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by forensic 15y ago
My dilemmas aren't false they just contain assumptions. Challenging assumptions is reasonable but don't assume that the presenter is unaware of their own assumptions. There are ALWAYS more assumptions available to be challenged. Plenty in y
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by forensic 15y ago
The War on Poverty was launched in the 1930s, and before that it was the mission of various religious organizations. The increase in the "Real Poverty" is due to economic factors like giving all the jobs to China, dumbing down education, an
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by forensic 15y ago
This is exactly the point that HN seems to be oblivious toward. HN people live in a bubble and seemingly have never met anyone who is in real poverty -- they think because in college they had to eat Ramen they were poor. They are clueless.
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by forensic 15y ago
>All the extra stuff we have. It's NOT that stuff though. That stuff is cheap. It's rent, food, childcare, healthcare, and education. These are not luxuries. Cellphones cost nothing compared to these real costs, which can't be reduced b
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by forensic 15y ago
The Tea Party has millions of people, so there may be a few different views in there. However my impression was that the bulk of the Tea Party harbors a lot of hate for welfare recipients and social services in general. They believe the poo
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by forensic 15y ago
because those employees did not produce the increase in productivity, technologists did. The technologists and the entrenched oligopolists ate all of the surplus while the commoditized worker drones got nothing. Which is inline with free ma
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by forensic 15y ago
Politics and morality are intimately related. There are SOME free market ideologues who believe that unrestrained corporations will enrich the poor, however I believe they are in the minority. You may be one of them. The majority of liberta
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by forensic 15y ago
You ARE better off. But you are also in the top 20%. The bottom 80% are not as lucky as you. The bottom 80% cannot afford 2 cars, or a house, or cable, or an iPhone, etc. Have some fucking perspective. You are doing well; but look around yo
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by forensic 15y ago
>I don't think there is much debate that societies should try to mitigate that. You haven't been reading HN then, and you haven't met the Tea Party. There are a lot of people here who believe that poor people deserve their lot and shoul
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by forensic 15y ago
The word "land" is a colloquialism for "owning your own residence" Leave it to Hacker News to be overly literal. Most people know what I mean. This isn't a legal document. The price of land drives the cost of housing.
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by forensic 15y ago
I'm not talking about any crappy dirt pile anywhere, I'm talking about owning my own place to live in a community where there are jobs and 1960s technology. I could move to Nebraska but it is unlikely I could find a job that would afford me
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by forensic 15y ago
You're arguing that an aristocracy is OK as long as they didn't get there through heredity. First of all, I would disagree that social mobility is increasing. Rich kids are doing better than ever. Secondly, I believe history indicates that
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by forensic 15y ago
People making your argument always mention TVs, they never mention rent, land, food, education, childcare, or healthcare. 1. Rent 2. Land 3. Food 4. Education 5. Childcare 6. Healthcare You know, the stuff that actually matters. I'll give u
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by forensic 15y ago
Doing your best probably isn't enough. To have any hope you'll have to hire expensive security people and buy lots of insurance. All you need in order to be exploited is to be using software with 0day exploits. Many known exploits are not p
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by forensic 15y ago
hes talking about a coffee shop with a book focus starbucks makes good money on people who just want to sit and read. A good coffee shop niche would be adding in a library and encouraging people to discuss books and such
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by forensic 15y ago
The economists have an incinerator where everything left-wing goes.
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by forensic 15y ago
The main reason the AMA and similar orgs exist is to make more money for the members. The functional result of those bodies is actually a lot like a white collar union. Computer people would be smart to start something like that -- it would
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by forensic 15y ago
When software entrepreneurs put 10% of the population out of work and then used social darwinism to justify the lack of a social safety net.
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by forensic 15y ago
The chairs in this analogy represent access to food, healthcare, education, shelter, clothing. The necessities of life. The game technically has more chairs than people. The problem is that an elite 1% are occupying 50% of the chairs.
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by forensic 15y ago
>I don't know why people seem to think they should be immune from it. So when social leaders sell us in childhood on the idea that the future will be a disease free high-tech utopia, they really mean it will be that for an elite 20% and
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by forensic 15y ago
>rewarding them for distributing their discoveries to as many as possible If the 80% has no money, then the 80% cannot reward the elites.
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by forensic 15y ago
When you were 8 years old, did you believe that, in the future, people in America would be frantically playing musical chairs with their lives, trying to put other people out of a livelihood before others can do it to them? When did the fut
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by forensic 15y ago
He sounds like an amateur rent-seeker.
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by forensic 15y ago
The top 250,000 people basically run the government, so his polemic needs to be addressed at them. All the special interests he talks about are from his cohort of the top .1% Basically, this article amounts to "Let Them Eat Cake"
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by forensic 15y ago
No one really gets it, and that's why Socrates was the smartest man in Greece. He knew that he didn't know anything. Cynics like Diogenes are just as dogmatic as anyone, but the truth they are dogmatic about is that there is no truth. It's
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by forensic 15y ago
Does he have a book coming out or something? Why the sudden PR?
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by forensic 15y ago
Stop making this a moral issue. Did 20th century behaviourism teach you nothing? The human stock is only as good as the stimulation it receives. The reason people have trouble learning is because they are victims of mass culture. When a chi
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by forensic 15y ago
What is sad is that people are going to see your post and think that unemployment is actually falling. When in reality, those statistics have been cooked. Those numbers don't include people who have given up looking, the underemployed, part
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by forensic 15y ago
The main reason unemployment stats look that way is because people give up looking for work and are no longer counted in the stats. Data is not wonderful when it is used to confuse and deceive rather than enlighten. Data becomes a tool of e
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by forensic 15y ago
I agree with your analysis I just think your previous comment had an unavoidable political message: the implied message was that there is no problem and intervention is not needed. Your scenario of giving people a stipend seems politically

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