Any time a corporate executive is jailed, for whatever reason, it's good for everyone.
I subscribe to "broken windows theory" when it comes to corporate crime. If you let one get away with even a minor crime, the rest will think it's OK to do something a little bigger, until we end up with what we've got now.
Better to make an example of a few executives. Don't put them in any country club prison, either. Use public stocks, heads on pikes, I don't care. Just let them know they are not the masters of the universe.
And if you want to know why college is so much more expensive now, they'll tell you they would have to hire 50 new accountants, 30 middle managers, 2 staff assistants, and have a building built to house them.
A few years ago, the University of Illinois at Chicago spent $1.5 million to renovate the chancellor's residence, which had been completely renovated 3 years before. She had a round-the-clock campus security detail assigned to her in the safest neighborhood in the city and a town car and driver on call. I know all this because we lived across the alley. It was five blocks from campus.
I'm out of the game now, but my wife is still an active math professor, so I get to see first-hand what's going on. Higher education is eating itself, and they wonder why they're being challenged by online diploma mills.
The idea that teaching should be customized to match students' learning styles was originally promoted by a company that made money selling learning styles tests to schools. It turns out it is very difficult to prove if it works or not. And it's very expensive to implement.
I'd go even further. What passes for science in pedagogy is complete flim-flam. Education departments are packed with mediocrity, yet they are taking a bigger and bigger share of the focus in teaching basic sciences in higher education.
That's why we still have 150 students in a lecture hall - cost.
Considering the size of some endowments it seems like universities are being somewhat selective about which costs matter. Administrators are getting bigger and bigger raises and bonuses, while full professors get replaced by adjuncts who make less than the minimum wage. So those lectures with 150 students are given by someone with little experience and who doesn't even get basic benefits like health care or a sick day, while administrators are being given seven figure salaries.
A smaller and smaller percentage of the money in higher education is actually being spent on educating students, but the football coach is the highest-paid public employee in the state.
We're replacing our lower level physics lectures because of this, and doing our best to measure the effects. The upper level physics courses, it turns out, were always more like the new model, if for no other reason than the classes have always been very small and it simply works better for everyone to be working things out rather than the prof talking to a few students.
There's a big movement in mathematics, even in 400 level and graduate courses, toward group work. Surprisingly, this seems to work pretty well. When you work with someone else, you have to be able to state the problem, and it's surprising how many math PhDs are still unable to clearly state a problem.
I don't know what's best, and it's a shame that there may be groups of students who will be part of educational experiments that don't really pan out. But it's probably a good thing overall that we try different things.
there are a lot of signs in the bay area that are not in english. some store or bar or something
Yes, and if you'd gone to any city's Chinatown any time in the past century, you would find signs in...Chinese. If you go to certain sections of New York City, you'll find signs in Hebrew. If you walk down Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, you'll see signs in Polish. The city's best bakery, on Chicago Avenue, has a blackboard with signs in Slovenian. I went into a coffee and sandwich shop in Boston's Italian neighborhood and the sign said, "calzone", which if I'm not mistaken, is an Italian word. I went to a French restaurant here in Houston with my wife, and the menu was in French.
What you're talking about is nothing new. We have always been a country of immigrants. Always. And it's always been our greatest strength. If you think this basic American principle is now outdated for some reason, I wonder which other basic American principles you believe have sell-by dates.
How many of that great success (which it is, by the way - I'm much the same, grandparents were all 3rd grade - or earlier - dropouts, farmers and cooks) demanded to be taught in their native language only, to have their own culture completely accepted and made of more import than the US culture, demanded free food, housing, and anything else, and expected obedience from the existing population?
Did your grandfather collect welfare? EBT? Get free medical treatment in any emergency room in the country?
No, because it was before the rise of the "private sector health care". What, you didn't know that in the early 20th century medical care in the US was almost entirely non-profit?
Did he send a large portion of his earnings back to Sicily?
Absolutely. He sent money back until he could afford to bring his mother, and then his brother.
but I'm pretty sure neither Trump nor any American citizen* has any issues with LEGAL Immigration.
Yeah they do. Trump wants to severely reduce the number of LEGAL immigrants we take in and his supporters are frothing white supremacists who would completely end all immigration tomorrow.
Trump has admitted that he wants to stop all legal immigration for one or two years.
People bringing nothing, and actually sending whatever money they make back to their original country to feed their relatives back home = drain on the economy
Pay attention, you stupid cunt.
My grandfather came here from Sicily not knowing a word of English, and his only work experience was as a shepherd. A fucking shepherd. His son, my father, won a Bronze Star in WWII fighting with Merrill's Marauders. I have a PhD and made enough money to retire at 50. My wife came to the US from Eastern Europe knowing little English and her only work experience was as a stewardess. She got a PhD in Math and is now a tenured Math professor at a top tier university. Our daughter is finishing her PhD in Math right now and has been running a successful startup of her own.
The immigrants in my family came here with nothing. They sent money back to family. Guys like Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and you aren't fit to shine their shoes or the shoes of their progeny.
You are correct that unions seek seniority rules (compensation based on how long you've been a member, rather than based on your skill and/or productivity).
Professional unions do seek compensation rules based on skill and/or productivity. There are many types of unions.
Why don't individual workers get the same protections?
Son, you are dangerously close to actually figuring this thing out. Why don't individual workers get the same protections? Because ownership and management don't want to give them those same protections. In the absence of a union, there is absolutely no counterbalance to corporate power. In many places, corporations have monopsonistic power over the employment market. In an environment of increasing consolidation, those monopsonies will only increase. You don't want to see what happens then. The alternative to balancing the power between labor and capital is inevitably social unrest. It's the reason labor unions came to exist in the first place: Because there was a real threat of communism in western democracies. It was happening here in the US before the rise of the labor movement.
