(Part 3) Top products from r/lostgeneration

With a self managing structure. The basic goals of the business are made in to a constitution of sorts, and then each worker makes their own mission statement in line with the business's goals, which their colleagues agree on and hold them accountable to. Salary depends on how important you are to your colleagues, if you add more value, you get paid more.

I was reading a book called: The End of Average, which called in to question how efficient Taylorist structure / hiring practices (The separation of the worker from management, interchangeability of workers, strict hierarchical structures, and the creation of averagarian human resources practices) as it applies to education and work. In chapter 7, He addresses a lot of your questions with case studies of why Costco, Zoho, and Morning Star. (The tomato company, the site I linked to earlier is run by them.) I can PM you a copy of the book / chapter if you want a more in depth read.

1. Not everybody is paid the same, but everyone has stake in the company
   
   
2. Like any company: to get paid, to have a greater input / control over their work, generous benefits. By hiring those who are highly skilled, but passed over by Taylorist metrics (Think this sub, and people form unconventional backgrounds), providing them with work and opportunities to learn themselves to better positions in the company. Being able to have well paying secure employment for a lifetime.
   
   In that chapter I referenced, the case study of Zoho, talks about how they had great success training and hiring the misfits that other Indian outsourcing companies like Microsoft wouldn't touch. You don't have to have traditional "higher skilled workers", to be able to have highly skilled workers.
   
   
3. Even if they aren't the highest skilled workers, when they feel like have input in to their work, are well compensated, and respected, they produce more than the worker who does the bare minimum to keep their job. All three of the case study companies referenced show this well.
   
   In the end, it's more about the self managed structure than it is about the workers owning the company. It's just that traditionally, worker coops were one of the few companies to adopt this structure. I do think that the workers owning the company is important though, as it eliminates the conflict of interest that comes from having private owners.

Robert Neuwirth seems to be the current 'expert' about System D and has a really interesting (and easy to read) book + a handful of TED Talks. I find the whole thing really fascinating, I'm glad black markets are getting recognition for being innovative!

The military (mil spec manuals) was one of the primary drivers & advocates of the development of the SGML system.

And again, HTML was a subset (initially very crude & limited functionality) of it -- which, among other things, allowed the leveraging of various (already existing) parsing algorithms.

That really DOESN'T lessen the "great achievement" status of Timothy Berners-Lee (the so called -- and not entirely inaccurately so -- "inventor" of the "world wide web") work -- which was really more the creation and distribution of a combination of tools, and perhaps most importantly "giving it away" -- openly/freely sharing the specs: the http protocol (based on other internet protocols, but again simplified, initially all it did was a "GET" request), along with a small footprint ("web/http") server application, and the first (text only "web") browser application.

Several Many others had TRIED to craft "hypertext" (i.e. user editable text/documents with click-able "links" or regions) systems -- protocols and the accompanying server/viewer application sets -- but they all failed or fell short of wide adoption for a number of reasons (some of them for being to simplistic, others for being too complex, and most for being "commercial/proprietary" and working only on specific platforms).

BTW, if you can lay your hands on it, TBL's book "Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web" is well worth the read, and is not only interesting from a technical and historical perspective, but also to see what his original "vision" was, and how that has been both fulfilled, and on the other hand in some ways went unfulfilled (or even subverted) as the web actually developed and grew.

This is the sort of thing covered in the book Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials

Nowadays, middle class and up parents try to prepare their kids to succeed in capitalism while they're still in the womb and throughout their childhoods and teenage years. Literally every activity, including friendships, is assessed and selected according to its possible future payoff.

Of course this is not healthy for kids and leads to stuff like hyper-competitive spelling bees. And it leaves less well off kids, kids of average intelligence and talent and resources, in the dust. This is how you get a lost generation.

By definition, not everyone can be a ninja rockstar, but average people need to eat and make rent too.

How about you read this book and then talk about how I'm being silly. Besides, OP didn't even use the word 'average' anywhere in the original post. So what are you even talking about?

The problem isn't just your father, but how many people believe they will be your father and how many people are unwilling to protect themselves from your father.

As a son of a family which also has private banking and used to do organizing, I can safely state that the American working class will fail, and will collapse and perish when we are both old.

I would read this book, for peace of mind. http://www.amazon.com/The-Age-Acquiescence-Resistance-Organized/dp/0316185434

The author, a historian, says we have nearly nothing in common with the population that built america in the first place... It's almost pleasurable reading how awful Americans are today

Yes, it absolutely did, as detailed here and here.

>My Generation's Best Chance Is Socialism

No it isn't.

Capitalism's primary issue is that it allows for a relatively small group of people to exert an incredible amount of influence over society for their own benefit. Socialism's problem is very similar, but it concentrates that group to an absolutely tiny one and gives them far more unilateral power over the populace.

If you think Socialism is the answer, you need to read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Son-Revolution-Liang-Heng/dp/0394722744

Here's their book on Amazon if you want to analyze the study further.

Looks like they just wrote a book on this topic.

Why do women get so much hate in the comments on articles like these? It seems like all the guys who got "friend-zoned" or whatever just salivate at another article talking about how GIRLS WON'T DATE US SEE THEY'RE ALL FEMINIST SCUM BAGS WHO SHOULD DIE or something.

Peter Joseph is wrong for a number of reasons, and we can predict with a good degree of certainty that his system would fail in practice, if implemented. The techno-utopian society that forms the dreamscape of the RBE crowd is just a rehash of mid-20th century modernism which gave us the likes of Brasilia. The best book disproving modernism is Seeing Like a State:

> The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. And in discussing these planning disasters, he identifies four conditions common to them all: the state's attempt to impose administrative order on nature and society; a high-modernist ideology that believes scientific intervention can improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale innovations; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.

What annoys me, though, is the number of ideologues rehashing Peter Joseph's arguments word for word without adding a single meaningful thought or contribution to them.

You might find this interesting:
http://www.amazon.com/Privatopia-Homeowner-Associations-Residential-Government/dp/0300066384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456910737&sr=8-1&keywords=privatopia

https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Middle-Class-Prejudice-Economy/dp/0262036169

The only book on the two economy you need to read

It's not just women.. there was this from a few years back.

So, by your very definition the US, a mixed market economy with a representative system and income mobility, isn't capitalist. but is capitalist because capitalism is international. Dude, put down the fucking Marx and pick up a textbook.

http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Economics-Undressing-Dismal-Science/dp/0393049825

https://www.amazon.com/Working-Toward-Whiteness-Americas-Immigrants/dp/0465070744

> cancer is a metabolic disease

Cancer as a metabolic disease

You might want to pick a different comparison.

One of the fundamental steps in the development of cancer cells is their deactivation of the mitochondria and upregulation of glycolysis. PET scans use radiolabeled glucose to scan for tumors because of their metabolic activity.

The Ketogenic Diet and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Prolong Survival in Mice with Systemic Metastatic Cancer

Ok even if Trump openly supported Fascists (he has consistently supported Democrats for ages): SO DOES EVERY AMERICAN BUSINESS AND POLITICIAN.

Are you all Amnesiacs? Or just have you had a psychotic breakdown. Because to accuse Trump of being Hitler you have to have almost zero knowledge of what the U.S. has been up to for the last hundred fucking years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_supported_by_the_United_States

Trump is a goddamned realestate agent. Bush senior was in the CIA. Yet somehow Trump is the ultimate evil?

And not that any of that matters because you guys have been fascist since like 1900:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/its-been-50-years-biggest-us-backed-genocide-youve-never-heard

What the fuck did Trump have to do with ANY of that!?