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Anonymous Coward User ID: 63598295 United States 01/22/2019 03:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | CNN Business) The world's billionaires are growing $2.5 billion richer every day, while the poorest half of the global population is seeing its net worth dwindle. Quoting: Ohio chic Billionaires, who now number a record 2,208, have more wealth than ever before, according to an Oxfam International report published Monday. Since the global financial crisis a decade ago, the number of billionaires has nearly doubled. The annual study was released ahead of the yearly World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together some of the wealthiest and most influential people on Earth. The 106-page report is meant to call attention to the growing gap between rich and poor. [link to www.google.com (secure)] Let's just pretend that these billionaires decided to spread the wealth What do you think most people who are poor would do with the money? Sure some would pay some Bill's to get caught up, only because they have to But once that's caught up they wouldn't care about the future and being behind on rent, food, etc... nope They would go and start buying TVs, cars they dont need, games, clothes they dont need, shoes they dont need, things they do not need but want When I say things they dont need, i mean extra shoes like Jordan's, etc... The people who hasn't had much in life would go crazy with all that money This is why lottery winners, most go broke in so many years So, no they should not share First of all that is not how a country should operate This would discourage people from trying to make lots of money 2nd the poor most would waste it anyways Who would open a business And work their asses off,to just have to end up giving it all away to lazy or people who dont try as hard? You see how much sense then giving their money away would not make? I see this happen during tax season >_> |
nineteeneightyfive User ID: 77290782 United States 01/22/2019 04:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And perhaps its meant to be this way. Simply, because, we see what that money does to those that DO have it, imagine if everyone had access to that kind of money, the world may not be a very pretty place, afterall? Just a thought, may have some substance to it. Maybe not. A Coot is a Bird.... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 63598295 United States 01/22/2019 04:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | like the kardashians have anything useful to teach people? or maybe beyonce does? oh wait i know, oprah will tell me how to become a better person and get wealthy! Most people will not become entertainers. Choose a different profession. In the mind of your average welfare fucktardian there are 2 ways to get rich. 1.) Born Rich 2.) Big ass, big tits, big TV show :jay: You forgot one.. 3.) Win the lottery |
Sorry To Bust Your Bubble User ID: 52680061 United States 01/22/2019 04:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: crestedone like the kardashians have anything useful to teach people? or maybe beyonce does? oh wait i know, oprah will tell me how to become a better person and get wealthy! Most people will not become entertainers. Choose a different profession. In the mind of your average welfare fucktardian there are 2 ways to get rich. 1.) Born Rich 2.) Big ass, big tits, big TV show You forgot one.. 3.) Win the lottery And many of those morans end up poor. The more I know, the crazier I appear to be. "THE ONLY WAY TO DEAL WITH AN UNFREE WORLD IS TO BECOME SO ABSOLUTELY FREE THAT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE IS AN ACT OF REBELLION" -ALBERT CAMUS No brains, no pain. The Difference Between Stupidity and Genius Is That Genius Has Its Limits |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77256532 United States 01/22/2019 04:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Every dime could be taken from these billionaire$, given to the 3.8 billion poorest. Fast forward 6 months -- the 3.8 billion poorest are back to being the 3.8 billion poorest, and the only consequence, is that the billionaires (many who were self made) now have little to nothing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Inject $750T into the pockets of the poor and let them pass it around forever. That is what a 'fix' looks like, the other plan is a band-aid for a missing limb or two. 750 Trillion huh? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 63598295 United States 01/22/2019 04:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Every dime could be taken from these billionaire$, given to the 3.8 billion poorest. Fast forward 6 months -- the 3.8 billion poorest are back to being the 3.8 billion poorest, and the only consequence, is that the billionaires (many who were self made) now have little to nothing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Inject $750T into the pockets of the poor and let them pass it around forever. That is what a 'fix' looks like, the other plan is a band-aid for a missing limb or two. 750 Trillion huh? In the minds of a your average welfare fuck you can take all the money in the world which adds up to around $80 trillion and if you use "Alexandria Occasional Cortex" type math; you can create $750 Trillion. :magic: I want my $10,000 |
