Read Listen, Liberal and you will understand that Democrats are just as responsible. That book was written by a progressive who voted for Obama twice and who voted for Clinton in 2016. When Obama was in office and had huge majorities in the House and 60 senators, they didn't bother to raise the federal minimum wage. Democrats are in the tank for corporations just as much as Republicans. Bill Clinton signed NAFTA, not Republicans. Bill Clinton signed Glass-Steagall, not Republicans. This shit has been going on since Reagan because Democrats have been complicit. They would rather distract with Russia than touch anything related to economic inequality because they are BOUGHT.

Bernie or Bust 2020

Even the baby boomers? I remember laughing when the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance said he condescended to get "a practical degree in Journalism," which the readers were supposed to understand would guarantee him an income for life. I guess that was him bending to The Man in those days.

In that generation, you could get a living wage at any farm or factory just by showing up on time, and you could get a professional job by being able to read and submit to wearing a tie. And still, so many said no.

The big ISPs who promised to role out better internet to everyone and bring high speed internet to rural areas.... and then did fucking NOTHING. They literally took the money and ran with an estimated 400 billion. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394

Congress has done nothing to take them to task because they have been paid off.

I know people won't like to hear this. But this book basically shows that education is basically just [signalling]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics\) ). The thing is though, that he also shows that people that have higher degrees (like Bachelor's or Master's) actually earn more money even if they are employed in fields like being a bartender or waiter funnily enough. I guess it is literally becoming true that you need a degree to help get these jobs (at least the higher end of these).

Everyone getting a Bachelors degree is basically just the same as everyone having a high school diploma. It is like standing up in a concert to see better, if you do it that is fine, but then if everyone does it we are all in the same position again.

https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652

You should read this article: Why Poverty is like a disease

It is about someone who makes $700,000 /yr but is still stuck in survival mode because previous bouts of poverty rewired his brain. It is one of those what has been seen can never be unseen kind of things. You can raise a man out of poverty but you can never erase the poverty mindset when it has become ingrained.

It's not just the boomers who are dying.

It's pretty much everyone after them from addiction.

>The second study found that death rates among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose between 1999 and 2016. Drug overdoses, suicides and alcoholism were the main reasons for this increase, but this age group also had a significant increase in deaths from heart, lung and other organ diseases.

So basically we're giving up in large numbers and turning to drugs, and/or engaging in lots of risky behvaiors. AKA reckless disregard for self preservation.

Powerful con artists have been conspiring against us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis\_F.\_Powell\_Jr.#Powell\_Memorandum,\_1971

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Worshippers-Dangerous-Religious-Nationalism/dp/1635573432

Here is the article. I only skimmed it, but this looks like the closest they come to direct finger-pointing:

> Once in place, the privatized student loan industry has largely succeeded in preserving its status in Washington. And in one of the industry’s greatest lobbying triumphs, student loans can no longer be discharged in bankruptcy, except in rare cases. > > At the same time, societal changes conspired to drive up the basic need for these loans: Middle-class incomes stagnated, college costs soared, and states retreated from their historical investment in public universities.

Social Media has never been viable, because it requires such a low commitment from its user base, and doesn't have any mechanisms to filter itself. People Tweet to hear themselves speak, and we can empirically show the relation between Narcissism and Twitter. (Not Kidding. Go find the study.)

Investors mistook Social Media as if it was the second coming of Television, but in reality each media platform has its own effects on society. Instead of making an independent observation on how humans react with Social Media, we hopped aboard the Hyper train, with billions lost.

And rather than treating what Social Media actually is capable of (not much,) we 'projected' what we wanted on it, as if history is a linear function.

What was really embarrassing, was that I had a political science professor tell me that a democratic revolution wasn't possible without twitter.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/181144/Revolutions-of-1848

People today lack any kind of historical perspective, and fail to understand how atypical our life really is.

We have a number of worldviews which are failing us, but we can't call them out, because the past is for losers.

In the future, people will consider morons for believing some of the most obvious bullshit....especially the things that are 'politically correct.'

>What we really need to do is accept that the human organism is inherently selfish, and must be coerced into selflessness, and build our society upon that principle.

Nope, false.

Humanity was only able to make it this far because of our ability to cooperate and our capacity for friendliness, generosity, and empathy.

This idea that humanity is inherently selfish is a lie that has been drilled into our heads to justify the present order of things, to justify the obscene inequality and bottomless greed that a small slice of our society posessess.

If you're interested in learning more about this, I highly, highly recommend reading this book Humankind which uses history and biology to debunk this disgusting, persistent myth that human nature is selfishness.

