Minimum wage

[cbass]

All i know is I wished I would have listened to my dad he told me to go into computers thats wahts gonna be big. That was about 1990.He probaly never touched a computer in his life

[cbass]

I just did a trigger job I'm a gunsmith now.

[Reeltarded]

I am taking a class in robot repair administration. It teaches you how to go unnoticed and keep your bureaucratic position protected from the possibility of hostile robot takeovers.

For this, we fight! We fight! We fight!

The march of war continues. We must defeat ourselves with comforts and privledge!!

[cbass]

I'm just gonna marry a hot ass fembot.She can make all the money

[romberg]

In practise It don't work.If you leave it up to the upper class to set wages for lower class we will be working for bowls of rice.

In my opinion it all boils down to all people are not equal. It is a nice idea and everyone should be given an equal opportunity. But in the end everyone is just not the same. It did not work on Animal Farm and it does not work in reality.

I'm a firm believer in the notion that if you took all of the wealth and evenly distributed it among each person (along with all political power) then it would not take very long for the very same group of people that were "rich" before to be rich again.

Mike

[cbass]

In practise It don't work.If you leave it up to the upper class to set wages for lower class we will be working for bowls of rice.

In my opinion it all boils down to all people are not equal. It is a nice idea and everyone should be given an equal opportunity. But in the end everyone is just not the same. It did not work on Animal Farm and it does not work in reality.

I'm a firm believer in the notion that if you took all of the wealth and evenly distributed it among each person (along with all political power) then it would not take very long for the very same group of people that were "rich" before to be rich again.

Mike

I agree.Most rich people are very worried about money.If I all the sudden had enough money to get by on for the rest of my life.I'd be like cool I can fish and build amps and drink beer.Maybe donate some of my work to Habitat for humanity or something.
The rich person would be thinkin How can I use this to get a whole bunch more.

I know a Guy that is doing very well for himself.He will literaly worry himself to death over 3 bucks .
He found a charge on his account at the lumber company That he couldn't remeber.It was like 8 bucks or something Some drywall tape I belive.
So he calls his drywaller and asks if he charged it Drywaller says no.I've got my own account.
After the third time he called about it the drywaller just payed it.

[wicker]

When people (most of them) achieve some level of earnings (for instance, they've got few millions in a bank), they stop treating money as an element that allows them to survive. They start looking for new challanges, they're not willing to earn more money just to have them in wallet but to fulfill some psychological needs or rich some visions. That's why you don't hear to often about milionaries that decide to pull off and retire at the age of 35 - 40. Beside, it's really hard to get rid of some habits. Most think that when someone achieve level that allow not to work till your last days, it's time to have fun only, but at the same time, your way of thinking changes dramatically, and you're not the same person as you were with 5 bucks in a pocket. And most of rich guys really know what to do with money.

PS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-D24oCa10

[LeftyStrat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xd_zkMEgkI

[LeftyStrat]

PS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-D24oCa10

Sorry, the Ayn Rand/John Galt philosophy doesn't hold shit for me. Ayn Rand had cancer later in life and was quite happy sucking off the public dole. Had the society she advocated existed, she would have had a much more horrible death.

Having hob knobbed with a lot of successful CEO's, I can assure you that all of the successful ones are not that different than a psychopath. The only difference is the degree of illegal in which they operate. Their egotism is off the charts, they truly believe they are somehow saviors of mankind. But their only talent is to convince really talented people that somehow subjecting themselves to this egomaniac will somehow result in riches, without having to deal with marketing types.

They are so infatuated with themselves, that they would throw their own mothers to the dogs if it advanced their careers.

I can give plenty of examples for those that are interested.

[cbass]

You just described most the business men in my town.Hell they brag about the underhanded shit they do to people.

[Leo_Gnardo]

Having hob knobbed with a lot of successful CEO's, I can assure you that all of the successful ones are not that different than a psychopath. The only difference is the degree of illegal in which they operate. Their egotism is off the charts, they truly believe they are somehow saviors of mankind.

Top execs show up in a chart of psychopathy-by-occupation I saw sometime in the last 2 years. Wish I could find the link. (Lazy me. If I was an exec I'd put my toady, oops "assistant" to work on that.")

If the execs aren't enough we have NY politicians to contend with here, namely Weiner & Spitzer, who definitely qualify. They even have enablers for spouses, how ya like that. Had they got a rolling pin swatted across their ears as they deserved, might have gone on to well deserved obscurity. It's a damn shame any voter would continue the enabling chain. But they will, they will, the fools...

[CHIP]

Most politicians, most top executives, same type of people, just different ways of operating.

[NickC]

PS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-D24oCa10

Sorry, the Ayn Rand/John Galt philosophy doesn't hold shit for me. Ayn Rand had cancer later in life and was quite happy sucking off the public dole. Had the society she advocated existed, she would have had a much more horrible death.

Having hob knobbed with a lot of successful CEO's, I can assure you that all of the successful ones are not that different than a psychopath. The only difference is the degree of illegal in which they operate. Their egotism is off the charts, they truly believe they are somehow saviors of mankind. But their only talent is to convince really talented people that somehow subjecting themselves to this egomaniac will somehow result in riches, without having to deal with marketing types.

They are so infatuated with themselves, that they would throw their own mothers to the dogs if it advanced their careers.

I can give plenty of examples for those that are interested.

Those same type of people exist under any economic system (socialism, communism, Marxism, Oligarchy, etc). They pervert whatever systems of exchange they operate within. But a criminal/psychopath operating under capitalism isn't as damaging as one operating under the Politburo, or other form of Statism/Fascism. Free markets better allow people to reject the criminal/psychopath. Whereas the State can compel compliance, even when against the will of the people, by threat of reprisal/extortion.

That is the major fallacy of Karl Marx (Lenin, Stalin, Mao, et al), a failure to solve the inevitable problem of corruption when a few people exercise overarching power over other people. In a free market the individual can get fed up with an egocentric, lying bastard of a boss and walk away from it. Contrast that with what the developed nations offer folks who try that today; extremely limited options with layers of control by centralized authorities organized under the banners of government and corporate statists.

[Leo_Gnardo]

I can give plenty of examples for those that are interested.

Those same type of people exist under any economic system (socialism, communism, Marxism, Oligarchy, etc). They pervert whatever systems of exchange they operate within. ...
a failure to solve the inevitable problem of corruption when a few people exercise overarching power over other people. In a free market the individual can get fed up with an egocentric, lying bastard of a boss and walk away from it. ...

Any of 'em look like this?

Not to take anything away from what you have to say Nick & Lefty. Just had to lighten things up a bit. I'm in a Sunday Funnies mood.

[romberg]

If the execs aren't enough we have NY politicians to contend with here, namely Weiner & Spitzer, who definitely qualify.

First Peasant: Who's that there?
Second Peasant: I don't know... Must be a king.
First Peasant: Why?
Second Peasant: He hasn't got shit all over him.

In real life it is similar. Except exchange the "hasn't" with "has".

Mike