How true is this?
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#12
I don't have a lot of time to get deep into the details of that article but I will quickly say that income disparity is particularly rife in states here in the US where education is failing. Many of the ten states cited in the article are near or at the very bottom in terms of education. These states are also among many that ascribe to the "Right to Work" law which does great harm to the ability of workers to unionize in the effort to achieve better wages and benefits. These states are also states have also gone to great lengths to restrict abortion rights for women and pregnancy rates, especially among teens are higher.
Couple all these issues of poor education, lapses in social services and the inability to unionize and you have a female workforce operating at a distinct disadvantage. Add to that issues of race and you can begin to see some serious divisions in American society.
Couple all these issues of poor education, lapses in social services and the inability to unionize and you have a female workforce operating at a distinct disadvantage. Add to that issues of race and you can begin to see some serious divisions in American society.
#13
The point of this all being is that many service or part time jobs will disappear or fall into the minumum pay categories which will, in fact, damage what possibilities are available to the lesser educated.
#14
Successful Philosophy Majors - Business Insider
And this:
11 Reasons To Major In The Humanities - Business Insider
While at Reed College (a notorious liberal arts college in Portland, OR) Steve Jobs studied literature, poetry and physics.
How about this for the ability to think critically.
Buzz Blog: Best Majors for GRE Scores in 2013: Philosophy Dominates
The Management Myth - Matthew Stewart - The Atlantic
Philosophers Find the Degree Pays Off in Life And in Work - NYTimes.com
Philosophy
Philosophy is Back in Business - Businessweek
I could go on, but my point is that the continual narrowing of focus in school only serves to produce automatons incapable of creative, analytical thinking. A day doesn't go by that I don't use the skills taught to me in college, nor does a day go by that I am not thankful for those skills.
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Jafir,
That video was the most insulting piece of right wing agitprop I've heard today. It's the same nonsense that the CEO of Microsoft was spouting the day before. He walked that BS back real fast yesterday.
Take a look at the real stats, not something some woman giving a script to recite, say.
The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation and by Race and Ethnicity, 2013 — IWPR
Make sure to open the PDF.
And the idiocy of "women get paid less because of the jobs they choose" garbage is the result of a paternalistic society (especially in the south) that has worked diligently (and recently, very forcefully) to keep women barefoot and pregnant. Provide miserably ineffective education (your state is ranked 45th out of 50 by the EXTREMELY right wing ALEC group Report Card on American Education - State Education Rankings), limit opportunity through the failure of the state social welfare (read this report by Representative Kathy Webb, it's sobering to say the least, http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bureau...20Arkansas.pdf) and voila, you have a class of people with a distinct earnings disadvantage. It has nothing to do with choice on the part of those harmed by these policies, rather, it is a deliberate attempt to keep women (and people of color) down.
That video was the most insulting piece of right wing agitprop I've heard today. It's the same nonsense that the CEO of Microsoft was spouting the day before. He walked that BS back real fast yesterday.
Take a look at the real stats, not something some woman giving a script to recite, say.
The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation and by Race and Ethnicity, 2013 — IWPR
Make sure to open the PDF.
And the idiocy of "women get paid less because of the jobs they choose" garbage is the result of a paternalistic society (especially in the south) that has worked diligently (and recently, very forcefully) to keep women barefoot and pregnant. Provide miserably ineffective education (your state is ranked 45th out of 50 by the EXTREMELY right wing ALEC group Report Card on American Education - State Education Rankings), limit opportunity through the failure of the state social welfare (read this report by Representative Kathy Webb, it's sobering to say the least, http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bureau...20Arkansas.pdf) and voila, you have a class of people with a distinct earnings disadvantage. It has nothing to do with choice on the part of those harmed by these policies, rather, it is a deliberate attempt to keep women (and people of color) down.
#16
We live in a consuming society. As a result, it behooves those with the means of production to make sure enough people are able to buy their "stuff." It is also in the best interest of those who govern to insure that people are able to consume more than just the basics. For the sake of preservation, we will see corporations and governments come to the realization that a guaranteed income for all citizens is essential. Said income will serve as a paliative for the disaffected enabling them to remain in the consuming class.
This "social dividend" is a small price to pay for maintaining levels of consumption and insuring a reasonable satisfied populace.
#17
Hi Paul, it isn't intended as a 'poke' in the eye more of a generator of ideas, opinions and views.
The point I'm trying to make is the vast majority of employment is for internal money consumption not exportable goods and services creating national wealth and contributing to the national GDP. One only needs to cast an eye over europe and the EU. Some countries are exporters and some are internal money players/recyclers with reducing exports, vis France. The problems of the EU in some way parallel the US in that it is economically disparate states combined under one flag and trading agreement. The other major issues are that many states in europe fail to 'think outside the box' and cannot recognise the global economy whilst the far eastern countries are leaping forward and now producing quality goods at affordable costs. This will inevitably damage the western economies whose wage structure as such is higher and therefore their selling prices. One only has to consider the automotive industries in the west, look at the UK west midlands, car manufacturing doesn't exist anymore as similar to Detroit. Now take a look at far eastern cars and motorbikes on the roads, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, Suzuki, Yamaha etc, etc. Now take a look at the household consumer goods markets, Samsung, Sony, etc, etc. Why, because they produce quality goods at an affordable price and they don't produce 'Friday afternoon' goods with intrinsic defects.
It is also borne out in the balance of payments of many western countries where they import far more than export in value.
The point I'm trying to make is the vast majority of employment is for internal money consumption not exportable goods and services creating national wealth and contributing to the national GDP. One only needs to cast an eye over europe and the EU. Some countries are exporters and some are internal money players/recyclers with reducing exports, vis France. The problems of the EU in some way parallel the US in that it is economically disparate states combined under one flag and trading agreement. The other major issues are that many states in europe fail to 'think outside the box' and cannot recognise the global economy whilst the far eastern countries are leaping forward and now producing quality goods at affordable costs. This will inevitably damage the western economies whose wage structure as such is higher and therefore their selling prices. One only has to consider the automotive industries in the west, look at the UK west midlands, car manufacturing doesn't exist anymore as similar to Detroit. Now take a look at far eastern cars and motorbikes on the roads, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, Suzuki, Yamaha etc, etc. Now take a look at the household consumer goods markets, Samsung, Sony, etc, etc. Why, because they produce quality goods at an affordable price and they don't produce 'Friday afternoon' goods with intrinsic defects.
It is also borne out in the balance of payments of many western countries where they import far more than export in value.
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