Alan C.
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Being educated is not the same as being enlightened, nor is being intelligent the same as being wise (eg. Thunderf00t). It's possible for people to retain specialized knowledge and expertise while possessing no marketable or productive abilities.
Although she was subjected to some unfortunate circumstances, she is responsible for her sexual proclivities and choice of degree and career which were like firing torpedoes into the side of a ship.On another note, there are many young people at the company where I work who pay $100/month or more for their smart phone plans and who complain about being broke all the time. It's ridiculous.
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Although society largely benefits from the innovation of labor-saving devices which liberate people from tedious, repetitive work, the pernicious aspect of this that many adolescents and young adults have been deprived of the opportunity to get their first job. There are actually people in their mid-twenties who have never had a job. This is a relatively recent phenomenon. I don't blame the market for this; I blame the State.
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According to the government's own statistics, less than 5% of American workers earn at or below the federal minimum wage.
As a result of this rampage against businesses by the self-righteous crusaders, there will eventually be no minimum-wage workers at all because they will be replaced with automation.
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Labor Force Participation Remains at 36-Year Low
The participation rate, which is the percentage of the civilian noninstitutional population who participated in the labor force by either having a job during the month or actively seeking one, was 62.8 percent in November which matches the percentage since March 1978.
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Another 92,447,000 people did not participate in the labor force. These Americans did not have a job and were not actively trying to find one. When President Obama took office in January 2009, there were 80,529,000 Americans who were not participating in the office, which means that since then, 11,918,000 Americans have left the workforce.
17.7% Teen Unemployment in America – Still Above Rate of 6 Years Ago
...for Americans age 16 to 19 years.Maybe they should hike up the minimum wage some more.
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What do you hope to accomplish that you believe a statist society would be more effective at achieving than a libertarian society?
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Venezuelan President Announces 'Hotline' to Denounce 'Traitors, Spies, or Dissidents'
Venezuelans who suspect their friends or neighbors of being insufficiently socialist now have a direct line to the government they can use to ensure anyone not toeing the line is punished. President Nicolás Maduro announced the new "Denounce Infiltrates" Hotline this week.
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This is not the first such hotline President Maduro has opened. Last year, the Maduro administration opened a hotline to denounce "speculators," meaning small businesses that sold products at retail price. Maduro's price caps on necessary goods, such as eggs, oil, and milk, have resulted in severe scarcity in much of the nation, as well as the emergence of illegal pop-up marketplaces where vendors sell the products at full price. The hotline functions similarly to Cuba's "Committee for the Defense of the Revolution" system, in which one person on every street block is assigned to monitor his or her neighbors for any counter-revolutionary activity or anti-socialist opinions. -
The market's means of discovering efficiency is profit and loss.
What is the means of vetting in a political institution?
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It isn't likely that prisons would exist in a free society. Locking people in cages is an archaic, inhumane, wasteful, and ineffective means of dealing with criminality. In a free society, ostracism would serve the same function to separate uncivilized and dangerous people from everyone else.
In cases where people are not in control of their faculties, unable to restrain impulse, and pose a menace to others, there would be institutions to deal with them in a humane manner.
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Try eliminating caffeine. I remember very little about my dreams if I've had caffeine the day before.
I've almost completely eliminated caffeine altogether for health reasons. My body can't handle it like it used to when I was younger. As I've aged, caffeine began having unpleasant effets including poor quality sleep.
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It's next week. Anybody else going?
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More good news from the socialist paradise.
Shortages, Inflation Threaten Venezuela Christmas
President Nicolas Maduro announced Friday that he is deploying hundreds of inspectors to enforce the government's price regulations, which set the cost of everything from milk to toothbrushes artificially low.
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Maduro recently announced that his administration had taken over warehouses where "bourgeois criminals" were hoarding food and medical supplies. He also increased the maximum prison sentence for smugglers to 14 years.
Officials say the state has arrested more than 1,000 smugglers since Venezuela began closing its border with Colombia each night.
Venezuela's Maduro to raise minimum wage
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he will increase the minimum wage by 15% starting in December.
The raise, the third this year, comes amid an annual inflation rate of 63.4%.In violent Venezuela, bulletproof everything
The oil-rich country has a huge gap between rich and poor, and sadly, it boasts the world's second-highest homicide rate.
