Banthum

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by Banthum 9y ago
I'd be very interested in specifics on this.
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Everybody complains about how terrible work ethics are, but everyone wants to migrate towards peoples with strong work ethics. It's like small government in that respect.
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If the best way to improve the lives of Haitians is to place them under the rule of (probably white) foreigners, why do it by emigration? After all, it's not like it's the dirt that's causing their problems. We agree they nee
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by Banthum 9y ago
In fairness, we were "built to" live in social structures and dominance hierarchies. We were "built to" socially pool resources and act collectively. Taxes are just part of a really advanced system for doing that. There
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by Banthum 9y ago
You could consider going to live in a rural area and getting a simpler job. It's a real option and many people choose it.
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This is one reason why I oppose multiculturalism. Incompatible cultures in close proximity inevitably create civil conflict (e.g. terrorism, etc). This gives authorities an excuse to take more and more control over individuals' interac
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The point was about distasteful things! I think that expression worked perfectly.
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Well, terrorists are winning. But the goal of terrorists is not to make "everyone's life to be worse", it is to force political changes. In the case of the Islamic terrorism, their goal is to spread the authority of Islam. So
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Indeed, there are problems of this structure - individuals making stupid choices and shifting the costs onto others - in many areas of society. All of them should be addressed.
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Um, Sundar Pichai is Indian and Fei-Fei Li is East Asian (plus the list is 50% women). Or is "minority" only black and Hispanic now? These goalposts seem to shift so often I can never tell.
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It's one of those situations where it only feels horrifying because you're seeing it. Assuming these helpers aren't being tricked into taking the work, they are choosing it. Which means that whatever alternatives they face in
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through t
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Money is just a medium of exchange. An exchange without money is not 'uncompensated'. That makes it sound like she's living in a slave shed and has to come into the house every day to cook and clean. The housewife and the tra
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This reads like you think everyone has equal basic intellectual potential. The scientific consensus is that there is a Gaussian distribution of intelligence, and most intelligence variation is heritable [1]. Aside from the most extreme crim
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I certainly agree with the goal of giving individuals their freedom and to have the right to act in an atypical way. But let's keep a hold on reality here. Women carry babies, not men. Women breastfeed, not men. Women have higher trait
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"Hate speech" is basically a remixed word for blasphemy anyway.
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This is kind of obtuse. If you want to regress forever you can quickly reach the bedrock question of, "Why do anything?" And if you want to drill hard enough, yes, there is no absolute answer to that. We get it. But, back in reali
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The values which have, in the past, produced desirable outcomes.
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This seems like one of those cases where the amount of heat coming off the subject is so large relative to the actual event, and the difference in arguments so narrow, that there must be some deeper unspoken motivation. I don't believe
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Is dental health really a big issue for kids? I mean, they have replacement teeth incoming...
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"I don't know how we do it, but we need to start rebuilding community as a social network of interpersonal support rather than merely a zip code." The obvious, true, academically-established but politically-unacceptable answe
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It's far beyond "toddlers in rural China commonly poop in the street". In downtown Shanghai I got to watch a mother walk out of her business holding her child, have the child crap on the sidewalk (while being held in the moth
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by Banthum 9y ago
I really wish people would stop using the term "1%" to refer to the super-rich. They're actually talking about the 0.01%, or an even smaller group. Heck, anyone making $30k/year is in the 1% globally. Even in the West, a
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by Banthum 9y ago
I'm with you but why so insanely early? 6:00am is early; at 4:30 you're waking up before the crack of dawn! Heck, I'm lucky if I can be asleep by 4:30am...
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Is there a technology connection to this story?
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Let's see; I'm a successful entrepreneur and I had... -trust funds - no -expensive educations - university, but it's subsidized here so it's cheap. Almost anyone who can use a uni education can get one in western nations
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Except... there is no social contract of the world, and never has been. You're imagining a global social contract because it makes you feel good. Pure wishful thinking. In reality, nobody in India or Africa believes they have any resp
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The future is here; it's just not evenly distributed yet. That's been true for a long, long time, though, and rich people always take the role of vanguarding expensive new technologies. Later it'll get developed into more eff
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Multiplying together, only about 30% of the food grown is actually consumed? Is that really true? Whoa if so. Oddly enough, it kind of makes me feel better about food security.
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Other people you live with don't want to accept a homeless person into the home. And, you are part of a social contract between these other people you live with (e.g. your countrymen) where you can't just override them. If you had

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