Jochim

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by Jochim 6y ago
It only leads to negative outcomes if that's the only step you take though. Most societal problems need to be tackled from multiple angles to actually see any positive effect. Rent control is a good tool for keeping existing tenants in
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I'm glad you managed to stay afloat through gig work but this example really seems to point out that it's prevalence is due to failing social systems (job market/safety nets) driving people into insecure forms of work.
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This is only holds true if there are more jobs than workers and working these jobs is preferable to unemployment. The reality is that the vast majority of workers are dependent on the decisions of whatever corporation will take them in orde
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by Jochim 6y ago
Acceptability isn't usually a binary. Legality is the cutoff point at which we decide you should be punished for unacceptable behaviour, but it's perfectly possible for behaviour to be both unacceptable but legal. Consider: - Cutt
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Except this kind of trademark abuse absolutely does happen. There was a post on HN about it yesterday [1]. Uber successfully had an app taken down that helped drivers determine whether Uber had cheated them out of wages they were owed. The
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The same could be said for child labour or health and safety regulation. If a child is desperate enough to work why shouldn't we let them? Why don't we allow workers to choose to work for companies that put their wellbeing at risk
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Many of the restaurants on Deliveroo were/are already exclusively takeaways though. I think that in many cases these services have the whiff of rentier capitalism. A third party has inserted themselves into a situation where you previo
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Lots of businesses aren't viable due to the costs of business being greater than the price people would be willing to pay. Pay isn't being detached from the value of the worker, what's being said is that if you're unable
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> I am not dismissing anything Then you've totally missed the point. People aren't arguing against the creation of a government research agency, they're arguing against the creation of one which makes it even easier for th
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I don't think those points really link together. 1) This argument is about negative reinforcement argument. Specifically how increasing levels of it haven't fixed the problems that lead to high crime in those neighbourhoods in th
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> It existed yesterday, last year. I'm sure Winston Churchill's girlfriend also did well out of the deal. c'est la vie. It's exactly this type of dismissal that allows this level of corruption to fester. It was unacce
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What is the point of discussing something like this other than to determine whether it was good or bad?
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I was intending to make a more general statement on the effects of the practice on all participants and in other industries. The disadvantage for being "not willing to engage" would be applied to those potential artists who refuse
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I have massive support for government funded research but I think this is a terrible idea. Government should absolutely have to justify how it allocates funds and which projects are taken on. This is a transparent attempt at avoiding the ne
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Either way it usually has nothing to do with the job. Should we really be accepting of managers hiring/promoting people based on how likely they are to fuck them?
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Can you really not see the difference? In prostitution sex is the product being sold. In other environments sex is a distorting factor that puts those not willing to engage in it at a disadvantage and can cause great harm when it becomes an
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I'm interested in what you find lame about the climate change arguments? They seem fairly appealing to me, cryptocurrency is a fraction of the size of current payment processors and is already consuming a small country's worth of
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That enough people have bought into the idea doesn't change the merits or issues that lead people to take their position on it in the first place. I didn't like the original iPod, I still don't, a lot of people did and do. I
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Pissing off your supplier is something everyone has to be careful of. If you're drawing little swastikas on your cakes while telling everyone how great "Phil's flour" is then don't be surprised when Phil doesn'
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I'm curious as to how your opinion has changed during the course of the lockdowns? I'm tired of it as well, but rather I feel the length of the lockdown is a result of the prevarication that took place in the beginning and a conti
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I think the most important thing for motivation and empathy is a sense of agency over one's own life and actions. When you feel like you have no control over what you do each day or don't have the freedom to make meaningful choice
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If the developer intentionally caused that outage they'd be fired and in court before you could finish saying qualified immunity. Accidents and mistakes happen, but a great deal of these incidents are not individual mistakes, they&#x27
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I wonder how much of this is just the industry maturing/specialising. We don't think it's weird that most people don't mill their own flour when they bake bread, so long as the quality of the flour is good enough we&#x27
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Doesn't this go both ways though? I'd be willing to bet there are plenty of people that get dragged into white supremacy because they make friends with a few at the bar. Just normal chat at first with occasional "facts"
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> Your first part of the comment sounds like the Broken Window Fallacy and doesn’t answer the question. Then you only read half of it. The question is how would it be paid for, and the answer I gave is that most of it would be paid for t
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> A job provides perspective and can show you that you are truly worth something before you even believe it yourself. People feeling worthless for not having a job is entirely down to society telling them that they're worthless if
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Not many good things are done in the name of survival. In fact being on the edge of survival is much more likely to drive you to crime through desperation. Take care of these needs on the other hand and people start spending time on things
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> Can anyone explain to me how UBI is actually paid for. The great thing about UBI money is that most of it would go straight back into the economy. That mom who has been putting off getting the AC fixed might pay a repairman to sort it
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The problem is that in trying to distinguish between the two groups you'll inevitably fuck it up and ruin the lives of people who could otherwise have turned it around.
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> That's the point being debated and that seems to chafe people the wrong way for some reason. It chafes because it's a common argument for doing nothing at all, or removing all agency from people in the situation. That remov

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