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  • #376
    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

    Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
    Surprisingly enough, I checked Facebook and this story [Gizmodo] is trending.
    That's a standard response, no? "See, we're not biased, we're publishing a negative story about ourselves."

    I'd be a lot more impressed if this story were trending....

    Facebook employees contribute more to Hillary Clinton than to any other presidential candidate — and among the donors is an executive in charge of trending topics.

    Clinton netted at least $114,000 from workers at the social-media giant who itemized their contributions
    ...
    At least 78 Facebook employees, who work on everything from engineering to marketing, have funneled cash to Clinton.

    They include, Tom Stocky, a vice president whose team oversees trending topics. He donated $2,700, the maximum allowed, on Oct. 26 to Hillary for America, records show
    "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."

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    • #377
      Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

      Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
      They made $1.7 billion? Holy ****.

      That's just absurd. And they probably pay a lower tax rate than I do.
      The US economic miracle was in the 40s through 50s.
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      • #378
        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        The US economic miracle was in the 40s through 50s.
        That's when we made stuff here.
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        • #379
          Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

          Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
          That's a standard response, no? "See, we're not biased, we're publishing a negative story about ourselves."

          I'd be a lot more impressed if this story were trending....
          Why would you add anything to my original post?
          "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

          "One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir

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          • #380
            Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

            Originally posted by joecct View Post
            That's when we made stuff here.
            We actually still make a ton of stuff -- we're #2 in manufacturing in the world. Manufacturing jobs have cratered, not output, so the profit from that manufacturing doesn't go to the labor force anymore.

            But it could. There's no law that says a service economy can't have the same good, high paying jobs as the manufacturing economy did. The US still has an enormous GNP. The problem is its distribution, not its size.

            We've faced this same problem before, when the US industrialized and the ownership class got filthy rich while the labor class got squat. We fixed that with unions, collective action, labor laws, and progressive taxation. Nothing says we can't do that again except for the propaganda that has been foisted on us for 30 years that labor doesn't "deserve" a slice of the pie.

            It's always the same old fight between the few and the many. The few always work hard to confuse the issue but eventually conditions become so terrible that the many wake up. That's what is happening now on both the left and the right. The Tipping Point will be when they realize that left vs right is a deliberate strategy.
            Last edited by Kepler; 05-12-2016, 08:58 AM.
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            • #381
              Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

              Interesting.
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              • #382
                Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                Here comes another push to hourly... or at least hourly tracking... http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...rule/84537486/

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                • #383
                  Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                  Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                  Here comes another push to hourly... or at least hourly tracking... http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...rule/84537486/
                  Contractors scoff at your hourly tracking. Try 6-minute incremental sometime.
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                  • #384
                    Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    Contractors scoff at your hourly tracking. Try 6-minute incremental sometime.
                    Thanks, I have. Never again. Unless you want to give me a charge number for any ridiculous conversation that may ensue from this.

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                    • #385
                      Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                      Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                      Thanks, I have. Never again. Unless you want to give me a charge number for any ridiculous conversation that may ensue from this.
                      Actual conversation between two contractors outside my door during this POP:

                      "Have you got a minute to look at this?"

                      "Do you have a charge number?"

                      "No."

                      "Then, no."

                      I assume there was a (highly unpleasant) backstory between them, but they were both serious as a heart attack.

                      I closed my door. No way am I going to that deposition.
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                      • #386
                        Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                        Actual conversation between two contractors outside my door during this POP:

                        "Have you got a minute to look at this?"

                        "Do you have a charge number?"

                        "No."

                        "Then, no."

                        I assume there was a (highly unpleasant) backstory between them, but they were both serious as a heart attack.

                        I closed my door. No way am I going to that deposition.
                        To be fair, contractors are very asinine when it comes to their propaganda about how "mischarging" is illegal. I'm not sure there's anything personally bad between them, so much as they drank the kool-aid.

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                        • #387
                          Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                          Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                          To be fair, contractors are very asinine when it comes to their propaganda about how "mischarging" is illegal.
                          I'm not sure what you mean by this. Mischarging is illegal. Very, very illegal.
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                          • #388
                            Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                            A Bud Light commercial banned from TV

                            https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=ew9cEATPzDE
                            CCT '77 & '78
                            4 kids
                            5 grandsons (BCA 7/09, CJA 5/14, JDL 8/14, JFL 6/16, PJL 7/18)
                            1 granddaughter (EML 4/18)

                            ”Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
                            - Benjamin Franklin

                            Banned from the St. Lawrence University Facebook page - March 2016 (But I got better).

                            I want to live forever. So far, so good.

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                            • #389
                              Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                              Originally posted by joecct View Post
                              A Bud Light commercial banned from TV

                              https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=ew9cEATPzDE
                              All I could think of was, "this would be so much better if that wasn't p-sswater."
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                              • #390
                                Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

                                So people are whining about bathrooms, and their effect on business making choices around them. Let's see how they actually did... http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...ings/84530886/

                                Granted, to draw any conclusions, I'd be more interested in what happens the next quarter, or at least if they adjust their earnings estimate.

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