So how much could a clock cost?

It is a difference, but shouldn't be an expensive difference at non-ripoff rates.

Oh, they're all for it, just as Tepples said. As long as they don't have to think too hard about it or spend money on it. That's why they do nothing about the scenario you mention.

Not really, the salary offered is the salary offered, that's covered. What they don't like about the more experienced person is that they can't as easily con him/her into doing more for less.

The older landscaper who willingly accepts $20 to mow your lawn will just mow your lawn and expect $20. He won't also walk your dog and bag the poop and bring you your mail "just this once" every week..

I don't want to pay my electric bill. I prefer to climb the pole and discover electricity for myself. I don't want the man keeping me down making me pay my bills!

Surely, I must qualify as digital native in spite of being born in '66. I learned Fortran V ('77 wasn't out yet) on the school system's mainframe over a 300 baud modem. When I finally got a computer and modem of my own, I had to write a simple terminal program with Xmodem so I could download a real terminal program from a BBS.

My wife informs me that she is 1/Commodore 64th digital on her father's side.

Perhaps you believe the myth that the climb to wealth wasn't upon the backs of others./

That would be voting in your own interest. You value your children and their future well-being above your current well being.

Look up! You might see the point going by.

Look deeper and you'll find the myths. Even in science, it has been commented that often the old guard has to die off for new ideas to be accepted.

Apparently you believe me to be sufficiently psychic to determine which subset of myths you buy in to from an anonymous posting on /.

I must say, that's an odd one.

It would be fair to say his writing has influenced my thinking. :-)

Sure, no particular ism has a monopoly on delusions.

Often the delusions and myths are layered one upon the other so that the believer may behave in a manner repugnant to his base myth while believing he is following it to the letter.

I will agree that when it gets to the point of killing people for drawing things, it is truly sad.

But we must not pat ourselves on the back too much for managing to get over that very low hurdle. After all, we did spend decades in a cold war over who's ism is best. We killed a lot of people based on the combination of "ism-ism" and faith in "the domino theory". We have a lot of beliefs running around that cause suffering daily.

As Rich Hudds said, you are conflating myth with supernatural belief.

Many believe that medicine as practiced in the U.S. is a science when in fact it's more of a cargo cult. Others believe that name brands are actually different under the surface. Some believe the poor deserve to be poor because of something they did or didn't do. Others compound it by believing they are somehow functionally different from the preachers of prosperity gospel.

Oddest of all are those who take on faith that by purging belief in a deity they have removed all faith from their lives.

No, what contract of exchange exists when the fed prints another billion and gives it to a bank at 0% interest?