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11y ago
For Youtube standards, the comments are pretty normal. You see these kinds of comments on every video about tragic situations (and, to be honest, in any other video). It's easily one of the worst communities, probably even worse than i
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11y ago
It's still the price in a way. If they would cost the same, you would choose the SSD.
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11y ago
Interestingly, the first thing I thought of when I read the title was, in fact, depression.
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11y ago
I made two distinct statements. I did not try to support the second with the first one, I just recited the claims from the Oxfam report. I agree, however, that "62 richest people own as much as poorest 50%" is really not that in
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11y ago
You know that the "laissez-faire" capitalist alternative in this situation would mean that people starve?
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11y ago
> we generally hate the rich in the first place because of the social stratification caused by them have bigger and better things The rich aren't hated because they drive nicer cars, they are hated because it's their greed that
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11y ago
That's exactly my point.
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> I would say that 6000 people easily control anywhere between 20% and 50% of the worlds wealth. The 62 richest people in the world own as much as the poorest 3.6billion. In 2010 it was 388. The 1% owns more than the rest of the world.
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11y ago
> In the US and Western Europe there is an oversupply of unskilled or low-skills labour, driving their wages down (relatively to skilled labour). You're right, but the reality is that even skilled workers rarely make it to the top 1
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11y ago
Not all of the elite are self-made or have a high direct income. I also don't see why the talent of all of them would be "exceptional". Higher than average, sure, if they are self-made they probably had to be smarter than o
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11y ago
They have to get their information from somewhere. TV channels are media, too. Most people don't know Bernie, Hillary and Donald personally, so the only way to get an impression is the media.
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11y ago
So I guess your profile hasn't been updated in a while? And what is it that you're are doing now? Must be really awesome if it's still enjoyable after 80 hours.
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11y ago
I searched for it and this is part of a campaign from a workgroup called "No Traffick Ahead": http://www.notraffickahead.com/campaigns/ Powerful indeed.
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11y ago
Yes, we definitely need more mindless wage slaves and worker drones who like being used and exploited.
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11y ago
I mainly remember him for saying this: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
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11y ago
Similarly high-skilled and specialized people will always be in demand.
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11y ago
You don't need to provide for your economic well-being either.
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11y ago
They are already targets.
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11y ago
Why do you think that this is the best way? Or do you mean the best way for the Justice Department ?
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11y ago
It also locks out well-off people with credit cards - they can't possibly subscribe to everything .
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I don't think he should be considered a role model. Almost no one will be able to follow his route and become a billionaire with a relatively simple app. I also don't think that him becoming insanely rich automatically means he ha
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11y ago
This reminds me of this story of a Google employee living in a truck: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-truc...
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11y ago
It's Mayer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer
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11y ago
Besides that there are quite a few Youtubers making a decent living. Also it's more like $100 for every 100k Youtube views.
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11y ago
It's either Messenger or WhatsApp. You can't escape Facebook and they paid US$19 billion for that.
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11y ago
Yeah, it is possible that man just overestimate themselves at a higher rate. Or that the women of Github have a solid CS background at a higer rate then the men do. The thing is, we don't really know.
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11y ago
That's somewhat true, but they are free to go wherever they want to.
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11y ago
Don't we already have a title (or alt) attribute for <a>, <img>, <abbr> and other HTML elements?
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11y ago
There a many countries where you don't have to borrow a single cent to study medicine. Instead, you even get paid a small support every month.
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11y ago
> There's hope for everyone. Except for the hopeless.
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