I see an economic diasater coming...

[triffid]

So the human race may have countless worlds to reach out to.To travel to.To develop. I get excited thinking about all the lifeforms that may be there.triffid


As long as im not at the bottom of the food chain I might be willing to travel there.

[triffid]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-13/world-leading-25-hourly-wage-floor-roils-swiss-businesses-jobs.html.
25 dollars an hour for minimum wage would be the worlds highest min wage if passed.

The Swiss will vote in a national referendum May 18 on whether to create a minimum wage of 22 francs ($25) per hour, or 4,000 francs a month. While about 90 percent of workers in Switzerland already earn more than that, employers say setting Switzerland's first national wage floor would push up salaries throughout the economy. When adjusted for currency and purchasing power, it would be the highest minimum in the world.

[Bob Smith]

Another moneysaving idea. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/super-cheap-paper-microscope-could-save-millions-lives-133616732.html?vp=1 Cost 50 cents to a dollar to make and enlarge up to 2000 times.


Imagine if clinics in developing countries were equipped with an inexpensive yet durable tool that could help medical personnel identify and diagnose a variety of deadly diseases like Malaria, Chagas disease, or Leishmaniosis? For millions of people around the world waiting to be diagnosed and treated, such a tool could be a life-saver.

Manu Prakash, a professor at Stanford University and his students have developed a microscope out of a flat sheet of paper, a watch battery, LED, and optical units that when folded together, much like origami, creates a functional instrument with the resolution of 800 nanometers – basically magnifying an object up to 2,000 times.

Called Foldscope, the microscope is extremely inexpensive to manufacture, costing between fifty-cents and a dollar per instrument. And because the microscope is assembled primarily from paper and optical components the size of a grain of sand, it is virtually indestructible.

Video on Ted Talks
http://boingboing.net/2014/03/10/bioengineer-builds-50-cent-pap.html
Bob

[SeaMonkey]

25 dollars an hour for minimum wage would be the worlds highest min wage if passed.

$25.00 per hour in today's currency may seem like
a pile of "money."  When adjusted for inflation it
is equivalent to $2.50 in 1960 dollars but the
buying power of $25.00 today for foodstuffs is
more like $1.50 in 1960 dollars.

We're losing ground.

[triffid]

I saw on tv today that a large percentage of recent college graduates make minimun
wage or less.I also saw  that about 125 colleges or universities across the nation has started food banks for their students.The one I saw was in long island.


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temps reached 808 degrees F.