Comment Re:That's easy to say (Score 1) 576
If things get really bad, the only people who will come out the other side are the ones that can actually grow food and make or repair things.
Subsidies are funded from taxes which poor people have to pay so that rich corporations can make more money.
Your ignorance of actual facts is truly amazing.
In 2016 (the latest year for which data is available) the top 1% paid more in taxes than the bottom 90%, 37.3% vs 30.5% of total taxes paid. The top 1% earned 19% of total income but paid 37% of the taxes so if anybody is paying for subsidies it is the top 1%.
if any capitalist won't pay a living wage the state can just expropriate his company.
If your capitalist lives under the threat of having his company taken from him on a whim, why would he ever start the company in the first place?
but there's always going to be a cheaper technological solution at some point to a human.
No. A robot will never fix your sink or replace your air conditioner. Non-repetitive tasks will always require people. They key to sustained employment is to learn to learn skills in things that need a human brain. Then an industry disruption doesn't mean you can't move on to something else.
As long as what you speak is understood by others, it's good enough.
That is the real issue. When I was an engineering student at the University of Texas most of my STEM classes had among the students a significant percentage of immigrant students, often Chinese or Indian. In those classes accents were rarely an issue because the professor was usually US born and the TAs were either also US born or Asian grad students. One year, however, my differential equations class was taught by a visiting professor from Germany with an accent I would say was as heavy in his direction as a typical visiting student's was in theirs. As an American I had no problem understand either accent as I was effectively in the "center." There was often difficulty, however, between the foreign students and the professor as each was far enough from the center that the combined distance from the center made communication a challenge.
Because vaccination had all but wiped them out, too many people have forgotten just how deadly these diseases can be.
I had a relative with polio. I will not be forgetting how bad these diseases can be.
Hey, let natural selection work.
This never works because of lawyers.
The Blitz company used to make plastic gas cans. They were put out of business by lawyers who sued because people who self selected out of the gene pool died when they poured gasoline directly on a fire and the flame traveled up the stream and blew up the gas can. Lawyers claimed that the company didn't make warnings prominent enough or should have installed filters that get clogged to prevent this. Never mind that the real responsibility lies with parents who failed to teach their children that you don't pour flammable liquid onto an open flame.
If enough children of anti-vaxxers die of a preventable disease, the medical community will be held responsible for inadequately encouraging people to get vaccinated.
They should not protect employees who organize others to walk off the job and disrupt the work place
At some point idealists, snowflakes and SJW warriors (maybe even Elon Musk) are going to be taught the very harsh lesson that a person is only as valuable to a company as the excess positive value they create. Disruption is negative value. Choose one's actions carefully.
It's also worth noting that the vast majority of Tesla fires involved severe accidents that totaled the car as a whole.
It would be informative to know the rate at which incidents that "total" an ICE vehicle also result in a fire. I know that what an insurance company considers a loss is not necessarily a complete loss. A severely damaged vehicle can be used for salvage parts; in fact, a friend's father once bought two "totalled" vehicles of the same model, one with front end damage and one with rear end damage and made one working car out of them. Once you light it on fire, parts become less useful as salvage.
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