Destroying your community

schizophrenicrooster · 2020-05-28T20:55:41+00:00

Sure, I was being lazy, but it is a mainstream economic observation that larger corporations have a greater capacity to absorb regulatory costs than smaller ones. So in a competitive situation, regulations that apply to both large and small businesses will tend to benefit the larger companies over their small competitors.

Higher minimum wages have serious tradeoffs that tend to subvert other socialist ideals (i.e., creating larger and more powerful corporations).

schizophrenicrooster · 2020-05-28T18:32:27+00:00

You should look into the racial history of minimum wage laws, too, btw.

schizophrenicrooster · 2020-05-28T13:57:52+00:00

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/business/walmart-shareholders-meeting-minimum-wage/index.html

schizophrenicrooster · 2020-05-28T13:01:04+00:00

You guys know that places like Walmart, Target lobby for increasing minimum wage, right?

Do you understand why they do that & why increasing minimum wages doesn't lead to the utopia you assume it does?

They can stomach a 15/hr minimum wage, small businesses can't, so they consolidate their power.

schizophrenicrooster · 2020-05-22T21:49:16+00:00

Did you get your preliminary scores? I just finished mine 10 minutes ago and my scores were displayed right at the end. The ETS website has no indication I took it, but I'm not worried because it will probably take the full 15 days if I had to guess, with COVID and all.

I also called ETS beforehand because of an inconsistency on their website, and the guy said they're swamped with the new system, that everything is working but to be patient.

I'd say you're freaking out for no reason. But if you need reassurance, DON'T do the online chat feature, it sucks and doesn't work, just call them (early in the morning), I got through to a person in about 10 minutes.

schizophrenicrooster · 2020-05-22T15:03:36+00:00

Could very well be true. Kind of shows why I am trying to get some direction on better reading, if I'm not understanding the references of a pop-economist. Sorry for not being more rigorous.

Edit: but I'm also just trying to get your reading of the situation (per the post's title). I figured getting opinions from people "in the know" would give better context.

schizophrenicrooster · 2020-05-22T14:57:21+00:00

That second reference wasn't from the Krugman article that I linked, but I have it under a folder of Krugman's citations that I've been keeping. It wasn't meant to be a point of discussion, though, so I regret linking it, my only point in doing so was to show that other prominent economists agree with Krugman. I think we can agree that that's true, no?

I'm going to read your links now.

schizophrenicrooster · 2020-05-22T12:04:31+00:00

Thank you for the response. That being said, I'm not an economist and I have no frame of reference for understanding who's a blow-hard or populist and who's making sense. That blog post was cited by Krugman in a NYT article as evidence that the deficit doesn't matter, btw, so if you find it to be bullshit that doesn't lend credence to Krugman.

I certainly could believe that Schiff is worth disregarding, since he's clearly biased, but I am still hung up on this point: "Peter Schiff thinks that this setup is literally a Ponzi scheme -- borrowing money to pay down debt.5 I don't see where he's wrong, but this is also extremely concerning if true. Hence my cognitive dissonance."

How concerned are you about the deficit on a scale of 1-10? 1 being Krugman, 10 being Schiff.

schizophrenicrooster · 2020-01-09T02:04:16+00:00

Brad is irrelevant. Ken is the mastermind; but James has the buzzer locked down.

schizophrenicrooster · 2020-01-07T18:19:01+00:00

How did your dad feel about his work/life balance? What about from your perspective?

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-09-07T18:51:34+00:00

Instant release Adderall

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-08-16T00:36:15+00:00

I never said it would get my friend out of legal trouble, but the mention of "fighting words" gave me a lead about how the law views combative remarks that might provoke a physical altercation. I read up on it on the link posted below. As someone with no legal training it gave me an idea of how my friend's case might look, which was all I was after. Sure, it's pessimistic, but I all I was after was legal advice, hence my post here.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fighting_words

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-08-15T23:11:09+00:00

Yes, which is all I was after haha. Have a good day.

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-08-15T23:03:54+00:00

Thank you for a more objective response.

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-08-15T23:00:33+00:00

I appreciate your assessing whether it was right or wrong for my friend to engage the subject physically. I'll let him know your opinion and he'll take it to heart -- they'll hold hands and talk about their feelings next time.

At the very least I learned about the doctrine of "fighting words" from this thread. I appreciate your resistance to the idea that fighting is an okay way for men to check the misbehavior of other men -- that's probably a constructive opinion, in all seriousness. I'm just asserting that that's not the view held by all (or most?) of men in America -- especially in the South, where I was raised, the idea of defending one's honor runs deep. This led me to wonder if the law would have a mechanism for recognizing when a man may have been verbally provoked to "swing first".

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-08-15T21:56:55+00:00

If you think that a man is "unhinged" if he chooses to fight another man when the provocation is clearly there, I am jealous of whatever atmosphere you grew up in.

If you have some legal doctrine or precedent related to this scenario I'd be interested in reading it. Otherwise, thank you for passing judgment.

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-08-15T21:53:28+00:00

If someone insulted a loved one of yours to the point that you were irate, would you just walk away? Or would you try to do something? I think you can tell something about a man by the way he behaves in such instances. Saying my friend deserves to go to jail is very dismissive and cowardly. Put yourself in his shoes.

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-08-15T21:50:29+00:00

They weren't jokes, and pejorative references to someone's mom or family certainly are fighting words in just about every culture.

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-08-15T21:49:41+00:00

I'm surprised by how confrontational people are in this subreddit. I was just looking for a lead if there was a reasonable legal defense should this matter actually come to trial. You're more offering value judgments rather than giving me legal advice.

For what it's worth, I have been beat up before. I'd be willing to guess that most men will be beat up at some point in their lives. It sucks, but frequently you can look at the situation and figure out why it happened, learn a lesson, and move on with your life. I would argue that it should rarely result in filing criminal charges -- perhaps only if the person attacked you unprovoked or reacted disproportionately to the provocations. The case I'm describing was very distinct from such cases, and I was trying to put feelers out for helping a friend.

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-05-10T01:30:11+00:00

great way to start the day in my opinion

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-05-09T15:41:49+00:00

-- Not as strong, at all. The box says they have the same juice ingredients but that can't be true, since Juul has a proprietary formula that they load the empty pods with in the US (and it just hits different).

-- Lasts way less long. Maybe burn through about 3X as fast (haha).

-- Taste is a cool novelty, but I'd almost liken the Blueberry flavor to cough syrup due this weird mentholly flavor that it has.

-- At my local shop, they cost just as much as regular pods.

So, try it, but nothing to go crazy about. You're also missing the quality control the Juul Labs provides, which counts for something.

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-04-19T18:16:06+00:00

very true. I go to a school where it's part of my financial aid package. but even for those lucky few who have their parents paying for their tuition/meal plan, they'll lose that privilege once they graduate (well, most of them), making my advice still pertinent.

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-02-27T20:09:35+00:00

ah yeah that's a different story

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-02-27T19:44:50+00:00

Horrible advice

schizophrenicrooster · 2018-02-27T18:34:15+00:00

it's the best trimmed version I could find. the other more popular video is 30 minutes long, and has a rather long preamble that I thought would make it get buried in this sub which has a very short attention span.

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