I was in the hospital for a routine medical procedure. I'm epileptic and needed a video EEG which takes 3 to 5 days in the hospital in most cases. There is literally nothing dangerous or concerning about this. You are basically in the hospital for the most basic of monitoring and it is annoying because it takes so long. So you basically sit in a hospital bed staring at the TV and drinking shitty juice boxes while they wait for you to have a seizure.

They were completely insistent on monitoring my heart which I was curious about because I don't have heart problems but I figured they probably had a good reason for it. They kept changing these stupid 3M sticker electrodes on me. I can't remember the exact amount but I think I had 8 or 12 of them on me at any given point hooked up to a heart monitor. When I got my bill they charged me $40 per pad every time they swapped them out.

I looked them up to try and figure out what gold these body stickers were made of and found that you can buy the same medical grade 3M pads on Amazon for about $15 for a bag of 100.

That is fucking criminal.

Back in my political activists days, or later when I was living in my car 60 hours a week doing detective work I used to eat these things which will fill you up for a little less than 2 dollas. No cooking necessary. Add a drink and some yogurt, good to go. Summer of '85 I ate so many of them my turd balls started to look just like them.

From the article -

>Every year we lose as many as 400 promising, talented doctors, whose lives our society can ill afford to lose, to suicide.

Check out <em>Why Physicians Die by Suicide: Lessons Learned from Their Families and Others Who Cared</em>.

It's bad here too. A lot of Baby Boomers seem to have no empathy for the young. [I know a few good ones who are friends so have to put up that caveat] An American man even wrote a book about narcissistic Baby Boomers. The lack of empathy for the young is astounding. Gen Xs got a lot of this but I have noticed for the millennials it has worsened.

https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Sociopaths-Boomers-Betrayed-America/dp/0316395781

I was ostracized and rejected by Baby Boomer parents who considered us failures for not obtaining the middle class and above and blamed us accordingly so some of this hits home.

Have you ever played Papers, Please? If not, you should. Wonderful little dystopian bureaucrat simulator. Do you remember your buddy, the Guard? One of the guards comes up to you one day and says "Hey. I get paid to detain people. I know you've got that big red Detain button in there, so every time I get to detain someone I'll give you some money" So every time you detain some suspicious wannabe-bordercrosser (justly or not, I might add) you get another five bucks, and that can mean you don't have to choose between food, heat, and medicine.

The American prison industry is a lot like that. There's a lot of people who make a lot of money by keeping people in prison, and it's in their interests to get more people in prison. Don't think for one moment that those prisoners are just sitting there, rotting away, doing nothing. They're being put to work to earn their captors money, often through dumb labour.

If you see "Made in America" on some consumer goods there's a good chance it's prison labour. Doubly so if it's not terribly complex to manufacture (ex. textiles, childrens toys)

Well Instagram is owned by Facebook so.... not sure this is really a step in the right direction.

Do come to the lifeboat if you feel like it : https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

My professor in psychology at the time in 2008 held a lecture about this very same thing. That what we were going through was a depression, and that the mass media wouldn't call it that just to try to avoid panic and lowering morale even more so.

He was also mentioning how unemployment for the millennial generation is higher than any other generation before.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/40-of-unemployed-workers-are-millennials-2014-07-03#:NQf6MVuT8n80SA

From what I've seen here in CA, the percentage of unemployed from 18-29 is at least 25 percent or more of that age group. CA also has the worse employment rate and the highest cost of living in the U.S..

I don't think you get it. "Negotiating" up to $52,000/year just means accepting a position at half the national rate. Even in Florida specifically, the average is $95,000/year.

I don't think Mr. Money Mustache had everything paid for by his parents.

At least according to The Millionaire Next Door, a large fraction of the Prodigious Accumulators of Wealth are self-made immigrants who own and run unsexy businesses like janitorial services, laundromats, etc.

What Happened When A Man Signed Work Emails Using A Female Name For 2 Weeks

Yes. It is a good way to keep track of people you've worked/networked with.

I would also add that you should upload your resume to: http://www.indeed.com

I've gotten more solicitations for jobs through Indeed than LinkedIn.

Amazon has them on their site for Kindle, but it’s not Amazon that’s providing the service per say.

If anyone’s wondering, here is the link to Gutenberg. At the moment, they have ~57,000 free ebooks and offer each book in various formats other than Kindle.

https://www.gutenberg.org

Watch the heartless monsters make the vote. A friend of mine, who is a teacher (not in this school district), shared this on FB and was mortified by the inhumanity.

https://flipboard.com/video/recount/f4c970acb2

What does he get wrong? He's been right in predicting pretty much every single abuse against users of software, culminating with the recent revelation that the NSA has hidden backdoors in most hard drives. And the only reason these abuses are made possible is because users lack an alternative to proprietary software.

I would say it's closer to a human condition, and not specific to capitalism.

