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This is just a distraction.

Our unfortunate reality is that of a socialization of investment; something discussed from Marx to Keynes.

In the next decades, the idea of investing become blur and centralized.

https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/references/conten...


I'm not convinced a 'calm and rational conversation' would help either. Seems like his superiors were filled with aggressiveness and testosterone.


What makes you say that? Clemans sounds like the aggressive one.


The Chief Information Officer at the time arranged the meeting to put structure around all this app development I was doing for 911: CAD remarks keyword highlighter, instant 911 call history, immediately show call out #s for a shooting etc (so dispatchers aren't leaving their desks to find the numbers in phone books), and TAC channel registration (again so they would leave their desk). It was the Captain that wouldn't go along with the Chief Information Officer was trying to accomplish.


I don't understand the need to use the word 'Whites'.

Heroin has spiked and whites correspond to ~70-80% of the population, so obviously there will be many white addicts.

The 'Drug War' exists to fight heroin usage overall; it's not targeted at a race.


Because heroin sale and use was mostly confined to poor and minority communities. Now a different population is consuming them that happens to be white and suburbanite.


A pension crisis in China would be tremendously disastrous; something one can barely picture.

With growth and technology, fertility rates goes down and emerging markets,specially BRIC nations, will be severely affected by this.


Are they better for corporations and larger companies?


larger companies like Oracle,Adobe hardly give a damn. Sometime they say "Thanks" that's it


You raise an interesting point, but the refugee 'crisis' is not driven by rationality, history, culture or even morality.

It's a sad, numb and nihilistic political game.


Why is that?

I am German - and I support the acceptance of refugees because of rationality, history, culture and especially morality.


I also support receiving them, but it is a political game. It would have made more sense to help a much larger number closer to home in countries where we could help far more people for the same amounts of money and while putting them at less risk.

The problem is that a lot of the people talking about helping them closer to home have no intention of doing so - it's an excuse not to spend money at all. It is suddenly important to help them nearer to home now, when the problem is not "contained" anymore.

Having them come to the wealthier EU countries helps drive home the seriousness of the crisis in a completely different way. Most people in Europe seems to have had no understanding of how many people need help, and have had an easy time writing these crises of as something happening far away.

That's why this is a political game. On both sides.


You morally accept them but can't functionally accept them. And morals have this downside of interfering with others in an unfair and dangerous ways. Sweden and rapes for a clear example.


First semester living in the Valley, I gained ~30 lbs and realized the same happened to most new employees(not as much me).

Somehow, the company gave the idea of change/disruption/... and that made us work a lot more. Sometimes, 15 hours a day in front of a computer. Still, PMs and execs always got all credit and I started focusing on myself. It was NOT worth it.

I ended up regaining my health and I always remind hardworking friends they're playing their own game.


" entire network of such entities by wealthy arch-conservatives and small-business organizations"

So, these 'evil networks' of small-business owners want less taxes to grow their business by making more money and employing more people?

I can't see how an employed and wealthy population could be a bad thing.


The dichotomy is between small businesses that will employ more people, and those organizations that put enriching themselves before preventing human suffering.

Lower taxes and higher owner incomes aren't 1:1 equatable to job creation or greater collective wealth.

Data: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/20...



Not "evil networks" but "entire network".

"I can't see how an employed and wealthy population could be a bad thing."

It isn't. But what we're facing is a _small_ employed and extremely wealthy fraction of the population together with a _huge_ low-paid supermajority of the population.

Small business owners want fewer and less taxes, no unions, lower wages, lower healthcare costs, fewer worker protections, etc. Left to themselves they would drive wages to zero. Small businesses join others to support certain non-profits that lobby in Washington, DC on their behalf. Nothing illegal, but one must ask such questions as: "Where are the lobbyists for low-paid workers?" or "Who will support the workers' families after the workers die from inhaling toxic substances day after day?" These are questions in which the small businessman's lobbyist has no interest.

In one chapter "Conscience of a Liberal" Krugman histories the development of this relatively new conservative and wealthy network of individuals and not-for-profit corporations. Read/skim the book for details:

http://www.amazon.com/Conscience-Liberal-Paul-Krugman/dp/039...

One of Krugman's points is that the middle class is disappearing in the USA: wealth distribution now mirrors that which existed in the so-called "Gilded Age" of the Rockefellers, Carnegie et al (late 19th-early 20th century): a small percentage of extremely rich people and a large percentage of poor, with a very small middle class.

FDR's New Deal, by increasing taxes radically on the wealthy (both inheritance and income taxes) and increasing wages, brought a strong middle-class into existence. That middle class has been the engine of the US economy but is dwindling. The solution is to restore taxes and support the worker's causes.

Gilded Age:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

"Why We’re in a New Gilded Age" by Paul Krugman:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-...

The Rich, the Right, and the Facts: Deconstructing the Income Distribution

http://prospect.org/article/rich-right-and-facts-deconstruct...


Same could be said about NY Times


Apples & right-wing think tanks.


Or even you.


>Many governments have economic advisers with degrees from the United States who share the same ideology

He's right, but the ideology is social democracy, not free market capitalism


Hey guess what? Silicon Valley is a product of massive amounts of government funding too.

DARPA's budget is about $3B this year alone. You can thank Uncle Sam for autonomous vehicles, Siri and the Internet, to pick just three.

So if investing taxes in people isn't "free market capitalism" then neither is the tech industry.


DARPA's budget is about $3B this year alone.

Compared to $10 billion in R&D for Microsoft and Intel and $8 billion for Google: http://fortune.com/2014/11/17/top-10-research-development/


Pretty much all of that money comes from selling stuff they are only able to sell because of previous government R&D.

For example, without the government leaning heavily on integrated circuits in the 60s, would Microsoft and Google even exist today?


...in late stage development which is MUCH less risky. Super risky early stage tech development mostly happens in the public sector at taxpayer expense through government agencies like DARPA.


A lot of things are easier when it happens with other people's money. A lot of those projects didn't necessarily have the expectation to make/turn a profit.


R&D in Science and Technology(for military purposes) has nothing to do with a Welfare System.

DARPA is government spending towards national security, not 'investing taxes in people'.


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