Swiss to vote on $25 an hour minimum wage

DerekJohnson

usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/05/16/swiss-minimum-wage/9166687/

oregonblitzkrieg

Switzerland kicks ass. Best cheese. Best chocolate. Best scenery. Prettiest women. Largest drill bits. Spookiest hotels. Scariest mountain passes. Not in a fucking war with someone every 5 years.

MikeDamone

Weird because they have kicked ass forever without one. Bad move.

PostGameOrangeSlices

They will kick ass regardless. Mid euros have their shit together

Tequilla

The Swiss work partial days and everything there is super expensive.

But besides that, the Swiss kick ass.

Swaye

Tequilla said:

The Swiss work partial days and everything there is super expensive.

But besides that, the Swiss kick ass.

Not sure working less is a bad thing. Maybe this Euro trip is fucking with my brain...

I need to get home, kill an animal, skin it with a rock and my bar hands, eat it raw, then go to a bar in a jacked up pollution spewing Jeep and bang out a bleached blonde slut with no self respect who wears American Flag panties while I sing "America, Fuck Yeah." Afterwards I'll kick her out by punting a football into her face and laugh while sharpening knives and organizing ammo as I watch monster trucks on TV in my sweatpants. Othwerise, I may wake up a faggoty soccer fan in skinny jeans one day. But yeah, the Swiss are lazy.

On yeah, and one other point of order for OBK, in Europe they all seem to think that Belgians make the best chocolate.

MikeDamone

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

They will kick ass regardless. Mid euros have their shit together

Mid euros in the USA kick ass too

HTH.

Working less isn't a bad thing as long the productivity is there. People all over the world work much less than they did a century or two ago because we have made significant technology advances that so that productivity still grows. Productivity and capital investment drive economic growth, not consumption as many who get their economic education rom the politicians and TV news believe.

doogsinparadise

MikeDamone said:

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

They will kick ass regardless. Mid euros have their shit together

Mid euros in the USA kick ass too

HTH.

Working less isn't a bad thing as long the productivity is there. People all over the world work much less than they did a century or two ago because we have made significant technology advances that so that productivity still grows. Productivity and capital investment drive economic growth, not consumption as many who get their economic education rom the politicians and TV news believe.

You sure about that?
economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21600989-why-rich-now-have-less-leisure-poor-nice-work-if-you-can-get-out

MikeDamone

doogsinparadise said:

MikeDamone said:

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

They will kick ass regardless. Mid euros have their shit together

Mid euros in the USA kick ass too

HTH.

Working less isn't a bad thing as long the productivity is there. People all over the world work much less than they did a century or two ago because we have made significant technology advances that so that productivity still grows. Productivity and capital investment drive economic growth, not consumption as many who get their economic education rom the politicians and TV news believe.

You sure about that?
economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21600989-why-rich-now-have-less-leisure-poor-nice-work-if-you-can-get-out

Yes, I am 100% sure that we work less ( in hours and physically ) over the last 200 years, while increasing productivity due to advances in technology. Like I said.

Do you have evidence to the contrary? Because it's not this article.

oregonblitzkrieg

Advances in technology that improve efficiency by eliminating jobs, combined with increasing populations can lead to only one thing. War.

MikeDamone

oregonblitzkrieg said:

Advances in technology that improve efficiency by eliminating jobs, combined with increasing populations can lead to only one thing. War.

I hope that's a whoosh. If not, w.jw.

I guess it's time to ban combines and thresh the wheat by hand. #jobcreator.

DerekJohnson

MikeDamone said:

oregonblitzkrieg said:

Advances in technology that improve efficiency by eliminating jobs, combined with increasing populations can lead to only one thing. War.

I hope that's a whoosh. If not, w.jw.

I guess it's time to ban combines and thresh the wheat by hand. #jobcreator.

Impossible to do with George Bush and his Big Wheat buddies.

HeretoBeatmyChest

Edit-Actually meant this for $15 thread but oh well.

This is a terrible fucking idea that will completely fail for reasons others have already noted. It will actually create more unemployment among low skilled and low wage workers. It will hurt the lower classes.

