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by RealityNow 9y ago
It's incredibly ironic that a company that apparently cares about diversity enough to have a "Vice President for Diversity" fired an employee for presenting an opposing viewpoint - to their diversity policy of all things. Fur
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I only skimmed through Part I, but why is the author hiding the professor's and dean's name? Nothing is going to change if the guilty aren't publicly outed. (Obviously names should be accompanied by evidence to support the ac
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> things are better than ever in thousands of years of Korean history. This has to be the weakest and most ridiculous argument commonly used to justify the status quo. Are you implying that all of the suffering outlined in this article i
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by RealityNow 9y ago
The masses are just extraordinarily ignorant when it comes to politics, largely because the media has shoveled down this erroneous notion that Communism = Soviet style fascism, and Socialism = capitalism with a strong government and nanny s
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> Will this make South Korean economy less competitive? Your comment almost reads like satire. The whole point of the article was to show the dystopian insanity of what a society hell-bent on competition at all costs looks like. High sch
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You're making the (common) mistake of conflating socialism with a strong state. Socialism does not in any way imply a strong government (see libertarian socialism). UBI might be "socialist" in the sense that it is a redistrib
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Because they don't have to because (contrary to popular belief) it's an employer's market. I created http://www.ceilingbuster.com/ to try to remedy this, but I never wrote a script to automatically scrape lis
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by RealityNow 9y ago
I'm in my 20s. What's amazing is that his commentary on politics, economics, and international relations is just as relevant now as it was back then.
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Because he's one of the most prominent, influential, and cited intellectuals of our generation.
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by RealityNow 9y ago
HN, Reddit, Google/Gmail, Reuters, Bloomberg, Facebook
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It's simple. When you have an oversupply of job seekers competing for a limited slot of quality jobs, the employers have the upper hand in terms of bargaining, driving down wages and working conditions until they hit the minimum that p
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The government created the internet, GPS, and funds much of the innovative research going on. I totally agree with reforming our tax system away from income taxes and towards a land value tax, carbon taxes, and other Pigovian taxes. Or at l
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Of course a decision ultimately has to be made, and I'm not claiming that every decision must garner unanimous agreement from everyone. That's impossible. I'm just advocating for more democracy and inclusion. Although it migh
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Fantastic analogy. Most of economics, especially macroeconomics, is quackery and neoliberal political agendas masqueraded by complex equations and mathematical models divorced from reality. The fact that only a handful of economists saw the
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"Too bad, but we need the space. They’re lucky they work here. If they leave at least they’ll have ‘name of our company’ on their resume." It's not merely about the decision to relocate, it's the indifference towards the
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by RealityNow 9y ago
Our CEO has flat out told us that it's incredibly hard for him to get honest feedback from anyone (except for maybe the board and investors), and another executive echoed this. Nobody wants to question the almighty CEO to his face. Not
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You like people telling you what to do and having no control over those decisions? Personally I absolutely loathe such environments, especially when the decisions are made haphazardly without proper rationale, which they often are (executiv
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This post rings eerily true. Recently had a company all-hands where the CEO said basically the exact same lines. The whole "if you don't love working here, then you should leave" bit made me cringe. Easy for you to say when y
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by RealityNow 9y ago
What is the solution to this opioid epidemic? As an outsider not well-versed in this topic, my guess is that the root cause here is hopelessness, struggle, and boredom caused by poverty and unemployment. The solution then would be to employ
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by RealityNow 9y ago
What makes me happy is doing meaningful work. My job as a software engineer is not particularly meaningful or fulfilling in the grand scheme of things. But it pays well, which will at some point allow me to retire and work on something mean
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I live in NYC, and most stores seem to have $5-10 credit card minimums. America needs to admit that it's no longer the bastion of innovation that it once was (I say this as an American. If anyone doesn't believe me, just take a tr
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How Summer Vacation Took Hold in the U.S(bloomberg.com)
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It blows my mind that virtually every major city in the developed world is facing this same problem, yet nobody is doing anything about it. It's a pretty simple problem with a pretty simple solution. The problem is that local city coun
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Fantastic article. Some takeaways: * Our economic system claims to reward "work", but the reality is that it rewards ownership and extracting economic rents. * Increasing value does not necessitate that being the result of one&#x2
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You're being pedantic. When I said retirement, I was obviously referring to financial independence. Financial independence is what enables a person to spend their time doing whatever it is they want, ie. freedom.
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* Value is not just the price that someone pays for something. If I give a homeless person a laptop for free, that homeless person is receiving value despite it not being a non-monetary transaction. Garbage men are very valuable, but the fu
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Retirement = freedom. I don't know about you, but I want the freedom to not have to work for anybody else.
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You're not addressing the article at hand. The article is not claiming that sexism doesn't exist. > I've never seen men, as a group, encounter the obstacles I've seen many female peers discuss Though since we're
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> 84 Lumber’s owner, Maggie Hardy Magerko, has something in common with the president. Both inherited businesses from their fathers that have made them fabulously rich. Magerko owns almost all of closely held 84 Lumber, whose stores cate
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by RealityNow 9y ago
You're literally twisting my words to serve your personal crusade. "If you're going to kill yourself, at least do it for a cause so that it can help the world and isn't completely in vain" I was clearly referring to

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