My impression is that especially the smart students struggle with all the utterly stupid things demanded of them. My way out back then was to make "grade optimization" a psychological game.
Please provide conclusive evidence first. I am not going to invest any effort on your anecdotal "evidence" (which incidentally is not even true where I live.)
I do admit that your statement shows that you are lazy, so there is at least a sample of one supporting your statement.
You are stating belief, not fact. And your belief ignores observable reality.
Incidentally, if it were "suffocating", then it would be "failing". Apparently even very simple elementary logic is beyond your grasp. No surprise you are spewing concentrated stupid.
Your numbers are entirely bogus because you have no clue what you are talking about. Productivity relevant for the question at hand is not measured in absolute numbers, it is measured in ROI. Absolute numbers can well be down because nobody has the money anymore to buy things (because capitalism is failing), while ROI soars.
Nice, non-factual propaganda. Basically everything you claim is wrong. But seeing that would require some look at actual facts, something you obviously have not done (same as anybody very much in love with their misconceptions).
No, actually we have not. People are not more stupid or lazy than before. But many people find that the skills that can acquire given their talents are not in demand anymore. That is quite a different problem.
Actually, my claim was that capitalism will collapse if people do not get enough "free" money. (What really happens is that money created by increases in efficiency, by automation, etc. gets distributed, so that it can be spent on goods.) And you are wrong about the "failing political system" as well, by a classical cause-and effect inversion fallacy.
Tech has changed which of the basic human desires can cheaply be fulfilled and which cannot. For example, global, fast and cheap communication was never available in human history before. Production of standard goods can, for the first time in history, be often automatized. Jobs in the low-skill sector are vanishing as a result. If you do not see this and other examples making a huge difference, then you will never see anything that does as you are blind.
Give this a decade or so and maybe there actually is something to it. Before, it may just result in a net loss of life-expectancy. It will surely result in a significant loss of money to anybody that wants to risk it. Hey, maybe we can have Ray Kurzweil try it?
I agree. It is also a reason why nothing confidential or secret must ever go onto a win10 machine. May open you up to criminal liability and/or kill your company.
Unless it becomes completely known what is transferred and reliably possible to prevent anything except checks for new updates to be sent _and_ it becomes reliably possible to only install updates the user has explicitly agreed to being installed, win10 must be regarded as malware. I cannot even imagine how companies in the financial, insurance or military sector or that do any research can ever decide to install win10.
You think that Microsoft, the creators of the abomination that is the Registry and that use things very much like systemd (although even worse) in their own OS would be able to do a decent Linux distro even if they tried hard? Talk about blind faith that a known bad actor would do good here.
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That is all you have? Pathetic. And quite off the mark too, but I am not going to try the infantile "mine is bigger" game.
So? "Xyz" will colapse if too much "abc". A completely meaningless tautology.
My impression is that especially the smart students struggle with all the utterly stupid things demanded of them. My way out back then was to make "grade optimization" a psychological game.
Please provide conclusive evidence first. I am not going to invest any effort on your anecdotal "evidence" (which incidentally is not even true where I live.)
I do admit that your statement shows that you are lazy, so there is at least a sample of one supporting your statement.
You are stating belief, not fact. And your belief ignores observable reality.
Incidentally, if it were "suffocating", then it would be "failing". Apparently even very simple elementary logic is beyond your grasp. No surprise you are spewing concentrated stupid.
And how is that even relevant? This is not a decision between capitalism and communism. There are other possibilities as well.
I fully agree.
Your numbers are entirely bogus because you have no clue what you are talking about. Productivity relevant for the question at hand is not measured in absolute numbers, it is measured in ROI. Absolute numbers can well be down because nobody has the money anymore to buy things (because capitalism is failing), while ROI soars.
Nice, non-factual propaganda. Basically everything you claim is wrong. But seeing that would require some look at actual facts, something you obviously have not done (same as anybody very much in love with their misconceptions).
No, actually we have not. People are not more stupid or lazy than before. But many people find that the skills that can acquire given their talents are not in demand anymore. That is quite a different problem.
Actually, my claim was that capitalism will collapse if people do not get enough "free" money. (What really happens is that money created by increases in efficiency, by automation, etc. gets distributed, so that it can be spent on goods.) And you are wrong about the "failing political system" as well, by a classical cause-and effect inversion fallacy.
Tech has changed which of the basic human desires can cheaply be fulfilled and which cannot. For example, global, fast and cheap communication was never available in human history before. Production of standard goods can, for the first time in history, be often automatized. Jobs in the low-skill sector are vanishing as a result. If you do not see this and other examples making a huge difference, then you will never see anything that does as you are blind.
Good point.
Do yourself a favor and look up the definition. That way you may sound quite a bit less-stupid than you do now.
It is $2500 at Swiss prices. Think $850 or so per month at US prices.
No, it is not "damn nice", it is barely enough and right at the poverty line. Cost-of-living in Switzerland is among the highest on the planet.
Actual scientific studies (as opposed to your subjective opinion) say that 80% would continue to work in Switzerland.
In the universe where people actually understand who did what. Hint: This guy is _not_ responsible for the Greek financial crisis.
This number is for Switzerland, which has one of the highest cost of living on the planet. You would get significantly less.
So if society collapses because the base-mechanisms of capitalism fail, that is fine with you? Talk about being self-centered _and_ stupid...
Give this a decade or so and maybe there actually is something to it. Before, it may just result in a net loss of life-expectancy. It will surely result in a significant loss of money to anybody that wants to risk it. Hey, maybe we can have Ray Kurzweil try it?
They have completely lost it, I agree. How they expect to ever sell this to corporate customers is a mystery to me.
I agree. It is also a reason why nothing confidential or secret must ever go onto a win10 machine. May open you up to criminal liability and/or kill your company.
Unless it becomes completely known what is transferred and reliably possible to prevent anything except checks for new updates to be sent _and_ it becomes reliably possible to only install updates the user has explicitly agreed to being installed, win10 must be regarded as malware. I cannot even imagine how companies in the financial, insurance or military sector or that do any research can ever decide to install win10.
Probably a general association by high levels of evil.
You think that Microsoft, the creators of the abomination that is the Registry and that use things very much like systemd (although even worse) in their own OS would be able to do a decent Linux distro even if they tried hard? Talk about blind faith that a known bad actor would do good here.