But how? In order for that to work, you'd have to get patent examiners who are experts in their field. The problem with that is then you'd have to pay them the wages to go along with that. Doubtful that's going to happen, especially during this time of "Government employees are evil! They should be forced to make slave wages!"
I've had some great ideas for products, but know that the big companies would just steal my ideas, then if/when it went to court, it would be 10 years later, at which time the idea would seem obvious, even though it was innovative at the time of invention.
but after reading the link above book and seeing how in Alabama that no American would bother picking vegetables at $10/hr (not minimum wage!) when unemployment is over 9% shocked me!
No, what should shock you is how the farmers there would rather bitch and moan about not being able to find workers, rather than simply increase the wage like they need to. Apparently workers need to take "lower end jobs", but when employers can't find people, they don't need to increase the wage they're paying.
say Yes Sir with a smile when something needed to get done.
That's because over there, they're trained not to think. They're trained to promise whatever you need to do, regardless of whether it can actually be done or not. Being able to say "Yes, Sir!" with a smile is NOT some kind of virtue or ideal. It's simply pure stupidity.
and they love the dedication in case a project is failing that the workers are happy to do overtime.
Maybe if these same companies actually showed an ounce of dedication to their employees, they'd get some back?
Come to think of it she was right and has a right to be happy like everyone else.
She is not right. She is nothing but a bitch. And you are pussy whipped. Grow a pair. You have a right to be happy too.
Yes, but now the old guy has to prove that they didn't hire him because he was old, and not because of his skills, or any other reason. And that can take years. Meanwhile, he still doesn't have a job, and has to pay attorney's fees.
Agreed. However, you'd be hard pressed to actually get that enforced, as lawyers are cheap, and the laws are written so as to cover the ass of most businesses so they can get away with this bullshit.
I wish it were not true but lets see how long your wife or gf will stay with you if you have no job? Give it a try?
That's a stupid fucking statement. Of course people need money to live. Doesn't mean that someone should have to work for 10-12 hours a day to make it happen.
but she has a right to want what her exhusband made
No, she doesn't. If she wanted to continue that standard of living, maybe she shouldn't have left him.
It is true after a certain amount money wont make you happy anymore but that amount is close to $100,000 a year.
Americans are lazy and wont pick vegatables in Alabama despite a 9% unemployment rate and a wage of up to a whole $10/hr!
Care to point out how that proves anything about laziness? $10/hour isn't a lot of money, and that's back-breaking work. Sounds more like the farmers are bitching that they can't exploit cheap labor anymore.
That is a lot of money coming from someone making just $7.50 at McDonalds. I would be happy to pick vegetables to pay off my student loans as I am broke now and I am not too good for these jobs.
Then go take one. No one is stopping you.
There are plenty of jobs but no one wants to do them as they are embarrasing for people with higher goals in life. But they still can't get filled as accountants, graduates, and others prefer to watch TV and collect unemployment than to mow lawns and stock shelves.
Maybe if you actually stopped to think once in a while, you wouldn't be stuck in a McDonald's job. You do realize that a lot of those "jobs" you say are plentifully available quite simply aren't, right? McDonald's held a "hiring fair" over the summer. Most locations had several hundred applicants, for only a handful of jobs. Does that say "plenty of jobs" to you? Furthermore, have you ever examined the cost of taking some of those jobs? For many people, those jobs quite simply DO NOT PAY ENOUGH to live on and support a family. And don't give me any bullshit about "Should have made sure you had money before breeding." Most of those people had solid jobs before Wall Street decided to shit all over the economy.
Americans simply don't need those jobs bad enough, even if they are unemployed. Our standard of living is too high.
That's a completely absurd statement. It has nothing to do with needing the job more or not. It has everything to do with the idea that the job simply does not pay enough. Hell, a job like that wouldn't even pay enough to cover transportation costs to and from the job.
Increasing wages by 18.75% can easily be the straw that breaks the camel's back when a company is deciding if it's going to do business here or elsewhere.
Not when that elsewhere has wages of a tiny fraction of what you're currently paying.
