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by jahaja 9y ago
It's basically a modern version of the divine right of kings.
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by jahaja 9y ago
That people can casually accept the massive loss of lives this would cause is bewildering.
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by jahaja 9y ago
I have no idea why people are giving this guy the benefit of the doubt in absurdum. Apparently if he quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, he is a cat. I mean heck, among the first thing the guy did is to give interviews to dubious people
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by jahaja 9y ago
The lack of a column for family/child related benefits is pretty symptomatic for startup culture. Interesting nonetheless.
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by jahaja 9y ago
This is what I don't understand in all these HN threads. How can some kind of vaguely related science paper(s), albeit perhaps accurate per se, make people so absolutely sure that there's some kind of _causal & scientific_ cau
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by jahaja 9y ago
> The other thing that can happen with the surplus capacity available is that it gets wasted. People who find they don't need to work to make a living, do nothing that improves the lives of anyone, including their own. The best case
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by jahaja 9y ago
Is it inconceivable to so many maid yay-sayers to realise how much a maid/cleaning-services would cost in a less unequal society, and that there's a reason for that that doesn't require a bloody sociology degree?
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by jahaja 9y ago
It's not that strange. The free market/market economy is used more or less as a synonym, albeit incorrectly imo, for freedom. Seemingly to try to make it true by repetition. Look at any kind of right-wing politician whose random s
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by jahaja 9y ago
From an European perspective this is an echo chamber of right-wing news.
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by jahaja 9y ago
Housing costs? Well partly sure, but equally due to the lack of a social welfare system.
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by jahaja 9y ago
It's called a social welfare system.
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by jahaja 9y ago
I'm not sure why your definition of labour movement is so local rather than national/global? It seems like a strange premise to your whole reply. Causal employment doesn't have to mean worse worker rights. We don't seem
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by jahaja 9y ago
There's clearly more instruments for affordable produce than lower wages for the poor. I'm from a Scandinavian country and we've had it pretty good compared to countries with less wages and workers rights.
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by jahaja 9y ago
So the wages of the poor is dynamic, but the profit margins etc are static by some force of nature?
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by jahaja 9y ago
> They want to promote job stability above all else No, please no. The labour movement want(ed) good living conditions for the majority rather than for the few. And yes, to not be fired by the whim of the bosses daily feeling is part of
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by jahaja 9y ago
So the idea is to make things cheaper for the poor by lowering their wages?
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by jahaja 9y ago
This is surely the main feature of what's euphemistically called "the sharing economy". It's so frustratingly cynical.
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by jahaja 9y ago
You're not doing too well regarding that either it seems. I already tried to guard against the "no true scotsman" reflexive replies in my answer above, but to no avail. That there were many different socialist faction, and am
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by jahaja 9y ago
In 3rd world countries the scarcity is not artificial unfortunately.
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by jahaja 9y ago
I'm not. But even Communism is not synonymous with Bolshevism. You really should "learn your enemy" - atm you're just repeating ahistorical platitudes.
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by jahaja 9y ago
> Well, except communism, as their ideology is based on the idea that a totalitarian state dominates all aspects of society It doesn't require a lot of googling to find out that Socialism is not just a synonym for Bolshevism. I&#x27
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by jahaja 9y ago
Indeed. Another example, that may hit closer to home for the readers of this site, would be the idea of the "inherent" need for unpaid overtime which must not be labeled systematic, but is just coincidentally repeating. "But
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by jahaja 9y ago
It's bordering delusional to me to argue that unions are obsolete with all the "sharing-economy" dystopia and more being spouted about. Especially in the case of the US that never really had a continuously strong labor moveme
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by jahaja 10y ago
That the study of economics has a strong connection to both capital and power while sociology is more academic/institutional and thus less influential.
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by jahaja 10y ago
I think you're giving economics the benefit of the doubt while having a critical eye towards sociology when they're not much different in regards to objectivity and being "soft" sciences. In fact I'm not sure sociol
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by jahaja 10y ago
Yes, the latter is deeply unethical in my book. If the same standards of "economical/business sense" are applied to more things, of equal necessity, it would create a completely dystopian society.
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by jahaja 10y ago
> Economics are true whether or not your ideology agrees This is not true. Hence the old name Political economy. There's no such thing as objective economics - much to the annoyance of usually libertarians. And to add to this discus
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by jahaja 10y ago
That is not a "differing view". It's a blatantly incorrect view - as indicated by the reply of the account you subsequently banned. But I accept your disapproval of my jibe towards HN.
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by jahaja 10y ago
Presenting a rose-tinted view of american history must be HN's national sport.
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by jahaja 10y ago
I'm so tired of this tendency that one can apparently - with a straight face - use such hyperbolic language then still refuse to recant it even in the slightest even after failing to back it up beyond "Well, I think this is scanda

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