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by jahaja 8y ago
Unsurprisingly, you did not address the point I made. The surgical separation of private-property, political power, and plutocracy that you're making is a fantasy in which they're somehow not deeply intertwined and interdependent
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by jahaja 8y ago
This is a completely and utterly ahistorical redefinition together with selective reasoning. The theological fantasy where capitalism is freed from its state component would not differ either with regards to these incentives, the state woul
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by jahaja 8y ago
That is just absurd. We accept that kings will naturally strive to uphold their power, that feudal lords will protect their privileges, and so on. But somehow, some seemingly dogmatic people firmly believe that despite the entire incentive
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by jahaja 8y ago
Indeed it is. The scale I wrote about above was lobbying [people in power], not giving the highway cop half the official fine.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Why is it important for you to issue a petty nuance to this that you should, and probably do, realise that I already acknowledge? Compare: "China is actually not inherently undemocratic there's a lot of local officials etc being v
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by jahaja 8y ago
That link measures peoples perception. My perception is that the influence of money is blatantly epidemic in US politics. But it uses an euphemism; lobbying. Luckily it's not corruption if it's legal.
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by jahaja 8y ago
I think I'll never understand the US pundits view that there should be some sort of permanent equilibrium between what goes for liberal and conservative in the US, no matter how bonkers the latter goes. It's like monarchists in 19
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by jahaja 8y ago
I disagree. To be clear, there's more to techs current flight towards the sun than just this. But for this kind of wording to be possible there need to be certain conditions present. In techs case; partly just a general boom/bubbl
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by jahaja 8y ago
What's up with this usage of the word "talent"? Tech is in such acute need of humble pie I don't even know where to begin. I'm becoming disillusioned. Why is a programmer etc. a "talent", but a carpenter j
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by jahaja 8y ago
It's a sad testament of how important and well shielded upper middle class sensibilities are. What you describe won't rattle those much, however, a violation of the sanctity of journalists clearly will. It's, imo, a blatantly
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by jahaja 8y ago
"If you’re not being billed for hours, why wouldn’t you keep expanding your workers’ obligations until the cracks appear?" I'm amazed by the sibling comments "benefit of the doubt" view even with the hindsight of th
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by jahaja 8y ago
I'm sorry, but I can't help but feel disheartened at the sad state of affairs when 8 hour days, 40 hours per week can be sold as something pseudo-revolutionary. This industry is in dire need of some humble pie, and for employees t
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by jahaja 8y ago
Why do you think it matters if a forced decision is rational or not?
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by jahaja 8y ago
The world isn't skin deep. There's a clear historical continuity to these appeasements. A poor person giving half their bread to a sick neighbor should be applauded, however, the Church of old providing charity from the king while
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by jahaja 8y ago
Now I'm really confused. Surely it's the other way around? Do you mean that nothing would change during a general strike because there would be plenty of scabs around?
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by jahaja 8y ago
I'm a bit sad about the lack of acceptance for pluralism in widely used languages. The effort to get Go in line with other languages just seem so disproportional.
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by jahaja 8y ago
This seems to imply there's some other, more righteous, form of capitalist organization, and that these are unfortunate anomalies?
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by jahaja 8y ago
Maybe not that much to write it, but it's very valuable to understand the disassembly when debugging.
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by jahaja 8y ago
So for example, with regards to startups growing rapidly on VC funding: What is the lowest acceptable number of employees that a company that's planning to go public can have? Sometimes I wonder if this rapid inflation phase is just a
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by jahaja 8y ago
That would be preferable yes.
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by jahaja 8y ago
What is the lowest acceptable number of employees that a company that's planning to go public can have? Sometimes I wonder if this rapid inflation phase is just a check boxing exercise.
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by jahaja 8y ago
> I'm not seeing > I don't want > I don't mind > I'll also make sure [..] within my social circle > what benefits I'd get A business usually consists of a group of employees, some may benefit more tha
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by jahaja 8y ago
> What benefits would unionizing provide? I'm not actively against it, but I don't see any clear reasons to be in favor of it either. Given that companies are consistently and fiercely fighting off unionization should be a tip
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by jahaja 8y ago
Unfortunately this is true. I think this is a textbook example of where conflating interests are able to effectively push through regressive ideas without some dark room conspiracy. It's actually quite brilliant: An innovative looking
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by jahaja 8y ago
Self-serving for the influential community of anthropologists that's intertwined with contemporary power? I wish.
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by jahaja 8y ago
I'm happy to hear that. I hope it continues.
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by jahaja 8y ago
The problem in Sweden is of a different nature. We do have union representation in the game industry, but it's more or less a yellow union (that is, it's so passive that it's to the benefit of the employers) imo. This means t
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by jahaja 8y ago
I didn't say that images didn't do anything. In addition, I would expect someone to call me naive, not for what I wrote, but rather if I'd thought that what stops powerful people from doing horrible things are images of suffe
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by jahaja 8y ago
I can't read this in any other way than just speculation for which the primary purpose is to act as a comforting rationalization to what happened.
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by jahaja 8y ago
In war games, soldiers usually die quietly, instantly, and in one piece. Reality is still too brutal.

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