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Imagine Google hiring women to "cheerlead" programmer. I am sure Google would go bankrupt just to pay lawyers to fight lawsuits. This seems like free market at

by 1971genocide 11y ago

Imagine Google hiring women to "cheerlead" programmer. I am sure Google would go bankrupt just to pay lawyers to fight lawsuits. This seems like free market at work. These women have social skills to sell and programmers are buying it. The way I see it the Chinese are being more progressive than the Europeans where prostitution and drugs are legal.

deciplex 11y ago
Why is it that every time I read an article about some degrading bullshit, I also have to read a comment about the free market? (And in motherfucking China this time, apparently.)
- antihero 11y ago
  Because internet libertarians just can't help themselves. Got to put those fake skulls to use.
- potatote 11y ago
  Cursing at a country for what? Hate China that much?
  - andybak 11y ago
    I read that as China + free market = irony. Even if I misread it, you've jumped the gun somewhat in ascribing the most negative interpretation without compelling evidence.
  - deciplex 11y ago
    I don't hate China, but it's hardly a free market. The adjective "motherfucking" in this case was not meant as a pejorative.
saiya-jin 11y ago
legal drugs? in terms of cannabis availability for example, more US than european citizens have legal access to them. most countries here are more than backwardish here on similar topics. prostitution is same
- circuiter 11y ago
  Yes, the US has only recently started warming up to cannabis. It's ironic considering the US strong armed the world into banning Cannabis (starting with the International Opium Convention). Now they're claiming to be more progressive by fixing issues they created.
jmnicolas 11y ago
Europe is not a country, it's a geographic space that hosts several countries and some of those countries are gathered in a (mostly dysfunctional) political union. In my small part of Europe (France) drugs and prostitution[1] are not legal[2]. Apart Netherlands I don't know any other country that legalized drugs. Prostitution is legal in all France's neighboring countries. [1] to be exact, people can prostitute themselves legally, but clients and pimps are illegal. [2] though the cops are not going out of their way to fight marijuana or paid sex between consenting adults
- vezzy-fnord 11y ago
  Apart Netherlands I don't know any other country that legalized drugs. The Netherlands hasn't legalized anything. They haven't even decriminalized anything, AFAIK. They just voluntarily choose not to enforce against cannabis being traded and consumed, provided coffeeshops and the like remain discreet. Portugal decriminalized plenty of drugs with set possession limits. Oddly, possessing cannabis seeds remains illegal. Spain also tolerates private drug consumption and even lets grow shops which sell cannabis seeds to exist. Several other European countries either have decriminalization of private consumption, as well. I think Sweden is in there, too.

deciplex 11y ago

Why is it that every time I read an article about some degrading bullshit, I also have to read a comment about the free market? (And in motherfucking China this time, apparently.)

antihero 11y ago
Because internet libertarians just can't help themselves. Got to put those fake skulls to use.
potatote 11y ago
Cursing at a country for what? Hate China that much?
- andybak 11y ago
  I read that as China + free market = irony. Even if I misread it, you've jumped the gun somewhat in ascribing the most negative interpretation without compelling evidence.
- deciplex 11y ago
  I don't hate China, but it's hardly a free market. The adjective "motherfucking" in this case was not meant as a pejorative.

saiya-jin 11y ago

legal drugs? in terms of cannabis availability for example, more US than european citizens have legal access to them. most countries here are more than backwardish here on similar topics. prostitution is same

circuiter 11y ago
Yes, the US has only recently started warming up to cannabis. It's ironic considering the US strong armed the world into banning Cannabis (starting with the International Opium Convention). Now they're claiming to be more progressive by fixing issues they created.

jmnicolas 11y ago

Europe is not a country, it's a geographic space that hosts several countries and some of those countries are gathered in a (mostly dysfunctional) political union. In my small part of Europe (France) drugs and prostitution[1] are not legal[2]. Apart Netherlands I don't know any other country that legalized drugs. Prostitution is legal in all France's neighboring countries. [1] to be exact, people can prostitute themselves legally, but clients and pimps are illegal. [2] though the cops are not going out of their way to fight marijuana or paid sex between consenting adults

vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Apart Netherlands I don't know any other country that legalized drugs. The Netherlands hasn't legalized anything. They haven't even decriminalized anything, AFAIK. They just voluntarily choose not to enforce against cannabis being traded and consumed, provided coffeeshops and the like remain discreet. Portugal decriminalized plenty of drugs with set possession limits. Oddly, possessing cannabis seeds remains illegal. Spain also tolerates private drug consumption and even lets grow shops which sell cannabis seeds to exist. Several other European countries either have decriminalization of private consumption, as well. I think Sweden is in there, too.