And regarding the John Galts, it's definitely what they interpret the book to mean.
Maybe that comes from the fact that Asians are not as lazy and against "stupid jobs" (when they are in fact the most useful ones) as Americans?
Not in the least. I'm gonna go with the fact that companies who offer those jobs would want to pay Americans the same amount of money they pay the Asians, which is not nearly enough to get by on in this country, let alone raise a family.
Yeah, no. That in no way, shape, or form excuses this bullshit. This man is a quack, a fraud, and a complete pile of shit. He deserves to be taken out back and shot.
But here's my problem: Fully aside from this guy being a genuine quack, why not just test his therapy fully and completely? Follow his specs and advice to the proverbial "T". Prove him wrong beyond a reasonable doubt and put an end to it.
It has been done, and shown to not work. His claiming that it wasn't done right is just bitching to cover up the fact that his stuff doesn't work.
Yeah yeah, tinfoil hat "Big Pharma is evil!" conspiracies. At least they can provide peer reviewed studies and clinical trials regarding their treatments, which is a fuckload more than these quack assholes can do.
If his treatment had any merit whatsoever, he wouldn't need to sue those that criticize his research.
Furthermore, by being the type of person to silence critics, he's instantly become a complete pile of shit, regardless of how effective his treatment is.
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and don't allow trivial or obvious patents.
But how? In order for that to work, you'd have to get patent examiners who are experts in their field. The problem with that is then you'd have to pay them the wages to go along with that. Doubtful that's going to happen, especially during this time of "Government employees are evil! They should be forced to make slave wages!"
I've had some great ideas for products, but know that the big companies would just steal my ideas, then if/when it went to court, it would be 10 years later, at which time the idea would seem obvious, even though it was innovative at the time of invention.
This just sounds like a butthurt excuse.
Uhh, wrong. Money is definitely a significant barrier to entry in many industries.
Corporations, companies, businesses are not there "to create profit".
Actually, that's all they exist for. Whatever they do to create that profit is secondary.
but after reading the link above book and seeing how in Alabama that no American would bother picking vegetables at $10/hr (not minimum wage!) when unemployment is over 9% shocked me!
No, what should shock you is how the farmers there would rather bitch and moan about not being able to find workers, rather than simply increase the wage like they need to. Apparently workers need to take "lower end jobs", but when employers can't find people, they don't need to increase the wage they're paying.
say Yes Sir with a smile when something needed to get done.
That's because over there, they're trained not to think. They're trained to promise whatever you need to do, regardless of whether it can actually be done or not. Being able to say "Yes, Sir!" with a smile is NOT some kind of virtue or ideal. It's simply pure stupidity.
and they love the dedication in case a project is failing that the workers are happy to do overtime.
Maybe if these same companies actually showed an ounce of dedication to their employees, they'd get some back?
Come to think of it she was right and has a right to be happy like everyone else.
She is not right. She is nothing but a bitch. And you are pussy whipped. Grow a pair. You have a right to be happy too.
I think the Libertarians would simply not care, and decide that he should just off himself, and decrease the surplus population.
Yes, but now the old guy has to prove that they didn't hire him because he was old, and not because of his skills, or any other reason. And that can take years. Meanwhile, he still doesn't have a job, and has to pay attorney's fees.
Agreed. However, you'd be hard pressed to actually get that enforced, as lawyers are cheap, and the laws are written so as to cover the ass of most businesses so they can get away with this bullshit.
So in other words, you're a hypocrite. Got it.
If those jobs were so awesome, you'd have gone to take one. If you think they are so great, move to Alabama and get one. Otherwise STFU.
I wish it were not true but lets see how long your wife or gf will stay with you if you have no job? Give it a try?
That's a stupid fucking statement. Of course people need money to live. Doesn't mean that someone should have to work for 10-12 hours a day to make it happen.
but she has a right to want what her exhusband made
No, she doesn't. If she wanted to continue that standard of living, maybe she shouldn't have left him.
It is true after a certain amount money wont make you happy anymore but that amount is close to $100,000 a year.
