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by counterpoint1 5y ago
Or, removing the cynicism and conspiratorial elements from your analysis: Millions of people raised on labor/union/socialist/far-left dogma that was relevant in the 1800s and 1900s are realizing that the modern economy is in
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by counterpoint1 5y ago
No, that's absolutely not how most people want their online communities to work. Sneaky, indirect, hidden advertising is worse than regular ads or 'spam'. Regardless of if a community is about gardening or guitars or cookin
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by counterpoint1 5y ago
Funny, it never occurred to me that you'd get to continue vesting while not working (I have no idea the policies at my current or former employers). I get that people respond emotionally to these things and just go with "Amazon ba
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
I appreciate that you have positive intentions, but you seem to have a faith in the government controlling assets which is unsupported by the facts of every government in recorded history. Look at the current covid stimulus bill in the US a
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
You didn't elect Bill Gates... so he shouldn't spend his money to make the world better? I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. Is there anything in my above comment you actually disagree with? It seems like yo
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
Sadly, they probably did mean philanthropy. Many young Americans today have strongly embraced Authoritarian-Left political views and see any person who earns/saves/acquires enough money to give some of it away as a failure of the
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
> "In my country" > "In the US, it's very different" If I had a dollar for every time someone on HN who doesn't live in the US nonetheless weighs in as an expert on American life I could retire. Do you th
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
I disagree with your claim that Biden and Clinton are "well to the right of the median US citizen". They are clearly to the left in literally every assessment - whether in the actual elections or polling done by any reputable orga
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
God I wish this trope would die. All the political terms - left, right, conservative, progressive, liberal, etc have definitions which vary greatly from country-to-country, over time, and by which group is using them. Clinton and Biden are
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
That people would suggest screen time, rather than pollution and exposure to chemicals which impact brain development seems unlikely. BPA, atrazine, PM2.5 air pollution, dozens of chemicals classified as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
People constantly, openly make statements like "We don't need any jerks working here!" or "We don't hire jackasses" and are lauded and supported. Switching to a synonym which is maybe more often associated with
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
This is the most depressing, dystopian desire. Taxes are necessary to fund shared infrastructure and services. They're not supposed to overtly punish success or prevent people from earning a high salary. There's an argument that h
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
He raises prices to support higher pay, dog grooming now costs $500, none of his former customers can afford it, the company goes bankrupt and the employees are back on unemployment again. You can't just pretend that every business can
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by counterpoint1 6y ago
I bounced back and forth between Denmark and the US for many years, though I've been in the US for the past 4 years now. The best way to understand Denmark from an American perspective would be something like "Imagine if everyone
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by counterpoint1 7y ago
I'm growing tired of this meme. Everybody in the US has insurance, that was literally a major point of contention to Obamacare - the left didn't like that the solution still used private insurers and the right didn't like tha
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by counterpoint1 7y ago
Focus on being "good at your job" not at "making everything better" or whatever you're doing now. What you think of as doing extra work also ends up causing extra work for other people. You say "Attemtps to com
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by counterpoint1 7y ago
If you fail out, it's not just your problem though. It's also the taxpayers who paid for the school that the student wasted. That remains true whether that's a Scandinavian model of fully-paid schools, a US public university
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by counterpoint1 7y ago
Literally everything about this post isn't just wrong, it's like 180 degrees away from the truth. Far from 'outsized amount of hand-wringing over the fate of rural America' the truth is rural America has been somewhere b
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by counterpoint1 8y ago
Landlord -> Property taxes -> Government benefits receivers, service providers and employees The real beneficiaries are the people who gain from the increased tax revenue.
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by counterpoint1 9y ago
Ya, how dare some people want to use a field they had reserved ahead of time! Sometimes I wonder what bizarro world other people are living in. Every city in America has public spaces which can be reserved - playing fields, gazebos, park ar
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by counterpoint1 9y ago
It's fascinating to see the massive propaganda campaign ridesharing companies are launching against parking spots. You do all understand that's where the massive wave of articles about changing building codes and zoning rules to g