From: Mxsmanic on
Tchiowa writes:

> You're assuming that the job change frequency stays the same regardless
> of age and the stats show otherwise.

WHICH stats?

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From: Mxsmanic on
Tchiowa writes:

> Jim Ley posted them. Go read them.

I don't want Jim Ley's stats. I want a third-party reference.

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From: Mxsmanic on
Tchiowa writes:

> ???? Who are you trying to kid. The majority of people never go on
> unemployment.

I only mentioned being unemployed, not going on unemployment.

> And your calculation of 19 times is roughly double what the posted
> statistics said because your assumptions were wrong.

But you said only once, which would therefore be nine times smaller.
So I was closer to the "correct" number.

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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:22:02 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Dave Frightens Me writes:
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>> What makes you think there's a threshhold?
>
>If there were not, then "the money you can demand" would not be a
>distinguishing criterion.

Your logic is broken. Again.

It's a relative thing, not absolute. Professionals can demand more
money, because they are professionals.

>> Professionals can demand more than non-professionals.
>
>So there must be a dividing line between what non-professionals can
>demand and what professionals can demand. What is that dividing line?

Why must there be a dividing line? It's a free economy.
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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:52:21 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Dave Frightens Me writes:
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>> With an excellent public health system and welfare. Aren't these the
>> earmarks of a socialist nation?
>
>No.

What is then?

>> Flat? So far from failing then.
>
>If it is flat, then _any_ negative change could count as "failing."

Not if it's merely transient.
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