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Gnarly   United States. Sep 10 2014 11:32. Posts 1723



Fucking white people, when will we ever learn? All we can do is be racist only all of the time. Shooting anyone that looks a different color than us, or even having a different ideology. When are we ever going to accept any cultural enrichment and diversity? White people make me fucking SICK. It's 20 FUCKING 14, RACISM SHOULD BE DEAD BY NOW!!!

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uiCk   Canada. Sep 10 2014 12:23. Posts 3521

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MyAnacondaDont   United States. Sep 10 2014 12:23. Posts 164

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RaiNKhAN    United States. Sep 10 2014 13:27. Posts 4080

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TimDawg    United States. Sep 10 2014 14:17. Posts 10197

Well the mainstream media is horrible in generally only publicizing white on black crimes and you often hear nothing about the other way around

While the Trayvon Martin case was going on, there was a young white couple that went to college at the University of Tennessee (same as me), that were attacked in an attempted carjacking by 5 black males. The attackers kidnapped the couple and raped, tortured and mutilated their bodies. One of the victims bodies was actually burned. Absolutely evil and fucked up shit and you heard nothing about this case in mainstream media

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom

Imo, it's not so much a white vs black thing at all. It has everything to do with how flawed our justice system is and in the case of the Ferguson happenings not holding policemen accountable for their own actions. How hard would it be to just require every policeman to wear a small camera somewhere on their uniform to monitor all of their actions while working?

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ggplz   Sweden. Sep 10 2014 14:53. Posts 16784

Well, the media are full of shit. They don't believe you will tune in and listen to them unless they give you some kind of shock, anger or hype to internally resolve. If you don't tune in, they have no manipulative power over you and gain no revenue through TV advertisement slot sales. Nice white on black text with hashtags (do people think that hastags mean anything? really?)

Blacks and whites are different. Both have different cultures and personalities. It has to be said that the fact people immediately focus on race (black or white) dumbs down and enrages people for a whole multitude of reasons. Why do you think the media promote and do it?

Facts from the actual shooting that I've read are:
- There was a robbery (almost certainly) committed by Brown (now the deceased) prior to meeting the officer. He stole cigars.
- The officer stops two blacks for jaywalking in the middle of the road and informs them to go back onto the sidewalk. At some point he realises that these two were likely involved in the robbery as they had cigars visible.
- Mixed reports: The friend who was jaywalking with Brown says the officer opened the door and it slammed into both him and his friend and then rebounded, enraging the officer. Unlikely. Other witnesses say that they saw the officer try to put Brown into the back of his car when they heard a shot. Others claim there was no shot and the officer began shooting after Brown escaped from the car and after he had raised his hands, surrendering.
- The officer claims that he was assaulted prior to the shooting. He tried to get out of the car but Brown pushed the officer back inside then assaulted him and tried to grab his firearm. The first shot was fired inside the car (presumably during the struggle and not hitting anyone) and Brown ran away. He eventually turned around and moved towards the officer (charging?) which caused the officer to fear for his life. It was then that the officer fired and killed Brown hitting him at least 6 times (standard).

Imo he could have used his baton, pepperspray or tazer but with his weapon already drawn and given that Brown just tried to take his weapon I can see why he might be afraid of it being taken from him and used on him especially if he was charged at. Brown died 10 metres away from the police car although the officer had left his car and pursued him so it wasn't like he had 10 metres of space to command Brown to get on the ground or something. I don't see any reason for rioting at all. If a white person acted that way and ended up dead I wouldn't think twice so why should I about this? The officer had a clean slate and had been working for 6 years.

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devon06atX   Canada. Sep 10 2014 16:55. Posts 5458


  On September 10 2014 13:17 TimDawg wrote:
How hard would it be to just require every policeman to wear a small camera somewhere on their uniform to monitor all of their actions while working?

It would cost a crazy amount of money I imagine. The purchase of the cameras, the database management, etc. etc. etc. So many costs we wouldn't even think of. Which makes it a pretty unlikely possibility.

edit - and of course media is going to sensationalize any possible racial conflict (specifically white vs black). Spikes the ratings, increases the revenue. Basically what ggplz said.

 Last edit: 10/09/2014 18:01

chris   United States. Sep 10 2014 18:48. Posts 5503

plus the hood is full of dumb angry racist people

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chris   United States. Sep 10 2014 18:55. Posts 5503

holy shit timdawg, i read about the crime you posted.....sick and evil. those guys assholes get prison and a better death than what they gave....i think they should get very painful and slow torture and a prolonged life of torture for what they did

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traxamillion   United States. Sep 10 2014 19:35. Posts 10468

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traxamillion   United States. Sep 10 2014 19:39. Posts 10468


  On September 10 2014 13:17 TimDawg wrote:
Well the mainstream media is horrible in generally only publicizing white on black crimes and you often hear nothing about the other way around

While the Trayvon Martin case was going on, there was a young white couple that went to college at the University of Tennessee (same as me), that were attacked in an attempted carjacking by 5 black males. The attackers kidnapped the couple and raped, tortured and mutilated their bodies. One of the victims bodies was actually burned. Absolutely evil and fucked up shit and you heard nothing about this case in mainstream media

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom

Imo, it's not so much a white vs black thing at all. It has everything to do with how flawed our justice system is and in the case of the Ferguson happenings not holding policemen accountable for their own actions. How hard would it be to just require every policeman to wear a small camera somewhere on their uniform to monitor all of their actions while working?



That because black on anything crime is extremely standard


Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 10 2014 19:42. Posts 9634

Radical islam taking over the world would have some up sides. Wont have to be forced to watch retards repeat and explain retarded shit to mass retard population. Plus you'd get a nice free carpet to praise a different name of the sun like 5 times a day.


Anyways TimDawg camera idea is horrible on so many levels ... and I saw posts about that case on 9gag. People will kill people and it doesn't matter what color their skin is. Racism will exist as long as people are talking about it. And corporations will control medias to manipulate mass retards.Theoretically we should live in an age where you could free your mind in ever aspect possible, as you could get more sources of information than a person can possibly read, yet the mass will always be controlled, simply because its easier for them to survive.. also one of the reasons why i feel no empathy for idiots.

Another problem with with the case you posted is, that if the mass media now uses it, loads of racists will have in their own eyes a very solid reason to justify their racism.

And ofc that the hood is full of angry racist people, do you expect them to be happy and erudite when they're uneducated and on the verge of poverty ? Best comment ever wow. Find a ghetto where people are happy rofl

 Last edit: 10/09/2014 19:44

blackjacki2   United States. Sep 10 2014 20:08. Posts 2581


  On September 10 2014 13:17 TimDawg wrote:
Well the mainstream media is horrible in generally only publicizing white on black crimes and you often hear nothing about the other way around

While the Trayvon Martin case was going on, there was a young white couple that went to college at the University of Tennessee (same as me), that were attacked in an attempted carjacking by 5 black males. The attackers kidnapped the couple and raped, tortured and mutilated their bodies. One of the victims bodies was actually burned. Absolutely evil and fucked up shit and you heard nothing about this case in mainstream media

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom

Imo, it's not so much a white vs black thing at all. It has everything to do with how flawed our justice system is and in the case of the Ferguson happenings not holding policemen accountable for their own actions. How hard would it be to just require every policeman to wear a small camera somewhere on their uniform to monitor all of their actions while working?



that happened 7 years ago


blackjacki2   United States. Sep 10 2014 20:13. Posts 2581

This happened a few nights ago though


oldmemory   United Kingdom. Sep 10 2014 20:31. Posts 49


  On September 10 2014 19:13 blackjacki2 wrote:
This happened a few nights ago though




meh, this happens quite often if you are out in the streets at night with drunk people, glasgow also has its reputation. Not discarding this is a racist attack but you would have to stack this agaisnt all the other white-to-white drunk fight incidents as people would start fights for no reason when drunk.

His race might have been the excuse they found to rationalize their angry impulses - as much as others would if they saw a fat/gay/etc - although still wrong, would not make a good example of pure or even really true racism.

edit. that being said - that nigga handled the situation quite well. So this is an example of a black guy handling conflict well. <--- Are positive race remarks also racist? I think so, therefore im more of the ideology that as soon as other races stop bringing it up like just now, the collective human race will move towards leaving that behind.

 Last edit: 10/09/2014 20:41

Baalim   Mexico. Sep 10 2014 21:06. Posts 34250

The problem is police accountability they can do anything they want and rarely get any repercussion for it.

But riots for days because a robber got killed in weird circumstances is ridiculous, obviously Im not saying that its ok to kill robbers and depending on what really happened the cop might deserve life in jail but they are making it look like as if a cop just shot a random innocent 10 year old black kid for no reason.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 10 2014 21:10. Posts 1723


  On September 10 2014 15:55 devon06atX wrote:
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It would cost a crazy amount of money I imagine. The purchase of the cameras, the database management, etc. etc. etc. So many costs we wouldn't even think of. Which makes it a pretty unlikely possibility.

edit - and of course media is going to sensationalize any possible racial conflict (specifically white vs black). Spikes the ratings, increases the revenue. Basically what ggplz said.


it's being done in cali, i believe, and it's reduced police brutality by like a whopping 80%.

but still, the new mccarthyism

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awesomeguy   Finland. Sep 11 2014 01:07. Posts 61

i trust cops 100%. I dont trust cannabis users who dont take care of their personal hygiene.


Liquid`Drone   Norway. Sep 11 2014 04:53. Posts 3093

omg being white is so terrible

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brambolius   Netherlands. Sep 11 2014 06:42. Posts 1708


  On September 10 2014 12:27 RaiNKhAN wrote:
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one philly cheese steak, peppers onions mushrooms

no fries no soda

no fries no soda



Now I'm hungry asshole.

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TheHuHu3   United States. Sep 11 2014 08:04. Posts 5544

We can't own people anymore. Thanks, Lincoln.

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MyAnacondaDont   United States. Sep 11 2014 10:44. Posts 164


  On September 10 2014 15:55 devon06atX wrote:
Show nested quote +

It would cost a crazy amount of money I imagine. The purchase of the cameras, the database management, etc. etc. etc. So many costs we wouldn't even think of. Which makes it a pretty unlikely possibility.

edit - and of course media is going to sensationalize any possible racial conflict (specifically white vs black). Spikes the ratings, increases the revenue. Basically what ggplz said.


US government is retarded with money. Look at how much it costs to execute 13 people in california.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06...fornia-death-penalty-_0_n_880436.html
we are goddamn retarded
money the cameras cost less than these 13 executions

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Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 11 2014 11:04. Posts 2226

to me these things don't have to do with race. if you spend tons of money militarizing police for the war on drugs or whatever and then fill all the grunt jobs with like veterans of military service who think in terms of the enemy i mean come on. i don't see that personnel cameras would be that expensive, or anyways it would be worth it to have a fucking accountable police force that can serve the people instead of executing them... solve problems instead of making them. anyone with a smartphone has two cameras on them already, police cruisers have dashcams already

the truth is being a police officer is dangerous but why have tazers and mace and the baton and all this stuff if all you want to do is kill people

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k4ir0s   Canada. Sep 11 2014 11:11. Posts 3476


  On September 11 2014 00:07 awesomeguy wrote:
i trust cops 100%. I dont trust cannabis users who dont take care of their personal hygiene.


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montrea...r-by-quebec-city-police-car-1.2755251

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 11 2014 11:32. Posts 1723

police brutality is one thing, but the mccarthyism is what im getting at...


  On September 11 2014 03:53 Liquid`Drone wrote:
omg being white is so terrible



in south africa, being white is actually very terrible, but of course, white people shouldn't get any sort of protection at all when it comes to genocide. or that being white makes you a target for a flash mob beating at kroger, that's actually a good thing, right?

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awesomeguy   Finland. Sep 11 2014 13:37. Posts 61


  On September 11 2014 10:04 Santafairy wrote:
to me these things don't have to do with race. if you spend tons of money militarizing police for the war on drugs or whatever and then fill all the grunt jobs with like veterans of military service who think in terms of the enemy i mean come on. i don't see that personnel cameras would be that expensive, or anyways it would be worth it to have a fucking accountable police force that can serve the people instead of executing them... solve problems instead of making them. anyone with a smartphone has two cameras on them already, police cruisers have dashcams already

the truth is being a police officer is dangerous but why have tazers and mace and the baton and all this stuff if all you want to do is kill people



god help us. The reptilian police are everywhere and all they want to do is kill people.


suited_mess   Poland. Sep 11 2014 14:02. Posts 93

Police brutality? give me a fkin break, if they would be more polite in US the riots would be an ongoing thing on the streets. It is not about racism , it is just the fact that bigger percent of black population is pure dumb, and I do not mean educated, they just fkin are. This is pure natural selection, we should not blame anyone, it is just the way it is.

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capaneo   Canada. Sep 11 2014 14:15. Posts 8465

@TimDawg the only reason that Treyvon case was made public was because of the police reaction. It has nothing to do with the crime etc.

Do you REALLY think if there was a black man killing an un-armed white teenager in a rich with all the evidence of that case the police wouldn't even arrest the black guy? Nobody can honestly think that. Again it has nothing to do with the case itself, it is about how the state (police) handled the case.

Same thing in Furgosen. And THAT is racism. There are tons of studies to support the claim too. Ppl with black names get less job interviews, people that are black are constantly profiled and arrested for drugs etc etc. There are way more black ppl in prisons than white people proportion to the crimes. There are many more black death penalties than white. It is just obv.

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 12 2014 09:14. Posts 34250


  On September 11 2014 03:53 Liquid`Drone wrote:
omg being white is so terrible



when has somebody suggested that being white is worse than any other race?

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 12 2014 09:17. Posts 34250


  On September 11 2014 13:02 suited_mess wrote:
Police brutality? give me a fkin break, if they would be more polite in US the riots would be an ongoing thing on the streets. It is not about racism , it is just the fact that bigger percent of black population is pure dumb, and I do not mean educated, they just fkin are. This is pure natural selection, we should not blame anyone, it is just the way it is.

Chris Rock: " when I`am trying to get some money at night I am not looking out at media, I am looking for niggers" pure comedy and pure life.




lololol these types of thread eventually lure the vermin out, can we skip the future heachaches and ban this asshat right now?

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mnj   United States. Sep 12 2014 09:26. Posts 3848

a) gnarly shouldn't be able to make threads anymore
b) he must have posted as 3-4 different people in this thread
c) too many ppl trying to come off as "cool" or "smart" to have any real meaningful conversation which suxs.


Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 12 2014 11:01. Posts 2226


  On September 11 2014 12:37 awesomeguy wrote:
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god help us. The reptilian police are everywhere and all they want to do is kill people.

LOL how did you remember that post

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handbanana21   United States. Sep 12 2014 14:29. Posts 3037


  On September 11 2014 13:02 suited_mess wrote:
Police brutality? give me a fkin break, if they would be more polite in US the riots would be an ongoing thing on the streets. It is not about racism , it is just the fact that bigger percent of black population is pure dumb, and I do not mean educated, they just fkin are. This is pure natural selection, we should not blame anyone, it is just the way it is.

Chris Rock: " when I`am trying to get some money at night I am not looking out at media, I am looking for niggers" pure comedy and pure life.




You are a fucking loser.


suited_mess   Poland. Sep 12 2014 17:24. Posts 93


  On September 12 2014 13:29 handbanana21 wrote:
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You are a fucking loser.


http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015.pdf <-- read something, make some conclusion, then try to insult, It is a fact - not racism

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 12 2014 18:58. Posts 9634


  On September 12 2014 16:24 suited_mess wrote:
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http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015.pdf <-- read something, make some conclusion, then try to insult, It is a fact - not racism




TimDawg    United States. Sep 12 2014 19:50. Posts 10197


  On September 11 2014 13:15 capaneo wrote:
@TimDawg the only reason that Treyvon case was made public was because of the police reaction. It has nothing to do with the crime etc.

Do you REALLY think if there was a black man killing an un-armed white teenager in a rich with all the evidence of that case the police wouldn't even arrest the black guy? Nobody can honestly think that. Again it has nothing to do with the case itself, it is about how the state (police) handled the case.

Same thing in Furgosen. And THAT is racism. There are tons of studies to support the claim too. Ppl with black names get less job interviews, people that are black are constantly profiled and arrested for drugs etc etc. There are way more black ppl in prisons than white people proportion to the crimes. There are many more black death penalties than white. It is just obv.