Problem is, I can join a unionised company, be just flat out fucking better than any other cunt in there, and the union would demand I get paid fuck all because I'm new and haven't been there fifteen years.
You are conflating trade unions with professional unions.
It's pretty clear that the people who are most hostile to unions are the people who understand them least. I'm sorry, friend, but you are insufficiently informed.
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It's discredited when it comes to neighborhoods. It's not been discredited when it comes to corporate executives. Lock them up.
Remember who you're talking to, MM.
Executive white-collar criminals cannot be rehabilitated. Look it up.
Any time a corporate executive is jailed, for whatever reason, it's good for everyone.
I subscribe to "broken windows theory" when it comes to corporate crime. If you let one get away with even a minor crime, the rest will think it's OK to do something a little bigger, until we end up with what we've got now.
Better to make an example of a few executives. Don't put them in any country club prison, either. Use public stocks, heads on pikes, I don't care. Just let them know they are not the masters of the universe.
A few years ago, the University of Illinois at Chicago spent $1.5 million to renovate the chancellor's residence, which had been completely renovated 3 years before. She had a round-the-clock campus security detail assigned to her in the safest neighborhood in the city and a town car and driver on call. I know all this because we lived across the alley. It was five blocks from campus.
I'm out of the game now, but my wife is still an active math professor, so I get to see first-hand what's going on. Higher education is eating itself, and they wonder why they're being challenged by online diploma mills.
There is no such thing as a "non-integrating culture".
The Cleveland Steamers are my favorite minor league baseball team.
The cleaning lady asked to use my computer and now she's pregnant.
I'd go even further. What passes for science in pedagogy is complete flim-flam. Education departments are packed with mediocrity, yet they are taking a bigger and bigger share of the focus in teaching basic sciences in higher education.
Considering the size of some endowments it seems like universities are being somewhat selective about which costs matter. Administrators are getting bigger and bigger raises and bonuses, while full professors get replaced by adjuncts who make less than the minimum wage. So those lectures with 150 students are given by someone with little experience and who doesn't even get basic benefits like health care or a sick day, while administrators are being given seven figure salaries.
A smaller and smaller percentage of the money in higher education is actually being spent on educating students, but the football coach is the highest-paid public employee in the state.
There's a big movement in mathematics, even in 400 level and graduate courses, toward group work. Surprisingly, this seems to work pretty well. When you work with someone else, you have to be able to state the problem, and it's surprising how many math PhDs are still unable to clearly state a problem.
I don't know what's best, and it's a shame that there may be groups of students who will be part of educational experiments that don't really pan out. But it's probably a good thing overall that we try different things.
Well said.
Yes, and if you'd gone to any city's Chinatown any time in the past century, you would find signs in...Chinese. If you go to certain sections of New York City, you'll find signs in Hebrew. If you walk down Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, you'll see signs in Polish. The city's best bakery, on Chicago Avenue, has a blackboard with signs in Slovenian. I went into a coffee and sandwich shop in Boston's Italian neighborhood and the sign said, "calzone", which if I'm not mistaken, is an Italian word. I went to a French restaurant here in Houston with my wife, and the menu was in French.
What you're talking about is nothing new. We have always been a country of immigrants. Always. And it's always been our greatest strength. If you think this basic American principle is now outdated for some reason, I wonder which other basic American principles you believe have sell-by dates.
You don't know any immigrants, do you?
No, because it was before the rise of the "private sector health care". What, you didn't know that in the early 20th century medical care in the US was almost entirely non-profit?
Absolutely. He sent money back until he could afford to bring his mother, and then his brother.
No, only the Trump supporters.
Sixty percent of Americans are "Trump-hating liberals", I guess.
https://projects.fivethirtyeig...
Yeah they do. Trump wants to severely reduce the number of LEGAL immigrants we take in and his supporters are frothing white supremacists who would completely end all immigration tomorrow.
Trump has admitted that he wants to stop all legal immigration for one or two years.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...
Pay attention, you stupid cunt.
My grandfather came here from Sicily not knowing a word of English, and his only work experience was as a shepherd. A fucking shepherd. His son, my father, won a Bronze Star in WWII fighting with Merrill's Marauders. I have a PhD and made enough money to retire at 50. My wife came to the US from Eastern Europe knowing little English and her only work experience was as a stewardess. She got a PhD in Math and is now a tenured Math professor at a top tier university. Our daughter is finishing her PhD in Math right now and has been running a successful startup of her own.
The immigrants in my family came here with nothing. They sent money back to family. Guys like Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and you aren't fit to shine their shoes or the shoes of their progeny.
Hopefully, Shkreli will end up being Donald Trump Jr's cellmate.
Local man uses wikipedia in plea for perspective. Goes up in flames.
"Who cares about your so-called "study"? I HAVE WIKIPEDIA DAMMIT."
Professional unions do seek compensation rules based on skill and/or productivity. There are many types of unions.
Son, you are dangerously close to actually figuring this thing out. Why don't individual workers get the same protections? Because ownership and management don't want to give them those same protections. In the absence of a union, there is absolutely no counterbalance to corporate power. In many places, corporations have monopsonistic power over the employment market. In an environment of increasing consolidation, those monopsonies will only increase. You don't want to see what happens then. The alternative to balancing the power between labor and capital is inevitably social unrest. It's the reason labor unions came to exist in the first place: Because there was a real threat of communism in western democracies. It was happening here in the US before the rise of the labor movement.
That's nothing. This Indian man survived 70 years without food, water or going to the bathroom.
http://nationalpost.com/g00/ne...
You are conflating trade unions with professional unions.
It's pretty clear that the people who are most hostile to unions are the people who understand them least. I'm sorry, friend, but you are insufficiently informed.