Veelox

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by Veelox 8y ago
Currently as a single mother, you can qualify for more things than you can as a married mother. This puts a financial incentive to stay unmarried. This incentive should be removed. I don't have as good of an answer for reducing childre
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by Veelox 8y ago
> Are you suggesting we make their parents "pay" somehow? Or a program to prevent the parents from having 5+ kids when they don't have the resources? Due to the way government assistance is structured it encourages parents
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>Your meritocracy is frequently indistinguishable from aristocracy. I think there is a big leap from saying the crown Prince is most qualified to take the thrown and saying a meritocracy is frequently indistinguishable from aristocracy.
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>All of those instances are meritocratic? We'll admit the occasional error but would you at least say that bloodline aristocracy is often meritocratic by your definition? I would say that it often has the same outcome as a meritocra
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You have a very interesting world view. >The two girls are equally meritorious yet only one will get admitted. >To me merit is something that comes from within, not from without. >but that knowledge isn't itself merit. I don&#
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>The whole point of my example was to pose two people of equal intelligence with equal work ethic. I'll admit the Asian girl has a higher chance to succeed at Harvard but I don't believe that's due to her merit, it's
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I think we are disagreeing about what it means to be meritorious. Both people should have equal work ethic. I would say that the person who has been to private school, taken hard classes, is physically fit, and a practiced debater has a hig
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by Veelox 8y ago
>In a racist structure there is no way to be blind to race, you either perpetuate it or you work against it. You could be trying to say one thing while I hear something different. Do you think it is okay to elevate underrepresented minor
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>4) Harvard's scoring is unintentionally hurting Asian students. It's Harvard we are taking about, not a community college. Someone in admissions knew it was happening and let it keep happening. If you are willing to say uninte
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>Obviously hard objective criteria are not be enough to get into Harvard, and they need to dip into subjectivity which is rife with bias. I think you are missing the point OP is making. The top 80% of blacks score well on the subjective
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by Veelox 8y ago
I think the part of the issue that bothers me most is how much of a double standard there is between what counts as racism against African Americans and rasism against Asian Americans. Objectively, if you have two identical applications to
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by Veelox 8y ago
>To the asian issue I wonder if it isn't even a negative treatment, just that other racial minorities get a tip and many whites make it through legacy and donoring. I am going to make some assumptions and I apologise if they are wro
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by Veelox 8y ago
Would you be able to link to a source about the UN weapons inspectors or something similar? All I have is pretty much hearsay and I was young enough when the towers fell that I understood "bad guys did it" but not much more.
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Do we have reason to believe that the government knew there were no WMDs?
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by Veelox 8y ago
At least 50,000,000 were killed in WW2 alone. In WW1 around 16,000,000 were killed. That is over 65,000,000 people killed counting only the two biggest conflicts of the 20th century. If another global conflict broke out, the death count co
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by Veelox 8y ago
>Because a monopoly is a special status that infers special powers and special responsibilities. In principal I have a problem with legally treating a company different if they have 85% market share as opposed to 30%. I am okay with maki
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I do care about companies that abuse their position as a monopoly. I think its probably right that Google gets fined for not allowing companies to sell Android forks. What I have a problem with is that if a company is doing some standard bu
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Personally I feel like the European Commission is going to far and trying to make an example of Google. I think there is a space for antitrust fines for practices but I was it was aimed at practices that are anti-competitive at any size and
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by Veelox 8y ago
>>"The issue isn't that wages have grown to slow, it is that important costs have grown to quickly." >And employers bear the responsibility for that. Per the article [0] after adjusting for inflation "That makes
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You have quite a few objections and I will try to address them one at a time. >With all due respect, that's probably because you're not someone who's having to survive on it. I have a lot of respect and empathy for those w
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by Veelox 8y ago
I was arguing against setting the minimum wage to a living wage. I like the status quo of cities and states raising their minimum wage while the federal minimum lags behind. It's federalism in work.
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I think we are disagreeing on terms. People support a living wage normally mean legally mandating that the minimum amount of money that is exchanged for an hour of labor is set to $X where X is higher than today's rate. I gave two exam
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I guess you misread my example. Frank is not worth $15+ a hour. Thus a business will never hire him for a part time job because it is a net negative for the business at that price point but both Frank and the business would be willing to ag
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by Veelox 8y ago
The biggest change to safety nets I want to see is the restructuring of benefit phase out because currently people get in a position that earn more money will decrease their standard of living. That is an awful thing for them and for societ
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No, but changing the health system so it is cheaper could be workable. Also, if made colleges partially responsible for ensuring loans were repaid it would reduce student debt.
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My father went to college in the early 80s, he was able to work as a ditch digger in the sunmers and pay for his school, books, and living off of that. Let's say he worked 80 hr/week 12 weeks a year. Say it now cost 25k a year (th
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by Veelox 8y ago
Honestly I would be fine with no minimum wage. I also tend a little more libertarian than most. I am fine with the minimum wage setting a floor to how much people are paid because it cuts down on explotive practices. That said, putting the
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by Veelox 8y ago
>> But nobody felt safe even acknowledging the problem ("How dare you admit that a half-dressed drug-addict screaming sexual profanities at the woman in front of you makes you uncomfortable! Privilege much?"). > This is a
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When you hear someone say "I cannot find qualified workers" always add "at the price I am offering" because if they doubled or tripled the wage they offered, they could find a qualified person so it is a matter of price,
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I feel like we are strong agreeing. If we change the how student loans worked we could reduce the rate of increase. If we changed out medicine worked we could bring down prices (currently there are way to many links in the chain all making

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