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by beaconstudios 4y ago
has Thiel ever specifically claimed to be a monarchist? not that I'm aware of - but he has close ties with Curtis Yarvin who is a technocratic monarchist, has explicitly expressed anti-democratic sentiment, and hangs around in a mixed
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
then what was your objection? Capitalism incentivises profiteering, the crypto industry is an example of practically pure profiteering.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Capitalism isn't an idea, it's a system that we live within. Yes, if you care about blame then you can just blame people for bad actions and call it a day. But if you care about actually preventing bad actions then you need to loo
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
it's a descriptive take on capitalism. profit is the motivating force for businesses, and in the crypto economy the profit is primarily derived from speculation and scamming. in the real world, at least capitalism is driven by demand t
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
crypto is just purely distilled capitalism. Of course it's not going to solve any problems - it's an ecosystem entirely dedicated to the pursuit of profit, without the inconvenient side effects of actually producing useful work.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
yes. A country is a series of lines on a map. also did you mean to imply that culture is essentially tied to ethnicity? because it isn't.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
There's quite a few dogwhistlers here for sure but I'd say it's availability bias - people comment more on threads about things they care about. Id say the community skews libertarian, not far right.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Yes, it's still the same country. And nobody's being replaced if the Japanese are reproducing at lower than replacement rate.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
sounds like you just don't like the project - I wouldn't read too much into it. If it becomes a trend of "new ecosystem = burnout" then I'd start to consider a specific cause.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I think everybody is just stuck renting and can't get on the property ladder.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
They only ever use these things as set dressing from what I've seen - you could substitute Proust for any overly high-minded literature, the centurion is just being pedantic about the graffiti and so on.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Just not in the places where you can actually make six figures!
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Is the US government really that bad? I hear Americans complain about it all the time but from my experience in the UK the government is mostly competent most of the time.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
It's mostly just silly, there are some British cultural references but it's not classics except Holy Grail being a long reference to the Arthurian legend.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Typically people mean something that people engage with it not for its own merit, but to cultivate an image. So, people acting like Stanley Parable is great to look like they have depth of taste because on the surface it's not that gre
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
It's perfectly principled to take your cash and then walk away.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
For starters, not everybody in a coop has to earn the same amount or get the same payouut from a sale. They just all need voting rights. The point of cooperatives is to be owned by all their members, not just the founders. Second, yes the p
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I think voting with your feet only works in theory, because Amazon is well known to engage in abusive employment practices (including according to workers) and yet has a great number of warehouse and delivery staff and its founder is the se
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
These are valid concerns to raise, but can be addressed. In actuality, the investors (which can also be the owners but not necessarily) provide the company with capital to purchase these planes. That, or the company uses its own profits to
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
In my experience (having implemented React SSR a few times for different companies) it's usually applied halfway between the two, on simpler form-driven websites - process-driven screens, marketplaces, the kind of places where you want
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
> Do you think founders should retain ownership of the companies they create? No. The idea that a company is something you "own" rather than a group of people doing some kind of economic activity is a social construct, and one
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I think that an organisation is just a group of people and just like in our countries, we should be able to make our voices heard democratically. I think we should aim to make more areas of our lives democratic, including our workplaces whe
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Depends on who you ask - I'm fine with it and haven't said otherwise. What is a problem is when one person profits off the work of another (as in, pays them less than their fair share), which is basically all salaried employment.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
If by that you mean we have different understandings of the word "exploitation" then sure thing. But my definition is the dictionary one: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/exploita... &
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
A founder-operator has two roles in the company - as owner, being the founder and thus a shareholder, and as director or whatever work role they have. I only take issue with the former part as I think people should have a say in how the com
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Infinity, if they're not exploiting people, by definition. If WhatsApp was a coop and still sold to Facebook for billions, they wouldn't be exploited.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Exploitation isn't when somebody is forced to do something, it's when one person profits off the work of another. So in my example, the job is exploitative, yes. Having a business fail is not exploitation. I didn't make an ar
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
So what you're describing is the work of a director - work that should be paid but that I intentionally excluded from my example because a lot of people just think by default that directors should "own" the company because th
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I mean free choice as in they decided unprompted. It's still a free choice in terms of free will either way - I'm not sure what the better term would be. Unprompted I guess.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I understand what they meant though: paying celebrities to join while giving people the impression that those celebrities joined by free choice* (ie because the platform was so great). * edit: free choice as in "not swayed by payment&q

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