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by ardy42 6y ago
> Sadly, the author doesn't seem to realize that those wages come out of the pocket of the consumer. Lower the cost of labor and you lower the cost of the good that is provided. Those pesky abolitionists apparently missed that too.
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> The number of humans available to perform daily investigations versus the total number of products sold makes this most decidedly not "easy". Only if you're taking the blinkered tech mindset that employing people to do a
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> Even if Amazon orders one of every product, it's easy to beat that system. I wasn't talking about proactively ordering one of everything, but ordering something in response to a specific complaint about a specific practice .
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> You're not saying Amazon needs to spend $20. You're saying Amazon needs to buy one of every product on Amazon that gets a complaint. Amazon, being one of the largest and most successful companies in the world, can afford to d
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> Product reviews are only for reviewing the product, not the shipping, or the seller's practices. There are other ways to report this to Amazon, and you can report it to the FTC The card soliciting the reviews was included as part
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> I don't think it's reasonable to expect that a single reported case is going to result in visible action. (competitors/griefers can easily abuse this). In this case it's quite reasonable to expect prompt, visible ac
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> It has, but half the country still hasn't gotten that message. That's at least partially because the wealthy have the means to hire lots of smart people to create sophisticatedly misleading propaganda for them, and make sure
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> around the ability of a government to enforce the rule of law in its own territory Nitpick: "rule of law" doesn't mean "having laws" or "enforcing laws," it means everyone being subject to the same se
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> It's not clear that a boycott is a meaningful response in the context of these kinds of disputes. I think the idea isn't so much a boycott specifically, but some kind of civil disobedience that specifically opposed to the imp
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> Should people be expected to object the local government and local laws, even if they seem unjust? People are expected ( though not necessarily predicted ) to do the moral thing. > Besides the fallacy of composition, what makes comp
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> They're better off than some countries with strict lockdowns like France, Italy etc That's an apples and oranges comparison. Sweden is far worse off than their neighbors, that are far more similar to it than France and Ita
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> I am seriously suggesting that if states want to pay people to stay home they should find the money by cutting other spending, selling assets, raising taxes on the wealthy (households with an income over about $200K who didn't rec
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> I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I'm sure why. There's a lot of people who've committed themselves to false/wrong/wishful thinking ideas about COVID (the US, to its embarrassment, has a major
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> Many of those "non-essential" businesses and the associated supply chains are simply not set up in a way that can be stopped and then successfully restarted months later. If they're shut down for any significant period t
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> State governments have the power to pay people to stay home. They might have to shift funding from other areas or raise taxes in order to do so. But they don't have the money to do so. Plans like that require deficit spending, wh
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> That's not the only choice. Focusing protection on the vulnerable while allowing the rest of society to function could've spared us both from the worst of the pandemic's destruction and the economic destruction -- That&#
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> I agree we need more cash payments to humans. But we have to be careful not to confuse money with stuff (the goods and services produced by the economy). Giving money does not produce any more stuff, it only increases the competition f
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> Charities barely even want used clothes donations any more. Only a few top designer labels have any significant resale value. Long ago, I volunteered once at a thrift store. IIRC, they actually bailed up a significant fraction of th
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> It's not like that's the only solution that's been floated. Stimulus checks would have kept people out of poverty too. You're right, but the implications of the GGP comment's phrasing imply they wouldn't
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> Which Scandinavian countries are socialist? The workers don't own the means of production. In general the Scandinavian countries are capitalist with strong safety nets. That's what we're calling socialism nowadays (e.g.
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> Has anyone here an idea where this notion of a "steady march of progress in human history" is coming from? IMHO, it's the base assumption of modern society (e.g. "new" implies "improved"; instead of r
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This is the balkanization of the internet. We've lived through a brief period of free exchange among peoples, but it's soon over. I predict only one viable future for all technology companies, big and small: Pick a single na
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It looks like the key trait is miracles.
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> The kit looks like it's taken some other shortcuts as well. The original system used an array of DRAMs, for example, not the single SRAM in this kit (which didn't exist when the Apple I was made). Are the parts still widely a
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> So is the UK, last time I checked they're not doing so hot either. You can add this kind of argumentation to the list of ailments. Geographic or some other sort of fatalism as an excuse for what is social failure. Exactly. If the
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>> I'm pretty sure what's going to happen is the law will make it clear that porn generated from your likeness and distributed without your consent is as illegal as revenge porn. Then a bunch of people who did it anyway will
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>> Content moderation has been ~solved as well. > I strongly disagree. Pornhub just purged 10 million videos because they couldn't moderate out child porn and rape videos. PornHub is not a good example here. Reactive content
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> Upset about revenge porn? What if it's just a really close copy of your face/body generated by machine, stitched together in a very believable fashion? You could maybe claim ownership of your likeness, but I don't think
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> The fact that the U.S. government could so easily hobble the world’s largest smartphone maker and 5G infrastructure supplier in less than one year is indicative of the fragility of China’s highly centralized high tech sector. China’s e
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> People from china going home is one thing... but there are still people from eg. Netherlands (and other developed european countries... and underdeveloped too, and african, and southern american, and a lot of asian too), who want to mo

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