Unemployment thread

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, DeAngelo Beason said:

We aren't a democracy.  We're a republic.  Democracy is a tried and failed proposition, time and time again as history has shown us.

I will, however, agree that we are living in a corporatist economy.  Corpoaratism is socialism.

The democratic part of of our government is utterly broken though. That was my point, semantics aside.

[Davidson Deac II]

1 hour ago, Anybodyhome said:

The elimination of net neutrality is hurting a lot of home users. ISP throttle bandwidth for a number of reasons:

Network congestion

During times of heavy internet use in a single area, ISPs sometimes throttle everyone’s internet in that area. This makes it so all customers can at least access part of the network instead of some houses on the street having perfect service and others not being able to connect at all. This is most likely to happen during peak use hours from about 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Data caps

If you notice sluggish internet speeds toward the end of the month, it might be because you hit your data cap. Some ISPs limit how much high-speed data you can use in a billing cycle, and going over that cap can result in some bandwidth throttling.

Everything you do online—from loading a web page to streaming your favorite show on Netflix—uses internet data and counts toward that data cap. ISPs usually offer a way to track how much data you’re using through an online portal so you can monitor your data use and make sure you don’t go overboard right at the beginning of the month.

Any ISP that has a data cap has to include that information in your service agreement. So, if you’re experiencing throttling, take a look at your contract or call customer service.

Paid prioritization

Sometimes ISPs throttle certain internet applications—like Netflix or Hulu—to discourage you from using them (and maybe to convince you to use their own proprietary streaming service). It’s fishy, we know. An ISP could also throttle internet service where specific websites are concerned if the ISP wants that site to pay for faster load times.

There are also instances where ISPs throttle certain types of data because it simply takes up a lot of bandwidth (even though you’re already paying for it) and puts pressure on the network. This could happen with large downloads or torrents.

All of this is good for the ISP’s pocket but terrible for consumers. And paid prioritization used to be illegal until net neutrality laws were repealed in 2018.

Doesn't really have anything to do with what I said.  Been troubleshooting network connections for the past 25 years, across both intranet and internet, and the vast majority of issues related to speed and broken/poor connections or otherwise occur at the end point.  And sometimes at the source point.  Rarely with the pipe.  

[Harbingers]

13 minutes ago, CatTower said:

As opposed to putting future generations in chains?  Yes.

Ummm so you’d put millions of people in this generation in chains? Right.....

[Snake]

Sorry for all of you who have lost jobs. I know it really sucks. 

[morgan55]

1 hour ago, 4Corners said:

I have thought about moving to Canada. Sounds like a great country. Trudeau is a true leader unlike what we have here. 

Ha ha ha. Bye

[CatTower]

1 minute ago, Harbingers said:

Ummm so you’d put millions of people in this generation in chains? Right.....

Fend for yourself, stop taking from future generations.  It's the reason we are in this mess in the first place.  It has to stop sometime, might as well be now.  I'd do some type of UBI to keep people afloat while the deadweight is dropped.

[Harbingers]

8 minutes ago, CatTower said:

Fend for yourself, stop taking from future generations.  It's the reason we are in this mess in the first place.  It has to stop sometime, might as well be now.  I'd do some type of UBI to keep people afloat while the deadweight is dropped.

I agree on UBI.
 

But you are blatantly missing the point, these millions of employees did fend for themselves, Many of them spent decades of their life working and building a pension/401K. If you take away the employer, you take away up to 30% of the money they made over their lifetime that they were looking forward to retiring with. That’s not fair to them. Over an obsession with CEO’s.
 

Why not focus on CEO’s + executive boards and not killing the employees. Or how about we focus on overly inflated tax credits for corporations. 

[rayzor]

11 minutes ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

I'm still all in on it.  Beats breadlines and dictators.

We've got breadlines already and our current system isn't exactly light years ahead or even away from dictatorships. We are close to the middle ages feudal system right now. Most of us are serfs.

[Happy Panther]

1 hour ago, 4Corners said:

I have thought about moving to Canada. Sounds like a great country. Trudeau is a true leader unlike what we have here. 

It's not really that easy to move to Canada.

[4Corners]

6 minutes ago, Happy Panther said:

It's not really that easy to move to Canada.

Yeah, I know. I was half way kidding. 

[heel31ok]

1 hour ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

I'm still all in on it.  Beats breadlines and dictators.

Typical rewriting definitions ...those were his definitions

[heel31ok]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

We don't have capitalism though. The deck is stacked heavily toward big business success because they're the ones with the ability to fund political campaigns and hire professional lobbyists. That's not free market capitalism. Your vote only matters on election day. Their dollars dictate how those elected officials vote in session. That's not democracy.

Technically it is democracy as they are the majority...

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, heel31ok said:

Technically it is democracy as they are the majority...

Majority in $$$, not majority in numbers. That's not democracy.

[Davidson Deac II]

Canada is to cold.  I can barely tolerate the cold in North Carolina now.