The first thing you said is exactly the point I was trying to make

And I agree with you about Ferguson. It for sure is a race issue but mostly imo the way the police operate (in particular with black people) is the main problem

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 12 2014 23:41. Posts 1723


  New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly confirms Mac Donald’s facts. Blacks and Hispanics commit 96 percent of all crimes in the city, he says, but only 85 percent of the stop-and-frisks are of blacks and Hispanics.



http://humanevents.com/2013/07/19/black-americas-real-problem-isnt-white-racism/

The police sure aren't operating as effectively as could be...


  According to Kelly, a majority of his police force, which he has been able to cut from 41,000 officers to 35,000, is now made up of minorities.



Should mention this, too, cause it's funny seeing black protestors protest against black cops.

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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 13 2014 02:47. Posts 5296

I don't think it's got too much to do with racism, but black people are heavily oppressed in america to the point that it looks like a third world country. If you look at prison rates america has up to 700/100k people per prison, which is at least 3 times higher than any other country in the OECD. And it's disproportionately high in the minority races. New Zealand is coming in 2nd at 200/100k. This doesn't have much to do with racism, rather it has more to do getting rid of an extremely high unemployment rate, giving corporations(private prisons) a way to make crazy profits off this, and it allows for a source of social control. American prisons are inhuman in their savagery, and have been repeatedly condemned by amnesty international. I also think that cities like Detroit have been allowed to fail much more than other cities because of the high % of black population.
economists will give you models about how capitalism isnt racist, since a business owner would pay a black person the same as a white person if they are just as productive. This is all true, and has allowed for the rise of black people into middle/upper class. But at the same time economists don't understand how and why various institutions influence government policy. Black oppression has inceased since the 70's, but it is not so much because of racism as it is the change in the economic structure of the world.

As for the Treyvon case, i've never looked at it but my superficial impression is that it is media sensationalist crap. If the media had any moral feeling, which they don't, they would at least begin by discussing what criminologists have to say.

I couldn't watch more than 5 seconds of the video OP posted, hate that kind of stuff.

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 13 2014 05:57. Posts 6374


  On September 13 2014 01:47 Stroggoz wrote: American prisons are inhuman in their savagery, and have been repeatedly condemned by amnesty international.



lmao

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whamm!   Albania. Sep 13 2014 07:58. Posts 11625

I chased down a thief once and caught him and police put him in jail, i visited him and he was crying that i dont press charges because he's been standing for three days with no sleep lol.
Don't break the fucking law. Even if it's an unfair law or shit, stop going to jail idiots or leave the country, its that simple.








VanDerMeyde   Norway. Sep 13 2014 08:59. Posts 5108

Welcome to Bastøy Prison









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TalentedTom    Canada. Sep 13 2014 09:36. Posts 20070

Police need to show acts of brutality from time to time, and the fact that its publicly shown is even better. Last thing you want to have is a reputation of being "soft" when it comes to law enforcement on the street. I don't enjoy it, but I think it's a necessary evil, people gonna think twice before messing with the popo's.

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VanDerMeyde   Norway. Sep 13 2014 10:48. Posts 5108

"In 1999, when the US asked for extradition of an American prisoner, the Norwegian Supreme Court declared that most US prisons do not meet the minimum humanitarian standards."

LOL

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Liquid`Drone   Norway. Sep 13 2014 11:40. Posts 3093


  On September 12 2014 08:14 Baalim wrote:
Show nested quote +



when has somebody suggested that being white is worse than any other race?


gnarly does, all the time

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 13 2014 11:42. Posts 6374


  On September 13 2014 06:58 whamm! wrote:
I chased down a thief once and caught him and police put him in jail, i visited him and he was crying that i dont press charges because he's been standing for three days with no sleep lol.
Don't break the fucking law. Even if it's an unfair law or shit, stop going to jail idiots or leave the country, its that simple.









briliant

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VanDerMeyde   Norway. Sep 13 2014 11:49. Posts 5108

whats brilliant about that

:D 

Gnarly   United States. Sep 13 2014 12:27. Posts 1723


  On September 13 2014 01:47 Stroggoz wrote:
I don't think it's got too much to do with racism, but black people are heavily oppressed in america to the point that it looks like a third world country. If you look at prison rates america has up to 700/100k people per prison, which is at least 3 times higher than any other country in the OECD. And it's disproportionately high in the minority races. New Zealand is coming in 2nd at 200/100k. This doesn't have much to do with racism, rather it has more to do getting rid of an extremely high unemployment rate, giving corporations(private prisons) a way to make crazy profits off this, and it allows for a source of social control. American prisons are inhuman in their savagery, and have been repeatedly condemned by amnesty international. I also think that cities like Detroit have been allowed to fail much more than other cities because of the high % of black population.
economists will give you models about how capitalism isnt racist, since a business owner would pay a black person the same as a white person if they are just as productive. This is all true, and has allowed for the rise of black people into middle/upper class. But at the same time economists don't understand how and why various institutions influence government policy. Black oppression has inceased since the 70's, but it is not so much because of racism as it is the change in the economic structure of the world.

As for the Treyvon case, i've never looked at it but my superficial impression is that it is media sensationalist crap. If the media had any moral feeling, which they don't, they would at least begin by discussing what criminologists have to say.

I couldn't watch more than 5 seconds of the video OP posted, hate that kind of stuff.



>commit an overwhelmingly large % of crimes
>end up an overwhelmingly large % of prison population

DAS RACIS CAPITALISM AT WORK YALL

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bigredhoss   Cook Islands. Sep 13 2014 12:47. Posts 8648

1. move to Norway
2. sell drugs

3a. make money and improve lifestyle
3b. go to prison and improve lifestyle

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traxamillion   United States. Sep 13 2014 20:28. Posts 10468


  On September 13 2014 11:47 bigredhoss wrote:
1. move to Norway
2. sell drugs

3a. make money and improve lifestyle
3b. go to prison and improve lifestyle



was my exact thought when I saw that Bastoy place. I bet sentences are super short too. What a freeroll


Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 13 2014 20:29. Posts 5296


  On September 13 2014 11:27 Gnarly wrote:
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>commit an overwhelmingly large % of crimes
>end up an overwhelmingly large % of prison population

DAS RACIS CAPITALISM AT WORK YALL


crime in america is not overwhelming large. It is similar to other OECD countries, although there are anomalies where crime is high such as shootings with guns, but that isn't because of a criminal culture but the gun culture america has. Crime in america has roughly stayed the same over time as the prison population has skyrocketed.

One of 3 non decent human beings on a site of 5 people with between 2-3 decent human beingsLast edit: 13/09/2014 22:18

Baalim   Mexico. Sep 13 2014 21:57. Posts 34250


  On September 13 2014 08:36 TalentedTom wrote:
Police need to show acts of brutality from time to time, and the fact that its publicly shown is even better. Last thing you want to have is a reputation of being "soft" when it comes to law enforcement on the street. I don't enjoy it, but I think it's a necessary evil, people gonna think twice before messing with the popo's.



Thats extremely retarded, the police needs to show a high % of conviction rate, how is the police doing illegal things cause people to stop doing illegal things? Theres quite strong evidence that actually fear to punishment does little to dissuade crime compared to simple social civility.

You know this I dont know why you make that dumb statement, you have seen norways prisons and police yet it has way less crime than the US

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casinocasino   Canada. Sep 13 2014 23:15. Posts 3343

lol


casinocasino   Canada. Sep 13 2014 23:39. Posts 3343

The law needs to make adjustments to increased rate of crime.

In regards to the post Tom made, that's an absurd opinion to have and the reason their is a justice system in civilized countries that protects citizens from exactly that, corruption.

Here in St. Martin they have had 100 armed robberies this year already, 25 x more then the average just a few years ago.
while the punishment of 9 months in prison seems appropriate, the rate of conviction is low, along with the increased levels of poverty its causing young men to take risks they believe to be worth the consequences. Also, the salary of police officers is really low. I am not sure what the solution could be to the increased level of crime, I think perhaps increasing the risk will deter some criminals, but what can they do if they are on the brink of survival, with no food to eat, and no real jobs to pay the bills?


Gnarly   United States. Sep 14 2014 00:31. Posts 1723


  On September 13 2014 19:29 Stroggoz wrote:
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crime in america is not overwhelming large. It is similar to other OECD countries, although there are anomalies where crime is high such as shootings with guns, but that isn't because of a criminal culture but the gun culture america has. Crime in america has roughly stayed the same over time as the prison population has skyrocketed.



crime has been going down, nor am I saying that crime is big. what im saying is that black people commit a VERY large % of crime, as opposed to white people or asian people or etc.. (you know, that link I posted...)

>gun culture

Yeah, it's the white republicans who are so fanatical about guns, yet it's the black youth in Detroit shooting each other up to a hundred times per weekend. I can't tell you how many times I've just sat and listened to their police scanners at night and actually couldn't step away from the action.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 14 2014 00:35. Posts 1723


  On September 13 2014 22:39 casinocasino wrote:
The law needs to make adjustments to increased rate of crime.

In regards to the post Tom made, that's an absurd opinion to have and the reason their is a justice system in civilized countries that protects citizens from exactly that, corruption.

Here in St. Martin they have had 100 armed robberies this year already, 25 x more then the average just a few years ago.
while the punishment of 9 months in prison seems appropriate, the rate of conviction is low, along with the increased levels of poverty its causing young men to take risks they believe to be worth the consequences. Also, the salary of police officers is really low. I am not sure what the solution could be to the increased level of crime, I think perhaps increasing the risk will deter some criminals, but what can they do if they are on the brink of survival, with no food to eat, and no real jobs to pay the bills?



give them universal basic income...

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 14 2014 02:21. Posts 9634

damn that football field is "free" and it looks better than any paid one we have here


dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 14 2014 04:50. Posts 6374


  On September 13 2014 10:49 VanDerMeyde wrote:
whats brilliant about that

jailtime should be punisment, not vacation with free accomodation, gym, sauna, tv, internet and 3 hot meals a day

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suited_mess   Poland. Sep 14 2014 06:01. Posts 93

The police needs to show a high % of conviction rate <-- this is retarded, thinking that police has anything to do with that, your courts are letting people free, not fkin police. Nice ass kicking is at least some fkin punishment that these idiots are going to get, before some retarted lawyer will help them to get out from trouble. This is the only thing that I really love about the super conservative muslim countries. If you commited the crime You will remmember about it to end of Your fkin days. Look at Iran, in 2013 they presented new machine to cut off hands when someone steal, i mean this is brilliant some fucker received also 99 lashes, 3 years of a jail and lost his hand. That is a fkin lesson, trust me, when Your kid would see a guy without a hand driking with a straw in bar, asking You what happened to him. After hearing your reply trust on this - no more thinking about fkin stealing and shit. After all we are just animals that went through whole evolution process, dog in a house with strong hand over his head is a sweet sweet pet, living in a fkin forest it is a deadly wolf!

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awesomeguy   Finland. Sep 14 2014 06:55. Posts 61

Well who knows, maybe cutting niggers limbs off is the answer to Americas crime problem.


VanDerMeyde   Norway. Sep 14 2014 08:06. Posts 5108

dp

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VanDerMeyde   Norway. Sep 14 2014 08:06. Posts 5108


  On September 14 2014 03:50 dogmeat wrote:
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jailtime should be punisment, not vacation with free accomodation, gym, sauna, tv, internet and 3 hot meals a day


Why ? What do you think will happen to these people when they get out some day from american torture prisons ? There are other factors involved than just punishment. If punishment will acctually just lead to more criminality, more rapes, more murders etc is it worth it ? So that YOU can feel justice ?

And where do they get internet and sauna ?

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suited_mess   Poland. Sep 14 2014 08:40. Posts 93


  On September 14 2014 05:55 awesomeguy wrote:
Well who knows, maybe cutting niggers limbs off is the answer to Americas crime problem.


was talking in general, and such laws should be applied to any fkin country on earth, to give a fkin lesson, the worst thing to do is to give fkin fine, or give so called jail time in submission, no lesson learned and trust me i know what I am talking about. You will see what is going on when it will touch people closest to you, when some dumb fuck will do the same thing, because someone decided that he should receive another chance, then you will cry, but it will be to fkin late. You commit a crime, you get as hard punishment you can get simple as that

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napoleono   Romania. Sep 14 2014 08:46. Posts 771


  On September 14 2014 07:06 VanDerMeyde wrote:
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Why ? What do you think will happen to these people when they get out some day from american torture prisons ? There are other factors involved than just punishment. If punishment will acctually just lead to more criminality, more rapes, more murders etc is it worth it ? So that YOU can feel justice ?

And where do they get internet and sauna ?



In Norway? :D

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VanDerMeyde   Norway. Sep 14 2014 09:19. Posts 5108

There are better ways to spend the prisoners time than punishment... For the good of society. When people go to prison they should learn responsibility, getting them into a normal work routine 8-4, rehabilitation, build their confidence and self-respect.

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VanDerMeyde   Norway. Sep 14 2014 09:23. Posts 5108

Bastøy prison is for prisoners that proved themself first in other normal facilities... I strongly believe every prison should be like Bastøy and Halden.... But there are definitly other prison facilities in Norway that are not as good and modern as Halden. Now you can also risk to be sent to Dutch prisons... if you are a foreigner and is supposed to be banned from Norway anyway at least...

The results are just amazing. Just compare the recidivism rate US vs Norway for example.

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Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 14 2014 10:02. Posts 2226


  On September 14 2014 07:40 suited_mess wrote:
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was talking in general, and such laws should be applied to any fkin country on earth, to give a fkin lesson, the worst thing to do is to give fkin fine, or give so called jail time in submission, no lesson learned and trust me i know what I am talking about. You will see what is going on when it will touch people closest to you, when some dumb fuck will do the same thing, because someone decided that he should receive another chance, then you will cry, but it will be to fkin late. You commit a crime, you get as hard punishment you can get simple as that

you just sound like a sadist

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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 14 2014 10:39. Posts 5296


  On September 14 2014 03:50 dogmeat wrote:
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jailtime should be punisment, not vacation with free accomodation, gym, sauna, tv, internet and 3 hot meals a day


it shouldn't be just punishment. That is a shallow, poisonous and callous world view. Everyone should care for prisoners, even if they do not care back. There is no reason to punish for the sake of vengeance. It is sadistic and selfish. I'm sure those vengeful moral values are ones which you may share with some of the prisoners themselves. And that those values are what got them in prison in the first place. But of course, a lot of people are in prison for much less than that. A lot become prisoners simply because someone found personal drugs in their pocket. Perhaps one day you will take an interest in simple ethical truths that a ten year old could understand.

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casinocasino   Canada. Sep 14 2014 11:06. Posts 3343


  On September 13 2014 23:35 Gnarly wrote:
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give them universal basic income...


Universal basic income huh? you mean give every resident the same pay regardless of the work they do? or just give away free income?

or do you mean minimum wage?
Because they already have a minimum wage standard in almost every country now, including St. Martin. its $900 a month here, and its really low in comparison to the prices. A police officer makes 1200 a month here, that's not enough incentive for them to risk their life against increasing rates of violent crime. Also the problem is not really with the minimum wage but the lack of work and the demand of tourists and how these crimes reflect on the tourism industry here.


Gnarly   United States. Sep 14 2014 12:07. Posts 1723

i mean giving money to people for no work other than to generate demand.

every time it's been "tested" it has shown to increase the quality of life over almost every single factor of life by a good margin. in fact, Canada was the first country to test it out, I think, in the 90s. For a city, they did it for five years, I think?

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 14 2014 12:10. Posts 1723

but, on the subject of punishment and the prison system: there should be pretty much two prisons: one where you can be rehabilitated, not simply just punished (ie: working fish farms or dog training or welding or something); and the other one to punish those that can't be rehabilitated.

i think rehabilitation is a key word that hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread?

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 14 2014 12:38. Posts 6374


  On September 14 2014 11:07 Gnarly wrote:
i mean giving money to people for no work other than to generate demand.

every time it's been "tested" it has shown to increase the quality of life over almost every single factor of life by a good margin. in fact, Canada was the first country to test it out, I think, in the 90s. For a city, they did it for five years, I think?

only tested on small groups. money = work, sure you can just print money but that will only cause inflation and you are back whre you started. geez

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 14 2014 13:01. Posts 1723

im not saying for the federal government to personally do it, but the corporations.

