That is an interesting article. But it bothers me that qPCR is the only assay they used. I'd really like to see those microarrays they talked about, it's been over 5 years and they already had the RNA from the qPCR. Either someone didn't think it was worth funding, or they didn't find anything worth publishing. Also, calmodulin is involved. There are techniques to measure and visualize calmodulin activity. Showing that calmodulin-Ca++ binding actually increases in those timeframes would be much stronger evidence for their claim.

So, no I'm not quite going to fuck myself yet. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and there's nothing extraordinary here.

I'll happily go fuck myself when this result is repeated by experienced scientists with all proper controls. If this result is unreproducible, you can go fuck yourself instead.

Providing the funds is the most important part of the transaction.

No, doing the work is the most important part of the transaction. Only in the perverted mind of a capitalist is working less important than not working. The difficulty in finding funds to pay those who work is an artifact of captialism where resources are hoarded for the benefit of a few instead of distributed for the benefit of the many.

These investments are what raise someone's worth, not hard work by itself.

And that's exactly what's wrong with capitalism. It's not what you are able to do that matters, it's how much you own.

10% more, while productivity has doubled and executive pay has increased by orders of magnitude.

I wasn't really talking about countries. I was talking about individual human psychology. When people choose to engage in behavior that harms themselves, they love to ignore the fact that they are responsible for that choice, and their lives could be better if they made different choices.

And? So? Responsible people who want good policy take human stupidity in to account. It's not their fault that they are stupid, it's human nature. It's the bankers who knowingly take advantage of that stupidity who are at fault. They know enough to know better.

She is more productive because her boss invested in better CRM software.

Notice how the boss didn't write the software. He didn't do anything of value besides provide the funds. The people actually responsible for the increase in productivity are the workers who created the tools that cause the increase in productivity. Deciding to use the tools that are availble is not such a difficult task that it should win you the lions share of what is produced with those tools. It's the design and production of those tools that is valuable, and that's done by ordinary workers.

because they were too stupid

Stupid? Or just misinformed by the financial professionals they trusted? People aren't born understanding mortgages, bankers are the ones who have the training to make responsible choices. When the FBI sent warning letters to banks that 90% of stated income loans were fraudulent, do you know how the banks responded? The *increased* the number of stated income loans they issued. Are you really going to blame the average person for that?

Taxing wealth amounts to punishment for not spending

In an economy that depends on the velocity of money, you should be punished for not spending. Especially if you have already saved enough to live on for thousands of years.

Money is a resource. Do something with it, or let someone else use that resource. Hoarding isn't good for anyone.

I can't believe that I have to explain to people here on ./ that putting more energy into a non-linear dynamic system will cause more extreme behavior of all types. We are experiencing more record highs AND record lows, more record droughts and more record rainfalls, which is exactly what you'd expect from a warming Earth.

if wages have stayed constant over the past 40 years, total compensation for the median worker has actually risen by about 9%.

Over the same period, worker productivity doubled and CEO compensation increased 700 times.

Meanwhile the average CEO wage has not just kept up with inflation, but doubled.

Doubled?

From 1978 to 2011, CEO compensation increased more than 725 percent, a rise substantially greater than stock market growth and the painfully slow 5.7 percent growth in worker compensation over the same period.

Source: Economic Policy Institute

But how can you know it's stupid?

Because if people actually wanted to die out, they could just stop reproducing and save themselves a scorched wasteland were the billions who didn't die in the water wars will envy those who did.

I'm not a breeder myself. I'm OK with my genes dying out. I just think it should be done the smart way.

I hate replying twice, but i have to point out that:
"neither has the inflation adjusted price."
is simply not true. House prices have consistently outpaced inflation for decades, until the 2008 financial crisis. But prices still haven't returned to historical norms. And if it did, it wouldn't matter because the only people experiencing a "recovery" are the super rich.

So inflation adjusted wages haven't changed. Inflation adjusted prices are higher than they were in the past. And inflation adjusted executive compensation has increased over 100x in the same period. How is this defensible?

What more are people doing today than they were in 1970 that would justify them being able to have more purchase power?

We're almost twice as productive, that's what. Notice how productivity tracked with income until the 1970s? Now the rich steal all of that.