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by ihm 6y ago
Actually insurance is even worse because you’re also paying for insurance company profits (and advertising, etc.)!
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by ihm 6y ago
> Economic theory would argue that: "little pay" is because they produce "little value". Any economic theory that predicts this is probably not very useful, since this claim is easily falsified. Consider e.g., the sit
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by ihm 6y ago
Effective Altruism is very confusing to me as it seems to only address the symptoms of poverty and not the root causes. In a very abbreviated version, that root cause being that our society requires that some labor in terrible conditions fo
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by ihm 6y ago
Can't comment on the accuracy of this overall, but there are a lot of mistakes/sloppiness with the Yiddish. The word is "tsore" not "sore", "shul" has meant school in Yiddish for a long time and not e
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by ihm 6y ago
It's tautological but worth noting: capital is abundant for projects which VCs as a class are already eager to fund. If you have an idea which does not appeal to VCs, capital is not abundant for you.
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by ihm 6y ago
This is such a cynical view of humanity. Personally I believe it is worth striving to create a society that encourages and cultivates our best qualities rooted in love, rather than resigning ourselves to a social structure and way of thinki
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by ihm 6y ago
I think syops criticism applies to the combined dynamic of the 2 American political parties and mainstream narratives, rather than either one specifically.
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by ihm 6y ago
Clearly the fact that we treat housing as a commodity is causing an issue here. There are housing units owned (as investments, not for their use value) by OP's friend which could be used to house people, who are instead forced to live
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by ihm 6y ago
From reading the post, it sounds like the fact that housing is treated as a commodity rather than a necessity of life is what is keeping people on the street and units empty.
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by ihm 6y ago
The Democrats also have no interest in addressing it, they're largely funded by the same people as the Republicans.
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by ihm 6y ago
There is no “teacher” who is going to grade you on how representative your social media feed is of the country. The point of creating an online feed could be entertainment, to arm you with the information and means of communication necessar
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by ihm 6y ago
And you think the local military is your friend who has your best interests at heart?
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by ihm 6y ago
Totally agree. That’s the idea the Green New Deal tries to articulate. The book “A Planet to Win”[0] describes a detailed vision of how we can come out of a transition off fossil fuels as a stronger, more prosperous society. To quote some r
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by ihm 6y ago
The interests opposed to actual change are the oil+coal industry most obviously, but also the rich more generally who are opposed to the redistribution which is necessary to make real climate action politically viable. (We will need to redu
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by ihm 6y ago
Yeah, it's a class conflict and class/wealth is correlated with age. Bernie (who is old last I checked) being one of the biggest supporters gives the lie to this.
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by ihm 6y ago
Oh sorry- if it wasn’t clear from the post I think it’s terrible and not only corroding human society but also our planet. The post is arguing for building a tech workers’ movement to oppose capital.
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The Coinbase post was 100% right. Here's what you can do about it(parametricity.com)
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by ihm 6y ago
This leaves out the very violent wars (sometimes bordering on something like genocide [0]) that have been waged by the capitalist world against communism. [0]: E.g., a CIA backed government killed ~1 million people with connections to the c
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by ihm 6y ago
What do you mean by lefty if you are not against capitalism?
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by ihm 6y ago
This comment is such cowed boot-licking of a giant corporation. Completely antithetical to the hacker ethos.
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by ihm 6y ago
Worth mentioning for those who don’t know that Mercatus is a Koch-funded ideology and policy generator (I prefer this to the more obfuscatory “think tank”).
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by ihm 6y ago
To the sibling commenters, even if 100% of billionaires did not come from family wealth, that doesn't mean they should exist. A tiny rotating ruling class is no different from a hereditary one from the point of view of everyone else in
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by ihm 6y ago
You can us zero knowledge proofs plus a blockchain to anonymize votes.
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by ihm 6y ago
This is just another way of saying “the Fed currently only introduces new money by ways that benefit certain corporations and wealthy people”. Just because they only do those two things doesn’t mean they couldn’t do other different things l
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by ihm 6y ago
> In terms of salaries, the only effective tool unions have to increase them is their ability to exclude people from employment. This is not true. Capitalists and managers often take large profits and salaries that could go to workers in
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by ihm 6y ago
Encryptions are randomized, not deterministic.
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by ihm 6y ago
> They could spend it all on an addiction or just make a bad investment. So could you with your salary (assuming that’s how you get money). It stands to reason your employer shouldn’t be trusting you with that money they give you.
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by ihm 6y ago
> (can't get rid of defence, so this is a non-starter) Why is eliminating all government services an acceptable hypothetical but not cutting any of the imperial occupation budget? I call it as such rather than the Orwellian “defense
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by ihm 6y ago
> In practice communism is an idealogy that led to the death of 60 million people, to the imprisonment of millions, and destroyed uncountable lives - all around the world, consistently, within different cultures, jurisdictions, legal sys
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by ihm 6y ago
No, of course not. Here is one definition of fascism: > a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic govern

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