Actually, it's closer to $75k. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019628,00.html
Americans are lazy and wont pick vegatables in Alabama despite a 9% unemployment rate and a wage of up to a whole $10/hr!
Care to point out how that proves anything about laziness? $10/hour isn't a lot of money, and that's back-breaking work. Sounds more like the farmers are bitching that they can't exploit cheap labor anymore.
That is a lot of money coming from someone making just $7.50 at McDonalds. I would be happy to pick vegetables to pay off my student loans as I am broke now and I am not too good for these jobs.
Then go take one. No one is stopping you.
There are plenty of jobs but no one wants to do them as they are embarrasing for people with higher goals in life. But they still can't get filled as accountants, graduates, and others prefer to watch TV and collect unemployment than to mow lawns and stock shelves.
Maybe if you actually stopped to think once in a while, you wouldn't be stuck in a McDonald's job. You do realize that a lot of those "jobs" you say are plentifully available quite simply aren't, right? McDonald's held a "hiring fair" over the summer. Most locations had several hundred applicants, for only a handful of jobs. Does that say "plenty of jobs" to you? Furthermore, have you ever examined the cost of taking some of those jobs? For many people, those jobs quite simply DO NOT PAY ENOUGH to live on and support a family. And don't give me any bullshit about "Should have made sure you had money before breeding." Most of those people had solid jobs before Wall Street decided to shit all over the economy.
Apparently to people like him, if you don't spend every waking minute slaving away for someone else, you're "lazy".
Fuck that. You call us lazy, I say they work too fucking hard.
There is no fucking reason whatsoever why someone should spend half their fucking day having to work.
You have not convinced anyone that Americans are "lazy". You have brought evidence that labor protections need to come to those Asian countries.
Americans simply don't need those jobs bad enough, even if they are unemployed. Our standard of living is too high.
That's a completely absurd statement. It has nothing to do with needing the job more or not. It has everything to do with the idea that the job simply does not pay enough. Hell, a job like that wouldn't even pay enough to cover transportation costs to and from the job.
Increasing wages by 18.75% can easily be the straw that breaks the camel's back when a company is deciding if it's going to do business here or elsewhere.
Not when that elsewhere has wages of a tiny fraction of what you're currently paying.
And regarding the John Galts, it's definitely what they interpret the book to mean.
What about cost of living, though? I would imagine it is a good deal lower.
Who the fuck was talking about Budweiser and Miller? Why the fuck would you even bring them up in a discussion about 'real beer'?
They also have ...real beer
The US has plenty of "real beer". Look for beer brewed locally, or regionally, instead of the "light" macrobrews found everywhere on TV.
In fact, the US now has more small breweries than it did back near the turn of the century, before prohibition, and before national breweries.
Maybe that comes from the fact that Asians are not as lazy and against "stupid jobs" (when they are in fact the most useful ones) as Americans?
Not in the least. I'm gonna go with the fact that companies who offer those jobs would want to pay Americans the same amount of money they pay the Asians, which is not nearly enough to get by on in this country, let alone raise a family.
No, the positions you've put forth: That lying is not wrong.
Yeah, no. That in no way, shape, or form excuses this bullshit. This man is a quack, a fraud, and a complete pile of shit. He deserves to be taken out back and shot.
But here's my problem: Fully aside from this guy being a genuine quack, why not just test his therapy fully and completely? Follow his specs and advice to the proverbial "T". Prove him wrong beyond a reasonable doubt and put an end to it.
It has been done, and shown to not work. His claiming that it wasn't done right is just bitching to cover up the fact that his stuff doesn't work.
Yeah yeah, tinfoil hat "Big Pharma is evil!" conspiracies. At least they can provide peer reviewed studies and clinical trials regarding their treatments, which is a fuckload more than these quack assholes can do.
If his treatment had any merit whatsoever, he wouldn't need to sue those that criticize his research.
Furthermore, by being the type of person to silence critics, he's instantly become a complete pile of shit, regardless of how effective his treatment is.
Scientology has operatives in many, many places of power that helps them get away with that shit.
Oh bullshit. You're just trying to troll everyone here.