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For example, look at common last names:

• Smith
• Cox
• Carter
• Hayward
• Thatcher
• Tailor
• Faber
• Schmidt
• Kowalski
• Baker
• Brewer
• Cooper
• Mason
• Kellogg
• Weaver
• etc.

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Surnames_Derived_from_Occupations,_Ranks_(National_Institute)

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So it would seem that "Job as identity" is a very, very old way to qualify people.

I respectfully disagree. Two people with similar needs can have radically different wants, resulting in very different definitions of good. Some people are satisfied with simplicity, and some people are never satisfied. There are a lot of factors, most of them are subjective, and a lot of it has to do with what you are used to. There is a chapter about this in Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Udacity just released their first 'nanodegree' - it costs $200 a month and takes 6-9 months.

The Coursera specialisations cost £300, which I guess is around $600, I can't see the US prices easily

The end of the colleges is coming for many fields and I will laugh as they burn.

In many ways he's right. He's talking about ambition, discipline, and accountability and a lot of losers don't want to hear that.

In the book "Think and Grow Rich" they take an example of a sales department in a company. They have the high producers in a certain territory and the low producers each have their own territory so the author questions is it the territory or the individual.

They switch all the salesman. The successful ones to the low performing territories and vice versa. Within 3-6 months the original low performers lost deals and slipped back into mediocrity and in that same time the high performers had transformed the bad territories into high performing ones.

It wasn't the territory. It was the individual.

It's also why in America you have the black community with generations of low income, low education, and poverty stricken families who blame society for their lives. Then you have African immigrants (Nigerians notably) who come to the country with nothing and are performing academically and financially with success on par with east Asians like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean immigrants.

Nigerians are just as black as American blacks but they perform far better academically and financially even when they come to the country with no money. Why is this? Mindset. They are here on a mission. They have a different culture. They have different values. They have a different mindset.

MNCs and the super-rich push "liberalization" and "free trade" so they can move their money and operations to places with the lowest taxes, loosest labor and environmental regs, and generally rake in greater profits at reduced cost. Workers can't move around as freely and require special permission (H1Bs, "Blue Card Visas", etc) even when they do. This has the dual result of lowering wages in general—which employers love—and providing an easy target for reactionary politicians in countries that workers emigrate to. If enough social pressure is exerted to address this problem, the firms encouraging it will just outsource and offshore to a new location where the process will start over.

Think about that the next time you start buying into the "terk yer job" argument, which is appealing for several reasons on the surface but ultimately misses the point.

If you don't have the stamina to read Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century", I'd suggest Guy Standing's The Precariat which is much shorter, but describes our current global labor crisis pretty well.

Will have to get a copy and see how good it is. If she used her firsthand experience and knowledge from working in Investment Banking, this could prove to be a very insightful read, and maybe an essential part of any anti-neoliberal reading list, along with The Shock Doctrine and Dark Money.

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This is one of the things Obamacare really improved. If you lose coverage, that's a qualifying event that makes you eligible for a special enrollment period for health care plans.

Billions of people use unsafe plastics, burn fossil fuels, and breathe unclean air.

Hate to say it, but they're gonna use Amazon to shop online, because the prices are low and it's convenient to do so.

Bashing Amazon can only hope to promote Amazon's competitors. I'd say the most obvious thing to do would be to launch or promote the interests of a blockchainified version of Amazon. One example of this is the OpenBazaar project, which is highly, highly recommend looking into.

>The IRS loves auditing lower middle class to middle class people.

Not really. The lower middle to middle classes have the lowest risks of audit. source

They wiill get a 1099 at the end of the year it seems:

TaskRabbit.com is not an employment service and does not serve as an employer of any User. As such, TaskRabbit.com will not be liable for any tax or withholding, including but not limited to unemployment insurance, employer’s liability, social security or payroll withholding tax in connection with your use of Users’ services. You understand and agrees that if TaskRabbit.com is found to be liable for any tax or withholding tax in connection with your use of Users’ services, then you will immediately reimburse and pay to TaskRabbit.com an equivalent amount, including any interest or penalties thereon. http://www.taskrabbit.com/main/tos

Keep a notebook. Write down what I call EPI/EPO. Every Penny In, Every Penny Out, of your life. Don't get lazy, write it down.

OK so I'm not Lost, I'm an old X'er, but I saw this trick in a book called "Your Money or Your Life" by Joe Dominguez, but I first learned of it from my Great-Aunt Mary who was an adult during the Great Depression.

>this is some sort of staged photo

because a guy who doesn't like her says she's manipulative?

>And people who looked at her would judge her for having a phone, even though the gig work would likely not have even been possible without it.

