elktown

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by elktown 3y ago
Pretty much comments all in these threads just says vague statements without any specifics, for me that's a red flag bias. I'm sure his supporters of that time didn't see him as unemphatic, and certainly I'm sure he hims
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by elktown 3y ago
People really need to stop using "I'm X, and I therefore I know". No. You're just as likely, maybe even more, of being politically invested. "I'm American so I know this Democrat/Republican is a freckin li
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by elktown 3y ago
Care to enlighten me? Your comment reads like "assuming the best case scenario for X and worst case scenario for Y, X can reduce the risk". Well, you don't say.
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by elktown 3y ago
It might just as well be increased by microservices due to fragile dependency chains and just different people working async and what not.
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by elktown 4y ago
That's pretty much my point. Those concessions was fought and won by the labour movement under the threat of revolution. Before that workers was just as dirt poor and exploited as in any other class-based society. Now that the threat o
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by elktown 4y ago
If history has told us anything, we can be sure that privileged people will rationalize wealth inequality or just completely deny it all the way to revolution. "It's complex", "It's just natural", "It&#x27
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by elktown 4y ago
It's hard for me to take doubling down on "correlation is causation" seriously, especially on such an obviously multi-faceted subject, it's simply too unnuanced. Just the assertion in passing that China has supposedly
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by elktown 4y ago
I mean, discussions about this free-market/neoliberal political shift have been going on for a long time. To just assume state-owned industry "just doesn't work" because of that post-Soviet shift is confirmation bias on
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by elktown 4y ago
So "heavy investment in state-owned industries just doesn't work" is actually just you drawing far-reaching conclusions over shifting economic policies and/or voting patterns. That line of reasoning doesn't even pas
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by elktown 4y ago
What do you mean didn't work for the voting public in Sweden?
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by elktown 4y ago
> every single one reversed course. Because it just didn’t work. Didn't work for whom? To suggest that political changes happen due to "it didn't work" seems like a pretty shallow conclusion. There are a lot that can