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by 31098347 4y ago
> And commercial food producers make their products more addictive too... How about the tobacco industry? How about illicit drugs? Porn? How about them? They also designed their products to be addictive. “Personal Responsibility” is just
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by 31098347 4y ago
The naïveté of this take is astounding for someone who frequents a technology message board. You’re just going to ignore the part where these services employ A/B tests to make their services more addictive? You’re going to ignore the c
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by 31098347 4y ago
>This. These services aren't toxic if you don't follow toxic accounts. Your ability to moderate your usage of these services doesn’t make them not toxic. Your statement is victim blaming. These services are still major propriet
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by 31098347 4y ago
There's a few different things to unpack with this feature. (1) It would be useful in the context of a general style guide, like a white-label Grammarly. Corporations could set their own prompts for words, phrases, and structures. This
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by 31098347 4y ago
I wish they’d let me give back the ones I have. They can give them out to someone else
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by 31098347 4y ago
MacKenzie Scott has been giving away a ton of money recently. Don't know if that puts her in a better category.
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by 31098347 4y ago
The massive information asymmetry involved in the student loan system means these kind of black and white judgements not particularly useful.
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by 31098347 4y ago
>Maybe we shouldn't call it a direct punishment, but they're certainly coming out of the scenario worse off than their counterpart. It's hard for me not to sound flippant when I say this, but -- this is life. As far as I&#
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by 31098347 4y ago
>In fact, a hypothetical student debt forgiveness event like GP was discussing would punish those who responsibly paid off their student debts relative to similar-earning classmates who did not. Punish how? This word keeps being used but
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by 31098347 4y ago
People who have paid their student loan debt are in exactly the same situation they were after this forgiveness than they were before: that is, they have no student loan debt. People in the US are not punished for being financially responsi