Americans can travel to the EU without a visa (limited to 90 days with a process change in the works), why wouldn't the Brits, a close neighbor, have the same privileges?
A weak and divided UK will be taking orders from countries with stronger economies.The UK, by itself, is the 6th largest economy in the world, just behind California. The important GDPs are:
US $19.4T
EU $15.9T after removing $2.6T for the UK
China $12.2T
California $2.7T
UK $2.6T
The UK is technically advanced and well beyond the small EU players. I think they can do quite well for themselves on the world stage. They're already a financial powerhouse! And outposts in Frankfurt aren't going to change that!
The UK, by itself, is the 6th largest economy in the world, just behind California. The important GDPs are:
US $19.4T
EU $15.9T after removing $2.6T for the UK
China $12.2T
California $2.7T
UK $2.6T
Brexit fallout on UK finance intensifies -
More than 275 financial firms are moving a combined $1.2 trillion (£925 billion) in assets and funds and thousands of staff from Britain to the European Union in readiness for Brexit at a cost of up to $4 billion
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Nearly 90 percent of all firms moving to Frankfurt are banks, while two-thirds of those going to Amsterdam are trading platforms or brokers. Paris is carving out a niche for markets and trading operations of banks and attracting a broad spread of firms.
Americans can travel to the EU without a visa (limited to 90 days with a process change in the works), why wouldn't the Brits, a close neighbor, have the same privileges?
Why would they? Why should they? You tell us. Mexico is a close neighbor of the USA. Do Mexicans have the privilege of traveling to the USA without a visa?
If the UK is requiring visas of EU nationals then sure as hell the EU should start requiring visas for Brits.
And if it were up to me they would have to fill out the application in German. And, for good measure, answer (in German) some idiotic questions like they ask in American visa applications. Do you find Angela Merkel sexy? Do you enjoy French kissing? Etc.
So it seems California should also seek independence so they do not have to support backwards, poor states.
What I find sad is that the voters who vote for nationalist demagogs are mostly the least educated and the ones who are most hurt by the downturn that ensues. It happens everywhere.
Businesses are pretty much all against Brexit.
For example, we have no idea who provided the £435,000 channelled through Scotland, into Northern Ireland, through the coffers of the Democratic Unionist party and back into Scotland and England, to pay for pro-Brexit ads. Nor do we know the original source of the £8m that Arron Banks delivered to the Leave.EU campaign.
Germany is also the largest country in EU so it makes sense they contribute the most. Somehow things work out in the United States so it will probably work out here as well.
How about a Texit?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/19/texas-secession-movement-brexit-eu-referendum
And businesses can't vote! At least not directly, although they can financially affect the campaigning.
At that point the remains of the pro-Brexit crowd will still be blaming the EU for all their sorrows because if there is one thing I know about human nature is that we always find the fault lies with others.
England will be a quaint little country like Croatia. Yes it will manage to get by, just like Croatia or Slovenia. But I don't think that is what the pro-Brexit crowd have in mind.
The "United" part of "United States" gets more fragile as time goes on. The more California races to the left, the more ridicule we get from the residents of other states. Mind you, they're all living in trailers, but they keep picking at us. One day we're almost bound to get fed up with feeding them.
The UK might have done nearly as well, as it does today, if it had never joined the EU in the first place
I'm pretty sure Northern Ireland gets more money from the rest of the UK, than the other way round.
Right now, I think AI+Robotics can probably replace most with IQ less than say 3SD below average, perhaps 2SD below, perhaps even 1SD blow. Can society exist with that many unhappy individuals? Should we use drones to control such large and potentially disruptive individuals?
Not a problem to me. People always want to be competitive -- to be one notch above average, hence hierarchy. Serving other people and being served will replace the current manufacturing-based job market.
You don't want a robot serving you meal, you don't want a robot to teach your kids, and you don't want other general service sections to be replaced with robots.
Manufacturing is on sunset, but it doesn't mean other industries won't rise. Robots can replace humans in manufacturing, and R&D to certain extent, but the technology is still far from being able to give the human-like care to other human beings.
I'm not talking about people like you or me and others in this forum. Like many on this forum, you and me are both college grads. College students as a group is about 1 Standard Deviation above average by most studies.
How about the fellow who is say 85 in the USA? That is about 10%-15% of us at one SD below average. He/she (as adult) doesn't have the ability to (in your words) "want to be competitive -- to be one notch above average," however hard he/she tries. As adult, his childhood development is done.
They can do well in service industry well. One doesn't need to be smart to master the art of dealing with people.
Competitive is not only for IQ. EQ is becoming more and more important, especially considering the rise of AI. The smartest people are always needed to steer AI, but more repetitive jobs yet requiring high level of training are being replaced by AI.
There are a lot of human qualities that are not qualified by IQ, and those qualities are not yet under threat by AI.
AI is no danger as long as it required programmers. They can't even keep an airplane from falling out of the skies.
Now, if AI is self-replicating or self-programming, we're in serious trouble.
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"They are taking the place of a worker that could do the job"
by this logic, shouldn't anime characters be taxed, since a real person could be used to make a movie?That's a silly comparison. Each anime character is closely associated with a real person, namely the voice actor/actress.
From what I can tell it is those pesky Californians that are feeding the rest of you. Yet you have managed to stay united for 240+ years.
I'll bet I would have enjoyed automating auto manufacturing.