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by aminok 10y ago
Scammers are fighting a losing battle against the growth in public awareness. They can only capitalize on a state of ignorance. They cannot prevent people from adopting platforms and methodologies that have developed a reputation for good p
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>Then how are workers supposed to win better terms from their capitalist employers, outside of collective bargaining or state intervention? I recommend you study a bit of economics. Start with Adam Smith: >It is not from the benevolen
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Children are not "consenting adults", but in any case, child labour was essential for survival in the 19th century, because productivity was much lower than it is today. If you were to invade Myanmar today, and impose a social dem
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An economy is subject to evolutionary principles. A free market industry, like a hypothetical securities sector that doesn't have authoritarian prohibitions on free exchange, would evolve to become more effective at weeding out poor of
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People have every right to refuse to enter into an employment contract that imposes such obligations. What they don't have a right to do is deny employers the right to offer any terms they want. You're promoting authoritarian infr
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Ridiculous. You have a moral right to refuse to enter into an employment contract that obligates you to respond to emails out-of-hours. You do not have a moral right to prohibit business owners from offering employment terms that include an
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Please re-read what I've written: >Economists have looked at this and concluded that the spread of market institutions like private property rights has accelerated poverty reduction, because of the effect it has on capital allocatio
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>I'm surprised that SF residents are willing to put up with this crap. Why don't they stand up and demand better service from their city government? Perhaps it's an example of learned helplessness. It's politically fa
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Marx was proven wrong even in his own lifetime. For example, he wrote: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour... >But even if we assume that all who are directly forced out of em
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I recommend you study some economics. A lot of the ideas you have seem to be a product of fear-based conjecture insted of knowledge. For example, you seem to not be aware that the economic development that market institutions facilitate mak
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Economists have looked at this and concluded that the spread of market institutions like private property rights has accelerated poverty reduction, because of the effect it has on capital allocation and incentives. Science isn't genera
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The US has tried massively increasing how much "free money" it gives people. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/what-is-... Annual inflation-adjusted spending growth on various comp
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They are not facts. You are lying. You are engaging in fraud against society with this level of deceit on this important a subject. Shame on you.
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I want welfare to work, so no I'm not. The idea of welfare is attractive. The reality of welfare is violating the human rights of the source of its funding, while massively retarding the very economic growth that made it and all other
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You're deluding yourself, and ignoring vast amounts of evidence, in believing that reducing the reward for effort/investment will not result in less of both. Like I said: "people believe what they want to believe". You
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Molyneux is right about almost everything, but forcible redistribution programs like Yubi don't cause inflation unless they're paid for through seigniorage. An income tax, and in particular a corporate income tax, is mostly a tax
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by aminok 10y ago
My blockchain-based voting proposal: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=413196.10
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Scammers are fighting a losing battle against better security technology. They can only capitalize on insecurity. They cannot prevent people from developing and adopting more secure products/services/technologies.
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>Developed countries have lower population growth due to better access to sex education, contraceptives and healthcare. High income that mostly constitutes personal earnings is different than high income that mostly constitutes guarantee
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The Marshall Plan was not a global wealth redistribution scheme. It was one government forcing its citizens to subsidise other countries. Not only is getting all governments to adopt this policy impractical, even id were practical it would
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>If we re-distribute our wealth, population growth will subside. I don't see how redistributing wealth will reduce population growth. Natural selection ensures the population will grow and wealth redistribution will ensure it doesn&
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I think it's unlikely that scamming will be the biggest opportunity in the long run, given how unsustainable it is. Mutually beneficial uses will predominate over time because that's the only way to get repeat users.
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And others will realise the possibilities opened up by Turing Complete contracting.
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A tax on income means throwing those who refuse to hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade in prison, where they are kept in small enclosures, and where they often develop mental illnesses, and suffer physical and se
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>I know what you’re thinking – we can’t afford this! But yeah, we can, very easily. We raise the arbitrary lid on the Social Security contribution, which now stands at $127,200, and we raise taxes on corporate income, reversing the Reaga
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It's something that will change with experience.
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That's every system's Achille's Heel. It's a human fault.
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Ethereum has hard forked [Spurious Dragon](fork.codetract.io)
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IMHO, the only thing that prevented a total takeover by Bitcoin was the block size limit. Many, including myself, simply stopped promoting Bitcoin to businesses, due to the limit, and all of the momentum ran out. I spoke personally to a sta
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If we lived in a society where murder happened on a massive scale, that might not be an absurd statement. Imagine if we treated humans the way we treat farm animals for instance.. That being said, sometimes (more often than not?) acting on

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