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by argentinian 2mo ago
That sounds to me like the most reasonable attitude. If a story is compelling for a certain person, why care about how it was created?
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by argentinian 3mo ago
Dictionaries are easily available. > The poor and rich are not equally corrupt He said, without citation. Also it seems you don't know much about poor people.
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by argentinian 3mo ago
There's is poor people who exploit other poor people. Poor people that sends children to work for example. Only the rich can use power for evil? A stronger or armed person has a power differential with a weaker person. A smarter person
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by argentinian 3mo ago
> Inequality increases the pool of wealth with which "haves" may bid up the prices of commodities, real property, and services. And they do, effectively increasing demand. Transitively, inequality drives inflation, i.e., local
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by argentinian 3mo ago
You redefined the word poverty there, that's not the common or dictionary definition. Even with wealth equality, as long as there's scarcity, some people would try to gain advantages over others with means different than money: e.
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by argentinian 3mo ago
Many underdeveloped African countries have low Gini. Do you prefer perfect equality in poverty, or some inequality and some wealth, a mixture of coexisting inequality and wealth.
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by argentinian 3mo ago
There is rich people that steal from rich people. There are many cases of corruption where poverty is not a factor.
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by argentinian 3mo ago
So, corruption is the problem, not inequality.
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by argentinian 3mo ago
Acording to what you say: - "The hallmark of developed countries is that they're even, mostly egalitarian and developed everywhere." - "they go together" (poverty and inequality). - The US is a developed country. -
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by argentinian 3mo ago
What's your definition of exploitation? There's is poor people who exploit other poor people. Poor people that sends children to work for example. Only the rich can exploit? You are not using the definition of exploitation from th
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by argentinian 3mo ago
In the powerless VS powerful situation, taking aside poverty, what do you mean? The powerful manipulating the justice system with money?
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by argentinian 3mo ago
That two actor system needs an poor person to exploit. You are confirming my statement that poverty is the main problem.
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by argentinian 3mo ago
You are writing about democratic countries. Everyone votes. I sense that you're pointing to a different problem.
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by argentinian 3mo ago
Your first paragraph says that poverty makes people accept things they wouldn't if they had more money. Poverty is the problem there. Education and a society's culture are certainly important too.
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by argentinian 3mo ago
There's poverty without inequality. In some primitive tribes everyone was poor. When natural adverse conditions hit some regions, also poverty was widespread. That the justice can be persuaded in a certain direction with money is a wea
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by argentinian 3mo ago
Then I think that terrible labor laws are the main problem, not inequality
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by argentinian 3mo ago
Correlation is not causation. Would you say USA is a developed country, considering for example Los Angeles slums? And there's a bigger inequality between Elon musk and a well paid software developer than between a poor person in a dev
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by argentinian 3mo ago
Why do you see inequality as the problem, instead of poverty?
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by argentinian 3mo ago
So there's no solution. Maybe hoping that solar and other renewables become very efficient and replace fossil fuels.
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by argentinian 3mo ago
Why not?
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by argentinian 3mo ago
The financial market is an expression of the incentives of investors. I think that markets are not the problem, instead the problem is that pollution is free, companies and governments can pollute or Earth without paying externalities. Blam
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by argentinian 3mo ago
What do you think about the concept of "externalities", making producers of excessive contaminating gases pay for it because they are harming the planet?
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by argentinian 3mo ago
So we need a benign world emperor. And there's the risk of an evil world emperor.
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by argentinian 3mo ago
What would you suggest that humans could do to steer it away from climate change?
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by argentinian 3mo ago
Voters also don't care much. You might say that rich people and politicians have more responsibility because they have more power for making changes, but politicians are chosen by voters, and wealth doesn't make people more ethica
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by argentinian 3mo ago
Is it very similar to the relatively new jdbcClient from Spring framework? https://www.danvega.dev/blog/spring-jdbc-client
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by argentinian 1y ago
I see. You might read the article mentioned bu user opo in this same comment thread. And also consider the inflation that occurs in many countries that don't suffer any supply side shock.
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by argentinian 1y ago
what do you mean by "supply side shock"?
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by argentinian 1y ago
Why would it be impossible to research it's cause in a specific context? You are not offering an argument about why can't it be investigated.
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by argentinian 1y ago
Do people in the U.S. have a good understanding of the causes of inflation?

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