The American public is too stupid to know that since we went off the gold standard, real wages have steadily declined, thus eroding the middle class. The credit and spending orgy that has ensued has not gone into productive capital investments but instead things like consumption and overbuilding. The result of the debt and deficits is extreme asset inflation (benefits the super rich, the owners of stocks, bonds and property), extreme wealth disparity, a hallowed out middle class and growing poverty.

Who you are born to and where now has a strong influence on where you end up. If you are born poor, there is less opportunity and more roadblocks then decades go. It is what it is. Deal with it. Its still probably the best country in the world to be born in. The opportunities in this country are still 20x more than 95% of the rest of the world.

oregonblitzkrieg

MikeDamone said:

oregonblitzkrieg said:

Advances in technology that improve efficiency by eliminating jobs, combined with increasing populations can lead to only one thing. War.

I hope that's a whoosh. If not, w.jw.

I guess it's time to ban combines and thresh the wheat by hand. #jobcreator.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

HeretoBeatmyChest said:

Edit-Actually meant this for $15 thread but oh well.

This is a terrible fucking idea that will completely fail for reasons others have already noted. It will actually create more unemployment among low skilled and low wage workers. It will hurt the lower classes.

The American public is too stupid to know that since we went off the gold standard, real wages have steadily declined, thus eroding the middle class. The credit and spending orgy that has ensued has not gone into productive capital investments but instead things like consumption and overbuilding. The result of the debt and deficits is extreme asset inflation (benefits the super rich, the owners of stocks, bonds and property), extreme wealth disparity, a hallowed out middle class and growing poverty.

Who you are born to and where now has a strong influence on where you end up. If you are born poor, there is less opportunity and more roadblocks then decades go. It is what it is. Deal with it. Its still probably the best country in the world to be born in. The opportunities in this country are still 20x more than 95% of the rest of the world.

Possibly, but upward mobility is worse here than it is in most of western Europe, Canaduh, Australia, and probably Japan.

PostGameOrangeSlices

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

HeretoBeatmyChest said:

Edit-Actually meant this for $15 thread but oh well.

This is a terrible fucking idea that will completely fail for reasons others have already noted. It will actually create more unemployment among low skilled and low wage workers. It will hurt the lower classes.

The American public is too stupid to know that since we went off the gold standard, real wages have steadily declined, thus eroding the middle class. The credit and spending orgy that has ensued has not gone into productive capital investments but instead things like consumption and overbuilding. The result of the debt and deficits is extreme asset inflation (benefits the super rich, the owners of stocks, bonds and property), extreme wealth disparity, a hallowed out middle class and growing poverty.

Who you are born to and where now has a strong influence on where you end up. If you are born poor, there is less opportunity and more roadblocks then decades go. It is what it is. Deal with it. Its still probably the best country in the world to be born in. The opportunities in this country are still 20x more than 95% of the rest of the world.

Possibly, but upward mobility is worse here than it is in most of western Europe, Canaduh, Australia, and probably Japan.

Take a look at the US demographics compared to those much smaller (and in some cases much more homogeneous) countries.

oregonblitzkrieg

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

HeretoBeatmyChest said:

Edit-Actually meant this for $15 thread but oh well.

This is a terrible fucking idea that will completely fail for reasons others have already noted. It will actually create more unemployment among low skilled and low wage workers. It will hurt the lower classes.

The American public is too stupid to know that since we went off the gold standard, real wages have steadily declined, thus eroding the middle class. The credit and spending orgy that has ensued has not gone into productive capital investments but instead things like consumption and overbuilding. The result of the debt and deficits is extreme asset inflation (benefits the super rich, the owners of stocks, bonds and property), extreme wealth disparity, a hallowed out middle class and growing poverty.

Who you are born to and where now has a strong influence on where you end up. If you are born poor, there is less opportunity and more roadblocks then decades go. It is what it is. Deal with it. Its still probably the best country in the world to be born in. The opportunities in this country are still 20x more than 95% of the rest of the world.

Possibly, but upward mobility is worse here than it is in most of western Europe, Canaduh, Australia, and probably Japan.

Take a look at the US demographics compared to those much smaller (and in some cases much less homo geneous) countries.

GulagDawg

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