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by djrobstep 4y ago
Did you even read what I just wrote? Package delivery still exists in countries with sectoral collective bargaining. No government payments are involved - all that's different is industrial bargaining laws. The companies are competitiv
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by djrobstep 4y ago
The conditions and wages that the market can bear aren't some physical universal constant that exist in a vacuum - they are a product of labor market laws and regulations. > It's good for people to be able to enjoy cheap shippi
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by djrobstep 4y ago
The market is not being "disrupted" in any genuinely innovative sense, the employees are merely having their bargaining power undermined. The real solution here is sectoral collective bargaining: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by djrobstep 4y ago
Where the existing ones already are, but higher.
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by djrobstep 4y ago
I’m saying that production shifts to produce more of what poor people want (food etc) and less of what that rich people want (Lamborghinis etc).
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by djrobstep 4y ago
No it doesn’t. The Nordics don’t suffer from hyperinflation, in spite of their much larger welfare states. Redistribution increases demand in the short term, but in the longer term production shifts accordingly to match. Which really is the
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by djrobstep 4y ago
The root of poverty is hoarding. Poverty is a shortage of money - we can fix it redistributing money from rich to poor, but we don’t do this because rich people don’t want that and would rather hoard it. The US has some good welfare state e
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by djrobstep 4y ago
When money is redistributed, two things happen: - The recipients get a greater share of existing resources. - The changed demand changes supply accordingly. So there might be fewer private jets produced but more food produced, for instance.
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by djrobstep 4y ago
You're completely wrong. Redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor works wonderfully. It's called the welfare state, and countries that do it best not only have much lower poverty than the US, they invariably have greater
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by djrobstep 4y ago
What are you talking about? Are you claiming that redistributing wealth doesn't redistribute resources? If not, what is the actual claim you're making?
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US Workers Are Paying High Taxes. But Without Any of the Benefits(jacobin.com)
3 points by djrobstep 4y ago|1 comments
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by djrobstep 4y ago
I think you’re missing the point. I just said I don’t enjoy it.
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by djrobstep 4y ago
That is exactly the problem. It doesn’t give me enjoyment. But why shouldn’t it?
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by djrobstep 4y ago
Very unhealthy attitude. Why shouldn’t things be easily configurable from scratch?
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by djrobstep 4y ago
You are completely wrong on the basic facts of this. The Crown Estate belongs to the state, not the royal family. The Sovereign Grant is an arrangement to pay the monarch is paid 25% of the revenue, which would otherwise flow to government
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by djrobstep 4y ago
In other words “don’t start questioning the elites”
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Australian Signals Directorate releases coin with secret code(abc.net.au)
7 points by djrobstep 4y ago|2 comments
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by djrobstep 4y ago
If you're worried about bike theft, there's an easy solution - just buy a cheap bike.
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by djrobstep 4y ago
I own a cargo bike and regularly use it in bad weather to go to the supermarket and get a full load of groceries. Works great, much more fun and a better workout than a car. Invest in a good jacket and the cold/rain won't bother y
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by djrobstep 4y ago
Interesting phenomenon I’ve noticed: Any thread on HN related to unions soon gets newly created accounts arriving to spread anti-union FUD talking points.
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by djrobstep 4y ago
Dealing with all these differences is one of the most frustrating, stupid things about programming today. 99% of the data i deal with on a day-to-day basis is lists and mappings. Very conceptually simple, but with a million different implem
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by djrobstep 4y ago
Very sick of this rhetorical pattern: Anybody: *describes problem and straightforward solutions/improvements already proven in many other normal countries* Americans: "Well at least I'm not in North Korea!!! You want us to li
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by djrobstep 4y ago
How is a filesystem not a "whole engine"?
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New Zealand shoppers order groceries from Australia as inflation soars(theguardian.com)
2 points by djrobstep 4y ago|0 comments
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by djrobstep 5y ago
People in Norway with high taxes, high state ownership of the economy, and a great welfare state seem to be happily staying in Norway rather than clamouring to move to the USA for the extra “freedom”, even in spite of the weather. What do a
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by djrobstep 5y ago
Google "US health expenditure vs life expectancy" and "adverse selection in healthcare", read the top few links and get back to me. You're making several basic mistakes thinking about freedom, because once again you
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by djrobstep 5y ago
Thanks, I’m glad somebody has grasped the point I’m making - which is that the whole system is built around coercion, so singling out one arbitrary part of it as involuntary is completely inconsistent and ideological.
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by djrobstep 5y ago
Walter, it’s amazing how often I see you weigh in on economic and political issues on this forum when you have a poor grasp of even the basics. Claiming that privatised healthcare is somehow more efficient in spite of overwhelming real worl
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by djrobstep 5y ago
Similarly, I voluntarily join a company. Me paying some third-party shareholders when I never asked for it is the issue. Where’s the lack of logic? The real issue is you won’t even begin to engage in explaining why these two things are diff
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by djrobstep 5y ago
A very similar thing happened to my wife. My wife examined the company mission statement that was handed to her, decided that the company did not represent her needs adequately, but was told she'd still need to contribute to shareholde

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