Avicebron

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by Avicebron 6y ago
I happily offer you a birth on Skid Row LA.
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by Avicebron 6y ago
Citation?
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by Avicebron 6y ago
Wouldn't it be Gini 0?
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by Avicebron 6y ago
Because structurally one cannot do the first without doing the latter. If I have 100bn, my leverage over the people who help generated that is disproportionate. I can set up a self perpetuating lobby to government to make laws that make gen
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by Avicebron 6y ago
Well doesn't that counteract pleasantness in an absolute sense? I would argue there has never truly been a society aimed at equality on a large scale. I don't consider the implementation of communism to have been truly aimed at eq
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by Avicebron 6y ago
Why is it a false god? "QoL Trending in the right direction" seems to be a very myopic way to view the world. When it's clear concentration of wealth has slowly eroded the dignity of many peoples lives, encouraging them to wo
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by Avicebron 6y ago
I really can't understand this mindset, it views the system that we have as fundamentally meritocratic and that only hard work matters. This is demonstrably false with a cursory review of how our (the US) education system, economy, and
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by Avicebron 6y ago
Encouraging a culture of people who now have to work in a cover their ass territory...welcome
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by Avicebron 7y ago
So you're argument is that they should be grateful that they could be wage slaves on the most precarious edge of society because they weren't lucky enough to be a software engineer/VC? Don't you see why this comes off as
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by Avicebron 7y ago
*In the computer sciences
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by Avicebron 7y ago
Except "gainful employment" has been quietly eroded year after year with things like institutionalizing contract work/gig economy/worship of hustle/eroding worker's rights to organize and bargain with employers
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by Avicebron 7y ago
Outside of software the majority of American's function as modern serfs. I'm an engineer who doesn't work in software and live as a modern serf
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by Avicebron 7y ago
I work with several biotech companies, I've observed project decentralization also become a large barrier to return on investment. Startups often develop a "go virtual" mindset prior to a lot of their products being ready for
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by Avicebron 7y ago
Because some people want to live in a world where we as a society can value things like medieval poetry and have thriving ecosystems around that. There's a seemingly endless line of people willing to enslave themselves to a broken syst
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by Avicebron 7y ago
appalling lack of public support for educational institutions. I hope the chase for lucre was worth it.
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by Avicebron 7y ago
Except I don't have a suite of class A glassware, a dewar, liquid nitrogen, and semi-infinite fridge space at home nor have the infrastructure to provide them to all my people
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by Avicebron 7y ago
Sometimes "drinks in a bar" level conversation can be the most rewarding. Let me know if you want to get a drink and talk about it. I'll cede that both poles have responsibility and that the conservative right have unified th
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by Avicebron 7y ago
This is a a circular argument and somewhat disingenuous. You presuppose that liberal values emerge from a "denser network", which at surface level seems fine. Except definitionally I argue that pluralism itself doesn't work w
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by Avicebron 7y ago
Cool. I was looking at software for protein homology minutes before I refreshed HN...small world