I think the only sure solution to poverty is a guaranteed minimum income. The talented would and could excel far beyond that but no citizen would have an excuse for living in poverty (beyond their right to do so, should they desire).

I think the reason this is true is because of technology. That vast swath of…

We need the application of hard work, but America has forgotten that.

Having enough free time and access to technology to post dumb questions in a blog comments section.

I hear you, but it’s like if there was somebody drowning and instead of throwing that person a life preserver, we all just sat around and imagined innovative and disruptive ways to save a drowning life..

Like, sure, the Carnegie libraries were a good thing, but only relatively so and only because libraries used to be exclusively privately held. It’s a good thing that libraries today are less reliant on billionaires’ funding. Even when philanthropic programs are good, nationalization of them is the only correct future…

Huge, if true.

Yeah, but if you tax rich people at high rates, nobody will want to work hard to become rich or start businesses or create or invent. This is precisely why there were no rich people, businesses, or innovation back when the marginal tax rate was much higher for the wealthy.

Even a 30 second review of the results show that in the country, most people went Clinton.

In NYC you could push a shopping cart full of bloody dismembered body parts down the sidewalk and everyone would just mind their own f-ing business.

I think a lot of our concerns regarding labor are going to look drastically out-dated within the next 20 years. ‘Progress’ in the forms we’ve seen will be almost a moot point.

The 70-ish years in Western society has been kind of a golden era in which the cost of living and the value of basic labor have largely been…

Well, this is the way that the world is now. This idea that you better cling to and love the job you have, regardless of fair pay, working conditions, etc. Meanwhile, we have chip away at the safeguards for not only fair hiring and employment but those services that are there should we lose that job for whatever…

To be honest, no, they don’t. My wife and I have been dealing with infertility for a few years now, and part of that ‘path of learning’ is that there are many, many people that have zero clue regarding the actual process of sexual reproduction. As it turns out, the people that don’t have solid parents, the ones most…

Georgia has a lotto funded state education program where you can get your tuition and books paid for by the state provided you maintain a 3.0. GPA.

Lol you think that every dollar you earned is rightfully yours, and not partially the product of a society which includes infrastructure, civic order, emergency services, educational investment, etc.

All the stars for this guy! This drives me NUTS. I keep thinking the car is about to back out of its spot ... come on GM, those lights mean a VERY specific thing. Namely, “I’m in reverse and about to back up” ...

Judging by the amount of time most people seem to spend looking out the windshield vs. down at their phones whilst driving, I doubt anyone will notice they got one.

Did it ever occur to you that even your pay is actually lower than it should be? And that by increasing the minimum wage, it will help to lift all wages across the board, including yours.

Something has to be done about the problem of A) having a full-time job but B) not being able to afford a place to live and food to eat. Minimum wage being a living wage is one way to do this. If you’re right (you may very well be) that this would just put those people out of worth through automation, then perhaps…

Bruh, that sounds like real life. Go harvest resources (job) and come back to your base (your apartment) and give all the shit you earned to a NPC (wife and kids) and then repeat until you DIE.