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2013-05-19, 07:17 | Link #10184 | |
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Funeral home has bicycle hearse for 1 last ride http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...05-17-11-59-22
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2013-05-19, 19:32 | Link #10185 | |
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Bra-nomics works to stimulate inflation
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NSFW And it gets bigger and bigger, closer and closer...... Sorry; dynamic content not loaded. Reload?
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2013-05-20, 12:39 | Link #10186 | ||
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2013-05-21, 01:23 | Link #10187 | |
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2013-05-21, 04:50 | Link #10188 |
books-eater youkai
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Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?
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2013-05-21, 12:54 | Link #10190 | |
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2013-05-22, 09:25 | Link #10192 | ||
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There's a reason most doctors are children of other doctors, etc etc. In other news: Be the voice of NPR https://careers-npr.icims.com/jobs/1673/job Quote:
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2013-05-22, 10:31 | Link #10194 |
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You get used to them. Usually those who say that grow up from second-generation money, same as those CEOs who pull strings to get to where they are despite having a history of damaging companies then blaming the workers (i.e - oh they don't know how to speak English).
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2013-05-22, 10:39 | Link #10195 |
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^ I agree that all of it is douchebaggery .. except for the "trickle-down" point. They're missing out on what the definition of trickle-down actually means. Contributing to charity is great and all but is not trickle-down at all, it shows a complete misunderstanding of what that concept even means.
Trickle-down is either 1) investment or 2) consumption that results in additional jobs all the way down the chain. Here's an example: A bunch of rich people start buying product X in Singapore, it could be robot dogs for all I care, the companies that make robot dogs generate profits and either a) take the profit themselves and spend it on product Y (robot cats?) or b) hire more workers/invest in more machinery/buy more from their suppliers
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2013-05-22, 10:55 | Link #10196 | |
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Manufacturing tends to draw most of the trickled money in the case you are talking about, if the manufacturing is overseas and the sales services are local, more money is dragged up rather than pulled down domestically.
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2013-05-22, 11:03 | Link #10197 |
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^ Except for all the jobs where people are selling the robot dogs. Storefront leases, customer service representatives, service centers for broken robot dogs. Anyways, it was just an example that "consumption" is still trickle-down whereas charity is definitely not. (Author did not get the concept)
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2013-05-22, 11:06 | Link #10198 | |
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I may be wrong or confused though, please highlight if you think so.
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2013-05-22, 11:11 | Link #10199 |
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Your example doesn't make sense to me -- because your case was that the robot dogs are produced overseas -- so unless the companies are making negative profit plus all the ancillary services are making negative profit due to the robot dogs there wouldn't be a negative flow of funds. Basically, did that aggregate selling of robot dogs, generate profit for people along the supply chain. If yes, then trickle-down, if no, then no trickle-down. It can be less or more in one geography or sector than another, but in this example, due to it being "$1 of additional spending" there was no negative-drag.
Keep in mind though that "trickle-down" as used in my case and by the author of that article will be easily misunderstood by many people because it is current tied very closely to "tax cut for the rich" debates, which is not what we're discussing here.
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2013-05-22, 11:42 | Link #10200 |
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The problem is that they're not buying enough robot dogs, I guess. (And really, unless you collect them, how many robot dogs do you need?)
And doesn't charity kinda trickles down? It's like buying a bag of rice, except somebody else eats it. |
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