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It would be great to read a definition of socialism that doesn't come from a right wing American. That's all we get in the media these days.
The income of the typical D.C. household rose 23.3% between 2000 and 2012 to an inflation-adjusted $66,583, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey,
U.S. businesses still have little incentive to boost wages given that over 11 million Americans are looking for work. Much of the nation's recent job growth has been in lower-paying industries. And the aging of America's population could mean less income growth going forward since the retired often earn less.
"The bleeding has stopped, I suppose, but incomes have yet to increase," said Richard Fry, an economist at Pew Research Center. "Asset prices are rising, but when we look out at Main Street, at what households are getting, there isn't much growth.
Four years into the recovery, the big picture remains largely unchanged. The gap between America's best-off and worst-off remained wide last year. While incomes for older Americans picked up, median incomes of households headed by Americans under 25 fell 1.6%.
"The jobs that have become available are not as good as the ones that have been lost," said Mark Mather of the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit demographic research group.
Another measure of U.S. economic health, the official poverty rate, remained unchanged at 15% of the population, well above the 12.5% level in 2007. The poverty line is $23,492 for a family of four.
Economists say the government's official poverty rate, which was developed in the 1960s, doesn't capture many antipoverty efforts. Unemployment insurance payments are included, for example, but not food stamps—which have been growing rapidly in recent years—and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Government figures also exclude out-of-pocket medical expenses and don't account for where people live.
The report did show glimmers of progress. The share of Americans without health insurance declined slightly to 15.4% from 15.7% in 2011. The number of people with health insurance rose to 263.2 million, from 260.2 million in 2011, thanks to a rise in the share of those covered by government health insurance.
American households in the West saw a 3.2% rise in median incomes, a bright spot around the country.
Nearly half of U.S. jobs could be susceptible to computerization over the next two decades, a study from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology suggests....“We identified several key bottlenecks currently preventing occupations being automated,” says Osborne. “As big data helps to overcome these obstacles, a great number of jobs will be put at risk.”...
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At the law firm where I work, some of the secretaries are nervous over the Dragon, because the attorneys can dictate their correspondences on their own without using a tape recorder. Some use the Dragon and some don't. As long as those attorneys do their work the old fashioned way, the secretaries still have their jobs.
But to your point - given enough time, no job is "safe" from technology.
Opposing perspective on automation: Technology and Automation Create, Not Destroy, Jobs | The Innovation Files
But this view fails to recognize that savings from a more efficient industry, for example, the grocery industry, would flow back to the economy in one or more of the following three ways: lower prices (e.g., lower cost for groceries), higher wages for the fewer remaining employers, or higher profits.
If Karl Marx hadn't partied in college like a maniac, our standard definition of socialism would be very different today.It would be great to read a definition of socialism that doesn't come from a right wing American. That's all we get in the media these days.
The blunt, pathetic reality today is that a little old lady has died, who in the winter of her life had to water roses alone under police supervision. If you behave like there's no such thing as society, in the end there isn't.
Thatcher sums up the "socialist" solution to income inequality
Margaret Thatcher on Socialism - YouTube
Wow, really? We're quoting comedians who were in elementary school when Thatcher was in office?
from Wired.com
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No job is safe from anything. Many articles about job hunting and career growth point out that no employee can just be one who simply comes in and does his job. Innovation is now the key to succeeding, so the company can continue to improve. So, the bar has been raised on what makes an employee, even a potential one, stand out.
A life, lived free of obligation leads to creation. Stagnation is a perspective that blinds the imagination. Value, should not be measured from the sweat off of our backs or calluses on our keyed fingers. We are no longer the gears of the system. If there were an accurate measurement for the value of a human life, I would weigh the ‘Condensation of Imagination’.
Thatcher sums up the "socialist" solution to income inequality
Margaret Thatcher on Socialism - YouTube
Thatcher is one of the last people you'd go to for a correct definition of socialism.
I don't understand why some people almost seem to refuse to accept the correct definition, which is something that is very widely prevalent amongst conservatives? And to a slightly lesser extent, liberals.
The "correct" definition exists in a textbook. What is put into practice is something much different.
The "correct" definition exists in a textbook. What is put into practice is something much different.