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Ask HN: How do ye deal with 'customer service' that is designed to tire you out?
3 points by Sone7 9y ago|2 comments
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by Sone7 9y ago
Pfft. You want a citation, go make a vaguely anti-GMO comment on a major sub. Include keywords. See what happens.
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by Sone7 9y ago
It mightn't be as substantive or civil, but I've learned more from this HN thread than most. Reading some of the comments here confirmed for me that this woman is on to something. People are claiming that there's more to the
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by Sone7 9y ago
>You're advocating for throwing down all that's on the table and burning everything, because you want your money. I'm trying to make society go forward and improve life for everyone. Er, you really need to look back o&#x27
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by Sone7 9y ago
For someone who is apparently considering what life without nation states would be like for the very first time, you're remarkably confident in their necessity.
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by Sone7 9y ago
The two women say they were not raped, and were railroaded by Swedish police. > "On a point of law, the Swedish Supreme Court has decided Ny can continue to obstruct on the vital issue of the SMS messages. This will now go to the Eu
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by Sone7 9y ago
Lol. Go on a ten day meditation retreat and tell me that. Your subconscious will be jumping out at you after 3 days of simply not talking to people.
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by Sone7 10y ago
That fraction of the world is significant though. You're talking about millions of people who have so much less than nothing that they will have to work for years just to get to $0. With all our technology, our wealth, our sophistica
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by Sone7 10y ago
>Firm inequality is an expression of many of these factors. Exactly. It's not the cause, like this article is claiming. Considering that most people consistently grossly under-estimate the divide between the wealth 'classes&#x2
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by Sone7 10y ago
Alright, I'll do my best. Your ignorant comment about people's "stupid life decisions" (ever hear of a thing called "bad luck"?) suggests I'll be pissing into the wind, but alright. Most mainstream economi
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by Sone7 10y ago
Er, mainstream economists. Considering their record, mainstream economists seem far more anti-intellectual than most of their 'bashers'. Though your handle suggests this might be hard for you to swallow. Also, wage slaves do exist
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by Sone7 10y ago
It does seem a little bit irrational to state that immigration is being used by corps to distract us, while ignoring the positive aspects of it. Also, saying that people are naturally tribalistic, because of evolution, fails to take into ac
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by Sone7 10y ago
No I don't believe that. Never implied anything of the sort. You made a fair point about the number of employees, but I was careful to also mention other senior executive pay. I mentioned a host of other factors such as political corru
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by Sone7 10y ago
I don't doubt that firm inequality is a factor worth looking at. But, the article claims, with the flimsiest of evidence, that "the rising gap in pay between firms accounts for the large majority of the increase in income inequali
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by Sone7 10y ago
You are correct, thank you for the clarification. I remain convinced that CEOs of Google and Goldman make hundreds of times more money than their average workers, and that if you're going to publish an article that makes such a large c
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by Sone7 10y ago
I am aware what that 3.5 billion number means, but others may not be, so thanks for that. Only last year, the number was 62 people owning as much wealth as the poorest half the world, the year before that was around 87 I think. It's a
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by Sone7 10y ago
I doubt any one but you thought I meant that CEOs make more money than 300x ALL their workers, but er, thanks for the clarification anyway. I didn't say the statistics refute the claim, I said the article's claim is mostly based o
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by Sone7 10y ago
I think you've missed the point, a couple times. First, the EPI weren't trying to find the "average worker to CEO" pay, they were examining trends to determine how well the top 1 and 0.1 percent were doing in 2014. Secon
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by Sone7 10y ago
Globalization is not the enemy. Centralised globalization with a handful of megacorps dominating the global economy is fucking awful however. Protectionism is at best a short term solution that comes with a host of other problems. The major
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by Sone7 10y ago
Yeah I'm sure CEOs had other perks in the past. This refutes precisely none of my criticism of the article. As to your other two questions, I completely fail to see how they affect my argument, and I don't want to get off track. T
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by Sone7 10y ago
cjwilliams wrote pretty much the same thing. See my response to him. Also, considering that TFA is expressly talking about the largest firms and blaming them for income inequality, the criticism holds even less water for me.
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by Sone7 10y ago
The authors of the report anticipated your criticism: "Critics of examining these trends suggest looking at the pay of the average CEO, not CEOs of the largest firms. However, the average firm is very small, employing just 20 workers,
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by Sone7 10y ago
I take issue with the "Average Company Salary" graph at the center of the article. The article claims that "This means that the rising gap in pay between firms accounts for the large majority of the increase in income inequal
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by Sone7 10y ago
>Things that provide value are assets Things .
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by Sone7 10y ago
He rails on her for the entire article as a quitter. ... But she didn't quit. Kinda diminishes his entire point for me.
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by Sone7 10y ago
I'll second your Gladwell doubt: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161228/23550336364/malco... But the guy can be good, I'll check these out.
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by Sone7 10y ago
What are you basing that on? I don't buy the idea that America can't afford basic food and shelter for every man woman and child for even a second. Have you ever thought about how much poverty is negatively affecting the potential
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by Sone7 10y ago
Your logic is terribly wrong. Part, or most, of what makes the use of these tools against human rights workers and journalists unsustainable is the outrage by us. Try applying your same logic to people who murder journalists in order to mai
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by Sone7 10y ago
There was no implication whatsoever that intopieces couldn't speak on their own behalf. It's disrespectful to suggest there was. I suggest you read intopieces' reply to vonmoltke, and have a think about this exchange from a f
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by Sone7 10y ago
Don't do that. You can look up the debilitating side effects yourself. Asking someone to re-live watching their loved one lose their self from benzos or anti-psychotics that were prescribed as a first measure rather than a last resort

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