Trump 2 changed the calculus

A lot of smaller towns have a downtown area that could also pretty easily be served by public transit.

In fact, that’s how a lot of the towns became towns, they were adjacent to the rail lines.

I have this on my Honda Fit for fuck’s sake.

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Reliance on cars helps continually isolate people as they go about their daily lives. It’s important for fostering everyone’s ruggedly individualistic, Randian grindset.

It also allows you to transport units of meat from the store freezer to the ice chest you keep in your basement (that you’ll one day rely on to stave off hunger during the zombie apocalypse).

Flush

It’s almost always playable

Fuck you four eyes

If you look at what many consider to be the golden age

Emphasis mine

I didn’t even say I consider it a golden age, because I don’t.

but it’s worse now than it was in the – what I’m now calling the first – gilded age.

The gilded age was not in the 1950s. Also, gilded age doesn’t mean golden age.

I think we’ve hit the end of productive conversation between the two of us on this subject

Agreed. Maybe next time read and understand some of the responses?

This is the first post you haven’t been praising the 1950s as a better time for workers.

Isn’t at all, but you’re reading whatever you want into my posts. So keep on keeping on. 👍

I get that you recently read some Marx or some shit, but corporations aren’t just capitalism. They have charters. They were put into existence via law. It is possible to still be “under capitalism” and restructure the laws. Full on gay space communism isn’t required to make any progress on any issue.

I don’t understand what you’re trying to prove here to be honest. Of course there’s been shitty behavior all along. This is America. It’s a country founded by slave owners that wanted to be free. (Carlin)

My point is simple: corporations are a made-up concept and one of the main things people are supposed to get in the deal to allow them to exist in the first place is efficient allocation and utilization of human resources.

It seems to me they are admitting that they cannot do that. In which case, the deal should be renegotiated.

You’ve got rose colored glasses on.

Not really, I expect that I would’ve hated a great many things about the supposed golden age.

This was only true if you were white, male, and a white collar worker.

Of course, people didn’t have anything approaching equal rights at the time. It could be argued that they never actually would up to and including today.

It wasn’t a utopia by any stretch, but in today’s economy Intel will openly celebrate laying people off and having less employees. There has been a giant swing toward people generally thinking that “greed is good”, and an exhaultation of sociopaths.

The wealth distribution wasn’t perfect, great, utopian, or even good during the entire history of the US, but it’s worse now than it was in the – what I’m now calling the first – gilded age.

He’s an idiot and dangerous and full of malice. Many things can be true at the same time.

If you look at what many consider to be the golden age of American corporations after the second world war, the notion of a “company man” was a celebrated one, and companies bragged about how they treated their employees. In that era, unlike today’s, shedding employees was not seen as an achievement but rather either a necessary evil, or a sign that the company was going down the tubes.

Over time and with complacency, we’ve ceded the territory on these things. We can say that is inevitable under capitalism that this happens if it makes you happy, but either way at one point it was a major part of the stated purpose of corporations to employ people and help them live productive lives.

Edit: I agree that what you currently have with corporations are resource devouring, profit-pursuing, psychopathic immortal monsters, but none of those things, philosophically speaking, justifies their existence as legal entities.

The platonic ideal of a corporation that owns everything, builds everything, controls everything, and employs nobody will never be fully realized, because the people it is harming will eventually rise to destroy it, or die trying.

It’s true that Intel probably shouldn’t be handing out UBI, but if companies want to promote how much they don’t need people’s labor anymore, then that should be taken into consideration in policy making.

Somewhere along the line we lost one of the basic things underpinning our current economic structure – that corporations are supposedly better at allocating, distributing, and utilizing resources than a centrally planned economy with a governmental overlord. It sure sounds to me like Intel and other companies that are handing out pink slips for every bit of thing they automate cannot find anything to do with the human resources they’ve got.

To put it more simply, corporations aren’t allowed to exist purely because they “make money”. One of their primary functions is to employ people.

Are you calling for people to eat milksteaks boiled over hard?

That penis was actually there, not interpreted, don’t do this. The penis was tattooed right on his face.

Still a great song

It shows

This reminds me of shitty FTP sites with ratios when I was on dial-up. I used to push them files full of null characters with filenames that looked like actual content. The modem would compress the upload as it transmitted it which allowed me to upload the junk files at several times the rate of a normal file.