Every Dollar, every Euro that comes out of pockets of people that are enslaved by the collectivist governments of the world that end up in the hands of people, whose jobs are based on that stolen money is pork barrel and none of it can exist in a free society. Of-course the society is not free, the people are slaves and the likes of you cheer for slavery.

Actually labour costs have become smaller and smaller proportion of total cost of business because the government made USA worker too expensive and made running a business too expensive, so wherever possible costs will be shifted from buying labour (and labour is just another price, labour is just a good/service that is provided at a price, nothing else, when prices go up people end up changing the recipe, and if it means automating away or replacing local jobs with offshore jobs that is what they will do).

USA labour is not more productive, USA MANAGEMENT is more productive by using less and less USA labour. USA labour is too expensive to use thanks USA government. USA workers are LESS productive than before because they are no longer employed.

This has been in the works for a very long time now.

2005: A new America http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

2010: batshit insane government: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...

2010: Turnstiles: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

2012: danger of starting business in USA: http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

2012: in a 'post capitalist economy' children will work again: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...

2012: USA and the Iron Curtain: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

2012: vote for Ron Paul is vote for technology http://ask.slashdot.org/commen...

2012: hydra like government http://news.slashdot.org/comme...

2013: on Woz compares Cloud and PRISM to Communist Russia http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

2011: Local Currencies To Replace Dollar For 5 Countries' Dealings : http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

2012: 'supporting the government' : http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

destruction of standard oil as example of government cancer http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

long term economic and social prosperity, USA nation of men rather than of laws: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

2012: On NDAA: http://politics.slashdot.org/c...

(journal on NDAA) http://slashdot.org/journal/27...

(journal on a man being convicted on issuing competing currency to the USD) http://slashdot.org/submission...

on copyrights and patents being oppressive laws destructive to the economy and society:
http://politics.slashdot.org/c...
http://politics.slashdot.org/c...

journal: Interpreting the Constitution = breaking the law. : http://slashdot.org/journal/31...

2012: USA is bankrupt: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

2012: collectivist government: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

2012: USA runs a war economy http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

It's not a guy manifesto, it's not a 'geeky' manifesto, I would say the keyword here being manifesto (and much of what it carries).

Here is my take on the entire situation:

this is the age of the socialist welfare state, the time when people feel that others owe them something and if they are not immediately given what they believe the others owe them, they are out to take it, steal it or murder it. This one decided that the government is not big enough to fulfil his insane desire for women to give him what he believes he had the entitlement to. So since he would not be just given it on a silver platter, he decided to take the matters into his own hands. When the collectivist mob uses government to steal from a productive minority under the barrel of a gun (call it taxes and regulations) this one wouldn't be given pussy on a silver platter, but since he is a product of this collectivist mob, he decided that violence is the correct response for this perceived 'injustice'. What can I say, he is a perfect example of the ideology that has permeated through the collectivist / socialist / fascist mob that we call 'society' today.

- this is how I know you are dumber than 76% of the Swiss.

There shouldn't be a minimum wage at all. I hired 4 people just in the last month (all students) and the condition was that they come in for free for a few weeks to learn until they can be put on a project. 3 of them are already on a project, so they are now getting paid. 1 of them is not and I talked to the guy and told him that I like his effort and ethic but his performance is god awful. I will pay him 1/3 of what I pay others and that would be at least 30% less than minimum wage in USA for example when compared in across currencies.

But I have a choice to do this or not, however if there was a minimum wage law and I had to abide by it, I would send the kid home, I would NOT hire him and NOBODY would.

The people that are rallying the troops behind minimum wage and increase of minimum wage believe that the minimum wage workers are supposed to be paid a 'living wage' for some reason, but that's pure nonsense. Nobody is entitled to any such thing, you are only as good as your productivity and ability / experience, etc., but most importantly productive output of-course. If you are skilled and are able to use complex tools to perform complex tasks in an efficient manner, you will be making much more than the minimum wage.

If you have no skills and the only job you can get in your economy is an ENTRY level job then you can either have that job if there is no minimum wage law or you can without a job because you are not going to be paid more than the money you can make for the employer.

WM, McDonalds an other jobs of that type are all entry level jobs. The fact that your economy is fucked so bad that other jobs are unavailable is only an indicator that your economy and policy is just as stupid as you are, because your type of policy is what destroyed that economy.

So you have nothing at all to add, nothing at all to answer with, thus you answer with a personal attack. The 'kooks' are the likes of you.

