Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[Adindas]

COVID-19 makes me angry especially directed to those who have prevented me of enjoying the life I used to have. Keep in mind many of the world pandemic originated in China including this COVID-19 virus.

The people and Chinese government never learn to prevent that to happen again. They keep eating bats, dogs, rats, Lizard, tiggers, etc the main carriier of the deadly pandemic virussess.

Wish all of this would end soon and FKK, RLDs, GD Parties, partytreffs opened and business run as usual.

I just want my life back.

[Mongerer88]

PahllusMaximus,

You are just wanting to rig the system, too. And pick winners and losers, apparently making yourself a winner. So I hardly see how you are better than the people who are, apparently, doing better than you are economically.

Yes, we have tremendous income and wealth inequality in the United States. People with training in certain areas, who have an existing store of invested wealth, and who have key connections are doing extraordinarily well. Those who want to exchange labor for cash and who do not fall into those three above-mentioned categories are not doing nearly as well. Most of the jobs that have experienced solid wage growth are equally open to men and women, so high-earning women are doing quite well compared to their status decades ago.

There is no shortage of women in the United States selling commercial sex. But they recognize the income and wealth inequalities, and the wise ones sell sex at a very high price to those guys who are doing well economically, and they educate themselves as to how to do so in a manner that almost completely eliminates the risk of arrest. Ditto for the johns.

The United States has a massive underclass of both men and women. The women in that underclass who sell sex at a low price are indeed often overweight due to the low-cost, high carb / sugar diet they eat, use illegal drugs, and attract the interest of law enforcement because the are known to use illegal drugs and do their solicitation in a relatively public and / or low-cost manner. The Johns who use them do indeed risk arrest.

You would seem to elevate the males in the category of those willing to sell labor at a price you find unacceptable, by apparently causing a higher price to be paid for that labor. You would apparently force the purchasers of that labor to pay the higher price by denying the purchasers the right to make their products in Asia and other countries where comparable labor is less expensive. You seem to want the USA To return to a 1950's-1970's factory work system where labor was primarily conducted by men due to the physical demands of the work.

In your process of picking winners, you have elevated "blue-collar" men in manufacturing who reside in the United States, and caused an earnings / income decline for manual workers overseas, and investors / management / skilled "white collar" workers in the USA, a large percentage of whom are women.

You seem to want to be certain that commercial sex is available to those blue-collar USA Workers whose wages you have now elevated. You don't seem confident, which I agree with, that the upper-end USA Sex workers will lower their price to serve the newly-enriched manual factory workers, nor that the women from the relatively lower classes will lose weight or stop using drugs (unless they do more manually difficult factory work, and if you pay them the same as men, they may have relatively less incentive to do commercial sex work at the prices you seem to find appropriate). So you seem to have previously advocated that the USA Simply import its commercial sex workers from low-income countries, much like wealthier countries in Europe do with respect to women from Eastern Europe. There is some logic to that, given that "onshoring" more manual factory work to the USA Would cause more poverty abroad.

I simply try to imaging any politician advocating for what you seem to propose, and I shake my head in bewilderment. Isn't it better to just do wealth redistribution if you think the USA Economic system is simply unfair? I am genuinely curious if you would weight the welfare payments more heavily towards men than women?

[Sirioja]

You have your opinions and I respect them. May be are you aware that just 2 days back in Strasbourg the Capital of Europe a employee of Deliveroo refused 2 times to deliver Jew customers, obviously the man is a Muslim. Something like that was not possible 10 years ago in France. In fact in that case who is the racist?

Again, I don't say no problem in France, when more than 68000 deaths from covid is unfortunately much too much, but we seem better than UK and Germany at the moment and fortunately for us, we don t have a Trump. We also fight against terrorism with deaths for us. But we have high quality of life, higher than Germany or UK for my tastes. I like London, but I would not go to Germany for else than brothels, even Bavaria is beautiful, but I don t go to ski there because we have better places in France, despite famous Kandahar Garmisch Partenkirchen. Except for Verbier, Switzerland is also only for brothels now for me and I buy Swiss white chocolate now in France, to pay tax for my country. When Romanian girls tell me I should visit their beautiful country, I may never go, but I answer they have to be proud of their origin, even they were born poor. I was lucky to have great parents and I m proud to be French, even bad French, but I know what I want.

