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by adamsea 6y ago
I am disagreeing with you. My point is that hunger is bad enough and I don’t think splitting hairs between whether the richest country on the face of the earth has starvation or merely hunger is constructive, if we believe that either is u
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by adamsea 6y ago
1. You talk as if it’s not a single mom making a dirt-low hourly wage at McDonald’s. 2. I’m curious how what you say applies to countries like Sweden, France, Norway, Germany, etc.
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by adamsea 6y ago
I guess what I’m saying is, it’s not just hazard pay. So many people in this economy aren’t paid a living wage to begin with. In an ideal world I would agree with you. In the world we live in my suspicion is that (not saying this is you spe
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by adamsea 6y ago
> It's less political will than not having simple competence in any arena other than the political that got them there. The U.S. Census, GAO, and various other bureaucratic organizations (USDR, EPA, etc), all seem to be quite compet
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by adamsea 6y ago
'"The word "hunger," the panel stated in its final report, "...should refer to a potential consequence of food insecurity that, because of prolonged, involuntary lack of food, results in discomfort, illness, weaknes
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by adamsea 6y ago
If you want to ignore the moral implications of my statement, go right ahead.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Respectfully, I believe you have it backwards and the issue needing correcting is this (quoted from article). "Few employers have compensated extra for on-site work amid the health crisis. A recent survey by the Economic Policy Institu
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by adamsea 6y ago
Just to nitpick a bit with language I dont think "problem" is the right word. The real problem is that the law lets companies pay so many people so little to begin with. Not saying you necessarily disagree. I think language has a
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yes. Food insecurity is an issue. https://hungerandhealth.feedingamerica.org/understand-food-i... About 1 in 9 people -- in the wealthiest nation that ever existed on earth, which as of 2016 had 540 billionaires living in i
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by adamsea 6y ago
Those are all good points but I want to emphasize that the root issue is that US law basically allows companies to exploit workers and not pay them a living wage, and as we are seeing now this does tangible damage to our society as a whole.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Is it really that difficult to quantify or is it that the government doesnt want to do the work of quantifying it? I think you said it yourself with your comment about senators arguing. The root cause is an overall lack of political will, n
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Then we'll see thousands of articles about how SF, Boston, and so forth can't pay for the public services the cities want to pay for, and how terrible it is that companies are leaving. Perhaps, but I've also gotten the i
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by adamsea 6y ago
Not quite sure what you mean, but imho the key statement in what you said is this: > I agree that authors (and musicians, and artists, etc.) would like to be paid for their work : )
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by adamsea 6y ago
I dunno. Coding is the easiest part of programming, in a sense. The challenges in programming aren't literally "writing code", once you achieve a certain degree of facility with the language and libraries you are using. The c
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think if you talked to most authors they would have strong feelings that there need to be some legal means to ensure they are compensated for their work, and that someone else doesn't straight-up copy their novel, and then publish it
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thanks for explaining. I think I understand better. Interesting. At the same time I don't think we should instrumentalize human rights -- human rights are important because their human rights, not because of their potential to increase
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Eleven mayors pledge to explore direct cash payments plan to fight poverty (US)(theguardian.com)
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by adamsea 6y ago
> What Apple has done, though, is frame privacy-consciousness in terms of exclusivity and luxury. That's an interesting point. Without delving into the rest of your comment, I'd like to expand on that one bit and add that part
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by adamsea 6y ago
I'd love to hear from the folks who downvoted this, so I could improve this comment. Because there's a lot of empirical evidence that police departments (and our court system, to be fair - it's a social issue) historically ha
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by adamsea 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand. And tbh I'm not sure I originally expressed myself well. But I think we all agree that laws against child labor are good, that laws requiring a weekend are good, and that basic safety laws in dangerous e
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Is It Basketball, or Socialism?(nytimes.com)
3 points by adamsea 6y ago|2 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
The NY Times looks at how the NBA keeps rich teams from using their wealth advantage to rig the sytem in order to keep the league competitive, and uses that as a lense to look at income inequality and the role of redistributive policies in
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by adamsea 6y ago
I"m not an advertising expert but I'd imagine those brands became well-known largely because of their advertising, and that continuing to advertising helps maintain their mindshare/encouraging people to "default" to
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by adamsea 6y ago
> since when do they use paramilitary forces "in nearly all situations" ? I think you're jumping the gun a bit on that statement. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/police
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by adamsea 6y ago
Kind of ... https://hbr.org/2016/01/income-inequality-makes-whole-countr...
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by adamsea 6y ago
Original/parent comment for this conversation said: > There's a worrying trend in the conversation these days that has shifted from "there's a serious problem with racism in how police go about their job" to &quo
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by adamsea 6y ago
It sounds like I misread it - my apologies.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> First you had to have the productivity gains before you could have the labor movement. That's, just, like, your opinion, man. If the labor movement is considered one way of fighting for human rights, then, it's been around a
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yes it is man.
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by adamsea 6y ago
The baby’s already been tossed my friend. The police actually have a terrible record when it comes to handling the crime of rape. They downplay it, deprioritize it, etc. Read about the massive backlog of rape kits. Literally - rape crimes t

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