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...Venezuela is a violent mess. Nearly four kidnappings per week are reported, according to the government, 65 people a day die violent deaths, according to NGOs, and the obsession with survival is spreading everywhere.
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...the homicide rate stood at 54 per 100,000 inhabitants, surpassed only by Honduras, according to UN figures.
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Naer, you lack empathy for people who work every day and are expropriated by the State.
None of this has anything to do with helping the poor.
This is about your fecklessness.
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Some anarchists believe that voting libertarian is defensive voting. I disagree.
I tell people that I don't vote because the act of participating lends sanction and legitimacy to the political process and the State. One should lead by example by responding to politics and the State with scorn, ridicule, and denunciation.
Prosperity in society won't be achieved by giving power to a bunch of criminals and idiots, nor will tallying the ill-informed, unqualified opinions of millions of moronic voters and imposing the most popular ones upon the whole populace.
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Could tattoos be used simply as artwork? I think so. Is it in the majority of cases? I think not.
If artwork is the objective then one could simply frame it and place it within view (eg. wall, desk, table, etc.), or use it as a computer background, or carry it in one's purse or wallet.
The fact that a person feels compelled to go through the pain and expense of permanently defacing their own skin when there are far easier ways to go about preserving and displaying artwork implies that artwork isn't the primary motivator. That the person considers the image to be artwork is simply incidental. The method involved reveals the true nature of the objective.
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Taco Bell unveils mobile ordering
Taco Bell went way outside the bun to unveil an advanced mobile app that lets folks order and pay on their smartphones and then walk or drive in and pick up their food.
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McDonald's and Starbucks both are spending huge sums on new technologies. So are Pizza Hut, Papa John's and Domino's. Most are aimed at Millennial consumers who would much rather interact quickly with their smartphones than stand in line waiting to order or to be seated. Chili's has technology that lets folks pay, order more food or play games on table-top tablets.
I was recently at McDonald's and saw one of their new Build Your Burger kiosks.
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Self-erasure.
Asserting control.
Attention-seeking.
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A person getting state benefits is not innitiating force, they are merely recipients. A state is here whether we like or not. And when you talk about voluntarism. Only the 1 percent could be said to deal with voluntThearism . where money is not an issue. Jobs don't grow on trees and with technological unemployment on the rise, something like a universal basic income is something that needs to be implemented
People receive "benefits" because the State initiates force on their behalf.
Unemployment isn't caused by technology; it's caused by regulations.
Since you support a universal basic income, I was wondering when I can start expecting checks from you.
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Venezuela seizes warehouses packed with medical goods, food
President Nicolas Maduro's government said on Thursday it had taken over warehouses around Venezuela crammed with medical goods and food that "bourgeois criminals" were hoarding for speculation and contraband.
The socialist government says businessmen and wealthy opponents are trying to sabotage the economy to bring Maduro down, while also seeking to make profits from hoarding, price-gouging and smuggling across the border to Colombia.
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I don't enjoy gratuitous violence and gore. However, I do enjoy some horror movies. Some of my favorites from the 80s were The Thing (1982) and Fright Night (1985). I was never a fan of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, or Friday the 13th.
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I think it's kind of derogatory to compare humans to parasites
I don't think it is. Why do you?
parasite - a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others.
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You asked two different questions.
Social programs pervert incentives (eg. illegitimacy, fatherless homes, generational welfare parasitism, fraud and abuse, etc.).
Whether or not they impede a person's creativity is another matter.
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Anarcho-capitalism is Murray Rothbard's fusion of the social philosophy of 19th century individualist anarchism with the capitalistic order of production as explicated by Austrian economics (ie. anarchism with private property and free trade).
The people who say that anarcho-capitalism isn't real anarchism define capitalism as a system of State privilege which confers benefits to a politically-connected capitalist class.
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Another minority group which is doing well are Indians (from India; not native-Americans), especially in high-tech.
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Police to Investigate Allegations of Labour-Libdem Rochdale 'Deal' on Paedophiles and Sex Pests
Following on from the expose that 1400 young, white girls had been abused at the hands of Pakistani gangs in Rotherham, Breitbart London can report new allegations that have come to light about other instances of public sector and government officials colluding to keep information out of the public domain.
NASA’s $349M political boondoggle
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