derping69

Definition from your link

1. "money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust"

2."something that serves to induce or influence"

Eric Schmidt spending millions to create groundwork isn't a favor? You think Google wasn't trying to influence the Obama white house during those 427 visits?

from wikileaks

"He’s ready to fund, advise recruit talent, etc. He was more deferential on structure than I expected. Wasn’t pushing to run through one of his existing firms. Clearly wants to be head outside advisor, but didn’t seem like he wanted to push others out. Clearly wants to get going. He’s still in DC tomorrow and would like to meet with you if you are in DC in the afternoon. I think it’s worth doing"

Eric Schmidt set up a data company for the sole purpose of getting Hillary elected. Google also had 427 white house visits during the Obama Admin. Not sure what your definition of bribe is but they are as tight with DC as any wall street bank

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close...

I've never seen anything like the censoring by Google and Youtube over the last few weeks. Ron Paul of all people got all his videos demonetized for being "controversial". The most disgusting thing to me is that they don't delete the videos because they don't actually break any policies but they instead remove them from search and remove the ability to comment or share the videos, stifling any potential discussion.

This is the New York Times we are talking about, a company that got blindsided by the internet and social media. NYT is firing editors and renting out office space to stay solvent, it makes sense they would write this article

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-16/new-york-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/3...

Russia invading Europe is what's stopping us.

You proved my point, if US did what Euro countries do to us, European pharma companies would lose their primary profit source. It's a wealth drain from US citizens to Europe.

US spends more on military than every Euro country combined. If they are attacked we have to defend them and they know it. They would contribute a relatively insignificant amount if we were ever attacked.

Europe is able to do this because the US subsidizes their existence.

1. Pharma companies develop drugs with US subsidies and make their profits off US citizens while European countries put price ceilings on their drugs.

2. US essentially defends the world, allowing other countries to spend money elsewhere.

http://www.ibtimes.com/how-us-subsidizes-cheap-drugs-europe-...

Will those uneducated immigrants earn money when they are no longer needed due to automation? If you have to pay to educate them anyway why not just have your population have kids instead of importing?

>capitalist crisis

If not liking your boss is a capitalist crisis I much prefer it to the current socialist crisis going on in Venezuela.

Instead of spending billions on refugees, 75% of whom still won't be working for years, why not spend that money to get Germans to have more kids? That would actually make sense, unlike importing unskilled labor that won't be needed due to automation.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/820480/Germany-migrant-c...

That's my point, incentivize our own citizens to have kids using the money that would otherwise be spent on immigrants. Preferably you would make it a tax cut so that middle class would have kids.

Because the goal of mass immigration of unskilled workers isn't what's best for the country, its to bring in people who will be reliant on the government and thus always vote for more government, thus further consolidating power. Also has the benefit of driving wages down resulting in more natives being reliant on government.

If we really needed more workers why wouldn't we incentivize our own citizens to have kids instead of spending that money on refugees and immigrants?

BPA, birth control/estrogen in water, and increased obesity rates would be my guess.

Why stop there? Just make it 100$ and hour and everyone will be rich!

Oh wait, arbitrary wage increases don't really work out in real life.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/seattles-minimum-wage-h...

Seattle's socialist member of the city council fired the Unversity of Washington team after the results came out and hired an anti-capitalist professor from berkeley to ensure the study finds the right results.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/29/seattle-commissio...

Yeah I've lived it. You have to get to work right away so when it kicks in otherwise you'll generally keep doing whatever you were doing when it did. It can turn you into a god of productivity if you use it right or a degenerate jacking off for 12 hours straight.

>No amount of control of my environment will put me in the zone when I'm working on boring code.

adderall

learn AI, start a company with a bunch of buddies with the sole intent of being acquired for your talents.

There was a company that did this a while back, I don't even think they actually had a product, they just knew that one of the big four would pay millions to acquihire them.

>What are the most useful skills for these tasks? Being able to communicate effectively, feeling comfortable asking questions, feeling comfortable admitting when you don't understand something, and being kind and friendly with those you interact with.

I've never liked this idea or thought it was true. At the end of the day it doesn't matter how could of communicators people are if they don't have the skill or talent.

Give me a genius programmer on the spectrum over someone who smooth-talked their way through the interview but doesn't know shit any day.

blame china for not having any worker's rights or pollution regulations. Makes it pretty easy to make cheap stuff. I'm guessing advances in robotics now make it cheaper to make it here instead of shipping it from China to the US.

It will be interesting to watch to breakdown in China as tens of millions of angry citizens lose their jobs to automation. Combined with the demographic abomination they created with their 1 child policy I predict China will collapse eventually.

Also it's not a straight tax giveaway upfront, they have to hit incentives over time.

a small slice of pie is better than all of a non-existent pie because the pie relocated to another state or country

"The place we were at sucked so bad we had to leave, so let's move somewhere nice and make it just like it"

The bigger issue I see is that by taking away these people's ability to discuss their beliefs they are going to be further radicalized. If they don't believe they can change things peacefully through protest they will become violent.

That's the main reason I don't agree with the banning of daily stormer and google banning Gab.ai from the play store. They are only further enforcing these people's beliefs that the powers that be are against them.

This was happening under Obama but the media only started covering it after Trump got elected. He also went after leakers and journalists more than any other president, if Trump tried the same thing the media would go wild.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/sunday/if-donald-...

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10/...