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by dcre 9y ago
The fatalism, for someone who clearly prides themselves on thinking outside the box, is just incredible.
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by dcre 9y ago
How is promising that the economy is full of slaves an example of discrimination against slaves? If they promised that slaves were rare, that would presumably be an improvement?
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by dcre 9y ago
People didn't trust computers with money either. Then they didn't trust phone-shaped computers with money.
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by dcre 9y ago
The article, if you had read it, makes abundantly clear that the story here is not only the mere fact of her age and their "dating", but rather a number of specific manipulations and violations.
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by dcre 9y ago
This one or Infinifactory. Both masterpieces.
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by dcre 9y ago
I was really hoping for more Marxism.
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by dcre 9y ago
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals.
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by dcre 9y ago
Wow, really deep thinking here. What a great demonstration of the rationality you apparently worship.
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by dcre 9y ago
I learned recently that the number of people in state and federal prisons has actually been declining for a few years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/01/11/the-d... http:&#x2
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by dcre 9y ago
If there's $100 to distribute among 10 people, and everyone has an equal chance of winning, but the winner takes the full $100, then no, of course that is not a just outcome merely because it's random. Come on.
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by dcre 9y ago
How much?
852.
by dcre 9y ago
>people in the world who wants more government, more authority, more religion Strange characterization of an author pointing out a form of authoritarianism.
853.
by dcre 9y ago
It's not an article. It's an essay by a science fiction writer.
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by dcre 9y ago
They probably will soon. Or the equivalent in the form of services backed by that history, like rewards programs.
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by dcre 9y ago
Even if this question was interesting (it is not) there is no reason to think the experience of motherhood would give someone particular insight into the answer.
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by dcre 9y ago
How about Luigi Zingales, professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a former president of the American Finance Association. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=300479
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by dcre 9y ago
Whether it’s really yours is what we’re arguing about. You’ve just made the interesting argument that because it’s yours, it’s yours. Not sure I’m convinced by that.
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by dcre 9y ago
The fact that leadership is necessary (which I do not deny) does not imply that some particular share of the resulting surplus value should go to said leadership. The share of surplus value captured by capital is something we get to decide
859.
by dcre 9y ago
The Walton fortune was generated by Sam Walton's employees but captured by Sam Walton. What does property mean, indeed.
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by dcre 9y ago
Consciousness Explained Away!
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by dcre 9y ago
Everything you say is absolutely right about the very richest 0.01% -- unearned rents and inheritances are a big problem. But there are very few such people, and what really drives the top-line inequality numbers is the redistribution of in
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by dcre 9y ago
I think you're right. It looks like an oversight.
863.
by dcre 9y ago
Who is "they"? Name one person.
864.
by dcre 9y ago
There is no content here, only moral panic of precisely the kind the author is claiming to denounce: "Students are being taught by these postmodern professors that there is no truth, that science and empirical facts are tools of oppres
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by dcre 9y ago
It's insulting when people say something you both know is stupid but they act like they're just making a civil good-faith argument. Kind of like what you're doing.
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by dcre 9y ago
It took me a long time to figure out whether this was a parody.
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by dcre 9y ago
I can’t believe I have to spell this out, but: then it would seem difficult to claim the criteria were structured to bias the process in either direction. If anything, it would be the organization with millions of dollars at their disposal
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by dcre 9y ago
“They” being who? The criteria were negotiated by the union organizers and the university, with the NLRB mediating.
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by dcre 9y ago
The same article, when published in The Atlantic, did in fact have a title referring specifically to the Midwest: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/midwest...
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by dcre 9y ago
I agree with your first sentence, but professors at public universities don't actually make much money compared to other professions with similar education levels. Typical pay is 70-90k. https://www.insidehighered.com/n

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