I agree we are hamsters running on a circular wheel. the average worker gets a less pay raise per year then how fast inflaition raises the prizes of goods for everyday living.

Inflation is just hidden tax and is easilly controlled by the FED

The reason this is so is because it isnt in the interest of (their) society to have people being idle - if workers got paid more they would work less. So what is wanted is that you get just enough to live by for a full weeks work.

Im getting bored of arguing with people who take quotes from smart people out of context to ratify their dumb superstitions and never read the whole fucking thing. It is the same kind of people who only read the headlines off news and get outraged by them still. But what is there to do

On my travels in Norway I met an Icelander (they´re language is very close to how the old vikings used to speak) - who was telling me about the vikings. The vikings have descriptive names sort of like the Indians. Pungsviti means something like "one who knows from his gut" or one who is very intuitive

Bullshit.. it can... just not indefinitely... and that is not money´s fault, that is the fault of the human senses, for all constants dull the senses. So if you have a constant flow of money your senses will ruin it......... and the cure..........: DRUGS!..... and when your senses have gotten used to the drugs.....: stronger Drugs.

where I come from we have what you are talking about - but then to form að government - different party´s need to agree to form a majority - so it ends up being quite the same as with the american system.

whatever......................................................................................................................

I'm gonna agree with you especially because of " I think we should replace degrees with some kind of certification process for various professional fields."

makes no sense to me why something totally unrelated should be a threshold that I need to get past first before i get to learn what I really want

I think that only reading, writing, basic math, and memory training (which oddly enough is not taught at all in most schools) should be mandatory for everyone to learn. Rest should be a choice.

But concerning the question at hand "is it worth it" I think the answer has to be Yes, but mainly because of the magic-dust it puts on your CV and connections you are likely to make within the institutions - not because of what is taught and that modern schools are the best way to attain that knowledge

Thanks for your thoughts on Obama, McCain and etc but they do not illustrate much relating to the topic at hand

The only thing in your text I could say relates directly to this debate is

"With a lottery, we're stuck with people who are TRUE ideologues and they'll live by their promise no matter what. Someone who actually would pull out of Iraq and fuck everything up for the military."

and I don't think you give a good argument for your assertion. Why are we more likely to get Ideologues with a lottery? because the majority are according to you?? or what???

There is less historical evidence for Jesus Christ than for Robin hood. The scrolls that date before the year 384 after Christ (when the modern bible was formed for political reasons) - describe yoshua (meaning savior in Aramaic, and not a mans name) as some sort of spirit/ghost. And there is no evidence or historical record of Jesus that dates from the time he was supposedly living

Compare the historical evidence of Buddha for example (who lived approximately 500 years before Christ) They practically have the laundry list of Buddha

You seem to think that at the same time the big bang happened the earth was created. The earth is about four billion years old, but the big bang happened somewhere between 13-14 billion years ago. The gases that made up the earth came according to big bang theory ultimately from that big bang - but not (and this is important) all at the same time. All-at-the-same-time is the bible version of creation, remember.

This is the problem with many of the arguments the religious side makes here - you make up a simplified straw-man out of what you believe one theory or another says and have obviously not studied these theory's, probably because you live in parts of your country where religion has such a stronghold that you don't get to learn these things. This forces us to spend most of our time correcting your ridiculous and flawed statements - and then some of you get very hurt when we assault your intelligence.

At least we have studied the foundation of your claims