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by cryoshon 11y ago
>Furthermore, the wealth inequality cryoshon is writing about is not driven by startups, it's driven by a general breakdown in the implicit social contract between capital and labor. As OP notes, Piketty goes into great detail about
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by cryoshon 11y ago
There's a lot of overlap, but my full article is actually the response as intended, and that comment is a condensed and incomplete summary due to character limit.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I noticed this too. There's some weird behavior going on with the algo, I think... it keeps popping on and off of the front page.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I hope I didn't go too overboard by dissecting PG's essay like this, but I felt it was necessary to correct many of the items that I read. It may seem spurious now, but economic inequality is relevant for the tech industry, too. T
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Yes-- increasing poverty for the masses and increasing opulence for the wealthy, who rely on the masses to produce said opulence. You can see exactly why people are upset.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I noticed this exact same thing. Funny how awareness of a cognitive trope doesn't confer protection, eh? Anyways, hypocrisy haunts us all.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Swing and a miss with this article. I wrote a full response at http://cryoshon.co/2016/01/02/a-response-to-paul-grahams-art... . I've abridged some of my comments/quotations for this comment. Let&#x2
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How to Decide What to Prioritize at Work(cryoshon.co)
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Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths(theguardian.com)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
This is a fantastic article that I highly suggest everyone read! It contains a quick run down of a lot of cognitive tropes which can add a new perspective.
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Concepts for Your Cognitive Toolkit(mcntyr.com)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Yeah, I think that examples were my weak spot here. I'll probably roll some examples into the companion article yet to be written: how to agree effectively.
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The new history of slavery and capitalism(aeon.co)
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Were Roman slave-owners the first management theorists?(aeon.co)
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How to Understand and Provide Praise and Criticism at Work(cryoshon.co)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I wrote this piece after recognizing a particularly aggressive Senior VP was completely shutting down an entire small team with her communication style. Though this particular manager was ultimately correct in her reasoning, her disagreemen
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How to Disagree Intelligently at Work(cryoshon.co)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Derp, maybe if the police stop behaving badly, we will have more positive things to say about them.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I am white and got this talk. It was in the early 2000s, well before the current awareness of widespread police abuse of citizens. The moral of the story: people have known the police are rotten for a very long time, but haven't discus
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Costs of Renting Are Going Up(impact.clikhome.com)
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Hersh: US government knew it was arming Islamic State(upi.com)
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Seymour M. Hersh: Military to Military Intel Sharing in the Syrian War(lrb.co.uk)
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Are Colleges Not Welcoming to Young Men?(psychologytoday.com)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Pfft, we're all already "on the lists", and it's too late to care about that. The government has dossiers on all of us sitting in databases somewhere, detailing our political views, grudges, radicalization potential, etc
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by cryoshon 11y ago
The US is a police state through and through. There's no accountability for the police, and they're constantly used to rough up politically inconvenient groups (the poor, the blacks) and are increasingly smashing their clubs on wh
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by cryoshon 11y ago
FTA: "Once they had been cleared of any wrongdoing, the Hartes wanted to know what happened. Why had they been raided?" They got raided because in a police state, constant paramilitary raids happen whether or not the police have
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Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12 year old will not face criminal charges(theguardian.com)
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The Ones We've Lost: The Student Loan Debt Suicides (2012)(huffingtonpost.com)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
All of the people here writing about how these people shouldn't have picked non-STEM majors are missing the point entirely. These people in the article are the population we've got, not the population we want to have; Monday morni
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by cryoshon 11y ago
And we should expect the suicide rate of young people to rise accordingly. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-cryn-johannsen/student-loan-...

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