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by Aunche 4y ago
So the low interest rates for the past decade that reduced unemployment must mean that they love labor right?
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Unlike smooth talking politicians, the Federal Reserve actually tries to be honest about the effects of their policies. This is something that should be applauded, not exploited as a means to get political capital.
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> this is not an entirely accurate description of the process This is an entirely inaccurate description of the process. Only countries were allowed to purchase gold for $35 an ounce, with the assumption that they would also "buy&
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I don't see how you expect the shareholders to know any better than the consumers. It's not like they have special insider knowledge.
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> Most applicants don't even do this. > A simple formula for this essay is: Sounds like a perfect job for a talented ghost writer. The problem with college websites is that only maybe 5% of is actually useful for essay writing. T
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College graduation rate is a real world outcome, which is author is referring to. You don't have to be particularly good at testing to graduate. Cs get degrees. A lot of courses are project or paper-based. If all else fails, you can ta
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by Aunche 4y ago
>The city union disagrees rather strongly with that Do they? From what I understand these employees aren't being represented by the union. Also, the ruling acknowledges that they did bargain with the union and are therefore not find
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My first thought is that maybe they didn't like your college essays. The funny part is that college essays are the most obviously biased towards the privileged. Poor people can't afford touring colleges, so their "why this co
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>a government order must also avoid being arbitrary or capricious There were two separate orders. The first was for public employees, and the second was for private employees. I agree that the second was capricious, but the first was con
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by Aunche 4y ago
>Did you read the ruling? That's a lot of ask of an internet commenter. In all seriousness, I did see that part while skimming through it, but I don't find it very convincing in regards to public employees. The order came from
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I'm not the person to ask, but plenty of people claim to reject capitalism and participate in society like Rage Against the Machine.
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This is bad faith interpretation of my comment. We all know what the Civil Rights Act is. My question is what rule exactly is NYC breaking?
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by Aunche 4y ago
I can understand why the vaccine mandate would be unconstitutional as a whole, but why shouldn't the city be allowed to fire whoever they feel like firing? New York is an at will state.
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>Reject Capitalism? Starve to death on the streets. What's "rejecting capitalism?" You can't blow up the NYSE, but most everything else is fair game. Your employer isn't going to care if you reject capitalism so
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by Aunche 4y ago
Glad we agree on something. The only use of overly broad and overly vague criticism of capitalism is for an aspiring dictator to motivate the proletariat to overthrow the status quo.
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This is standard anti-capitalist logic. Somebody is doing something bad. They're participating in the overwhelmingly dominant economic system of our time (capitalism). Therefore capitalism must be the root of the problem. It doesn&#x27
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The surplus wealth created by capitalism is the only reason why people have the luxury of giving a damn about the environment in the first place. Maoist China destroyed its forests to make charcoal for low quality iron and killed most of th
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by Aunche 4y ago
Let's say you have two students of the exact same baseline intelligence. Student A goes to a rich school district and scores well on the SAT. Student B goes to a poor school district and schools poorly on the SAT. That's a problem
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> free students from the drudgery of pointless essays that ask them to regurgitate content (as opposed to essays that teach writing skills or critical thinking, which remain valuable) That's something that sounds good on paper, but
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> if you google, for example, "china outsourcing effect on middle class", it's easy to find research supporting the conclusion If your topic is broad enough, you can abuse napkin math any way you want to reach any sort of
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by Aunche 4y ago
I don't think it's narcissists for the most part that are abusing victimhood. In most cases, it's just regular people who are taking advantage of people's empathy, but I suspect that they don't even know that they&#
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by Aunche 4y ago
>Won't a society that encourages getting ahead at all costs First of all, this is a anticapitalist meme that has no basis in reality. In American Factory , you can argue that the Chinese workers are encouraged to "get ahead at
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by Aunche 4y ago
>So you get people renting out their backyard as a toxic waste dump. Or murdering people. Or breathing smog. Or selling children. Yet, despite all of this, these people are living longer, healthier, more educated, and less violent lives.
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Deep Throat wasn't anonymous to Woodward though, and the general public trusted Woodward.
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I don't see why it would be problematic to require the real identities of those who want to act as authorities of information. That's how it has always worked. Ideas are trustworthy because people who they are endorsed by people w
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by Aunche 4y ago
This doesn't seem to be the case here as most of the "value add" is occurring in the US. Bitcoin is another Chinese export that enable capital outflow, but China is taking a lot measures to crack down on it. I'm sure the
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HSBC is operating in a mostly distinct part of the same industry. HSBC doesn't hire waiters to carry suitcases full of money.
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by Aunche 4y ago
>When I decided to go to Vietnam, everything and everyone told me to go to Ho Chi Minh City. It had better food. More art. More high culture. Less government. So I went to Hanoi. >The US equivalent is to go to Indianapolis instead of
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I think it's less about what you read, but rather how you read it. If you aren't actively trying to challenge yourself with your reading, you're probably not going to learn much from it. You can read easily read 1984 as a t
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I don't like PPP forgiveness, but at least it was voted on by Congress. Also, student loan forgiveness is literally fueling the problem that it's trying to solve. It will increase the willingness to pay of people of college, so co

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