The fuck are you talking about? Even fucking homeless people have smartphones- maybe 10-15 years ago, but fuck anyone doing that shit today- bad anecdote.

> If you have a really shitty primary education in math or science, it's kind of difficult to major in anything math or science related.

Agreed, but rather than not trying in the first place, the solution is to go balls-to-the-wall. Here's what I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4702350

Hang in there dude it will come, if your looking for cv or cover letter tips check out https://zety.com/blog/resume-writing I found the site really useful and full of great templates.

I like to take the geometric mean of Shadowstats and the BLS CPI. https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8805769&amp;cid=51598143

It's about 5%/year. But that's 50% over 8 years. And likely more for Millennials as the fastest growing components are housing, education, and healthcare.

> What I find obnoxious about Macy's is...

Exactly! Sure, there are some differences in quality in some items, but if one thinks about it, often you don't really need the better quality. Especially with the way people toss clothes and styles change.

Overall, shopping at Macy's is just a form of "conspicuous consumption."

> I see in my future only buying bespoke clothing off Etsy.

I see that as kind of a Luddite type of move. Nice, logical in its own way, but kind of naive.

Myself, I shop at Mal-Wart or Target or wherever I can find the product of the quality I want for the cheapest price. (Unless, of course, there's a picket line of their exploited workers trying to defend their standards of living. Sadly, that's rarely the case.) To do otherwise is opposing capitalist economic forces that will eventually crush or impoverish you.

Having read much Karl Marx, it seems pretty clear when the only retail places left are a couple of Amazons and their monopolized suppliers, then we're going to nationalize/democratize them and, as the story goes, live happily ever after.

> "With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches." -- Adam Smith, author of the 1776 book "The Wealth of Nations" and considered the father of capitalism.

More on how Boomers screwed Generation X also:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-generation-x-had-the-worst-personal-finance-year-ever-214519220.html?vp=1

When Gen X comes to power, we're going to legalize murder.

KILL THE BOOMER

KILL THE BOOMER

KILL THE BOOMER

DEAD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfPCgqSP7U

> Why does any degree anywhere in the world cost $140,000?

You're right on this point. I believe that college education should be free, paid for by taxes...but that's not the world we live in, so it's irrelevant to choices anyone could potentially make today.

The average cost of a degree is nowhere near that (the average debt for an undergrad degree graduate in 2015 was $35,051) and that's the highest it's ever been (which - again - is a problem I believe needs addressing, but it hasn't been addressed, and ignoring that is just...dumb) and I'd bet money that there are library science graduate degrees available for far, far less. In other words, you probably have to try - hard - to find a library science degree that costs $140K.

There were many, many other choices this student could have made that would have resulted in less debt, and in addition they added a car loan on top of it...so in your mind where exactly does their own personal responsibility for their choices begin?

In the long transition period needed for your scenario to work it still won't be sustainable. Even if the global population was stagnant there wouldn't be enough resources to go around. The first world uses close to 80% of the worlds resources. Europe alone has an ecological footprint that is 4x larger than China.

Like I said in my first post, this doesn't scale. We currently have 3 billion Indians and 2 billion Chinese, and a ~ one billion Africans trying to ascend to First World status. Unless we have some type of radically advanced technology come to save the say, there is no way everyone will be driving cars, sipping lattes and taking 15 minute hot showers.

> They refuse to learn how to fix things

there's only so much you can do when appliances et al. are intentionally made to be disposable. you'd have to really try to fix any of them. and that's if it's legal to do so the only thing that's gotten more reliable is cars, and even those are harder to work on then before.

Yeah, sarcasm. It's not fake. It's probably a perspective genuinely held by the Controversial English-only crusader who set his sights on California's Senate race. Mr. Unz was also behind a group that pushed for free tuition at Harvard, with the intention that admissions would be wholly based on "merit," alleging the opaque admissions processes were discriminatory. But free tuition would not address the problems highlighted in the Salon article so now we're talking about some different issue. The article is concerned with addressing issues inherent to standardized/aptitude tests (used by most institutions) not with tuition (a real but different issue).

This is a garbage article. It's more of an indictment on the US population and lack of prenatal care than the process of delivering. The majority of the mortality and morbidity are associated with "dangerously elevated blood pressures that could cause a stroke" ie preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is pretty easily detected with regular prenatal checks.

Risk factors include age of mother (teen pregnancies, pregnancies over 40, both of which the US is a world leader in), obesity (again, the US is a world leader), comorbid factors (diabetes, hypertension, again associated with obesity), IVF, etc.

Combine the US' propensity of performing C-sections at the drop of a hat (liability, OBGyn is on the hook for 18 years of child care if something goes wrong, and thus, increased risk of hemorrhage)...

