What it Takes to be Able to Buy a Home

The yearly income required is substantial, almost everywhere, and quite absurd in a few others. What you have to keep in mind here, however, and despite whatever fluctuations may occur, is that maintaining a substantial yearly income will be ever more assaulted by the vagaries of increasing hypercompetition, and a host of interacting global uncertainties.

What does that mean?

In a nutshell it ensures that retraining requirements will increase. You will be expected to retrain in an environment where the training costs are sure to increase, even as what you may be able to retrain to won't ensure a comparable follow on wage. Any more than where you will have to go in order to make use of that new skill, and what that housing market (purchasing or renting) may require in order to be housed as you were previously. And this will be guaranteed to be so because greater uncertainty in the world will make further investments so problematic that what is continued to be done here, commercially (other than certain core services), will become quite unpredictable; especially as to what would allow for substantial yearly incomes.

TOO MUCH

How Much You Need To Earn To Buy A Home In 27 US Cities

 Dan Fallon

Sep 12 2016, 3:31 PM

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Money May Not Buy You Love...

...But it sure as hell can buy you the research results for the profits you love. Just ask the sugar industry group that influenced government guidelines for heart health, fudging over the sweet stuffs effects, at the expense of fats getting the major emphasis.

Doesn't it just give you all sorts of warm and fuzzies now that Commercialized Science can go steady with Commercialized Democracy? They're all in bed together so nice and cozy. Even though they're not the ones actually getting screwed.

Sugar Industry Manipulated Heart Studies, Review Finds

by MAGGIE FOX

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by MARTHA C. WHITE

Corporate Lead, State House Pre Emption of Local Communities

As the Slate article linked below makes clear, one of the most productive methods of current corporate influence is now the use of state legislatures to keep cities, towns and counties away from laws that might cost Big Money lower profits. An organization called the American Legislative Exchange Council (or ALEC) all but dictates the business agenda desired by Big Money, and the, usually, Republican controlled state houses jump to it.

Commercialized Democracy in action.

The Shackling of the American City

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Local governments want to set their own minimum wages, gun laws, and smoking bans. And statehouses have methodically stripped away their powers to do so.

By Henry Grabar

The Trumpedlicans Troglodyte Roll Call

Stand up and be counted. Affirm your love for the former son of the KGB. The old Soviet strongman wanna be. For our own Troglodyte of the Chumped has proclaimed him worthy of more praise than our own sitting president; you know, the guy who managed to get more people health care coverage than ever before?

Can you even begin to imagine what the hew and cry would be from what used to be know as Republicans if any Democrat, let alone Hillary Clinton, were to sing the praises of a man who probably has his own private shrine to Stalin? A man who got his chops putting black boots firmly on the ground of forced collectivism at the point of a gun? A man who's very essence was formed sucking at the tit of crazy big, centralized bureaucracy? Seriously?

And still the media talks to our Troglodyte of the Chumped as if he were a serious candidate for high office. Where is the disgust that would at least deny this farce any microphone, or camera here on out till voting day. He's a supposed billionaire after all. Let him pay for his own TV, radio, or web time. That's supposed to be "free speech" now. Asking him more questions, which he just gleefully uses to double down again and again on ever more ridiculous stupidity, or willful ignorance, making this election cycle ever more a plea for a sanity intervention from on high, is to participate in an enabling process of horrific proportions. Don't any of these news organizations have any sense of when enough is enough?

Apparently not. So, as this debasement continues, we should be gathering long memories for their complicent participation.

#Trumpedlicans, #Troglodyte&of&the&Chumped

First Read: Putin Becomes the Ultimate Test of GOP Loyalty to Trump

by CHUCK TODD, MARK MURRAY and CARRIE DANN

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How We Arrived At The Era Of Post-Truth Politics

21 diggs The Economist Politics

Dishonesty in politics is nothing new; but the manner in which some politicians now lie, and the havoc they may wreak by doing so, are worrying.

In the World of Information as Commodity...

...Nothing Big Money gives you equals what they get in return. As such, they will always know more about you than you know about them. And yet, as the saying goes, in order for a Democracy to work it absolutely must have a well informed electorate. How can they make cogent decisions otherwise?

But that is precisely what commercialized Democracy is not about. In that world you vote within a decisional framework predefined by commercial interests; an environment where the questions are constructed to limit the answers to options that, in no way, threaten Big Money's overall control. They might change the facade that confronts you in everyday interactions, but very little of substance that would benefit you at their expense (where "their expense" is defined any way that suits them).

And of course, the corollary of this is the farce that becomes of "representational" government. How could it be otherwise when representation, and facade, are now so interchangeable; especially when facade now can be engineered, and presented, with so many technological tools, distribution channels (you only need consider just how much of internet advertising Alphabet controls now to truly appreciate this), only they, for the most part, can afford. This is, in fact, a good part of what I've been trying to encapsulate in the term "Amplified Speech: (see this post)"

"...And just so we are clear here, when I say amplification of speech I am referring to more than what one might get from even a very powerful megaphone.

Amplification in this sense is the ability to not only create highly engineered messages, it is also the means to give them both vertical and lateral distribution; which is to say distribution saturation over time, as well as over the diversity of message channels. In this is the power for cementing the Big Lie as the Fascists could only have dreamed of..."

Free Isn't Freedom: How Silicon Valley Tricks Us

WRITTEN BY ROBERT EPSTEIN

September 6, 2016 // 11:00 AM EST

Even the Very Real Skill of a Farmer....

...Might be rendered to nothing more than software. As such, the saddest thing here would be that, as we continue with our obsolete economic operating system, those folks who continue with generations of tradition in growing food, not only for a living, but as a way of life, will find themselves at the mercy of an ever increasing competitive disadvantage; something already at work as farming turns into big, agri-conglomerates. The factory mentality will prevail, only in this case the factory floor will be multi thousand acre tributes to single crop efficiency, and chemical dependency.

Self-driving tractors promise to get themselves to work, plow without complaint

 Scott Collie  August 30, 2016

And Yet Mr. President...

...We still rely on an economic operating system that automatically cares far more about profit than it does about not selling poison. How could it be otherwise when not only are huge profits still connected to one poison or another, but large segments of our population have their very economic survival dependant on keeping the jobs that the production of these poisons provide. How could there be a more damning paradox for any economic operating system than the tradeoff inherent in "sure, you can stop making the poison, but you have to risk being put out on the street to do it, even if we do toss you a few bones of retraining."

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