[ExpatLover]

I never said we don't have problems in France, but I'm not afraid in France, I'm not scared about Macron who is not crazy racist and I don't want to go to live anywhere else, but as I wrote, I'm 100% French and France is in my blood, despite my very high tax. I love Paris, but maybe I will go in my mountains, for my sports, when will retire. I worked with Jews, I work with Muslims at the moment, most are integrated even we are different, only few make problems. When I worked in Sarcelles with my girlfriend, she made work Jews and Muslims together, for same aim, even some went to synagogue and some to mosquee, not so bad. After she decided and started divorce, we enjoyed sex in her office or mine, we had passionate years even complicated, in so mixed city where not so risky than les Mureaux 78 or Grigny 91 or Villiers LE Bel 95 .

You have your opinions and I respect them. May be are you aware that just 2 days back in Strasbourg the Capital of Europe a employee of Deliveroo refused 2 times to deliver Jew customers, obviously the man is a Muslim. Something like that was not possible 10 years ago in France. In fact in that case who is the racist?

[Mursenary]

The counterarguments are generally that human knowledge accrues, similar to compound interest. And that the pace of innovation is happening at an unprecedented pace. Moving from hunter-gatherer to agriculture was an extremely slow transition and that transition occurred over much of human history. Each subsequent transition has happened over shorter and shorter periods. Human populations are also growing due to longer life expectancies, which places higher demands on job creation.

Previous automations were quite specific, and the machine remained unintelligent. Essentially the automation performed the same exact task just with more "horsepower", and so you still needed a human to operate that new machine. The carriage driver simply became a car driver, but there will be no humans needed if cars can make intelligent decisions based off data. Yes, when the economy transitioned from agricultural to manufacturing, people needed to acquire new skills, but I would argue that going from farmer to factory worker required very little training. You might be able to retrain a highly educated junior lawyer and have them work in the field of nanotechnology, but that won't be a smooth, seamless transition.

Maybe we just see more people "working" in creative fields. Maybe everyone is creating YouTube content. IDK.

I'll redirect to my previous allusion to the Digital media revolution. You have to look farther than the direct transition of jobs. Social media influencers and content creators didn't just invade the media, news, and entertainment industries. The revolution resulted in new opportunities in completely different sectors.

Behind the generation of Instagram models is a a slew of actual working people; social media managers, photographers, editors, a marketing company, etc. Likewise, the rise of the automobile industry and the industrial revolution in general led to the explosion of the energy sector; first coal, then oil, then renewable energy, then things like the battery-energy revolution.

For sure the transition will not be seamless. A 45 year old needing to shift industries will likely fail to do so. There will be those who suffer. That's where political-social initiatives such as universal basic income may be temporary band-aids that help fill in the gap in order to curtail human loss.

Isn't the automation trend exactly what we want? Finding ways to do spend less time doing tedious or dangerous manual work and freeing us toward creative and leisure pursuits?

Anyway, this discussion only goes as far as to the point horizon where automation and artificial intelligence merge and Skynet swallows the human consciousness and our entire existence becomes digitalized.

[Beijing4987]

For the most part, donors holding most of the casino chips decide who gets to run for election. They give the president a list of Federal Reserve governors to choose from. DJT is poison for them now. The same for a few Republicans in government. It's a wait and see how many will be murdered in political violence in the coming weeks. The right wing militias will need to stock up on medical supplies for gunshot wounds. The hospitals will be of no help.

I don't know who would ever argue this. The legendary journalist Sam Donaldson recently gave an interview and acknowledged that we aren't going to have much luck with the hardcore Trump supporters, but can win over a sizeable portion of those who voted for him, and in light of the violence at the Capital. That process is already underway. And it's never been about Repubs and Dems, though it's often framed that way. It's about reasonable people who value democracy against deluded people who do not.

On that subject, check it out.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...ape-nr-vpx.cnn

[Sirioja]

Gorillas with covid in US. I think tigers also got. Also some cats and dogs, and visons in Europe. UK mutant make panic in Western Europe, London being said out of control for covid spreading. After a French team was infected after match versus Leicester. UK, European rugby cup is stopped. 2 big towns, about 18 millions people isolated in China. Not enough vaccines. Bad start for 2021. Even ski Worldcup keep on and really wish for Wengen Lauberhorn on next Friday and week end, Flachau. At women slalom tonight, but I worry for ski on this Winter when we have snow on this Winter with more cold weather, so snow should be good and more solid, maybe because of less activity in the world, with less pollution and heat made from activity. Covid may save white bears.

