mr_blobs

Sure. But when all of the wealthy leave, don't beg to come back to the US

Covert racism and sexism, which happens much much less than what many portray, yes.

However, we aren't talking about that. We are talking about what can't be measured.

The pay-wage gap for women is a good example. The left seems to think this is due to covert sexism. When you compare for education, job title, and many other factors to equal out the comparisons, there is no wage gap.

It's subliminal and covert. You can't really measure it. It comes in the form of an attitude and a culture change.

Sound familiar?

This still requires the use of a battery. I've seen some pretty badly maintained toilets in different parts of the world.

I forsee many of these toilets not being used or maintained because it's much more complicated than your standard toilet and needs more maintenance.

The toilet hasn't changed much over the years because it's so simple.

Okay, I'll bite.

In response to your failure comment: I meant being evicted or not having food on the table if you don't succeed. Not being able to retire by 40 is a very strange idea of 'failure'.

Who thinks this way?

Most businesses in the US are started with loans or personal money and failure means you can't pay the rent.

It will inflate our currency. The middle class will get a pay decrease and money will not go as far because the cost of many things will increase. Wages in many different industries will be increased because it will be difficult to find anyone to work for less than what they are receiving from the government. This sounds great, but it just means an increase in overall costs for many goods and services and the minimum to survive will now be more expensive.

It won't work in the long-run. Everyone seems to think we will have exactly what we have now, but with free money. Free money means we will have more and more people staying out of the workforce and we will eventually run out of people to tax.

Welfare destroyed the lives of many people in my extended family. Most people aren't that ambitious and UBI, which is basically just welfare with no strings attached, will only create generations of people dependent on the government.

No, no it won't.

Innovation is generally not accelerated by people that are comfortable/have all of their basic needs met. It's accelerated when you are put into a situation where you need to innovate or fail.

Failure is actually the stimuli and it pushes people to succeed more than anything.

I can't see my original reply, so I think something is wrong with HN.

Reality is more like:

2 out of 10 monkeys spend all their waking hours sacrificing and working so their children can have more than 1 banana and then give 15 out of the 20 bananas they earn to the group. The majority of monkeys in the group gives 0 bananas, but continue to say that the ones that do give the most aren't paying their fair share (and need to give even more). They then have many discussions on how they can force the other monkeys to give the rest of the group even more bananas, rather than putting energy into earning their own.

too short: less than a year Too long: longer than 5 years

It was pure brilliance. They had a staff of only a handful of people and were able to compete against more money, resources, and people..and win.

"he brogrammer -- the collar-popping, protein shake-slurping, Nerf gun-wielding dude cranking out code -- is the subject of a new video, out Thursday, from education nonprofit Girls Who Code and CollegeHumor."

Isn't this the type of stereotyping and generalizing we are trying to stop?

Reality is more like:

2 out of 10 monkeys spend all their waking hours sacrificing and working so their children can have more than 1 banana and then give 15 out of the 20 bananas they earn to the group.

The majority of monkeys in the group gives 0 bananas, but continue to say that the ones that do give the most aren't paying their fair share (and need to give even more).

They then have many discussions on how they can force the other monkeys to give the rest of the group even more bananas, rather than putting energy into earning their own.

The extremists minority are being used as an excuse to go after anyone with a certain political view.

If this weren't the case, why isn't Reddit and Twitter banning the countless examples of left-wing extremists harassing and abusing people just as badly?

I think abusers and harassers should be kicked out, but Trump winning the election has brought out the true colors in many business owners and other people that would rather use their power for personal grudges.

It's pretty disgraceful.