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by bsanr2 7y ago
>I agree with everything you said, but doesn't lending money to the group of people that are less likely to make repayment puts them in a worse place? Not if loan terms aren't designed to court default, which they often seem to
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Much like subprime loans, they're often the only ones available to the ones most in need of them. The idea of "risk" based on things like one's race or or location of residence or income actually INCREASING the price of
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by bsanr2 7y ago
That was something put into place by the Obama administration. which was years after the status quo had been set by private corporations, when the government began letting them administer federal loans (in the 90s, I believe).
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by bsanr2 7y ago
But you went to Georgia Tech. Most schools with athletics programs are not Georgia Tech. The last time I saw Howard memorabilia was in US.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The feasability of the circumstances described in AS aren't a triviality, they're the crux of your argument. Tax collection has been unsuccessful even with the fig leaf of "negotiation"; what's better is to have eve
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>I am saying that adversity also creates opportunity. But it doesn't. Occasionally it spurs on action, but just as often, it traumatizes. >This doesn't mean 'make things really bad it's motivating'. That'
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by bsanr2 7y ago
But the job still needed to get done. Just in terms of basic human decency, maybe we shouldn't encourage abuse and exploitation of workers just because "they can just get a better job."
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by bsanr2 7y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions about ownership. "Your" vast financial resources are just measures of debt (money is not personal property) secured by the government. We can always collectively decide that what you did to
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by bsanr2 7y ago
There's no reason people should have to suffer "busy work" while they're looking for some place to be truly productive, just to assuage the grievances of Puritan work ethic folk. "Any job" doesn't help peo
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by bsanr2 7y ago
One of those people I look at and think, "I wish I had the balls, I could get so much done." And I finally have an entry for the female column of my "List of Brilliant Assholes Whose Assholery People Forgive Because They&#x27
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by bsanr2 7y ago
What's worse: big company owners and big financiers are from the same schools, etc. It's not unheard of for a nation that's threatened an overreaching company with sanctions or nationalization to find itself facing a coup, or
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The notional constitutional safeguards of states become eroded over time (n.b., interstate commerce, mass data collection) and the overreach of states is more potentially damaging to its citizens than getting locked out of a platform on wh
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Upvoting because I'm interested, but I can't see the article due to the paywall.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
No, I think you've proven my point. $35k in 2005 is roughly $43k in 2016, which I'll use as a point of comparison because it was when I was myself making roughly $32k before taxes. I'll just stop now to point out that this wo
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I think the economic lens is the way to go. It clearly applies to ebola itself. How come there wasn't a vaccine before now? Because it's a virus endemic to a poor continent that kills its host quickly. And the sudden effort over t
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Let me get out the list... >Before or after taxes? >What year? >Where did you live? >What was your monthly rent? >Did you rely on your family/friends for ANYTHING (including something as innocuous as "storing your c
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I'm aware. It is definitely frustrating, about as much so as reading the responses when floating the idea of feminism being a good thing for men, or trans rights being a good thing for cis men, in /r/short. Everyone needs to
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>Dad was in a managerial, if not directorial, position not threatened by industry collapse, and made enough so that his wife only had to work part time. I mean, that would do it. I suppose it depends on when and where you grew up. Suffic
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by bsanr2 7y ago
He was born in 55, so I imagine we're talking more about the 70s. And yeah, not being arrested for doing illegal drugs is a privilege. And according to his wiki article, he ended up with the parents he did because they promised to send
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by bsanr2 7y ago
*after you're paid enough to make financial decisions of any sort.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Depends on where the home is. With admonishments from every corner for my not squirreling away $100/month out of my ~$1800 take-home pay, someone making $250k a year should be able to easily put away the linear equivalent of $10k a yea
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Or, be involved with your school board, and raise up the schools you can afford to send your kids to? Ego seems to be at play here, a bit. No one wants to admit that they're in the same boat as the people sending their kids to "th
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Doing your homework for you: Jobs had an unusually international background; was born to highly-educated parents who made sure he went to a suitable family when they put him up for adoption; grew up in a relatively wealthy, highly-educated
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>My brother and I were from a normal middle class background but both went to fancy private schools. I find that people tend to either over or underestimate the "middle class"iness of their upbringing.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I don't know how related this is to the article, but your point is true. As an example: it's been posited that a portion of the gender wage gap is due to the average height difference between men and women. Why? Because there&#x27
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by bsanr2 7y ago
One wonders what the monetary value of that disenfranchisement has been over the years. Will we ever broach that issue?
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So, now the question becomes why, unprompted, you launched into such a vehement defense of the nature of his work, without understanding the nature of it.
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School segregation is as bad as before Brown vs BoE. Among other things. Have fun: https://www.propublica.org/series/segregation-now
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It wasn't. Much of black culture can be traced to West African origins, from the grammatical structure of AAVE[0], to the vernacular art which became part of Southern visual and functional design patterns[1], to attributes of contempor
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by bsanr2 7y ago
> blacks owned some 14% of farms in the US and around 15M acres of land (not all agricultural) around the turn of the 20th century. Sadly that has shrunk to around 8M acres today. This was not an accident. https://www.theatlan

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