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casinocasino   Canada. Sep 14 2014 14:16. Posts 3343

that's called paying taxes and a welfare system.

that does not solve anything


dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 14 2014 14:19. Posts 6374

he doesnt mean welfare system, he means unconditional basic income, stupid idea some leftist retards who doesnt even understand the very basic economic principles are promoting

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suited_mess   Poland. Sep 14 2014 14:27. Posts 93

you all just watched Shawshank Redemption to many fkin times! Rehabilitation? How many times idiots were going out, and they did the very same thing after day or two and went back to fkin prison, You will say - good , it works as they went back to prison. I say talk to the mother of raped child, tell that to the girl who now has the face in scares from fkin ear to ear, tell that to mom of two kids that were killed by drink & drive fkin idiot. World is pretty small, sadist ? neeee i dont think so, but if there is no place for all of us, we should exterminate these fucks that are not able to live among us. And I love the most voice from Norway hahah, you know what Your love and dont giving a fuck gave? Breivik and over 80 kids or something killed in one day. And this idiot received the highest penealty - 21 years in jail. Should be killed at the fkin very beginning as a lesson. But no - now this dumb fuck can complain that he has only two games on his playstation, and no access to internet - are You fkin joking?!

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Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 14 2014 15:09. Posts 2226

your anecdote is not a way to run a civilization... talk to the guy who had his door kicked down in an armed DEA raid because the government thought he was a junkie and dealer... talk to the guy who got shot and killed while his face was against the ground because the cop thought he was holding his stun gun... talk to the guy who was on his motorcycle and then got his door kicked in and computers seized because he was filming the meatheaded cop with a gopro camera at the time, and then charged with wiretapping charges by a government that collects without warrant or probable cause every communication that happens on the internet in the name of national security... talk to the guy who got his door kicked in by a DEA raid because an overfunded police force with no hobbies was flying a helicopter around and saw a wild cannabis plant on the edge of his huge property... talk to the people who the state spends hundreds of millions of dollars on to pursue capital punishment and then executes a fucking innocent person... talk to the guy who is spending life in prison for stealing video tapes under california's 3 strikes rule... talk to people who were wrongly convicted of infant abuse because supposedly scientific doctors testified there was no other cause for shaken baby syndrome

if you talk to a victim of crime probably the deepest thing in their heart would be to wish there were less crime. not to fucking cut people's hands off for stealing. i don't know if even medieval people didn't cut hands off because it makes it nearly impossible to contribute to society. seriously muslim countries are your idol? where the good guys hang people for apostasy or being gay? and the bad guys machinegun cars at random that you can see on vimeo because of political disagreements?

what is your fetish with using laws that are written by humans to dehumanize people? like 10% of black men in america in jail, how many of them because of petty shit like marijuana, are in jail you think that's helping things?

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suited_mess   Poland. Sep 14 2014 17:04. Posts 93

but they all commited a crime, and could not keep up with the laws and rules arent they? so what you are winning about? hahaha omg, lots of lols, from a guy who is living next door to a lunatic, if you are so righteous in Korea why dont you help your own brothers in northern part tell me? 10% in jails are black? hahaha where you have your info from :D 50s and 60 s? hahaha, what i think is if you do not obey the fkin law, you are getting what You deserved. Guy on the ground wasnt kept there for nothing right? So the guy killed by DEA wasnt junkie and the dealer, and had nothing to do with it? DEA top narcotic police force invaded a family house, of a guy who had fkin dog, backyard and tree on it? you are lunatic. Same as Your neighbour mate

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 14 2014 17:04. Posts 9634



I haven't started reading it yet, but it was recommended by Bill Gates when he did his AMA. It's mainly about human's violence throughout our existence. If it fascinated a man like Gates, you should probably read it suited_mess and if that doesn't change your mind, don't know what will. However your ideas are beyond terrible, you don't see how you're part of the problem, the second a man acts on hatred he stars a never ending cycle of violence until someone that actually uses his head decides to swallow it all up. I don't understand how can people NOT see that, its the most obvious thing ever.

Edit:
Actually this is exactly why Japan's overall state of mentality is decades ahead of its time. Those are values they grow up with. Thats their "propaganda" as the values are forced in basically everything from newspappers to animes and shit. Its why they are 10000 times more efficient in anything than other nations. Its also why it took them about 30s to find volunteers( all of which were old) to go and suicide to save the new generation

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suited_mess   Poland. Sep 14 2014 17:04. Posts 93

and the worst part is, that is nothing more that being politically correct, talking shit like that etc. omg the smoked marijuana, why they are in jail - simple rule - do not fkin do that!!

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VanDerMeyde   Norway. Sep 14 2014 17:05. Posts 5108

Dogmeat you scare me.... I thought only republicans talk like this....

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 14 2014 17:57. Posts 6374

the fck did i do?

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whamm!   Albania. Sep 14 2014 19:23. Posts 11625

update on the thief guy which i forgot to mention. he still looks like he's capable of doing shit but from what i've heard, that three day prison stint got engraved into his brain like a mofo. Once i heard it i felt i did the lord's work there lol

i couldve just dropped it and have me return what he stole which he still possessed, but i really felt since he was a young adult, he needed to see whats in store for him if he keeps at this thug bs life hes trying to emulate.


bigredhoss   Cook Islands. Sep 14 2014 20:18. Posts 8648

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 14 2014 21:08. Posts 6374


  On September 14 2014 16:04 Spitfiree wrote:
Actually this is exactly why Japan's overall state of mentality is decades ahead of its time. Those are values they grow up with. Thats their "propaganda" as the values are forced in basically everything from newspappers to animes and shit. Its why they are 10000 times more efficient in anything than other nations. Its also why it took them about 30s to find volunteers( all of which were old) to go and suicide to save the new generation

so ahead of its time they basically lost interest in sex? fuckin betas

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 14 2014 23:02. Posts 1723


  On September 14 2014 13:19 dogmeat wrote:
he doesnt mean welfare system, he means unconditional basic income, stupid idea some leftist retards who doesnt even understand the very basic economic principles are promoting



Yeah. let's go ahead and keep McJobs instead of automating the cashiers and cooks away so people can work shit jobs. do you even realize how much those types of job account for the total workforce of america?

more like dogshit to me.

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 15 2014 03:12. Posts 34250


  On September 14 2014 12:01 Gnarly wrote:
im not saying for the federal government to personally do it, but the corporations.



so you want corporations to give money to random people... to generate demand?


lol go back to economics 101 ... nah nevermind go back to common sense 101

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Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 15 2014 04:38. Posts 2226


  On September 14 2014 16:04 suited_mess wrote:
but they all commited a crime, and could not keep up with the laws and rules arent they? so what you are winning about? hahaha omg, lots of lols, from a guy who is living next door to a lunatic, if you are so righteous in Korea why dont you help your own brothers in northern part tell me? 10% in jails are black? hahaha where you have your info from :D 50s and 60 s? hahaha, what i think is if you do not obey the fkin law, you are getting what You deserved. Guy on the ground wasnt kept there for nothing right? So the guy killed by DEA wasnt junkie and the dealer, and had nothing to do with it? DEA top narcotic police force invaded a family house, of a guy who had fkin dog, backyard and tree on it? you are lunatic. Same as Your neighbour mate


okay i will schadenfreude all the way to the bank when poland makes trolling illegal and you get your hands amputated

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 15 2014 05:33. Posts 9634


  On September 15 2014 02:12 Baalim wrote:
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so you want corporations to give money to random people... to generate demand?


lol go back to economics 101 ... nah nevermind go back to common sense 101


Its how corporations gain control over people, they give out money in the form of loans, obv not what you meant, but still....

Surprised you bother to read Gnarly's posts though


Baalim   Mexico. Sep 15 2014 06:14. Posts 34250


  On September 15 2014 04:33 Spitfiree wrote:
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Its how corporations gain control over people, they give out money in the form of loans, obv not what you meant, but still....

Surprised you bother to read Gnarly's posts though



loans =/= giving money away, not remotely close

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 15 2014 07:16. Posts 6374


  On September 15 2014 05:14 Baalim wrote:
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loans != giving money away, not remotely close


fyp

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 15 2014 11:52. Posts 1723


  On September 15 2014 02:12 Baalim wrote:
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so you want corporations to give money to random people... to generate demand?


lol go back to economics 101 ... nah nevermind go back to common sense 101


I want corps to give money to their customers in order to sustain demand. But I guess it's common sense not to ensure that once you automate your workers away, not to make sure they still work for you through other means. (consumerism) Do you know about a fourth of all jobs in the States are jobs like McD's? Where do you think all these people will work at once McD replaces all cashiers with kiosks, and all cooks with conveyer belts? Then you won't need as many managers, either, and probably just the store manager and an equipment manager. Who do you think is going to be buying up McD's without a job?

OH FUCKING WAIT, IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING. PEOPLE ARE ALREADY BUYING MC'DS WITHOUT A JOB!!!! IT'S CALLED WELFARE!!!!

Except currently welfare is established through taxing working people's income and taxing people's consumerism. Once the people are no longer able to provide the welfare, guess who's going to have to to in order to keep things the way they are? Those whom benefit the most by it.

>common sense
>expecting McJobs to stick around forever, even in the next five years

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 15 2014 12:42. Posts 6374

give money to their customers -> sustain demand -> more $$$$ to be given to customers
????
profit


llol

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awesomeguy   Finland. Sep 15 2014 14:06. Posts 61

gnarlie is so goddamn stoopid


Gnarly   United States. Sep 15 2014 14:12. Posts 1723

>don't give customers money
>wonder why there are no customers

When no one has a job, no one will be a customer. Oh, wait, McJobs are eternal...

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Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 15 2014 14:44. Posts 2226

i'm not an economist but i believe companies give money to employees, although i'd like to learn more about your planet also gnarly

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 15 2014 15:07. Posts 1723

IM TALKING ABOUT THE INCREASED AUTOMATION WE ARE SEEING IN THE WORKFORCE LOL LIKE OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN DON'T TURN 360 DEGREES AND WALK AWAY

LITERALLY ON THIS PAGE LOL

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 15 2014 17:55. Posts 6374


  On September 15 2014 14:07 Gnarly wrote:
DON'T TURN 360 DEGREES AND WALK AWAY



such a troll :D

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 16 2014 03:39. Posts 34250


  On September 15 2014 14:07 Gnarly wrote:
IM TALKING ABOUT THE INCREASED AUTOMATION WE ARE SEEING IN THE WORKFORCE LOL LIKE OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN DON'T TURN 360 DEGREES AND WALK AWAY

LITERALLY ON THIS PAGE LOL



360 degrees? not sure if trolling or just increasingly stupid with each post.


Automatization fear has existed since the beggining of the industrialization of production, oh noes... cars wont be welded by hand, oh the humanity!

What happens is that it simply shifts jobs from mindless grunt work to more advanced work, so instead of welding car doors now robot manufacturer needs people working on their line and more engeneers etc.

So college graduates can stop bitching about having no jobs, because now there will be new positions to build the Mc Donalds auto-servers or whatever, its the natural evolution of society and how jobs are created, jobs should exist because a service is required by society, not as a charity after you do 8 hours of useless work.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 16 2014 11:53. Posts 1723

You do realize that service jobs are becoming increasingly larger and larger, and is already the largest job type for Americans? Robot manufacturers use robots to build their robots... This is the entire point of automation. We are automating the people who watch over the plants, we are automating scientists, even. We are automating every single thing.

>positions to build the auto-servers

But robots already do that. And we are looking to automate the maintenance part of vending machines, entirely. No one is saying that jobs should stick around because of "charity." Jobs should exist if they are the most effective way to get something done. If automation is more effective, then that should take over jobs.

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casinocasino   Canada. Sep 16 2014 13:21. Posts 3343

Brain explosion


Baalim   Mexico. Sep 16 2014 13:47. Posts 34250


  On September 16 2014 10:53 Gnarly wrote:
Jobs should exist if they are the most effective way to get something done. If automation is more effective, then that should take over jobs.



aaaand thats exactly how it works lol

Nobody automates something if manual labor would be more effective.

And also lol @ automated scientists... wtf are you smoking?

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mnj   United States. Sep 16 2014 15:36. Posts 3848



can't wait till everything is automated, and we are liberated from our bodies!


Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 16 2014 17:33. Posts 9634

Gnarly take some macroeconomics classes and you ll understand how stupid you are...
If society had followed your ways, we d probably live in the stone age wow. How the fuck are you so ignorant

Like.. you have no basic understandings of unemployment and why is it healthy to have it and how does it lead to progress
I bet you don't even understand why am i even talking about unemployment

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 16 2014 20:29. Posts 1723


  On September 16 2014 12:47 Baalim wrote:
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aaaand thats exactly how it works lol

Nobody automates something if manual labor would be more effective.

And also lol @ automated scientists... wtf are you smoking?




http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/publications/Papers/2001073.pdf

Literally the first result for automated scientific theory.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 16 2014 20:35. Posts 1723


  On September 16 2014 16:33 Spitfiree wrote:
Gnarly take some macroeconomics classes and you ll understand how stupid you are...
If society had followed your ways, we d probably live in the stone age wow. How the fuck are you so ignorant

Like.. you have no basic understandings of unemployment and why is it healthy to have it and how does it lead to progress
I bet you don't even understand why am i even talking about unemployment



Unemployment allows for mobility in the work force, and currently, the best % is around 5%. Too much, and not enough people are working. Too little, and there aren't enough jobs. Basic stuff you learn in high school economics.

Do you even know the statistics for unemployment per demographic? Do you even know which groups have been okay since 08 and which groups are still struggling? Like how the dollar is doomed (oh wait, it's been going up and up and up lately) and how gold is going to 10k and bitcoins are going to 100k, y'all can buy up that stuff or short, but I'll be laughing because you're following articles written by, well, ultimately, the people you're buying from.

BUT MUH BUFFET, HE BOUGHTEDED GOLDED WHEN IT WAS AT 1.8K
and look what happened after he said that.

>actually thinking gold's value is even over $400

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 17 2014 07:18. Posts 34250


  On September 16 2014 19:29 Gnarly wrote:
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http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/publications/Papers/2001073.pdf

Literally the first result for automated scientific theory.



Did you even read that link? yeah because automating some of the mindless processes of experimentation means we have robot scientits lol.

Also wtf does gold have to do with anything, btw nice dodge on the rest of my post

Why do you think companies want to automate their production? to fuck with people? lol its obviously more efficient and cheap, its a natural process and it has been happening for over nearly 200 years and in those 2 centuries there has been idiots claiming that people are loosing their jobs, yeah everything was hand made back in the day, and now it isnt and there isnt a job crisis, there spots for shoe makers closed and spots to many other more advanced jobs open every fucking day, its part of our civilization, and this process is not only a by product of advancement, its a necessity for it.

Thinking corporations should give money away for free so people can buy their shit with the money they just gave away is retarded and lacks the slightest understanding of economics, hey ill give you $5 bucks so you can buy my $5 product... im going to get rich! lol nice business model there.

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 17 2014 12:02. Posts 6374

^at some point the intellence of an average potencial worker becomes a barrier, not a problem for next few decades thou

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 17 2014 13:02. Posts 1723


  On September 17 2014 06:18 Baalim wrote:
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Did you even read that link? yeah because automating some of the mindless processes of experimentation means we have robot scientits lol.

Also wtf does gold have to do with anything, btw nice dodge on the rest of my post

Why do you think companies want to automate their production? to fuck with people? lol its obviously more efficient and cheap, its a natural process and it has been happening for over nearly 200 years and in those 2 centuries there has been idiots claiming that people are loosing their jobs, yeah everything was hand made back in the day, and now it isnt and there isnt a job crisis, there spots for shoe makers closed and spots to many other more advanced jobs open every fucking day, its part of our civilization, and this process is not only a by product of advancement, its a necessity for it.

Thinking corporations should give money away for free so people can buy their shit with the money they just gave away is retarded and lacks the slightest understanding of economics, hey ill give you $5 bucks so you can buy my $5 product... im going to get rich! lol nice business model there.




but there is a job crisis. when you look at specific demographics, you'll see this, but I'm sure you know all about that, right?

more advanced jobs aren't really opening up every day. when not even a single person I've known either from high school or from the many different colleges I've partied at has an actual fucking career, I'd be more inclined to say that there are more and more service jobs opening up every day, not engineering or whatever.

when the labor participation rate keeps falling, does that really mean jobs that are automated are being replaced? if so, wouldn't the rate stay the same?

think of it like this: there are three companies that pool money together to give to people. they give this money and the people start buying things. company A has had a really good week, B has had a medium week, and C had a shit week. C won't be able to put in as much money the next time, while A will be able to put in more. Eventually, company C will go under because they don't get enough business. Company A AND B just got richer.

