www.ted.com Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world’s dominant economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since 1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the US. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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Life’s not fair. Shut up or leave.
So what are one’s options if one leaves the US? Pay taxes somewhere else “voluntarily?” Your counterargument is as absurd as the mob claiming that forcefully taking a cut of your income is entirely up to you.
“…reaping the benefits of public transportation, education, and other resources…”
By other “resources” do you mean the US’s various wars of aggression and coups, or subsidies to big business? Let’s say I agree with promoting health and education: how do I opt out of the other things?
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The Bible deals with no lands beyond Spain, which in itself is only mentioned in passing. The bible only makes as many predictions as our minds infer.
Dude, there was plenty of humor already!
I stay about a kilometer away from St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore.
sarcasm?
If this gentleman ever overcomes his acute shyness and injects some humor into his presentations, he’ll be quite popular.
@princeofexcess The libertarian argument against taxes in my opinion is a weak one. Nobody is forcing you to stay inside the United States. You are free to leave whenever you want and not pay into the system. You are not forced to do anything by any agent and by reaping the benefits of public transportation, education, and other resources you are implicitly agreeing therefore creating a contract to pay into the system. So the libertarian argument fails. Your labour is not being stolen.
I theory there should be monopolies that work better in reality its not that simple.
since what i remember this was not what i was discussing (although it was a while back) i was discussing monopolies forming by themselves. There might be times that monopolies function better then competition i just find that most of the time it is the case because of already existing gov regulations. Phone company (at&t) use to be a monopoly formed by government and costumer service sucked and prices were higher then after it got resolved. Companies now use tricks to share networks.
it wouldnt be fair unless they all agreed, some people would rather gamble with their lives then live in worse conditions. It is not up to you to tell others how they must live their lives, there might be people who want to earn their money and spend it when they actually get a disease they dont pay extra cost then (the cost that insurance earns even if its run by gov) You not including those people. People that want to get insured already can.
yea its though luck for them but this is very emotional argument, it isnt up to you to decide what to do with other peoples money, and if you want to donate to that family im all for it. Is it fair that there are children in africa starving? no its not does that mean we have to give up all our money to feed them, if you want to go ahead.
How about this.. Let’s revert society and go back to the good old days when you had to buy insurance for firefighters to put out a fire. Oh the tyranny of socialism!
I just wanted to reiterate that certain monopolies in CERTAIN industries are able to achieve greater economies of scale (cut costs) than would separate individual companies competing. One reason is because of high fixed costs (digging holes and placing pipes/cables/etc). Governments allow those industries to monopolize/oligopoly because they can do more for society than lots of competing companies.
You’ve been watching too many Libertarian videos. I suggest reading more about the libertarian philosophies and the context behind their reasoning (historical context, social context, etc) and also reading John Locke would help too. You have an extremely superficial view of what is.
There are certain cases in real-life economics where monopolies run better than private enterprise. An example is hydro (Canadian electricity). A monopoly can achieve greater economies of scale but there also must be regulation so that the company does not price gouge consumers (Rogers *cough*)
Basic decency can also come from rational thinking. Diseases and other illnesses often happen by pure chance. If 6 logical people were sitting at a table before they were born and they each had to roll a die to see who gets a pre-existing condition would it not be fair for those 6 people to agree that if any one of them got sick everyone would chip in and help out?
My question to you is the following: what would be the most ethical solution to this problem?
Would it be more ethical for a society to have a pot everyone contributes to so that nobody is left with the burden of unfortunate circumstances that are completely by chance? Is it better for everyone to take care of themselves the more equitable solution? Or is there another?
@princeofexcess I’d just like to jump into this discussion. Suppose there is a newly immigrant family with a small business and they have a child. And it turns out that the child has a pre-medical condition: asthma — through no fault of the parents or the child. Medication is expensive and so is frequent hospitalization. Eventually, the family has to sell their small business because they can’t afford the costs to take care of the child’s condition.
American and Europian time is gone, done and finished as it is said in the bible. He based it in his theory and it is happening today.
The level of America and Europe will not move any more, instead it will fall.
Today is the Asian time and China will be the dominant country in the world, next is Japan followed by India.
I’m glad TED keeps inviting Hans. Statistics was never this entertaining at university!
As I’ve said, matriculation is a tool of capitalism. That’s why you see highly educated engineers slogging for high school dropouts cum entrepreneurs.