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ParticipantKeep the voicemails for when you take the dumbass to court and/or press harassment charges with the DA.
ParticipantBecause the economic situation in Orange County reflects that of the whole country. Right, ok. That’s like judging the French economy by the Riviera or the New York economy from the Hamptons.
Also, if you correlate home prices to average incomes, you’re ass-u-meing that all people buy homes at the ideal value-to-income ratio. I suspect that the lower 30-40% of incomes in Orange County aren’t buying homes any time soon, and thus the home price numbers are skewed towards the wealthier end of the spectrum.
Kind of like in NYC, where only 30-40% of so of residents own their homes.
ParticipantIf the US is so vulgar, why are you here? I guess you must enjoy it.
Because I have family and some friends here, also live in NY City which has little in common with the rest of the US. Given another few years, unlikely that I’ll be spending more than 50% of my time here.
Also, I’m not in the economic position of the average American, but at the same time I have empathy. If I were in the position that the average American is in, I’d likely be in jail a long time ago for popping my boss in the nose.
And yes, I’m pretty content in working 25-30 hours per week avg, sometimes taking a month off, as a well-paid freelancer, sitting on some profitable rental property and not being as productive as I could be nor working to my potential. I wasn’t born smart to spend the rest of my life working like a dog, but rather follow the adage “work smarter, not harder.”
ParticipantNo typo — vulgarity (the way the US treats its own citizens) begets vulgarity.
ParticipantFlyerInHI — why the blue fuck is productivity a virtue in itself? What’s wrong with a society of contented lotus-eaters, or at least people who have enough in the bank to work say 3/4 of the time, leaving 25% for enjoyment of family, travel, hobbies, or whatever floats their boats?
And why discourage saving, especially since this country has cunt-all for a social safety net? All inflation does under that circumstance is create a society of hand-to-mouth wage slaves. Is this what we really want for this country?
ParticipantIf cash keeps its value, than that’s fine. Why should people who were productive in the past not be able to enjoy the fruits of that productivity WITHOUT working like fucking dogs till they die?
Interest rate should be very close to real inflation rate. Despite what Ben flaps his yap about, real inflation isn’t even close to 2% right now; things like housing, food, and energy are just excluded. If real inflation were running at 2%, a 1% rate would be about fair.
Why should people stay on the treadmill until they die?
ParticipantSpeak to whatever little shit they send. Have someone conspicuously video tape you. Tell them that they are NOT welcome on your property and that any further contact will be treated as trespass and/or criminal harassment and that all activity on the property is being recorded. Follow it up with a registered letter stating the same thing.
If the shits come on your property again, get it on tape — if the cops are useless as tits on a boar, you can always speak to someone from the D.A.’s office directly and short-circuit the process of filing charges.
ParticipantI read that teen pregnancy rates are actually going down, so maybe anything like that needs a generation or two to work…
Participant$7.25/hr = about $14000/yr before taxes = $1166/mo. Let’s assume that you somehow pay no tax…
Room = $600/mo min in NYC
Health insurance = $200/mo minimum
That leaves $366/mo for everything else?You try living/eating/commuting on $12.20/day in the US.
ParticipantGiven the choice between automation and offshoring, I’ll generally go for the former, since it keeps SOME jobs here and/or creates them if we manufacture for export. Problem is that unions seem to have made the wrong choice here. They’ve burnt down the house to kill the rat.
ParticipantThe whole Idea of robots is to cut labor and you only need so many hopper loaders.
Shoveler: My argument is that the automation of manufacturing, etc has already happened. It’s just done by bio-robots in China and call-center employees in India.
Replace the bio-robots with actual robots in the US at a similar manufacturing + shipping cost, and manufacturing could actually come back to US shores en masse. It would be cleaner, safer, better quality, and most importantly, employ Americans at high productivity levels.
ParticipantSDR – imagine that, the Fed’s inflation machine actually going to guaranteeing people a living wage instead of pumping up stocks or housing
The-Shoveler – if you can have robots doing work that laborers used to, that’s a GOOD thing. You might be able to bring prices of domestic manufacturing down to the point that it’s competitive with China, while still paying the robot mechanics, QC people, designers, programmers, builders of robots, etc a living wage.
Better robots on US soil than 50-cent-per-hour bio-robots in China or Vietnam. Stop fighting automation. Embrace it. It’s what made the US economy what it was from about 1880 to 1960, and it’s a shame that union obstructionists are fighting it tooth and nail, when they could embrace change and realize that DIFFERENT jobs don’t necessarily mean NO jobs.
ParticipantCouldn’t have happened to a nicer industry. Hope they drive the fast-fooders out of NYC and into the fucking suburbs where they belong. Too many Slobways opened up anyway… It wouldn’t hurt to see say 50% of chains in Manhattan bankrupt.
The rest can afford to pay a living wage if people still want to eat their dreck.
ParticipantIt’s not only Asian and Euro imports to blame. What about domestic manufacturers who moved their operations to more “pro-business”/less corrupt states and cities?
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