They offer you more than minimum wage because of the existence of a minimum wage. Otherwise they'd offer you not $1 per year, but just enough to afford to return to work when added to whatever welfare they can squeeze out of government and society. Minimum wages do apply to salaried jobs as well. Check out what you can earn in countries that don't have them, and then thank a union. Or throw off the shackles of the minimum wage and get into a type of work that really doesn't have one, gig work, and let us know how that supply and demand thing works out for you.

The Luddites died in grinding poverty with all indications being that they were correct, it was their grandchildren who got the new jobs that came along as a result of the automation that ruined their grandparents. Wages and standards of living have been stagnant for a half-century at this point. There are people frantically applying to hundreds of jobs they're well-qualified for and not getting so much as an interview. Over 100 people are applying to each job opening these days, and likewise it takes over 100 job applications for an average applicant to get a job (both rather conservative estimates). If improving productivity led to rising wages, why are we not earning 40% more for the same number of hours people worked in the '70s? Why has going from mainframes and dumb terminals to present-day computing added approximately jack shit to ~90% of workers' pay?

Good for you! Especially if you work in tech. Sucks for the people who aren't part of your anecdote though.

Look up the history of the ones you don't think may have value and you'll learn about the workers who fought and/or died to get the laws in place that keep you from experiencing the same thing, which you now take for granted. Or if that's not enough, maybe you should experience a 996 work schedule in China, work alongside a nonexistent/laughably low minimum wage in a Caribbean country, or do some dangerous work in a Nigerian e-waste mine to get a taste of what happens without all those regulations.

Put the link on your website. The page doesn't have to be linked to your homepage or anything. Just tell your new client/customer/employee "go to example.com/blah and click on the link you find there."

The right way to do that is to say "I have issues X Y and Z that I want to discuss with the doctor during my appointment."

Then sufficient time can be allotted to deal with your issues and the doctor can be prepared to do whatever is needed when you walk in the door.

"Oh by the way, just one more thing" leads to running over the allotted time and can go beyond what the doctor was prepared to deal with when you walked in the door.

"Oh by the way, here are three more things" just increases the scope of the problem, of course.

" the RSL team has established a collective licensing organization, the RSL Collective, that can negotiate terms and collect royalties, similar to ASCAP for musicians or MPLC for films"

Anyone who has looked at organizations like ASCP/BMI and the like (most countries around the world have similar copyright licensing collectives) can see how well that works out for the average musician/author/whatever.

The middleman (the collective) takes their cut, then the remainder is doled out using an arbitrary formula that may or (more likely) may not reflect the real world usage of whatever it is that they're licensing.

So if a creator can sign up with one of these collectives (a significant feat in itself) then their royalty cheque may be 37 cents at the end of the year.

Copyright licensing collectives are the very definition of corrupt behaviour and insider dealing.

"That guy was paid the full value up front."

So was Shatner. His contract said he'll get paid X for doing Y, he did the work and got his cheque.

He got paid a wage for doing the work on the show.

Why should he get paid for doing that over and over again into the future?

They guy who installed the tables in the local restaurant doesn't get paid a residual for every meal sold there into the future either.

Not using Plex is the gift that keeps on giving. Why so many people went for it when there were better open-source alternatives available, I'll never know.

Trade deficit as an emergency, I think that's the economic equivalent of declaring the color of a T-shirt to be an emergency.

There are quite a few Vinfast cars going around, I wondered if people were importing them individually but then I spotted a Vinfast dealership off the highway (401 I think?) next to a Lotus dealership.

It's $3000 more than they had before this settlement, so based on a ten percent royalty (apparently that's average for a non-self-published book) that's $30,000 worth of books sold. At $20 per copy, that's 1500 individual book sales.

Chile seemed to be making something similar work with early-'70s computer technology, until Henry Kissinger decided that democratic socialism was a threat worse than Soviet communism and had the regime overthrown and replaced with a murderous right-wing dictatorship:

https://thereader.mitpress.mit...

Turns out I was wrong. So much for going from memory.

Having now actually checked, the Bards Tale 3 is 3 double-sided disks, or six "sides".

I thought you should be able to find the link to the data in the news article, but since you can't, here it is:

https://www.pewresearch.org/so...

While the planet could support more people with properly managed resources, this idea that innovation comes from pulling the genetic one-armed-bandit enough times to hit a few jackpots and pop out a few Einsteins is ludicrous. Einsteins aren't born, they're made and enabled. If you want new ideas and innovation, support and empower the people who are already there to do it. We already have lots of people who could generate new ideas including lots of potential Einsteins, they just don't have the time or conditions to make a breakthrough like he did. They're scrapping away at a shitty job that eats all their time to make an already rich person richer instead of having the time to study bleeding-edge physics etc. in their generous downtime at a chill job in a patent office. Or they've gained the skills to make breakthroughs but are wasting them on making Facebook more addictive or developing Grok.

Per capita GDP isn't even a good measure because it isn't a measure of average wealth at all, it's a measure of total national income with no regard for how big the average person's slice of the pie is at all. I think what you're looking for is median household income or median personal income.