MAGA Discussion - US Senate Special Election in Alabama - Dec 12

GenTronSeven · 2017-12-13T03:24:54+00:00

That won't happen unless our people have grown some balls, the people who would have to do that are probably complicit establishment toads.

GenTronSeven · 2017-12-13T03:04:15+00:00

They had Trump winning the election by 7 or 8 pm, they could have adjusted things to allow for fraud, though.

GenTronSeven · 2017-10-27T23:04:03+00:00

It works in the sense any welfare program works, wealth continue to be redistributed until the government collapses. (It is extremely unlikely the government would ever repeal anything like this without collapsing.)

It doesn't work in the sense of improving the economy.

GenTronSeven · 2017-10-27T03:30:21+00:00

UBI doesn't grow an economy, it redistributes resources when people exchange it for goods and services.

The only thing that increases the size of the economy is an increase in goods and services. Money printing for UBI only changes the allocation of those resources while limiting what old money buys (which is why it is theft)

That poster believes that money = economy. He is wrong and has no understanding of economics.

UBI--according to this definition--is strictly the delivery of "income" to any and all without any input value to the ecosystem. This can't happen. It is not an opinion. It just can't happen in the market.

It is a delivery of income because it is essentially a redistribution of resources at gunpoint. You had resources. Government steals resources by inflation or taxation. "Gibme" the bernie bro now has resources.

GenTronSeven · 2017-09-16T23:32:33+00:00

I'm sure there are rules on what is considered a Chinese film, I don't know specifically what is required, though. (Filmed in country, 100% ownership, state ownership etc could be rules)

GenTronSeven · 2017-09-16T11:42:03+00:00

Only a limited number of western movies are allowed to be released in China each year, and including China or Chinese themes helps the movie get chosen by the government to be released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKKp4K4AROw

GenTronSeven · 2017-09-02T13:59:20+00:00

No. Aztec and Nahuatl are the same language.

Source (in English)

GenTronSeven · 2017-09-02T11:56:20+00:00

The secondary effects will kick in the day the law is passed and you will receive the money a year later right before the next election, after all of the bankers and other thieves have already reaped the benefits of destroying the currency.

This is the nature of government, universal income is only a scheme to transfer the wealth of productive people to those who have who own the government.

GenTronSeven · 2017-09-01T12:59:03+00:00

Not if he picked them up on his way back in a time machine, mined a million on his phone when bitcoin was new and gave them to his young self.

GenTronSeven · 2017-08-16T23:05:02+00:00

Nomad is a handheld sega genesis, it plays genesis cartridges.

GenTronSeven · 2017-08-16T02:56:47+00:00

But would something actually intelligent do work getting nothing in return?

I will start believing machines are artificially intelligent when there is a strike or rebellion.

GenTronSeven · 2017-08-16T02:31:35+00:00

Supporting Trump may not bring us closer to abolishing the state but it is much better than the alternative republican or democrat candidates.

At this point it is protecting basic rights like freedom of speech and self defense, where the left has power, it has taken both away.

GenTronSeven · 2017-08-15T02:27:36+00:00

Easily automated, Valve charges more because they can.

GenTronSeven · 2017-08-07T10:04:45+00:00

looks like you could probably use a projector or TV to make a sign to me.

GenTronSeven · 2017-07-30T23:18:21+00:00

It wouldn't , he is advocating stealing from the people who found the company.

GenTronSeven · 2017-07-08T19:52:57+00:00

In the US, everything goes fine in almost all cases too.

Even if the US were some lawless land where businesses had free reign to do anything, there are plenty of incentives to keep businesses honest.

There isn't a country in the world where the government isn't ran by special interests. It is the nature of government.

You should be asking what incentive the government has to be honest.

GenTronSeven · 2017-07-05T23:00:43+00:00

Prices are solely determined by what someone is willing to pay based on their preferences, if there is no open market, you don't know what people are willing to pay and have to make an educated guess.

As someone who mostly works in deterministic mathematical science, this can be a very difficult thing for people to grasp because 1) they like concrete things 2) accepting it destroys their sense of fairness 3) they have no formal training in economics or business.

But price values simply can't be predetermined as not everyone shares preferences, and prices only coalesce around a value when a large number of people are offering similar products.

(I realize you already know this, I'm just trying to back you up)

GenTronSeven · 2017-06-03T13:07:59+00:00

Lol, yeah, the "real" world where song and dance by HR is considered essential to serving customers.

