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by Aunche 3y ago
This sounds like standard tracking that every financial institution does for compliance purposes.
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by Aunche 3y ago
It means that co-ops will usually lose out to traditional companies in economies of scale. If you somehow force all companies to be co-ops, then you simply end up with the same in-group out-group dynamics as capitalism except everyone is wo
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by Aunche 3y ago
Even if you solve the problems that other people mentioned, there is simply very little incentive for a successful co-op to hire extra workers to share their prosperity. For example, say a co-op has ten people and sells 100 widgets at $100
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by Aunche 3y ago
> valuated in the hundreds of millions with only a few engineers. And you just make like $150k It's telling that you need to compare your salary to a company's valuation rather than their income. That company worth hundreds of
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by Aunche 3y ago
A lot of founders have worked for free or have already invested a lot of money in their company. If you want a salary and external investment, you better be prepared to part with much of the stake in your company.
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by Aunche 3y ago
A bunch of accusations that references a few cherry-picked quotes that was written by an author who regularly parrots Russian propaganda [1] isn't exactly a trustworthy source. [1] https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022&#
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by Aunche 3y ago
>The head of the Federal Reserve has been very clear that he considers wage growth to be the principal contributor to inflation This is not what he said, and despite putting it in quotes, he never said that he was "combatting wage g
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by Aunche 3y ago
>But there are a million other potential causal factors that could be correlated with talking on the phone. This is basically the logic that cigarette companies used to deny that they were causing lung cancer. A longitudinal study is abo
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by Aunche 3y ago
>you can easily find a 2 bedroom in Jackson Heights for under $300k I agree with your overall point, but home prices are somewhat misleading in NYC. The "affordable" places tend to have lots of fees. That $300k 2b in Jackson He
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by Aunche 3y ago
Part of it is that Google's exec compensation is oddly structured. His compensation for the previous year was $6 million, though that still makes him better compensated than Cook.
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by Aunche 3y ago
>I can imagine scenarios where overpaid tech workers in the US--rather than striking themselves--instead pay underpaid miners (in Africa, say) to strike, which cascades to hold up manufacturing, which cascades to harm their eventual targ
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by Aunche 3y ago
China doesn't hate labor regulations so much as rule of law simply isn't really a thing there, especially when you compare it to the west. Labor, conditions have dramatically improved in China, though it's motivated by a sens
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by Aunche 3y ago
Gold went up a lot while it was illegal for people own significant quantities of gold. After that, gold on average has barely kept up with inflation.
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by Aunche 3y ago
>How did those 5 million better-paid jobs got created? I don't think that matters in this argument because the author assumes that housing prices will rise, which would only be possible if there is growth in desirable jobs. If 5 mil
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by Aunche 3y ago
Really weird that the author lumps NYC and London together when they have very different housing prices. I'm pretty sure that on average London is cheaper than Oakland.
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by Aunche 3y ago
Obviously, a wealthy continent of over 700 million people is going to produce some technological innovation. I'm just saying that they lag behind. I haven't heard of any of these companies you listed. As you mentioned, Europe has
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by Aunche 3y ago
Obviously, the LHC isn't going to blocked by antitrust. I'm specifically talking about disruptive technology-related businesses. When is the last time Europe has produced a company like Moderna, Tesla, or OpenAI?
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by Aunche 3y ago
>It could be useful to shift the perspective if you're used to the US one, when looking at decisions made by European agencies like the CMA. Sure. On the other hand, it could be useful to listen to Microsoft's perspective on be
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by Aunche 3y ago
Of course the size of the market matters. Just because you have a 100% monopoly on Uber for haircuts doesn't mean you have a particularly dangerous monopoly. People can continue to game on consoles and PC just fine.
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by Aunche 4y ago
>Gas is used for 2 main reasons: for cooking, where it represents a miniscule amount of overall energy use Gas cooking makes sense when the infrastructure costs can be amortized with that of heating. One of these costs is the 2-3% of gas
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by Aunche 4y ago
You could have written a letter to your representative that expressed that you'd vote for them if they let the big banks fail, even if that ends up causing a Great Depression 2.0 that ends the dollar's global supremacy that we all
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by Aunche 4y ago
>The whole activism thing doesent do a lot anymore This is because activism today has completely become synonymous with raising awareness. While raising awareness is important, it's also the easiest part of activism, since the rise
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by Aunche 4y ago
>The answer is actually "not much." It turns out that 70% of greenhouse emissions have come from ~100 corporations Read the source carefully. This is not what the BBC or the original paper [1] said. This is a meme that came fro
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by Aunche 4y ago
>Hunter gatherer societies actually had lots of free time. Finding food wasn't a constant struggle. If hunter gathers had so much free time, they must have had a lot of sex. And yet despite this, their populations never reached that
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by Aunche 4y ago
>We’re much closer than we were 20 years After the collapse of the Soviet Union settled, it has been the most peaceful time in human history (at least for semi-developed nations). A moderate amount of hostility is to be expected as China
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by Aunche 4y ago
At the end of the day, it's his company, so he can choose what services to supply. Freedom of speech means that he is allowed to have is own worldview that you disagree with, and you're free to use any other AI tools to make as mu
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by Aunche 4y ago
America on the internet is different from America in real life. The Americans work 34.5 hours a week. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AWHAETP
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The difference is that drunk driving objectively kills over ten thousand people every year. Meanwhile, the negative effects of 10 person company refusing to generate low-effort satire is less clear.
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by Aunche 4y ago
> There are plenty of other countries with old people. And literally all of them have a wealth distribution that looks like that last one. Say you lived in a place where everyone saved $10k a year and worked for 50 years. Then the bottom
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by Aunche 4y ago
> This is billionaire propaganda[1] to get the middle class to fight thier class war In my opinion, anything that tries to simplify the interests of billions of actors is a form of populist propaganda. It allows bad actors to prove that

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