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by jahaja 8y ago
Why do you think cost per capita is a good indicator for what's a genuine attempt at implementing welfare programs?
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by jahaja 8y ago
From my Scandinavian perspective US welfare has always seemed like a plausible deniability scheme rather than a genuine attempt.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Mitigate or incorporate? - "We seem to have a problem with people seeking power and privilege for their own gain." - "To prevent it, we should let some people exercise power over others in high-status positions."
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by jahaja 8y ago
On the surface, it does seem to somewhat prevent the proliferation of bullshit jobs as described by David Graeber. I don't have an updated figure on the number of employees at Valve, but it's usually in the 3 figure range.
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by jahaja 8y ago
I didn't assume you agreed with the envy part. I do however find it absurd that envy is used in this context - since the word would never even be thought about in the serfdom case. Words do carry meanings after all. In this case we hav
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by jahaja 8y ago
"Serfdom in itself causes unhappiness. Or jealousy, if you want to call it that." Interestingly, it seems to me that the current iteration of the oppression business can somehow always dismiss calls for justice as envy/jealou
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by jahaja 8y ago
> If Russia had stayed Tsarist, or -- even better -- become a normal western democracy, it would have been much better than the Bolshevik rule. There's a lot of "if onlys" that could be said about the period between 1905 a
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by jahaja 8y ago
How do you imagine this would scale in any sense of that word without it?
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by jahaja 8y ago
I think it's important to emphasize that in this context there's an explicit mention of scale. Surrogacy as something of the future. Almost as an institution. For this scale to be possible, an exploitative relationship between the
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by jahaja 8y ago
Why do we need to rationalize these things with a hypothetical best-case scenario?
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by jahaja 8y ago
Yes. I don't like this kind of rationalization where one lifts up edge-cases without regard to its proportionality. - "I was able to buy a really nice house after discovering Herbalife".
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by jahaja 8y ago
This attitude is so foreign to me that you could very well be a Marsian. Rich people exploiting poor people to bare the risks and burdens of pregnancy and labor? Have you even considered the degree of desperation one would need to be in to
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by jahaja 8y ago
> People who lose their job become less happy, and do not recover until they get a job again. This is just scratching the surface. Why do people that lose their job become less happy? I think it's much more likely a combination of s
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by jahaja 8y ago
You are stating the extra-ordinary claims, not me.
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by jahaja 8y ago
> When that same country clearly has internal problems which threaten to overwhelm parts of society - something even the current government doesn't deny so it would be pointless to deny it here - my reply is very much in line with t
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by jahaja 8y ago
Most people know exactly what kind of people are talking about a taboo, censorship etc while it's not nearly true - and even if one would say it exists, it would be well distributed. Unfortunately it consistently seem to be an exercise
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by jahaja 8y ago
Do you want me to compile a list of examples?
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by jahaja 8y ago
I've answered it in another reply.
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by jahaja 8y ago
One can display one's cherry-picking proficiency and be on-topic at the same time.
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by jahaja 8y ago
It's a pattern of comments, not just this one.
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by jahaja 8y ago
HN would be a slightly better place if you would stop derailing topics about Sweden (and more) into anti-immigration tirades which I've noticed you've done for a couple of years now.
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by jahaja 8y ago
> The Swedish city Uppsala introduced free bus rides for teenagers a couple (20?) years ago, and the experiment was cancelled after short period due to extensive vandalism - buss seats where destroyed, etc. It's very weird then tha
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by jahaja 8y ago
I think this kind of submission shows how favorably some business leaders are treated when they've passed a certain threshold. After that point anything they do or touch is considered newsworthy, no matter how trivial. Furthermore, eve
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by jahaja 8y ago
You can barely even have a flee market without a card terminal in Sweden, if you expect to sell something.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Hence the 'ad infinitum'. There's always a spectrum.
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by jahaja 8y ago
You certainly seem to be the mirror image of tolerance. Sigh. Have you ever considered that you're projecting?
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by jahaja 8y ago
Very respectable decision in my book. Walking the walk, not just talking the talk. You just can't abstract yourself away from ethical decisions ad infinitum. The level of self-deception needed to convince oneself that this, or whatever
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by jahaja 8y ago
I'm continuously surprised how little attention social status gets here. People seem to always assume that all decisions in IT/Tech/SV are entirely or mostly due to economically rational factors. I think remote work is yet an
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by jahaja 8y ago
Fair enough. This seems to be a good view of it.
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by jahaja 8y ago
I've found that this is not the case more often than not. But I'm no expert.

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