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by gress 12y ago
Since a lot of teaching is shame based, whatever styles people have had the least bad experience with will be easier for them to work with.
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by gress 12y ago
> Live and let live. Individual freedom is more important than society considerations. Not if that leads to going back to serfs and kings.
633.
by gress 12y ago
Yes - the subjects of advanced study should be selected by the government. Individual researchers should operate like an army, going where they are told. /s
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by gress 12y ago
Because diners are not interchangeable components. Some become regular customers.
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by gress 12y ago
No - it just means that the most vulnerable people end up with the most abusive landlords.
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by gress 12y ago
Nope. Capital is what you own, not what you are. You can exchange labor for capital, but until you do, you do not have capital.
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by gress 12y ago
Nope. You're describing a specific form of libertarianism.
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by gress 12y ago
Where is that?
639.
by gress 12y ago
Um, so obviously duty doesn't stop poverty or wars.
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by gress 12y ago
Google Maps
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by gress 12y ago
Once we've defeated death, the incentive will be to reduce the population sharply and strictly control reproduction. Adding new people from amongst the dead will be the last thing on anyone's minds.
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by gress 12y ago
If duty were enough, we wouldn't have wars or poverty, 'out of duty to our fellow human beings'. Why are people who are already dead more deserving of such 'duty'?
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by gress 12y ago
Surely that's why libertarians make a distinction. Capitalism is the word we use for the various systems that we inhabit in practice. The things that you are calling 'socialism' are the products of democracy.
644.
by gress 12y ago
I think we all agree that western nations do not have some kind of pure form of libertarianism. That's why we call it capitalism, and not libertarianism.
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by gress 12y ago
This is obviously false. Voting is a way of interacting with the state. Neither voting nor not-voting implies support for any particular state policy any more than using a state issued currency or holding a passport does.
646.
by gress 12y ago
I'm curious how you think it's moral to deny justice to, or steal from the poor.
647.
by gress 12y ago
The current system is capitalism. The degradations are part of capitalism in practice. If you only accept categories that are theoretically pure, you cannot speak about the real world.
648.
by gress 12y ago
Where is the true capitalism to be found then?
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by gress 12y ago
A good piece of propaganda.
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by gress 12y ago
I'd love to see Samsung say that too. I think it would be disastrous for Samsung. Why should corporations have all the power, and voters have none?
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by gress 12y ago
That answer contains no information. Why did you give it?
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by gress 12y ago
What is that used for?
653.
by gress 12y ago
It's easier than interacting people who are stressed or under duress - which is usually the case with service jobs. In any case it seems that you didn't read the piece, since it says absolutely nothing about these situations.
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by gress 12y ago
Another dis-informational headline. The press can be excused for this, but MIT should know better. More realistically, 'when working with machines to do repetitive manual work, people prefer not to have to think so much.'
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by gress 12y ago
Which contract is that, and from which operator?
656.
by gress 12y ago
Sounds fine if you want the sick and dying decaying in the streets because they didn't have access to good education.
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by gress 12y ago
None of that makes any difference to Google. Their view is that people benefit from what they do.
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by gress 12y ago
Gmail users permit google to analyze their email for their own purposes.
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by gress 12y ago
Jacques is describing the Internet as it currently is . If you don't want to play on it, you need to do something about it or stop playing.
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by gress 12y ago
Underpromising only works in environments where customers actually listen to your promises.

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