in recent years I have seen (in multiple disciplines) many more people with PhDs than there are jobs
If you get a Masters or higher, prepare for a "practical" alternative that is hopefully related. For example, if you get a PhD in electrical engineering, consider and prepare for being a regular blue-collar electrician as a back-up job/career.
you aren't doing something that's worth those kind of benefits. Sucks, but it's true. Improve your skills...
The problem with using "just get better" as a justification for accepting growing inequality is that it does not scale. If everyone had PhD's, there wouldn't be enough room for the elite positions, and many PhD's would end up mopping floors and other grunt work.
It's not a zero-sum game, but close enough that "just get better" isn't a complete solution.
American workers rank among the top in the world in economic productivity, but the benefits of that hard work is not trickling down to most workers. I'm not proposing pure socialism, just enough of it to distribute the wealth better without significantly harming incentives. There's a better balance point than what we have now. Set the dial to 5 instead of 9 on the socialism-to-plutocracy scale.
I proposed an amiable split, not war. Trade doesn't have to go away. And even if there were war, plenty of other countries grow food to sell.
Have fun feeling superior
What's that have to do with a split? Both sides feel superior: humans have fat-ass egos both on an individual level and cultural level. The point is we don't get along and therefore should divorce.
It's time to amiably split the USA. The civil war never really ended, and we don't get along. Let's end this ugly tug-of-war.
The right is poisoning people & Earth for profit, reject inconvenient science and subject experts, fill the country with dangerous firearms, embed the evangelical agenda into government, discriminate against non-evangelicals, and select dangerous ADHD clowns as leaders.
Putting too many warning labels has the habit of making people numb to actual dangers and warning labels.
It's not a problem with warnings themselves, but of weighing the level of risk. The labels don't give one any sense of risk degree. Perhaps we need a rating system, similar to movie ratings or Dept. of Homeland Security's "Homeland Security Advisory System" rating colors (which have since been altered in confusing ways).
By the way, the warnings are required by Proposition 65, which was voted into CA law. It's not meddling gov't, but meddling voters.
Good look finding a building that does NOT have a sign telling you it contains materials known to cause cancer.
Democracy in action: Proposition 65.
If you are pregnant, it is best to avoid hanging out in parking structures for long periods of time. Cars and their lubricants produce a lot of potentially harmful fumes. The signs have use.
Their pursuit of a Mad-Max-esque (MME) world may be legitimate, from a certain angle. One cannot say that a MME world is objectively bad. It's a matter of preference.
A libertarian may reply and say, "I made an x-coin purchase choice and it didn't work out. Live and learn. If I die due to my bad decision, so what. The species overall will be stronger. Survival as a species is better than fluffy comfort in the short term. It's not about just me."
I consider many libertarians a hybrid between Klingons and Ferengis.
Because if these researchers are correct a long distance flight will suddenly expose you to a few million time the radiation compared to having taken an X-ray. Now that sounds scary.
If they put a photographic plate under us during the flight, then we get an X-ray check-up while up there. Plus, TSA gives us a free rectal exam before the flight. Kill 3 birds with one kidney stone!
Saying a conglomerate doesn't pay enough taxes is Republican Sacrilege. GOP needs to get the message to Fox so they can tell him to STFU on TV, like they did on gun control when he wandered off script.
All these political pundits keep pushing Elizabeth Warren to get a genetic test to "prove" she has Native American ancestry. They reference web-pages by these DNA testing co's in their claims that its possible to test. First, the vendors' own pages often state that the tests are imperfect, and that they often cannot rule out ethnic links. They are better able to say one is "probably" related to a given group, but poor at ruling out a relationship to a group. They look for specific markers or patterns, but currently not the entire genome.
Besides, Elizabeth going through with such tests is feeding the trolls. According her, her relatives told her when she was young that the family has at least one Native American in their background, and there's no reason to question one's older relatives about that. It's rude to the family, in my opinion, to publicly question their word. I hope she doesn't give in to the trolls the way Obama gave into T about the long-form birth certificate.
I see no reason to make a big deal about it. It's just partisan tiddly wings (which both sides do, by the way). Don't even get me started about T's rude "Pocahontas" jokes in front of a Native American event. Very tacky.
What "attitude"? I don't understand your complaint a bit. It's just balance: the org takes reasonable steps to prevent/reduce after-hour problems and you accept occasional off-hour calls. If they DON'T take reasonable preventive measures, it means they are irrational and it's time for you take stronger counter-measures or leave.
Inequality is indeed increasing, but not unemployment. The unemployment rate has been roughly steady over the same few decades where inequality has skyrocketed.
Therefore, I'm not ready to conclude that overall job loss is the future even if inequality is. Runaway inequality indeed is something to worry about, but I'm focusing on employment here.
If it's done judiciously, it's reasonable to respond. Bleep happens. However, if the causes of after-hour problems are preventable but org resources are not devoted to prevention, then the org is dumping the results of their sloth into you.
If they are playing those games, it's time to fight back. Tell them you are too drunk to drive to the office, for example. If they keep it up, it's time to either ask for a raise to compensate, or move on to a different gig.
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If you get a Masters or higher, prepare for a "practical" alternative that is hopefully related. For example, if you get a PhD in electrical engineering, consider and prepare for being a regular blue-collar electrician as a back-up job/career.
"I predict you will live for 4 more seconds. EXTERMINATE!"
