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by jazzyk 9y ago
Hint: they are forced to "not participate", because there are no jobs for them, not because they don't want to work.
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by jazzyk 9y ago
>They can't get enough qualified people... ...for the price they are offering. There, fixed it for ya :-)
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by jazzyk 9y ago
Globalization is a wet dream for the ruling class: - global demand markets to sell to - global labor markets to pick from I guess saying that makes me a xenophobe or some such, but I guess I will have to live with it :-)
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by jazzyk 9y ago
A few issues though: - more and more capital is being tied up in parasitic activity (encouraged by monetary and fiscal policies), instead of being invested in startups, infrastructure, etc. - all profits/capital gains are distributed t
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by jazzyk 9y ago
Explain to me the "value" of Goldman Sachs telling their customers to buy derivatives, while shorting them at the same time. Pretty please.
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by jazzyk 9y ago
I do not disagree with you, but at least for me, the most telling is the labor force participation. The fact that we have a close-to-a-record number of people not being productive is alarming. Oh, and I am not buying the "demographics&
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by jazzyk 9y ago
Edited my comment to remove the U1, U3 reference, not to confuse everyone. The point still stands, though.
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by jazzyk 9y ago
The widely published unemployment number only measures the dynamics of layoffs (how many people became unemployed in the window of the past 6 months). The actual labor force participation is what counts. And therein lies the answer to the &
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by jazzyk 9y ago
There is no reason to pierce infant's ears. It can be easily done when one gets older. But your comparison is flawed, because pierced ear holes, if not filled, will easily heal over time, while the circumcision is non-reversible (fores
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by jazzyk 9y ago
The hallways of VC offices are littered with corpses of startup founders who did have a better app than Google, but were shown the door, because: you don't want to compete with Google. I should know - I am one of those corpses :-)
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by jazzyk 9y ago
While I think the are seriously overpaid, actors/athletes have to fight to stay relevant - they may fall out of favor at any time. CEOs make loads of money regardless of their performance. CEOs are rarely hired by open-market competi
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by jazzyk 10y ago
I was really commenting on the part of the title "...a reporting and management problem", and on the comments in this thread splitting hairs over whether it was overbooking or over-selling - and completely missing the bigger point
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by jazzyk 10y ago
The airlines can set up any rules they wish (with the FAA being complicit), because they know consumers (passengers) don't have much choice - they need to fly, driving is usually not an option in the US.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
No, the real failure (and the source of this and many other issues in the airline industry) is the lack of competition in the US domestic market. Pure and simple. The huge, 350-million US domestic market is served by 4-5 major airlines, wh
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by jazzyk 10y ago
OK, so "completely ignore" was an exaggeration. They do talk about opioid abuse as a problem in general, but rarely ever mention that the affected segment of the population is about 65% white male (in West Virginia, not sure about
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by jazzyk 10y ago
While always left-leaning, PBS was much more balanced in the past. These days, most of their invited guests are either NYT, or WaPo reporters and they have become - sadly - increasingly unbalanced, leftist propagandists. Being critical of
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by jazzyk 10y ago
As a long-time (but now, former) financial supporter of PBS, I am of two minds here. There is a lot to like - focus on the arts, science. serious topics, quality children programming. But in recent years, the news and politics programming h
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by jazzyk 10y ago
There is something off with the charts on the site you refer to (they don't provide the actual numbers in the charts). Simple calculation: With $20T of debt, at 3% interest rate (30Y bond), the interest on the debt is adding 600 billio
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Perhaps because you don't need to: - pay $250K per child in college costs - pay 25K/year in health insurance - pay $3K/month for a small apartment
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by jazzyk 10y ago
How about having one of the parents work part-time? True, not all jobs can be offered as part-time, and working part-time limits your career growth if you work for a big corporation, but still, it is a viable option.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Factually correct. Still pretentious :-)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
US Green card holders are NOT affected by this. This was either mis-communicated, or a mistake (that should have never been made). I don't see it as anti-Muslim decision, 87% of the world's Muslim population are not affected. I se
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Yes, let's compare: Obama: implemented quietly, no official ban, limited to one country Trump: implemented through executive order, covers 7 dangerous countries. Apart from style and scope, the effect was/is the same: stop certain
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Because conservative, old Muslim men never call anyone "gay", right? For wearing a trendy piece of clothing, for example? My male friend has been called "gay" a few times because he likes Broadway shows. You can believe
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by jazzyk 10y ago
"Using Obama's "Iraq refugees ban" to justify Trump's action was a weak argument anyway" Instead of providing supporting argument for your above statement, you conveniently change the subject to another, only l
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by jazzyk 10y ago
According to Wikipedia, no credible evidence for the "self-hating, closeted gay" narrative has been found by the FBI. The killer was upset about the US presence in Iraq/Syria and had been preparing the attack for some time, p
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by jazzyk 10y ago
You know that Obama de facto stopped - or at least severely limited - Iraqi immigration for 6 months in 2011. There was no outright ban, but the flow of Iraqis slowed significantly. Would you call it a hateful act as well?
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by jazzyk 10y ago
It has more to do with pork projects than anything else. People keep electing an otherwise terrible politician because "he was effective in bringing (back) money from D.C. to build our schools". In other words, reverse bribery.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
I think you are confusing revenues with earnings...
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Yes, but they make 2x of what most engineers in Europe make (excluding Switzerland/London). Blue-collar workers are screwed, though.

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