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by ionised 8y ago
> Most of the time people get rich by doing exactly what you want to do: help others. I don't think that's true at all.
782.
by ionised 8y ago
Before the minimum wage was introduced the market didn't do a very good job of ensuring workers had a livable income.
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by ionised 8y ago
And if I don't want children?
784.
by ionised 8y ago
So the poor can now have smartphones and financed cars but their education and healthcare is prohibitively expensive and they have no chance of owning a home. All the while those GDP increases have gone to fewer and fewer people. I'm s
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by ionised 8y ago
Union membership is down largely due to the decades of sustained anti-union propaganda equating them with communism.
786.
by ionised 8y ago
Homelessness in the UK at least has been rising every year for the last 7 years.
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by ionised 8y ago
Everything I know and read gives me the impression that while the world's poor are better off today than they ever have been, their overall share of the wealth and bargaining power is ever decreasing since the post-WWII years. People n
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by ionised 8y ago
I'm the same. I still buy textbooks to this day because I find it far easier to absorb technical information from that medium.
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by ionised 8y ago
The workers didn't own the means of production in Venezuela either. Most industry in Venezuela is privately or publicly owned.
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by ionised 8y ago
Microsoft gets involved in domestic politics all the time.
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by ionised 8y ago
> It is not clear that privacy (specifically privacy of data on Microsoft systems from court order, if that's what you mean) is necessary for democracy. How would democracy ever work if people had no privacy?
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by ionised 8y ago
How does a yard translate to higher quality of life?
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by ionised 8y ago
This is the most elitist thing I've read today, and it's only 10:30am.
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by ionised 8y ago
I love how you have totally missed the point.
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by ionised 8y ago
That's how cults get their claws into you.
796.
by ionised 8y ago
This is demonstrably untrue in pretty much any other developed western democracy.
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by ionised 8y ago
He's partly responsible for our current system.
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by ionised 8y ago
Milton Friedman was one of a few economists responsible for what would become the neoliberal economic policies that free markets are infallible that we have today. Policies that have benefitted primarily the already wealthy amassers of capi
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by ionised 8y ago
> The rise in inequality coincides with the rise of unions Gonna need a citation on that one.
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by ionised 8y ago
> I would be interested to see how excluding lower class affects this percentage, only middle class and above. I suspect it would skew the percentage much higher. You say this like you think it somehow proves a point. > I am a firm be
801.
by ionised 8y ago
Whenever I see someone use the word 'leftist' unironically in their opening sentence I just assume that what is coming next is a torrent of ideological rhetoric with nothing of substance to back it up.
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by ionised 8y ago
To be fair, the AI in STALKER (A-Life) was dialled down significantly prior to release as although it performed great, it made for a poor narrative experience as you could never really ensure it wouldn't break the game continuity in so
803.
by ionised 8y ago
You're really clutching at straws with this one.
804.
by ionised 8y ago
Can't say I've ever spotted anyone smoking in the supermarket in my 32 years in Europe.
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by ionised 8y ago
When advertising cigarettes became illegal in many western nations, tobacco companies shifted their attentions to developing markets like Indonesia. Smoking is a big and growing business over there.
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by ionised 8y ago
The US or the French, depending on when you think the conflict started.
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by ionised 8y ago
They were also planning to stop using the $ in favour of the Euro to price their oil. US business interests did not like that one bit.
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by ionised 8y ago
Don't worry, FB will share it with random app developers on your behalf.
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by ionised 8y ago
Politicians started to suck on the teat of Hayek and Friedman, to disastrous results for all but the already wealthy.
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by ionised 8y ago
Gamers don't buy new CPUs hoping they might be faster, that's ridiculous. They check benchmarks and see what kind of gains they can expect over what they currently have.

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