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by dpig_ 3y ago
Jump, meet conclusion.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Red meats taste good sans spices.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Or you can just do charity without deciding you also must be a moral arbiter.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
"I love my ${productA}, I can go for a run and leave my ${productB} at home!"
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the [morally validated].
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Oh, the infinite means solution!
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Wow, that's bang on.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Capitalism is private ownership. Markets are human, completely predating capitalism.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Take China out of your global poverty numbers and see how that changes the story.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
What else is a small group of people owning the means of production, if not a privileged class?
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by dpig_ 3y ago
BNPL with PayPal in 4 is one reason. Another reason might be encapsulating your payment info?
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Absolutely agree. Why does everything need to scale up forever? Resources are finite.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
I think your conception of "willingness" on the labour-side of the equation is rosy at best. When the standard of offerings in the market is basically uniform, there isn't really any choice to be had for the worker.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Not American, but for Americans I know who have theoretically limitless PTO - how generous - the reality turns out to be that social pressure and office politics sees workers take even less than they might have in a more limited arrangeme
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Honestly prefer that to a diffuse, multi-headed hydra of private landlords. At least in one of those two scenarios, the target is obvious and can be reckoned with.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
It's way more nonsensical than that. It just means absolutely nothing.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
I went a few times to a really great internet cafe in NY, Chinatown. Full bar, coffee, 50+ very capable PCs and a bunch of different consoles. Place was packed, especially when there was a Smash Bro's event going on. Reasonably afforda
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Yep I did the same.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Yes, precisely. A language isn't a thing as such. - Chomsky, probably.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Watch this quote become very silly over time, when the average material wealth of a 30 year old is in steep decline.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
Ira Schepetin does a really good reading series on the Gita. Very accessible for atheists, since he reads it by way of advaita, which is not a belief-based system but demands you to observe the proofs first-hand.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
The toothpaste is out of the tube though, sorry to say.
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by dpig_ 3y ago
I can't help but picture you as Doug Levison.