Wayfaring Stranger User ID: 76285781 Canada 01/22/2019 04:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Every dime could be taken from these billionaire$, given to the 3.8 billion poorest. Fast forward 6 months -- the 3.8 billion poorest are back to being the 3.8 billion poorest, and the only consequence, is that the billionaires (many who were self made) now have little to nothing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Inject $750T into the pockets of the poor and let them pass it around forever. That is what a 'fix' looks like, the other plan is a band-aid for a missing limb or two. 750 Trillion huh? Give or take, might as well be a bit flexible, lol. The Nations owe the banks $75T at the moment. That could be reversed and it would be gone before the neglected maintenance is completed, $150T 'poof'. The OT usury laws only need a few changes, Gentiles become brothers and companies become 'strangers' who pay interest on their loans. All the money created so far has to be paid back plus 6% interest. The 'updated' version would still see the banks get 6% but the 94% stays in the community and gets passed around forever while inflation runs at 0%. What would 96% of all the money ever created add up to, my number was to show everybody could have several vacation a year if they wanted and still not miss a meal of that latest device consumers love. That means the manufacturing would be in full swing even with high unemployment. |
bobobibi User ID: 28372490 United States 01/22/2019 04:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Every dime could be taken from these billionaire$, given to the 3.8 billion poorest. Fast forward 6 months -- the 3.8 billion poorest are back to being the 3.8 billion poorest, and the only consequence, is that the billionaires (many who were self made) now have little to nothing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Inject $750T into the pockets of the poor and let them pass it around forever. That is what a 'fix' looks like, the other plan is a band-aid for a missing limb or two. 750 Trillion huh? In the minds of a your average welfare fuck you can take all the money in the world which adds up to around $80 trillion and if you use "Alexandria Occasional Cortex" type math; you can create $750 Trillion. what is 80 trillion divided by 7.77 billion?? givers and takers the only two kinds of people on this planet what happens when the givers stop giving to the takers? The takers wont be able to function. we are witnessing the begining of a mass awakening. wheat... tares... fema camps. Zoinx |
Broker User ID: 77083679 United States 01/22/2019 05:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Apparently you do. Wealth is more than money. It's a combination of things. Good sense, good character,no addictions, skills and creativity. Most poor don't have one of these attributes. These tyrants want to give idiots money but never education and skills. They can control pets but not educated, skilled people. People can't do ANY of the stuff you are talking about.... if they are merely STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HELPING PEOPLE That's true there is nothing wro g with it. What is wrong is forcing persons to help others persons without actually helping yourself. Then all you're doing is robbing Mary tob pay Paul. That's not helping. It's stealing and tyranny. Meh |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77256532 United States 01/22/2019 05:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Every dime could be taken from these billionaire$, given to the 3.8 billion poorest. Fast forward 6 months -- the 3.8 billion poorest are back to being the 3.8 billion poorest, and the only consequence, is that the billionaires (many who were self made) now have little to nothing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Inject $750T into the pockets of the poor and let them pass it around forever. That is what a 'fix' looks like, the other plan is a band-aid for a missing limb or two. 750 Trillion huh? Give or take, might as well be a bit flexible, lol. The Nations owe the banks $75T at the moment. That could be reversed and it would be gone before the neglected maintenance is completed, $150T 'poof'. The OT usury laws only need a few changes, Gentiles become brothers and companies become 'strangers' who pay interest on their loans. All the money created so far has to be paid back plus 6% interest. The 'updated' version would still see the banks get 6% but the 94% stays in the community and gets passed around forever while inflation runs at 0%. What would 96% of all the money ever created add up to, my number was to show everybody could have several vacation a year if they wanted and still not miss a meal of that latest device consumers love. That means the manufacturing would be in full swing even with high unemployment. This is like talking finance with Mike Tyson. |
Dogsbollocks User ID: 76925037 United Kingdom 01/22/2019 05:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why is it that as a society we allow CEO's to earn millions while their workers make $10 an hour. I remember in the eighties the japanese tried to switch to our economic distribution, and the society was scandalized and did not allow this sort of disparity in income. (not sure if that's the case now, probably not, we all devolve) While I am by no means a socialist, it is not right that the wealth is in so few hands, but we allowed it, and now it is likely to late to change it as everything is going to robotics and most of us will truly be useless eaters in the eyes of the rich. Did not think that THIS would be the fulfilling of revelation where you work only for a day's food, but so it is, and becoming increasingly so. Rather thought there would be a cataclysm to accomplish it. Beware all you who currently make a good wage. Right now they are programming lawyers, teachers, accountants, and any number of professional occupations into robots and AI. You will also become obsolete in time. Robots are now doing surgery. We now have situation though, where Big Business are using Robots only for maximizing profits. Especially in the unskilled labor sector. They are literally forcing unskilled workers, for example a hypothetical Burger