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It's fantastic being called a racist by a fanatical racist. Your post drips with upper class privilege.

So we want to shrink our road infrastructure to drive the cost up in terms of pollution, fuel costs, time and convenience? This way less people will drive. I would propose that you are forgetting that you are going to price transport into the hands of the wealthy and business who will effectively rent-seek to loan cars or taxi people who cant afford a car around.

The idea of shrinking our roadways to discourage use of vehicles is challenging in a practical sense and it just cleaves off another aspect of life for business and the wealthy to enjoy without plebs interfering with the roadways they paid & still pay for.

If you have a narrow street, less people drive, and thus there is no issue getting an ambulance through.

Huh? If you limit supply, demand goes down?

Your logic would say that the solution to Los Angles traffic problems is to close half the lanes and wait for people to sell off their cars?

I was thinking this as I read through this thread;

This living forever idea is great but so set apart from modern science it's amazing how serious some can be about it.

Live forever with your deafness or blindness from birth! Got herpes in college? It's only another infinity years of those outbreaks! If you were able to live infinite years you would ultimately wind up in some vegetative state. Between accidents dismembering people, un-curable ailments, etc.

It's noteworthy that 2 of us responded but the attack artists like yourself didn't provide anything other than anger, sarcasm and feelings-based logic..

without external guiding force, them choosing what's best for all longer-term would literally be a miracle

Do you agree that have had quite a few miraculous people in our history as a nation? Many founding fathers, presidents, judges, military service members, and the like have chose what is best for the long-term at the expense of themselves.

I am trapped by your logic on this one anyway - the rich can't or only in a "miraculous" case chose a non-self enriching endeavor; so the discussion is futile, in your world, no human can solve this issue. Hopefully Google can get that Skynet system up and running soon, to resolve all these issues! :D

Sorry, I forgot your weren't seriously asking - just trying to be caustic.

Not that you genuinely care, otherwise you could have evolved your position by going to Trumps website where there is an entire section devoted to immigration issues. Beyond your MSNBC-Tier talking points about Wall & Ban Muslims; e-verify, defund sanctuary city curtailing the current laws, detention of illegals, criminal penalties to visa overstays and many more.

Your appeal to authority style argument won't be a very strong one, so I won't be finding "respected" economists who agree with me.

fakeedit: I can't down vote posts.

You couldn't have intentionally done a better job of proving my point.

I make a political statement. The first response is; Pivot target away from me and to a straw man (Trump & GOP). Label the straw men with your narrative of *ist and begin the appeal to common sense fallacy.

You also triggered me by changing the conversation away from liberal attack methods and bringing up LGBT issues.

As a business owner, having access to cheaper labor is absolutely in his best interests

As a business owner, having a thriving, growing economy is absolutely more important than cheaper labor.

So many intelligent people on this website but I see so many fall into strange logical contradictions like this. How do you come to the conclusion that all wealthy elite cannot care to help repair income inequality? Do you stereotype 100% of wealthy people this way or only those you dislike, based on feelings?

With your injection of the wall comment, your post is as text book as straw man arguments get.

Econ 101 tells us that reductions in supply drive up demand.

Reductions in workforce size drive demand for workers. Employers will pay more for an employee when the pool is smaller. We are in the opposite now, employers can be extremely selective because there are 100s of people applying for the job. So why not demand the college graduate with 5+ years experience for the part-time barista job?

Have you not seen the problems with censorship in r/the_donald ?

Reddit is the largest liberal echo chamber on the net, every character of it's content is actively moderated.

It's exactly the point being made here - liberal strategy as been to define and label opposition as racist/sexist/*ist for a very long time now. So those of us who disagree are just bigoted against incessantly. Many of those in disagreement with liberal ideas just vote instead of debate because it's tiresome having people generalize and stereotype you ad nauseum.

Big time agreement!

I was reluctant to buy it, I came across this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua-f0ypVbPA

after watching it, I instantly purchased.

This is a traditional attack line; Label your opponent, apply negative attributes to that label, dismiss all opposition as non-relevant.

I guess this is the lefts compelling argument for voting for another Clinton?

