years".
To me Gen X is anyone born in the 60's or 70's.
Others have wildly different ranges.
Perhaps it will be ironic, when in 20-30 years less than a quarter of the population actually "works", and having a liberal arts or other maligned degree may actually be quite in demand.
"The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer." Now, is that trend likely to continue with Clinton? If not, how is she going to change it?
She's not going to change it, just like Trump wouldn't.
Why ask that question?
Many of the forces at play disrupting "The American Dream" have more to do with globalization and technology than anything else.
No Wall, no Tariff, no Tax Cut, no Free College will change any of that.
The changes we see now are like a tsunami.
You can try to ride it out, or get to higher ground, if you can.
Wrong on so many levels.
Perhaps you should read and study the economic history of the US since the 1970s to gain a better perspective on the realities, as opposed to using your half baked assertions.
It has been shown over and over again that since the collapse of unions, the off shoring of manufacturing, globalization, increasing automation, etc that those who used to be in the American Middle Class have had a harder and harder time staying there since the 1970s.
This has nothing to do with organic artisan tacos or PBRs or any other "look at me being the snarky/witty guy!" bullshit you care to throw out there.
As I said, please try to read and understand what has happened in the last 30 years to the American Middle Class.
In a weird sort of "silver lining" sort of way, look at it this way...
Trumps rhetoric has brought the racists/fascists out of the closet.
Trump has "outed" them via all the idiotic crap people post on social media and the way people have responded to him and his world view.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been playing in bands longer than I've been working in tech.
I do it for the love of music, but the extra cash doesn't hurt either.
There, I said it.
You are correct.
Also, the interesting thing is, back in the late 90s to early 2000s when large numbers of people in the US started getting online, the slowly emerging conventional wisdom was "don't believe everything you see/read/hear on the internet".
I would say part of that is from the fact that at that time, many websites, blogs, email chains, etc looked pretty crude and not "professional" and slick like everything now is.
Fast forward to today, where ultra slick "social" sites and apps have made the big lies more likely to be believed, and the truth harder to get to.
there is a scene in the film where Gordon-Levitt is floating, zero-g style in a hotel hallway, tying up a "bundle" of spooks.
Don't worry, they are already planning on pumping hormones into the water supply to "tone things down" in their highly male dominated population.
Well, that's easily solved: just do as Europe did and import millions of unlettered muslims. We're already enjoying great benefits here in Europe in such diverse areas as population reduction (with deadly attacks on a weekly basis), elimination of our freedoms, and of course cultural genocide!
Since Europe doesn't have the manpower or financial resources to maintain the kind of "watch" they really need to keep a lid on their recent immigrant population, they will resort to using more and more "digital invasiveness", which is a cheaper and easier way of dealing with it.
In other words, Europe, like the US and other First World countries will become more and more police-state like to deal with the imagined and real threat from those populations, of which a very, very small number are actually any threat at all.
It would be ironic if "communist" (in almost no sense of the word) China managed to pull off a UBI, but would also offer huge propaganda benefits for the Chinese Communist Party, and Chinese nationalism in general (a potent and growing force). For that reason alone I would not be surprised if the government is thinking along those lines.
You just made the best point in this whole discussion, and you are right on the money.
The CCP is thinking exactly that: when less and less of their population actually works(and we all know its only a matter of time) they will be ahead of the curve in implementing what we "here in the West" call UBI.
In a "communist" country like China, it will be called something quite different, and they will probably have it fine tuned and working great by the time they really need to implement it.
Because if we manufactured here in the US then we can't burn billions of tons of high carbon heavy grade crude sludge to power those container ships that fill the pacific with a slowly swirling morass of plastic for sea birds to choke on, etc;
Carry on...
How is his comment racist?
He mentioned Chinese businessmen and government exploiting Chinese workers.
Who drinks milk?!?
I haven't drank milk in years...
When I see things like this, I get a chuckle, or maybe a good belly laugh, at some of the burger names.
When I see some of the things people come up with to disparage something like McDonalds, I actually get a glimmer of hope for humanity.
...who is going to play Scorsese in the film about how they made a film about a wall street crook, and that film was financed by wall street crooks.
TechCrunch has a brilliant story on the growth of Messenger from the scratch.
...is the acknowledgement and acceptance of predestination.
"Alexa, do you work for the NSA?" (no voice -- descending flat 5th musical tone)
FTFY
It's a shit world, created by corporate lobbying and an undermining of the basic human rights.
The good news is that everything is changing all the time.
This surveillance world we live in is a phase we are going through.
It will end, one way or another.
The bummer is that we are the ones living in it now...
I would say all the editors are pretty bad.
#3 is a when, not if.
and also why the definition of "millenials" gradually expanded from people born in the late 90's all the way back to anyone born after 1975.
You make a good point, and one that has bothered me for a while.
It seems every year that goes by Gen X gets a smaller "range in years".
To me Gen X is anyone born in the 60's or 70's.
Others have wildly different ranges.
Perhaps it will be ironic, when in 20-30 years less than a quarter of the population actually "works", and having a liberal arts or other maligned degree may actually be quite in demand.
You are correct.
However, what I see unfolding is a continuation of what we have now, until unemployment is at around 15%-20%, which would trigger massive discontent.
"The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer." Now, is that trend likely to continue with Clinton? If not, how is she going to change it?
She's not going to change it, just like Trump wouldn't.
Why ask that question?
Many of the forces at play disrupting "The American Dream" have more to do with globalization and technology than anything else.
No Wall, no Tariff, no Tax Cut, no Free College will change any of that.
The changes we see now are like a tsunami.
You can try to ride it out, or get to higher ground, if you can.
Wrong on so many levels.
Perhaps you should read and study the economic history of the US since the 1970s to gain a better perspective on the realities, as opposed to using your half baked assertions.
It has been shown over and over again that since the collapse of unions, the off shoring of manufacturing, globalization, increasing automation, etc that those who used to be in the American Middle Class have had a harder and harder time staying there since the 1970s.
This has nothing to do with organic artisan tacos or PBRs or any other "look at me being the snarky/witty guy!" bullshit you care to throw out there.
As I said, please try to read and understand what has happened in the last 30 years to the American Middle Class.
Well, the irony here is that this happened where it did, close to Dealy Plaza, and that there was just one "lone gunman".
In a weird sort of "silver lining" sort of way, look at it this way...
Trumps rhetoric has brought the racists/fascists out of the closet.
Trump has "outed" them via all the idiotic crap people post on social media and the way people have responded to him and his world view.