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 17 2014 13:44. Posts 34250


  On September 17 2014 12:02 Gnarly wrote:
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but there is a job crisis. when you look at specific demographics, you'll see this, but I'm sure you know all about that, right?

more advanced jobs aren't really opening up every day. when not even a single person I've known either from high school or from the many different colleges I've partied at has an actual fucking career, I'd be more inclined to say that there are more and more service jobs opening up every day, not engineering or whatever.

when the labor participation rate keeps falling, does that really mean jobs that are automated are being replaced? if so, wouldn't the rate stay the same?

think of it like this: there are three companies that pool money together to give to people. they give this money and the people start buying things. company A has had a really good week, B has had a medium week, and C had a shit week. C won't be able to put in as much money the next time, while A will be able to put in more. Eventually, company C will go under because they don't get enough business. Company A AND B just got richer.



No, there is not a world job crisis, if theres a particular job crisis in a country its because of its economy not because of the natural advancement in jobs.

Well maybe you need to hang out with a smarter crowd (maybe something will stick), the vast majority of my friends have degrees, many masters and a couple doctorates actually im one of the very few who doesnt lol

You say more sevice jobs are opening and less engineering jobs are available which is directly contrary to the belief that everything is getting automated

I cant believe you are insisting on that dumb idea... if you give $1000 to a person, and that person buys from your store a $1000 TV you didnt sell shit... you gave away a free TV for fucks sake

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devon06atX   Canada. Sep 17 2014 14:23. Posts 5458


  On September 17 2014 12:44 Baalim wrote:
if you give $1000 to a person, and that person buys from your store a $1000 TV you didnt sell shit... you gave away a free TV for fucks sake

ding ding ding



I've often thought that gnarly's whole purpose is a massive trolling adventure. This thread strengthens that theory.


Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 17 2014 16:57. Posts 9634

I say give Baal his forum rights back :D

also gnarly good job on googling unemployment, try googling structural & frictional unemployment now since its what i was talking about, except you couldn't have known that since you re pretty clueless, its what automation of production leads to, something pretty basic, anyone who's spent more than 10hrs on macroeconomics knows this shit


cba replying about other stuff you wrote since its not worth my time spent/entertainment level ratio


nolan   Ireland. Sep 17 2014 19:14. Posts 6205

this has been a pretty epic derail

back on topic:

yeah U.S. media is terrible, and yeah PC faux outrage b.s. is annoying

I think the media should be held accountable for the rioting in Ferguson. Doubly so when they inevitably incite more outrage when this cop isn't even indicted by the grand jury.

People who aren't from America or don't realize how wide the right to self-defense is in most U.S. states probably find it shocking; but in a case where there is little evidence outside of questionable eye witness accounts and a shooter who doesn't need to justify why he acquired a weapon (cause he has to carry one for his job) it's going to be difficult if not impossible to get a conviction in court. The presumption of innocence means that if you say you felt threatened and were attacked you can legally kill the person attacking you. It's up to the courts to prove you were not in danger.

I don't know if the cop was out of line or not, and we'll probably never know, but unless some video of the actual shooting pops up I don't see how he wouldn't beat the charge anyways. People with good lawyers (which this cop would 100% have) have gotten off on murders with a whole lot more evidence than what exists in this case.

Anyways, I'll cut this already too long post short, but anyone with half a brain in the media already knows that there's not a really strong case against this cop. By keeping it in the media though they get to extend the story by further covering the outrage they themselves generated based on their reporting. In the eyes of the media the riots were best case scenario, gives them more of a "story" to cover. It's pretty dangerous and something I think the media as a whole has been pursuing more aggressively in the past few years.

Edit:

And to people who say "ya right, if this was Joe Citizen who shot him and said he felt threatened he'd be in prison for life!!!"

That may actually be true, but not explicitly because of corruption or police favoritism in the courts. Part of claiming self defense is explaining or justifying the acquisition of a weapon and providing for why you felt threatened. Both of these are pretty softball explanations for a cop.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...ck-pre-dawn-raid-capital-murder.shtml

Yeah, it's Texas which has some of the most lenient self-defense laws in the U.S., but here's one example of a citizen shooting a cop who failed to identify himself as an officer and a grand jury declining to indict considering it a case of self-defense.

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ggplz   Sweden. Sep 17 2014 22:30. Posts 16784

Agree on media being held accountable. They never will be though as they have many powerful defenses and I think most people would be apathetic about it anyway. News corporations can pretty much spin anything they want to get your attention/outrage/etc. It would be sweet if people turned on the media instead of shop owners!

I think everyone has the right to self defense and that's one of the things America has right. The eyewitness accounts were pretty sketchy IMO and I totally side with the cop.

If you swapped the cop with a civilian (concealed carry holder) who was assaulted inside of his car then I doubt he would exit the vehicle. But If he did and the guy charged at him after already trying to take his weapon and having beaten him, you think he needs more to claim self defense? As far as non concealed carry permit holders go, I thought that the right of self defense would still apply but they may take an additional charge for carrying the weapon illegally. That said, if they're inside their car you could argue they're just on their way to a gun range but obviously less so if they exit the vehicle and pursue him.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 17 2014 23:40. Posts 1723


  On September 17 2014 12:44 Baalim wrote:
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No, there is not a world job crisis, if theres a particular job crisis in a country its because of its economy not because of the natural advancement in jobs.

Well maybe you need to hang out with a smarter crowd (maybe something will stick), the vast majority of my friends have degrees, many masters and a couple doctorates actually im one of the very few who doesnt lol

You say more sevice jobs are opening and less engineering jobs are available which is directly contrary to the belief that everything is getting automated

I cant believe you are insisting on that dumb idea... if you give $1000 to a person, and that person buys from your store a $1000 TV you didnt sell shit... you gave away a free TV for fucks sake



>world job crisis

I'm talking about America, here. I know, it's really easy to forget that America isn't the center of this planet but... actually, it is.

The people I hang out own businesses.

Again, you really need to look at certain statistics. Active participation labor rate, full employment v half employment, different age, gender, and race groups. Once you actually look into this stuff, instead of spouting non-researched opinions, then you'll understand what's been going on.

It seems you have extremely poor reading comprehension. I'm not saying there is only going to be one company giving money away. What I'm saying is that COMPANIES, plural, and if you need a link explain the difference between plurality and singularity, I'll be happy to oblige, will be pooling their money. Again, refer to my previous example with company A, B, and C.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 17 2014 23:41. Posts 1723


  On September 17 2014 21:30 ggplz wrote:
Agree on media being held accountable. They never will be though as they have many powerful defenses and I think most people would be apathetic about it anyway. News corporations can pretty much spin anything they want to get your attention/outrage/etc. It would be sweet if people turned on the media instead of shop owners!

I think everyone has the right to self defense and that's one of the things America has right. The eyewitness accounts were pretty sketchy IMO and I totally side with the cop.

If you swapped the cop with a civilian (concealed carry holder) who was assaulted inside of his car then I doubt he would exit the vehicle. But If he did and the guy charged at him after already trying to take his weapon and having beaten him, you think he needs more to claim self defense? As far as non concealed carry permit holders go, I thought that the right of self defense would still apply but they may take an additional charge for carrying the weapon illegally. That said, if they're inside their car you could argue they're just on their way to a gun range but obviously less so if they exit the vehicle and pursue him.



>ever once believe all the protesters are actual angry citizens and not having batches of undercover agents.

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ggplz   Sweden. Sep 18 2014 00:11. Posts 16784

wtf @ >?

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 18 2014 01:32. Posts 1723



>occupy agents

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Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 18 2014 08:49. Posts 2226


  On September 16 2014 02:39 Baalim wrote:
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360 degrees? not sure if trolling or just increasingly stupid with each post.


maybe by 360 degrees he means he's baked

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 18 2014 10:05. Posts 34250


  On September 17 2014 22:40 Gnarly wrote:

It seems you have extremely poor reading comprehension. I'm not saying there is only going to be one company giving money away. What I'm saying is that COMPANIES, plural, and if you need a link explain the difference between plurality and singularity, I'll be happy to oblige, will be pooling their money. Again, refer to my previous example with company A, B, and C.



It doesnt matter if its one or one million companies, if you give money away so they can purchase something from you with that money you didnt sell shit, you gave that shit free you retard.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 18 2014 17:26. Posts 1723

>what is opportunity cost

I'm guessing you forgot there is no such thing as a free lunch.

/facepalm

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 18 2014 18:22. Posts 6374

yeah tell us, what is opportunity cost of giving away $1000

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 18 2014 18:26. Posts 1723

wow...

the costs incurred by the customer affects the companies. very simple here, guys.

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 18 2014 18:30. Posts 6374

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 18 2014 21:42. Posts 1723

Instead of spending $1,000 at Company A, everyone spends their $1,000 at Company B. This opportunity cost, not shopping at Company A, drains Company A of money, while flooding Company B with money. Company A wouldn't be able to give any more money away, because they can't afford to, which means they can't sell anymore products, because they can't afford to, which means they are out of business. See how capitalism and the free market persist?

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traxamillion   United States. Sep 19 2014 02:49. Posts 10468

hahahaahahahhahahah


dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 19 2014 08:43. Posts 6374

$1000 - $1000 = 0

this is math

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 19 2014 08:52. Posts 1723



Let's say there were four companies in the world. A, B, C, and D. Each of them gives each person $250, and there's only ten people on the planet. So, that means there is $10,000 in circulation. That means each company is giving out $2,500. Now, when the consumers go to shop, they have free choice where to shop. Because of this, there is a thing called opportunity cost, which means that when one shops at A, they missed out on shopping at B, C, and D. This means that A gets the money, while B, C, and D doesn't. If this cost is incurred by all ten people, then that means only A gets any money back, and that they even get extra money, which is a result from the other companies losing their share of the pool.

If you think that somehow, because someone shopped at A, instead of B, C, and D, that this means that all companies get the same amount of money, you're absolutely fucking retarded and should jump off of a cliff.

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Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 19 2014 09:34. Posts 2226

they understood earlier buddy they're just trolling you. company D should donate money to its customers who aren't really its customers because they're busy shopping at company A giving company A more money so company D goes out of business, it makes perfect sense, you must be timothy geithner

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SugoGosu   Korea (South). Sep 19 2014 11:12. Posts 1793

ok cool you understand simple opportunity cost, but your ideas are wtf rofl

You do realize though...

Why the hell would a company give money away for free? I'll make a simple example for you.

Company A, B, C, D are in the market. There are 10 people in the world, each company gives each person $250. $10,000 is thus in circulation.

The 10 people prefer company A, and spend all their money there.

Companies B, C, D go out of business.

Company A is left. This means there is 1 company left in the world.

Why the fuck would company A give out money to the people when they are just going to buy their stuff? Company A is now a charity. They can't make money, they go out of business.

Also why the fuck would all 4 companies gamble just to see who lasts longest and then dies out? Why doesn't company B say "shit, let's not give any money and just sell our stuff, and keep the $2500 for ourselves?"

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 19 2014 11:53. Posts 9634


  On September 19 2014 08:34 Santafairy wrote:
they understood earlier buddy they're just trolling you. company D should donate money to its customers who aren't really its customers because they're busy shopping at company A giving company A more money so company D goes out of business, it makes perfect sense, you must be timothy geithner



i laughed so hard i started crying :D

sounds like gnarly s describing socialism where companies ABCD are the government and opportunity costs are the concentration camps

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 19 2014 12:13. Posts 6374

look at all the money stalin could have made if he hadnt slaughtered 20M ppl

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 19 2014 14:00. Posts 1723


  On September 19 2014 10:12 SugoGosu wrote:
ok cool you understand simple opportunity cost, but your ideas are wtf rofl

You do realize though...

Why the hell would a company give money away for free? I'll make a simple example for you.

Company A, B, C, D are in the market. There are 10 people in the world, each company gives each person $250. $10,000 is thus in circulation.

The 10 people prefer company A, and spend all their money there.

Companies B, C, D go out of business.

Company A is left. This means there is 1 company left in the world.

Why the fuck would company A give out money to the people when they are just going to buy their stuff? Company A is now a charity. They can't make money, they go out of business.

Also why the fuck would all 4 companies gamble just to see who lasts longest and then dies out? Why doesn't company B say "shit, let's not give any money and just sell our stuff, and keep the $2500 for ourselves?"



With the ever-decreasing active participation labor rate, less and less people are working, yet those people working are providing for more and more people. People already complain about this very aspect of welfare, mostly from people that have stable careers. (usually the older people, which is also a problem because there is less mobility for the youth to move up) So, eventually, when no one is working, the segment that was providing for welfare no longer is able to.

So, instead of taxing the people who trade labor for money, one could tax the companies, instead. The "labor" part of the equation is actually getting up out of your house, traveling to said location, and physically buying the thing you want. (or online shopping, which still requires labor)

If you don't think America has very large socialistic aspects, you're dead wrong.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 19 2014 14:07. Posts 1723

Also, whenever a company opens up, they are already gambling, as new businesses have a very high failure rate. Secondly, you are discounting entrepreneurship, meaning that there will be companies E, F, and G in the future. If a company doesn't pay it's taxes, it gets the IRS up it's ass.

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 19 2014 16:05. Posts 9634


  On September 19 2014 13:00 Gnarly wrote:
So, eventually, when no one is working, the segment that was providing for welfare no longer is able to.

.





but we ll have cool chairs which will be nice


dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 19 2014 16:08. Posts 6374


  On September 19 2014 13:00 Gnarly wrote:
So, eventually, when no one is working, the segment that was providing for welfare no longer is able to.

.


why? you can always print more money

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 19 2014 18:02. Posts 1723

ooooorrrrrr you could control money velocity...

>print more money

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 19 2014 18:10. Posts 6374

by not printing money you are missing on opportunity costs of ppl spending them

duuuuuh

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 19 2014 19:34. Posts 1723

but money is already printed every day...

>america's next top lel

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 19 2014 20:17. Posts 6374

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 19 2014 22:31. Posts 1723




>being a luditarian

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 19 2014 22:54. Posts 34250


  On September 19 2014 19:17 dogmeat wrote:



lol this is exactly what is going on in Gnarlys mind

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 19 2014 22:58. Posts 34250

So you are suggesting the state forces the companies to pay for welfare instead of people?

Well what will happen is that since the profit margin for companies have been greatly reduced salaries will be reduced thus indirectly taxing the people, that extra money will have to come from somebody it wont appear magically.


Also your example is ridiculous not only it didnt generate in your example any wealth but just bankrupt 3 companies but it wouldnt even apply that way because first of all if you were to inject extra money to people the companies that would be directly benefited would be luxury items, so your retarded idea would only transfer money from companies that provide basic needs (food, gas etc) to luxury ones (cars, clothing etc).

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 20 2014 01:39. Posts 1723

we're talking about automation, meaning that profit margins have actually increased.

how would money go from basic needs to luxury, when you can't live without basic needs?

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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 20 2014 05:04. Posts 5296

i just looked through the past 4 pages or so.
First of all, main stream economics should be ridiculed as a discipline, it has become about as fanatic as the spanish inquisition, not even exaggerating. Steve Keen who is a respected economist literally wrote in debunking economics that it is worse than the spanish inquistion. I wouldn't go that far, i'd say it's just as bad. Anyway i point this out because people are resorting to making the appeal to authority fallacy instead of making a direct refutation of Gnarly. No economics student should be respected if they resort to the appeal to authority of ‘go back to econ 101’ instead of making clear, easy to understand refutations.

However i agree with mainstream economics in many points. Gnarly is right in some respects, and its supported by mainstream economists such as nobel laurette Joseph Stiglitz, that giving money to poor people can increase aggregate demand. That's actually kind of obvious, since poor spend all the money they have, they would stimulate demand by spending most if not all the extra money they receive.

The people that wont increase aggregate demand is corporations, they have nothing to invest in the west anymore. A lot of people in this thread are laughing at the idea of giving money away so customers can buy their products. This is not an absurd idea and similar ideas were used in the past. Fordism for example paid employees a higher wage so that they could buy the cars they made. It's obvious, if you don't pay your wage slaves enough, no one is there to buy your cars. The Russian economy was turned from an agrarian society into an industrial society within a generation with the capitalist idea of Fordism as well. Money is made in finance since the 1970’s so it no longer matters for corporate profits that their workers need to buy their products. And demand has been shifted to ‘luxury demand’. Demand from the rich who spend it on 100million$ boats, ect.
A recent study done by the IMF shows that finance corporations in America make almost all of their profits from monopoly anyway, since they have a 'too big to fail' insurance policy, credit rating agencies give them an extremely high rating. The banks can’t fail even when they do. So banks get access to cheap credit because of this insurance, and they make roughly $100billion a year because of this. In fact those banks would make very little, if any money without this, since they use a lot of the money they make to pay their executives insanely high salaries.

Corporations will never just start giving money to people though. Their primary goal is to make short term profit. They are totalitarian institutions, who have a board of directors who appoint executives with a chain of command that goes down and gives orders from the top. The ceo's and executives make large bonuses from the stock value in the corporation. So if they give money away, they wouldn't make as much profit. Asking corporations to give money away is like asking hitler to persecute jews less. The only way that could be done is by forcing the corporaton to do it through popular struggle. Corporations have shown that they would invest very little in america anyway.
As for automization, I think that’s fine, it makes production more efficient. It’s not fine when workers are left jobless as well, though. The argument that a healthy economy is one with small amounts of unemployment is weak. Im sure that’s probably taught in high school economics, but as I said economists have no idea what they are talking about. The reason there is high unemployment, is the one given by Alan Greenspan. He said that high unemployment makes workers insecure, and if workers have to worry about losing their job or whether they can afford to live, you can exploit them more for high profits. Which according to him is good for an economy. Ok, for Alan Greenspan the 'economy' is a euphemism for corporate profits, but i agree with him on the first part.
If you look at a country like china it has chronic unemployment, and it has high growth. Take a look at America it also has chronic unemployment and low growth. Ok, I will admit I don’t know much about how growth happens, but neoclassical economists understand very little as well. Much less than they think they do, since their neoclassical economic ideas when they have been implemented have led to low growth economies, particularly in latin America. Especially in Mexico which was managed by a MIT trained economist during the 80’s, 90’s. Mexico was a disaster during that time as any economic historian should know.

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 20 2014 07:04. Posts 9634

What're you talking about you have to take into consideration the demographic factor if you re going to compare China to anyone else. The USA and China basically have the same territory in km2 except China has 8x bigger population, it would be a miracle for them to have a low unemployment rate. I would agree with the rest only for the fact that when you have higher unemployment people will be forced to either adjust - meaning they will have to progress in their development, or be misarable for the rest of their lives. Which leads to progress and growth and this is still frictional/structural unemployment since it wont be for a long time period. I doubt that he is talking about high unemployment rate for a long time, since that would lead a country into a trainwreck due to tons of different factors in the public finances. - I wont go into that coz it will take me about 2 hrs to write this post

To be honest you are right for everything else, and if it were someone else probably everyone would've explained well why Gnarly's point of view is retarded and inapplicable, except he floods the forum with those kind of posts, so people are looking to have fun.


Gnarly   United States. Sep 20 2014 12:28. Posts 1723

Except that my posts aren't always retarded, and sometimes, are actually correct. (yes, I know, big shocker.)

I know I'm not Ben Bernanke with an infinite amount of knowledge of economics, but if you think I'm retarded for that, you have some real self-esteem issues. Literally, all you have to do is look at the active participation labor rate, which is more important than frictional v structural unemployment, because unemployment is dependent on the APLR. Then, when you look through the APLR, you look at who's got full employment, who's got part time employment, who's on unemployment, and who is unemployed but looking for work. Part time service McJobs are the biggest sector of jobs in America, and becoming increasingly more so every day. The amount of people working full time getting paid a decent wage, forgot to include wages here, that's also something to look at when you're looking at the different demographics of the APLR, is becoming increasingly smaller every day.

This is stuff you can easily look up, but of course, you'll dismiss me as a troll, while I'm trolling you by not trolling you. This is the United McStates of America.

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casinocasino   Canada. Sep 20 2014 13:24. Posts 3343

wow that's McDeep


Gnarly   United States. Sep 20 2014 13:25. Posts 1723

just like your McMom

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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 20 2014 21:00. Posts 5296

yeah, a quarter of American jobs are what is called 'guard labor.' That's labor which is simply there to guard the capitalist system. And a huge % is in the service sector. Well, that's quite clearly linked to economic globalization. As countries have been forced to let down their barriers(tax rates on imports/exports) because of debt obligations and as corporations have the power to set up manufacturing in south east asia and get rid of the manufacturing jobs in the west. This turns the west into a service sector.

They also have the power to threaten countries that they will go over seas if they don't lower the corporate tax rate, the same goes for minimal environmental regulation, and all sorts of other things that they don't want to pay for. The result of this is a race to the bottom where every country will be looking like a third world nation as every worker in the world will eventually be competing on similar minimum wages, every country will have no environmental regulation. ect. Anyway, we are already halfway there. Real wages have stagnated and will continue to stagnate in the west, while they stay very low in the east. All this can be changed if people decide to do something about it.

i don't see how size and population density has much to do with unemployment rate. Japan is about the same size as New Zealand, with about 30 times greater population. Unemployment rates are probably slightly worse in NZ. It seems to me more about who runs the economy and for what purposes. It's not like the Chinese government cares about the developing their rural areas, and creating jobs there. A large number of unemployed in china will easily drive down wages as it means the population has no bargaining power. Ok, well that's great for the capitalists that run china, and the amazing profits they gain. And its great for the capitalist in America like Wallmart.

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 20 2014 21:24. Posts 9634


  On September 20 2014 11:28 Gnarly wrote:
, who's on unemployment, and who is unemployed but looking for work. .


I would absolutely take you seriously if you didn't write about things you don't know the basics of... you have to be actively seeking for work to be considered as "unemployed". Its things like this that make me completely disregard your posts

Stroggoz you don't see how governing 1.4billion people by a single government is different from governing 100m or 200m people? Obviously all of the stuff you mentioned matter, however creating a stable enviroment for such a large amount of people by a single government is still something yet to be seen.

If however what you're talking about comes to a reallity eventually service jobs will shift to the east as well, since they will also be cheaper ( obv outsource in eastern europe and india is something quite popular these days, but thats not really of a big scale ). However things usually reset themselves because of technical progress, jobs that are not even thought of yet, might be within the most sought for in 10 years


And Gnarly the so called APLR you re talking about is on a huge peak from 84 to 08, considering in 08 the crisis struck thats nothing to be surprised about.

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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 20 2014 21:46. Posts 5296


  On September 20 2014 20:24 Spitfiree wrote:
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I would absolutely take you seriously if you didn't write about things you don't know the basics of... you have to be actively seeking for work to be considered as "unemployed". Its things like this that make me completely disregard your posts

Stroggoz you don't see how governing 1.4billion people by a single government is different from governing 100m or 200m people? Obviously all of the stuff you mentioned matter, however creating a stable enviroment for such a large amount of people by a single government is still something yet to be seen


Well i don't know much about this stuff but i don't see why a large country with 1.4 billion people couldnt be managed with 0% unemployment. It's possible, in some world that was governed democratically. The solution could be something extremely simple minded like dividing working hours into two, meaning work is half as long and twice as many people have to work. People could organize a society that way if they wanted. No government would ever want society organised that way though, so it's never been done. Not going to pretend i know much here, the ideas of what would happen if a country was organized by its citizens is uncharted territory.

It kind of reminds me of the world food crises. So half of the planet is starving, the other half is overweight. The solution is obvious yet no one can think about doing it. It's not even a problem of logistics either. For example in the late 19th century there was a huge famine in India, 20million or so starved to death. There was enough food in india to feed everyone, but it was sent to Britain because they could pay more for it. Ok, well there are similar situations now, but not many people in the educated classes want to say markets cause catastrophic problems. In fact there was a dogmatic belief in the economics profession called the efficient markets hypothesis which led almost no orthadox economist to predict the great financial crisis of 2008.

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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 20 2014 22:08. Posts 5296


  On September 20 2014 20:24 Spitfiree wrote:
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If however what you're talking about comes to a reallity eventually service jobs will shift to the east as well, since they will also be cheaper ( obv outsource in eastern europe and india is something quite popular these days, but thats not really of a big scale ). However things usually reset themselves because of technical progress, jobs that are not even thought of yet, might be within the most sought for in 10 years




What i'm saying won't fully come to reality, was just giving a general outline of the horrors ahead if people stay apathetic about this issues. I doubt western workers would ever bow so low as to let their wages sink that far. And they wouldn't sink as far as what is in east asia because of transport costs required to move products from East Asia to America. Whereas manufacturing plants in America have no costs like that. So yeah, they may sink to 3x that of what's in China. But who knows, predicting the future is hard and not something i wanna do, a million things could happen before now and then.

And yeah, the one benefit of British colonialism in India is that they speak English and can get employed in the service sector now. So i can see IT service jobs being shifted to asia more. But not other service jobs. Remember rich people want a lot of people in the service sector around them so they can pay them to....service them. So they will want the economy structured in that way. But most service jobs cannnot be outsourced, it would be kind've ridiculous to see McDonald factories being set up in china, making burgers then sending them to America. That would make no sense, the food would be cold by the time it got to America.

I wouldn't hold out for technological progress to shift the global economy, unless it has to do with lowering transport costs. Social progress seems to me like a much bigger factor.

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Jubert69   United States. Sep 20 2014 22:59. Posts 3191


  On September 20 2014 04:04 Stroggoz wrote:
i just looked through the past 4 pages or so.
First of all, main stream economics should be ridiculed as a discipline, it has become about as fanatic as the spanish inquisition, not even exaggerating. Steve Keen who is a respected economist literally wrote in debunking economics that it is worse than the spanish inquistion. I wouldn't go that far, i'd say it's just as bad. Anyway i point this out because people are resorting to making the appeal to authority fallacy instead of making a direct refutation of Gnarly. No economics student should be respected if they resort to the appeal to authority of ‘go back to econ 101’ instead of making clear, easy to understand refutations.

However i agree with mainstream economics in many points. Gnarly is right in some respects, and its supported by mainstream economists such as nobel laurette Joseph Stiglitz, that giving money to poor people can increase aggregate demand. That's actually kind of obvious, since poor spend all the money they have, they would stimulate demand by spending most if not all the extra money they receive.

This is what Keynesian economics is based off of. You're going to have arguments between Keynesian and Free Marketeers (e.g. Austrian). Giving money to poor people can increase aggregate demand, but can increasing demand by redistributing the wealth be the answer?

Joseph Stiglitz is a keynesian thinker, but there's also people on free market end that would be considered mainstream. (Fredrick Hayek, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell)


The people that wont increase aggregate demand is corporations, they have nothing to invest in the west anymore. A lot of people in this thread are laughing at the idea of giving money away so customers can buy their products. This is not an absurd idea and similar ideas were used in the past. Fordism for example paid employees a higher wage so that they could buy the cars they made. It's obvious, if you don't pay your wage slaves enough, no one is there to buy your cars. The Russian economy was turned from an agrarian society into an industrial society within a generation with the capitalist idea of Fordism as well. Money is made in finance since the 1970’s so it no longer matters for corporate profits that their workers need to buy their products. And demand has been shifted to ‘luxury demand’. Demand from the rich who spend it on 100million$ boats, ect.
A recent study done by the IMF shows that finance corporations in America make almost all of their profits from monopoly anyway, since they have a 'too big to fail' insurance policy, credit rating agencies give them an extremely high rating. The banks can’t fail even when they do. So banks get access to cheap credit because of this insurance, and they make roughly $100billion a year because of this. In fact those banks would make very little, if any money without this, since they use a lot of the money they make to pay their executives insanely high salaries.

Corporations will never just start giving money to people though. Their primary goal is to make short term profit. They are totalitarian institutions, who have a board of directors who appoint executives with a chain of command that goes down and gives orders from the top. The ceo's and executives make large bonuses from the stock value in the corporation. So if they give money away, they wouldn't make as much profit. Asking corporations to give money away is like asking hitler to persecute jews less. The only way that could be done is by forcing the corporaton to do it through popular struggle. Corporations have shown that they would invest very little in america anyway. Well of course, the corporations will always do everything that in their best interest. Now the question is, how far has technology come because of these corporations like Apple, Google, etc? Because of companies going for profit, how is the standard of living now versus 50 years ago?
As for automization, I think that’s fine, it makes production more efficient. It’s not fine when workers are left jobless as well, though. The argument that a healthy economy is one with small amounts of unemployment is weak. Im sure that’s probably taught in high school economics, but as I said economists have no idea what they are talking about. The reason there is high unemployment, is the one given by Alan Greenspan. He said that high unemployment makes workers insecure, and if workers have to worry about losing their job or whether they can afford to live, you can exploit them more for high profits. Which according to him is good for an economy. Ok, for Alan Greenspan the 'economy' is a euphemism for corporate profits, but i agree with him on the first part.
If you look at a country like china it has chronic unemployment, and it has high growth. Take a look at America it also has chronic unemployment and low growth. Ok, I will admit I don’t know much about how growth happens, but neoclassical economists understand very little as well. Much less than they think they do, since their neoclassical economic ideas when they have been implemented have led to low growth economies, particularly in latin America. Especially in Mexico which was managed by a MIT trained economist during the 80’s, 90’s. Mexico was a disaster during that time as any economic historian should know.



I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm right, I'm saying there are two schools who both have research done for what's best for the economy that will have never ending arguments. (Also see bold in quote)

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soberstone   United States. Sep 20 2014 23:04. Posts 2662

Man, I'm so ashamed to be white. Not. Keep the drinking the liberal koolaid TS. It seems like it's doing wonders for your esteem. And yes, I am politicizing this, because it's political. Get over it.

You know what actually keeps black people down?

A culture of violence, single-parent homes, negative role models, socio-economic conditions, and a feeling of entitled victimization brought to you by the likes of NBC. Racism still exists, but it's far down the list of the real problems in 2014.

It's sad, but there are black leaders like Larry Elder, Dr. Ben Carson, Allen West, etc. that people should actually be listening to, who actually GET IT. These are the anti- Al Sharptons.


soberstone   United States. Sep 20 2014 23:09. Posts 2662


  On September 19 2014 21:58 Baalim wrote:
So you are suggesting the state forces the companies to pay for welfare instead of people?

Well what will happen is that since the profit margin for companies have been greatly reduced salaries will be reduced thus indirectly taxing the people, that extra money will have to come from somebody it wont appear magically.


Also your example is ridiculous not only it didnt generate in your example any wealth but just bankrupt 3 companies but it wouldnt even apply that way because first of all if you were to inject extra money to people the companies that would be directly benefited would be luxury items, so your retarded idea would only transfer money from companies that provide basic needs (food, gas etc) to luxury ones (cars, clothing etc).




Your point is well proven by the fact that during the current Obama administration (I know we have a black president despite racism being a huge driving force in our country, it's weird right?) - the stock market has recovered tremendously (AKA rich people getting richer) - yet the median income (an actual stat that MATTERS) has gone down about 5 percent. This is what low-level socialism, AKA the nanny state, does (we already know what full blown socialism does). It's historically proven time and time again. It doesn't taken an MIT economics professor to figure it out - just someone who isn't fully invested in the mainstream progressive media and has half a brain. Just look at Dallas vs Los Angeles, it's fucking as obvious as the sky is blue.


Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 21 2014 00:07. Posts 5296

Jubert69.
Most of the innovation American society has been done in the public sector, through universities and various public institutions that have developed far more than what has been done in the private sector. And it's easy to test this. You can test this by looking at all the great innovations over the past 50 years and seeing where they came from. Internet, computers, information processing, lasers, satellites, transistors were all mostly if not completely developed in the public sector until they could be commercialised, in which they were handed over to private power. And the people that developed these weren't motivated by profit, they were probably motivated by what normal human beings are motivated by. The joy of creativiely working on technological innovation. Sure google has done some innovation. Apple some as well.. However the innovation from apple and google pales in comparison to what the public sector has done from what i can see. Now if the profit motive has done anything it has motivated corporations to simply make their own parasitic laws like intellectual property rights. They have effectively hindered growth and wellbeing in economies around the world by stopping ideas/technology, cheap medicine from being shared, which it should be.

The idea that the profit motive entails innovation has NEVER been shown to be true. There is no evidence shown for this. It's just a dogmatism that is perpetuated throughout the economics profession.It's not even an economical argument, it's one that you should see a psychologist or a sociologist making. The sub-discipline of behavioral economics has, with some evidence shown that people are more motivated by meaning in their work anyway.

In fact, the profit motive is what is destroying the world, literally. An energy company for example will gain far more short term profit by pursing cheap fossil feuls like oil than developing one that will be useful in the long term. Other energy companies will have to compete vs the oil based energy one, and will fail if they also do not choose oil. Ok, well this results in the externality of climate change. The concept of externalities is one which free market economists have downplayed.

As for mainstream economics, your right about that. I wouldn't consider Austrian mainstream though-it's very radical. I happen to not follow the mainstream but when i find something i agree with then i will point it out, so people do not waste their time with the argument that i'm wrong because i'm not part of the mainstream consensus. I probably identify with post-keynsian/neomarxian the most, of which both are considered radical. I have never taken a class on econ, for reasons i've already given.

