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by ionised 8y ago
I'm not going to stop criticising something just because I don't have a tried and tested alternative ready to go. That makes no sense. > Capitalism sucks in many ways, but it sucks a hell of a lot less than the alternatives we&
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by ionised 8y ago
My point being that Capitalism has only been a thing for less 300 years, and what we have now isn't even capitalism. It's a warped perversion of it thanks to the inflated influence of ideologues like Milton Friedman and Friedrich
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by ionised 8y ago
That's not how any of this works. We weren't going to get fines dropping on the first day.
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by ionised 8y ago
Who says there are no viable alternatives?
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by ionised 8y ago
Not a fan of satire and parody then?
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by ionised 8y ago
I liked the Fighting Fantasy ones by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
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by ionised 8y ago
> Attempting to frame it as class warfare is a perfect way to lose support from a significant portion of the US population. Why? That's exactly what it is.
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by ionised 8y ago
Based on what we learned from the Snowden docs I would be very surprised if HN didn't have NSA/GCHQ shills poisoning conversation.
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by ionised 8y ago
> If we don't maintain the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman, the worlds population will eventually shrink exponentially. If that doesn't scare you, I don't know what will. Why should that be scary?
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by ionised 8y ago
> It's explicitly unreligious -- they have a notion of a higher power, but make the conscious effort to allow each member to have their own definition of this higher power. I knew about this 'misunderstanding' that most pe
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by ionised 8y ago
As someone who attended AA meetings for a few months when my depression/anxiety/substance abuse was getting out of control I have to agree with this. A couple of the chapters were fine, and listening to people tell stories of thei
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by ionised 8y ago
What a gift.
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by ionised 8y ago
Cheap luxury goods like TVs and phones and financed cars? I don't think this naked materialism really improves quality of life for the average schmuck, it just adds a gilding.
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by ionised 8y ago
Invoking whataboutism is not a defense against hypocrisy.
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by ionised 8y ago
Signal?
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by ionised 8y ago
To be fair, Snowden said that the UK was collecting far more information on its own people than the US was. He already said the UKs surveillance apparatus was terrifying in comparison.
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by ionised 8y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by ionised 8y ago
People finally waking up to the what Google really is, perhaps?
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by ionised 8y ago
Trump may be an aberration but the people that voted for him are not.
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by ionised 8y ago
Microsoft tracks you for advertising purposes as well.
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by ionised 8y ago
I don't believe Microsoft has changed at all, they've just gotten better at marketing.
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by ionised 8y ago
What do you consider bad work ethic?
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by ionised 8y ago
> what obligation is there beyond the letter of the law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law
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by ionised 8y ago
> Most rich people maintain their riches by adding tremendous value to society. That's not the impression I'm getting.
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by ionised 8y ago
Yes.
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by ionised 8y ago
> In fact it's against the law for them to do that. No it isn't.
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by ionised 8y ago
Can't say as a developer I've ever felt crippled using Firefox over Chrome.
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by ionised 8y ago
Papers Please doesn't belong with the others you mentioned.
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by ionised 8y ago
> Clearly they have been better than the alternatives for customers - otherwise, they would not be successful. Plenty of shitty companies are successful. They just need to. be more convenient than their competitors. > Employees also h
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by ionised 8y ago
I see these 'philanthropic' efforts as distractions from what is essentially a new Gilded Age and its robber barons.

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