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by A12-B 6y ago
Although I disagree with OP, technology put people into slavery. It's not some natural state of humanity
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by A12-B 6y ago
> Bringing in consultants is, among other ways, a way to bring in people who can get shit done. I don't think consulting is useless or scammy, but come on, you're not rock stars. Consultants advise a business on how to get reve
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by A12-B 6y ago
Two things to note here, first that this isn't really different to any other part of the world. There's always some concern about feminisation of men by (usually) older people who had a rough childhood in the war or something and
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by A12-B 6y ago
> We don't give out accounts to strangers. Everyone here knows dugsong, jim or dirt in real life. This helps keep out the riff-raff. https://monkey.org/pay/costs/ Basically just a website for friends
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by A12-B 6y ago
Yellen earned more than $700,000 in speaking fees from Citadel, as recently as last fall. In an ethics agreement she pledged not to involve herself in specific matters involving the firm without first seeking authorization. Treasury ethics
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by A12-B 6y ago
Believe it or not, plenty of people (~40%) still buy physical copies. I don't expect it to go down to 0 in just 5 years.
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by A12-B 6y ago
Damn, am I the only one who does adequate research before I dive into things? I mean, buying patents for a dog alarm before knowing your customer? Really? Losing money on trading i understand because it's a very seductive venture and i
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by A12-B 6y ago
By Sale's measures, and since the time of Sale's prediction. I don't care for comparing this year to the past 400 years on issues like poverty, etc, people only do that because it makes them feel better so they can continue o
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by A12-B 6y ago
Your justification for not caring is a circular "because it is the most popular position". You still know it's wrong and have no good justification for it, of course people are going to shame you. It's not some media age
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by A12-B 6y ago
This is not true. Per capita, the highest polluters are developed nations. On absolute terms, the highest polluters are also developed nations. Most pollution comes from industry, not individuals. As far as I'm aware you cannot choose
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by A12-B 6y ago
I don't think any other species has upset the ecological balance to such an extent that it becomes unlivable for them
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by A12-B 6y ago
"Like the raging denialist in the White House, the cantankerous anarchocommunalist has quit the game after the final score left him short." This is such a bitter note. I would have paid the 1000, but Kelly was very predatory. He s
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by A12-B 6y ago
Are you aware of how many people the Chinese and American governments are killing? History always looks worse in hindsight.
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by A12-B 6y ago
The environment getting worse is a matter of fact, not ideology. You can argue in bad faith about the meaning of the word 'worse' if you want, trying to claim it's too subjective, but I think we all have roughly the same idea
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by A12-B 6y ago
When google tries to make a product that is new and could go either way, i forgive them for dropping it. You have to make mistakes and some products just don't work. But stadia is different. You could see it was never going to work, th
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by A12-B 6y ago
Well, what's the evidence of that then? I think the reddit behaviour explains what happened much better, and then everyone jumped on the train because of the groundwork they set.
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by A12-B 6y ago
Why are jobs that are needed the most paid the least? That is some sort of manufactured contradiction. If they are paid low because they are easily replaceable, why are they the most needed jobs? If they are paid low because they aren'
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by A12-B 6y ago
Because non-union companies are famous for not having any politics or turf wars?
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by A12-B 6y ago
> something minimum wage can’t do because of the labor shortage it creates It's important to read economic literature beyond old dead economists because many modern economists disagree with this, or think it doesn't paint a ful
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by A12-B 6y ago
Reddit stock traders, some of whom are professional, have consistently beaten the market by using collective action.
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by A12-B 6y ago
This isn't really biologically true though? Trees can be in a state of stasis where they are neither growing nor dying. source: http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=642#:~:text=The%2... .
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by A12-B 6y ago
I don't like invoking the word 'rent-seeking' because it's highly subjective. The formal definition is extracting value without providing any. One could easily make the argument that all business investors are like this.
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by A12-B 6y ago
But the result is more consumption, because you spend the money saved on inefficiency on more consumption. If coca cola produces 1m bottles of coke in 1 year and finds a way to produce that many in half a year, they're not going to pro
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by A12-B 6y ago
Unfortunately, a transition to a more planned economy is going to be necessary, because individual actors working independently of the needs of others might be a surprisingly good way to allocate resources, but it's not smart enough to
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by A12-B 6y ago
'Systemic risk' and 'Capital obligations' are crafted by the wealthy specifically to prevent small players from having as easy a time gaming the market as they do. No one is shouting conspiracy because they don't ne