I've said it before, but Trump's biggest problem trying to be president is that he's always been a boss, placed in that position by chance of birth, not talent or skill. He doesn't know how to be a leader because he's literally never been one except to his cult.
Not too sure about that. I can't speak for Paladin, but my portfolio hasn't done all that great under the orange moron. "Holding steady" is about as much as I can claim.
Then you're either a blind idiot, or a liar willing to overlook anything that helps achieve your goals. And I don't think you're an idiot.
A lot of Trump supporters are clueless when it comes to his horrible business record. In the 90s he was consistently losing more money than every other American. By the sheer luck of running in the “elite” circles of NYC, Mark Burnett kissed his ass and the rest is history.
My mother used to love watching cop/crime tv shows. I used to watch a lot of the forensic tv shows before they were dramas - you know, before TLC turned into the home decorating channel. And I've had exactly one Business Law class in college. But, in all that, and even watching court documentaries, never has the issue ever been the effect a crime had on people. The issue is always intent. So, @Paladin fails. No one cares about affect. The issue is intent. and that can be proven over and over.
I could say that about you too. Technically anybody could say that about anybody else. It's all a matter of perspective, backgrounds, interests, etc.
There are certainly things that I don't know about. There's the factor of interest, curiosity, and of course intelligence to be able to process what I'm attempting to learn. The issue is whether or not I'm self-aware to know which things in fact I don't know about. And whether or not I continue to argue from a point of ignorance about those things.
Knowing things is good. It's how you get ahead in life. Not knowing things, and knowing that you don't know them, is a perfectly normal part of the human condition. Not knowing things, and not knowing that you don't know them, is a disaster waiting to happen.
So if you're not an expert - and you might end up coming off as not as smart as you think you are - you just stay quiet? That's pretty sad.
hmmm.....so Async you only discuss things in which you have expertise, lest wordforge finds out that you aren't as smart as you think you are? How brave of you!
Being smart doesn't put you on the hook to be omni-competent. Albert Einstein probably wasn't good at plumbing, but that doesn't mean if he failed to unclog my toilet I'd have the audacity to say to him "haha!! Not so smart now, are ya!?". You would though, wouldn't you? Course you would, cuz you're a twit.
No, no... The first step to recovery is to realize that Capitalism also sucks. It just sucks less than Communism. I distinctly remember an Elementary school teacher telling us that Capitalism is far from perfect, it's just the best thing we've had so far. Well, this is the 21st Century. We're past the First Space Age, we're in the Information Age, and I hope we're headed back towards a Second Space Age. Lets find something better.
I don’t know that capitalism is better than communism. No one does, really. Not on the scale of the population now of planet earth. In fact, I’m not sure a communism country and a capitalism country could even exist on the same planet at our current technological level.
Put it this way, if 3-D printers get good enough to make nutritious and tasty food, and the energy cost is less than growing and manufacturing....let's fucking go for it.
not in a completely pure state - the economy is too global and interconnected. North Korea is about as close to a "isolated system" at least on paper, and for the vast majority of it's people. But behind the scenes there is a lot of interfacing with other countries though of course they won't publicly admit it.
I was literally just coming here to post something like that. I was looking for an appropriate thread and stumbled across this one. It's slightly amusing, even here, that on any given day, roughly half of the chain restaurants locally will be closed due to lack of staff. The mom and pop local places are doing just fine. When everything shut down, people found better jobs. Now they don't want to go back to flipping burgers for crap pay. I have developed zero sympathy for a business that fails under its own weight because it won't pay a living wage based on a 40 hour work week. Especially fast food places. Don't tell me it can't be done because of the Big Mac Index and Whopper Index. For instance, a Whopper in Denmark costs $0.36 LESS than it does here, at my local Burger King. Yet the worker in Denmark makes, on average $22 USD per hour, with paid vacation and other benefits.
That's socialism for you. Next thing you know, the Danes will be rounding up the "enemies of the state" for "re-education" or worse...
They already do, but no one goes or really knows what's going on because the language is nearly indecipherable and borderline silly.
I have no sympathy for the fast food industry either. For years their response to everything was cut staff and force the remainders to work harder to compensate. I recently saw a local McDonalds advertising that they were hiring for $10.00 an hour. As if that was some great thing. By law they'll have to pay 10.00 an hour come September and it goes up a dollar every year until it hits 15. For a company that is worth billions of dollars, they sure fight to the last breath to pay as little as they can. Hence the backlash.
