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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I thought this was satire after reading the headline. But no, this is someone suggesting celebrities and billionaires should be the first people we protect. In a healthy functioning society, we'd protect the most vulnerable first -- el
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> I don’t need to “buy” the story if the mechanics are good enough and gameplay is enjoyable. If they could spend another 1000 hours on improving the writing or expanding the game with the poor writing, I’d take the latter every day. Tha
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I believe this is called the "Gish Gallop". The idea being that I can come up with many, many more questions that are hypothetical, but that require more energy to answer than they take to ask. Often times the person will combine
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You and I agree here. Build homes. Use tax money to build and operate housing. (Don't do the shitty American thing where you spend on the capital budget but not the operational budget.) We also need crisis intervention, counseling, dru
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Who really dumps their money voluntarily to the taxman when your family..your friends..your neighbors needs and suffering can be alleviated with immediate results. The question I think you are asking is, "If you give your money to
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Just because people have it worse off somewhere else does not mean that people don't also have it bad here. There are people in the states who have raw sewage dumped into their yards every time it rains. There are children who starve h
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> If I come to your home, mow your grass then "tax" your car from you as payment for my services you would still call that theft. and rightly so. IMO, this is a false equivalence -- governments are uniquely different from othe
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Some advantages, I'm making assumptions here: A car? Access to the internet? Their mental and physical health? No dependents? It's unclear how emteycz fed, cleaned, and clothed themselves while they had debt and no home, but plaus
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is going to be how it goes broadly, at a national and international level. I guarantee you that you'll see access for the wealthy much sooner than you'll see access for the folks at highest risk. I don't know how to help
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is a strawman that gets leveled at people that want to increase taxes. It's an attempt to paint me as a hypocrite and therefore not acting rationally. It's flawed reasoning. I invite you to consider: If my stated goal is to i
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sure, and you are given the amount you negotiate with your employer, less any taxes. Which is the amount you are compensated for the value of your labor. The amount your government retains is not a total loss for you either. > Given this
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> History does not show this to be the case at all, The World is becoming a better place for everyone [1] Driven predominantly by growth, which will taper off. We are an unusually explosive period of growth at the moment, and it's a
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
In general, wealth taxes are not aimed at 100k earners. Neither are capital gains taxes. Nor are "tax the rich" movements. While yes, at 100K you can probably afford to pay some taxes, it's not where we should be looking to s
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Bezos started with hundreds of thousands of dollars and a secure living arrangement, from what I understand. And if you are making $100k, you aren't the target of anyone's tax plans.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
In either case, the workers produced more value than they were compensated for.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I can. I do give to charities. But me giving had a much, much smaller impact than me pushing for everyone to give. It's not just about their fair share. Income inequality is a feedback loop that has a predictable and quite unpleasant o
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Profits are just unpaid wages. He bought labor for less than it was worth and pocketed the excess.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I make roughly half a million a year. I'm very aware that my tax rate would increase if we started taxing the wealthy more. Please tax the wealthy more. Send the tax man to my house and all my peers. We can afford it just fine.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I've got a Mac laptop that refuses to update to Catalina via the app store. It starts downloading and just fails along the way somewhere. Presumably in the downloading stages. I'd suuuure like to be able to download the Catalina i
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> let's see if the free market can't work it out way better by itself How long are you willing to let the free market try and solve it? It seems like the free market has been solving this for, what, a couple decades in Amazon&#
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I agree on altered carbon for sure. The Haitian gangs, however, are based on the Voodoo Boys from the original source material. (Though I understand why they changed the game to have them not be a bunch of racist white dudes with dreads.)
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That makes sense. Something like Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix really gets wild with what posthumanism can look like. Cyberpunk taken to the next 200 years. That said, media like ghost in the shell and altered carbon (the novels) gestur
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm using it as intended -- that stories in cyberpunk universes focus on anti establishment themes and lowlifes.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Some additional context-- you have to engage in a system where you get paid to kill people for the police. And then there's this, https://twitter.com/TurboBurpo/status/1338945708200656896?s=... Remember that
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The dialog in that scene says, effectively, he must have done something to deserve it. To me it showed police violence and then immediately tried to justify it. I took away a very different message from that scene. But that's the beaut
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It literally was explicitly that. Gibson and others started writing in this genre, which then took it's name from CYBERPUNK by Bruce Bethke a short story that was named to elicit a feeling of technology and punk attitudes. The common i
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I think that cyber psychos are a really tired way to translate an old tabletop game mechanic into a story beat. What's more interesting -- amputees and disabled folks go BERSERK when they get treatment, or what if we escaped the bounds
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You got one answer, but I'd also suggest that someone might play a game out of spite. They might play it to check their experience ("maybe I was in a bad mood the first time"). Maybe all the coverage in the media made them fe
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Nier is truly fantastic and dives headfirst into discussions of identity in a posthumanism world.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
People can play games for reasons other than fun or enjoyment. Spec Ops: The Line isn't a 'fun' game, but holy shit I couldn't stop playing it.

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