anemoiac

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by anemoiac 6y ago
I’m personally sympathetic to your concerns, but to play devil’s advocate: Who’s to say that typical high-paying “real jobs” are a net good for society, (even) assuming that their occupants donate half of their earnings to worthy causes? I’
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by anemoiac 6y ago
Not particularly, especially for the Hacker News set - Pittsburgh has one of the lowest cost of living to earnings ratios in the US for tech workers. Detroit doesn’t have as big of a tech scene, but the cost of living is lower than the nati
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by anemoiac 6y ago
> In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility > You keep harping on the US, but it is one of - if not the most - upwardly mobile societies in history. The data doesn't support your conclusions. The US has
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by anemoiac 6y ago
Hierarchy is not an all-or-nothing phenomenon. We can reduce levels of inequality without producing the negative outcomes you fear. I’m not sure whether this applies to you (I’m not implying that it does), but I continually find it interest
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by anemoiac 6y ago
Why not? In the US, there isn’t a formal professional engineer (P.E.) certification for software engineers (unlike most other branches of engineering). If you’re performing the same job as someone who has a software engineering or comp sci
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by anemoiac 6y ago
Is there any reason to not read this as “we can’t have a more equitable society unless the market happens to create one?” On a related note, why does it seem as if some countries (all of Western Europe, for example) have managed to create
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by anemoiac 6y ago
I don’t think people generally call him a fascist when/if he defends freedom. I’m not sure how familiar you are with them, but his political positions don’t exactly portray him as an advocate for freedom.
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What does this have to do with economic education (the article is from the Foundation for Economic Education)?
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* More like, may have contributed to a reduction in violence since the 11th-century. While it’s possible that some form of genetic pacification might work to reduce deviant behavior over centuries to come, the concept lacks relevance in a d
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by anemoiac 6y ago
Is this (a poor attempt at) satire?
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by anemoiac 6y ago
So, to be clear, it’s horizontal totalitarianism when members of a society cast judgment on those who view homosexuals as illegitimate, for example, but not when society itself marginalizes homosexuals because they are generally viewed as i
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by anemoiac 6y ago
Shouldn’t this be an obvious option? When did desktops become a non-thing? I know it’s not a practical choice for everyone, but I’ve always maintained both a desktop and a laptop. The desktop tends to be both significantly cheaper and more
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by anemoiac 6y ago
Hmm, so you’re suggesting that a variety of heterogeneous movements together protesting an authoritarian justice system that continually refuses to stop dehumanizing its subjects can be equated to a bizarre conspiracy group built on the pre
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by anemoiac 6y ago
> Because if the majority of people spend some time in the top quintile (54% spend at least 3 years in the top 20%), it means that the majority of people experience the same (or similar) set of opportunities available to the top quintil
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by anemoiac 6y ago
> it suggests the uncomfortable reality that there is a higher degree of personal responsibility involved than we may be letting on. How did you reach this conclusion? I don't see any link between data demonstrating that most people
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by anemoiac 6y ago
I’m not sure whether this oft-cited research demonstrates much regarding upward mobility, per se, but it does provide some compelling insight into the volatility of income throughout one’s life. Typically, when speaking of upward mobility,
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by anemoiac 6y ago
While I doubt that you have a reliable source for your assumption that poor people don’t seek out deals or limit unnecessary purchases, I’ll note that being poor literally reduces your capacity to make good decisions - https://w
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by anemoiac 6y ago
Lived experience is certainly anecdotal, and I agree that anecdotes don’t simply transform into data when aggregated. That’s not the point I was trying to make. You ask, “Does the mere existence of people whose lived experience contradicts
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by anemoiac 6y ago
The comment you responded to above poses a valid question - what should we do if empirical data seems to contradict our own lived experience? "The data" is not homogeneous or infallible, nor can it fully describe all phenomena it&
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by anemoiac 6y ago
I agree that it's important to compare anecdotes to available data, but we should be careful not to assume that the available data is itself "the forest." In other words, the map is not the territory. While it's certainl
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by anemoiac 6y ago
Smoke weed in Kansas - boom, criminal record. Walk across the Colorado border and smoke weed - no problem, it's completely legal. It's also completely legal to spend your free time carting your AR-15 and Nazi flag down to the vill
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by anemoiac 6y ago
> *You don't have to be "older and wiser" to know that you aren't supposed to murder people. I mean, I'm not sure how relevant "knowing" anything is, but age is an incredibly strong predictor of crimina
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by anemoiac 6y ago
You’re right, but the odds of that happening are likely very low for the typical entheogenic plant enthusiast in Ann Arbor. From the article: ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The city of Ann Arbor has decriminalized psychedelic plants and fungi, inc
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by anemoiac 6y ago
I'm not sure if this was your implication (I may be reading too far into your relatively succinct comment), but I don't think most "criminals" do crimes because they explicitly want to break the law. I would imagine that
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...currently crumbling?
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The Democrats didn’t block Bork for writing an article. Democratic “threats” made in 2019, post-Merrick Garland , have zero bearing on their hypothetical behavior in 2016, pre-Merrick Garland and the shattering of norms that his (non)hea
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by anemoiac 6y ago
I was responding to the request, "Please tell me the last time a democrat-controlled senate confirmed a Supreme Court justice for a republican president in an election year." If you're trying to be thorough, though, you sho
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Sure, the Democratic-led Senate confirmed Reagan's appointment of Anthony Kennedy in 1988.
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The source you're referring to explicitly discusses benefits. It even includes a chart that depicts the relationship between "wages and salaries" and "total benefits" over the past twenty years. While I think it&#x2
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It seems to me that (non-black) Americans commonly overestimate the amount of time that’s passed since the end of slavery - there are still living children of slaves! [1] 1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020&#

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