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by gwright 7y ago
Labels and definitions are hard to agree on but whatever you call it, the stew of identity-politics, marxism, socialism, post-modernism, intersectionality, and so on that seems to be taking hold on the progressive-left is pretty toxic, IMHO
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by gwright 7y ago
> It's an interesting example of the recent shift in public discourse from being focused on truth to being focused on power. I'd go farther and say that it is disheartening. It also seems to be completely aligned with the post-
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by gwright 7y ago
Your conclusion presupposes that the employee/contractor dichotomy is a useful construct in its typical form. But the current dichotomy limits the freedom of individuals to contract out their labor on terms that work form them. It repl
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by gwright 7y ago
> The thing is it's almost exclusively Republicans and outright neo-Nazis who regularly and intentionally cross the lines between speech and harassment. Do you really believe that? You could watch videos for hours on YouTube with le
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by gwright 7y ago
I think an annuity (as opposed to a 401K) would be the private version of a pension, right?
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by gwright 7y ago
This is a false choice and a different one than I suggested. You would have to consider this scenario also: A released tax records B released tax records C didn't release any records FWIW, I've talked to an accountant about the i
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by gwright 7y ago
I'm not unaware of the argument that candidates should release their tax returns, but it is not the law right now. Up until the point that access to Trump's tax returns was mentioned the article was warning about the false priva
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by gwright 7y ago
Or maybe I just got tired of trying to explain myself. You keep changing the topic and I keep trying to come back to my observation that requiring a corporation to "benefit society" is not actually a thing in law and would be a ba
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by gwright 7y ago
From the article: > It isn’t all bad news. These same reidentification techniques were used by journalists working at the New York Times earlier this year to expose Donald Trump’s tax returns from 1985 to 1994. Flippant comments like th
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by gwright 7y ago
So you agree that all other media is dominated by progressives and everyone else should just settle Fox News and Sinclair Broadcasting?
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by gwright 7y ago
A good example of why I think "terrorist" and "terrorism" communicate almost nothing other than "I think they are the bad guys". That sort of statement is ripe for debate. On the other hand if you say that som
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by gwright 7y ago
I feel like you are changing the goal posts. I explicitly said that any group isn't above the law. So I'm not exempting fraudulent behavior by any means. Nor did I say that liberty required limited liability. I've tried to su
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by gwright 7y ago
> Why should a corporation exist for any other reason than to better our society? Because it represents liberty. The freedom for people (natural ones) to assemble and organize and pursue their own interests as they see fit. Our social co
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by gwright 7y ago
> Implicit in that grant is the idea that the corporation betters society by its existence. Really? I don't think that is a thing, but happy to learn otherwise with a reference to some legal doctrine or legislation that spells this
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by gwright 7y ago
I don't think anyone said they have a "sole responsibility". I was just trying to keep the discussion focused on people and not abstract entities like "management" or "the business". I don't really u
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by gwright 7y ago
No one said acting ethically is easy. You can try to change things from within or report the issue to a legal authority if the situation is also a legal problem, or leave and take action from outside if appropriate. You have choices, they m
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by gwright 7y ago
> but why is that burden on me? Because you are always responsible for your own actions. You may face difficult choices and unwanted consequences, but you can't abdicate your responsibility for your actions. Note, I'm not sugg
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by gwright 7y ago
Shouldn't it be everyone's responsibility to behave ethically? I don't understand the way you have divided responsibility between "workers" and the "business".
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by gwright 7y ago
In my experience Word's revision tracking is entirely inadequate to the task. I might take that back if everyone was editing a shared Word doc on Office365, but the typical scenario of emailing versions back and forth makes it very dif
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by gwright 7y ago
Why do you think that bandwidth costs should only cover the hardware? What about the electricity, rent, payroll, sales, marketing, administrative staff, insurance, accountants, lawyers, etc.
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by gwright 7y ago
It is an interesting question. 1) I don't think "corporations" are picking and choosing, there is extensive legal history on this point. 2) Re: "kills someone through their negligence". I think you've abstract
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by gwright 7y ago
Generally agreed upon definitions with respect to political systems/philosophies are a challenge, but I would respectfully disagree with the idea that the government is intended to be a trusted moral authority in a democracy (or a repu
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by gwright 7y ago
It seems pretty strange to me that individuals with the right to free speech and the right to assemble and freely associate would lose those rights if they chose the form of a "corporation" as the manner of assembly and associatio
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by gwright 7y ago
You must be new to this dispute. Personally I tend to agree with you but in the international game of power politics, stating explicitly what is implicitly clear to everyone can have large repercussions.
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by gwright 7y ago
If I understand what you are saying, I agree. The show of "fealty" associated with adopting a CoC with all the approved progressive language is problematic to me.
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by gwright 7y ago
I was referring to the formality of CoCs vs more informal approaches to disagreements. So in this context, "pick your battles" means that not every dispute is worth escalating and mediating in the context of a CoC. More often than
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by gwright 7y ago
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pick+your+battles https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/headshrinkers-guide-...
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by gwright 7y ago
Ironically it is is almost impossible to engage on this topic in a thoughtful way without stepping on some sort of social landmine. As someone who has been around for a while I find much of the back and forth in this area exhausting and at
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by gwright 7y ago
It is not reasonable to equate the rules regarding eminent domain in the US with the effort required by the Chinese government to acquire land. Nor is it reasonable to equate the complexities of raising revenue in representative government
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by gwright 7y ago
See my comment above re: estimates to upgrade the Northeast corridor lines, presumably some of that is $$ to acquire land via eminent domain.

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