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In my history class, I've learned about Caveman, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Roman, Renaissance, Industrial Revolutionary, WWI, WWII, etc. I was just wondering, about a hundreds or thousands of years from now. What do you think our kids will learn about? Petroleum? Internet? Etc?
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Great question. Very thoughtful.
This era will be known as the "computer revolution."
It has changed everything in world society just as the industrial revolution did in the 1800's.
It will be known as the communication era - the time when world cultures began to merge through common communication via the internet as you have already surmised.
It will be known as a time when the world moved towards a common language - or perhaps focused down to three or four languages such as English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, and Spanish. [The French will always speak French, but they will know a second language as well.]
Thousands of years from now there will be one common world language, but for this century the history will show that several languages emerged from the hundreds of world languages formerly spoken and written.
This will also be known as a time of growing global consciousness regarding the environment - else we will not be around a thousand years from now to write histories.
It will be known as the century of planned population control - or again, the future will be bleak.
A hundred years from now the War in Iraq will seem a small thing - a limited skirmish hardly worth a footnote. The loss of US troops over five years does not amount to a single large battle of the American Civil War. Although the loss of each individual serviceman or woman in Iraq over the recent five years matters a great deal to us now, in the USA we lose ten times more people every year to car accidents. When historians look back, Iraq will seem a small incident.
This will also be the century that people switched form gasoline powered vehicles to electric modes of transport or possibly hydrogen powered vehicles. The Middle East only started pumping out oil a little over 100 years ago. In the next 100 years, that resource will be gone.
Food will always be an essential, the USA will be crucial for world supply.
One other thought - chemotherapy as we use it now for malignant diseases - will be considered medieval and as barbaric as bloodletting looking back 100 years from now.
Older people will still die with cancer, but people must die of something to make room for younger generations. Cancer treatments - for the many varieties of cancer - will be more specifically targeted at the cancerous cells. Cancers will be detected earlier and, hopefully, many types of cancer will be prevented. Lung cancers would decline by 80 to 90% in the next 20 years if everyone would stop smoking right now.
100 years ago, cancer was #8 on the top ten killer list compared to #2 now. Relatively few people worldwide smoked a pack of cigarettes a day in 1908.
100 years from now, cancer will still be #2 following old age related cardiovascular disease, but the relative numbers of cancer deaths will be much lower - - IF we work on the global environment and health habits such as smoking.
In the year 2108 we will look back and say the 1990's were the peak years for lung cancer deaths related to the peculiar old habit of smoking a drug known then as tobacco. The kids will be revolted by the the idea that people actually sucked addicting, carcinogenic smoke from burning vegetation into their own lungs. There will be nothing "cool" about smoking.
How much an hour should I be paying this employee?
Jane Marpl
Here are his tasks:
1. 80% of his time is spent on data entry
2. 20% of his time is spent on creating little programs with Access Base.
3. We let him upgrate his PC knowledge during work hours.
4. He does not speak much English.
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1. Does he have a family, wife, kids?
2. Does he drive to work, own a car?
3. How old is he, educational background?
4. How long has he been here?
5. What will he work for, $$ ?
6. Is he responsible for his own keep?
7. How many hours a week, any chance for overtime?
8. What could the future with your company entail?
9. Can somebody else replace him in a heartbeat?
Gas at four bucks a gallon and rising expotentially, milk at 4.27 at walmart. The price of montly car payments, does he pay rent, car insurance, health insurance??, a prescription of antibiotics?, children?, wife?, pampers?, electric bill, stamps?.. How do people make it anymore on minimum wage... How do people make it at 4.00 over minimum wage?... How do I make it?...Aiiiyyyyyy!!!! Im drowning...glubblubblub...
What can he get by with without having to steal for a parttime job?... October 24th of 1938 the first federal minimum wage went into effect. it was .25 cents. The following year on the same date it went to .30 cents. It's currently at $5.85 and will go to $6.55 next month on the 24th. In 2009, the last federally mandated minimum wage increase will happen again on July 24th when it goes to $7.25. I don't know where you live but here is a State minimum wage list which varies from the Federal a little bit. http://www.laborlawcenter.com/state-Minimum-Wage-rates.asp (Copy and paste that). Personally Jane, I don't see how a one (1) person family can live on it and not be afraid to answer the telephone for listening to bill collectors. And $1.00 an hour more...or $120.00 a month more won't do much to keep them off of antidepressants if they could afford to get them somehow. If he was my employee, based on what you say he does, and the minimum amount of information that I had to make the call... I'd say maybe enough so that after taxes, he takes home $250.00 a week. That is if you can afford it. If not, then go less... But remember, you are the primary one responsible for anybody's life...(that's not coming out right)... that works for ya... if you know what I mean. Good luck, and I hope everything works out fine. PS... $6.55 x 40. = $262 less taxes is about what?... 200.--220? $262. x 52 = $13,624. Here are the 2008 Federal poverty level figures, I share them just for your awareness, and I think if somebody falls under those numbers, they may qualify for certain government assistances, not that you as an employer should or should not take that into consideration. http://www.atdn.org/access/poverty.html
You sound like somebody that would be fun to work for. You obviously care enough to concern yourself with fairness. It probably wouldn't be a fair question to ask yourself, how much you would require to work for you?...lol...assuming you could put up with ya. giggle
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