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by autobodie 1y ago
>There is a real chance they are arrested at some point. Let's put money on it. I'll put $10k on it.
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by autobodie 1y ago
About time for what? Another company to get charged with something that they don't get punished for? The fines are always less than the companies' net gains from the practice. Gains are often indirect, risk-related, and/or pa
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by autobodie 1y ago
The issue has nothing to do with envy and everything to do with dignity, which will always be a prerequisite for civility.
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by autobodie 1y ago
Since the French Revolution, "right wing" by and large means a politics that defends or expands the established ruling order. In so far as the established ruling order is so-called free market capitalism, as is the case in the US,
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by autobodie 1y ago
bullying? sounds like standard capitalist market economics to me.
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by autobodie 1y ago
cross platform support, according to the description.
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by autobodie 1y ago
More like the libertarian version of freedom, but not much more.
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by autobodie 1y ago
> "Moby does not permit his Tracks to be used to advertise right-wing politics or causes, or to be used to promote meat, dairy, or other animal products. People may disagree about when these lines have been crossed—which is why Mob
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by autobodie 2y ago
It's what built every single country on Earth except theoretically Egypt? Your point is just makes no sense to me.
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by autobodie 2y ago
A larger economy but drastically more inequality and a despicable caste system.
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by autobodie 2y ago
> It's a capitalist society so capital is power. Precisely.
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by autobodie 2y ago
Define "real democracy"
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by autobodie 2y ago
Lenin did win.
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by autobodie 2y ago
They can just get paid more. Why do I need to repeat myself?
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by autobodie 2y ago
No need for complexity here. Anyone who needs those benefits to accept the position is a poor choice anyhow. Forget them.
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by autobodie 2y ago
Then we can pay them more, or not and they can take another job instead. Either way, I can't take you seriously.
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by autobodie 2y ago
Wonderful! I am increasingly drowning in debt, my career is a dead end thanks to AI, and my landlord is making my daily life a stressful misery, but I can listen to music on my headphones. Thanks science!
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by autobodie 2y ago
Now what?
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by autobodie 2y ago
Larger companies with more profit have more political influence. This is fundamental. The fads you describe are just that. Tides of destruction are inevitable, but the fundamentals remain true. You're missing the forest for the trees.
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by autobodie 2y ago
> Amazon needs to breakup its own sales vs warehouse/shipping business if it wants to be able to do things like that. According to the fundamental dictates of capitalism, you have this backwards.
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by autobodie 2y ago
> After you liberalize housing, you still run into the trouble of economic forces trying to turn housing into a sensible investment. Karl Marx made this crystal clear 150 years ago. You have to socialize housing, not "liberalize&q
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by autobodie 2y ago
See "potential".
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by autobodie 2y ago
Moniker or not, I don't see Amazon or Kindle going anywhere anytime soon.
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by autobodie 2y ago
That is not semantics. It is fundamental economics.
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by autobodie 2y ago
No, it instills a reality about so-called "rights". Liberal society is full of lies like this and I'm just pointing them out.
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by autobodie 2y ago
> but without profit, people can't get paid, and they'll stop building I wholeheartledly disagree. People build things all the time for things other than profit. In fact, most of the greatest things ever built were a loss for
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by autobodie 2y ago
Absolutely. The profit motive is the root of most evil. It is a shame that so many are trained to believe it is the only motive available.
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by autobodie 2y ago
But also remember that you don't have any rights if you're poor, because you won't be able to leverage them and trying could get you in a deeper hole.
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by autobodie 2y ago
> I don't think people want to admit it "can't be solved". The fact that many countries have solved it seems to indicate that you are wrong.
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by autobodie 2y ago
I read this comment 3 times and that first paragraph just has too many commas.

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