aninhumer

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by aninhumer 8y ago
What exactly do you think it mean for someone's experience of discomfort to be "unreasonable"? And why do you think that justifies taking actions that we know are likely to cause someone else discomfort? I can't say I fi
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Just because some people ended up in a relationship this way doesn't mean the behaviour should be encouraged. Sure, some people won't mind being asked out repeatedly, or maybe even find it flattering, but some people will find it
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>If my experience is at all representative I don't really see any reason to think that your interactions with one trans woman would be representative?
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Maybe he realised that speech has consequences beyond an employer not hiring him, and decided to take responsibility for those consequences? And that rather than "watering down" ones thoughts, understanding the implications of lan
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Indeed, I think part of the problem is that the only interactions a lot of people have with trans people is with political advocacy, where people are too busy trying to deal with rampant misinformation to ever get into nuance. And people th
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>is he really just being happy about officially having a dick again ? Yes that's probably exactly it. It's very easy for people who don't experience these things to say "well logically it's not that bad so why ar
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Also a lot of it is essentially wrong, since they expect you to transliterate parts of the sentence that would probably not be included in context, e.g. saying "watashi wa" for any sentence starting "I".
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by aninhumer 8y ago
I'm not really sure what the eventual safety of self-driving cars has to do with Telsa providing an unsafe system right now. Unless you're suggesting that Tesla is justified in actively making people less safe because it helps the
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Saying "society is just individuals" is reductive to the point of uselessness though. People exist within a system of social and economic realities, and the choices they make, indeed the choices they can make, are shaped by that
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by aninhumer 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if commercial dumping is a factor, but I don't find the idea of 10 large rivers transporting that amount of waste in a minute that hard to imagine?
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by aninhumer 9y ago
So how do you suggest we solve the problem without collective actions? What "changes on an individual level" do you think need to occur, and how do you expect them to come about? Because to me, it seems like the individualist&#x27
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>Very few people ever read "Terms & Conditions" and that's a problem. Many people seem to be blaming this on the individuals for not reading it, but I would argue that the problem here is a legal system that allows thi
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>So I have currently zero empathy for the "victims" of this leak. Quite the contrary, I feel a little angry. Because I have to leave in a world that could be much more beautiful if only people, sometimes, just sometimes, though
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by aninhumer 9y ago
The former. The rich have more to spend, so in the pricing mechanism their demand counts more than that of the poor. This makes the idea that prices reflect subjective demand highly suspect.
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And of course, people will ignore most of these deaths when comparing capitalism to the alternatives, because the responsibility is distributed, and can often be placed on individuals.
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That's not what is meant by "scarcity thinking" in this context. I suggest you read the chapter about it.
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I said "limits" not "prevents". During the Cold War both the USA and USSR developed their space programs extremely rapidly by deciding collectively to prioritise them. Since that ended, the industry has developed much mo
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by aninhumer 9y ago
If you're interested in the role of attention under capitalism, I would recommend Peter Coffin's videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/petercoffin Most of his stuff is focused on how attention is used to manip
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by aninhumer 9y ago
The point isn't that avoiding scarcity thinking magically provides a solution. It's that it's very difficult to implement a solution when you have e.g. a lot of fishers who stand to lose out from it. The idea is that we shoul
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That's not the argument being made there. Indeed, the argument is that "scarcity thinking" prevents people from addressing those problems, because people are afraid of losing what they have individually, and so are incapabl
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>From what I'm seeing around me, people usually grab small short term advantages over other people even if they suffer long term consequences together I would argue this is a symptom of capitalism, not an inherent property of human
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>Everyone consumes. It's the basis of the economy. Yes that's my point. You can't just say production is a better use of resources than consumption, because people need to consume. The real question is what's the best
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But the question is, is the lack of access to healthcare in the US result of an inherent shortage of capital, or is it due to the system used to allocate healthcare to individuals? Given that the majority of the developed world seems to be
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>not something that, through the laws of human action, evolves spontaneously between free individuals. Because it isn't. There is nothing "spontaneous" about private property. There have been a wide variety of conceptions
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Is that a problem of scarcity though? In most other developed countries, there is some form of universal healthcare, and this hasn't caused these countries to come grinding to a halt. Which suggests that the problem in the US is not &q
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by aninhumer 9y ago
Asking what should replace Capitalism is a very reasonable question. The problem is that lots of people don't actually explore this question in a spirit of intellectual honesty. >What do the central planners like the author of the b
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>* Put goods to their highest use That's just dodging the question. What is the "highest use"? >* Allocate capital to those who can produce more rather than consume it And thus the optimally rational world as conceived
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What exactly do you think it means to have "enough" capital, and how would you suggest measuring it? Surely looking at the value of goods and services we are able to produce with existing capital is precisely that which we should
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The argument being made here is not that we don't need the things we call capital, it's that we have enough capital now that allocating it is not the primary problem we need our economy to solve, and that the current system we use
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by aninhumer 9y ago
I wouldn't go quite as far as saying people "have to" use Facebook, but there are fairly significant social costs to someone who chooses not to. Many people's friends communicate primarily via Facebook, and you can'

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