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by 0x262d 6y ago
People's livelihood and the basic functioning of society shouldn't be a "gift".
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Also the idea that a significant amount of billionaire wealth is moved by "inspiration" rather than naked financial calculation is incredibly naive. Unless they somehow lucked into this, they are billionaires for a reason: naked f
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I'm not sure how they can be considered to be doing much, or any, good, when effectively they are passively siphoning off profits and despite all the "good" they do, as a class they get rapidly richer every year. That has alw
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by 0x262d 6y ago
This is correct and I edited the post to avoid this sort of criticism.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
It wasn't by a Boeing exec, was it lol? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-09/former-bo...
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Agile/software engineering practices broadly suffer a lot from the fact that not only is selling software a business model, selling Agile is also a business model, and when you buy Agile consulting it's impossible to disentangle w
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by 0x262d 6y ago
it's fully mainstream. my company (mid sized tech company far from any coast) is adopting it for everyone right now.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
The comment you’re replying to didn’t actually say that; you’re straw manning their position of course; they just said there are positions that include judgments of the inherent worth of one’s coworkers that are unacceptable, implying what
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by 0x262d 6y ago
We all have to eat. Working there and exposing their problems with the credibility of being an insider has a lot of value. I’m not saying working there is necessarily moral, but capitalism requires us all to choose between various immoral c
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by 0x262d 6y ago
> The best way to protest an employer is to not work for them. Sorry but this is totally ineffectual compared to speaking out and organizing people on the job. Also quitting in protest doesn’t exactly make it easy to get the next job.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
A sharp reminder that “free speech” under capitalism effectually doesn’t apply to your job, ie the thing that you spend nearly half your waking hours on and your primary way of contributing to the functioning of society. Some employers migh
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by 0x262d 6y ago
A sharp reminder that “free speech” under capitalism effectually doesn’t apply to your job, ie the thing that you spend nearly half your waking hours on and your primary way of contributing to the functioning of society. Some employers migh
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by 0x262d 7y ago
isn’t Signal funded indirectly by the CIA? that’s not a joke.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
Marxism In Our Time, an article by Leon Trotsky. A summary of Marx's theory of capitalism, specifically as it pertained to the great depression in the United States, when incredibly high profits and a surging stock market were accompan
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by 0x262d 7y ago
Thank you for taking things at face value instead of hysterically posting that I am a Trotskyist, I appreciate it! I have one comment here which is that soviet is just the Russian word for council and originally meant bottom-up, democratic
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by 0x262d 7y ago
Trickle down housing doesn't work, at least at the stage of the problem we are at. Building expensive housing sometime frees up a "cheaper" unit but if the cheaper unit is unaffordable to most people, as is the case in most p
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by 0x262d 7y ago
it is a meme and is meant sarcastically, see the linked tweet.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
Last week in Seattle nurses were protesting because they were not allowed to wear masks for the same reason. Yep! Nurses! It’s absolutely horrible and at least partly a function of top-down bureaucracy in all cases.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
Thank you, but I know. I am actually promoting state ownership and democratic control of all important, nationally coordinated industries. I am a marxist. I don’t mean Stalinism, but a level of democratic, worker-controlled socialism never
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by 0x262d 7y ago
This is completely mistaken, sorry. Most west coast cities have many times more vacant units than homeless people. It's easy to source that and completely refutes the "supply" argument. But it's more profitable to build
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by 0x262d 7y ago
I think Amazon is a good indictment of capitalism in general because by capitalism's standards, they're massively successful, wealthy, and huge. But that is a direct result of how much work they've been able to get out of the
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by 0x262d 7y ago
This comment is very ignorant about: 1. how often capitalism has bread lines in countries economically linked to, but outside of, the US and other rich capitalist countries, in the "global south"; 2. the fact that bread lines in &
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by 0x262d 7y ago
Huge indictment of capitalism that we have an unbelievably high level of productive capacity and can't do any of these things: make hospital equipment including ventilators; produce enough masks; keep hospitals open (there has been a s
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by 0x262d 7y ago
Pretty sure this has everything to do with planes being old. Boeing pretty clearly demonstrated that planes being planes doesn't mean they're immune from bad design, corruption, or any other problem.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
you’re now making several of the same points I already responded to several times.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
This is still a misunderstanding, sorry. In your hypothetical, the price of oil would nosedive for a while as long as there was over investment in getting it out of the ground that would be wasted if it wasn’t sold low. This is just a highe
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by 0x262d 7y ago
lol. more garbage. I meant to type "anti-empiricism" - which is a reasonable philosophical position that doesn't actually just mean someone hates evidence. it's not enough.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
sure, and if you did want to buy that oil, the absolute floor of the price you could pay (unless there was a demand surplus on the market) would be the labor required to go pick it up in a can and carry it to the market. and competition wou
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by 0x262d 7y ago
gold is more rare, right? so therefore finding it and concentrating it is part of the labor cost of obtaining it? I'm not an expert on this topic but that seems like a reasonable guess.
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by 0x262d 7y ago
this is obviously silly, opinionated and unsubstantiated. criticize it on the merits or don't. so far you've just said "anti empirical" and linked wikipedia.

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