The problem with using "just get better" as a justification for accepting growing inequality is that it does not scale. If everyone had PhD's, there wouldn't be enough room for the elite positions, and many PhD's would end up mopping floors and other grunt work.
It's not a zero-sum game, but close enough that "just get better" isn't a complete solution.
American workers rank among the top in the world in economic productivity, but the benefits of that hard work is not trickling down to most workers. I'm not proposing pure socialism, just enough of it to distribute the wealth better without significantly harming incentives. There's a better balance point than what we have now. Set the dial to 5 instead of 9 on the socialism-to-plutocracy scale.
I proposed an amiable split, not war. Trade doesn't have to go away. And even if there were war, plenty of other countries grow food to sell.
What's that have to do with a split? Both sides feel superior: humans have fat-ass egos both on an individual level and cultural level. The point is we don't get along and therefore should divorce.
Voters are human, and humans make mistakes. Tune, fix, and move on.
And, as I mention elsewhere, perhaps we need a risk rating system so consumers can tell major from minor risks.
I don't see that the Proposition rules out a rating system bill by the legislators.
It's time to amiably split the USA. The civil war never really ended, and we don't get along. Let's end this ugly tug-of-war.
The right is poisoning people & Earth for profit, reject inconvenient science and subject experts, fill the country with dangerous firearms, embed the evangelical agenda into government, discriminate against non-evangelicals, and select dangerous ADHD clowns as leaders.
It's not a problem with warnings themselves, but of weighing the level of risk. The labels don't give one any sense of risk degree. Perhaps we need a rating system, similar to movie ratings or Dept. of Homeland Security's "Homeland Security Advisory System" rating colors (which have since been altered in confusing ways).
By the way, the warnings are required by Proposition 65, which was voted into CA law. It's not meddling gov't, but meddling voters.
Let's make it better instead of throwing it out.
Democracy in action: Proposition 65.
If you are pregnant, it is best to avoid hanging out in parking structures for long periods of time. Cars and their lubricants produce a lot of potentially harmful fumes. The signs have use.
That doesn't contradict anything I've said.
Isn't there a Book of Morono?
An Ayn Randian and Libertarian are not necessarily the same thing.
Tell him unicorns will pay for the wall, then he'll stop pestering us about it.
We'll even promise to put multicorns on the job, bigly faster than unicorns.
What a coincidence, "ShenaniCoin" is my new startup. ("SuckerCoin" was taken.)
Their pursuit of a Mad-Max-esque (MME) world may be legitimate, from a certain angle. One cannot say that a MME world is objectively bad. It's a matter of preference.
A libertarian may reply and say, "I made an x-coin purchase choice and it didn't work out. Live and learn. If I die due to my bad decision, so what. The species overall will be stronger. Survival as a species is better than fluffy comfort in the short term. It's not about just me."
I consider many libertarians a hybrid between Klingons and Ferengis.
Is there a Darwin Award for big monetary loss?
I remember those ads.
If they put a photographic plate under us during the flight, then we get an X-ray check-up while up there. Plus, TSA gives us a free rectal exam before the flight. Kill 3 birds with one kidney stone!
He's killing SNL and Onion writer jobs by delivering their material verbatim.
Saying a conglomerate doesn't pay enough taxes is Republican Sacrilege. GOP needs to get the message to Fox so they can tell him to STFU on TV, like they did on gun control when he wandered off script.
All these political pundits keep pushing Elizabeth Warren to get a genetic test to "prove" she has Native American ancestry. They reference web-pages by these DNA testing co's in their claims that its possible to test. First, the vendors' own pages often state that the tests are imperfect, and that they often cannot rule out ethnic links. They are better able to say one is "probably" related to a given group, but poor at ruling out a relationship to a group. They look for specific markers or patterns, but currently not the entire genome.
Besides, Elizabeth going through with such tests is feeding the trolls. According her, her relatives told her when she was young that the family has at least one Native American in their background, and there's no reason to question one's older relatives about that. It's rude to the family, in my opinion, to publicly question their word. I hope she doesn't give in to the trolls the way Obama gave into T about the long-form birth certificate.
I see no reason to make a big deal about it. It's just partisan tiddly wings (which both sides do, by the way). Don't even get me started about T's rude "Pocahontas" jokes in front of a Native American event. Very tacky.
There's a lot of ways to breach dedicated servers also. Focusing on just Intel's cross-process goofs is too narrow a perspective.
What "attitude"? I don't understand your complaint a bit. It's just balance: the org takes reasonable steps to prevent/reduce after-hour problems and you accept occasional off-hour calls. If they DON'T take reasonable preventive measures, it means they are irrational and it's time for you take stronger counter-measures or leave.
Inequality is indeed increasing, but not unemployment. The unemployment rate has been roughly steady over the same few decades where inequality has skyrocketed.
Therefore, I'm not ready to conclude that overall job loss is the future even if inequality is. Runaway inequality indeed is something to worry about, but I'm focusing on employment here.
If it's done judiciously, it's reasonable to respond. Bleep happens. However, if the causes of after-hour problems are preventable but org resources are not devoted to prevention, then the org is dumping the results of their sloth into you.
If they are playing those games, it's time to fight back. Tell them you are too drunk to drive to the office, for example. If they keep it up, it's time to either ask for a raise to compensate, or move on to a different gig.