flipper in to a long-term unemployment useless eater, State dependent situation.Big Business might save say £4 an hour in overhead costs using a Robot to flip burgers. However, the government picks up the long cost of having to provide unemployment benefits, housing benefit etc. Likely running in to tens of thousands of pounds for an unskilled worker. There are millions of people here in the UK that fall in to the unskilled labour category. Mostly In the retail industry, losing their Jobs to self-serving Tills, Robots etc. Over the next few years Robots are ear marked to be taking millions of Jobs from the unskilled worker sector. Many of these people will be poorly educated, and have no chance of getting a Job in the skilled sector. Big business will see negligible rise in profits from each one of these people forced in to unemployment. However, the government will pick up a bill that could run in to billions as more, and more, are forced in to long term unemployment. Big business does not give a shit about the socio-economic impact of their actions. In my opinion this is a financial ticking time bomb. I dunno about the economics of it, but the companies will do what garners the most profit with the least hassle both work wise and regulation wise. China is already way ahead of us in robotizing their factories, and do not think that this will affect only unskilled workers. As I said, robots are doing surgery and doing it better than people. They are diagnosing, and doing it better than people. They are doing accounting and not making any "human" errors. They are teaching, they are learning law, they will soon be driving and at some point I think it will become illegal for us to drive our own car. We will gravitate to the limit of technology as we are in the time of increased knowledge but little understanding and just as in today's schools they don't want people to excel, the world of tomorrow will be much more uniform as even the most motivated, intelligent person for the job will be beat out by a robot. Not sure how long that will take, but it's coming and incrementally, people will be replaced in all fields. I am quite certain that there will be a mass culling one way or the other at some point, as like you say, the govermnent's will have to foot the bill for all who cannot support themselves. We will be back to feudal times in a way, but since we are no longer agrarian, there will be no need for serfs, only a few to service the machines, and all this malarkey about a universal wage is just bullshit out to appease the people and prevent worry. They'll slaughter us wholesale. Interesting read.Thanks. Dogsbollocks |
bobobibi User ID: 28372490 United States 01/22/2019 06:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the minds of a your average welfare fuck you can take all the money in the world which adds up to around $80 trillion and if you use "Alexandria Occasional Cortex" type math; you can create $750 Trillion. what is 80 trillion divided by 7.77 billion?? givers and takers the only two kinds of people on this planet what happens when the givers stop giving to the takers? The takers wont be able to function. we are witnessing the begining of a mass awakening. wheat... tares... fema camps. 10 grand each. Good Pic!! Zoinx |
Drone#6 User ID: 53785429 United Kingdom 01/23/2019 04:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why does anyone care what someone else has? You've got more envy than 2.2 billion people who mind their own business. Quoting: hardscrabble farmer The reason we care is because by definition the hoarded wealth is taken from the rest of the population. I.e. the problem is not the gain of the billionaires, it is the loss of wealth by the dispossessed, the loss of homes, land, assets and then of family, health and future. Stop looking at the billionaires, look at the strip mined societies where they have taken the wealth from, the damage that results in communities living in tents and squalor. |
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Love Boat Lounge Lizard User ID: 48024189 United States 01/23/2019 05:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why are those poor people making so many babies, babies they can't feed... why is no one talking about issues like that, like these poor people are always so innocent when many of them are not. Quoting: AltSwede "Oh I'm going to have all these babies, I live in this mudhut and can't even feed myself but damned if I'm not going to have a baby" Then these shits come to my country and mess it up. "But you can't hate on them, they're like poor and shit, so what if they come rape, steal and murder, they're poor people you're supposed to give them apartments and free living because f*** you!" Maybe they should stop doing that and wait until they can afford having children? Why are they not accountable for their own actions? Why do I have to pay for these people, I don't even like them. Go away, don't come here, you're not welcome. Get out! so true the argument used to be that they need lots of kids to support the family, but you never actually saw what they were doing to support the family, they were just a lot of poor kids being poor but once they migrate to wealthy western countries and they get more welfare benefits for having more kids |
