Comment Re:Do you guys really make that much? (Score 1) 660
Your problem is that you live in the Boston area, one of the sector-segregated, non-fluid labor markets in the country with a high cost of living to boot. Get the hell out of there.
Your problem is that you live in the Boston area, one of the sector-segregated, non-fluid labor markets in the country with a high cost of living to boot. Get the hell out of there.
Completely agreed on the Boston front. Probably the most miserable 5 months of my life, when I lived in Boston.
$1400 for a basement-floor one-bedroom apartment that hasn't been repaired since the Great Depression? Oh wow, sign me up for that again!
What on Earth are you trying to say? You mean to tell me that overproduction leads to a steady fall in the rate of profit until capitalism goes into crisis and the excess capacity is consumed or destroyed in a great crashing conflagration?
WHY, NOBODY HAS EVER FIGURED THAT OUT BEFORE! Surely and certainly not some messed-up 19th century German economist, journalist and activist named Karl Marx. Definitely probably not.
How did you afford $17,000/year in rent while living on a grad-student stipend?
Technically, government is capable of generating a profit. it just never captures the profit for itself. The profit instead becomes an externality, absorbed by society as a whole.
Why should it disturb you? With only $250,000 after 30 years of work, you'll never afford to retire.
Most actual poor, in fact 75% of the US population, are debtors. Inflation helps debtors.
Silicon Wadi is over here, and we're not an at-will area. We're an employment-by-contract country.
Odd, I have not seen a need to have my paycheck garnished in order to pay the wages of a bunch of executives who do nothing for me. You already get enough of that with company management as it is.
Oh, so you want to get rid of management? You're a socialist?
I've been there I would never say its better, in fact I feel sad for them, there is no exceptional-ism, most of time I've stayed always left with a feeling they are just existing, not for the worse but not fort he best either.
If everyone was exceptional, nobody would be. Warping an entire society around the desires and mores of the most exceptional is perverse.
Or in other words, you need to acquiesce to labor arbitrage being used to beat down your wages.
Stop agreeing so hard with GP. Small businesses tend to be less rationalized and hyperefficient than megacorps, so they need more labor to make less profit. That doesn't make them the "backbone of the economy", that makes them the inefficient backbone of employment.
No, we can't. Moving too many times as a kid damaged my life and my ability to get along with others. Kids need a stable community.
Frankly, the chances of a randomly-selected American child becoming a permanently-employed scientist are about as good as becoming a professional football player or a rock star, but science is harder and pays less.
People are different from each other. That's where the "libertarian" model of uniform preferences breaks down.
No man is an island if he's on at least one mailing list.