[Preeclampsia stuff here](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/preeclampsia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355745](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/preeclampsia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355745).

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The only thing that matches up with the wider reality, in this article, is the part about "image crafting" - Everything else seems like a conclusion reached by someone who lives in a very small bubble.

Doing some quick research on the author: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/tim-urban/30/274/569

Yep - A very, very small Harvard bubble.

The vast majority of millennials are quite aware of the fact that success requires years of hard work. Maybe Tim's ivy league cohort expects to simply have everything their parents earned over 30 years in just 3, but the vast majority of millennials have no such delusions.

If we could simply follow the same path walked by the previous generation, we would, but we can't, because we live in a completely different economic world, in which stable, long-term careers are virtually non-existent.

That nice smooth slope to greener grass no longer exists. It has been replaced with a sharp cliff, so you can't simply "walk up" to a better life - You have to fly up, and unless you're born with wings, it's not exactly easy.

Muh tribalism.

I would rather see Trump win again then vote for Biden. You know Biden was the one who made it borderline impossible to default on student loans. Time to wake the hell up and stop being a sheep. Biden is a Democrat in name only (DINO). He will never get my vote. Not ever. I swear to god.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/17/509506836/drugs-for-rare-diseases-have-become-uncommonly-rich-monopolies

I read. Low effort and high return with exploitating this law. How much are they putting back into R&D after laying off folks with megamerger consolidation?

It's the next big deadline for their bailout IIRC, I'm having a hard time finding a source but they're not looking good. All the measures that have been imposed on them for their past bailouts have included austerity which is really hard on a society and contracts the economy. Their real GDP growth in 2015 was terrible. It's like the ship is sinking and the european banks came in and drilled more holes to let the water out. I mean Greece has already defaulted like 3 times in 5 years, including just last November. With the migrant crisis there just isn't a lot of sympathy for heaping money on "those undeserving greeks" from the rest of the eurozone.

From the people that brought you AirBnb...

> In the world imagined by the UBI tech elite, those decisions would inevitably be made by the people who own the robots – in other words, them. At best, this might resemble a benevolent dictatorship, where a small class of “wealth creators” manufactures and maintains the machines that make it possible for everybody else to lead workless lives. They’d give us an allowance to live on, and keep the rest for themselves.

I used to play a ton of games when I was younger up until senior year of college. I did dust off my old ps3 just to play GTA 5 a few years ago and still play NBA 2k / Fifa once every blue moon on a lazy day.

That said, I have to say video games have gotten worst over the years. This isn't just me talking, but a lot of the old school purist too.

Same genre every year with just a few graphics (Call of Duty) and roster upgrades (EA Sports). And now, most of these asshole companies are trying to monetize stuff AFTER you buy the game with things like VC coins and "additional" DLC content. EA currently being the worst offender: https://kotaku.com/a-guide-to-the-endless-confusing-star-wars-battlefront-1820623069

I definitely miss the days when shelling out $40-60 for a game ended right there and then. Not so much anymore and I'm equally confused how anyone out there could continue to scapegoat video game as a cause for cucking beta males.

This reminds me very much of the second frame in this series of drawings from Hugh MacLeod illustrating the second day of Disrupt SF.

FWIW, I've heard there are companies from New Zealand and South Africa looking recruiting looking for people from overseas. Here's the NZ program https://thenextweb.com/world/2017/03/01/new-zealand-offers-to-pay-tech-hires-to-flee-the-united-states/#.tnw_RvHMoMGq

Not for everyone, but I'd jump on it if I had an IT background.

Some background on this vs. the Rolling Stone piece http://www.metafilter.com/135547/YHBT-YHL-HAND-Repeat > Jesse A. Myerson described five economic reforms millenials should be fighting for in Rolling Stone. Conservatives were generally aghast at the suggestions. Dylan Matthews at Wonkblog wrote a response, "Five conservative reforms millenials should be fighting for". Liberals disapproved. Both articles argued for I. Employer of Last Resort II. Basic Income III. Land Value Tax IV. Sovereign Wealth Fund V. Public Bank. Ezra Klein discusses the trolling.

> Try to take a month long break and see if you enjoy your life more living in the moment and more offline.

I've tried this...it's extremely hard and I haven't been able to do this...but I have been able to reduce my online exposure and it has helped my moon. Exercise more. But damn - we ARE addicted.

Check out the Moment app for tracking phone usage time

Not getting back up is not trying...

If you're walking somewhere and you fall and you lay there on the ground, you're not trying to get back up. It means you've given up on life and are as good as dead.

Unemployed? Apply for jobs.

No jobs available? Do odd jobs. (Check out the website http://www.TaskRabbit.com or check the gigs section of the local CraigsList.) Help someone move a couch and a fridge, mow lawns...

