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“Gotta keep your guard up kid”

Yes, your neighbors will be the unemployed and not you. It will still be your problem. When everyone around you is poor, your life sucks too. See: Latin America, where middle class people get kidnapped all the time. Poverty and resulting crime are a real problem there. It screws with your life when poverty is near…

Haha, yeah, American Capitalism is busted. It’s predicated on infinite 5-10% growth YOY. We are going to run out of space, resources, etc.

Nah, I think you are confusing a solution and a problem.

Wait, what? was that /s?

Something, I don’t know. I live in Silicon Valley, and this is an issue that every techbro thinks is solvable by just declaring factory workers fundamentally useless and giving them enough money to go away, and not become high crime, so their Tenderloin-bordered loft can keep it’s value.

My point is not that someone could have done it in the past. Sure, yeah, he did it. My point is, you cannot do that now for 2 Reasons:

I do not believe in minimum standard income. Think about it:

No, you should put your weight behind improvements that can really help *you*. Re-Education for jobs people need is probably the biggest one. As your job disappears, you need to prepare for the next one.

I bet that you are wrong (can’t see because of paywall). People in modern, automated factories that need 2 year degrees are planners (people who order raw materials), mechanics (for the robots making stuff) and supervisors.

That is Incorrect. Paying more for labor is exactly what the assembly line is designed to prevent. Assembly lines make it so anyone off the street can run a complex, difficult process with a push of the button, and with a lower defect rate than the best human. Turnover is irrelevant if your training consists of…

1) Yeah, remittance is a problem. This one is actually somewhat significant. Not sure what to do there.

I am not an economist, but I am not confident that “raising the floor will push everybody else up with it”.

In capitalism, pay is based on how scarce and in-demand your qualifications are. Plenty of English PhD Postdocs worked a lot harder than you. But, not many people *need* someone to talk about influence of Borges on modern american literature. Low Demand despite high qualifications.

Ironically, the NFLPA shot themselves in the foot by trying to depress player salaries in the draft (new players). They made draft players a better bet due to their low cost, and free agents became more expensive in comparison.

He’s actually pretty good at it. Think young anquan boldin with better routes and awareness.

Regarding the minivan: When I lived in LA, I knew an insane nerd old-school programmer dude that took the cheap minivan approach to the logical, most efficient extreme. What he did is, he scraped craigslist listings for 3 years along with repair statistics to figure out what the cheapest large volume car he could buy…

It’s more like she was just never meant to be front-office. Her equivalent on the other side of the aisle is dick cheney. Extremely smart guy, dngaf about rules, made the dirty work happen to get wins. Sound familiar?

Move the pylon in 10 yards every time both teams don’t score (make the field shorter)