Sure, some of it is just murder advertising by the media, however here is my take on this:

this is the age of the socialist welfare state, the time when people feel that others owe them something and if they are not immediately given what they believe the others owe them, they are out to take it, steal it or murder it. This one decided that the government is not big enough to fulfil his insane desire for women to give him what he believes he had the entitlement to. So since he would not be just given it on a silver platter, he decided to take the matters into his own hands. When the collectivist mob uses government to steal from a productive minority under the barrel of a gun (call it taxes and regulations) this one wouldn't be given pussy on a silver platter, but since he is a product of this collectivist mob, he decided that violence is the correct response for this perceived 'injustice'. What can I say, he is a perfect example of the ideology that has permeated through the collectivist / socialist / fascist mob that we call 'society' today.

USA destroyed human rights that used to be protected under its Supreme law - the Constitution. That is incidentally the reason for the huge collapse it is experiencing in the economy - out of control government.

Individual freedoms ( actual human rights) are attacked on every front in the USA ( and the rest of the world) on a daily basis via the private property protection destruction - the class warfare and the collectivism - politics of envy and welfare state. There will be no significant progress in any useful field (useful for the people)if therr is no individual freedom.

Carly? Sure, she didn't know what was going on, however it is not an HP problem, this is America's problem. Actually this is a collectivist problem, a Marxist problem, a communist problem, a fascist problem.

This is a problem of government that grows based on inflation - creating money out of thin air and then pretending that inflation is good for you, while in reality it is used to prop up asset purchases by the US 'too big to fail' and it's used to prop up the failing USA welfare state. This is a problem of government, the very existence of government is the problem. There is no reason to have any centralised governments in a global economy, but never mind reason, there is no justification to have a monopoly on violence when when have already proven as a species that we do best when we are free as individuals to innovate, to create new ideas and businesses, to build supply, which increases competition and lowers prices.

The problem with HP and so many others is that they are operating in a non-free environment by the rules set up by the collectivist propagandists that are hell bent on ruling you, not on letting live.

Yes, he does, he killed a bunch of people in a somewhat disturbing manner.

The entire problem is that the government exists to ask permission from in the first place. But like TFS says:

- from this I can't figure out if

Let's extend the so called 'problem' from TFS into another government area: war on poverty.

What if poverty ends? What would all those government 'workers' do... what is the next plantation for the slave owners to graze upon if the current one expires for the reasons that by some miraculous mistake that they allow, the poverty actually ends? After all, poverty wasn't an issue when 'war on poverty' started, poverty levels were going down, not up.

What would all those government officials do? Do you mean to say that they all should stay there, collecting their welfare checks anyway? (and when I say welfare checks I literally mean welfare checks, not salaries, government workers do not get legitimate salaries, they get welfare from the State, which steals that money from the legitimate economy).

The problem in your statement is obvious - red herring. If you have people asking the wrong question, then the answer will not matter. The right question is not 'which form of government is best?', the correct question comes from the first principles: 'what is virtue?' The answer is: 'non initiation of violence.' This requires that there is no form of government, since gov't by definition is monopoly on initiation of violence.

1911 is forever marked as the dark year in history of individual freedom as property rights were destroyed by the USA government with the Standard Oil antitrust case. The year that decided the future destruction of USA economy. Even IRS and the Fed came into existance 2 years later, so income tax slavery and inflation fraud had to wait 2 entire years after the first major crime against free market by USA gov't in the 20th century. State has a monopoly on violence and it uses that power to destroy our freedoms, and it is everyone's freedoms that are being violated. Some time in the future the people will see our time as yet another dark age in history, we are still the barbarians that hand monopoly on violence to a select group of skilled sociopaths that we allow above ourselfs because we are still obviously not ready to live our lives as free people.

Of-course the real problem is the fact that there 8s a government therr at all and that people are not free but instead are slaves of the system, with the government having the monopoly on 'legal' initiation of violence. Private transit would have to solve the problem of free riders without abusing monopoly power on violence and within free market competitive system the fair could not be raised significantly. Private store chains that I provide software solutions to have to deal with about 2.5-3% theft. People steal, that problem has to be addressed by many businesses.

Income taxes are ownership of the taxed under the barrel of a gun. It is slavery and the 'solution' that you call for requires more of that. Well, that is the wrong approach. The correct question must not be: how much slavery is just right? The correct question is: what is virtue? And the answer is: non initiation of violence. But that means that the State power cannot exist because it is predicated on a minority of political power holders using violence to ensure 'equal outcome'. Equal outcome can only be enforced upon a society through means of a political monopoly on violence. Some time in the future people will look back at us and view us in the same way we view the mideval times: barbarism. Barbarism and very little intelligent thought. Use of slavery and violence supposedly to resolve conflicts but in reality propagating conflicts and holding progress down by preventing individual freedom, the prerequisite to excellence.