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by djschnei 10y ago
Why doesn't that logic apply to, say, private coffee shops?
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by djschnei 10y ago
Those being race, gender, creed, and sexual orientation I suppose? Still seems rather arbitrary, if I'm being honest. Acting for example; how is casting based on race legal? Or maybe it's not... idk. Interesting topic though.
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by djschnei 10y ago
How as a society do we decide appropriate discrimination vs. inappropriate discrimination? We discriminate constantly, every single of us - making choice of this person over that person. Is that wrong? when does it become wrong? is it no
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by djschnei 10y ago
I guess I just mean I don't think we (government) should keep bad business afloat. If they can manage on their own, who am I to say it's bad ;D
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by djschnei 10y ago
Exactly where I was going to go. Economies are about allocation of finite resources (labor being one of those). If a company is so poorly ran that it can't determine the correct price it's willing to pay for labor through cost-b
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by djschnei 10y ago
If you mean making it more attractive for companies to produce here, sure, 100% agree. If you mean penalizing companies for leaving or pass a penalty on to consumers, 100% disagree. Let's make it easier to produce in this country, no
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by djschnei 10y ago
"Blame technology and capitalism"? Are you advocating that a higher minimum wage would fix this? How exactly would pricing labor above it's actual value cause MORE of it?
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by djschnei 10y ago
Not debating that. I agree. I guess I just think there is a more morally justifiable way to go about it than edict. Again, this non-antibacterial soap belief doesn't seem like one that needs force to spread.
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by djschnei 10y ago
I guess I'm weird; I have no idea why the government has the ability to dictate what is and isn't in the soap that I choose to buy. I agree however, anti-bacterial soap is silly. Looks like a lot of people here agree. Looks like
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by djschnei 10y ago
> You offer no reason to believe that the absolute size of the population outside of the labor force is a more relevant measure than any of the official labor force underutilization measures for the claim about unemployment. If I underst
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by djschnei 10y ago
the number of Americans who are no longer in the labor force has hit an all time high of 94.7 million. If one were to factor in the low labor force participation rate, the actual unemployment rate would be significantly higher than the head
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by djschnei 10y ago
Then the federal government should stop attempting to control it... That is literally my gripe. The Fed and things like QE (ignoring regulation all together) have been extremely harmful. He has done nothing but perpetuate the nonsense. On
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by djschnei 10y ago
"Unemployment sharply reduced": you and I both know that is nonsense. The way unemployment is measured is completely illogical. "Iraq and Afghanistan wars ended": He's continued to murder literally hundreds of peop
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Even with the redactions, hard to see how anyone can walk away from that report without being convinced Saudi Arabia attacked us on that day. However, Congressman Thomas Massie (who heavily pushed for this release) publicly announced he is
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by djschnei 10y ago
Totally agree and very understood. He is at the very least compliant with business as usual and I hardly feel lucky.
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by djschnei 10y ago
I, for one, have loved the slow and steady erosion of my civil liberties. Not to mention the endless wars, abysmal GDP growth, and continued centralization and bolstering of federal power. He's the best!
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Assemblyman ponders Pokemon Go legislation(politico.com)
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by djschnei 10y ago
Nah, they def only want to help the little.
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by djschnei 10y ago
I am painfully aware of what totalitarianism is... Should I not talk about it and warn against it until it's undeniably here? Sometimes it is very hard to figure where you would draw the line on political influence.
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by djschnei 10y ago
And, as usual, you are quickly pulled into the straw-man: "well if you don't want government to solve it, than you don't want it solved". I don't want to forcefully deprive the poor of food, that is true. I don&#x
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by djschnei 10y ago
There is a huge difference between preventing fraud and what we have today, and you know that.
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by djschnei 10y ago
Because humans, without regulation, don't value vehicle safety. Gotcha. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism
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by djschnei 10y ago
And I can almost guarantee that this has negatively effected the purchasing power of those least well off in the EU. Along with other various detrimental unintended consequences. Which is why, morally, this is wrong through force. If I w
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by djschnei 10y ago
Oh, good.
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by djschnei 10y ago
Am I the only one that would prefer that politics and lazy bureaucrats didn't have the ability to get in the way of my well being in the first place?
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by djschnei 10y ago
Which is entirely understandable, no? (Hate trump personally, Brexit is a win though)
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by djschnei 10y ago
Yes, in fact about $100k worth in order to learn about the very subject you're incorrectly making a snarky comment about! A down payment on a loan? That makes zero sense. I think you're talking about unsecured loans (i.e when th
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by djschnei 10y ago
Good ol' fractional-reserve banking. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all do that?
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by djschnei 10y ago
You're beef should be with government (crony-capitalism), not banking. A bank can't force you to bail it out, only government can do that. The "force" 100% resides with the government, not the bank.
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by djschnei 10y ago
What are you even arguing then? What's the importance of highlighting that difference? My point was that ANY coercive act against someone else's body should be prohibited and punishable under the law. The law should NOT allow t

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