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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 21 2014 00:12. Posts 5296


  On September 20 2014 22:09 soberstone wrote:
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Your point is well proven by the fact that during the current Obama administration (I know we have a black president despite racism being a huge driving force in our country, it's weird right?) - the stock market has recovered tremendously (AKA rich people getting richer) - yet the median income (an actual stat that MATTERS) has gone down about 5 percent. This is what low-level socialism, AKA the nanny state, does (we already know what full blown socialism does). It's historically proven time and time again. It doesn't taken an MIT economics professor to figure it out - just someone who isn't fully invested in the mainstream progressive media and has half a brain. Just look at Dallas vs Los Angeles, it's fucking as obvious as the sky is blue.


eh, if you venture out of the united states, people would collapse in hysterical laughter if you told them that Obama was a socialist. To everyone not in the united states his policies are very right wing.

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Jubert69   United States. Sep 21 2014 00:51. Posts 3191


  On September 20 2014 23:07 Stroggoz wrote:
Jubert69.
Most of the innovation American society has been done in the public sector, through universities and various public institutions that have developed far more than what has been done in the private sector. And it's easy to test this. You can test this by looking at all the great innovations over the past 50 years and seeing where they came from. Internet, computers, information processing, lasers, satellites, transistors were all mostly if not completely developed in the public sector until they could be commercialised, in which they were handed over to private power. And the people that developed these weren't motivated by profit, they were probably motivated by what normal human beings are motivated by. The joy of creativiely working on technological innovation. Sure google has done some innovation. Apple some as well.. However the innovation from apple and google pales in comparison to what the public sector has done from what i can see. Now if the profit motive has done anything it has motivated corporations to simply make their own parasitic laws like intellectual property rights. They have effectively hindered growth and wellbeing in economies around the world by stopping ideas/technology, cheap medicine from being shared, which it should be.

This is where I disagree, well, redefine public sector. Internet, computers, etc.. were developed by private enterprises. Computers in the beginning Apple vs. Microsoft were both private companies. They were both startups by individuals. Or maybe I'm not sure what you mean by public sector. I think in the current state of economics, stopping ideas/technology and cheap medicine from being shared is happening, but I don't think it's due to the corporations directly and it's because of big government being an issue. E.g. Cheap medicine is hard to come by in the US not because of the "greedy" corporations, but due to the regulations set forth by the FDA which increases costs to pass regulations

The idea that the profit motive entails innovation has NEVER been shown to be true. There is no evidence shown for this. It's just a dogmatism that is perpetuated throughout the economics profession.It's not even an economical argument, it's one that you should see a psychologist or a sociologist making. The sub-discipline of behavioral economics has, with some evidence shown that people are more motivated by meaning in their work anyway.

In fact, the profit motive is what is destroying the world, literally. An energy company for example will gain far more short term profit by pursing cheap fossil feuls like oil than developing one that will be useful in the long term. Other energy companies will have to compete vs the oil based energy one, and will fail if they also do not choose oil. Ok, well this results in the externality of climate change. The concept of externalities is one which free market economists have downplayed.

I don't think profit = the only motivation for innovation, but it has a considerable amount to do with it. Again using cell phones as an example, all companies are trying to be as innovative as possible to have the best product on the market. Whether it comes from better screens, faster service, smaller devices, etc.. the ones that have the best product will win. As for the example of climate change, you're generalizing all free market economists that none of them believe or downplay climate change. Most US republican representatives will say climate change isn't real and they will call themselves free market people. Please don't confuse them with all free market economists. There's some, but unfortunately not many who take climate change seriously.

As for mainstream economics, your right about that. I wouldn't consider Austrian mainstream though-it's very radical. I happen to not follow the mainstream but when i find something i agree with then i will point it out, so people do not waste their time with the argument that i'm wrong because i'm not part of the mainstream consensus. I probably identify with post-keynsian/neomarxian the most, of which both are considered radical. I have never taken a class on econ, for reasons i've already given.

I think that's the wrong way to look at it. I think you should take classes, but certain points you can take as a grain of salt. I have taken economics in college, didn't agree with some professors, but gave me a better understanding both sides of the equation.



Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 21 2014 01:26. Posts 5296



I think i was perfectly clear about the public sector, just re-read and think about what i wrote more carefully. As for Corporations, they are directly involved in stopping medicine, information from being shared. They are the ones that set up the TRIPS law, trade related intellectual property rights law, and have tried to interfere with indian companies which copy hiv drugs and sell them cheaply to poor countries, particulary south africa. That's one example. I could go on with others such as disney, ect.

You're misrepresenting me about climate change. I said those economists downplay the concept of externalities, i didn't say anything about economists downplaying climate change nor would i have thought that. The concept i was talking about was externalities, which says that says if two people have a transaction then a third party can get hurt. Those externalities(pollution) add up with cars being sold. And what i said was that the competition and profit motivation forces companies to get oil instead of developing an alternative energy resource, and destroy the planet because of this. Ok, well this a profit motive that is designed specifically to stop innovation.

profit motivation has nothing to do with innovation, as i've already said this has never been proven. its complete dogmatism. Just ask any economist for a proof, they won't be able to give a scientific answer.

The best product does not always win either, i didn't talk about this, but if an inferior product is more heavily advertised chances are it will sell more. For example the product of Obama was heavily advertised in the 2008 election and he won because of it. He was worse than a green party alternative, which had very little advertising. Ok, strange example for me to pick, but this applies to smaller products like phones. And like i said, the innovation of better screens, smaller devices pales in comparison to the innovation done in the public sector which actually developed the things like lasers from scratch. But that's not really the point. The things like better screens could be developed in any institution just as well, and you wouldnt need a profit motive for it to happen.

Taking an economics class would be a complete waste of time for me, i wouldn't enjoy the subject and don't enjoy indoctrination.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 21 2014 02:17. Posts 1723


  On September 20 2014 20:24 Spitfiree wrote:
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I would absolutely take you seriously if you didn't write about things you don't know the basics of... you have to be actively seeking for work to be considered as "unemployed". Its things like this that make me completely disregard your posts

Stroggoz you don't see how governing 1.4billion people by a single government is different from governing 100m or 200m people? Obviously all of the stuff you mentioned matter, however creating a stable enviroment for such a large amount of people by a single government is still something yet to be seen.

If however what you're talking about comes to a reallity eventually service jobs will shift to the east as well, since they will also be cheaper ( obv outsource in eastern europe and india is something quite popular these days, but thats not really of a big scale ). However things usually reset themselves because of technical progress, jobs that are not even thought of yet, might be within the most sought for in 10 years


And Gnarly the so called APLR you re talking about is on a huge peak from 84 to 08, considering in 08 the crisis struck thats nothing to be surprised about.


Well, you see, not everyone actually knows that to be "unemployed", one must be out of work but looking for work. Like, only people who have studied economics either academically or personally know what it means, but literally no one else does at all. If I were talking to just you, maybe I'd care a little more, but most likely not. However, to completely dismiss someone because of semantics shows how deep you can't go.

Also, the APLR, was it the same back then in 84? I mean as in the different percentages of who's employed, fully or not, and the wages, etc.. I highly doubt it. In fact, I may go look for the certain statistics right now.

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soberstone   United States. Sep 21 2014 05:03. Posts 2662


  On September 20 2014 23:12 Stroggoz wrote:
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eh, if you venture out of the united states, people would collapse in hysterical laughter if you told them that Obama was a socialist. To everyone not in the united states his policies are very right wing.



He's a socialist at heart and his policies have failed miserably. We have a Constitution and a system of checks and balances that didn't allow for a complete overthrow of the free-market, thank God. And there is a reason that people want to come to America more than any other country on the planet and it's not for our shitty culture and obnoxious people. Yes, you are right though, countries like Greece would view America as really right-winged. Sure looks good for them.


eestwood   United Kingdom. Sep 21 2014 05:18. Posts 698

Interesting read Stroggoz. Care to elaborate on how debt obligations force countries to lower import/export taxes?


  On September 20 2014 20:00 Stroggoz wrote:
Well, that's quite clearly linked to economic globalization. As countries have been forced to let down their barriers(tax rates on imports/exports) because of debt obligations

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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 21 2014 22:16. Posts 5296


  On September 21 2014 04:18 eestwood wrote:
Interesting read Stroggoz. Care to elaborate on how debt obligations force countries to lower import/export taxes?

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Sure, it's called the Washington Consensus, or the third world debt crises.(there are many names) The rich nations loan out money to poor countries and those countries havn't been able to pay them back. So the rich nations impose their own conditions with their loans. This is called structural adjustment. The structural adjustment forces the country to take up economic principles which are recommended to them by the rich nations. Those principles can be read about here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_adjustment. One of them includes lowering barriers. Some countries have lowered their barriers willingly. (New Zealand, China). This was mostly done in the 80's and 90's.
Anyway, you see it being done not only in the third world but it's coming back to the west now, with the European Central Bank/Germany making loans to the countries around them. But their conditions are not as brutal as the ones in the third world, and they call it austerity rather than a structural adjustment, i guess.

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 22 2014 05:05. Posts 34250

Its laughable that you criticize modern economy and then talk about the goods about giving money away to increase demand, which is an extreme case of keynesian consumism, there is nothing more aligned with modern economy than giving money away to keep the wheels turning (till they fall off).

In a free market there is no profit whatsoever shrot or long-term for giving money away so people buy your shit with that money.

A company's way to "help" the public besides its workers its simply improving its production efficiency thus lowering prices and increasing its quality, a good example of this is google, they give away for free google docs, in the past a mediocre text processor like Word had a pretty steep price, now its obsolete, the same product is free thats how you help people not by giving money away, thats simply charity and its clumsy, it does not work and does far less for the overall long term advanced of mankind than advancements in production.

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Liquid`Drone   Norway. Sep 22 2014 07:51. Posts 3093

I think some type of "societal salary" can be viable in increasingly automated post-scarcity societies, like Norway. Like you just give everyone enough money to get by with (already the case, just that you gotta jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops and either be declared unfit for working due to illness, be in a constant job-hunting mode, or spend loads of time every day waiting to get the money) and then give more for people who actually do work, so there's still some economic incentive for that. Personally I know that not working becomes boring after a short period of time, and I would hate having to feel like a useless leech, and this is a sentiment I know is shared by many Norwegians. (Probably less common elsewhere, as our society functioning so well and being so inclusive (relating to other societies) means that we're all to a larger degree willing to accept some role as pinwheels in a greater machinery or whatever.) So basically I'm not too concerned about this killing productivity/motivation, there seems to be some motivational science out there that supports the idea that you get the most productive workers by giving them enough money to make money a non-issue while giving them the freedom to pursue their endeavors anyway.

But anyway, this idea is not built around the goal of increasing productivity or whatever, it's just a way of simplifying life for people, a slightly less "just" but prolly more viable alternative than making everyone work 3-4 hour days, as that is only going to be viable for certain types of jobs. If anything it's supposed to halt productivity and economic progress because in Norway, overconsumption is a much bigger problem than underproductivity, and consumption goes hand in hand with productivity. So like, the notion that companies should just start handing out money to poor people to somehow become more successful economic entities, that's just.. dumb. But societal salary as a more effective form of redistribution than the combined various types of unemployment benefits we have here, I think it can be good in the future. I mean it's just, we're not gonna be living in a society where "how hard you work" is what defines your wealth, the best way to make money in the west is to already have money, + some very rare instances of brilliant ideas arriving at the right time, so I think it's silly to pretend that everyone needs to put down the allotted hours before they can eat, because that's not gonna be the reality we live in.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 22 2014 11:29. Posts 1723

Baal, do you know what happens when someone starts eating up at your market share? You lose money. And that person? They make money. The profit doesn't come from the customer, it comes from the competition. Monopolies are really good at making money...

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SugoGosu   Korea (South). Sep 22 2014 12:43. Posts 1793

I'm confused, Profit comes from competition but monopolies are really good at making money?

Im under the assumption that most monopolies (i.e. government owned / subsidized) such as utilities and transportation run at a loss?

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 22 2014 14:49. Posts 6374


  On September 22 2014 10:29 Gnarly wrote:
The profit doesn't come from the customer, it comes from the competition. Monopolies are really good at making money...


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Gnarly   United States. Sep 22 2014 16:04. Posts 1723

In business, say like a restaurant, there is a thing called market share. Each place has it's own share of the market. Some places have a higher % than others. So, when an underdog taps into a market that's already been established, they are actually taking away from the competition that have already set up a market. Companies can actually project their market share.

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SugoGosu   Korea (South). Sep 22 2014 21:37. Posts 1793

your idea might be right, but the way you try to put it into words seems to make it completely incomprehensible.

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Jubert69   United States. Sep 22 2014 22:31. Posts 3191


  On September 22 2014 11:43 SugoGosu wrote:
I'm confused, Profit comes from competition but monopolies are really good at making money?

Im under the assumption that most monopolies (i.e. government owned / subsidized) such as utilities and transportation run at a loss?



Profit comes from beating competition (either through lower prices or better quality products). Monopolies are really good at making money due to lack of competition. Hence US companies love to increase regulations to decrease competition. E.g. FDA. They want to have the people eat up that FDA is good because all drugs go through a certain process to become available to the public. Now that just increases costs for companies that small ones cannot afford.

Most government utilities and transportation would run at a loss since there would be subsidies running them. (Assumption is if Profit minus subsidies = Negative)

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soberstone   United States. Sep 22 2014 23:07. Posts 2662

The concept of any government agency running at a loss or a gain is an oxymoron. There is no cost of doing business since that cost is assumed by society eg taxes, so even if your revenue is far exceeded by your costs, society simply eats it. If you are 'profiting' - then people will rightfully assume that you are over-funded. Hence, no 'profit motive' (which is not a fictional driver of business and economic success - which is contrary to some really dumb things I've seen earlier in this thread), This is why gov agencies are inefficient and if they are profitable, they simply create useless jobs, pensions, bureaucracy etc to dump money so they can show that they are indeed not 'making money' and need funding. This whole concept is very easy, obvious, and true - and yet closet socialists who call economics a 'false science' find really complicated ways and wordy essays to try and disprove the truth. It's quite frustrating.

Los Angeles, where I live, is the most obvious microcosm and metaphor of this concept ever, yet people continue to vote for liberals because they are fooled on social issues that are relatively unimportant and backwards in logic as well. We have the highest taxes in the country, yet the city is on the verge of bankruptcy. It's very frustrating and sad.

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 23 2014 00:13. Posts 34250


  On September 22 2014 10:29 Gnarly wrote:
Baal, do you know what happens when someone starts eating up at your market share? You lose money. And that person? They make money. The profit doesn't come from the customer, it comes from the competition. Monopolies are really good at making money...



how can you fail to understand basic logic for fucks sake.

corporations are giving money away, yours included not just monopoly, there is no benefit in there whatsoever for corporation, the only benefit its the public (the ones receiving free money), so what you are doing its simply redistribution of money from corporations to the public, and its somewhat what the government already does with taxes, and what you are saying is that a super welfare tax payed exclusively by the companies will help them thrive... smart lol.

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 23 2014 00:19. Posts 34250


  On September 22 2014 21:31 Jubert69 wrote:
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Profit comes from beating competition (either through lower prices or better quality products). Monopolies are really good at making money due to lack of competition. Hence US companies love to increase regulations to decrease competition. E.g. FDA. They want to have the people eat up that FDA is good because all drugs go through a certain process to become available to the public. Now that just increases costs for companies that small ones cannot afford.

Most government utilities and transportation would run at a loss since there would be subsidies running them. (Assumption is if Profit minus subsidies = Negative)


this is extremely important, the vast majority of monopolies and ALL the shitty inefficient ones are owned or aided by the state, as you say the FDA, and countless other regulations not only in the US but in the entire world produce monopolies in a symbiotic relationship with the state, this is what happens in the energy sector, automotive industry, oil industry, drug and food industry etc.

There are some rare fee market "monopolies" like Google, but I think we can all agree that google its a pretty good company and I wish all companies were like it.

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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 23 2014 05:18. Posts 5296

Baal, Jubert69, You guys have it wrong about deregulation. Deregulation and the rise of shadow banking saw the rise of monopoly finance and the result was increased financial stability, and financial crises have gone way up because if this, and it was the direct cause of the 2008 crises. This is something that even the economics profession concedes. I won't go on any more about shadow banking but, that is a corporation that has turned into an investment bank without regulators realizing it(or pretending not to notice), and thus it becomes a big bank that is never regulated in the first place

One of the major regulations was put into place to prevent commercial and investment banks from merging and becoming large monoplies, such as citigroup. Actually the 'golden age of capitalism'(1945-71) was the age of high growth, and had heavy regulation on banks, which forced them to keep small. Also, competition without regulation naturally leads to monopolies. Companies know they can make larger profits by repeatedly merging into monopolies to beat the competition.

