Why do we allow so few to hoard to much wealth?

[wuliheron]

Sure it makes sense. Windows is dominant, it has good marketing and market saturation. There are a number of "under dog" products out there that are cheaper and sometimes better than the "name brand" but it's still mostly about image and branding. Which Linux just doesn't have.

It isn't just marketing, but how immature the products are and what the market will bear. India is now working on producing a $35.oo tablet PC and you can bet your ass it won't come with windows. Inevitably we'll see the development of the first Model T Ford of computers that is cheap, reliable, and pretty much does what people want without a lot of money being spent on marketing.

I'm reminded of when the first handheld calculators became popular and Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard dominated the market and had different input systems. Today, nobody except a few geeks give a damn about who makes their calculator or thinks twice about learning how to use the thing. Inevitably MS will become as irrelevant as the operating instructions for your digital camera.

 

[alkemyst]

It isn't just marketing, but how immature the products are and what the market will bear. India is now working on producing a $35.oo tablet PC and you can bet your ass it won't come with windows. Inevitably we'll see the development of the first Model T Ford of computers that is cheap, reliable, and pretty much does what people want without a lot of money being spent on marketing.

I'm reminded of when the first handheld calculators became popular and Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard dominated the market and had different input systems. Today, nobody except a few geeks give a damn about who makes their calculator or thinks twice about learning how to use the thing. Inevitably MS will become as irrelevant as the operating instructions for your digital camera.

Well in all reality they could sell computers in the $50-100 range they would do what most really need them to do.

The problem is everyone wants levels way beyond what they really need and people tend to see technology that is cheap as technology that is not good in the US and most of the world.

Before we were burglarized my wife was using her PIII 1.2GHz laptop to do office and email/internet just fine with 2GB and Windows XP.

She's running a mid-2009 MBP 13" and really doesn't notice much of a difference except on the internet now that she is running N vs B when FTP'ing.

 

[Screech]

Sheep hoarders are the worst....

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[wuliheron]

Well in all reality they could sell computers in the $50-100 range they would do what most really need them to do.

The problem is everyone wants levels way beyond what they really need and people tend to see technology that is cheap as technology that is not good in the US and most of the world.

Before we were burglarized my wife was using her PIII 1.2GHz laptop to do office and email/internet just fine with 2GB and Windows XP.

She's running a mid-2009 MBP 13" and really doesn't notice much of a difference except on the internet now that she is running N vs B when FTP'ing.

I know somebody still using windows 95. Its enough to run his business and surf the web and that's all he cares about. Most people want more from a PC but that doesn't mean they have endless desires. Already sales of desktop computers are dropping as people trade power for portability. Inevitably every snot nosed kid will be carrying around some cheap Walmart computer that is their phone, computer, and gaming device.

 

[nobodyknows]

what are you doing about it?

Viva la revolution!!

 

[Nemesis 1]

FACT the top 1% hold more than 40% of the world wealth, FACT the top 10% hold more than 85% of the world wealth, and the bottom 50% of the world has less than 1% of the world wealth.

Seems to me we are allowing the top to hoard all of the resources and wealth, while the bottom to get nothing. These people collect all of this wealth that they don't need, while people in countries like Uganda can't even get enough water to drink.

Something needs to be done about this.

You should have moved to the USSR while ya had a chance. Than you could see first hand how socialism makes everbody =ly poor other than the taskmasters.

 

[BarneyFife]

it absolutely shocks me how poor people continue to prop up the rich and defend them, just for the simple hope that maybe someday they too will be rich.

most of us make well under 100k a year, but really were lucky when we can get a job that pays 40k+ a year. and our wages have frozen or gone backwards in the last 5 years, while the price of everything else skyrockets.

part of the problem is that we dont need that much human labor anymore. theres just more people then work to go around, and technology makes that worse everyday. this is why socialism is necessary. people by nature depend on eachother to survive, and this rings true now more then it ever has, just in different ways. americans are so scared of socialism and they dont even know what it is (its all those government benefits that they cry about but use themselves when they can).

I agree 100%. The rich people in this country have a bunch of poor idiots doing all their dirty work for them. I remember about 2 years ago when people were protesting Obamacare in the Detroit area. Some 50 year old overweight white woman was really vocal and making quite a scene. Anyway, the reporter finds her the next day and asks her why she's against the plan. She ranted on about socialism and she didn't want to pay for it. So the reporter asks her if she has health care, she replied that she was unemployed and didn't have health care. This is a typical protestor. How stupid are Americans

 

[Acanthus]

I agree 100%. The rich people in this country have a bunch of poor idiots doing all their dirty work for them. I remember about 2 years ago when people were protesting Obamacare in the Detroit area. Some 50 year old overweight white woman was really vocal and making quite a scene. Anyway, the reporter finds her the next day and asks her why she's against the plan. She ranted on about socialism and she didn't want to pay for it. So the reporter asks her if she has health care, she replied that she was unemployed and didn't have health care. This is a typical protestor. How stupid are Americans

Oh woe is me, 17% of my billions down the drain.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_no_taxes

 

[alkemyst]

I agree 100%. The rich people in this country have a bunch of poor idiots doing all their dirty work for them. I remember about 2 years ago when people were protesting Obamacare in the Detroit area. Some 50 year old overweight white woman was really vocal and making quite a scene. Anyway, the reporter finds her the next day and asks her why she's against the plan. She ranted on about socialism and she didn't want to pay for it. So the reporter asks her if she has health care, she replied that she was unemployed and didn't have health care. This is a typical protestor. How stupid are Americans

Stupid, because she is against something for nothing?