Sure. But when all of the wealthy leave, don't beg to come back to the US
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However, we aren't talking about that. We are talking about what can't be measured.
The pay-wage gap for women is a good example. The left seems to think this is due to covert sexism. When you compare for education, job title, and many other factors to equal out the comparisons, there is no wage gap.
Sound familiar?
I forsee many of these toilets not being used or maintained because it's much more complicated than your standard toilet and needs more maintenance.
The toilet hasn't changed much over the years because it's so simple.
In response to your failure comment: I meant being evicted or not having food on the table if you don't succeed. Not being able to retire by 40 is a very strange idea of 'failure'.
Who thinks this way?
Most businesses in the US are started with loans or personal money and failure means you can't pay the rent.
It will inflate our currency. The middle class will get a pay decrease and money will not go as far because the cost of many things will increase. Wages in many different industries will be increased because it will be difficult to find anyone to work for less than what they are receiving from the government. This sounds great, but it just means an increase in overall costs for many goods and services and the minimum to survive will now be more expensive.
It won't work in the long-run. Everyone seems to think we will have exactly what we have now, but with free money. Free money means we will have more and more people staying out of the workforce and we will eventually run out of people to tax.
Welfare destroyed the lives of many people in my extended family. Most people aren't that ambitious and UBI, which is basically just welfare with no strings attached, will only create generations of people dependent on the government.
Innovation is generally not accelerated by people that are comfortable/have all of their basic needs met. It's accelerated when you are put into a situation where you need to innovate or fail.
Failure is actually the stimuli and it pushes people to succeed more than anything.
Reality is more like:
2 out of 10 monkeys spend all their waking hours sacrificing and working so their children can have more than 1 banana and then give 15 out of the 20 bananas they earn to the group. The majority of monkeys in the group gives 0 bananas, but continue to say that the ones that do give the most aren't paying their fair share (and need to give even more). They then have many discussions on how they can force the other monkeys to give the rest of the group even more bananas, rather than putting energy into earning their own.
Isn't this the type of stereotyping and generalizing we are trying to stop?
2 out of 10 monkeys spend all their waking hours sacrificing and working so their children can have more than 1 banana and then give 15 out of the 20 bananas they earn to the group.
The majority of monkeys in the group gives 0 bananas, but continue to say that the ones that do give the most aren't paying their fair share (and need to give even more).
They then have many discussions on how they can force the other monkeys to give the rest of the group even more bananas, rather than putting energy into earning their own.
If this weren't the case, why isn't Reddit and Twitter banning the countless examples of left-wing extremists harassing and abusing people just as badly?
I think abusers and harassers should be kicked out, but Trump winning the election has brought out the true colors in many business owners and other people that would rather use their power for personal grudges.
It's pretty disgraceful.
"If Asians could find success within the system, politicians asked, why couldn’t African Americans?"
This is actually a valid question that can't really be addressed because racism.
Many Asians were subjected to racism decades ago. They were forced to start businesses to survive because nobody would hire them. This environment combined with a culture of education being stressed in the home results in successful and educated children/adults.
The African-american communities, on the other hand, were destroyed by welfare. Many generations never really learned how to succeed on their own and continue to live in poverty to this day. Nobody really wants to admit that education, intact families, and self reliance are they keys to bringing success to any community.
If you post something that doesn't conform to the current left-leaning narrative, you will be down voted by massive amounts of users because of your beliefs.
I don't see much difference than these brigades. Except it's done by 75% of the community, rather than the bottom 1%. A minority subreddit is being discriminated against and blamed for all of the bad behavior on Reddit.
I suppose the CEO isn't all that much different that the people on the alt-right.
"Reddit strives to have a positive community and when you let the trolls run the system"
Yeah, well, if this is really the case and not just a childish political stunt, why are only Trump-related groups targeted?
I'm really tired of a 'positive community' being used an excuse to stifle opposing political opinions. It's becoming really clear that it only has to do with politics based on the abhorrent behavior of site owners and moderators (the CEO purposely altered user comments that he doesn't like. He should have been fired on the spot).
"Reddit (nor Twitter) is under no obligation to be a platform for free speech, and it's completely within their right to dictate who gets to participate and what they're allowed to discuss."
So it's fine for private organizations to discriminate against people simply based on their political beliefs? Do you really want to live in a world where this is accepted?
I find that this is being used an excuse to silence divisive political viewpoints and left-leaning organizations are purging their sites of anyone that disagrees with them.
Most left-leaning media sites have banned all comments for exactly this reason.
Lately, the only sites that are truly free are the right-leaning ones. Fox news, for instance, doesn't ban anyone for merely stating a political opinion...unless you are harassing other users (stating an opinion isn't harassment).
The irony is that people voted Trump because of this behavior by the media (which has slowly been getting worse since the 90s). Continuing to do this will not only create more of a divided nation, but many will be more likely to re-elect Trump.
What's interesting is that when Obama won in 2008, the majority of the population accepted it without protests/violence in the streets.
Republicans certainly are more gracious losers. The left in this country can really learn something from them.
It's about the time and effort it takes to constantly fight the blacklists and the downtime for my business.
I wasn't even sending out mass emails and 30%+ of my email would never be delivered. I had to constantly check to see if my IP addresses were on the various spam lists (and fight to get my IPs off) and I just got tired of it.
Companies like Google have entrenched themselves in many things like email and are slowly becoming the only option out there. A large amount of email addresses are @gmail.com or run through one of their servers and they ultimately control whether the recipient receives/sees your email.
The 'promotions' tab in gmail also made things worse for many small businesses. Google doesn't want you competing for their advertising space and pushes any emails it deems a 'promotion' off to the side, so users don't actually see it. I'm not even talking about actual spam emails here, but emails users knowingly signup for and are expecting.
Many people don't realize just how much a handful of companies controls the Internet and your ability to make a living online.
Neither of these things are true with UBI. Not everyone is ambitious or has career goals. Giving out free money will encourage many to not look for work and continue to barely scrape by. The end result will be future generations of more poverty.
We should abolish welfare (except for the small percentage of people that physically can't work) and turn UBI into a government jobs program. You will need to work every day picking up garbage, answering the phones, or working on infrastructure jobs assigned to you to get money from the government.
The fairness isn't about who gets it...it's about who pays for it. If Beyonce gets $100 in UBI, but then has to pay out $10,000, it's not really that 'fair'.
The whole problem with UBI is the long-term, not the short-term. We will probably see a slight increase in prosperity in the short-term.
However, as more and more people start to rely on it, there will be less people to tax. Not to mention the inflation this will cause. It's actually a decrease in pay for the rest of us because our money won't go as far.
I would rather see our money go toward educating people to be more self-sufficient.
The irony of this statement is that because of the plethora of open source software given away for free for the last decade, there is now a perceived decrease in value.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-30/googles-er...
When Trump does the exact same thing, we have an article disparaging his win and accusing him of 'voter suppression'.
If this is the new definition of 'voter suppression', I think every politician is guilty of it. I just wish we would stop changing the definitions of everything in an attempt to win an argument or sway public opinion. This is the definition of propaganda.
Clinton paid people to spam public forums with anti-Trump propaganda, but nobody discusses it or even cares about it. The 'rigged' system Trump talked about before the election is still in full force.
http://theantimedia.org/hillary-clintons-internet-troll-army...