Taxation by definition is "forced redistribution of wealth"
Not by a long shot,
1.
a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
2.
a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand.
Taxes have only become a serious form of redistribution in the past few years.
I understand, I've been there, times I wondered if I would have food for the week.It isn't good, I wasn't saying everyone who was poor wasn't hard off, just that ones who some (like the government) consider poor have a lot more than the real ones I managed to get out of it and made something of my life, it wasn't easy, but I did it on my own. I have a somewhat of a unique view, I've been to Hatti, sadly I've seen real poverty, even they had cell phones an a bikes, not many cars there guess those were the rich ones, but many had no homes and barely any electricity. Government is a big part of their problem though, both theirs and ours unfortunately. That's a different story though.
I do understand about owning a home though I was over 40 when I was able to get one finally. Never thought I would have one myself, odd how things change over time.
Truth is I can only give you my opinion, I can't talk for others, I respect that other people may think differently. I was being unbiased as much as humanly possible, and since I'm an outsider to the typical American, I added my point of view. Personally I don't follow what others say, I find out for myself, I try different places without someone telling me what was good or bad, (ie. indexes).
When I moved to the US I was worried because of all the stories I heard, how American's love their guns, violence was rampant, pollution, etc. What I found was far from what the media or any anti-American ever said. All I can do is stress, find out for yourself, don't let others tell you.
Thanks for putting words in my mouth, where is this source for these claims? I'm not one who believes that forced redistribution of wealth is the way to go. Other people think it's OK.
The current administration may be spending like crazy, but it's mostly been to prop up the ecconomy. The recent stimuls pacakges didn't work well enough only because they DIDN'T spend ENOUGH and you can blame the GOP for that. !
So you're just about liberal talking points. If you actually believe the last four years has been propping up the economy I have swamp land for you.
Most of the spending has been to the administrations cronies. Stimulus didn't work because most didn't make it to the places that could have used it, most went to the cronies again Government selecting the winners at it's finest. I admit Bush was a spender, but Obama is no better!
Really?? I grew up with a lot less than what some of these 'poor' people have, A/C was considered a luxury not owning a car. Since then I've traveled a lot as I mentioned, I'm guessing though you just know liberal talking points and yourself have had a considerable sheltered life.
Well the difference between the 'have's' and 'have-nots' in the US is really how many houses,cars,TV's, one has. The poor here are pretty wealthy compared to most of the world.
Well I'm from Canada, been to the UK and Italy as well as Switzerland and Holland, also been on missions to Kenya and Haiti, i can safely say that the U.S by far is the best place to be (even if they are printing money). Will that do for non-biased or will only the answer you want to hear be sufficient for you?
The type of software you end up making, I used to work for a software company that made applications for lab testing so you needed to know Integrals and Derivatives.
There's also just the complexity of connecting multiple disparate systems that have been developed in-house. It's difficult for a company to do SSO internally, let alone across the web.
I'm guessing the article draws a connection between manufacturing and craftsmanship? Well I don't think it's that valid, one, I like most do work around the house. I've learned wood working and metal working on my own because as an EE who works with electronics, I can handle the other stuff. No we are not loosing our 'toolbox' it's still there at home.
. I foresee local community and neighborhood 3D printers installed and serviced by that you can just send your 3D model to, and walk over to pick it up in a couple hours. Costs will be automatically charged to your CC. A large part of retail cost is in shipping/fuel costs. Consider the enormous amount of fuel/labor required to get a $.50 plastic widget transported across the world to your local Walmart, plus the fuel cost of you driving to the local store to buy it.
Next time I need a couple wall hangers, instead of getting in my V8 Chevy, spending $5 on gas to drive to walmart, I could just pick from "top reviewed" models on the internet, select one, send it to my local printer, and walk/ride by bike over to pick it up, saying hi to my neighbors on the way, and my total cost isn't much higher than the raw cost of plastic feed.
This is utopian, problem is the feedstock for a typical 3D printer is expensive, $250 approximate per pound of plastic, metal is more. Take a look at zcorps zprinters and you can see what can be made now and how long it takes.
