e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said: Mitchell got Trumped by Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/steph_turkey/status/1367310405308137475/photo/1 What makes it even worse for him it wasn’t obvious foul on Rudy Gobert. He gave embiid a forearm to his back when he was going up. They could’ve called foul earlier when embiid went up and there was contact and embiid tried to sell it instead of trying to make it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEFly Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 hours ago, schuy7 said: It's easy to have that view from an individual stand point. But there HAVE to be people who work minimum age jobs under our current system. Not everyone can work a better paying job. We need to have a system in place that supports everyone. People have to work these jobs, and they should be fairly compensated for it. It needs to be a livable wage. Taking money from these billion dollar companies would improve the economy for everyone, too. It goes right back into the system. You can't have the top 1% have all the wealth. Most people don’t work for billion dollar companies. Most companies don’t have ROEs of a billion dollars. All companies are competing with other companies. WTF do you think America lost manufacturing jobs to Mexico, China, Viet Nam etc. Not just the lack of environmental regulations. Also wage and benefit costs. That’s the reality of a global economy. We used to be the cheap labor market. Fair from whose standpoint? The workers? The shareholders? The consumers? Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you made a purchase based on what wages or environmental practices the company was addressing and not the quality for the price? BTW, I back Warren’s wealth tax and so do a lot of billionaires that would pay it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WentzFan11 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 We’re all screwed in like 20 years when AI will be able to do all our jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEFly Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 hours ago, 4for4EaglesNest said: Terrible idea. It’s just kicking more money down the road. No more restructuring guys who won’t be around in 2 seasons when we’re ready to reload. Pull the band aid off now. Same problem. Different player. Almost have to do this. There is a bonanza of TV money coming and BG’s dead money results in a loss if cut but his salary is too high to retain. Worse than a Hobson’s choice option available to the Eagles but not a Pyrrhic victory nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 4 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said: We’re all screwed in like 20 years when AI will be able to do all our jobs. I feel like the porn industry will be ok lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saltpeter Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: I feel like the porn industry will be ok lol Damn right. Some of these scholarly young ladies are gonna become OnlyFans billionaires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtfcares Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 38 minutes ago, BigEFly said: Do you really think counter help at Wendy’s, Burger King, McDonald’s, Arby’s etc. is worth $15 an hour? How much are you willing to pay for crap food? How much is the labor worth for a restaurant where I can order from the kiosk so that the basis of my charge is delivery of food five to twenty feet from the kitchen. There is a break point on labor value before you outsource to automation or overseas. Reality is that business has to weigh the cost/benefit. @NCiggles referenced 1933 and the original minimum wage. That is out of date and the wage hasn’t functioned as such in years. Let’s take retail when I was young. We priced everything and on the weekends spent hours repricing items. Now it is at max a couple of hours changing shelf tags. Checking was the art of reading the price, entering it into the cash register and selecting the right tax code (and because of different unions, if it was meat, produce, bakery or grocery). Today all that is captured using the scan code or produce code. So stocking and checking today require less skill and hours than when I was a student in college. No reward stamps either as that is handled via customer card swipe. The inventory and reordering is also more efficient and automated. I would argue, less some adjustment for inflation the value of the job is less than it was when I was in college. You are in construction, which is harder to automate but not impossible. Preconstructed trusses, for example. Frankly, any type of prefab. It’s coming your way too. Even thinking jobs. Last five years in my job we were experimenting with AI to read medical reports and audit medical bills, including entering our required coding for reports to Medicare and other government entities. Saved our staff a ton of time which meant we needed less staff. That’s the realism. Pay for labor value and eliminate that which can be replaced cheaper. I would rather there were the jobs teenagers learn what work is the I was discussing with my fellow York Countian earlier today than a kiosk at the local fast food or retailer. $15 for them means kiosk for me. Consumers buy price so all businesses have to be price conscious. We’ve had $14/hr minimum wage in BC, Canada for years now and guess what there’s still a ton of people employed at fast food restaurants, there’s still plenty of mom and pop restaurants, and the price of a Big Mac is still less than $5 CAD. The claim that increasing minimum wage will end entry level jobs or severely increase the price of goods simply doesn’t have proof behind it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WentzFan11 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 4 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: I feel like the porn industry will be ok lol Animated porn is actually picking up in popularity lol. Get ready for CGI porn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEFly Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 hours ago, 4for4EaglesNest said: I bet if the OP locked the thread for a few hours you dingleberries would get the point. Nah, we got moved to some other location a few years ago and it didn’t slow us down. Until something happens Eagles wise, we are just passing the time. BTW, until you got bored, we were mostly agreeing on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 minute ago, WentzFan11 said: Animated porn is actually picking up in popularity lol. Get ready for CGI porn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinfan Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 24 minutes ago, BigEFly said: Most people don’t work for billion dollar companies. Most companies don’t have ROEs of a billion dollars. All companies are competing with other companies. WTF do you think America lost manufacturing jobs to Mexico, China, Viet Nam etc. Not just the lack of environmental regulations. Also wage and benefit costs. That’s the reality of a global economy. We used to be the cheap labor market. Fair from whose standpoint? The workers? The shareholders? The consumers? Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you made a purchase based on what wages or environmental practices the company was addressing and not the quality for the price? BTW, I back Warren’s wealth tax and so do a lot of billionaires that would pay it. Not that simple, because automation means a higher capital to labor ratio, higher labor productivity thus higher wages. So encouraging companies to automate is a way to raise wages, but at the cost of fewer jobs - but with an aging workforce and if immigration is limited, this is both viable and a better society to live in, one where there isn't grinding poverty as the norm. There are always tradeoffs, globalization raised wages and living standards around the world, and it made Americans richer on average, but those who gained from globalization failed to compensate those who lost. In the same way, raising the minimum wage can encourage better jobs, but at the cost of some jobs. So how do we balance these things? TANSTAAFL - there ain't no such thing as a free lunch (because the drinks cost twice as much). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEFly Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 hours ago, eagle45 said: Let’s all post our CV to our profiles. Ask The moderators to include and I will be glad to do so. That you have posted on the Blog as long as you have and not know AFan is a lawyer and a doctorate in economics with extensive publishing background is surprising. We are a diverse group. I find it refreshing that AFan never calls the rest of us out for our lack of economist backgrounds. ‘Tis the offseason lull waiting for cap resolution and salary cap cuts. So we discuss the topic of the day. Schuy as a Bernie lite surprised me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinfan Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 23 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said: We’re all screwed in like 20 years when AI will be able to do all our jobs. That's what they said 100 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEFly Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Alphagrand said: That is some righteous curling. Damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle45 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, BigEFly said: Ask The moderators to include and I will be glad to do so. That you have posted on the Blog as long as you have and not know AFan is a lawyer and a doctorate in economics with extensive publishing background is surprising. We are a diverse group. I find it refreshing that AFan never calls the rest of us out for our lack of economist backgrounds. ‘Tis the offseason lull waiting for cap resolution and salary cap cuts. So we discuss the topic of the day. Schuy as a Bernie lite surprised me. I have been well aware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEFly Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said: I didnt realize my boy Kyle Van Noy was available! Getting long in the tooth so about the time Howie will finally deliver him to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEFly Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 34 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said: We’re all screwed in like 20 years when AI will be able to do all our jobs. I don’t look forward to when your role is automated. Terminator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BigEFly Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 26 minutes ago, wtfcares said: We’ve had $14/hr minimum wage in BC, Canada for years now and guess what there’s still a ton of people employed at fast food restaurants, there’s still plenty of mom and pop restaurants, and the price of a Big Mac is still less than $5 CAD. The claim that increasing minimum wage will end entry level jobs or severely increase the price of goods simply doesn’t have proof behind it. Canada really doesn’t compare to the US. But BC is beautiful and I hope to make it back some day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEFly Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 17 minutes ago, austinfan said: Not that simple, because automation means a higher capital to labor ratio, higher labor productivity thus higher wages. So encouraging companies to automate is a way to raise wages, but at the cost of fewer jobs - but with an aging workforce and if immigration is limited, this is both viable and a better society to live in, one where there isn't grinding poverty as the norm. There are always tradeoffs, globalization raised wages and living standards around the world, and it made Americans richer on average, but those who gained from globalization failed to compensate those who lost. In the same way, raising the minimum wage can encourage better jobs, but at the cost of some jobs. So how do we balance these things? TANSTAAFL - there ain't no such thing as a free lunch (because the drinks cost twice as much). Destined for a shrinking middle class? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 6 minutes ago, downundermike said: Thanks for ruining my Thursday already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEFly Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 32 minutes ago, downundermike said: Howie pick pre-Howie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinfan Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Howie traded up to take Cox at #12, so he'd have traded down to take Suh instead of Mamula. Mamula was one of the first to train for the combine and put up great numbers, but he was misused as a 4-3 DE, probably would have been much better as a 3-4 OLB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeanMeanGM Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Howie would trade a 1995 pick for one in 2010? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The guy in France Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 6 hours ago, Original Sin said: inflation will come and go regardless if minimum wage is 15 per hour or not . and you already pay taxes to subsidize corporate welfare , farmers because of the silly trade war that back fired Trickle down also known as Voodoo economic, subsidizing the top 10%. The taxes they aren’t paying just added to the National Debt. Elephant in the room FAIL. Inherited assets should be transferred at the original cost, no more getting away with not paying taxes on large capital gains. While we are at it public education should solely be federally funded and meet federally mandated standards. Happy days your property taxes will go down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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