Salaries for CEOs tend to actually be low; it's the bonuses and stock grants based on performance that increase the total compensation package - much like it would for any stockholder.
In what year did they ship "hundreds of thousands of cars"? Last year was their best year ever, and they barely broke 100,000 - a far cry from "hundreds of thousands of cars".
No, that is EXACTLY fascism. Fascism uses regulation to effectively nationalize businesses, whilst leaving the "veneer" of private enterprise. All things private must be done for the betterment of the State - and the way that is accomplished is via regulation and oversight, NOT direct ownership (which would be Socialist).
So how does the State ensure that it is serviced? And the granting of private property, and the right to privately own something, was based upon your pre-agreed subservience to the State.
Service to the State can also be "you must pay $X/hour wages. You must provide Y benefits. You must give Z% of your income to this. You must use A/B/C as your suppliers". All done via regulation.
So everyone that has called for the assassination of President Trump has committed hate speech? Someone should warn PopeRatzo around here that his statements about punching and beating Nazis is hate speech.
Nice! So can you show me a dataset that extends back a few thousand years with sub-annual resolution? Short of that - everything else you've posted is wrong.
Can you show me an EU country that does not have a capitalist economy? The oft-touted Nordic Model is fundamentally capitalist, economically - and then spends a lot of the Government largess on a social safety net. It's not a socialist system at all, where "the people" (typically represented via the Government) own or control the means of production.
At an 800,000 year scale, a "sudden" change takes thousands of years. We have reduced that to decades
Citation needed. Because the fact is we have no data supporting that claim. We can only see the past in resolution of hundreds or thousands of years, and we DO have data showing the same kind of "sudden" changes happening now as have happened just 80 years ago (check this graph, for instance).
If we had 1000s of years to slowly migrate our populations around, we wouldn't even notice, and the same is largely true of the rest of nature.
Thankfully, our ability to migrate and mitigate has increased 100 times what it was, just 100 years ago. 100 years ago, airplane travel was non-existent, the car was a novel thing, and coal boats were still slowly replacing sailing ships. Life has changed in 100 years, and IF we needed to relocate a few million people in 100 years, it would be trivial to do so. Not that we need to, however; Holgate's 2007 paper shows a slowing sea level rise, and Frederikse's 2018 paper confirms Holgate's conclusions. It's not even staying linear in increase, it's slowing down.
So you have a plan to prevent all the idiots out there from believing fake news?
Yes. It's called showing other news too. Used to be a time that contrasting viewpoints were both discussed, and the viewer could decide. We've always had idiots, always had flat-earthers, always had conspiracy theorists. But somehow it's now incumbent upon media to "protect" people from "bad" points of view? Who decides what is bad, and who decides what is allowable? Would you be OK if Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh got to dictate what you can and cannot see?
In general, fascist economies were based on private property and private initiative, but these were contingent upon service to the state.
You quoted that, and ignore that. I bolded it. Yes, you can be private and "capitalistic" as long as the needs of the State are met first. And that is done how? By regulation.
Comrade, you can do what you want and earn what you want, as long as it is in the interest of Mother Country and Mother Country gets to dictate what you are allowed to do with what you earned.
People want someone else to protect them. People want someone else to pay for everything. Seems to be the new mantra - it's someone else's responsibility. I guess the up-and-coming "I love socialism and I want to be protected from anything that I think is offensive" generation is willing the let go of all freedom to have their own little, personal bubble of supposed security...
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It's 55% - and that's on income that's already been taxed once. So how much higher should it be?
Salaries for CEOs tend to actually be low; it's the bonuses and stock grants based on performance that increase the total compensation package - much like it would for any stockholder.
In what year did they ship "hundreds of thousands of cars"? Last year was their best year ever, and they barely broke 100,000 - a far cry from "hundreds of thousands of cars".
