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by door5 8y ago
They are made better off if their wages are improved, ie if they organize and struggle for a minimum wage or a union. Employers will work their employees as much as possible for as little pay as possible, only the law and organized struggle
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by door5 8y ago
That's correct, but why does he have the resources to do it? Because he came from a rich family with capital to invest. Why isn't capital distributed evenly across all workers, not just of Amazon, but in an entire society, so that
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by door5 8y ago
I'm saying a small number of people amassing a large amount of wealth through exploitation of the labor of others for personal gain is not what drives a socialist economy. Corruption and exploitation exists in all societies, but in cap
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by door5 8y ago
Bezos didn't build Amazon or AWS, his workers did. He contributed as CEO, but the work was done by thousands of smart, hard-working and talented people around the world, but they don't own the company. Bezos's salary is just
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by door5 8y ago
Socialism, ie a system whereby resources are allocated according to some sort of public good as opposed to mere expansion of capital
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by door5 8y ago
Capitalism cannot function without people exploiting the system for personal gain. If some CEO decided to stop trying to make as much money as possible but rather commit their resources to providing some sort of public good, they would be s
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by door5 8y ago
Corporations have no priority except to make money. If making money is at odds with positive user experience (which is almost always is), making money wins.
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by door5 8y ago
Why not just ban all commercial advertising in public spaces and online? I don't think anyone thinks advertising is a public good, why do we tolerate it?
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by door5 8y ago
Those are two great examples -- one thing I'd like to add is that the audience of Hackernews is pretty upper-middle class (as are the anecdotes in this thread), these issues are compounded greatly when it comes to poor or working class
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by door5 8y ago
Men take more overtime, women do more domestic work, men are paid for overtime, women are not paid for domestic work. Is this not unjust?
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by door5 8y ago
I always thought performance based pay was a very right wing proposal, supported by right wing organisations. I think that's a good point -- unions are not perfect and may support the interests of their members over the interests of ot
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by door5 8y ago
I have very left wing politics, socially and economically. A union is by nature far more likely to represent my views than any corporation. If your politics are "rich people should be able to do whatever they want, collaborate with wha
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by door5 8y ago
what if no employers in your field share your values?
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Apologies if that was read as ad hominem, I meant that the argument is in my view elitist not that you personally are. My point is that formal education is not the only way to develop informed political consciousness. And in fact formal edu
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by door5 8y ago
No, I'm saying they are equally equipped to make decisions in a democracy.
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Imperialism continued after the end of formal colonization, and takes place even in countries that weren't formally colonized. Capitalism and imperialism are global systems that affect every nation on Earth, there is no unaffected coun
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by door5 8y ago
"Education" isn't just "knowing more things", it spending time at specific institutions -- institutions which some people have more access to than others, and institutions that impart a specific worldview. Going to
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by door5 8y ago
Here you assume that both engineering and politics are purely objective sciences, where one's cultural background is irrelevant, but that is true in neither case. The fact that silicon valley is mostly white men of a certain age and ec
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by door5 8y ago
Africa is a mess because of relentless Western imperialism, not because of "too much democracy". It's rather elitist to say that more educated (AKA richer) citizens make "better" political decisions than less educat