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GOP Convention
| July 31st, 2016 at 3:34:24 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195 |
Have you ever read any of "The Wealth of Nations?" Smith points out that most inventions start out as a way to make less work for ones self. In my own day thing have gone from making a printout which you had to walk to the fax machine or retrieve from same then either send or get and input various info to just getting or sending the whole thing via a .pdf. Better quality. Delivery INSTANTLY not via courier, FedEx, or whomever. This happens up and down the economy. Less work is pretty much always desirous unless you are a featherbedding union.
This has nothing to do with efficiency. This is workflow. When I was a PCO GPS was unheard of. GPS was a map. At least a stop a day was probably lost looking at maps. With GPS the same worker could produced an additional $35 per day in 1995. That is probably $50 today. $250 a week. $14,000 per year. That covers a lot of things, and some of it will trickle down to the worker. He does not get all of it because the owner has first dibs and that's right and how it should be. But he will get some of it. And that is how incomes rise. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength |
| July 31st, 2016 at 3:35:54 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 76 Posts: 12501 |
I took a picture :-) Look at it Pictures don't lie, that aint 10k I took a picture of LOL Typical conservative, cant accept photographic evidence I was there, 2k tops, I took a picture of it. Show a picture from that day showing 10K, its not there lol Are you now going to stand by your statement and tell me the event was sold out You are wrong EB, It was not sold out Everybody got in You are wrong EB, thousands not left outside Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| July 31st, 2016 at 3:40:56 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22938 |
Depends, You're usually not operating in a vacuum. You're competing. If your competitor chooses to operate on tight margins your product or labor has to be better in some way and still desirable or you work harder. If you have a market all to yourself that's different. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| July 31st, 2016 at 3:44:33 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 |
So what. Report after report says 10K was there, you could have taken that any time, before more people arrived. I trust you as far I trust any Lib. Trust but verify, which is what I just did. You're goddess Hillary is an outed serial liar, what does that make her followers. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| July 31st, 2016 at 3:49:24 PM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4530 |
Long term having a market to yourself is often a bad thing. You don't need to be efficient, you overpay your labour, you don't inovate and you start to take your customers for granted. Others take notice that you are making too much money and soon they come along and eat your lunch before you can make the changes that are required to hang on to your market share. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
| July 31st, 2016 at 3:51:14 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 76 Posts: 12501 |
What report of 10K? cite a source My source is photographic evidence baby. Pictures don't lie. No photoshop, the raw data baby. I have photographic proof :-) Is your stance still that it was sold out and thousands were stuck outside? You are wrong EB, it was not sold out and thousands not stuck outside. That's why I took the picture I thought to myself, boy what a small crowd I need to document this with photographic evidence :-) Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| July 31st, 2016 at 4:02:27 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195 |
Some of this is so much the changes in society. First off, we are now at the point where half the kids in lower grades do not have both parents. In my day it was well over 90%. A divorce or two, one or two lost their dad in Vietnam or somewhere else, but to have been born to parents never married? Never. All that daycare and other care is expensive. Then there is the house itself. It is now twice the size it was in the 1970s. That adds cost to buy and maintain. In the house is different, too. All that space gets filled with crap. Clothes, toys, expenses. I won't keep beating this, though, it has been done. What I will say is from my own life. I do not know how I lived 10-15 years ago. Just over the last 5 I have made life changes that I am not kidding mean 3 months of extra income from side hustles and expense cutting. Might be more than that. I could do even more but am too much of a foodie. We each have to fix ourselves. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength |
| July 31st, 2016 at 4:13:32 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195 |
You better believe it! Welcome to a free market! The cheapest does not always get the business, even in identical products. But competition makes goods and services better. Suppliers prefer the government pass "Anti Dog Eat Dog" acts so they have it easier, but everyone else suffers. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength |
| August 1st, 2016 at 6:50:14 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | Income inequality is not a problem. Income insufficiency is. If you make enough to meet your needs and have something left over for leisure, you won't care that your boss makes ten or ten thousand times or ten million times as much as you do. But if you put in long hours and can barely get by, and need to take out high-interest loans (in the for of credit cards), and are dragging student loan debts for a degree that is not helping you much, if at all, then you will care how much more money the boss makes, and you will wonder why he needs that much money. You'll also wonder why a CEO will get millions for running the company into the ground. And you won't be happy. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
| August 1st, 2016 at 5:39:52 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 | How does she do it? Three days after she's nominated, she goes on a Sunday show and tells lie after lie after lie. So many that she got 4 Pinocchios from WaPo. One CNN talking head said "Does Hillary think we throw old videos away and can't check them?" She walks right into a ready made ad for Trump. I think she's a pathological liar and really can't help herself. I know a guy like that, nobody believes a word he says about anything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/07/31/clintons-claim-that-the-fbi-director-said-her-email-answers-were-truthful/ If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |