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by creddit 6y ago
What an absurd cementing of the false dichotomy of the culture war.
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by creddit 6y ago
A more nuanced discussion: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eTMgL7Cx8TsA9nedn/is-the-wor...
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by creddit 6y ago
> Why on earth should someone living in a state specifically ask for the local time in a different location within that same state? Who said they were in that state when asking? People travel.
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by creddit 6y ago
The economy doesn’t and just about every argument that says it does shows very clearly the bias of those who make them. That said, there are many things social structures and institutions with embedded growth assumptions such as social secu
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by creddit 6y ago
This would be a great rebuttal to someone who said “I like that Facebook helps people kill people” but is a pretty weak rebuttal to someone calling out you making up fee structures for the product and your silly moralizing over a company la
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by creddit 6y ago
As always, when you’re everyone’s favorite punching bag: damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Would love to know how you got to them taking 90% of the profits. Are they even charging commissions or is this a scheme to drive more ads purch
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by creddit 6y ago
Why not just free distribution and then enforce takedowns if something is deemed illegal after the fact? There’s no need for “users being in charge” or nationalization. These two parts especially don’t even seem at all necessary to your sta
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by creddit 6y ago
Isn’t this already taxed since it’s income? Can someone explain to me the obsession with buybacks and not dividends?
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by creddit 6y ago
What gives the newspapers special status here that changes it from being apples to apples? Why do newspapers get to use broadcast media to influence the public but others aren’t allowed or at least should be looked at negatively?
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by creddit 6y ago
But, like, here’s The Guardian having a go at a gross, concerted effort at manipulating public opinion. Should we have a problem with that?
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by creddit 6y ago
> Farming is an inefficient industry full of generational land princes who are hicks. If you’re ever the type of person to wonder why someone like Trump could win the presidency, I highly suggest you first look inward.
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by creddit 6y ago
So, why would the farmer use it then?
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by creddit 6y ago
Only if 409A valuation was at referred price which it almost certainly wasn’t
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by creddit 6y ago
Presumably they own some of the bandwidth.
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by creddit 6y ago
Land value != property value
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by creddit 6y ago
The best populist movement ever was Georgism. The ones we have today are pretty awful
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by creddit 6y ago
SF did this as well.
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by creddit 6y ago
Who doesn't conceal their fees? What consumer industry gives you detailed cost break downs? I assume when you are looking at, say, getting a Netflix subscription, your first question is "what portion of my dollars are going to AWS
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by creddit 6y ago
It’s been interpreted much more broadly than that to expand to freedom of association which has been applied to labor rights for many decades. In this case, if it were to go toward the interpretation as protest, it might actually not be tha
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by creddit 6y ago
You would not be arrested. At most you would be cited. It’s also on public lands where there is existing precedent for fining for something along the lines of trespassing. This is instead on private property and probably protected under fre
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by creddit 6y ago
The second is a pretty bad survey. I have a relatively sizable net worth but $0 in a savings account. That's because savings accounts have shit yields.
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by creddit 6y ago
> So there’s discouragement to savings built into our tax law (or stronger-than-appropriate encouragement available only to the already-doing-quite-well, if you prefer) Only the latter "version" of this is possibly true. Nothin
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by creddit 6y ago
If you leave many of the big wealthy states, middle class jobs pay wages to support middle class living. All my neighbors and family in Cleveland buy houses/housing and live comfortable, easy lives. Same in Texas. In the states where
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by creddit 6y ago
He says “assume industries where unions have gained strongholds have ended up as failed industries” (paraphrasing). Then he says this implies that no model of industry has succeeded without labor exploitation. That doesn’t follow strictly f
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by creddit 6y ago
Huh? If you aren't assuming that then how does this fall out: "Then it could also mean that there hasn't been any working combination of capital and labor that didn't depend on labor being exploited." Is it not your
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by creddit 6y ago
Thanks! Most of those (Goldman, SFDC, Liberty Mutual) don't seem to be laying people off, though, so I'm not sure why this is a problem. I won't bother getting into a discussion about "what the oligarchs have stolen from
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by creddit 6y ago
I can't find any after a few minutes, though, I expect searching for it is a bit challenging.
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by creddit 6y ago
Yeah but cutting stock compensation doesn't really do much for you anyway since it's not real in the sense that it's not an operating expense; it's not cash. The equity is conjured up and pre-allocated meaning the cost
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by creddit 6y ago
Can you point us to an executive team giving themselves bonuses? I can point you to multiple giving themselves paycuts.
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by creddit 6y ago
> I guess in the case of publicly traded companies, it's a kind of plutocracy? Control ultimately lies with the shareholders. With the voting shareholders of whom are in many cases dominated by super-voting shareholders of which t

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