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by aabeshou 6y ago
the models of market fairness work perfectly in a world where people could simply choose not to work, and where everyone has the ability to work to qualify for any job. however in the real world people are forced to work by a need to surviv
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by aabeshou 6y ago
freedom in America usually means freedom of the elite to do whatever they want, and freedom of the workers from being protected
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by aabeshou 6y ago
"if the world is going to be dominated by big tech, it'd better be by an AMERICAN company, not some CHINESE!!"
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by aabeshou 6y ago
I'm sorry, I misunderstood your tone as challenging, like "who is anyone to say what is fair or not?" technically in the U.S. there is a federal (nation-wide) minimum wage, then there are minimum wages for each state. I am no
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by aabeshou 6y ago
I sort of agree with this on the condition that "tampering with supply to keep wages in check" includes union-busting. If unions and other forms of labor power were not suppressed by a government owned by Capital, then we would ha
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by aabeshou 6y ago
I agree that government is not automatically = good, it is corruptible. and I do think it sucks that computers are built in places with unethical labor laws.
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by aabeshou 6y ago
come on, it's really not that complicated. just pay people a fair wage.
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by aabeshou 6y ago
not sure, but maybe they mean apologetic in the sense of being an apologist?
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by aabeshou 6y ago
maybe the conditions vary from one warehouse to another, but the fact remains that Amazon smeared and retaliated against whistleblowers at warehouses with terrible conditions
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by aabeshou 6y ago
Best Buy is actually pretty amazing. Their protection plan is a great deal too because it basically lets you pay a premium to return your item for a full refund in store credit for 2 years.
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by aabeshou 6y ago
can you give a citation for this or is it just sinophobia
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by aabeshou 6y ago
voters of the US overwhelmingly support universal healthcare and a majority supports medicare for all. it's not the voters. it's the politicians who are bought and who deceive voters into thinking they are on their side, who tell
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by aabeshou 6y ago
> we have just enough regulation to prevent healthy market dynamics, but not enough to have a single payer type system this seems like a very concise summary of the problem. and insurance companies see the profits of this no-mans land
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by aabeshou 6y ago
that seems plausible. but I consider that a reason why we need taxpayer-funded healthcare, just like so many other countries have had for years. not a reason why insurance is a necessary/lesser evil. I don't see how it's be
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by aabeshou 6y ago
weird that you're getting downvoted. probably for the use of the word "parasitical" which I assume some of the HN crowd deems combative or divisive. but it's just true. there's a whole pointless middleman industry w
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by aabeshou 6y ago
> I've also read the "conspiracy theory" that racial division is pushed in an attempt to disrupt solidarity based on economic class. Hardly a conspiracy theory when it is on record during the Civil War and the Southern Str
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by aabeshou 6y ago
do you understand the difference between a government definition and a human experience? I'm talking about making it so everyone has the basic needs of their life met - food, shelter, water, medicine, clean environment, leisure time, s
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by aabeshou 6y ago
> Poverty is relative, not absolute That's.... just not true, and I feel like you don't really know what poverty is if you say that. Poverty is not just definitionally being in some lower percentile. Poverty is misery because y
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by aabeshou 6y ago
I think that "disease" is a misleading term, because it makes it sound like an act of god or nature. I'd say it's more like a moral evil. Because there are people in power who have the ability to eradicate this, simply b
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by aabeshou 6y ago
got it, I misinterpreted your tone, my apologies
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by aabeshou 6y ago
as long as they are factual* * make sure to use corporate-approved facts
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by aabeshou 6y ago
have you ever done shrooms/lsd?
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by aabeshou 7y ago
just so people don't get the wrong idea -- there are a LOT of leftists, such as myself, on twitter who have a problem with zuckerberg donating .0001% of his wealth, who ARE impressed by this. Giving away 28% of your wealth is nothing t
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by aabeshou 7y ago
- I think Trump is the one who sensationalized it, not pharma surrogates, but I may be wrong - I'm not committed to this particular conspiracy theory but I jumped in here because I don't like when people try to dismiss conspiracie
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by aabeshou 7y ago
dont move the goalposts. (1) OP said big pharma wants to downplay HCQ because it doesnt make them as much money. (2) reply says that the fact that pharma donated millions of doses contradicts that (3) OP counters that pharma is donating mil
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by aabeshou 7y ago
absolutely agree. I think this explains a large narcissistic segment of society (and the narcissistic parts that everyone has, to an extent). But to say that's "all" there is is, for lack of a better word, insane
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by aabeshou 7y ago
let's be clear - it's a 1.8% percentage point increase, relative to the entire US population. but data from the U.S. Dept of Labor (graphed in The Guardian [0]) shows weekly unemployment claims just shot up from around 250k to a
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by aabeshou 7y ago
no, what's tiring and lazy (and yes, evil) is the idea that the peons at the bottom should be grateful for what the people at the top, who hoard 99% of the world's wealth, can get away with paying them. $15/hour is hardly liv
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by aabeshou 7y ago
one option is to bail them out but with strings attached . Demand concessions that are good for labor and for the consumer public in exchange for the bailout. Don't just let them put all savings into pockets of executives and sharehol
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by aabeshou 7y ago
okay but they're only raising wages by $2. It's disgusting. Jeff Bezos makes millions of dollars an hour. no bootlicking responses please

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