The energy sector is another perfect example of where deregulation has gone wrong. In New Zealand, the state used to run their electricity company at a loss, and it produced a cheap source of energy for everyone in the country. Then it was turned into a very little regulated privatized oligopoly, now electricity prices have gone way up. When neoclassical economics was bought to New Zealand, they called it 'inefficient'. Well that's not an economical term, it's ideological. The company ran at a loss, it was inefficient from that point of view. But from the point of view of the rest of the population it was very efficient at keeping electricity prices cheap. Anyway, in America you have much worse examples like ENRON.
As for the other sectors i havn't studied them too much. The sector i have studied the most is the media. I write essays for university press on this subject in fact.

Also, Google is not a good company, they spy on people and share that info with the government. Their accomplishments could have been achieved without doing this. This company wouldn't have done this if their stakeholders had a say in the decision making process. But they don't, because it is a tyranny. Perhaps some of you don't notice the bad effects of spying, but it is used effectively to keep people from challenging the status quo. Not to mention it simply just violates elementary human rights.

If there's one thing i agree with baal on it's that the vast majority of monopolies are aided by the state. But's not because of regulations, it's because once they are deregulated, they can make large profits, keep those profits,and when it fails get the taxpayer to bail them out so they can continue to make huge profits. That's pretty much how the modern tribute system works.

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 23 2014 08:41. Posts 9634

Dunno but i figured that arguing with Gnarly about economics is the equivalent of explaining to someone that doesn't know the rules of poker what a polarized range is

Stroggoz is right
  But's not because of regulations, it's because once they are deregulated

s quite important

Btw its not just Google, Microsoft bought Skype for the same reason, Apple does it as well. In fact I doubt there is any big corporation that doesn't leak all of your information to the government. They obviously don't do purchases like Skype & Whatsapp only for that, but they can basically build a perfect marketing strategy and keep themselves in the downfall zone for a longer period ( not sure if its called downfall zone in english, the zone from a marketing point of view where after you've developed and targeted your customers and the brand has become well known they keep the sale at the same level for a long time period, like coca-cola has been at that point of the graph for decades for example )


SugoGosu   Korea (South). Sep 23 2014 08:41. Posts 1793

google doesn't spy on the people, unless you are saying that they collect information on the users to use for advertising purposes, which in itself isn't such a problem. Many companies do this, from Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, phone companies, Akamai Technologies, apps ranging from food delivery to the various text-messaging programs, etc.. Don't combine Google and governmental agencies, as it just leads to a very sticky situation, as Google is actively fighting against such actions.

Also, I admit I don't know as much about economics as other people in this thread, and it is something I should focus on when time allows. But I think what Gnarly is trying to hint at, is not towards companies handing out freebees and turning into a wellfare corporation, but just the direction of the economy as a whole. What I find interesting is the concept of post-capitalistic societies, where not everyone can have a job. We may be leading to such a job-less economy with mostly a demand of only highly trained specialists (which honestly, not everyone can become a scientist).

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 23 2014 09:00. Posts 1723


  On September 22 2014 23:13 Baalim wrote:
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how can you fail to understand basic logic for fucks sake.

corporations are giving money away, yours included not just monopoly, there is no benefit in there whatsoever for corporation, the only benefit its the public (the ones receiving free money), so what you are doing its simply redistribution of money from corporations to the public, and its somewhat what the government already does with taxes, and what you are saying is that a super welfare tax payed exclusively by the companies will help them thrive... smart lol.


You're the one who fails to understand that when automation is pretty much fully in every place of business, no one will be able to work because humans, at that point, will become inefficient. You're saying businesses will survive by paying their... robots and then having those same... robots... buy things from them? Cause if not, then who the fuck is going to do the consuming? People without jobs?

Makes sense, maybe you should be Fed Chairman?

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Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 23 2014 10:38. Posts 5296


  On September 23 2014 08:00 Gnarly wrote:
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You're the one who fails to understand that when automation is pretty much fully in every place of business, no one will be able to work because humans, at that point, will become inefficient. You're saying businesses will survive by paying their... robots and then having those same... robots... buy things from them? Cause if not, then who the fuck is going to do the consuming? People without jobs?

Makes sense, maybe you should be Fed Chairman?



Technology doesn't decide who has jobs, economic and social structures of human beings do. We could have many people in the future jobless with automation, or full employment in the future with automation.

@sugo. Yeah i was wrong when i said google spied. I meant they take users information and hand it over to the government, which then uses it to spy.

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Jubert69   United States. Sep 23 2014 11:17. Posts 3191


  On September 23 2014 08:00 Gnarly wrote:
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You're the one who fails to understand that when automation is pretty much fully in every place of business, no one will be able to work because humans, at that point, will become inefficient. You're saying businesses will survive by paying their... robots and then having those same... robots... buy things from them? Cause if not, then who the fuck is going to do the consuming? People without jobs?

Makes sense, maybe you should be Fed Chairman?




New jobs always gets created. For example, now that we have computers, IT has exploded in all directions from networking to troubleshooting.
Businesses who replace humans with robots, it also creates a job for those who maintain robots. We can live in a world where all electronic devices are banned if they replace humans on a job, but that would lead us to be very inefficient.
E.g. ATMs, Time Puncher(When people clock in and out of work), switchboard operator, etc.

New jobs do get created as technology increases. Social media work also exploded with the recent years.

[in my opinion]
I think there's too much of people being fed that spending spending spending is always a good thing. If demand decreases, it means the general public doesn't really like the product out and that the companies need to figure out the niche in the market. For example, when gas prices increased in the US, all these companies were advertising extremely high MPG cars thus increasing car efficiency and as a byproduct helping the environment.
[/my opinion]


Jubert69   United States. Sep 23 2014 11:37. Posts 3191


  On September 23 2014 04:18 Stroggoz wrote:
Baal, Jubert69, You guys have it wrong about deregulation. Deregulation and the rise of shadow banking saw the rise of monopoly finance and the result was increased financial stability, and financial crises have gone way up because if this, and it was the direct cause of the 2008 crises. This is something that even the economics profession concedes. I won't go on any more about shadow banking but, that is a corporation that has turned into an investment bank without regulators realizing it(or pretending not to notice), and thus it becomes a big bank that is never regulated in the first place

One of the major regulations was put into place to prevent commercial and investment banks from merging and becoming large monoplies, such as citigroup. Actually the 'golden age of capitalism'(1945-71) was the age of high growth, and had heavy regulation on banks, which forced them to keep small. Also, competition without regulation naturally leads to monopolies. Companies know they can make larger profits by repeatedly merging into monopolies to beat the competition.

The energy sector is another perfect example of where deregulation has gone wrong. In New Zealand, the state used to run their electricity company at a loss, and it produced a cheap source of energy for everyone in the country. Then it was turned into a very little regulated privatized oligopoly, now electricity prices have gone way up. When neoclassical economics was bought to New Zealand, they called it 'inefficient'. Well that's not an economical term, it's ideological. The company ran at a loss, it was inefficient from that point of view. But from the point of view of the rest of the population it was very efficient at keeping electricity prices cheap. Anyway, in America you have much worse examples like ENRON.
As for the other sectors i havn't studied them too much. The sector i have studied the most is the media. I write essays for university press on this subject in fact.

Also, Google is not a good company, they spy on people and share that info with the government. Their accomplishments could have been achieved without doing this. This company wouldn't have done this if their stakeholders had a say in the decision making process. But they don't, because it is a tyranny. Perhaps some of you don't notice the bad effects of spying, but it is used effectively to keep people from challenging the status quo. Not to mention it simply just violates elementary human rights.

If there's one thing i agree with baal on it's that the vast majority of monopolies are aided by the state. But's not because of regulations, it's because once they are deregulated, they can make large profits, keep those profits,and when it fails get the taxpayer to bail them out so they can continue to make huge profits. That's pretty much how the modern tribute system works.




I respectfully disagree here. I don't think regulations have much to do with banks themselves, but mostly the largest US Bank... the Federal Reserve. They just loan out stupid amounts of money to the private banks and expect the economy to just grow rapidly. The federal reserve has no regulations. Chairman Bernake can just give billions of dollars to banks to loan out if he feels like it. Since he's on a Keynesian side, he's quite generous when it comes to loaning out money.

Banks in a free market do NOT need to be regulated because if THEY screw up by giving loans people cannot pay back, they go bankrupt. Here in the US, banks failing are supported by the government.

Regardless if google is a good company or not, I bet if you dig deep enough into any corporation, you'll find dirt on anyone.

As for your New Zealand energy example, if the country runs electricity on a loss, it's being paid by someone. Either through taxation or inflation(Indirect form of taxation). Semantics are key here. Just because something is cheaper doesn't mean you're saving money. There could be a FREE electric company that runs at a loss, but is paid purely through inflation so no one has a bill. Now where people are going to be affected is the poor people who have to foot the bill for increased prices on necessities.


Gnarly   United States. Sep 23 2014 17:31. Posts 1723


  On September 23 2014 10:17 Jubert69 wrote:
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New jobs always gets created. For example, now that we have computers, IT has exploded in all directions from networking to troubleshooting.
Businesses who replace humans with robots, it also creates a job for those who maintain robots. We can live in a world where all electronic devices are banned if they replace humans on a job, but that would lead us to be very inefficient.
E.g. ATMs, Time Puncher(When people clock in and out of work), switchboard operator, etc.

New jobs do get created as technology increases. Social media work also exploded with the recent years.

[in my opinion]
I think there's too much of people being fed that spending spending spending is always a good thing. If demand decreases, it means the general public doesn't really like the product out and that the companies need to figure out the niche in the market. For example, when gas prices increased in the US, all these companies were advertising extremely high MPG cars thus increasing car efficiency and as a byproduct helping the environment.
[/my opinion]



>IT

You do realize the IT field is being automated, right?

>maintain robots

Because robots can't maintain themselves/other robots?

>social media work

$0.05 per shill, some work...

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Jubert69   United States. Sep 23 2014 23:03. Posts 3191


  On September 23 2014 16:31 Gnarly wrote:
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>IT

You do realize the IT field is being automated, right?

>maintain robots

Because robots can't maintain themselves/other robots?

>social media work

$0.05 per shill, some work...



Pokerstars are automated tables. Online poker shouldn't exist because then dealers wouldn't have jobs, right?

What do you mean IT field is being automated? There's more jobs in IT right now than there were 20 years ago. With new technology emerging, faster processing, it requires a lot more upkeep. Cell phones were pretty much nonexistent 20 years ago. App developers didn't exist because they didn't have platforms to work off of.

Social media work is $$ if you know what you are doing. There's many jobs now that were created due to social media. Look up any medium to large size business. There's always a dedicated person/team running it.


Stroggoz   New Zealand. Sep 23 2014 23:44. Posts 5296


  On September 23 2014 10:37 Jubert69 wrote:
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I respectfully disagree here. I don't think regulations have much to do with banks themselves, but mostly the largest US Bank... the Federal Reserve. They just loan out stupid amounts of money to the private banks and expect the economy to just grow rapidly. The federal reserve has no regulations. Chairman Bernake can just give billions of dollars to banks to loan out if he feels like it. Since he's on a Keynesian side, he's quite generous when it comes to loaning out money.

Banks in a free market do NOT need to be regulated because if THEY screw up by giving loans people cannot pay back, they go bankrupt. Here in the US, banks failing are supported by the government.

Regardless if google is a good company or not, I bet if you dig deep enough into any corporation, you'll find dirt on anyone.

As for your New Zealand energy example, if the country runs electricity on a loss, it's being paid by someone. Either through taxation or inflation(Indirect form of taxation). Semantics are key here. Just because something is cheaper doesn't mean you're saving money. There could be a FREE electric company that runs at a loss, but is paid purely through inflation so no one has a bill. Now where people are going to be affected is the poor people who have to foot the bill for increased prices on necessities.




Well, the problem with money printing is that it is not enough to get countries out of large recesssions, there needs to extra demand stimulus from somewhere else. It has worked well at recovering an economy in the past bubbles such as the dot.com bubble, and other smaller ones. It didn't work well in the Japanese long recession during the 90's. In fact Japan is an interesting example. They tried it once, it seemed to stave off a deep depression but didn't fix the economy. They tried it again and the same thing happened. Then they tried it while also building a large amount of bridges everywhere, and they got out of their depression.

When it comes to money printing in 2008, it managed to stave off a deep depression, but not get the country out of it. Now the FED pushes money into banks to drive down interest rates. Lower interest rates, and people are going to spend instead of saving their money-this is good for increasing aggregate demand. The problem is that you can only push interest rates down to 0. Once they hit 0 banks are going to stop lending money all together, since they have nothing to gain from it. Now i think there happen to me much better ways of reviving an economy than money printing, specially since banks are no longer interesting in investing in the productive economy. But this still doesn't stop the fact that if the FED lent no money, there would have been little to no increase in aggregate demand and the country would be in a deep depression. the money printing and very small stimulus package from obama was just enough to maintain the current economic system, and keep it at a rate of weak growth. You can compare this to a country like China which recovered from the depression in no time with a huge stimulus package that was 70% of their gdp, if i recall correctly. Americas stimulus package was less than a $trillion, which is tiny, less than 10% of their gdp.

and yeah, the electricity sector was paid for by taxpayers. It was run in a way as to provide as cheap electricity as possible to everyone. Whereas the private oligopoly fixes prices so that electricity is expensive for everyone, and the poor lose the most there. Cheap electricity paid for by taxpayers outweighed the costs to people that have to pay large amounts for it. And taxpayers have had to pay for bail outs to the electricity sector pretty soon after it was turned into a corporation. Like i said, the large corporations are mostly funded by taxpayers, the same as state assets. They just do it differently, through bailouts and such. Anyway i think you agree with me in some way on that part.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 24 2014 11:44. Posts 1723


  On September 23 2014 22:03 Jubert69 wrote:
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Pokerstars are automated tables. Online poker shouldn't exist because then dealers wouldn't have jobs, right?

What do you mean IT field is being automated? There's more jobs in IT right now than there were 20 years ago. With new technology emerging, faster processing, it requires a lot more upkeep. Cell phones were pretty much nonexistent 20 years ago. App developers didn't exist because they didn't have platforms to work off of.

Social media work is $$ if you know what you are doing. There's many jobs now that were created due to social media. Look up any medium to large size business. There's always a dedicated person/team running it.



While IT may have experienced a boom, we're getting to the point where automation is becoming increasingly more common. However, just because there may have been some jobs opening up in the IT field doesn't mean that jobs in other sectors aren't disappearing... Have you looked at farming labor? We almost have that field completely automated.

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cariadon   Estonia. Sep 24 2014 12:10. Posts 4019

Gnarly reminds me of this clip
Opposite George from Seinfeld


Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 24 2014 12:29. Posts 9634

Gnarly reminds me of




even the goddamn bird can be automated by a computer, where is this world going :/

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2primenumbers   United States. Sep 24 2014 15:00. Posts 199

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Jubert69   United States. Sep 24 2014 16:36. Posts 3191


  On September 24 2014 10:44 Gnarly wrote:
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While IT may have experienced a boom, we're getting to the point where automation is becoming increasingly more common. However, just because there may have been some jobs opening up in the IT field doesn't mean that jobs in other sectors aren't disappearing... Have you looked at farming labor? We almost have that field completely automated.



Curious, if you think there is an issue with robots taking over, I'm interested in what your solution to the problem is. Should we ban all technology that has the ability to take over a human job?


Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 24 2014 16:39. Posts 2226

no his solution as he stated before is that companies pay their customers instead that way the customers have capital to buy their products with, it makes perfect sense if you don't think about it

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 24 2014 20:43. Posts 1723

>jewbert

Well, then...

Imagine that, instead of just simply doing a Google search, you actually got paid for it. The reason for this is because Google can sell that data, and they are getting all of that data for free from us. So, instead of just simply shopping around for some shoes, you got paid to go shopping around for shoes, giving companies data about where you were and how long you looked at things and such.

I mean, we're already running on the hamster wheel as it is.

Also, I'm not a ludite. Eventually, we'll be able to merge our consciousness together. Imagine how sick that would be.

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Jubert69   United States. Sep 24 2014 21:43. Posts 3191

Gnarly, we'll have to break down where we are getting divided.

