Look at this list of top lobbyists. Oddly they correspond closely with everything you listed. Our government is very active in these. They just arent doing a great job.
The government has been active in regulating healthcare for 30 years. Oddly during that time Physicians became 300k/yr earners, Pharmacists became 6 figure earners. Hospitals, Pharma and everyone between are growing.
>Education, job training
Highly funded k12 education, subsidized loans for college
>housing
Blaming real estate laws for this, but Im mostly out of the loop. Real estate is a top lobby
>Transportation
Maybe, but I feel like this could be bad for the environment.
>I know a lot of people here don't think there should be unions in software
There is a huge concern.
As a senior engineer, my pay is really nice. Its deserved as I am 'a jack of all trades', I have accomplishments recognized by other engineers, and I stay late whenever the job needs to get done.
I genuinely enjoy my job, and the pay is great.
What would be the purpose of unions? They take a fat fee, they standardize pay, standardize hours, and sound like they would overall disrupt what works.
When Medical got regulated in the U.S. the prices skyrocketed, and customer care stagnated. The regulators were incentivized to create a monopoly by the entrenched medical professionals.
Now people are asking for more regulations. Is that the solution?
The sweat shop workers, the company, the customers.
Sweat shop workers are losing their ability to do mindless labor, next up, they will be using their brains to make low skill decisions where automation cannot. Think Amazon Turk.
Customers get lower cost, likely higher quality products.
Company gets more reliable workforce.
>It's all fun and games until you have to take into consideration the soci-economical aspect of automation.
This has already happened in history. You COULD make it illegal, but then your countries technology will be out performed by another country.
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Its easy to disagree, its harder to come up with your own solutions.
If economics are irrational because humans are irrational. Apple is the primary argument that humans are irrational.
Forming logical conclusions on anything Apple does is dangerous. They overcharge and under deliver(at least on Hardware). They are primarily marketing, not tech.
For this same reason, their valuation is irrational. I don't expect Apple to be above 500M for much longer than a few years.
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s
>Healthcare
The government has been active in regulating healthcare for 30 years. Oddly during that time Physicians became 300k/yr earners, Pharmacists became 6 figure earners. Hospitals, Pharma and everyone between are growing.
>Education, job training
Highly funded k12 education, subsidized loans for college
>housing
Blaming real estate laws for this, but Im mostly out of the loop. Real estate is a top lobby
>Transportation
Maybe, but I feel like this could be bad for the environment.