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by daenz 4y ago
Thanks for keeping it civil, I appreciate it! The capped compensation is for the "they're paid too much" angle. Removing autonomy in hiring is for the "they're undeserving/corrupt" angle. That way there&#x
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by daenz 4y ago
You responded to my point about about capped compensation or removing autonomy, so I think you understand what my point is: the anger people are expressing, including so-called "righteous anger," is totally hypocritical unless you
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Is the management of workers and capital not work? Where can I see workers who have self-organized (without management) to the size of a thousand-person corporation?
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by daenz 4y ago
>We need to build social systems which don't select for relentless salespeople and smooth talking charlatans if we want to live in a prosperous, harmonious society. The optimal proportion of these is in all likelihood not zero, but
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by daenz 4y ago
How is this not jealousy?
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by daenz 4y ago
If growing a startup into a successful business was a solved problem, then there wouldn't be as many failures. My point is: why does their appear to be an assumption that only a "dud" exec fails? Where is the allowance for th
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by daenz 4y ago
A lot of anger in the comments here. Not exactly sure who it's directed at: the existence of connected people? The founder who makes the bad hiring decision? The fact that their compensation is so high? All of the above? Unless you&#x2
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by daenz 4y ago
What does "free market" mean to you that this meets that definition?
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by daenz 4y ago
It's probably going to break something when they clean up the legacy stuff too. When you keep around something for that long while building something new, the roots tend to grow into each other.
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by daenz 4y ago
>The brothers were quiet for a long moment. A wealth tax, in fact, could disrupt their scheme: young people, valued by shares in their own futures, would be taxed as wealthy before they’d ever been rich. That's pretty funny. You can
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by daenz 4y ago
Yes, we should be punishing rich/elite corruption. Is this a trick question?
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by daenz 4y ago
Secular society has been so busy deconstructing the concept of God and religion, on the premise that it's useless if it's not provably true, to come up with an adequate replacement for the positive things God and religion provided
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by daenz 4y ago
>people with nothing in their lives...[are]...the ones “fraying apart society” You misread. The ones who are letting society come apart are all of us who let ourselves be apathetic enough to be deceived by people who think a total lack
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by daenz 4y ago
>“They knew it was a crime before they did it, and they did it anyway. So what we have to help them do is examine why.” This kind of naivete is plaguing so many leaders. If only criminals could examine themselves and introspect their act
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by daenz 4y ago
Some people have a blasé attitude towards shoplifting/shoplifters: "Why are you defending rich companies?" This assumes that the company just eats the loss. How much of those shoplifting losses are passed onto your average co
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by daenz 4y ago
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Ambition is disorder. Fits right in.
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by daenz 4y ago
The multi-armed bandit problem[0] is an interesting example of optimizing a reduction in FOMO. Basically you need an intelligent way to assess a good use of limited resources. 0. https://towardsdatascience.com/solving-the-mu
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by daenz 4y ago
True, alcohol prohibition is an example of abstinence not working on something that also isn't biologically driven. I would argue that alcohol probably has too strong of cultural/social foothold for abstinence to work. I don'
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by daenz 4y ago
If you read my other posts, you'll see that I only learned in this thread that many vapers are ex smokers. I was speaking from the perspective of young non-smokers picking up vaping.
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by daenz 4y ago
You're conflating philanthropists and billionaires. The person I was replying to called out philanthropists by name. Unless you don't believe someone can be both a philanthropist and wealthy enough to buy a media company, in which
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by daenz 4y ago
>The “abstinence only” approach is proven to wholly ineffective. This isn't sex. There isn't a biological imperative to vape. Abstinence absolutely works with some things. Abstaining from ever trying heroin, for example, is a g
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by daenz 4y ago
We've made it deeply unpopular to discourage obesity in society.
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by daenz 4y ago
>Why is it that philanthropists are always buying up media companies? It couldn't possibly be to promote their own ideologies. Devil's advocate: why should large media platforms be only for the misanthropic? if you take your su
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by daenz 4y ago
>Everything is bad for your body. Slippery slope. Just because everything is some degree of bad, it doesn't mean there are very large differences in the degree of bad. Reasonable people are able to draw lines between those degrees a
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by daenz 4y ago
I think the parent post is using it as a figure of speech, as in, they won't ever vote to "drain their money"/bankrupt
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by daenz 4y ago
Huh thanks, I didn't know so many vapers were ex smokers. I always thought it was some new fad.
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>In any case, vaping is UNQUESTIONABLY better than smoking cigarettes. Why does this matter though? Both are still bad for your body and we shouldn't be encouraging them.
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And why does your scenario presume that the situation is completely cold? The average police response time in Chicago is 5-6 minutes[0]. I'm going to bet that active shootings are on the fast side of the average. Having lived in Chicag
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by daenz 4y ago
Regardless of if it works or not, I suspect some people don't actually want it to work because of the implications: it means there is another viable method for tackling gun crime than "take all the guns." It's easier if
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by daenz 4y ago
Not OP, but probable cause is not "made up evidence." If there's a report of a noise that sounds like a gunshot, and that results in a search of people who are running, and that search finds an illegal gun, that's reason

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