Seem also now South African one who could be more powerful and not sure vaccine will be efficient. Anyway World Health organization said not enough vaccine on 2021 to get immune population. For healthy, maybe to catch and train own soldiers to fights all mutants. Healthy, well trained lungs should help.

[Paulie97]

I am not convinced his 74 million voters will abandon him en-masse.

I don't know who would ever argue this. The legendary journalist Sam Donaldson recently gave an interview and acknowledged that we aren't going to have much luck with the hardcore Trump supporters, but can win over a sizeable portion of those who voted for him, and in light of the violence at the Capital. That process is already underway. And it's never been about Repubs and Dems, though it's often framed that way. It's about reasonable people who value democracy against deluded people who do not.

Politicians are known to flip flop. Lindsey Graham has flipped twice already:

Sen. Marco Rubio, are-Fla in 2016:

On that subject, check it out.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...ape-nr-vpx.cnn

[Sirioja]

Please tell me when there was a referendum concerning immigration in France? Are you aware that in the French jails 90% of the people have a migration (mostly Muslim) background, why it is because they are more criminals it is may be just the integration is not working. How many migrants are living in Paris 16 and how many white Christian are living in Saint Denis, if you consider there is no problem, why not for me at least there is a big problem.

I never said we don't have problems in France, but I'm not afraid in France, I'm not scared about Macron who is not crazy racist and I don't want to go to live anywhere else, but as I wrote, I'm 100% French and France is in my blood, despite my very high tax. I love Paris, but maybe I will go in my mountains, for my sports, when will retire. I worked with Jews, I work with Muslims at the moment, most are integrated even we are different, only few make problems. When I worked in Sarcelles with my girlfriend, she made work Jews and Muslims together, for same aim, even some went to synagogue and some to mosquee, not so bad. After she decided and started divorce, we enjoyed sex in her office or mine, we had passionate years even complicated, in so mixed city where not so risky than les Mureaux 78 or Grigny 91 or Villiers LE Bel 95 .

[ExpatLover]

But we have right to choose our president, not like in China, and our presidents accepted defeat from democracy. France is land of welcome and not so many foreign origins make problems compare to how many in France. For many works, French don t want to, even for some jobs with quite good earning but too hard, too dirty, too lazy, I need foreigners for my job, I worked with so many since I started, 30 years ago with Italians and Portuguese but most don t want anymore and children are not so good at work than were parents, then Africans and now mostly Arabs, Turkish, Kurds and Romanians or Bulgarians or Moldavians and few specialized French, or big US firm OTIS but with Bulgarians building to work and I m happy about beautiful lift. When they have a job, most foreigners just want to have a roof, foods, a wife and children, most are just like us, even different race or religion. Only few integrists are dangerous. I m really not afraid in my country, I used to go with my legendary RS500 Cosworth to Saint Denis, Pierrefitte, Sarcelles where lived and worked one of my so pretty girlfriend for 6 years, or Garges les Gonesse or les Mureaux and Trappes, when I see about Washington and free weapons with so many crazy in US. Some guys asked me to buy legend, when many looked at it, I answered them they would not be able to control it, with one leader, I took him to show him on RN2 , while acceleration with sliding despite visco system to improve grip and when braking, I didn't hear him talking, he and his friends never asked again, not a BMW or Mercedes but a race car. Germany also could not work without Turkish. In Switzerland, Albanians for big drugs business and Romanians to clean behind Swiss, when Switzerland have dark side behind the green curtain.

Please tell me when there was a referendum concerning immigration in France? Are you aware that in the French jails 90% of the people have a migration (mostly Muslim) background, why it is because they are more criminals it is may be just the integration is not working. How many migrants are living in Paris 16 and how many white Christian are living in Saint Denis, if you consider there is no problem, why not for me at least there is a big problem.

[McAdonis]

Unemployment is not the most accurate word to use to describe the eventual outcome, but rather employment displacement. John Keynes popularized the term, "technological unemployment," characterizing it as "only a temporary phase of maladjustment."

Just like all previous technological advancements, the labor force just shifts, although usually coupled with a temporary phase of unemployment due to mindset and training lag. You alluded to job creation for technical yet still manual labor, but more profound is the effect on knowledge and creativity intensive jobs, mainly because innovation in one sector creates opportunities in other sectors.

