I am very intelligent and well-rounded when it comes to most subjects, education-wise.

I think I have sociopathic tendencies, though.

Originally posted by Liquidacious 🍄:

Originally posted by Feitlebaum:

It's the prestige factor, which MIT certainly has, but not quite as much as, say, Harvard or Princeton.

MIT is another college I'm considering, though.

Edgucation > prestige.
People forget theres are dudes that pump your gas with higher IQs than doctors.

Are you saying that Harvard doesn't provide a good education?

Originally posted by Pyrofish:

Originally posted by Jake:

Invite by membership

Yes.
You have to ask to be invited.
Just to prevent alts and spam and The Republic's autistic war bullshit. It's literally "hey can I get in" "ok"
Or "Hey can what's his fuck get in" "ok"

Might as well ask. May I join the group?

Edit: Thank you.

Originally posted by Stake from Jate Farm:

Originally posted by Feitlebaum:

Make it to an Ivy League school or better, major in Mathematics and minor in Political Science, and then either do mathematical research or go into politics and get to at least a Congressional level.

Ivy league ain't worth it.

Go to MIT

It's the prestige factor, which MIT certainly has, but not quite as much as, say, Harvard or Princeton.

MIT is another college I'm considering, though.

Best part: Might be Scout interacting with God, or Medic interacting with Satan. Most of the comic was pretty funny.

Worst part: Naked Soldier and Zhanna because I'm a complete prude.

Not a single claim in these news reports by Russian officials that they have dirt on him; only claims by people who aren't Russian officials. They're claiming, not just to have information without proof, but that they have information that other people have information without proof.

I call bullshit on these articles.

Originally posted by Stake from Jate Farm:

Originally posted by Feitlebaum:

I should have worded that better. I didn't define "living wage" very well.

I believe that a living wage for a family of four people is around the median wage, which is at $42 000 a year. What I meant to say is that the minimum wage should be adjusted to 50-60% of that number, because while you should be able to subsist on a minimum wage job, you should be working at a better job if you're trying to support a family.

A minimum wage job isn't meant to support a person fully. It's meant to be suplimentary. It's suppose to be a job a person who is in college, or is looking for better work. It was never meant to be lived off of.

And why is that? Why should it be that there are jobs which can be worked at for just as long as any other service jobs, yet shouldn't provide enough money for a single person to live off of?

Make it to an Ivy League school or better, major in Mathematics and minor in Political Science, and then either do mathematical research or go into politics and get to at least a Congressional level.

Originally posted by robomagon:

Originally posted by Feitlebaum:

Minimum wage should exist, at least in principle, to keep people from being paid what are essentially a slave's wages. We don't want the same conditions that we had circa 1840 in Englad and the United States.

That being said, arguing about minimum wage increases really comes down to whether a person is supposed to subsist on a service sector job or not., like pointed out by Stake. I personally believe that one should be able to, at least in Western countries; we're a service sector-oriented society, and since 80% of our jobs are in the service sector[www.bls.gov], it makes sense that these jobs should work under a mininum wage that is adjusted to the standard of living.

Of course, I don't believe that most entry-level jobs should pay the median wage, which is $840 or so[www.bls.gov], or about $42 000 a year; they are entry-level jobs, and should really only be a gateway into the workforce.

Therefore, I believe that the minimum wage should be adjusted to a percentage of a living wage, perhaps 50-60%, in order to provide more income for those who, for some reason or other, can't get out of an entry-level job, without providing an unreasonable amount of pressure on businesses.


I would just like to point out that inequality isn't the problem; poverty is.

How exactly does 50-60% of a living wage allow people to, you know, live? We don't live in communes since we're not communists.

I should have worded that better. I didn't define "living wage" very well.

I believe that a living wage for a family of four people is around the median wage, which is at $42 000 a year. What I meant to say is that the minimum wage should be adjusted to 50-60% of that number, because while you should be able to subsist on a minimum wage job, you should be working at a better job if you're trying to support a family.

Minimum wage should exist, at least in principle, to keep people from being paid what are essentially a slave's wages. We don't want the same conditions that we had circa 1840 in Englad and the United States.

That being said, arguing about minimum wage increases really comes down to whether a person is supposed to subsist on a service sector job or not., like pointed out by Stake. I personally believe that one should be able to, at least in Western countries; we're a service sector-oriented society, and since 80% of our jobs are in the service sector[www.bls.gov], it makes sense that these jobs should work under a mininum wage that is adjusted to the standard of living.

Of course, I don't believe that most entry-level jobs should pay the median wage, which is $840 or so[www.bls.gov], or about $42 000 a year; they are entry-level jobs, and should really only be a gateway into the workforce.

Therefore, I believe that the minimum wage should be adjusted to a percentage of a living wage, perhaps 50-60%, in order to provide more income for those who, for some reason or other, can't get out of an entry-level job, without providing an unreasonable amount of pressure on businesses.

Originally posted by Ludek:

Seriously though setting a maximum wage will stop the constantly increasing inequality, the truth is that some positions earn too much money.

I would just like to point out that inequality isn't the problem; poverty is.