Comment Re:Gonna be a tough sell in some circles. (Score 2) 72
Which is probably for the best since we're talking about genetic vaccination. Homogeneity is usually not a desirable trait in a species's genome.
This is where the 2nd Amendment comes in. At least I'm fairly sure that violently overthrowing the government was one of the reasons it was put in, given that they'd just finished doing exactly that with privately owned firearms.
Right, the 80% failure rate is entirely because nobody failing could manage a taco stand. It couldn't be because of entrenched competition and that there simply isn't enough consumption to support that many businesses.
That is a failure of management. Business decisions like where to put the taco stand are the absolute most important thing any management does. Stupid ones that cause a business to fail are almost certainly caused by bad management.
There is no such thing as unskilled labor. The skill doesn't come from the labor or base education required it comes from the individual performing it. In high school I worked in a McDonalds, there were individuals who could produce 4-6x as much output in the same time frame as their co-workers. They might have been "flipping burgers" but they were skilled at it and the difficulty rating of performing that job at that level by far exceeds anything being done by management in the store both mentally and physically.
The hell there isn't. Anything that can be learned in an afternoon is not a skill. Nobody gives a damn if you're 20x more efficient at flipping a burger. It won't make a difference to anyone but the person who's being efficient. A manager who can make his store 20x more efficient in the numbers that actually matter is a fiscal God and will be rapidly promoted.
Let's be real clear here. What matters in business is making money. First, last, and only. If your job can be done with minimal training by a highschool kid for minimum wage, it should be. Anyone demanding more is a greedy fuck of a fool but doing his job poorly will probably not cost an entire shop to close down.
The same is not true for management. You get a bad manager in and everyone may very well lose their job because the shop gets closed. Most managers are not espeically good though, which is why they are managing a McDonalds instead of a region of them.
When something like 80% of startups go out of business?
Thank you. That saves me from having to yet again restate that most people can not do management well.
Also what cheap imported labor in your world the imported labor are simply making less money because aren't as capable and your analysis that only their lack of capability separates them means they'd all be employing or managing... who?
Don't ask me, you're the one who thinks anyone can be a manager if they want.
Not everyone can do the job of managing because someone actually has to produce something and since the job of managing isn't that difficult you only need one of them for a large number of people actually producing goods and services directly.
True, but, and here's the thing, they have to be good at managing. Which is exceedingly rare and therefore valuable. Put a bad manager in and you have the above failed startups. Anyone, however, can be good at unskilled labor, therefore it is worth almost nothing.
Hardly. First is the fallacy that running something means you are contributing more than the people who make up the thing and therefore deserve more than them. You aren't. You are just doing another job.
Were that true, nobody, and I mean nobody, would be doing wage slave jobs. They would be running their own business and employing cheap, imported labor or managing cheap, imported labor. You can not do that which you can not do. If you can do it and do not, you either have a very good reason and therefore should quit bitching or you lack the drive and are not qualified for the position that you think you are. In no case do you deserve equal compensation to those whose skills are in greater demand than yours.
See above. This is the part where it's easy to snow people. Management can claim only to amount of work it takes to balance some books, keep inventory, and make a schedule. In modern times, that means being able to perform data entry into a computer which automatically reorders inventory, builds the schedule, and balances the books. They are actually doing less work per hour than the guy making the taco for the most part, mentally and physically. It isn't any more work whether it is 10 staff or a thousand and shouldn't be any more pay. Oh there is more involved in managing a thousand but there aren't enough hours in the day for one guy to do it so instead that guy will actually manage 10 guys who are managing 100 guys or however many is required and not a single one of them is by and large doing anything more. There is of course the responsibility myth. But it breaks down pretty quickly in reality. If you have a staff of ten and you meet or exceed goals you as a manager get credit for this, you led your team to victory. If you fail to meet goals or something otherwise screws up, you simply show you took action by firing or punishing staff. In other words, the cream floats up for managers but generally speaking they have LESS accountability than their staff because their staff have nobody else to blame and identify as the problem and to punish or impose a policy on.
See above. Supply and demand. There IS a smaller supply of people who can manage others well than there is of people qualified for a job that only asks that you have opposable thumbs. Scarcity. Value. That you do not see this tells me that you have no clue about running a business and are unqualified to even have this argument.
Oh, why don't more people do so then? You'd think it would be a no-brainer. Hmm... Would I rather have millions per year or thousands?
The cold, hard fact of the matter is, most people are not capable and driven enough to run anything. Thus scarcity. Thus value.
As for where wealth comes from, it comes from work, be it mental or physical. If you work, you create wealth. Wage slaves can lay claim only to the fruits their own work, management can lay claim to that as well as the creation of every job an employee of theirs holds. Which is more valuable, a taco or the job of the guy making the taco?
Class warfare is a scam designed to enrich politicians and pundits while stealing wealth from everyone. It's easy to sell because poor people are just as greedy for what they haven't earned as rich people and there are a lot more of them.
BTW 1% refers to the US, not the entire world. Fuck, apply the math correctly.
Rest assured, if you're a non-destitute American, you are part of the 1% to the rest of the world and hated for it.
It's easy as fuck to convince people they deserve some of someone else's wealth through no virtue but their percieved need. Thus all forms of socialized financial systems.
That may very well be why it's not affordable.
The Chinese are not starving. This is 2013, not 1961. There are more middle class people in China than in America.
There are more every class people in China than in America.
Vs. anyone with more than half a brain, bullshit statistics do not work.
Ten or fifteen years ago this might have been true about the hardware. Today Linux is far more likely to give you a better experience than Windows with off-the-shelf kit.
As for TCO, that depends on your situation. One *nix admin can handle easily twice as many servers as an MCSE can handle Windows boxes. Five or ten times as many would probably be more realistic.
Nope. Still doesn't release as fast as most shows to bittorrent and takes longer to find what you want to watch when it is released. Add to that the worse quality, far more limited selection, and removal of content without bothering to notify you. Not easier, not quicker, not better in any way.
Maybe some day but today is not that day.
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
