People in Seattle lament the influx of homeless people and go on about the economic impact to the city but there's nothing about who those homeless people are. (Fox Q13: Seattle’s homeless problem is becoming a problem for the tourism industry)
The vibe with hipsters apparently seems to be one of, wow, man, one day there were no homeless people and, presto, the next day all the cities were plagued with homeless people. It's a trial, I tell you.
Slapping hipsters around is all very well but the question outstanding is why don't they ask who these homeless people are and why they come.
New homeless people aren't coming into America as you know there would be hell to pay if the inner city homeless were mostly immigrants. Americans don't even reproduce enough to replace themselves so the homeless people come from the same pool of people who were already here. (WIKI: Demography of the United States)
Yah, that you would be you, Dagwood. I know a whole lot of people living in circumstances none of us would have ever believed are possible in America. It's us. At every minute, I'm living one piece of bad news away from a Greyhound station and so are many others.
The immense irony to the moment is most of America's population growth comes from immigration, the same thing they fight like infectious disease, ostensibly. Talking of immigration in political speeches makes flashy copy but it doesn't mean much.
The homeless people will have all manner of tales of broken lives but common to many of them are backbreaking medical costs and / or the loss of a job.
In my own circumstance, I would have remained untouchable but I never anticipated I could get taken out by getting sick. Even when you think you may have built a fortress, it's not as hard to bring down as you think. Once it starts tumbling, there's no stopping it.
We're not warming up for Kumbaya in the Park but rather it's worth what is now an infrequent plug for the Socialist Left.
- Anticipate the American job environment over the long-run, going out at least five years, and the reason is the influx of high-intelligence machinery which will inevitably displace workers
- Deal with an American economy in which a great many people are not expected to work in traditional ways because those jobs have been automated out of existence and the previous wave resulted in millions of people working with computer screens but this won't
- Review models which drive the thinking increased productivity is the answer to everything
The biggest test of all is how will you challenge a society when you really don't have anything for it to do. Unless you would dawdle in the largest devil's workshop of all time, it would be an idea to consider how such a challenge would work. We're still monkeys and we always want to feel like part of something even when, well, we aren't.
It doesn't take Kreskin to see these changes coming what with scientists releasing papers almost daily on new aspects of high-end robotization, etc. There's another irony in the leisure doesn't come to the rich but rather the poor because there's no work. Shake off the idea this is sci fi since it's not so distant; the research is now and there's lots of it.
One of the greatest frustrations with this sideshow of an Election is the lack of any significant vision toward anything. Nothing goes beyond breaking even and, as we can see in Seattle, breaking even isn't coming close to meeting the real world.
The vibe with hipsters apparently seems to be one of, wow, man, one day there were no homeless people and, presto, the next day all the cities were plagued with homeless people. It's a trial, I tell you.
Slapping hipsters around is all very well but the question outstanding is why don't they ask who these homeless people are and why they come.
New homeless people aren't coming into America as you know there would be hell to pay if the inner city homeless were mostly immigrants. Americans don't even reproduce enough to replace themselves so the homeless people come from the same pool of people who were already here. (WIKI: Demography of the United States)
Yah, that you would be you, Dagwood. I know a whole lot of people living in circumstances none of us would have ever believed are possible in America. It's us. At every minute, I'm living one piece of bad news away from a Greyhound station and so are many others.
The immense irony to the moment is most of America's population growth comes from immigration, the same thing they fight like infectious disease, ostensibly. Talking of immigration in political speeches makes flashy copy but it doesn't mean much.
The homeless people will have all manner of tales of broken lives but common to many of them are backbreaking medical costs and / or the loss of a job.
In my own circumstance, I would have remained untouchable but I never anticipated I could get taken out by getting sick. Even when you think you may have built a fortress, it's not as hard to bring down as you think. Once it starts tumbling, there's no stopping it.
We're not warming up for Kumbaya in the Park but rather it's worth what is now an infrequent plug for the Socialist Left.
- Anticipate the American job environment over the long-run, going out at least five years, and the reason is the influx of high-intelligence machinery which will inevitably displace workers
- Deal with an American economy in which a great many people are not expected to work in traditional ways because those jobs have been automated out of existence and the previous wave resulted in millions of people working with computer screens but this won't
- Review models which drive the thinking increased productivity is the answer to everything
The biggest test of all is how will you challenge a society when you really don't have anything for it to do. Unless you would dawdle in the largest devil's workshop of all time, it would be an idea to consider how such a challenge would work. We're still monkeys and we always want to feel like part of something even when, well, we aren't.
It doesn't take Kreskin to see these changes coming what with scientists releasing papers almost daily on new aspects of high-end robotization, etc. There's another irony in the leisure doesn't come to the rich but rather the poor because there's no work. Shake off the idea this is sci fi since it's not so distant; the research is now and there's lots of it.
One of the greatest frustrations with this sideshow of an Election is the lack of any significant vision toward anything. Nothing goes beyond breaking even and, as we can see in Seattle, breaking even isn't coming close to meeting the real world.
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