VanillaLime

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by VanillaLime 11y ago
The youth unemployment rate in the US is around 10 percent. I'd say a two and a half times difference is pretty significant. Would you rather move to San Francisco or Paris straight out of college? Which you do think has better career
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
>and the owners (or share holders) would not be multi-billionaires, only single-digit millionaires at most Are you proposing a >99% tax rate on capital or corporate income?
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
Indecency isn't a crime in the US, so you couldn't get extradited for it. If you had committed a crime in Saudi Arabia that is also illegal in the US and the US courts have ruled that the extradition is legal, I don't see wha
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
. . . my friends didn't want to switch, so instead I simply stopped using Facebook and started using Telegram/email/SMS/IRC/any of a dozen other communication methods to talk with my friends?
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
> So, before capitalism, people didn't build widgets? Sure they did, at sustenance level. Or do you think that the noncapitalist economy of preindustrial Europe could produce enough widgets to sustain the modern standard of living?
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
I guess I don't see the distinction. If I see your license plate at the supermarket and post online that "license plate AAAAAA was seen at Whole Foods on December 6th", how is that qualitatively different from a license plate
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
Is that really what you got from the article? I feel like the author makes a pretty valid point: everyone pattern-matches people at first impression. If you decide to climb on a tower of moral virtue because you think you've consciou
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
One paragraph later, they also propose that the disparity is likely because black families have less accumulated household wealth and so are more likely to end up in delinquency than white borrowers of the same income. Like a lot of racial
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
I really recommend you read about the Effective Altruism movement if you want a detailed response to your questions. In response to your question, you are totally right! Anything you can do for most of these problems will probably be comple
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
Please, tell Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe about how the Russian thread is an invention of the western media. I'm sure the Russian military support in the Donbass is also just an invention by CNN, right?
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
So you're suggesting that being poor is a genetic condition (and one that apparently should be perpetuated)? Because that sounds even more dehumanizing than suggesting that the poor consider their resources before choosing to have chil
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by VanillaLime 11y ago
There are many, many places on earth where you can go and live precisely the lifestyle that the vast majority lived before the Industrial Age. Assuming you live in the US, there are literally tens of millions of acres of land in the West ar