LesZedCB

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by LesZedCB 10y ago
Yeah, I know, I just want to make sure that our homeless problem is not linked to a scarcity of resources. I am very familiar with the links between mental illness and homelessness as well as lgbtq+ youth and homelessness.
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by LesZedCB 10y ago
Meanwhile, unused homes outnumber the homeless 6-1 [1], and in Detroit, they bulldoze unused homes because it is more profitable to destroy and rebuild homes that are palatable for 'civilized' people than to let people live in the
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by LesZedCB 10y ago
why just the opposite sex? actually, i believe all the gendered parts of your point could simply be removed.
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to be fair, in this scenario, Me or I has a 50% stake in how things go down.
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by LesZedCB 10y ago
just like the sun burns up all its hydrogen stores eventually, the earth will eventually give up the last of its natural resources. Sooner, rather than later if we keep up at this pace. Unlike the suns nuclear process, though, our use of re
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by LesZedCB 10y ago
> Education, health care and real estate are a totally different matter Yes, and totally inaccessible to the people that the folks in this thread are saying allegedly have a better quality of life because they can afford useless commodit
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Their latest update was a survey saying that the reversibility trials were proving less successful in their baboon studies after great success in previous studies. They sent out a survey asking for comments on the importance of reversibili
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
In a related fact, consumer debt normalized to household income has also increased massively[0]. [0] http://www.money-zine.com/financial-planning/debt-consolidat...
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
There's a difference between debating the merits of communism and the tactics to get there. I think communism is better for people than free markets because markets run on competition, which is in stark contrast to mutual aid, which is
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
They haven't explicitly come out against capitalism yet. Though, their youth caucus has drafted a proposal to change their platform to come out as explicitly anti-capitalist. Richard Wolff[1], Democracy@Work cofounder helped draft it.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
That isn't true.[1] Honestly, I see absolutely no basis with which you could possible make that claim. [1] http://www.oxfam.org.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2016/01/...
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Which is the perfect example that both republicans and democrats have the same objective. They are both capitalist parties, I wish there was a true left party in the US to represent the working class.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Yup, it's despicable. Wage-slavery is basically the system minimum wage workers live under now. They may not be bought and sold like cattle, but they are viewed and treated as such. Interestingly, in Seattle, with the 15/hr moveme
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
I'm reading the Mars trilogy right now. It's also really good.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
> The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist utopian society Woah, yes, that's going to number one on my reading list. Thanks for the recommendation.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Sorry, to answer your question, capitalism breeds inequality because private ownership is a hierarchy. There are those who own, and there are those are required to pay the owner for use of their property. People who own amass capital at an
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Yes, a member of the communist party cadre in certain historical times was separated from the workers they represented. They were full time revolutionaries, no longer part of the working class. This was one of the main issues (in my opinion
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
oh completely agreed. Though slavery with respect to ownership means even people are considered productive means to be owned. At least people (in general, obviously this still exists in some places in the world) own themselves, and have so
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
So much propaganda has been targeted directly at the 'middle class'. Be thankful you aren't in a third world country. At least you have a job. At least you live in the USA. Meanwhile, wages are being cut, they are being bled
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
"The World" is an appeal to some platonic form that doesn't exist. There is no organization of the world that we as a society are tending towards. It's just the system we are under, which currently is capitalism, which i
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Funny, because for myself, reading about these events from a marxist perspective, not a single one of them is surprising. In fact, all of them are completely predictable. The story that we've been sold about laissez faire capitalism an
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
This is described in The Singularity is Near (edit: or How to Create a Brain. I dont' remember which) as the Law of Accelerating Returns, and is exactly what this journalist falls prey to. Human brains are accustomed to viewing the wor
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Wow, those are terrible. Maybe it would be fair to say that affronts against programmer workers are varied in severity, but they exist, nonetheless.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Maybe they had to take the whole week off because they were required to come in instead of rest on that first day. Maybe it would've only been two days otherwise.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
just because he tried to escape it doesn't mean he didn't make that decision...
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
I prefer collectivization instead of nationalization. I agree that huge monopolies aren't going to be great. I would support a federated organization of local hospitals and care facilities. Private ownership or management of hospitals
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Another step: Affordable housing for everyone. How many people can't risk not having a place to live if they loose their income? Another step: Affordable food for everyone. How many people can't risk not having food to nourish the
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Add your info to this spreadsheet to keep tabs. My reddit username is the same as HN. Hope you get your emails soon! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KLudfhKDVurSLh9A0DvJ...
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
He said on reddit that all you need to to is plug in cables or DVI-to-HDMI adapters to "fake out" your graphics card thinking monitors are attached, but physical monitors are not required.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
To the people who stand to make money from our labor, we will always be resources, just like the computers, and the office. We will always be a cost, just like health insurance, and the rent and electricity bill. Treating us nicely is just

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