KekDemaga
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Comment · 9 years ago
The reason the government doesn't do that is talented people don't want to work for them. Virtually all the government jobs are union and pay is primarily based on time served. You'd be getting third rate talent at best.
Comment · 9 years ago
>The government is also not operated on a for-profit basis incentivizing doing the bare minimum level of security to shield yourself from liability.
No instead they hire contractors for that purpose.
Comment · 9 years ago
>And you long for the day when it's your particular brand of racism and sexism that wins?
Beautifully put, the solution to sexism isn't more sexism.
Comment · 9 years ago
The government is at least equally incompetent if not more so, at least if a private entity screws up you can sue.
Comment · 9 years ago
"Ignoring your completely made up percentiles"
You are right, I didn't know the median income moved so much last year.
US Median income = 59,039[0] = the top .2% globally[3]
Average US Worker Pay = 44,148[2] = the top .43% globally[3]
[0]http://www.businessinsider.com/us-census-median-income-2017-...
[2]https://www.thebalance.com/average-salary-information-for-us...
[3]http://www.globalrichlist.com/
"Access to healthy food, healthcare, housing, quality education, etc. are all diminished for low-income people."
And non existent for most of the planet.
EDIT: In regards to the numbers not adding up, You do understand that children don't work right? Remove children (the largest generation ever is currently in high school), then the roughly 40% or so of adults that are unemployed, retired or otherwise out of the workforce and it makes more sense. If you aren't convinced take a look at salaries in European nations, if you happen to find some reasonably high ones on average take a look at the population numbers of those nations.
Comment · 9 years ago
You know in movies where the villain rich kid goes to a nice upper middle class home and calls the place a dump? That's what the global poor (as in virtually everyone on the planet) see when western "poor people" complain. It's really tone deaf and quite frankly it only takes a few minutes thought to realize all the talk of "fairness" and "equality" is window dressing and all they are purposing is the .1%'s wealth being redistributed to the .2% - .8%, ignoring the 99.2% of human beings who are actually poor and suffer on a scale that no westerner will ever experience.
If 99% of the world would swap places with you economically speaking how on earth do you get to call yourself poor?
Comment · 9 years ago
That perception becomes even more laughable when you realize that the 51 year old female in question is in the top .3% of income globally, while the "permanent underclass" are in the .4% - .8%.
Comment · 9 years ago
"No check, no tech." is something I use often.
Comment · 9 years ago
Wouldn't that mean it's less of a capitalism problem and more of a problem generally since it hasn't been solved in any other economic system in practice?
Comment · 9 years ago
>It really is remarkable how efficient capitalism is at ensuring that proles are born with nothing and die with nothing.
Compared to what?
Comment · 9 years ago
An objective test removes the power of picking winners and losers from the academics, they will never allow that to happen.