JSavageOne

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by JSavageOne 6y ago
False dichotomy, one can tweet with a link to the full blog post.
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
Youtube also demonitized Chris Martenson's channel "Peak Prosperity" back in January when it was warning about the coronavirus crisis months before the WHO posthumous announcement of there being a pandemic.
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
> the WHO are not a political entity so they do not want to comment at all on political issues; The WHO is very much a political entity in the pockets of the Chinese Communist Party. There's a difference between refusing to comment
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
MMT doesn't argue that fiscal deficits don't matter, it states that the only constraint is inflation, which is more related to the real economy (eg. supply/demand, trade / current account deficits). MMT doesn't nece
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
How is a 3% fee not outrageous when there is no work being done? If 3% of the $1,200 stimulus checks owed to individual citizens went to private banks, would you say it's not a big deal? (if so I hope you're not running for Congre
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
As the other commenter mentioned, most student loans are guaranteed by the federal government, meaning that the bank is compensated without taking any risk. Student loans in particular are insidious because non-payment can result in one&#x2
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
You outline the problem very well. The banking sector has an ENORMOUS amount of power over the economy/society in a way that no other industry does because it literally has the ability to create money out of thin air (by loaning it int
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
> What if we had the central bank give everyone an account that was interoperable with the rest of the banking system? Many economists and others have been calling for this [1], and seeing the replies it looks like many countries already
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
> If the government wanted to do for $0 fees they would have figured out how to do it themselves. Why would you assume that? You sound like the PR department of a bank.
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
Why is a 2% fee acceptable on money being given to the public during a crisis? Why can't the government just give the money directly to businesses without some middleman extracting a 2% fee? Boggles my mind that anyone jumps to defend
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
It's not a single point of failure, it's giving people the option to not bank through a private bank. Private banks already get a bank account with the government (the Central Bank), why shouldn't individuals have that same
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
That's not enough if you're one of the 78% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck and one of the 40% who can't cover a $400 emergency expense. Most Americans are broke, it's just not really talked about.
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
I never said that we should ban trade with China or impose sanctions. I don't see how that's relevant.
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
On the topic of not having enough work to do, here's a couple questions to any Google employees: 1. As someone generally frustrated with the quality of the search results I get on Google, is improving search quality seen as any kind of
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
Just to present an alternative for anyone looking for this kind of thing, I've been using this free Chrome extension for the last couple months and it works like a charm https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywall
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
Is it ethical to force paywalls on users, or to serve ads? It's an inherently subjective question.
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
Again, the atrocities committed by the CCP are in a whole different league. For example I post on Twitter all the time criticizing President Trump and the U.S. government. If I were a Chinese citizen in China criticizing Xi Jinping, first o
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
The U.S. was founded on the principle of freedom of speech, yet if you are an employee you don't have freedom of speech. This is disturbing, and the only solution is for the government to step in and make it illegal to fire someone wit
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
> The best way to protest an employer is to not work for them. No, the best way to protest an employer is to speak out. "Not working" for a company like Amazon where there is an endless supply of people desperate for work does
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
Yes the west is not perfect either, but let's not pretend as if Chinese citizens enjoy even a fraction of the freedom and liberty as Americans in the U.S. In one of these countries they kidnap you if you criticize the government, guess
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by JSavageOne 6y ago
> which is a topic of debate No it's not. Nobody is debating this. Even if people were, it's literally impossible to enforce so it doesn't matter (unless your moral conscience is influenced by the law)
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by JSavageOne 7y ago
> Real estate is an investment vehicle That's the problem. Real estate can't perpetually be both affordable and a good investment.
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by JSavageOne 7y ago
If he "fought from within" then Amazon would probably just fire him. Corporations have little tolerance for labor rights initiatives and dissent.
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by JSavageOne 7y ago
Sure if one is attempting to write an academic paper or PhD thesis, then "society would be better off" is indeed not rigorous enough, I'll give you that.
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by JSavageOne 7y ago
If you're going to make a rebuttal, then make a rebuttal. So far you haven't really said anything to refute his statement that society would be better off if everyone was guaranteed 3 meals per day.
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by JSavageOne 7y ago
If you stare at a computer all day, ie. you have an office job, your job can be done from home. I really hope remote work becomes more accepted as an option. It's not even just about individual productivity and happiness, it's bet
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by JSavageOne 7y ago
It really depends on how much close real-time collaboration is actually needed in your job. For some jobs/companies that may be high, for others where the work is done more independently, that may not be an issue. I've done a fair