You don't need to use google. There's many other "competition" like yahoo, bing, aol, etc.

Google is offering a "service" to you. The service is paid by you viewing ads which costs you $0, and makes them money. You don't have to use the "service".



There's two things we agree on(and I think Stroggoz too). Corporatism is bad, creates monopolies, makes the rich richer, and poor poorer. Now where we are dividing, I think the freer the market is, the less corporations are going to exist. The more regulated the market is, the more corporations will exist.


soberstone   United States. Sep 24 2014 23:48. Posts 2662


  On September 24 2014 20:43 Jubert69 wrote:
Gnarly, we'll have to break down where we are getting divided.

You don't need to use google. There's many other "competition" like yahoo, bing, aol, etc.

Google is offering a "service" to you. The service is paid by you viewing ads which costs you $0, and makes them money. You don't have to use the "service".



There's two things we agree on(and I think Stroggoz too). Corporatism is bad, creates monopolies, makes the rich richer, and poor poorer. Now where we are dividing, I think the freer the market is, the less corporations are going to exist. The more regulated the market is, the more corporations will exist.



You are butchering the words Corporation's here. Small businesses are often corporations too. But yes, the freer the market, the less monopolies or conglomerates. This is true.


Jubert69   United States. Sep 24 2014 23:55. Posts 3191

I stand corrected.

Most media/US automatically attribute Corporation to Monopoly.


Gnarly   United States. Sep 25 2014 00:30. Posts 1723

wow you are SO fucking dead wrong.
during the 80s, during the height of financial trading, the banks were numerous, but were kept small because of regulations.
in a free market, only the strongest survive

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soberstone   United States. Sep 25 2014 00:36. Posts 2662

What people fail to understand is that the public sector in education, energy distribution, healthcare, etc. - IS the ultimate monopoly, the worst kind, the most inefficient kind, the most corrupt kind, the most unaccountable kind, the most harmful kind, and the most prevalent kind. It's been proven time and time again throughout history in the case of countries, states, cities, etc - and yet we continue to make the same mistake over and over again.

Capitalism is not without flaws in that the invisible hand can dissapear via private monopolies, but when you get people saying that 'profit motive' is a myth, and that the government can do a better job than the free market, I cringe with anger and laugh cynically. No amount of lengthy, misleading statistics and studies can disprove the basic human nature and theory behind the triumphs of capitalism compared to any other system of economic governance in the history of the world.

Higher taxes stagnate the economy and business growth while the money that goes to the government is wasted on failed programs due to no motivation to actually be efficient. There is little to no upside in Progessive, big govt. theory and practice.


Baalim   Mexico. Sep 25 2014 02:51. Posts 34250


  On September 23 2014 04:18 Stroggoz wrote:
Baal, Jubert69, You guys have it wrong about deregulation. Deregulation and the rise of shadow banking saw the rise of monopoly finance and the result was increased financial stability, and financial crises have gone way up because if this, and it was the direct cause of the 2008 crises. This is something that even the economics profession concedes. I won't go on any more about shadow banking but, that is a corporation that has turned into an investment bank without regulators realizing it(or pretending not to notice), and thus it becomes a big bank that is never regulated in the first place



Wrong, the banking cartels exist because of the state aid, and the F&F and Lehman brothers that started the real state market bubble was caused because of direct intervention of the state guaranteeing a profit from sub-prime lending creating a moral hazard, also the state bailouts saved all the inefficient shitty companies that should have gone out of bussiness like GM long ago but were saved with the publics money which is absolutely ridiculous.


 
One of the major regulations was put into place to prevent commercial and investment banks from merging and becoming large monoplies, such as citigroup. Actually the 'golden age of capitalism'(1945-71) was the age of high growth, and had heavy regulation on banks, which forced them to keep small. Also, competition without regulation naturally leads to monopolies. Companies know they can make larger profits by repeatedly merging into monopolies to beat the competition.



lol wat, that goes against the most basic knowledge of the free market, big efficient companies =/= monopoly, if a company is able to give a superior product and with less price than any other competition, then good for them, they will naturally dominate the market until somebody comes with a new idea.


 
The energy sector is another perfect example of where deregulation has gone wrong. In New Zealand, the state used to run their electricity company at a loss, and it produced a cheap source of energy for everyone in the country. Then it was turned into a very little regulated privatized oligopoly, now electricity prices have gone way up. When neoclassical economics was bought to New Zealand, they called it 'inefficient'. Well that's not an economical term, it's ideological. The company ran at a loss, it was inefficient from that point of view.



A state-handled company is almost always terribly inefficient because it operates outside of the laws of the free market, the same reason why the prices were low, its because they dont have to make a profit so they can subsidize electricity, but ultimately you are already paying for expensive electricity through taxation, the problem is that when the State sells the company to private investors that in theory should lead to a tax cut but obviously the government will never do that so now you are paying the same tax you were indirectly paying for subsidized energy but you arent even getting it, and the price of the private company.


 
Also, Google is not a good company, they spy on people and share that info with the government. Their accomplishments could have been achieved without doing this. This company wouldn't have done this if their stakeholders had a say in the decision making process. But they don't, because it is a tyranny. Perhaps some of you don't notice the bad effects of spying, but it is used effectively to keep people from challenging the status quo. Not to mention it simply just violates elementary human rights.




Google hasnt spied on anybody, the government through coercion, bullying and threats of imprisonment twisted its arm for information, the immoral ones there were the government not google. in fact google refused to tap into the Chinese market (which meant billions of dollars) because they didnt agree to give information from Chinese government dissidents, and that is fucking remarkable, that a corporation had more moral integrity than what most individuals would is amazing

If you wanted to make a case against such things you should have used Facebook and sure, many corporations will do shitty things for profit like Facebook but its in the consumers powers to punish it, Facebook has faced resistance when he does shit like that and its up to us to either punish them or not, if the consumer isnt bothered enough to choose an alternative and decided facebook product is so good its worth it then the free market has spoken.

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 25 2014 03:00. Posts 34250


  On September 23 2014 08:00 Gnarly wrote:
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You're the one who fails to understand that when automation is pretty much fully in every place of business, no one will be able to work because humans, at that point, will become inefficient. You're saying businesses will survive by paying their... robots and then having those same... robots... buy things from them? Cause if not, then who the fuck is going to do the consuming? People without jobs?

Makes sense, maybe you should be Fed Chairman?



LOL are you serious? apparently over night robots will take over, I shouldnt even dignify these posts with an answer but I cant help myself.


The automation process increases production efficiency dropping prices and goods are more easily available to the public, mindless jobs are replaced with more skilled ones as society, technology, education and knowledge advances.

I cant believe that old automation argument still exists today and to somebody of your age its amazing lol

I guess we should keep these jobs too... otherwise people will run out of jobs and humanity will starve zomgs!
http://pulptastic.com/11-wierd-old-jobs/

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 25 2014 03:05. Posts 34250


  On September 24 2014 15:36 Jubert69 wrote:
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Curious, if you think there is an issue with robots taking over, I'm interested in what your solution to the problem is. Should we ban all technology that has the ability to take over a human job?



Whats funny is that what he says makes some kind of sense in a very distant future, many hundreds of years from now when robots take over all of manual labor we might possibly live in a utopian society where money is not even needed, I think the 2nd part of Zeitgeist purposes something like this, I think its flawed but maybe its what Gnarly is thinking lol, what is funny is that he is projecting a futuristic social structure into fucking Mc Donalds robots

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 25 2014 03:56. Posts 9634

I always giggle when someone gives an argument connected to the banks post WW 1. Everything significant that happens in the bank sector post WW1 is manipulated and meant to happen so, you cant give events there as some natural rational explanation, because they're not.
Post WW 1 :

- Fed reserve is created.... by private banks
- $ takes over as the leading international trading currency ( up to the point where over 80% of the deals are done in $ )
- USA basically "scams" european powers out of their gold, currencies are less and less bound to gold up leading to the point where gold has nothing to do with money

connect the dots?

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casinocasino   Canada. Sep 25 2014 13:10. Posts 3343

I will just ignore completely ignore Gnarly for the sake of not wasting time but for anyone who is interested in debating about some interesting financial issues.

I think spitfire brings up probably the most interesting issue in the financial world, about the monopoly of the Federal Reserve and leverage they have in causing inflation in places that deal with USD / as a primary form of the world reserve currency.

Basically what stops the US from printing endless amounts of money and buying limited amounts of products causing prices in those places to go up due to scarcity?

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 25 2014 13:57. Posts 1723

because there's better ways of doing things

also, we didn't scam europe out of gold lol. if germany wanted it's gold back, it wouldn't make it public that it's begging on it's knees to america to give back it's gold. money velocity is more important than how much is in circulation

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 25 2014 18:13. Posts 9634

Let me explain in cliff notes

- Crisis in europe after WW1
- Usa from debitor to huge creditor
- Gold goes across the ocean
- Gold standard falls
- Great depression strucks

Great depression is also made by the Federal Reserve, if someone as smart as Milton Friedman claimsIT and considering all the circumstances around the fed reserve im more than 100% inclined to believe it ... anyway there s tons to read on the topic, dont read just one source, get a few to actually find the truth, don't be a sheep. I'd also say velocity and circulations are very tightly bound together and you can't really say that one is more important than the other, cause there are too many factors to just lightly say something like that, not to mention that velocity is basically a part of circulation when you think about it. It cannot exist without money circulation, so in a pure form your argument is pretty naive.


edit: how did we get from racism to fed reserve and basic economy really.

 Last edit: 25/09/2014 18:16

Gnarly   United States. Sep 25 2014 19:59. Posts 1723

velocity is a truer form of how much money is being circulated rather than how much can be circulated. when the bailouts happened, the monetary base rose like fuck, but money velocity declined.

You talk about gold, but how much do you know of global energy? What's going on with Russia, China, and the Middle East all revolve around energy, and you'll see wars fought over energy far more often than you'll see wars fought over gold, if there have ever been any. Pretty naive to leave out energy when it's the bigger factor than gold.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 25 2014 20:18. Posts 1723

FUCK EBOLA-CHAN IS RACIST TOO

http://www.nigerianwatch.com/news/539...ks-on-white-caucasians-due-to-melanin

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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Sep 26 2014 03:04. Posts 9634

Nobody said the wars were fought over gold, you just hold something untrue and try to bend the context so that what you write makes sense, I'm done tbh, I usually feel sad for people like you that just have tunnel vision and cant open their minds to view from multiple different perspectives, but this is just too much. FWIW i wasn't even talking about the wars, they were just mentioned as they are part of the process but w/e


Gnarly   United States. Sep 26 2014 03:26. Posts 1723

fwiw, i like people like you. you give me hope.

>doesn't understand that anything economic has to have military backing behind it

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 26 2014 03:58. Posts 34250

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

- Charles Bukowski


Gnarly if you are as smart as you think you are, set ego aside and make an objective re-evaluation of your beliefs, I'm too much of a misanthrope to think that will ever work but can't hurt to try

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mnj   United States. Sep 26 2014 09:19. Posts 3848


  On September 25 2014 02:56 Spitfiree wrote:
I always giggle when someone gives an argument connected to the banks post WW 1. Everything significant that happens in the bank sector post WW1 is manipulated and meant to happen so, you cant give events there as some natural rational explanation, because they're not.
Post WW 1 :

- Fed reserve is created.... by private banks
- $ takes over as the leading international trading currency ( up to the point where over 80% of the deals are done in $ )
- USA basically "scams" european powers out of their gold, currencies are less and less bound to gold up leading to the point where gold has nothing to do with money

connect the dots?



i like most of what you post about finance but i'm having a very hard time getting behind this argument.

i think in general ppl are scared about concentration of power (1%, banks, large corporations, government etc) with good reason, but i don't actually see any argument in your post. it actually feels like gnarly hacked your account and posted some pseudo chain of events presented as a CONCRETE BULLET PROOF ARGUMENT * DEAL WITH IT * 8)


Gnarly   United States. Sep 26 2014 13:15. Posts 1723


  On September 26 2014 02:58 Baalim wrote:
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

&#8213; Charles Bukowski


Gnarly if you are as smart as you think you are, set ego aside and make an objective re-evaluation of your beliefs, I'm too much of a misanthrope to think that will ever work but can't hurt to try



If you think I'm being serious all the time, you need to re-evaluate yourself. There are a few things that I do know, and there's lots of things I have a slight idea of, and like to expand those just simply from my mind. Sometimes, I like to throw out random shit to see what opposition I get, so I can get a better view of what I'm actually trying to see.

Things I'm serious about: Keystone XL, metals
Things I'm not serious about: Socialistic capitalism

If the US become so automated that labor in pretty much any sense of the word was a thing a past, we'd still have to worry about the global economy and foreign economies that are still running how things have been running. I like the idea of corporations being jellyfish from the jellyfish lake, but that stems from the idea that corporations are simple organisms, having no control over what they do because they only react certain ways in certain situation. (if they are experiencing losses, it's either because they are trying to bring down the company, or that they'll start needing to re-organize and re-face the company. when they are experiencing profit, they want to milk it as long as possible)

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Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 28 2014 05:28. Posts 2226


  On September 26 2014 12:15 Gnarly wrote:
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If you think I'm being serious all the time, you need to re-evaluate yourself.

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 28 2014 13:07. Posts 1723

>almost 5k views
>the only thread worth reading
>jokes not on them

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 28 2014 13:28. Posts 6374

i just came here to shit on white ppl

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awesomeguy   Finland. Sep 28 2014 14:04. Posts 61

dont shit on white ppl oatmeal


dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 28 2014 14:24. Posts 6374

white ppl make me sick

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 28 2014 16:20. Posts 1723

the most beautiful people are white, though, and you can't explain that, can you? That's what I thought.

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Baalim   Mexico. Sep 28 2014 16:32. Posts 34250


  On September 28 2014 04:28 Santafairy wrote:
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lol qft

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 29 2014 14:04. Posts 1723

Let me get this straight, you paint me as the person saying "Hey, I'm retarded" and then paint yourself as the person who says "Fuck off!"? If this is true, then how are you not the retarded one? Why would you keep replying over and over to someone saying they are retarded if you yourself weren't retarded? Doesn't make sense to look at this thread almost 5000 times to tell someone to fuck off. It's like the story of the kid who everyone thought was retarded, so they gave him the choice to take a nickel or a dime. If he chooses the nickel, they come back the next day, and if he chooses the dime, they never come back. This story was made around the 40s, so you can get some perspective. (protip: the "retard" knowingly picked the nickel until the kids were out of money)

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Santafairy   Korea (South). Sep 29 2014 14:21. Posts 2226

i know a story that was made even earlier in the 30s it's called of mice and men

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lebowski   Greece. Sep 29 2014 14:25. Posts 9205


  On September 26 2014 02:58 Baalim wrote:
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

- Charles Bukowski


Gnarly if you are as smart as you think you are, set ego aside and make an objective re-evaluation of your beliefs, I'm too much of a misanthrope to think that will ever work but can't hurt to try


hah just skimming through the thread, I never thought I'd see you use such a quote, confidence in your beliefs seemed to consistently lead to verbally attacking the guy you were arguing with over the years, I'm glad you don't see it that way now man

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 29 2014 14:46. Posts 1723


  On September 29 2014 13:21 Santafairy wrote:
i know a story that was made even earlier in the 30s it's called of mice and men



which is based off another story made way earlier

How is your little house, little mouse?

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blackjacki2   United States. Sep 29 2014 15:27. Posts 2581


  On September 29 2014 13:46 Gnarly wrote:
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which is based off another story made way earlier

How is your little house, little mouse?


what story is of mice and men based off of?


Gnarly   United States. Sep 29 2014 16:28. Posts 1723

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Mouse

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blackjacki2   United States. Sep 29 2014 17:57. Posts 2581


  On September 29 2014 15:28 Gnarly wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Mouse



From Of Mice and Men wiki page


  the title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse", which read: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley."



So the title is taken from an old poem, The story has nothing to do with the poem, just the title.

I get the impression that you have very little knowledge on anything and you just quickly google shit after people post and try to connect the dots on what google gives you to produce a somewhat coherent response. Have you even heard of Of Mice and Men or did you just wikipedia it after it was mentioned and then drop a random piece of trivia (that happened to be wrong)?


Gnarly   United States. Sep 29 2014 18:54. Posts 1723

>he bites the bait

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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Sep 29 2014 20:07. Posts 6374

well now you really showed him

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Gnarly   United States. Sep 29 2014 20:55. Posts 1723

yeah, talk shit and there might a hook in your gabber, m8, swer on me mums grave

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