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Forum: The Unemployment Line 03-06-2017, 12:42 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
Here's an interesting article on the subject of a...

Here's an interesting article on the subject of a guaranteed minimum income.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/06/utopian-thinking-poverty-universal-basic-income
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-15-2017, 05:23 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
You call it accuracy. I call it nit picking. ...

You call it accuracy. I call it nit picking.

I'm looking at the big picture.

Human beings being replaced by machines.
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-15-2017, 05:02 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvwqK2gn3S0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvwqK2gn3S0
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-15-2017, 04:58 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
So? BFD. I don't care what you call...

So?

BFD.

I don't care what you call it.

Do a "find and replace" and put "automation" in where I said "robotics".
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-15-2017, 03:45 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
Eat shit and die, you bastard motherfucker.:)

Eat shit and die, you bastard motherfucker.:)
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-13-2017, 09:40 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
This is one of the better articles I've read on...

This is one of the better articles I've read on the rationale for a guaranteed minimum income. Although she does propose funding it with taxes, while Don recommends quantitative easing which I think...
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-13-2017, 08:21 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
Go big or go home, that's my motto. I prefer...

Go big or go home, that's my motto.

I prefer to look at it as "thinking outside the box".:)
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-12-2017, 03:06 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
Whatever it takes to get away from this soul...

Whatever it takes to get away from this soul sucking notion that one has to work 40-50 hours a week for 40-50 years just to survive.
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-12-2017, 11:56 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
We will need a few workers bees. To make it...

We will need a few workers bees.

To make it fair, we'll set it up like the military. Everybody will have a worker bee obligation of two years. You'll have the option of enlisting into the worker...
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-12-2017, 09:28 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
Smart guy this dude. Way ahead of his time. ...

Smart guy this dude. Way ahead of his time.


http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz359/Dog_of_the_Earth/ZwntXtZ.jpg (http://s843.photobucket.com/user/Dog_of_the_Earth/media/ZwntXtZ.jpg.html)
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-11-2017, 02:50 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
Which is fine with me. Inflation hurts creditors...

Which is fine with me. Inflation hurts creditors more than it does debtors. And these days most creditors are predators. So fuck them.
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-11-2017, 11:02 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
http://joebageant.net/?p=246

http://joebageant.net/?p=246
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-11-2017, 11:00 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
We can use quantitative easing to get rid of the...

We can use quantitative easing to get rid of the debt.

Just print the money and pay it off. :)
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-11-2017, 10:46 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
Like I said, I'm a type B slacker. So I'll...

Like I said, I'm a type B slacker.

So I'll let donquixote do all the work while I kick back and take snarky little potshots at Whell. :)
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-11-2017, 09:41 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
Actually the idea that Don has presented is a...

Actually the idea that Don has presented is a damned good one and just might work.

And that's what terrifies you.
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-11-2017, 09:33 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
I like this idea Don.

I like this idea Don.
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-10-2017, 06:32 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
That's where the guillotines, or my stake burning...

That's where the guillotines, or my stake burning comes in. :)
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-10-2017, 06:31 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
We could do with a little hyperinflation. It...

We could do with a little hyperinflation. It would help out all these people that are upside down on their mortgages. The banks would hate it. :)
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-10-2017, 06:20 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
I like the Game of Thrones style Stake burnings...

I like the Game of Thrones style Stake burnings myself.

But the tree huggers would probably get all over my ass about the number of stakes I was using. :D
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-10-2017, 06:18 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
That's a whole other subject but I agree with...

That's a whole other subject but I agree with you.

Both the planet and the US are already overpopulated.

We are well over 300 million right here in the US. I don't know what our max should be...
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-10-2017, 05:56 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
I've been skating like that for the past 9 years....

I've been skating like that for the past 9 years.

40 years if you count the 31 years I spent "working" for the government.

My contribution to society has been pumping my paychecks and then my...
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-10-2017, 05:48 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
Being a Type B, I'm not going to expend any of my...

Being a Type B, I'm not going to expend any of my own effort to reply to you.

Instead I'll go with "What Don said". :)

http://www.politicalchat.org/showpost.php?p=347347&postcount=11
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-10-2017, 04:34 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
Not a bad idea. When I was a freshman in...

Not a bad idea.

When I was a freshman in 1965 our economics 101 instructor told us that due to increases in worker productivity we would only have to work 20 hours a week by the time we were his...
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-10-2017, 03:31 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
You would get enough for basic necessities by not...

You would get enough for basic necessities by not working. You work for the luxuries and frills.

Type A's like you will be happy to work to get more material stuff.

Type B's like me will be...
Forum: The Unemployment Line 02-10-2017, 02:55 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 15,518
Posted By Tom Joad
I don't care what anybody says, due to dramatic...

I don't care what anybody says, due to dramatic increases in worker productivity we have a surplus of labor.

Robotics is going to make this surplus even more acute.

It's a wet dream for...
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