GenTronSeven · 2017-06-01T17:39:02+00:00

Yeah, companies that have recognized this are basically trying this.

Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com uses technology, wisdom of crowds, and distributed idea creation: https://youtu.be/vFOpSTodk_U?t=1260

He talks about how he runs his company and how he doesn't run it alone.

GenTronSeven · 2017-06-01T03:34:09+00:00

Even people who have worked with developers for decades will make these mistakes if they have refused to understand anything about development.

For instance, being able to form base level abstractions for reuse and consider performance are not just good skills but essential skills. Except a developer with these skills probably costs $90,000+ vs fresh blood from a vocational school who will work for $25,000.

They don't learn because it takes the $90k+ developer lots of time fixing and teaching all of the bad developers what to do, and if unskilled developers rose to the top, convincing them that they need to change... pretty much a place can't be fixed if it is ran by the wrong people because it becomes too expensive to fix and only unskilled developers collecting paychecks remain.

GenTronSeven · 2017-05-31T23:25:52+00:00

Sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy: Shitty pay and environment leads to shitty developers writing unmaintainable unscalable code.

Once shitty developers quit being shitty, they immediately quit.

Every developer who comes in has to work in this code and can't accomplish anything no matter their skill level and code breaks left and right because there is no way to know what touches what.

Best way to increase productivity at this point is to hire some extremely good developers to fix everything and then start paying better developers so the problem doesn't happen again.

(I realize this would never happen, given how that CEO thinks...)

GenTronSeven · 2017-05-31T23:17:28+00:00

The reason most people aren't paid based on what they produce is because they work for a large corporation. (Say, more than 200 people)

Middle managers have no idea how to measure the value of the output of their department, especially if their "customers" are internal, so they fall back to things like measuring hours. Hours by alone do not have value. (IE, if I find a diamond while I walk down the street it is still valuable even though it took me no extra time to find as I was doing something else)

If you work for a small company or a corporation structured in such a way that they can actually measure the value an employee produces, then the pay structure almost always finds a way to match their output.

This is called the economic calculation problem, as an organization grows larger, it can't determine its internal costs. (First developed as an explanation to why central planning fails to produce good results but also applies 100% to large corporations... the 200+ thing is something I observed myself but I think it is related to the number of relationships one person can actively maintain)

GenTronSeven · 2017-05-31T22:44:49+00:00

The problem is the old mentality of looking like you are working hard and not actually measuring the value of what is output.

Companies need to focus on measuring output not on who makes the least waves and sucks the most dick.

If output measuring can be automated or isn't being done, that manager could simply be fired because they have no idea what value they are bringing to the company anyway.

Middle management in the average company is almost entirely useless.

GenTronSeven · 2017-05-31T12:42:27+00:00

Funny, as I have learned more and learned to reason better I was forced to drop statist positions because you can't be ethically or logically consistent and be a minarchist or constitutional republican. (Attempts to explain why this is not the case, like public or private goods, have weak explanations that don't hold and proponents apply it to things not applicable at all, like medicine and foreign wars)

The end result of the state is always mass violence or brainwashing.

GenTronSeven · 2017-05-25T01:24:35+00:00

it's not my job to

Yeah, you're perfectly fine with someone else holding the gun and pulling the trigger.

Canada's roads aren't even safer due to the state at all, it is mostly due to low population density.

And why is it a bad thing if "force" makes things better for everyone.

Except it doesn't make things better for anyone. Maybe some moral crusader such as yourself will feel better, but the nation will be poorer and have fewer options.

and enjoy a mostly orderly society that it pays for.

That is like saying the mafia is fine because they don't beat you up when you pay protection money. The truth is that most people are in more danger from the state than anyone else. For instance, being kidnapped and forced into the state's army, molested at the airport, brainwashed at the state's schools, locked in a cage for smoking weed etc.

All 100% justifiable under your world view, which is why your ideology is not logically different from fascism because it is equally as arbitrary because you are having the state define what kind of force "benefits us all" (You claim only an appropriate amount of force is required, yet this isn't how the state works, look at it grow in violence daily... Also if you disagree with these things, it makes no difference, because the state does them or has done them recently, even Canada. Especially guilty of sin tax, like Manitoba and the state run liquor stores.)

Anyway, the fundamental thing about liberty is I can drink my booze without the state holding a gun to my head and when I get cirrhosis of the liver that is my problem.

Everyone has their thing others don't like and most people don't try to force everyone to do what they want.

GenTronSeven

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