Comment Re:It's working so well in Venezuela (Score 1) 530
Machines aren't lazy
Marxist communism relies on a level of mechanized production that STILL doesn't fully exist yet.
Machines aren't lazy
Marxist communism relies on a level of mechanized production that STILL doesn't fully exist yet.
Please stop with the anti-communist propaganda, it's not 1960 anymore.
Real communism doesn't even have a "boss"
Working twice as long and earning twice as much is fine, but right now we have people who work 1/10th as much, and earn 10 times more (CEOs, lawyers, stock investors, bankers, politicians, etc)
Replacing workers with robots is not inherently bad. Under the right economic model, having robots do all the work while humans have 100% leisure time would be an admirable goal. The problems begin when workers replaced by robots have no means to acquire food/shelter/resources.
This is the problem that communism was intended to solve. But instead of simply taxing the capitalists, the idea is that the companies will belong directly to the public, with what is essentially a 100% "tax" on all profits.
In ideal communism (which has never existed afaik) the proceeds from increased efficiency would be redistributed to the people. The more efficient the production becomes, the more everyone prospers (either though higher tax revenue for exported products, or lower costs for domestic products)
In Minnesota, its $1000/mo for a household of 1, that's what I meant when I said "for a single person"
Even if you have roommates, they don't count as part of your household unless you also share food costs. Just sharing rent (or sharing a house) doesn't count, so you are still considered a household of 1.
Doh, I typed it into the calculator wrong.
It's actually less than $6.25 even, because there are 52 weeks in a year, not 48 ( which is 4.33 weeks per month), which works out to $5.75/hr
Karl Marx saw this coming over 150 years ago
The final end result of mass mechanized production is that the available workers will far outnumber the available jobs, and this is the problem that communism was intended to solve.
Unfortunately, communism has earned a fatally bad reputation after being misused by so many dictators during the 20th century.
What fast food place pays it's base-level workers $15/hour? A lot of places don't even pay shift managers that much.
Also, the poverty level (at least in Minnesota anyway) is currently $1000 per month for a single person, which works out to just over $11.50/hour at 40 hours/week.
The cost of labor is increasing rapidly in China, especially in terms of US dollars.
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
The lax pollution controls still make it cheaper to produce things in China though, despite the narrowing labor price difference.
There is a plugin for firefox (no idea why it needs a plugin, but whatever) that allows you to access the "hidden" youtube settings. One of these settings allows you to disable dash entirely. There are also settings to disable auto-quality, and to set a default quality level.
Trying to click "your results" just gives me a popup saying "Results from your location are not available".
It doesn't tell me what my "location" is, and it doesn't give me any option to change the location (since the "change location" link is on the results page that it refuses to show me)
If the location auto detect fails, it should give the user an option to manually set the location (or browse other locations), instead of just refusing to give any results whatsoever.
It's not a lack of feeling like "fitting in", it's a distinct feeling of NOT fitting in, there is a big difference.
"The average person" is an expression, not a statistical statement.
It's hard to fit into a world where the average person really is dumber than you.
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen
