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by anm89 4y ago
This is almost universally my thought when I see these lay off numbers. These companies are choosing to keep 250% of their headcount from 4 years ago heading into a recession. Why? After looking through their financials though, I don't
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by anm89 4y ago
Universities should just pick camps and clearly proclaim which side they are on. If you want to do critical theory studies at a university which doesn't believe in objective truth you pick a University on that side. If you want to stud
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Post IPO Aussie buy now, pay later company Openpay collapses(9news.com.au)
2 points by anm89 4y ago|0 comments
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by anm89 4y ago
I'm going to suggest that it wasn't human nature that changed. Ie, the elites are not better or worse today than they have ever been as human beings My real answer is that 40 years of low interest rates, have shifted all power to
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by anm89 4y ago
Well labor absolutely despises tech's elite. So seems fair
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by anm89 4y ago
I've been told many times that strawmen make effective arguments.
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by anm89 4y ago
If you think layoffs "don't work" you have some kind of fundamental misunderstand of what a layoff is.
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by anm89 4y ago
I mean, how much training does is take to be a paid thug? Like how to know exactly when they can seize people's money and stuff like that? That seems like an hour long class.
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by anm89 4y ago
No I would assume that at the margin, increases in population are drastically skewed towards more poverty. So if we we went from 8B to 80B I'd argue we'd go from 1B -> >50B in poverty. Maybe a lot worse than that. This is ob
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by anm89 4y ago
This Steven Pinker stuff is absolute hogwash. There are more people living in extreme poverty today than existed 250 years ago. So what that as a percentage and when you are very careful with the definitions that they are a smaller proporti
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by anm89 4y ago
Easy, almost anyone can afford 36 $50 payments. Most fast food employees can afford that. On the other hand, I think as a country, an astonishing amount of people would be in a very bad spots if we head into an economic downturn.
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by anm89 4y ago
I think the amazing thing is that 29% of American's think things are going well
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by anm89 4y ago
God damn this is fucking insane. Our society is broken
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by anm89 4y ago
More is not better. This article has approximately 9000% too many words. I'm sure the point is buried in there somewhere if I had another couple of hours
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by anm89 4y ago
If there is no option to term the debt out past a couple weeks, who cares what the APR is? It's a fixed 4 dollar fee on 200. That's not the kind of debt that gets people in trouble. These people are much more likely to get nailed
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by anm89 4y ago
Shiba Inu coin has a market cap of 6.4B DogeElonMars coin has a market cap of 186M Tesla still has a market cap of every other auto manufacturer in the world combined Gamestop still has a market cap 20x of what it had 3 years ago. Tech Comp
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by anm89 4y ago
The top comment on the whole thread explains that my above explanation is slightly off. For a better explanation see https://www.investopedia.com/texas-two-step-bankruptcy-defin...
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by anm89 4y ago
yeah, great example
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by anm89 4y ago
this is different, the actual underlying asset is at stake for liabilities it causes. This is the whole point of corporations. The analogy would be if a landlord created a shell company, and then only gave that company it's legal liab
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by anm89 4y ago
No, I don't think that's fair. I'm talking when it's large businesses. Keep in mind, I'm not espousing a legal doctrine here. I'm just saying that's what my gut reaction is. So I feel bad for a small busin
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by anm89 4y ago
Great to hear. Stuff like this degrades basically belief that we presently have rule of law in America. Imagine trying to pull this shit as an individual. You burn down some apartment complex and then just create an empty company and assign
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by anm89 4y ago
> Could be bigger than mobile So painfully stupid and obviously dystopian. If people spent more time in VR then they do on mobile right now, it would be the defining health crisis / mental health crisis of those generations. Thankfu
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by anm89 4y ago
Irrespective of the fact that I think this will crash hard. I just really hope it crashes hard.
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by anm89 4y ago
Why would this be flagged?
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by anm89 4y ago
Actually sad that they are giving hope to working class people of some bag of money they will never see.
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by anm89 4y ago
The tried and true method of throwing ad hominems of them. That should do it.
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by anm89 4y ago
Meh, he's redirecting ad money towards a good cause. If he wasn't it would probably go towards something terrible.
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by anm89 4y ago
I have no idea if this is actually sketchy but: If I was doing something sketchy, and I wanted to setup a fall guy just in case, this is exactly the contract I'd write. I'd either hard pass on this or just say: I'll work for
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by anm89 4y ago
For one I strongly agree with your premise. Imo, the reason things have gotten worse is finanicialization brought on by an extended period of low interest rates which causes societal surplus to flow to capital intsinve activities at the exp
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Life in the Coal mining camps of the Southern Appalachia Coal fields(youtube.com)
2 points by anm89 4y ago|0 comments

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