Color: 390,000 colors (5 print heads, including black)
Resolution: 600 x 540 dpi
Minimum Feature Size: 0.004 inches (0.1 mm)
Automation: Full (automated setup and self monitoring / automated powder loading / automated powder recycling and removal / snap-in binder cartridges / intuitive control panel)
Vertical Build Speed: 1.1 inch/hour (28 mm/hour)
Build Size: 10 x 15 x 8 inches (254 x 381 x 203 mm)
Material Options: High Performance Composite
Layer Thickness: 0.0035 - 0.004 inches (0.089 - 0.102 mm)
Number of Jets: 1520
You can see at 1.1 inch an hour its going to take along time, also the pieces tend to be very light/weak, small and simple, it's hard to make complex objects with a 3D printer. this is good for prototyping but not much else, right now. I hope that within 10 years or so we can have systems that can actually give something usable.
well it looks like the robots are taking over the humans work force, will the robots be buying the robot made products....Humans wont be buying the products they'll have no money..... No work = No money..
Most likely until we have full AI, humans will be working with and over robots, their will be a shift but the workforce will adapt.
The company I just started working at is a huge retailer of clothing. Interestingly enough we are working on an automated warehouse due to be finished within a few months and then expanded over the next couple of years. The execs just don't like telling the industry what we are doing. I imagine other companies are doing the same thing.
1) I was being a bit facetious. My point, anything made of software can be duplicated.
2) I don't believe the information will be on a device except in tokenized form, ie. a server somewhere in the cloud will most likely hold the real information. Not that this doesn't hold a lot of issues with security in itself, but that's not my argument to make.
Now I no longer have to wait to lose my physical wallet to go through the agony of canceling and replacing credit cards. It can be lost more efficiently in the cloud.
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Taxation by definition is "forced redistribution of wealth"
Not by a long shot,
1. a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc. 2. a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand.
Taxes have only become a serious form of redistribution in the past few years.
It's never nice to see anywhere, but seriously U.S is not by any means the only ones to have them.
Odd I have. They try to hide it more, even Toronto had several, definitely have seen it though. Here's a youtube special; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8ZBbhbnWc
I understand, I've been there, times I wondered if I would have food for the week.It isn't good, I wasn't saying everyone who was poor wasn't hard off, just that ones who some (like the government) consider poor have a lot more than the real ones I managed to get out of it and made something of my life, it wasn't easy, but I did it on my own. I have a somewhat of a unique view, I've been to Hatti, sadly I've seen real poverty, even they had cell phones an a bikes, not many cars there guess those were the rich ones, but many had no homes and barely any electricity. Government is a big part of their problem though, both theirs and ours unfortunately. That's a different story though. I do understand about owning a home though I was over 40 when I was able to get one finally. Never thought I would have one myself, odd how things change over time.
When I moved to the US I was worried because of all the stories I heard, how American's love their guns, violence was rampant, pollution, etc. What I found was far from what the media or any anti-American ever said. All I can do is stress, find out for yourself, don't let others tell you.
Thanks for putting words in my mouth, where is this source for these claims? I'm not one who believes that forced redistribution of wealth is the way to go. Other people think it's OK.
The current administration may be spending like crazy, but it's mostly been to prop up the ecconomy. The recent stimuls pacakges didn't work well enough only because they DIDN'T spend ENOUGH and you can blame the GOP for that. !
So you're just about liberal talking points. If you actually believe the last four years has been propping up the economy I have swamp land for you.
Most of the spending has been to the administrations cronies. Stimulus didn't work because most didn't make it to the places that could have used it, most went to the cronies again Government selecting the winners at it's finest. I admit Bush was a spender, but Obama is no better!
Really?? I grew up with a lot less than what some of these 'poor' people have, A/C was considered a luxury not owning a car. Since then I've traveled a lot as I mentioned, I'm guessing though you just know liberal talking points and yourself have had a considerable sheltered life.
