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by awt 10y ago
Are you in the WoT? Also are you aware of Eulora?
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by awt 10y ago
The only people whose time it is worth to research candidates is that of those who are paid to do it, those being lobbyists. What economic sense does it make for any individual voter to spend the weeks and months it would take to have any
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by awt 10y ago
I implore everyone here to read Naggum: http://xach.com/naggum/articles/ Also read Stanislav Datskovskiy: http://xach.com/naggum/articles/ Also consider that the x86 hardware platform is
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by awt 10y ago
College as it was perhaps even 50 or 75 years ago is necessary. What passes for college today is not all that helpful.
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by awt 10y ago
Maybe Lois Lerner has it?
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by awt 10y ago
AML/KYC is inevitable in a collectivist system. Centralization requires the state to attempt to know everything about everyone, which is impossible, and leads to collapse.
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by awt 10y ago
I'm fine with it as long as it is voluntary.
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by awt 10y ago
In that case, wouldn't you say though that if you receive money without working for it, you aren't really owed anything by society at large? Is it possible to transfer the "having done work" from one person to another?
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by awt 10y ago
The wealth of a society is a reflection of the quality of the people in the society. 10 million in my hands isn't worth as much as 10 million in the hands of warren buffet.
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by awt 10y ago
But why are they struggling so? Is it simply because of a lack of money?
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by awt 10y ago
So let's say you give 1 bar of gold each to a group of 50 year olds, and 1 gold bar each to a group of 12 year olds. Each group is now equally wealthy and could each produce a cathedral of the same quality?
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by awt 10y ago
This implies that they're not wealthy because they don't have access, would you agree? Is it possible they're not wealthy because of some other reason?
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by awt 10y ago
While initially in favor of basic income due to the income trap created by the traditional approch, I have come to oppose it due to a better understanding I now have of the nature of money. Consider that basic income works when you think
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by awt 10y ago
> But capitalism needs to keep everyone working at a manic pace, boosting productivity endlessly and recouping none of it in real wage growth, and that requires the concept of the loser. Academia in the US is not capitalism.
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by awt 11y ago
Judging by the responses to my "boilerplate," inluding yours which consisted of a run of the mill ad hominem attempt to shut down the conversation by white knighting, and others which were non-arguments and sarcastic these are not
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by awt 11y ago
I will not stop posting about uncomfortable topics because of your disapproval.
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by awt 11y ago
Read The Anabasis (the Greek version is best) and rethink your conception of exploitation and how the world works, etc.
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by awt 11y ago
Without welfare, the mother would likely give he children up for adoption by responsible people that can afford them. At least she would have that choice, and the choice to raise the children in poverty, thus causing them to suffer, would
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by awt 11y ago
Tell me about it.
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by awt 11y ago
The country is not more productive if the amount of money earned by the second working spouse pays only for the cost of childcare, which is actually the case for many families. Now, funding public school and paying more income tax does br
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by awt 11y ago
Would you say that control of currency was centralized in both the USSR and the US? Would you also say that there is a degree of central planning in both the US economy, and that of the former USSR? Would you also say that forced reallocati
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by awt 11y ago
What is the difference, in principle?
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by awt 11y ago
Then you must also embrace the resulting socialist policies in the US.
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by awt 11y ago
The US has already been invaded by millions of socialist third world immigrants since the passage of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_...
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by awt 11y ago
Ever read Orlov?
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by awt 11y ago
But how do we agree to pay for them?
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by awt 11y ago
Wind power is not viable: http://trilema.com/2016/heres-where-you-forget-about-wind-po...
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by awt 11y ago
companies would no longer need to leave the US to remain profitable.
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by awt 11y ago
Exactly. Taxes are morally wrong.
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by awt 11y ago
The solution is not to force us companies to pay tax with yet another layer of positive law, but not to tax them at all, anywhere, unless they wish to voluntarily pay taxes.

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