NowIhavetothinkofaname User ID: 75987723 Australia 01/23/2019 06:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why are those poor people making so many babies, babies they can't feed... why is no one talking about issues like that, like these poor people are always so innocent when many of them are not. Quoting: AltSwede "Oh I'm going to have all these babies, I live in this mudhut and can't even feed myself but damned if I'm not going to have a baby" Then these shits come to my country and mess it up. "But you can't hate on them, they're like poor and shit, so what if they come rape, steal and murder, they're poor people you're supposed to give them apartments and free living because f*** you!" Maybe they should stop doing that and wait until they can afford having children? Why are they not accountable for their own actions? Why do I have to pay for these people, I don't even like them. Go away, don't come here, you're not welcome. Get out! I have a better idea, let them fuck... We can always abort the fetus later. So many Republicans want to stop people from having sex by saying, "Life is precious." But there would be a world wide organization of Republicans taking over the world instead of communists, if only they didn't try to govern people's right to root like rabbits... People love to root and no one is going to take a Conservative Christian seriously when they say, "No, don't root! It's immoral and God hates people rooting." If God didn't want people to root, they wouldn't have made orgasms so great... Beer, drugs and rooting... It predates morality by millions of years. Just think of all the tax dollars saved by not supporting welfare recipients cradle to grave by simply aborting them! NowIhavetothinkofanameohnoithurts It's all bull! Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. Niccolo Machiavelli Karma is funny, people who kick dogs usually get bitten. If someone doesn't add value to your life, then that someone shouldn't be a part of it. You can always trust people to do whatever is in their own interests. It is certain wastelands will be brought under cultivation. |
NowIhavetothinkofaname User ID: 75987723 Australia 01/23/2019 07:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | like the kardashians have anything useful to teach people? or maybe beyonce does? oh wait i know, oprah will tell me how to become a better person and get wealthy! Most people will not become entertainers. Choose a different profession. In the mind of your average welfare fucktardian there are 2 ways to get rich. 1.) Born Rich 2.) Big ass, big tits, big TV show But I'd add lotto and selling drugs! :D NowIhavetothinkofanameohnoithurts It's all bull! Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. Niccolo Machiavelli Karma is funny, people who kick dogs usually get bitten. If someone doesn't add value to your life, then that someone shouldn't be a part of it. You can always trust people to do whatever is in their own interests. It is certain wastelands will be brought under cultivation. |
NowIhavetothinkofaname User ID: 75987723 Australia 01/23/2019 07:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the mind of your average welfare fucktardian there are 2 ways to get rich. 1.) Born Rich 2.) Big ass, big tits, big TV show You forgot one.. 3.) Win the lottery Nah...in the fucktardian's mind only old rich white men win the lottery. Every welfare rat buys a lotto ticket and furiously fantasizes about the lambo they're going to buy... That's why they religiously buy tickets for every draw. NowIhavetothinkofanameohnoithurts It's all bull! Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. Niccolo Machiavelli Karma is funny, people who kick dogs usually get bitten. If someone doesn't add value to your life, then that someone shouldn't be a part of it. You can always trust people to do whatever is in their own interests. It is certain wastelands will be brought under cultivation. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77256532 United States 01/23/2019 01:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why does anyone care what someone else has? You've got more envy than 2.2 billion people who mind their own business. Quoting: hardscrabble farmer The reason we care is because by definition the hoarded wealth is taken from the rest of the population. I.e. the problem is not the gain of the billionaires, it is the loss of wealth by the dispossessed, the loss of homes, land, assets and then of family, health and future. Stop looking at the billionaires, look at the strip mined societies where they have taken the wealth from, the damage that results in communities living in tents and squalor. Yet they still keep fucking like rabbits and continue to bring babies into the world that they can't take care of or pay for. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77256532 United States 01/23/2019 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why are those poor people making so many babies, babies they can't feed... why is no one talking about issues like that, like these poor people are always so innocent when many of them are not. Quoting: AltSwede "Oh I'm going to have all these babies, I live in this mudhut and can't even feed myself but damned if I'm not going to have a baby" Then these shits come to my country and mess it up. "But you can't hate on them, they're like poor and shit, so what if they come rape, steal and murder, they're poor people you're supposed to give them apartments and free living because f*** you!" Maybe they should stop doing that and wait until they can afford having children? Why are they not accountable for their own actions? Why do I have to pay for these people, I don't even like them. Go away, don't come here, you're not welcome. Get out! I have a better idea, let them fuck... We can always abort the fetus later. So many Republicans want to stop people from having sex by saying, "Life is precious." But there would be a world wide organization of Republicans taking over the world instead of communists, if only they didn't try to govern people's right to root like rabbits... People love to root and no one is going to take a Conservative Christian seriously when they say, "No, don't root! It's immoral and God hates people rooting." If God didn't want people to root, they wouldn't have made orgasms so great... Beer, drugs and rooting... It predates morality by millions of years. Just think of all the tax dollars saved by not supporting welfare recipients cradle to grave by simply aborting them! Look, A dinosaur who still believes in the left/right paradigm! |