Well the difference between the 'have's' and 'have-nots' in the US is really how many houses,cars,TV's, one has. The poor here are pretty wealthy compared to most of the world.
Well I'm from Canada, been to the UK and Italy as well as Switzerland and Holland, also been on missions to Kenya and Haiti, i can safely say that the U.S by far is the best place to be (even if they are printing money). Will that do for non-biased or will only the answer you want to hear be sufficient for you?
The type of software you end up making, I used to work for a software company that made applications for lab testing so you needed to know Integrals and Derivatives.
You mean the White House will ban teaching Geometry, since they like doing stuff like that by over regulating things.
There's also just the complexity of connecting multiple disparate systems that have been developed in-house. It's difficult for a company to do SSO internally, let alone across the web.
I'm guessing the article draws a connection between manufacturing and craftsmanship? Well I don't think it's that valid, one, I like most do work around the house. I've learned wood working and metal working on my own because as an EE who works with electronics, I can handle the other stuff. No we are not loosing our 'toolbox' it's still there at home.
. I foresee local community and neighborhood 3D printers installed and serviced by that you can just send your 3D model to, and walk over to pick it up in a couple hours. Costs will be automatically charged to your CC. A large part of retail cost is in shipping/fuel costs. Consider the enormous amount of fuel/labor required to get a $.50 plastic widget transported across the world to your local Walmart, plus the fuel cost of you driving to the local store to buy it.
Next time I need a couple wall hangers, instead of getting in my V8 Chevy, spending $5 on gas to drive to walmart, I could just pick from "top reviewed" models on the internet, select one, send it to my local printer, and walk/ride by bike over to pick it up, saying hi to my neighbors on the way, and my total cost isn't much higher than the raw cost of plastic feed.
This is utopian, problem is the feedstock for a typical 3D printer is expensive, $250 approximate per pound of plastic, metal is more. Take a look at zcorps zprinters and you can see what can be made now and how long it takes.
Color: 390,000 colors (5 print heads, including black) Resolution: 600 x 540 dpi Minimum Feature Size: 0.004 inches (0.1 mm) Automation: Full (automated setup and self monitoring / automated powder loading / automated powder recycling and removal / snap-in binder cartridges / intuitive control panel) Vertical Build Speed: 1.1 inch/hour (28 mm/hour) Build Size: 10 x 15 x 8 inches (254 x 381 x 203 mm) Material Options: High Performance Composite Layer Thickness: 0.0035 - 0.004 inches (0.089 - 0.102 mm) Number of Jets: 1520
You can see at 1.1 inch an hour its going to take along time, also the pieces tend to be very light/weak, small and simple, it's hard to make complex objects with a 3D printer. this is good for prototyping but not much else, right now. I hope that within 10 years or so we can have systems that can actually give something usable.
eliminating the need to work and rising the quality of life
To get that, you would need a permanent state-provided income for the entire population. And that's very unlikely to happen in the U.S.
Or any other part of the world.
well it looks like the robots are taking over the humans work force, will the robots be buying the robot made products....Humans wont be buying the products they'll have no money..... No work = No money..
Most likely until we have full AI, humans will be working with and over robots, their will be a shift but the workforce will adapt.
The company I just started working at is a huge retailer of clothing. Interestingly enough we are working on an automated warehouse due to be finished within a few months and then expanded over the next couple of years. The execs just don't like telling the industry what we are doing. I imagine other companies are doing the same thing.
create a national elite teachers corps
Doesn't the world have enough "elitists" already? I don't think the world can survive much more of them.
2) I don't believe the information will be on a device except in tokenized form, ie. a server somewhere in the cloud will most likely hold the real information. Not that this doesn't hold a lot of issues with security in itself, but that's not my argument to make.
Now I no longer have to wait to lose my physical wallet to go through the agony of canceling and replacing credit cards. It can be lost more efficiently in the cloud.
And be replaced just as well.
There is Open PGP for Android phones. http://www.thialfihar.org/projects/apg/
I know... I'm just as amazed, I have no answer for it.
Very low day for the U.S, but there's a better chance in the coming months we can remedy this.