and it's best to communicate with them using language they understand.
It's not just presidents and powerful senators and congressmen who speak in childish hyperbole these days. The rot has percolated down into, oh I don't know, the CDC whose director is crying about Impending Doom! while we are assured that Democrat administrations are run by cool analytical realists.
No, people are children, and politicians need to talk to them in a language they can understand, thus sounding themselves like children.
If you talk to the people who actually write the speeches politicians make on a regular basis, you'll find out that the golden rule those writers abide by is that they must assume that their audience has an average mental age of 11.
People who take time out of their day and go out of their way to listen to a politician give a speech don't have an *average* mental age of 11, they have a ceiling on their mental age of less than 11.
A properly functioning member of a properly functioning society shouldn't need to even think about government or politics. To the extent that I ever think of government or politics, it's almost always in the context of how they're stealing from me, how they're failing to perform one or more of the duties we by
No. I wish this was true, but no. The sad reality is that we have vested so much authority and control over our daily lives in government, that what they think or say impacts our lives. A lot. Amazon is a favorite punching bag of these progressive politicians, so why shouldnt it argue back? Amazon has a US-wide $15 minimum wage, and healthcare for all its employees. The proposals these senators make wouldnt change Amazons finances even a bit. It already meets or beats those metrics.
We will always need government for the same reason we'll always need police and courts. Humans are shitty and their behavior needs to be moderated. For that same reason, the masses will always need to be fully aware of what the government is doing, why it's doing that, etc. There really has never been a time without government - even paleolithic tribes had rulers. Likewise there will never be a time when government just disappears, or magically works perfectly, unless we figure out how to make a perfect mac
It moves toward a future where companies aren't held accountable by "voting with your wallet", where 1000 janitors, workers, and owners of retail businesses are condensed into 200 overworked Amazon employees, leaving the rest jobless. Once the capitalist system as we know it is broken, there will be a reckoning at some point.
The capitalist system as we know it, broken? Capitalism has always worked as you describe. Every time you hear a capitalist talk about "efficiency," they are referring to exactly that process.
Yet in 2019 we broke 50 year old records of unemployment. Why? Because in a capitalist society, when resources like labor are freed by failing businesses, it makes it cheaper to start new businesses with new ideas. Not only might Amazon be disrupted, but for sure it will one day. Capitalism works, has worked for millennia, and always will work. Capitalism is the most efficient economic structure there is. Also, when capitalism increases efficiency, it means making the whole as productive as possible by optimizing allocation. A skilled craftsman should be practicing his skill, not doing some other thing he or she is less good at. If you are good at something, chances are youâ(TM)ll make good money doing that. So, you misunderstand efficiency in capitalism. The allocation of resources to maximize system output is the most efficient.
Because politicians are children (Score:4, Insightful)
and it's best to communicate with them using language they understand.
It's not just presidents and powerful senators and congressmen who speak in childish hyperbole these days. The rot has percolated down into, oh I don't know, the CDC whose director is crying about Impending Doom! while we are assured that Democrat administrations are run by cool analytical realists.
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No, people are children, and politicians need to talk to them in a language they can understand, thus sounding themselves like children.
If you talk to the people who actually write the speeches politicians make on a regular basis, you'll find out that the golden rule those writers abide by is that they must assume that their audience has an average mental age of 11.
Re: Because politicians are children (Score:2, Interesting)
People who take time out of their day and go out of their way to listen to a politician give a speech don't have an *average* mental age of 11, they have a ceiling on their mental age of less than 11.
A properly functioning member of a properly functioning society shouldn't need to even think about government or politics. To the extent that I ever think of government or politics, it's almost always in the context of how they're stealing from me, how they're failing to perform one or more of the duties we by
Re: Because politicians are children (Score:2)
Politicians rail agains
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We will always need government for the same reason we'll always need police and courts. Humans are shitty and their behavior needs to be moderated. For that same reason, the masses will always need to be fully aware of what the government is doing, why it's doing that, etc. There really has never been a time without government - even paleolithic tribes had rulers. Likewise there will never be a time when government just disappears, or magically works perfectly, unless we figure out how to make a perfect mac
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It moves toward a future where companies aren't held accountable by "voting with your wallet", where 1000 janitors, workers, and owners of retail businesses are condensed into 200 overworked Amazon employees, leaving the rest jobless. Once the capitalist system as we know it is broken, there will be a reckoning at some point.
The capitalist system as we know it, broken? Capitalism has always worked as you describe. Every time you hear a capitalist talk about "efficiency," they are referring to exactly that process.
Re: Because politicians are children (Score:1)