You got me. I admit, I clicked wondering what aspect of the construction was done off-shore. Then I realized it wasn't.

ACH's around the nation are in love with this idea.

It's a lifestyle choice. Personally, I like restoring old cars, remodeling my home, building robots. I couldn't do any of these things without being already wealthy if I lived in a big city, within walking distance to the grocery store and work.

I gladly commute so I can come home to something more than an apartment or condo, because that is all that is available or affordable.

What a strange response to his post. Did some portion of your post get deleted/omitted?

electric vehicle sales were 0.66% of unit auto sales in 2015, and actually represented a sharp numeric decrease from 2014

Can you site this source please? I am very curious to see the data! thanks

The cool part is, life has so many pathways.

It's just as possible to spend yourself into an early grave.

Yeah... or the chart that talks about Subaru ownership but forgot to edit the caption below and it still the same thing as the V8 chart...

My hope is as we increase the rate at which people finish high school and go to college

Woah, this is the logic that is getting us in trouble!

66% of people already go to college. Of those who go, only 50% graduate. So...

1) Does "college" matter or does learning a marketable skill mater? If we had 100% college enrollment and completion but everyone was getting a degree in native American studies, would we somehow be better off?

2) At what level of enrollment does it become more cost effective to simply extend high school 2-4 more years and just consolidate it?

College in its present form is in trouble because the lions share of college attendees are; white women, taking non STEM degrees, taking on federal loans, and having a lower workforce participation rate at the end of it.

College is about learning, not about what a huge chunk of it has become; safe spaces, community outreach, nice dorms, cafeterias, dating, fitness centers and generally taking a hiatus from life. We really need to redefine college in its present form, it is no longer what it was 50 or 100 years ago.

Heres something to consider;

Drawing such a sharp distinction between violent and non violent crimes omits many real-world factors.

What kind of criminal is this person is different from what was this criminal convicted of. I can be a part time drug dealer, shooting rival gang members, robbing houses and pimping whores. But land myself in prison for 10 years due to my 6th possession charge. If you draw a hard distinction statistically, I fall into the 'I can't believe we imprison people for having a little pot'

Additionally, what is a non-violent crime? Looks like good chunk of prison inmates are property crimes, larceny, burglars, thief. What percentage do you suspect of these non-violent offenders were armed during the commission of their crimes? What percentage would have turned violent if confronted during their crime? I suspect that these people who steal your car, break into your home and business and steal your things are effectively violent offenders.

Sounds like fun, I don't have much to add - I just needed to say UO was the greatest game ever made.

I think it means, at the point in TIME when they became a groupon copy they where already past the "startup" phase.

Not that they stopped being a startup because they copied groupon

Crazy to see the downvote mafia around here on this kind of thing.

This is a case of "cake and eat it too" -

If you have a family it's more important than your career. If you don't feel your family is more important, you may abandon it or never have one to begin with. Just because you have a different stack of priorities than another doesn't mean you can blame them for ranking theirs differently than yours.

Analogy is; you wouldn't protest at the Buddhist temple door because you feel that your time availably is less to become a full fledge Buddhist monk because you have a family.

It has nothing to do with women in tech, try and keep on topic please.

Honestly, is this a good thing?

I run quickbooks for a small business - if I wanted a Xero equivalent, I have to pay $70/mo?! That's crazy!

Intrestingly its mostly White upper+middle class privileged women - those that can afford it and get the majority of non stem degrees.

For the majority, college isn't about an education or job opportunity. It's an extension of the white female youth and self actualization.

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006084.pdf

Those of us who have families simply can not afford to do this.

Then don't take the job? Your life choices (Children, wife, loan payments) aren't the fault or social responsibility of your prospective employer.

Why get so uppity about a job you aren't even going to apply for?

Long winding story for the final line to be the real sell;

"...but any help until I find new employment would be extremely appreciated. My paypal is tjbenora@gmail.com."

TL;DR I don't like my job, give me money.

Your answer to a legitimate question;

I don't give a rats ass about it. I don't have much influence in it. I can't know for certain if X exists or not.

I assume you don't vote either, for the same reasons you listed.