dukeluke

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by dukeluke 10y ago
What matters is what the two sides accomplish, not what they say they're going to do. In the US, when the Republicans are in charge, Democrats hem and haw about how they need to do all this stuff differently from the Repubs, but when t
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by dukeluke 10y ago
This is overly generalizing a complex issue. In America, we have a two party system that has basically been taken over by lobbying and gerrymandering. Both sides are different socially, but identical fiscally. Propaganda has been spread mas
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Factories and employers used to put factories in rural areas because of the cheap labor. Globalism has exploited the fact that many other countries don't have the labor laws or quality of life America does, and made it so rural America
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Would you say the same to a homeless person? Why should we just let the interior of our country become economically baren just so the top 20 percent of people in cities can reap the rewards of globalism? That's millions of people that
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by dukeluke 10y ago
>The longer-term fixes are to improve education... Being highly educated does not matter if you can't get a job. Also, a balanced economy shouldn't require everyone to be highly educated.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
The problem now is automation, but that's because all of the jobs that couldn't be automated have already been shipped overseas. I argue that automation, globalization, and arguably illegal immigration are the three largest facto
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Capitalism is blind to political movements, wealth inequality, and full employment. All that matters is the bottom line. This is leading to globalism, automation, and use of illegal immigration which is gutting the lower and middle classes.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
As is screwing up the global economy for greater profits.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
There are plenty of people who would like to participate in citizenship in America, but because our FPTP voting system creates a two-party system and extreme partisanship, too many people believe the system is rigged and they wouldn't
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Actually, social mobility in the United States is declining ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_t... ) at a time when the difference between the top 1 percent and the bottom 1 percent is obscene.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
If you used your stocks as a savings account in 2008, then you would have seen most of your savings disappear right before you got fired.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
From what I understand, free trade allows for unparalleled wealth creation by optimizing the flow and utilization of capital, which is fantastic! The problem is that it optimizes other things too, like labor costs by taking advantage of cou
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Those students already have an unfair advantage.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Well the supply is being "artificially" kept down in the sense that a wealthy few are negatively impacting society at large.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
There can be more than one problem at once, you know. Zoning laws do keep new houses from being made in some places, and investors buying houses and doing nothing with them or raising all local rents in the area to increase the average rent
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Are you suggesting there isn't a difference in reproductive strategy between men and women? Edit: to those downvoting me, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mating_strategies
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by dukeluke 10y ago
I'm in the US. Women have every incentive to get a STEM degree, given the fact that nearly every major tech company has an affirmative action hiring process. But guess what? Women are choosing to get other degrees. It's not sexist
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Many people who fight for social equality between the sexes also believe that all psychological differences between the sexes are cultural, not biological. The post above directly opposes that viewpoint, and thus got downvoted. Personally,
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by dukeluke 10y ago
That may have once been the case, but not anymore. Almost all companies have some sort of affirmative action hiring process that is rigged against white men. I see tons of job postings where women and minorities are "strongly urged to
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Suggesting that an entire block of the population doing poorly is simply because they are lazy is definitely a stretch. Everyone wants to feel like they are valued and are accomplishing something. Maybe they behave this way because the oppo
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by dukeluke 10y ago
The evolutionary strategies are different between the genders, mostly because the biologically expensive act of growing a child for months and raising it for years means women need to be more selective towards their mates.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
You act like lower-class "uneducated" men _should_ be unable to get a job. That's a bit messed up in my opinion. At a time of unparalleled wealth, all classes should be prospering. Also, I say "education" in quotes
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by dukeluke 10y ago
I can't tell if you're serious. Large corporations wouldn't lobby if they didn't get a return on investment. If you've never looked into it, follow the link below. The return on investment for lobbying is _massive_,
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by dukeluke 10y ago
US democracy has already been completely undermined by gerrymandering and brib- I mean "lobbying."
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by dukeluke 10y ago
It seems like most men in general are less masculine and more defensive, considerate, and anxious. Very few men have close guy friends anymore, and most men in the media and news nowadays are androgenous. I think men and boys nowadays are
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by dukeluke 10y ago
It could also be because of lower lead levels, a less competitive culture, greater empathy due to mass media, or a side effect of mens' generally lower testosterone levels. We don't really have a clue what really is causing the dr
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Does it surprise you? People smart enough to interpret these social datasets would be the ones who recognize its potential to manipulate the population.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
Do you have a source for your claims in the last paragraph? It would be an interesting read.
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by dukeluke 10y ago
That's true, except both of our parties have been taken over by corporations & the system makes a third party candidate almost always unviable. It's an illusion of choice where the people always lose, and the system didn'
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by dukeluke 10y ago
What makes things difficult is that the legitimacy of corporate media was seriously in question before Trump was elected. There seems to have been massive collusion between the mainstream media & the DNC to keep Bernie Sanders a fringe

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