Do SOMETHING other than bitch about why you don't have a job that's related to your degree.

Very few people are handed a job based on their degree. Hell, I got my degree after I was employed at my company.

Anande Giridharadas gives a pretty compelling presentation on the situation his book you can watch a snippet of his appearance on the daily show for a rundown on his position

Ahh that makes sense.

Normally you can install them on multiple computers, but just can only have it turned on with one at a time. I use Astrill and have it installed on multiple computers, just only connect through one at a time.

Oh that's cute. You linked me Sowell. Now try reading a big boy economist: https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/067443000X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1496878948&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Capital+in+the+Twenty-First+Century

I know the math looks really hard but trust me, it won't be so bad.

In The War of Art Steven Pressfield called that feeling The Resistance, and he talks a lot about it. That (very small, non-self-helpy, for-creative-people) book made me more self-aware about some pretty big things related to my fears... and helped me through some tough decisions -- like art school, quitting art school, and starting a business on my own.

So, strongly recommended. It's encouraging and practical. There's not much I can say on the topic of fear that he doesn't say better.

On the topic of college... If you want specialized knowledge, seek out specialized people who can teach it to you. Create your own goals and follow them to the letter. You know what you need to learn -- or you're capable of figuring it out. A one-size-fits-all degree is going to put you in more debt and probably not give you exactly what you want or need.

Seriously, think critically about it and come up with a plan for what you want to know, instead of making an unpredictable gamble that more semesters at a university will give it to you before you even know what it is.

According to Alexa, Reddit is the #1 News site on the internet, with more than 3X more pageviews-per-visitor and more than 3X more time on site than the next highest site (CNN.com).

It is a public community with no process in place to vet its completely anonymous contributors, and a publicly accessible voting system that allows outright manipulation of content exposure.

I'd say you're dead wrong on both counts.

You aren't understanding, you are making an invalid comparison.

Basic income does not use printed money. It's the very first thing this article talks about. It is a transfer of existing money.

It is also false that people given basic incomes don't produce anything. They can actually produce even more, thanks to increases in productivity and small business activity.

It is also false that all demand would increase, and that all supply could not increase. There's a lot more to this and isn't so simple. This appendix covers this part.. In fact the ENTIRE article talks about all of this.

Seriously, just read the article. Its entire purpose is meant to inform this discussion. Purposely keeping yourself misinformed helps no one.

youd be right..im not sure where their number came from:

>>How many companies offer 401(k)s? According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, only 32% of Americans are saving for retirement in a 401(k). Granted, that owes partly to the fact that 401(k)s are employer-dependent, and not every company offers one. >https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/06/19/does-the-average-american-have-a-401k.aspx

I just googled it as I was interested myself and found a free audiobook of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (published 1776) by Edward Gibbon. Apparently it's a highly detailed history that goes from the height of the Roman empire all the way to the fall of Byzantium and took 6 volumes to cover. I'd be interested in something from a modern historian too if anyone has any recommendations.

I can recommend this article and a podcast on the subject: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/12/cyberlibertarians-digital-deletion-of-the-left/

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/8292790-bursting-the-nft-bubble-w-jacob-silverman

In a capitalist world, the main drive is the same neoliberal "free market will make everyone richer" promise, only in a cyber wrapping to imunize it against criticism and to label it as ignorance.

They rushed to give Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of his election over Bush.

Obama has continued/expanded drone assassinations with little regard for collateral damage.

It is quite possible that the blow-back from this alone will be a generational war with radical Islam.

How many will die in the unending "war on terror"? How many millions will lose their fundamental right to privacy based on Obama's continuation of bulk phone/internet collections?

unfortunately texas did not participate in medicaid expansion. :/ still only for pregnant women and people taking care of children. your roomie will likely have income-dependent out-of-pocket costs for this visit.

I did look quickly at healthcare.gov and input some random numbers (age 25, $25k annual income) for the private marketplace, and with that information, I found a tax credit of $55/mo towards marketplace plans, putting the premium for bronze-level plans at about $100/mo. if you want, you can check that out here. just enter your zip, age, and income and it'll give you prices for 2015 plans. open enrollment begins november 1, and the penalty is increasing to $495 this year and $695 next year (yowza,) so it's something to look into.

hope any of this helped!

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/affordable-coverage/

It's actually 9.5% of your income that's considered "affordable." You're still wrong fuckface.

>If I want to check my liver functionality, certain STIs, blood sugar, kidney function, etc I have to pay out of pocket IN FULL.

That's literally what I said. Insurance in those cases becomes a discount club. I get a comprehensive metabolic panel and complete blood cell count done every month and it costs me $15 out of pocket with no contribution from the plan.

Yeah, but you guys have student loans.

