Denmark = Venezuela?!

[aleCcowaN]

Why do you reply a question about how little the rate of unemployment is with data about the rate of employment (both words seem to mean the same to you)? And when you finally get it (in your ETA), why did you use non governmental sources? Just because it favoured the vision you like to promote? Just because of your epistemological hedonism?

That depends:
You can look at the employment rate as the rate of people looking for work who are actually working. In that case, the employment rate is 75 percent of working age population in Denmark. However, since most of the 25 percent aren’t actually avaible for the job market because they are students, retired early, ill (whatever), it makes more sense to look at the number of people who either have jobs or are trying to find a job.

You're avoiding the point: don't talk of unemployment by speaking of employment, and even less by adding those people who could work but don't want, don't have to or cannot.

It was easier to say you just made a mistake.

Your question is based on the idea that supply and demand is what determines the price of labour. I wouldn't go to the extreme to claim that it doesn't have anything to do with wages, but it's obviously not true even though it may disturb you, which is why I answered your question the way I did: "Your question is easily answered: Because they can!"
That you don't like my answer doesn't make it any less true.

No, you didn't understand at all. My question is open, and includes the notion that once near employment is reached the unions take advantage of it by pushing salaries up. I'm asking if unions are weak in the States, but it seems you are alien to the Usaian way of doing things but still you have a compulsion to reply.

And as for economic theory, supply and demand of work exists, though it's not the determinant factor. "Because they can" is not economic theory, nor social theory nor anything with the shape of a serious thought. It's just "because of the evil factor" present in wars and totalitarian dialectics (which is about the same).

 

[aleCcowaN]

That doesn't explain anything. I asked about the unions. They exist to counter-balance that. You replied nothing about them, only the discourse of the rich ones taking advantage of the disenfranchised.

I'm sorry, but what you refer to as "only" is the answer even if you don't like it: Not "the rich ones" (whatever that's supposed to mean) but the employers usually prefer to pay as little as they can get away with - not only below the minimum wage but sometimes even below the minimum needed for workers and their families to survive. In Denmark, apparently, the trade unions won't let them do that.

More of the "evil factor". Sorry, not what I asked.

Again: what are the unions doing about it? why isn't this correcting by the simple fact that the USA is near full employment?

Why don't you look it up? Why don't you do a little research yourself? Why don't you try to find out for yourself why your ideas about the price of labour appear to be wrong?

Why don't you let people who really know about what I'm asking to reply my questions. What do you think this is? your personal blog?

Can you rephrase this in a way that confirms or denies this as a personal attack. Fascists who believe to be socialists like yourself tend to talk in riddles.

My phrasing of that sentence wasn't so convoluted that it warrants your resorting to Godwin!
"You wouldn't want any of the money that the top 1% earns by paying ****** wages to their employees to pay for healthcare or education, would you?"
It is a reference to the fact that on top of the ****** wages they pay their employees at the bottom of the U.S. American society, the top 1% were also recently rewarded with a tax cut.
I guess it can't be helped that you seem to think that criticizing the income disparity in the USA is fascist ...

Well, at least that went in the way of saying it wasn't a personal attack...

And no, I only think fascism is fascist. I don't have any "problem" with the top 1% paying 75% of the taxes and the government engineering the Lorenz curve with the proceeds, just because that's my ideology. No wonder I hate fascism in all its forms.

 

[aleCcowaN]

I’m sure that Trish Regan will enjoy this news:

University students graduate sooner (Ritzau/FOKUS/msn.com, Aug. 26, 2018)

Unfortunately, it doesn’t mention cupcakes!

Wow! An article in Danish that tells that Danish universities are doing better than Danish universities before (o was it "Danish students"?)

If you are trying to reply to what that hillybilly Regan said, why don't you get an article that compare Danish and Usaian universities instead?

 

[Loss Leader]

That's more than enough sniping at each other. Please post about the topic and not the person with whom you disagree. Disregarding this modbox is itself an infractable violation, as is any further incivility. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

Replying to this modbox in thread will be off topic  Posted By: Loss Leader

 

[Elagabalus]

That's more than enough sniping at each other. Please post about the topic and not the person with whom you disagree. Disregarding this modbox is itself an infractable violation, as is any further incivility. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

Replying to this modbox in thread will be off topic  Posted By: Loss Leader

You know what they say,

You can always tell a Dane but you can't tell'em much!*



*another halfatard here so I feel that I am allowed, nay!, entitled, to tell that joke!"

 

[dann]

Wow! An article in Danish that tells that Danish universities are doing better than Danish universities before (o was it "Danish students"?)

If you are trying to reply to what that hillybilly Regan said, why don't you get an article that compare Danish and Usaian universities instead?

Does it disprove Trish Regan's lie that "Nobody graduates from school, they just stay in school longer and longer and longer"?!
Yes, it does! An "article that compare(s) Danish and Usaian universities" wouldn't.

