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by boh 5y ago
Hyper-rationalization of the fairly typical human trait of weighing different options. Reductionist in his appeal to opportunity cost ("get the cheaper bat son because it's cheaper"). 90% autobiography which barely coincided
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by boh 5y ago
The endless influence of Bauhaus is mostly a lack of aesthetic investment in products or structures. Bauhaus created a design framework for a global market society ultimately lacking any distinct identity or culture. Minimalism is the aesth
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by boh 5y ago
Those people had teachers but no "schooling" i.e. mass produced education. No person prior to the twentieth century had the schooling that you have and yet schooling has now monopolized the legitimization of competence and learnin
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by boh 5y ago
You also learn to frame all previous learning within modern equivalents. Don't be surprised if academics choose to wedge their professional identities as the predetermining factor of genius. What counted as formal education of the past
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by boh 5y ago
Our culture is overly obsessed with the concept of certification as being a necessary precursor for professional legitimization. Shakespeare did not have anything close to what we'd interpret as a modern education and it's interes
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by boh 5y ago
No there isn't a spectrum. A stolen million is still worth a million. If a thief is laundering the money, he's choosing to spend it--no dollar just loses value all of a sudden. You may be using cash once used to buy drugs or hire
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by boh 5y ago
Unlaundered, ill gotten gains will be accepted as legal tender. The money itself will not lose its value because you've tainted it with sin--you'll just likely be caught if you spend too much of it at once. You might notice the pe
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by boh 5y ago
You are "eyeballing" a self produced hypothesis. You'll probably have better luck explaining it to yourself then anyone else can.
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by boh 5y ago
Perfectionist is an overindulgent term that fails to capture the experience of its debased realities. Dealing with perfectionists you never see an attempt at perfection as much as you see neurosis and control issues. "Perfection"
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by boh 5y ago
> you can simultaneously care about commercial surveillance ("advertising") and the plight of small businesses despite those small businesses also patronizing the surveillance economy If you define caring as expressing passive
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by boh 5y ago
It's interesting that employment is the only framing you're able to perceive this argument through. Even so, a total loss of privacy isn't a given within advertising itself (it's a fairly new phenomenon).
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by boh 5y ago
I think you're under-appreciating how unsympathetic and narcissistic this argument is. If you're suggesting that the original response didn't take into account that it would literally be you who would be losing money, please
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> equating them is a stretch. Agreed, far less people have committed suicide or foment genocide from smoking.
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This statement is just a perfect illustration of how manipulation has been normalized in our everyday lives. Your attention constantly being undermined for the benefit of perpetual awareness of consumer goods is just how things should be ap
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by boh 5y ago
Please remember that any resistance to the loss of your privacy might lose people money. Let's not also forget to use basic manipulation and reference poor little small businesses in our example to make people sympathetic. I guess if u
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by boh 5y ago
As opposed to what? Unbridled profit seeking? Too many people seem to believe their individual success is exclusively the outgrowth of corporate interests. Is it possible that employee compensation and corporate performance are opposed and
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by boh 5y ago
If you work in a high margin, less capital intensive industry with more specialized labor categories, a union is likely less necessary. Unfortunately only a minority of American workers operate in such an environment. This minority of highe
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by boh 5y ago
This sentence is perplexing, not sure what drew you to that conclusion. What's also perplexing is that all compensation should be based on an individuals capacity to negotiate.
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Bcs as a lone expendable agent, your capacity to initiate company wide change is nonexistent.
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Let's not bother then and just hope we're managed by some swell fellas
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Being a "high-performer" by definition suggests you are operating at a higher level than the average, suggesting you are a minority. The idea that labor policy should exclusively cater to a minority to get better compensated due t
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by boh 5y ago
So I guess unions do suck, thanks for clarifying. Hopefully people will be smart enough to not interfere with a firm's epic struggle for efficiency and polishing out the friction of overbearing worker compensation and benefits. Sounds
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by boh 5y ago
Loneliness isn't a problem. It's a necessary unpleasant state that promotes social activity akin to sleep pressure that forces you to sleep. The problem is that people are addicted to social simulacra (via social media) rather tha
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by boh 5y ago
It's because you don't care if you're actually right. The proposals you're presenting are obviously not solved nor does Bitcoin solve them. If you have a problem paying 5% transaction fees than why would use Bitcoin (not
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by boh 5y ago
I'm helping you reconsider a weak argument. You're hoping your statements are self explanatory. Also don't direct the behavior of people on a comment board. There's other places to go where you can feel good about yourse
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by boh 5y ago
It's amazing that crypto has solved all of these problems, I wonder why people still have them.
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It's a hedge against economics in general.
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Feel free to provide details.
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Thanks for the details. I guess we'll have to go to Argentina to learn more.
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So it's not an edge case for female, uneducated, poor people from third world countries? I guess this is the "you won't get it" defense. Maybe the real problem is that we do get it.

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