I have $46k student debt, but the repayment is really relaxed and I actually haven't started repaying it yet (I have to get three months of payslips so they can calculate how much to charge me).

Whereas in the US it seems that student loan repayments make even those rich engineers like slaves.

Meanwhile people just sit back on portfolios of property, stocks and bonds and make a shitton without lifting a finger...

(Also you'll note that if I were to emigrate to the USA I'd be in an insanely good position with forgiving loans and a high salary - so if you know any single American women, I'm just saying... :P)

If you haven't seen it already, I urge you to watch Mike Rowe's TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.html

There is really good advice for young people in your situation at the end.

http://www.addictinggames.com/funny-games/effing-worms-game.jsp

I believe that was the game I was talking about. It looks like it was a kind of common idea for a game. So there are several versions.

That documentary is excellent, it is the best I have ever seen on the structure of society. You can find that documentary here but there is only 1 seeder(and I think that is me and I don't always have my pc or torrent client on):
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/8862448/Creating_Freedom__The_Lottery_of_Birth_(2013)

If you want to download it and don't find any seeders PM me and I will seed.

Just had my second interview and director gave me a solid honest answer to that question, "former employees husband just got out of the military and she moved to Japan with him for a job he got job there."

Actually the guy over all was just really upfront about their problems and issues. My favorite line was "we expect people to work 9-5 and go home. We are not a work hard play hard company. We are a get the work done and go home company."

I really hope hope i get the job

Edit props to this website for giving me some banger questions to ask

https://zety.com/blog/questions-to-ask-an-interviewer.

I didnt ask all of them but thebknes i did ask i needed to ask.

Strangers don't get good jobs... says this guy:

"A few weeks ago I surveyed a thousand or so recruiters and hiring managers asking them how they found and hired their best people. Not surprisingly, 92% said either they knew the person or the person was referred by a co-worker or other trusted source."

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140519020202-15454-why-strangers-don-t-get-good-jobs

here is a better book, Amazon.com: 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (9781608193387): Chang, Ha-Joon: Books

But everyone doesn't feel the same. There are terrific people who wake up everyday and go to work at your internet provider or power company and even a lucky few get to work at Reddit. Because they get over their existential dilemmas and come to work every day, we get this awesome conversation platform.

Some might argue that we are approaching the point where that might not be the case and enough people will "go on strike" to create societal change. I wouldn't bet on that, nor do I see value in being an early adopter.

I've worked a lot of not-so-glamorous jobs, but while doing so discovered that even in environments that are really awful, people can be happy and find meaning. While I don't miss the awful hours, low pay and zero job security, I probably have never laughed harder than when I did dishes in a restaurant. Other people helped create that fun environment. If everyone had been pessimistic it just would have made things worse.

At some point, you should go to your local library and check out Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

I can not summarize you all the econ 101 lesson to you in one reddit post. If you don't want to learn nobody can force/make you to understand. Can you summarize all the state's laws in one law? You can't there are millions of laws made by government, most of them even contradict each other but that's not even the biggest problem here. You have to learn a decade to even begin to understand all the laws that no average person can.

And you ask me to summarize how everything will work without the state?

For starter's, read some econ 101 books, like Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt, then, if you would like to learn more, you can go read some adult books, like The Machinery of Freedom etc... or simply go to /r/anarcho-capitalism. /r/shitstatissay is a circlejerk.

If you haven't yet, read <em>On Writing</em> by Stephen King. It's very encouraging and insightful, yet honest regarding living a career as a writer. Even if you don't like King's style/books/whatever, it's great.

Sounds like you’re a HSP. I’m currently reading ‘The Highly Sensitive: How to find inner peace, develop your gifts, and thrive’ by Judy Dyer. It’s been enlightening for me… you might appreciate the content. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1720622493?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Please watch this: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/outsourcing-good-america-cato-michael-tanner-141051681.html

Yikes, I was getting at the typical proposition that socialism is all for one and one for all, everyone is happy and healthy, and everyone is equal. Socialism is when workers own the resources. Goodbye.

It's in The 1619 Project. It's one of the most important books I've read.

One of them is $5/night, lol. https://www.airbnb.com/s/Shenzhen--Guangdong--China/homes?checkin=&amp;checkout=&amp;adults=1&amp;children=0&amp;infants=0&amp;place_id=ChIJkVLh0Aj0AzQRyYCStw1V7v0&amp;source=mob&amp;allow_override%5B%5D=&amp;price_max=20&amp;s_tag=0Bslw8WF

Meetup.com works great if you are in a large city or if the meetup group does not consists of only people from their own social network joining up because their friends are there.

