Artistry121

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by Artistry121 13y ago
Everyone's salaries come from shareholder's profits - including the factory worker's. I don't think either reason holds - and if it does then those companies will fall to the wayside. If you think Google, Amazon and App
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Then yes, everyone is taking advantage of everyone. My cell phone provider is taking advantage of me because they make profit off of me. I'm taking advantage of them because they spent $1,000,000,000 building the infrastructure so I
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To your first paragraph your point only holds if there is absolutely no competition for workers (which may be the case). And yes, it still is voluntary. I once bought a phone off craigslist. It was a decent phone, worth probably $50 but
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htf is right as well. The only assumption is that people will make the decision that is in their best interest. Amazon can only attract workers if it is the best option those workers have.
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He migrated in the early 1900s before the war was forming. What can we draw conclusions based on? Right now in America every single person has access to the internet where they can access an incredible number of educational materials throug
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If the contract is voluntary it is advantageous to both or else it wouldn't be entered into. Take this trade off. I create a system whereby I can make $100 for every hour someone works. I tell you I'll pay you $10 an hour to wor
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All of your points except for the first one about privacy seem pedantic. Even that one is a complaint about social networks that are voluntary systems. If you don't like the lack of privacy on social networks don't use them. Pe
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How is entering into a voluntary contract with someone taking advantage of them? And what is your proposed solution? Amazon raise prices on the goods they sell to their workers and the rest of the population? The government step in and coe
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My great grandfather spent most of his money to get to America (from Germany) by boat, didn't speak English, arrived in New Orleans and worked his way to the Midwest where he toiled as a grocery store worker for years before starting h
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Really good point. If you have a blog you should write more about this. Very interesting.
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A relevant side note: is there any good way to get RSS feeds on a Kindle Paperwhite?
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I guess I misspoke then. The Metroplex and Houston area at least are booming. Dallas is growing at insane rates.
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This hasn't been my experience. For me and my classmates graduating college all have jobs in traditional companies much like my parents and (some) of their parents had. In fact many of us are going to make more inflation adjusted dol
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Basic income is just that - basic income. Some people who want to have more than that will work. Janitors still want iPads or cable television - and they will be incentized to work for that on a competitive market for those products and se
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At the right price someone would do it. If BI covers my food, small but comfortable housing and general expenses but not an iPad and you offer me $50 to mow your yard each time. I'll mow your yard all summer for an iPad. The incentive
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Ask your local police department for information about their SWAT team. If its not forthcoming or postive write your local officials.
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I don't see hatred for him being a conservative - I see a dislike for him spending lots of money to keep a minority from having rights. His version of intolerance towards homosexuals was spending money to prevent them from having right
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I did believe that and had read the book 6 times believing that. The point of fact is that Ender was not a great person - or even a good person. While I enjoyed the aspects of interconnectedness between the two groups - and the "re
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by Artistry121 13y ago
I'm stealing this from minikites comment above. His characters and the book's message might send the wrong message about acceptance - acceptance of his behavior, not that of "inherently evil" people. Orson Scott Card Ha
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Thank you. This was my favorite book up to this hour. It's painful to realize the messages I aligned with, subconciously, when I would never align with them if I had seen them presented in a different way. Sometimes its nice to be wron
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by Artistry121 13y ago
The Middle Eastern wars fought over the past 11 years.
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Could you provide me some evidence for the "personal blood" from these presidencies? It's not something I've learned about in school and would like to know more.
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Where, may I ask, did you flee to?
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I think a lot of the App Store rules will have to change eventually. It is anti-competitive for them to not allow apps that duplicate their functionality and Apple has "market-power". I'm not a lawyer but it seems to me that someone with
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by Artistry121 14y ago
Wouldn't there be a fairly simple solution in lowering the working schedules of Americans as a whole? (Simple in idea, not in execution) With all the productivity improvements couldn't workweek hours decrease causing a rise in the number of
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I see your point, cookiecaper. However there are really three usage cases where I see this potentially becoming a problem: 1. Google sells data to advertisers directly, without anonymity. 2. Google is rendered insecure and the encryption t
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Google doesn't "read" your emails. The information completely secured from human eyes. A computer looks for words and phrases and tries to match ads to email content. Sometimes this is helpful, but the advertisers only receive anonymous
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Huh? That's interesting. In my family there is an SGS2 (Sprint) and an iPhone and they are never confused. The S2 is far larger, plastic and has a different outside bezel design. They both have screens that dominate the face area and rect
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This is absurd. 1. The marketing for the Galaxy Tab is far different from the marketing of the iPad. 2. Due to Apple's own rules they are usually separated into different sections in stores. 3. There are only so many form factors a tablet c