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7 LIES You Were Taught At School
ravioliJeez, what a stupid stack of stupidness. These are all pop culture memes, not school related .
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Paid Family Leave
MordhausAgain, you are misrepresenting the road tax. There is literally no way that you do not use the road or travel system in some fashion unless you walk everywhere cross-country and make no other trips other than for food and work. Even if you ride a bike on a road or take a bus/train, you are using the transport system and therefore should have to pay for it.
Most of the rest of your points about education and healthcare are opinions and I refuse to waste time on them.
The numbers I listed are per dollar per family. I fell I've been very transparent on this and the fact that you continue to rail against it is doing nothing to impress upon me that I am wrong. The numbers are accurate. As far as the middle class, it is still the largest portion of our class structure. Yes, it is shrinking and this should be addressed, but it is what it is at the moment. They are the average American still.
Some of them are happy with it. There are numerous articles from Norwegians discussing their unhappiness with the system, especially since they are having an influx of poor immigrants like the rest of Europe. They suddenly do not like having to pay for people who moved to their country, odd right?
The idea of being the same as everyone else is a fucking cultural meme in Norway and similar countries, its called the Law of Jante. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante. Again, I feel I have been very clear and open on this and you are pissing me off by picking at it like i'm making it up. I don't make stuff up, I find facts and I list them. If the facts do not agree with your viewpoint, that is not my problem.
Finally, we are so far off the topic at this point and you continue to nitpick my facts instead of disproving them, so I am done.
It depends...social security, about 1937, medicare, more like 65, public schools, that depends on what you want to call different systems, but in North America it started in 1647
https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us
The road bit is a PERFECT example of how, even if you don't directly use a service, you benefit from others using it....just like EVERY OTHER SERVICE MENTIONED.
Because we don't deny medical services to those without money, it's a question of do you pay less beforehand or more later, because either way you pay.
Because uneducated children cost society FAR more than educating them does, standing on your myopic moral high ground demanding 'personal parental responsibility' is a self defeating stance demanding people 'give' more than some have to give with no option for the children of the poor. (That said, I can get behind the 'public schools being free only for the poor' plan I think Jefferson had, as long as those schools are on par with private one's)
I explained clearly why even those average numbers are misleading.
Again, is that purchasing power per dollar, per person, or what?
OK, 'middle class' is not the average American. How about give the average American salary instead of cherry picking a rapidly shrinking sub-group that makes your point?
We all pay through the nose...it's just about when and how. You pay for the indigent by paying higher insurance and medical bills...it would be FAR cheaper to simply pay for their medical care in the first place (as in single payer health care). That saves the 10-25% that insurance companies take as profit on day one, and saves on overall medical care cost per person by properly taking care of people instead of waiting until there's an expensive emergency to pay for. (and makes a much healthier, so happier society as a whole)
The fact is that they are happy with their system. It does not make them all 'perfectly equal', there are rich and poor in Norway...or do you not believe that? People DO get ahead in Norway, probably more so than the average person in America who has seen their financial/social status in life, purchasing power, benefits, opportunities, and security go backwards over the last 40 years, unlike Norway.
No, I think the entire 'identical to everyone else' thing is something in YOUR head, not theirs, and not reality.
Don't have disposable income?!? In Norway, not the US?!?! You've GOT to be kidding. Let's ask someone who lives there...@BicycleRepairMan , is there only one social class in Norway, all equal, all making the same amount of money, all poor and destitute with no disposable income?
Well, the American system certainly disagrees with you. Those that put the most effort into their jobs usually make FAR less than those that put little effort into taking advantage of the opportunities available to them, but not to others. Those that make more in our society almost NEVER do it with manual labor, the hardest work to do. They also rarely do 2 or 3 full time jobs, as many poor must do. It's simply not true that working harder gets you advancement in the US, opportunity and connections get you advancement.
I do agree, giving medals for average/expected performance is ridiculous, but that rarely happens in business.
Rebel Rocket Attack - Banksy
SFOGuyPromoting for the cleverly uncomfortable manipulation of multiple cultural memes simultaneously. *promote
The History of VideoSift Part I (Blog Entry by dag)
Taint says...Great to hear the back story.
I remember my brother showing me this site at one point, and while I don't remember being instantly taken with it, but you chose your name well, and it stuck with me. I found myself visiting more and more. Now, rarely a day goes by where I don't browse through the sift just to see what's going on and whether there's a pop cultural meme of the moment that I wasn't aware of, a documentary I never heard of, or just the latest trailer to some movie that I wasn't aware they released yet.
You've built a brilliant web site with a great community. I often end up enjoying the comment section more than the videos themselves. It's everything that's good about entertainment on the web, and took something groundbreaking and massive like the creation of Youtube and gave it focus and purpose showing us what's worth our attention without having to -sift- through the pure dregs.
I continue to recommend it to anyone who will listen.
Thanks Dag
Monty Python-"Funniest Joke in the World"
James Roeheh, its weird how the sift changes on a weekly basis, as someone on mefi pointed out it tends to be meme oriented. I sort of feel like we will eventually run out of popular culture, or perhaps geek culture, memes and will wind up defining new memes. At least i hope thats true, until that point long live the meme, and has anyone seen that clip of the irish woman popping out babies?