>Maybe it costs $1,000 to ship yourself and all your stuff

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-have-less-than-1000-in-savings-2015-10-06

So, I mean, reality is that bleak for most people. As far as the credit card, I just do not understand how people think anybody can get a credit card. I've just now been approved for any amount of credit and I'm almost 30, and I've been working since I was sixteen.

Interesting article. Having worked at Amazon for seven years, there came a point in my life where I had to ask myself, "What is my doing and what are they doing to me?".

What I came to realize was that, for the most part, I was allowing the environment to dictate my stress levels. Sure, there were tight deadlines and things that couldn't wait another day but, for the most part, I realized that a lot of the stress I experienced was something I was putting on myself.

I like to talk about Bill Murray. He's in demand, super successful, filthy rich and yet, he still has fun with his job. Sure, he gets to fly around the world and pretend to be someone he isn't, but each job has its demands.

Murray learned early on that if he didn't manage his stress himself, it would limit his success. This is something Silicon Valley is only beginning to teach employees.

Check out my post on LinkedIn for more information about Bill Murray's approach to work and what we can do to manage our stress levels.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bill-murray-hollywoods-jolly-good-fellow-alex-mooney

I bought this book and was planning on reading it. It’s collecting dust on my bookshelf. But I feel like I need to start, lol. The generations ahead of us had so many more opportunities than us. Most of them hoarded the resources and wealth, then closed the door behind them on future generations. They continued making laws and policies that benefit them and not us. They are getting old and retiring, and are freaking out about the decline in birth rate. Who will continue to fund their social security, Medicare, retirement? Who will continue running services that they need, like nursing, hospital care, food services, cleaning, etc? They need more taxpayers in this world to continue their way of living.

That’s just my rant. Wishing you the best. Also, my husband and I are childfree and don’t want any kids. We just want to take care of us and give ourselves are decent quality of life, rather than dragging another soul through this.

Has anyone read the book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder? I'm currently reading it now and keep thinking about how capitalism both caused and (for lack of a better term) profited off of RV/van life. No mention of tiny homes so far though.

Ah --- I got it. First, I didn't say the Nazi scientists weren't among the smartest in the world. Go back and read it again. You seem to really pick and choose what you react to! Hey - put the repugs back in power and maybe they will just take away all books!

Germany - ok. Did you know it's now illegal to give the Sieg Heil salute in Germany. Or to publicly celebrate or disavow the Holocaust? What do you think of that? Grow a pair, answer me. What do you think of those modern German laws?

Hey, speaking of books and nazi's and such - a good friend of mine Seth just got a new book published at the beginning of the year. I'm curious about your opinion of his book! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RVDYBGP

Seth really hates things like Confederate flags, rants about it alot in that book, I think they are fine as long as they are proper . . . white. <3

We should take money creation into our own hands. Why leave it to the ruling class who only have bad intentions for us.

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve-ebook/dp/B00ARFNQ54

It's not a moral issue if the system is rigged. Americans are enslaved by the FED.

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve-ebook/dp/B00ARFNQ54

The #OER is #society's functional unit of #information, #education, and #knowledge. #parkhealth #oers

ParkHealthOER #Protocol and #FunctionalUnit https://www.notion.so/parkhealth/ParkHealth-OER-Protocol-and-Functional-Unit-f7e0994bd3a646588eae3173cd2b8de0

This book right here is where we are headed:

"Coffin Dodgers - Kindle edition by Marshall, Gary. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com." https://www.amazon.com/Coffin-Dodgers-Gary-Marshall-ebook/dp/B00538TRQC

Since I'm just doing water for tea/coffee and maybe a small meal I use this: https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Classic-Backpacking-Stove-1-Burner/dp/B09WDL6LP5

Not the greatest but it's cheap and very portable.

All I'm saying is, we don't need ring leaders anymore.

It's a problem in general when we center ourselves in the movement.

As a rule of thumb, are you serving the community or yourself?

It's the savior complex that's a problem. You wouldn't want someone strolling up to your community acting like they have all the answers while knowing squawk.

This book expands on what I'm saying:

https://www.amazon.com/More-Heroes-Grassroots-Challenges-Mentality/dp/1849352666

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And by the way, I say all this as someone with not too dissimilar ambitions - hence why I express concern, I recognize myself in what you espouse.

Don't step on my toes trying to get to the top now lol

I recently spent a bunch building my own hydroponic kratky method indoor farm in my basement, so I can grow more food for myself to be self-sustaining. No, it won't be enough for 24/7/365, but it will damn sure cut down on what I buy at a grocery store. If you buy fertilizer in bulk. This is my fertilizer I use. It is the best bang for buck you can get on Amazon if you were curious.

For y'all Arizona folks doing the right thing. Apple & Android

If you have the time, read Stephen King's Cell. ; p