 

[dann]

Why don't you let people who really know about what I'm asking to reply my questions. What do you think this is? your personal blog?

How did I prevent anybody from answering your questions? I'm not a moderator. I can't delete or edit other people's posts.
However, when Americans answer your questions, you don't like their answers anyway.

 

[dann]

You know what they say,

You can always tell a Dane but you can't tell'em much!

I never heard that one, and I never saw the mug until now!

 

[Ron_Tomkins]

Denmark and Venezuela are very different. I was born in Venezuela and I can attest that as a fact

 

[dann]

But that was before Chavez so it doesn't count!

 

[dann]

Business News:

The Danish Chamber of Commerce estimates that at the current rate, hotels in the country will respond to the influx by providing enough beds to accommodate 10 million tourists by 2021, which is almost twice Denmark's population.
Notable recent visitors include the Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who in a New York Times column noted that Denmark is "doing a very good job of hiding" its alleged status as a "socialist hellhole".
Denmark, Fox's 'socialist hellhole', struggles to keep up with tourism boom (Financial Review, Aug. 20, 2018)

 

[dann]

In German: Denmark serves as a horror vision for American right-wingers (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Aug. 20, 2018)

In Danish: More than six million have seen the response to Fox video about Denmark (Politiken, Aug. 16, 2018)

The Danish anti-Fox videos have obviously reached an audience of a considerable size.

 

[Brainster]

Looks like Argentina might be a better candidate for the next Venezuela:

Investors are increasingly concerned Latin America's third-largest economy could soon default as it struggles to repay heavy government borrowing. This comes after Argentina's government unexpectedly asked for the early release of a $50 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday.

The Argentine peso crashed to record lows on the news. It saw steep losses in the previous session and collapsed another 15 percent to hit 39 pesos against the U.S. dollar on Thursday morning.

The peso is down more than 45 percent against the greenback this year, exacerbating pre-existing fears over the country's weakening economy while inflation is running at 25.4 percent this year.

 

[dann]

However, Macri is centre-right, not remotely socialist, so Fox can’t use Argentina as an example.

In 2005, he created the centre-right Republican Proposal party (Propuesta Republicana, also known as PRO).
(…)
One of Macri's first economic policies was the removal of currency controls, allowing Argentines to freely buy and sell foreign currencies. Argentina has had a floating exchange rate since then, with intervention from its central bank, and the Argentine peso was devalued by 30 percent. Economists described the move as "perfectly orchestrated". Another early policy was the removal of export quotas and tariffs on corn and wheat.
(…)
Macri is pro-life.
(…)
Macri forged diplomatic relations with Trump, tightening control of immigration, limiting the entry of convicted criminals and facilitating the deportation of foreigners who commit crimes. Those limits have been compared with Trump's border policies.Mauricio Macri (Wikipedia)

Of course, Fox may consider blaming Macri’s predecessor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Wikipedia).:

Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat, she was a member of the Justicialist Party, with her political approach being characterised as Kirchnerist, a form of left-wing populism.

But that would be like blaming Bush for the financial crisis when Obama took office or praising Trump’s predecessor for the current low unemployment rate (Business Insider) in the USA …


A good article about Chavism: “Left Turn” in Latin America (Ruthless Criticism/GegenStandpunkt, 2007)

 

[dann]

I missed this one. I don't know if Trish Regan could use it:

There are categories where Denmark is outranked by the USA:
- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - Rank Overall Women Men
United States of America - 12 36.2 - - 35.5 - 37.0
Denmark - - - - - - - - - - 109 19.7 - - 22.3 - 17.0

Doesn't look good at all.
Wikipedia

 

[aleCcowaN]

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[dann]

... and we also kill dolphins, apparently: Denmark Dolphin Kill: SHOCKING, DISGUSTING, BARBARIC (TMZ, Sep. 16, 2018)

 

[theprestige]

Enh. The dolphins probably had it coming.

 

[dann]

I know too little about the killing of pilot whales on the Faroe Islands to have an opinion.
I don't even know if Denmark has any influence on the legislation concerning this aspect of Faroe traditional beaching and slaughtering of these animals. It would probably be considered to be Danish imperialism if Denmark tried to interfere.
The killing, dissection and feeding to the lions of Marius, however, was the sole responsibility of Danes!

ETA: Some of the guys up there are pretty tough! Earlier this year, some of then rowed from Portugal to Cuba:
Crew row 8,000 kilometres across the Atlantic to set new world record

 

[aleCcowaN]

ETA: Some of the guys up there are pretty tough! Earlier this year, some of then rowed from Portugal to Cuba:
Crew row 8,000 kilometres across the Atlantic to set new world record

I will launch a red alert for drakkars in our coasts!

I would like to watch Trish Regan having a row about Danes (it doesn't matter if Faroese or even Greenlandic Inuit) bringing axes of mass destruction to Cuba.