No, that is EXACTLY fascism. Fascism uses regulation to effectively nationalize businesses, whilst leaving the "veneer" of private enterprise. All things private must be done for the betterment of the State - and the way that is accomplished is via regulation and oversight, NOT direct ownership (which would be Socialist).
We are Apple, the object of your desire. You shall have no other App Stores before me.
Well, there WAS, until the Obama Administration decided otherwise...
No, they lose billions of dollars to sell thousands of cars.
Nope.
So - $0.7B per quarter, that's about $3B per year, is it not? Revenue growth is up - and so are costs, and the losses.
Fifteen years on, and we're still losing billions to sell thousands... When does it stop?
Given the investments and losses for Tesla (who is still ~$3 billion annually in the hole), I'd say the wealth transfer business is, in fact, Tesla.
Well, that WOULD take courage to hold it near your head...
So how does the State ensure that it is serviced? And the granting of private property, and the right to privately own something, was based upon your pre-agreed subservience to the State.
Service to the State can also be "you must pay $X/hour wages. You must provide Y benefits. You must give Z% of your income to this. You must use A/B/C as your suppliers". All done via regulation.
So can you show me a Western country (like the US, or EU) that does NOT set a minimum level and encourages a smaller income gap?
The Apple iPhone Note.
So everyone that has called for the assassination of President Trump has committed hate speech? Someone should warn PopeRatzo around here that his statements about punching and beating Nazis is hate speech.
Nice! So can you show me a dataset that extends back a few thousand years with sub-annual resolution? Short of that - everything else you've posted is wrong.
Define "hate speech".
Can you show me an EU country that does not have a capitalist economy? The oft-touted Nordic Model is fundamentally capitalist, economically - and then spends a lot of the Government largess on a social safety net. It's not a socialist system at all, where "the people" (typically represented via the Government) own or control the means of production.
At an 800,000 year scale, a "sudden" change takes thousands of years. We have reduced that to decades
Citation needed. Because the fact is we have no data supporting that claim. We can only see the past in resolution of hundreds or thousands of years, and we DO have data showing the same kind of "sudden" changes happening now as have happened just 80 years ago (check this graph, for instance).
If we had 1000s of years to slowly migrate our populations around, we wouldn't even notice, and the same is largely true of the rest of nature.
Thankfully, our ability to migrate and mitigate has increased 100 times what it was, just 100 years ago. 100 years ago, airplane travel was non-existent, the car was a novel thing, and coal boats were still slowly replacing sailing ships. Life has changed in 100 years, and IF we needed to relocate a few million people in 100 years, it would be trivial to do so. Not that we need to, however; Holgate's 2007 paper shows a slowing sea level rise, and Frederikse's 2018 paper confirms Holgate's conclusions. It's not even staying linear in increase, it's slowing down.
So you have a plan to prevent all the idiots out there from believing fake news?
Yes. It's called showing other news too. Used to be a time that contrasting viewpoints were both discussed, and the viewer could decide. We've always had idiots, always had flat-earthers, always had conspiracy theorists. But somehow it's now incumbent upon media to "protect" people from "bad" points of view? Who decides what is bad, and who decides what is allowable? Would you be OK if Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh got to dictate what you can and cannot see?
In general, fascist economies were based on private property and private initiative, but these were contingent upon service to the state.
You quoted that, and ignore that. I bolded it. Yes, you can be private and "capitalistic" as long as the needs of the State are met first. And that is done how? By regulation.
Comrade, you can do what you want and earn what you want, as long as it is in the interest of Mother Country and Mother Country gets to dictate what you are allowed to do with what you earned.
People want someone else to protect them. People want someone else to pay for everything. Seems to be the new mantra - it's someone else's responsibility. I guess the up-and-coming "I love socialism and I want to be protected from anything that I think is offensive" generation is willing the let go of all freedom to have their own little, personal bubble of supposed security...
You mean that annual event called red tide?
If only the State of California didn't consistently slash it's forest-fire fighting budget. But it's more important to build a 160 kph train from Bakersfield to Modesto, so...