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There is no agreement. http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showpost.php?p=229944&postcount=28 And as to the rest of this post, we've been skippin steps in our simulatneuous postings, but to reiterate, this addresses most of post #39: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showpost.php?p=229968&postcount=38

What does this story have to do with the unionization of NYU GAs? Where does this story support a point? Unless its when you say "People aren't interested in earning their way anymore." However your story still does not even provide a piece of evidence towards that unrelated point.

Not nonsense. Because did unions arise out of politics at the point of a gun, or did they arise in a capitalist system? The latter. Capitalism is an economic theory, just like socialism, and just as socialism sounds really nice on paper, capitalism sounds really nice on paper. But pure capitalism would not work just like pure socialism would not work, because it is not an accurate reflection of how society works. Any problem that can be pointed out in socialism has an equal counterpoint of equal weight in capitalism. Unions are a patch to correct some of these holes in capitalism theory.

Err President Sexton may have more than a non-profit interest... It turns out that he is currently the 6th highest paid university President in the nation, at 897,139 USD for the 2003-2004. Though I'll also note this was completely legal and he probably deserves most of it for his work. Here is the WSN article: http://www.nyunews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/11/21/438151d6b9fe9?in_archive=1

By the way the picket lines are for demonstrative purposes only. You can go right around them, which the GSOC doesn't mind you do at all. They ask you to not go to scab-taught classes.

Grr... I hate it when this happens. There was recently a dispute in my old school district where Verizon was going to pay the school district to let them put a cell tower somewhere on school property, and the community shot it down due to fears of radiation. Meanwhile they have no problem spending needless amounts of money on parkinglot projects to actually remove parking spaces in a district that is growing drastically due to the previous corrupt administration of the town. Oh yeah and the new parking lot also makes it less safe to drive. Oh yeah and the new and ridiculous night lights for the football field were neccessary.

Mine is a Pickett N902-ES, A Simplex Trig metal slide rule.

Haha, I usually work things out by hand. Then sometimes I'll use a compass and straightedge, then a slide rule, and my last choice is to use my TI-30X II Dual-Line.

However the point thats being missed is that for people in more harsh circumstances, the production harnessed by the quotas should be able to support them. Basically this is how I see my idea as compared to what I see as the current situation: In the current system, people make as much money as they possibly can, and then after the fact they try to decide what they'd like to give up for the benefit of society. However what I'd like to see is a system where the needs of society are met before people begin to make as much money as they possibly can. In this scenario, since people have already fulfilled their obligation to society, they are able to earn all the money they can knowing that their contribution to society is already fulfilled.

You're somewhat right about the tax thing. It is sort of like an income tax thing, except, the worker has some control over what percentage of his wages are taken out, because he can keep everything over the quota. So if he decides not to work a day after he meets his quota, so be it. If he has the drive to keep working and be a millionaire (even though now many important services can be provided by the state!), why should we suppress his drive?

Even more directly, it was definitely a precursor to Mobius Geometry, a generalized geometry that includes a point at infinity, and holds that lines are circles that go through the point at infinity.

It is tough that this discussion is limited to Marxist communism. I have learned a bit about Marx's Theory of Value, but I don't know what his explicit incentive system was. However there are two socialists' ideas that show a good incentive for innovation/improvement. Its actually the same idea, just two different groups. The first being the Inca empire, and the second being Lenin's N.E.P. (though I'm sure other peoples have also implemeted this idea). Basically that people produce to a quota for the state, and then everything above that amount is theirs to do what they will. That allows for the safety net of socialism with the incentive of capitalism. To be honest, I really can't see why this isn't implemented more often.

What calculator are you using?