Violetag User ID: 77139758 Netherlands 01/24/2019 03:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | like the kardashians have anything useful to teach people? or maybe beyonce does? oh wait i know, oprah will tell me how to become a better person and get wealthy! bill gates got rich because computing was a new thing and he capitilized on it, now his product has become so entwined in EVERYTHING and he collects millions from just licensing his product, what could he teach me? how to strong arm people into buying a product???? Watch Pirates of silicon vally. Kryten |
Violetag User ID: 77139758 Netherlands 01/24/2019 03:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Wayfaring Stranger Inject $750T into the pockets of the poor and let them pass it around forever. That is what a 'fix' looks like, the other plan is a band-aid for a missing limb or two. 750 Trillion huh? Give or take, might as well be a bit flexible, lol. The Nations owe the banks $75T at the moment. That could be reversed and it would be gone before the neglected maintenance is completed, $150T 'poof'. The OT usury laws only need a few changes, Gentiles become brothers and companies become 'strangers' who pay interest on their loans. All the money created so far has to be paid back plus 6% interest. The 'updated' version would still see the banks get 6% but the 94% stays in the community and gets passed around forever while inflation runs at 0%. What would 96% of all the money ever created add up to, my number was to show everybody could have several vacation a year if they wanted and still not miss a meal of that latest device consumers love. That means the manufacturing would be in full swing even with high unemployment. This is like talking finance with Mike Tyson. I guess someone recently watched the zeitgeist movies ;) Kryten |
AltSwede User ID: 77127462 Sweden 01/24/2019 04:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Give or take, might as well be a bit flexible, lol. The Nations owe the banks $75T at the moment. That could be reversed and it would be gone before the neglected maintenance is completed, $150T 'poof'. The OT usury laws only need a few changes, Gentiles become brothers and companies become 'strangers' who pay interest on their loans. All the money created so far has to be paid back plus 6% interest. The 'updated' version would still see the banks get 6% but the 94% stays in the community and gets passed around forever while inflation runs at 0%. What would 96% of all the money ever created add up to, my number was to show everybody could have several vacation a year if they wanted and still not miss a meal of that latest device consumers love. That means the manufacturing would be in full swing even with high unemployment. This is like talking finance with Mike Tyson. I guess someone recently watched the zeitgeist movies ;) Isn't that Luciferian garbage dead and buried since years back? Whatever happened to his Luciferian Communist city? He was building it in swamps of Florida? AltSwede |
AltSwede User ID: 77127462 Sweden 01/24/2019 04:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why are those poor people making so many babies, babies they can't feed... why is no one talking about issues like that, like these poor people are always so innocent when many of them are not. Quoting: AltSwede "Oh I'm going to have all these babies, I live in this mudhut and can't even feed myself but damned if I'm not going to have a baby" Then these shits come to my country and mess it up. "But you can't hate on them, they're like poor and shit, so what if they come rape, steal and murder, they're poor people you're supposed to give them apartments and free living because f*** you!" Maybe they should stop doing that and wait until they can afford having children? Why are they not accountable for their own actions? Why do I have to pay for these people, I don't even like them. Go away, don't come here, you're not welcome. Get out! so true the argument used to be that they need lots of kids to support the family, but you never actually saw what they were doing to support the family, they were just a lot of poor kids being poor but once they migrate to wealthy western countries and they get more welfare benefits for having more kids And I don't understand why they should be allowed in the first place, all they do is make sure our money is spent instead of used for inventions, Sweden used to be making useful inventions, that helped humanity as a whole, instead now our money is used to feed 65 IQ Africans and Arabs that run around in gangs raping, murdering and stealing. And these people say we should give these scum even more money? You dont reward ferals and invaders, you punish them. AltSwede |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77185261 United States 01/24/2019 07:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | CNN Business) The world's billionaires are growing $2.5 billion richer every day, while the poorest half of the global population is seeing its net worth dwindle. Quoting: Ohio chic Billionaires, who now number a record 2,208, have more wealth than ever before, according to an Oxfam International report published Monday. Since the global financial crisis a decade ago, the number of billionaires has nearly doubled. The annual study was released ahead of the yearly World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together some of the wealthiest and most influential people on Earth. The 106-page report is meant to call attention to the growing gap between rich and poor. [link to www.google.com (secure)] that's commie talk. Exactly. Communist News Network. Being put out to stir up anger, hatred, and jealousy in order to promote division and reinforce class warfare for purposes of promoting "socialist" (Marxist-Communist) sentiments and policies. Pure propaganda piece, completely typical of CNN NWO globalists who would not hesitate to support the murder of millions or billions of people to push its Marxist goal a dictatorial, one world government. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77185261 United States 01/24/2019 07:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And, most ironically, many if not most of these billionaire "capitalists" are actually Communists so propaganda pieces like these are DESIGNED to increase their consolidation of power and wealth through pushing Communist policies that benefit and enrich them while controlling others (you, the stupid masses). The world will live in serfdom, but they will live as Communist dictators to lord over everyone. Do not fall for their tactics of division and class warfare, which are designed to emotionally manipulate those they wish to control via problem-reaction-solution (Hegelian dialect) and it works very well on most anyone with a heart and sense of fairness and justice... but it's the billionaires using your own feelings against you to increase their own power and wealth. Think Marxists like Pelosi and her almost $200 million in $195k salary, Bill and Hillary and their corrupt foundation's billions (their family piggy bank), the Obama's going from $3 million to $40 million when they left WH, Bernie Sanders and his $250k car. These are self-serving hypocrites. |
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BRIEF User ID: 39607259 United States 01/24/2019 07:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why is it that as a society we allow CEO's to earn millions while their workers make $10 an hour. I remember in the eighties the japanese tried to switch to our economic distribution, and the society was scandalized and did not allow this sort of disparity in income. (not sure if that's the case now, probably not, we all devolve) While I am by no means a socialist, it is not right that the wealth is in so few hands, but we allowed it, and now it is likely to late to change it as everything is going to robotics and most of us will truly be useless eaters in the eyes of the rich. Did not think that THIS would be the fulfilling of revelation where you work only for a day's food, but so it is, and becoming increasingly so. Rather thought there would be a cataclysm to accomplish it. Beware all you who currently make a good wage. Right now they are programming lawyers, teachers, accountants, and any number of professional occupations into robots and AI. You will also become obsolete in time. Robots are now doing surgery. We now have situation though, where Big Business are using Robots only for maximizing profits. Especially in the unskilled labor sector. They are literally forcing unskilled workers, for example a hypothetical Burger flipper in to a long-term unemployment useless eater, State dependent situation.Big Business might save say £4 an hour in overhead costs using a Robot to flip burgers. However, the government picks up the long cost of having to provide unemployment benefits, housing benefit etc. Likely running in to tens of thousands of pounds for an unskilled worker. There are millions of people here in the UK that fall in to the unskilled labour category. Mostly In the retail industry, losing their Jobs to self-serving Tills, Robots etc. Over the next few years Robots are ear marked to be taking millions of Jobs from the unskilled worker sector. Many of these people will be poorly educated, and have no chance of getting a Job in the skilled sector. Big business will see negligible rise in profits from each one of these people forced in to unemployment. However, the government will pick up a bill that could run in to billions as more, and more, are forced in to long term unemployment. Big business does not give a shit about the socio-economic impact of their actions. In my opinion this is a financial ticking time bomb. I dunno about the economics of it, but the companies will do what garners the most profit with the least hassle both work wise and regulation wise. China is already way ahead of us in robotizing their factories, and do not think that this will affect only unskilled workers. As I said, robots are doing surgery and doing it better than people. They are diagnosing, and doing it better than people. They are doing accounting and not making any "human" errors. They are teaching, they are learning law, they will soon be driving and at some point I think it will become illegal for us to drive our own car. We will gravitate to the limit of technology as we are in the time of increased knowledge but little understanding and just as in today's schools they don't want people to excel, the world of tomorrow will be much more uniform as even the most motivated, intelligent person for the job will be beat out by a robot. Not sure how long that will take, but it's coming and incrementally, people will be replaced in all fields. I am quite certain that there will be a mass culling one way or the other at some point, as like you say, the govermnent's will have to foot the bill for all who cannot support themselves. We will be back to feudal times in a way, but since we are no longer agrarian, there will be no need for serfs, only a few to service the machines, and all this malarkey about a universal wage is just bullshit out to appease the people and prevent worry. They'll slaughter us wholesale. We are working on it, I have a brother that's a robot engineer... I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. |