CPLX

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by CPLX 4mo ago
Great story. A couple of billion dollars 18 years ago is not an industrial policy.
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by CPLX 4mo ago
That's not the chief advantage, insofar as there is a difference between China, India, and Indonesia, which there is. Their chief advantage has been a coherent, long-running national industrial policy and trade policy that encourages i
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by CPLX 4mo ago
It's not like I don't understand the argument on the other side of this. I've heard it my entire life. It's been dominant since the late 1970s and 1980s. It's just that it's wrong. We need a competent industria
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by CPLX 4mo ago
The reason we can't buy BYD cars is because if we allowed it without restrictions, it would utterly and completely destroy the United States auto industry. That's terrible public policy, and we should not allow it. Before anyone s
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by CPLX 4mo ago
First of all, it doesn't. The Silicon Valley market fundamentalist, future worshipping contingency is still very much alive and well here. But I do agree and have noticed that the tone here is radically different than it would have bee
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by CPLX 4mo ago
> The billionaire gorilla is laser focused on generating bananas Yeah exactly. And the billionaire is laser focused on generating dollars. Not just more dollars in the world though. More dollars for themselves, specifically. We can re-gr
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by CPLX 4mo ago
> overall we are doing better than we ever have Yep, this is it. This is the fundamental disconnect in our culture. Who do you mean by "we"? And why do you think that Detroit being increasingly unaffordable is a sign that thin
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by CPLX 4mo ago
I'm not sure if this is a straw man or what. Let's phrase this a different way. Everyone has values that they live by. Some people value family and community above all else. For example, even if their town has very little economic
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by CPLX 4mo ago
> Life is objectively much better today for the average person than it has been for 99% of humans in 99% of history. Life is objectively much worse for many communities in this country. Get on a plane to Detroit if you don't underst
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by CPLX 4mo ago
Yes, if you're the kind of person who just kind of thinks that Elon's stuff is really really cool, then that's fine. I have no reason to think your point of view is insincere. I have quite a few good friends who share it with
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by CPLX 4mo ago
I have a degree in economics and wrote my economics thesis on the application of complex adaptive systems to economic theory. I'm still quite attached to economic analysis, it's even the story behind my user name. You can be assur
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by CPLX 4mo ago
I've known and spent time with quite a few billionaires personally. I can assure you, with the utmost in direct observation, that they are extraordinarily obsessed with money. It is, in fact, the defining characteristic of their entire
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by CPLX 4mo ago
Of course he took the money from someone else. Is your theory that he dug it out of the ground with a shovel or something?
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by CPLX 4mo ago
> fairly and properly He takes that as a given but this is, in fact, the argument and you can't wave it away. By doing so he's being disingenuous. The argument here is about who gets what. And the startup founder and its emplo
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by CPLX 4mo ago
You could say that, but you also don't have to concede it. In fact, my argument would be that the more regulated, industrial-policy-driven economies of the recent past were better at generating wealth and improving society. For the mos
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by CPLX 4mo ago
I'm the original poster in this sub-thread, and I didn't make any of the points you seem to have ascribed to me.
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by CPLX 4mo ago
It's instructive that people like you pick people like LeBron James or J.K. Rowling to make your points. The reason is that the conflict here is between labor and capital. And those two, at least in their primary roles, are labor, as a
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by CPLX 4mo ago
> What do you mean? Every good and service involves many people, but Well yes. That is in fact exactly what I mean.
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by CPLX 4mo ago
That’s just back to my original point. Which was that every billion dollar enterprise is a collective or team effort and the only argument is about how the results get allocated. Which is, as I pointed out, inarguable. No one is spawned alo
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by CPLX 4mo ago
Also the idea that playing on a basketball team is a good counter to the argument that everyone is on a team seems pretty odd for obvious reasons.
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by CPLX 4mo ago
Yes, this is exactly it. One of the things I've found sort of interesting and unique about the current generation of asshole industrialist sociopathic technologists is that they're not satisfied with all their money and power. The
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by CPLX 4mo ago
She ran the printing press and picked the camera lenses and stacked the books by the cash register and booked her own press interviews? Also who taught all the kids to read?
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by CPLX 4mo ago
I am making a meta-argument, and I do think that it’s inarguable. My argument is this: the core disagreement here is about the allocation of resources between labor and capital . I’m right. It is. That doesn’t mean I have settled the argum
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by CPLX 4mo ago
His entire essay is just based on a purposeful misreading of the opposing point. It's a straw man. And if you look at his history it's obviously intentional and part of his usual style of argument. The actual opposing argument is
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by CPLX 4mo ago
Intent isn't necessarily an element required to prove fraud. Recklessness can be sufficient. Also to the extent intent is required intent to deceive is sufficient, ie the intent to cause someone to rely on a false statement, even if
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by CPLX 4mo ago
You can characterize things however you want. But "theft" and "fraud" are extensively defined concepts in caselaw. Fraud, specifically, is legally defined quite differently than what most people think the word means in c
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by CPLX 4mo ago
In case anyone is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary
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by CPLX 4mo ago
> if they are avoiding doing awful things in the name of money, then they are leaving something on the table That doesn't stand as a reason at all. I think the big contrast isn't as you described. It's more about short-ter
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by CPLX 4mo ago
Casinos don't have clocks in them.
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by CPLX 4mo ago
> Clickable links sent in email are more secure than passwords so I'll stop supporting passwords and instead rely on email delivery of a link for all logins God, I fucking hate that. I have a fucking password manager, I have various

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