Cars displaced carriage drivers but created jobs for mechanics, gas station vendors, and jobs in road construction and civil planning. Farming reduced the need for hunter-gatherers but led to more jobs in harvesting.

The counterarguments are generally that human knowledge accrues, similar to compound interest. And that the pace of innovation is happening at an unprecedented pace. Moving from hunter-gatherer to agriculture was an extremely slow transition and that transition occurred over much of human history. Each subsequent transition has happened over shorter and shorter periods. Human populations are also growing due to longer life expectancies, which places higher demands on job creation.

Previous automations were quite specific, and the machine remained unintelligent. Essentially the automation performed the same exact task just with more "horsepower", and so you still needed a human to operate that new machine. The carriage driver simply became a car driver, but there will be no humans needed if cars can make intelligent decisions based off data. Yes, when the economy transitioned from agricultural to manufacturing, people needed to acquire new skills, but I would argue that going from farmer to factory worker required very little training. You might be able to retrain a highly educated junior lawyer and have them work in the field of nanotechnology, but that won't be a smooth, seamless transition.

I could see working hours being cut in half or even more. So a continuation (or more likely the acceleration) of a trend that started in 1870's: https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours.

Maybe we just see more people "working" in creative fields. Maybe everyone is creating YouTube content. IDK.

[McAdonis]

Ross Perot tried and lost and he was way smarter than Trump.

Fair point Perot was "smarter" and was unable to create his own party. But did Perot parlay that intelligence to get 47 percent of the popular vote? Did reality TV and Twitter exist in 1992 and was Perot able to move the needle like Trump? Do American voters even value intelligence?

It would serve the Trump supporters better to educate themselves and seek employment. In any event if they were educated they would not support Trump. Trump appeals to the ignorant.

Along the lines of what Mursenary said, many conservative educated people support Trump or at least tolerate him, because of the influence he yields. Evangelical Christian leaders may believe Trump is a bad role model for Christian youth, but Trump can put his weight behind things they care about like banning abortion. And of course, GOP senators are extremely educated. They flip-flop and behind closed doors probably do not think highly of him, but they want the votes' of Trump's base. I am not convinced his 74 million voters will abandon him en-masse. Politicians are known to flip flop.

Lindsey Graham has flipped twice already:

"Hes a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell" - Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R) SC in 2016

Sen. Marco Rubio, are-Fla in 2016:

"There is only one presidential candidate who has violence at their events"

"Leadership is not about going to an angry and frustrated people and saying you should be even more angry and more frustrated. You know what that is? It's called demagoguery"

"You mark my words, there will be prominent people in American politics who will spend years explaining to people how they fell into this"

"If were going to be the party of fear, were going to spend some time in the wilderness. If were the party of fear, with a candidate who basically is trying to prey upon peoples fears to get them to vote for them, I think were going to pay a big price in November and beyond. I think hes already an embarrassment. People around the world are watching this debate and this campaign and wondering whats happening here, because the things he says are nonsensical. When youre the most powerful and important nation on earth, youre not always going to be popular. But the question is, are you respected? And I dont think Donald Trump is going to be respected."

[Mursenary]

Ross Perot tried and lost and he was way smarter than Trump.

How about Theodore Roosevelt for the most consequential third party spoiler ever.

1912 POTUS elections. Teddy Roosevelt, after having already served as a US President, returns to challenge the Republican incumbent Taft, splitting the vote and handing a victory to little know Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson becomes the first of 2 US World War Presidents to save France's ass and picking up them after being raped by Germany twice in 2 back to back World Wars. Wilson goes on to become the architect of the League of Nations which was the predecessor to the United Nations and in association, the North Atlantic, Euro-American New World Order with America at the helm.

[Turgid]

... Could Trump (or his successor) create a third political party?

Ross Perot tried and lost and he was way smarter than Trump.

[Sirioja]

Gorillas with covid in US. I think tigers also got. Also some cats and dogs, and visons in Europe. UK mutant make panic in Western Europe, London being said out of control for covid spreading. After a French team was infected after match versus Leicester. UK, European rugby cup is stopped. 2 big towns, about 18 millions people isolated in China. Not enough vaccines. Bad start for 2021. Even ski Worldcup keep on and really wish for Wengen Lauberhorn on next Friday and week end, Flachau. At women slalom tonight, but I worry for ski on this Winter when we have snow on this Winter with more cold weather, so snow should be good and more solid, maybe because of less activity in the world, with less pollution and heat made from activity. Covid may save white bears.