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by jadedhacker 9y ago
That's only somewhat true. It will smooth out living standards as it crushes working people down by exploiting the lowest wages anywhere in the globe. Simultaneously, the wealthy bourgeoisie will become richer and richer until the inte
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Just curious, if you discard the legitimacy of private profit, is it ever legitimate to silence employees? I'm skeptical but I'm open to a good argument. Most of the time the agreements I hear about are basically to guarantee that
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The idea is that feudal ideologies are making a comeback with the rise of an aristocratic class. These ideologies are finding support amongst the (conservative/reactionary) lower classes as they try to process why their lives are getti
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If police harass minorities, it generates the most data in the places they harass them. Then they feed this data into the computer and algorithmically generate "unbiased" results that prove they should be harassing minorities....
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This argument ignores the incredibly vocal anti-death penalty movement and the incredibly steep isolation of the United States in this regard compared to the rest of the world. We're having trouble implementing the death penalty in sta
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by jadedhacker 9y ago
This is a great idea, but this is far too vague. Very clear cut terms would be necessary for this to have teeth. For instance something like, data collection on individuals must have a clear purpose, the subject of collection must be clearl
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Can you elaborate? Some of that is treated in the linked article. They do comparisons between the coop, limited coop, and conventional portions of their sporting goods and supermarket chains.
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That's true, but that's mainly true of political majorities. Political minorities (often racial, national, or other kinds) are systemically impacted. Increasingly, it is the wealthy minority that is treated exceptionally fairly wi
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"Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon" http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019793914564966 Just read this and it was pretty interesting. Appearently in the
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Can you explain the concept of revisionism? I've seen it before, but don't know what it means.
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I'm not a super Obama fan, but I will say that it would have made Obama's second term better as he would have been more responsive to his base. Trump has continued or intensified many Obama policies, which were in turn inherited f
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This is an idea that sounds sensible on its surface, but it relies on the theory that it's the politicians that are the problem. It ignores how politics really works, which is that politicians mainly take the positions of the key coali
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That is true, but that is true for incumbents everywhere.
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I'm not very familiar with the situation in China, but I will sound a dissenting note here and welcome correcting information by those more knowledgable. While Xi is certainly acting in his own interest to remove term limits, term limi
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You might find this an interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent It discusses the intersection of profit motive and story selection, from before the public internet was even a thing. The for
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I would prefer something like (LEAK) or (CLASSIFIED LEAK). NSFW means that many ordinary people that aren't subject to the logical contradictions of the classification system won't look because they think it's porn or somethi
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by jadedhacker 9y ago
"The easy solution: set students up in a more professional environment, Busteed said -- this could be internships or co-op programs. If students can't go to an actual office, then the environment should be brought to them so they
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I understand your concerns, but we can't not publicize the information, that would violate the public interest. These leaks have little effect if they are not broadly distributed. However, out of concern for individual workers in the b
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I actually intended my message to be inspiring. ;) My point was that you can't go it alone and there are friends that will help you. I left a more theoretical justification in another sub-thread.
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That's true but the key word is coordinated. Without coordinated action, we're back at individual action. Coordinated action might be protests, boycotts, etc. Usually there are one or more _institutions_, that is a cohesive group
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by jadedhacker 9y ago
You're right, being the kind of citizen you want to be is undeniable a good thing, but it's also undeniably useless. It individualizes a collective problem, thereby being an ineffective solution. The only way to resist power is wi
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by jadedhacker 9y ago
The resources were spent on obvious speculation, which adds less than zero value to humans (other than speculators). As an analogy, if resources are spent on war, I think it's not so far fetched to say that there is an extraordinary am
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Even more so, I'm sorry to say I have contacts with friend(s) that died... I don't necessarily want to remove them from my contact list, but the (automated) birthday notification feels... unseemly... :-/ This would not be tr
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It's a wonderful concept to decentralize the internet. However, I am a little skeptical of this concept. Won't IPFS be subject to the same problem as the global blockchain for BitCoin? That is, it can't process the kind of tr
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In medicine, this concept is referred to as "healthspan".
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We are so carpet bombed with ads that in some sense the demand for peace and contemplation is a synthetic need generated by not only the content of ads, but by their very presence. Ad free consumer gadgets provide a new way to price differe
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It would be nice if we had substantial public funding of the arts and the results were free to copy.