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by jahaja 6y ago
Alright, let's actually follow up on two of your links for once. Regarding "The IMF was unable to reproduce": "Piketty's response[54] noted, however, that Góes used measures of income inequality rather than wealth
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by jahaja 6y ago
Your war of attrition style of argumentation isn't that impressive. The amount of time I would need to spend to counter your links is like 10x of the time you spend producing it - which is pretty obvious given how prolific you've
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by jahaja 6y ago
Some quotes are really timeless and applicable to many contexts, in this case the first part (pulling out the knife a bit) could be about the progressive center-right and the latter part (denying that it exists all together) is more of the
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by jahaja 6y ago
To nuance this once again by Jason Hickel: "If we use $7.40 per day, we see a decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but it’s not nearly as dramatic as your rosy narrative would have it. In 1981 a staggering 71% lived i
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by jahaja 6y ago
Your habit of "you haven't read", "you put words in my mouth" without substantiating either of them is pretty annoying. If you perpetuate, support, or defend a system that knowingly creates an unequal outcome depend
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by jahaja 6y ago
> Yes, this is true. So what happened to the "it's actually just biological" argument? > how extending the leave of someone who is already on one is much easier than setting up two leave-of-absences So your argument rel
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by jahaja 6y ago
The main reasons for the lack of minimum wage laws are because of a high degree of unionization and the widespread use of collective bargaining agreements.
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by jahaja 6y ago
You have implied that: > Any "disadvantage" occurs naturally as a result of loss in real usefulness (for a time) when it comes to employment. Now, you want to compensate for that natural loss in productivity by mandating that m
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by jahaja 6y ago
What are you even talking about? 1. I didn't write EU, I wrote Northern-European countries. 2. While true, it isn't a fact supporting your point. The main reasons for the lack of minimum wage laws are because of high degree of uni
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by jahaja 6y ago
What's your point? We already know that high labour costs (as in a liveable wage even for so called simple jobs) doesn't necessarily cause high unemployment. Northern-European countries have proven it for ~70 years.
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What a dishonest comment. I'm very sure that you know why that is not needed in Sweden and Norway but you just manipulatively skip that part.
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by jahaja 6y ago
I realise that you're now being deliberately obtuse but still; what is parental leave if not child-rearing? The biological part is a couple of weeks, child-rearing that parental leave is a part of is for at least 12 months until daycar
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by jahaja 6y ago
For this to be true - that higher labour costs keeps people out of jobs - one must ignore the last ~70 years of Northern-European labour market.
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"People will lose their jobs!" This has been said about every increase in worker benefits ever. Luckily things still work out.
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It's artificial due to society treating child rearing as womens work. That's a social construct. In Scandinavia it's seen as an event handled by _both_ parents, equally. So both parents are expected to be just as absent from
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by jahaja 6y ago
Yet again, there's nothing biological that mandates that women should be disadvantaged due to having children. It's artificial and modern Scandinavia proves it.
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All those non-racists that were not supporting the civil rights movement.
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> Paternal leave is a privilege, not a right. So what? > Not doing everything you possibly can to make everyone equal when it comes to sex is not sexism. If something inherent in our society - having children - causes one gender to ha
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by jahaja 6y ago
There's nothing biological in denying fathers parental leave even if the mother takes the first months of it. And it is sexism to ignore the effects to womens careers if this is not shared.
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What's your point? You said: > It's more economically efficient [..] to extend that person's leave than to arrange for two separate leaves This isn't about what's economically efficient, it's about what cert
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by jahaja 6y ago
Fair enough. My point is that for people in the US (and countries with similar regulations) they seem to assume that parental leave is something that must be done directly connected to the birth of the child, and when that's up there&#
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Why can't you use the remaining amount of time at a later date?
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Not sure why you're mixing things up so much. In Sweden both parents get two weeks leave from the birth of the child which is separate from the parental leave. Then usually the father go backs to work and let the mother take the first
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by jahaja 6y ago
Why do you think this is about economical efficiency?
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As a Swede the replies you get to this reasonable comment is like being sent back to the ~1970. The only thing that's "biological" is that women usually take the first months of parental leave and the father the second (and s
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by jahaja 6y ago
So there must be something about the cold making Swedish fathers take so much more parental leave?
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Since it's normal, companies adapt and it isn't really an issue at all. I've never seen anyone in my jobs (IT) that have been "replaced" in any way shape or form.
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I wasn't?
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Sure, but now it's at a level where arbitrarily banning Chinese products barely meet resistence from the opposition and media.
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This whole shift to China as the new "enemy" is fascinating. Even though Trump is more or less mental, and is recognised as such, he has somehow managed to whip up this new cold war frenzy even among his opponents in the media. I

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