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by 49531 7y ago
There is a difference between crafting a knife and crafting a tool specifically for harmful purposes. The IBM engineers who helped Germany facilitate the holocaust are probably a bit more involved in evil than a knife crafter.
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by 49531 7y ago
I don't think it makes a lot of sense to say the tech industry isn't responsible. At least as engineers I think there should be some ethical considerations. I think there is a difference between a truly neutral tool being used for
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by 49531 7y ago
You're just passing blame away from the people who are directly responsible for the excessive usage of cars to the users of cars, which solves even less. If you want systemic change you need to approach systemic levers. Focusing on ind
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by 49531 7y ago
True, vegetable is mostly a culinary classification.
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by 49531 7y ago
If we're being pedantic here, it's botanically a fruit, but botanical fruits that we interact with in common parlance as vegetables are often considered vegetables legally. At least in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by 49531 7y ago
> This presumes a closed system, and the assumption is demonstrably false in at least two ways. With an open system, you can conceivably have growth for both sides of the market (profit and wages). Unless you're proposing we print m
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by 49531 7y ago
Another fascinating read on the subject is Towards a New Socialism: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/ It's a really interested look at planned economies taking into account the updates in c
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by 49531 7y ago
It's less of a "tribe" thing and more of an analysis of material conditions. People don't break out the guillotines if their lives are stable and their material needs are adequately taken care of; if they don't thin
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by 49531 7y ago
Free debate doesn't do much when the people in power have no motivation to change, and when even small wins (like net neutrality) are so easily undone. I really don't think the gap is as large as you might think. The US is a bit m
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by 49531 7y ago
Not to get too "whatabouty" here, but it always feels a bit less poignant to call China out for the same things the United States, and massive private US corporations, are doing. Censorship, collection of private data, public data
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by 49531 7y ago
While true that about half of Americans own stocks, 84% of all stocks owned by Americans belong to the wealthiest 10 percent of households.
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by 49531 7y ago
Can't wait to have loss prevention tailing me in home depot because I am having a panic attack.
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by 49531 7y ago
This is such a wonderful piece. Thank you for sharing.
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by 49531 7y ago
I wouldn't think that is a bad thing per se. Countries who can consume and produce within themselves are going to succeed more than those who primarily import / export. If I were the Chines government I'd want to keep Amazon
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by 49531 8y ago
> then pragmatically they are considered within that category even if they don't perfectly match it. The problem is that it is not normally pragmatic. It's not pragmatic for a woman in the workforce to be associated with femini
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by 49531 8y ago
> how is gender different from fashion? In a lot of ways it isn't. Gender is often performative in nature. The idea that gender is binary is fairly reductive, and as most people know isn't a very descriptive way to view the wor
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by 49531 8y ago
And if the US had been the one to capitulate to communism we'd be quoting stats about the lack of income growth of their workers in contrast to the wealthy. Viewing the health of a nation on the growth of their income isn't necess
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by 49531 8y ago
Infinite growth isn't necessarily the best way to measure success unless you're an investor. When we frame the world in that way a lot of "good" economies are harsh to live under, and "decaying" economies aren&
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by 49531 8y ago
> Russia fell down because they disrupted the ability of the market to send and receive accurate price signals and over time that led to catastrophically misallocated resources. This is extremely ahistorical. The fall of the USSR was due
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by 49531 8y ago
You don't see reports like that about the US because of US hegemony, and most things that do come up is usually by the UN and isn't taken seriously. I'm not saying china is perfect by any means, but things ain't great in
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by 49531 8y ago
It's just capitalism. Nothing especially crony about it.
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by 49531 8y ago
There is a balance to be found in lifestylism. I wouldn't call it hyper-sensitivity. You can't be perfect, and your lifestyle isn't going to disrupt global systems that facilitate most of the worlds problems, but there is som
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by 49531 8y ago
So the logic goes, don't join a union or you'll lose you job? How does that not sound coercive? A company saying "If you collectively bargain against us, we will punish you" sounds ok to you? You've been tricked out
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by 49531 8y ago
You can say that about any job, union or non union. You don't join a job not knowing it's a union job. But in a non union workplace, if you don't like how things are you can change them. Good luck doing that without a union.
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by 49531 8y ago
To be honest those principles shouldn't stop within the union. But that is really the challenge for every movement with similar goals. The maoist idea of "continuous revolution" tries to address this problem.
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by 49531 8y ago
I've been in, am currently in, and have been involved in unionizing workplaces. Companies are extremely motivated to undermine unions. Unions tend to get stale as they age and lose their militancy. That's why wildcat action is so
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by 49531 8y ago
Yup, families don't downsize when things get hard. It's materially profitable for employers to attempt to erase class consciousness as much as possible, to the detriment of the workers.
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by 49531 8y ago
You know unionizing isn't something people do lightheartedly. A lot of planning and working goes into it, planning and working done by the folks who want to unionize. The idea that you only get benefits if you don't agitate your b
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by 49531 8y ago
> what would they think of unionizing the union Unions in the US are democratic institutions, so if there is a problem with your union you can change things.
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by 49531 8y ago
That weird "us vs them" sort of thing is called class consciousness. The adversarial nature exists whether you're conscious of it or not.

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