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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
This is nothing but a platitude that attempts to shame businesses for not meeting some idealistic vision of how the world ought to be. There's no hard rules about what wages should or should not be, as with any other market price. A bu
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I provided the quote which I thought most concisely communicated his thesis in this passage. The immediately proceeding lines I believe clarify it: "Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most
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I always found this quote from The Wealth of Nations to be quite insightful and was one of those surprising moments reading the actual text: "It will be found, I believe, in every sort of trade, that the man who works so moderately, as
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I question whether such a law is really necessary. It's costly to hoard property and leave it unproductive. Even if it's owned outright, there's pressure to rent, sell, or otherwise use it productively due to property taxes,
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Any vehicle which gives me more control I find preferable. A pension is great if it's competently managed and the entity it's tied to is stable. The problem is that it exposes you to counter party risk you can't reasonably mi
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Mark Zuckerberg has been pushing for regulation for years. He wants this for two reasons: 1. Abdicating responsibility so that when the public or politicians complain about Facebook hosting or not hosting some content he can say it's n
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An MoU is not legislation, it's agreement to work together on a common goal. It can be helpful but isn't binding. From the MoU: "The Signatories retain the right to withdraw from this MoU at any time with immediate effect.&qu
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Ports types have been converging naturally without government intervention. Even for iPhones, the writing is on the wall for the the lightning connector. It was introduced nearly 10 years ago under different market conditions (no equivale
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Won't these new services require rather significant increases in taxes? Not to mention government takeover of industry to impose price fixing and rationing raises some red flags for me.
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> But if I see that they have 10 restaurants and make $750,000 per year, well, f the f out of them. But, business owenrs, show me your financials. You don't want to? Fine. Do it yourself. But I'm not going to work for $18,000 w
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My spouse and I did these tests and the results have changed a fair amount over the years. Where initially there were some surprising, albeit trace, amounts of DNA detected from certain ethnic groups, the results have now normalized down to
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Same situation Matchbox 20's Yourself or Someone Like You, one of the most popular albums of the 90s. The guy on the cover apparently never consented to his photo being used and went after them years later.
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This assumes a whole lot. How do you know for certain that the person is treating you differently from others because of your background? Depending on the person and the prevailing culture it may be perfectly normal to more or less ignore s
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Smith's specific example is somewhat dubious given the tendency of corporations to off shore work to cheap foreign locales or purchase from foreign suppliers. It actually winds up being governments and not individuals who acknowledge t
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I also doubt that it's a large segment of users but count me as one among the millions who dumped Firefox in 2020. I knew it was going downhill when they started purging words from the project. When your inclusion efforts start alienat
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I agree that there's absolutely a cycle and don't intend to diminish that or imply that those left behind don't matter or are to blame for their situation. There's clearly reasons why people decide to riot or protest, ev
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To blame this all on racism is to miss the true motivation which is safety of person and property. It is something I never truly understood until last year's protests/riots, which I think are also at least a factor in people movi
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Is this not reading too much into it? How many sports teams in the US use Vikings, Spartans, or Trojans as mascots? To my knowledge "we" (whoever that is supposed to mean) never defeated these people. They are generally associat
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Same with 401ks and vesting periods and employer sponsored healthcare. It gives leverage to the employer to keep people working a job they otherwise wouldn't. Jobs should pay cash and in some cases equity. Expand tax advantaged accoun
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The fundamental difference between the relationship between individuals and businesses and individuals and government is that one is voluntary, the other is not. Businesses need customers to survive, it is a very powerful motivator to prov
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
This resonated with me a lot. Windows 10 is a bit of a mess but mostly still tolerable. Once it's EOL I'll replace my current PC (from '09) but I'll try to avoid Windows 11. The MS account requirement really annoys me
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Some people do enjoy their work and can be said to live for it. Marissa Mayer had an interesting take that burnout wasn't necessarily about working too much but resentment that they'd rather be spending more time on something els
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A reasonable explanation other than McConnell is a "mean guy" would be that he doesn't feel the federal government should bail out states for making promises they can't keep. After all, if they get bailed out once, it o
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Who's based in Russia? Fastmail seems to be Aussie/American and Protonmail is Swiss.
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I think you proved the parent comment's point with this statement by accusing a whole class of people of being guilty of something the vast majority had no part in and would find abhorrent. It's understandable that they would rese
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Adam Smith argued that free workers are superior to slaves because they have greater incentive to want to better themselves for their own benefit and to innovate their processes to show they are worth more wages. Slaves, by contrast, he ar
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Mozilla has increasingly become more of a political organization than a technology one. Where it used to focus on stewardship of the Mozilla code, its scope has now shifted to broadly "building a better internet". The Mozilla mis
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by cherrycherry98 6y ago
The difference between the current social justice movements and the previous civil rights movements is that they're more about changing culture than policy. Voting rights, marriage rights, desegregation, abortion rights, these are thi
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Larry Elder's recent documentary "Uncle Tom" explores this same phenomenon from the Black conservative point of view.
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If he's wearing traditional clothing, as depicted, he certainly would stand out. Modern Chinese New Year parades (and other ethnic parades) feature people in traditional attire, they'd be awfully boring otherwise. Whether one st

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