another_why

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by another_why 5y ago
> And I felt a bit better. Because if Neil Armstrong felt like an imposter, maybe everyone did. Nope, everyone did not. That's a good story to make yourself feel better, but Neil's personal psychological problems don't spr
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Man, I see in Hacker Rank the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential. And I see it squandered. Goddamn it, an entire generation writing docs, fixing bugs, typing code. Slaves in digital collars. Adverti
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> The idea that cost determines value is literally Marxism Nope, in Marxism value determines cost and is equal to the social labor needed for the production of a good.
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A very simple example which i can replicate at any time, with the same result: I have serious problems with memorizing places and can easily get lost anywhere where I haven't been yet. So, sometimes(knowing that i have a phone with gps
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by another_why 5y ago
The amount of money you can gain from context ads is limited - you have so much space on the website and it will be forever reserved by the companies with the most money(monopolies) who will pay exactly the amount those ads bring to them,
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Nonviolating ads have a static amount of money. All the other departments, which exist only because of ad market growth(which happens because of violating privacy and making the ads more and more effective), will not be needed anymore. No g
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by another_why 5y ago
Companies pay insane money for ads, because they bring clients who really-really will buy what they sell. That simple solution will lead to drop in the evil giant's ad profits from which it actually lives
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by another_why 5y ago
Data trading for ad revenue must be regulated like finance, aviation, medicine, and power. The giants who've cheated us must be broken up to their smallest viable constituent parts, and their future interactions be through a framework
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by another_why 5y ago
> I - and others too - have repeatedly pointed out how prostitution is not different from other already legal physical labor, but here goes the summary: it's consensual, something adults do, it can be relatively safe[0], it isn&#x27
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Alright
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> I will not respond to most of what you said That's alright > how prostitution is exclusively all of the following and worse... You never explained why we should exclusively decriminalize prostitution but not everything else whi
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Who was she? Asking for a friend
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>Its not a comparison, prostitution literally is physical labor... >...whereas selling organs is not prostitution and vice versa. Alright. > Much wage labor, both physical and otherwise, involves sacrifice of psychological and&#x2F
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For me it would've been ok to work 6/5(better 6/4) for the rest of my life if it actually was something meaningful for the society, and if I had an opportunity to occasionally switch to smth different, and if i got a stable
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> If I was in a situation where I could either prostitute myself (legally, in a safe-enough environment like a legal club with a bouncer) or clean toilets (legally, in a safe-enough enviroment) Maybe that's because you expect yourse
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by another_why 5y ago
Comparing prostitution to physical labor is no different from comparing selling your organs to prostitution. Indeed, giving away for free a part of what you earned is bad, but giving a part of yourself, be it psychological or physical heal
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by another_why 5y ago
> but one can start by stopping to stigmatize prostitutes, starting with ourselves and then with the people we know. Just threat them as well human beings. Agree. >> Sure, if you have 2 choices - prostitution or dying from starvat
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> I was talking about a person who looks at the options in the job market, and figures all on own their that prostitution is the least shitty option available to them. If prostitution, which is heavily stigmatized by the society a perso
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> If you paid me enough I'd probably do it for a week and then retire. Maybe this means that you don't really like your job? If you had access to the same goods as everyone else around you, more or less, and liked what you are
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True. Ultimately, the problem which requires a solution is not decriminalization of the prostitution but the origin of why people get into the situation where prostitution starts looking as a way out. But, since no one cares, decriminalizat
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> Sex as labour is no different than any labour, In capitalistic society everything can be called labour, including selling people, their organs and their genitals for sex.
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> You're paying more rent. You're paying for more food. Why? > You're paying with expensive gifts, trips Willingly > you're paying to raise one or more kids How is that a payment to wife? Those are my kids, it w
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by another_why 5y ago
> The problem, I think, is that it's a mix of things that are obviously silly (your own windmill) with things that aren't bad ideas (reducing meat consumption) and stuff that's just irrelevant (jogging). That makes it uncl
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by another_why 5y ago
Fundamental attribution error. I got used to people around me considering these measures a joke(which they are if we take into account the size of the problem ).
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> There is activism and propaganda. My point is that it have to be targeted towards people below the median wage and especially kids. > The result is enough votes in enough places to stop any political solution. Even if there's a
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>Just because you're very convinced doesn't mean you can easily convince others, your attempt might even be hijacked by populists that are more than keen to capitalise on people's fear of change. It's a fight for what
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That was a sarcasm. Updated to make it clear
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Climate change, simple things and hypocrisy
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