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Logged in just to respond to this, hopefully not too big of a threadjack 1 - What will you say to a world where artificial intelligence, self driving cars and robotics makes 30-50% of the people unemployable? In other words, entitlements could be 0 and these pressures would still create a world...

Sorry this will be my last post we will have to agree to disagree No, because voters in an advanced economy don't have the time or patience to take part in line-by-line budget votes. Even the President doesn't have a line-item veto. That's because there's deal making and unpopular but...

Don't really ahve too much time but I will try to answer... this is also NOT a debate forum but alt history so I am loathe to engage, but will try this once Far exaggerated, besides there is more than all or nothing you are arguing for total government control of banks which is a completely...

Thing is you haven't outlined any benefits as compared to say, central bank insurance for deposits up to 100k (the current situation) without government ownership. Nobody's savings were hurt in 2008. The only time savings gets hurt is a Greece-type situation where there's a systemic failure...

No, sorry none of it could work. No. 1. Most gold is controlled by warlords or countries OTHER than the United States. There is a reason why as the USA economy became more advanced, it jettisoned Breton Woods. It is not some vast global conspiracy to print money, but 2. There isn't enough...

The only reason the talk is software is because that's what's relevant to the OP. Yes, engineer is a legally protected title, everyone knows that, but what's not obvious is you do not get the title straight out of school... the licensing body grants it. Green card or lack of it isn't the gate...

I agree with most of this, I'm just trying to play devil's advocate for globalisation and free trade. The subtle point I am trying to make is, outsourcing and offshoring isn't the threat it's made out to be, because the alternative in most cases would be the job doesn't exist as compared to the...

I would agree that companies are not taking the responsibility of education and training seriously, but arguably they shouldn't have to. When you have margins of 1-5% and every quarter it's live or die by the stock price, and your competitors cut on education, what can you do? It's either go...

The truth is much more complicated than this. Yes, there is a shortage, but not in the way of "missing degree". Yes, the degree is just an excuse but there is an argument to be made for shortage. The reason is too many Chiefs, not enough Indians. Basically, companies need people willing to do...

Well, the desire of the OP may be, to find the axioms on which the Nazis made their decisions. When words like logic and mad and insanity are used they have precise meanings, and I feel it dilutes the evil of the Nazis just to dismiss their actions as the result of maniacal madmen or even...

Most strategic military losses can be blamed on poor disposition of forces and most strategic military gains on exploitation of this. Napoleon's "genius" was the central position, splitting other armies into two. If you can keep your armies together and coherent it means a lot. "Fleet in being"...

A lot of people would say he had a successful presidency /flamebait So to make his Presidency more successful: Don't disband the Iraqi army -- use it as a police force and place a figurehead on top instead of Saddam. Rewrite the Iraqi Constitution unilaterally like Japan and Germany and Korea...

I believe, nothing. Nationhood and by corollary, corporations in law last forever, unlike human personhood. So if the Germans decided to suspend payment (which was token, ceremonial and NOT resumed until AFTER reunification) the contract is still valid. Just like when Hitler suspended payments...

No it wouldn't work the example is Japan they had all the martial spirit in the world and couldn't beat off a modern well supplied army Martial spirit only works for ancient battles... modern battles follow Lanchester's Square law. Individual training and morale matters a lot but mostly in poor...

Death camps implies using the state's resources to create specific camps for extermination of people. It implies efficiency, and arguably dispassionate execution combined with industrial prowess and technical proficiency. The window of opportunity for this is before the Information Age (when...

No. The idea that borders are inviolate and permanent is a direct result of the post-WW2 order. After WW1 especially, borders were fluid. Unless you are saying that the League not being the UN is a broken international system. Which I would counter by saying the UN only "works" because the...

Off the top of my head main USSR weakness was light industry So solve this somehow, perhaps with LESS reliance in WW2 on tanks and more on small arms so these small arms factories are converted to light industry after the war. So no T34 or T anything KV or superheavy tanks only. Transportation...

They are plenty of use to convince international partners you are a Great Power, to do commerce raiding of flagged ships (yes, you can flag even without a blue water port), to threaten potential allies of the enemy to act as a national redoubt. But that's not the point. The point is they are...

Battleships and dreadnaughts in late 19th to Early 20th Century offered massive prestige and demonstration you are a "Great Power"... this is not controversial. They don't exist in isolation... if you can build 20 battleships compared to 10 battleships it means a corresponding increase in army...

That's because battleships and later dreadnaughts were the A-Bombs of the time. So if your argument is to build massive arsenals to prevent war (weapons of mass destruction) then at some point (a point that you or I don't know) this becomes self-defeating and national pride leads to wars. There...