3 Responses to “Technology Goes…”

1. bosshoss429 Says:
   November 30th, 2015 at 6:29 am

   The filters worked as they should. Sanders is phishing for votes to support his scams.

2. Chuck Says:
   November 30th, 2015 at 7:23 am

   Free stuff!!

   But at least the spams I get on my computer say “my friends daughter works from home and makes $65,000 a year”. Bernie is saying you don’t even have to work to get the free stuff.

3. Bento Guzman Says:
   November 30th, 2015 at 7:51 am

   The margins are where the important stuff happens.
   Let’s invent a guy named John Margin. John Margin, after getting a BA in the humanities from a state college, is working as a retail manager at the mall. He’s making $40k/year. He’s smart enough to know that this is basically as far as his BA in lit (with a safety minor in business) is going to take him. He’s Al Bundy, looking at a not too spectacular future, followed by a retirement in poverty, then death.
   He decides that sucks.
   John Margin isn’t a complete idiot. He knows that tech degrees pay more than retail manager at the mall. Two or three times as much more.
   So he quits his job and goes back to school, or he goes to night school.
   Thing is, he’s not very good at doing tech stuff. He just doesn’t have the mind for it. So his school is third tier, and it takes him four years to get a BA in IT, and $60k he can’t afford, and he graduates with a less than stellar GPA.
   After graduation, he manages to find a job as a web developer, making $44k/year, with no upward career path.
   It doesn’t seem right to John Margin that he should do everything right, to make a positive effort to do something he doesn’t even like to do, take out $60K in student loans to boot, and still be stuck in a dead end job.
   You and I might know that John Margin’s hope lies in high economic growth. In a high economic growth environment, the job market tightens up, and John Margin’s marginal job skills will have higher value.
   But John Margin slept through his econ 101 classes.
   As far as he is concerned, he’s already tried the GOP ‘get an education, work hard and make sacrifices to get ahead” plan, and it’s a load of horseshit.
   So he listens to Bernie’s politics of resentment, and in November he pulls the lever for Sanders, or for Clinton. They offer him hope, tell him he deserves everything that they will take from others and give to him.
   I know people like this personally, and I can’t blame them for feeling the way that they do. The GOP has consistently let people like John Margin down.

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