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by bsanr2 7y ago
You characterize it as a superficial institutional opinion rather than the judgment of the vast majority of humanity.
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by bsanr2 8y ago
You'd be better off redirecting a portion of the funding that supports their work to people with actual expertise in the fields you mentioned. Particularly when it comes to solving social problems, many of which we have answers for tha
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by bsanr2 8y ago
Usually, those "enormous risks" require risking destitution, followed by ill health and death. Pulling the following statements out of my ass: you get approximately one of those per life, on average. People are hesitant to go look
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by bsanr2 8y ago
"Regulations are anti-American/evil/distort the market."
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by bsanr2 8y ago
I can't possibly be the only one here who understands what they were getting at, right? It seems silly but it's pretty obvious that they're just trying to get at the intentions and associations behind their aesthetic decision
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by bsanr2 8y ago
That's almost certainly what's happening. The pricing of logo design and branding is about how much it's worth to the client and how much risk the designer is taking on [0]. This design firm put its name on a logo for an inte
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by bsanr2 8y ago
Though the costs are invisible to you, our model raises prices and essentially gentrifies care, making it more difficult for those lower on the ladder to afford care (bringing along the associated public health issues) and robbing other pri
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by bsanr2 8y ago
My understanding is that it IS common to lie, or else to redirect the conversation from what was made in the last position to what is desired for the new position. Why should it matter? You're being hired to fill a position that's
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by bsanr2 8y ago
I think you answered your own question. The "lack of discipline" is not an internal failing, but an externality imposed disproportionately on poor people/PoC. Therefore, a savings product that makes access difficult in most c
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by bsanr2 8y ago
Exploitation, then.
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by bsanr2 8y ago
I don't think that's necessarily true. Sports are another passion-driven job thay many, many more people want to do than are able to. Unions are the answer, but not just because they're effective tools for equalizing relative
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by bsanr2 8y ago
>It always seems to degenerate into an "us vs them" sort of thing whenever I talk to them about where they work. Why would I ever work some place where things are so adversarial? This is akin to criticizing a black protestor fo
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by bsanr2 8y ago
I think you're missing the point. It's not collusion, it's simple socialization. But it's inherent in the station of being a property owner to want to extract as much out of one's property as possible, and through t
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by bsanr2 8y ago
How strictly and often are those laws enforced? I don't think anyone is suggesting that they gather together in a back-alley kitchen to talk shop with the Joker. Rather, it's not unreasonable to think that many of the people invol
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by bsanr2 8y ago
"Much more strongly" is an overstatement, and this thesis doesn't take into account the multiplicative (not linear) effects of discrimination - in all its institutional and informal forms - and poverty. Crime in Japan tracks
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by bsanr2 8y ago
This is phrased as if it's supposed to be damning, and I'm not sure why. Both companies have been less than supportive of moves to determine if their practices and products are safe. As a business decision: yes, sound, but unfortu
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by bsanr2 8y ago
If I may be blunt: turns out, well-off people aren't immune to BS marketing.
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by bsanr2 8y ago
It's projection. The real class conflict in play here is that the meat that is well-established as safe and healthy for consumption - as far as meat goes - is only affordable for the affluent. Everyone else has to eat meat that is proc
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by bsanr2 8y ago
That only proves that users click on tailored ads, not that they necessarily want them. Perhaps many users would rather ads be unrelated to their interests, so that they would be easier to ignore. Perhaps there is an unwanted psychological
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by bsanr2 8y ago
I don't think he was saying it was unique to capitalism, only that it's inevitable under a capitalist system. Which is true. As you said, regulation is necessary to keep capitalism from becoming a socially-corruptive influence.