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by jahaja 6y ago
> the decline in poverty over the last 30 years This isn't correct. The figures are not founded in reality. “Over the past decade, the UN, world leaders and pundits have promoted a self-congratulatory message of impending victory ov
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I think UBI is a pipe dream with the current power structures. A proper UBI that covers all basic living expenses - meaning that you could actually live a dignified life solely on the UBI - would radically shift the power balance from capit
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This is just one hop away from resolving into racism, but somehow this kind of bullshit is consistently allowed on HN.
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In Sweden you have to explicitly waive your right to a refund. Otherwise you can do it for 14 days.
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My point is not to broaden the definition of voluntary, but to emphasize that voluntary exchange itself has never been a crucial part of Capitalism. So both slavery and Imperialism can not be discarded from the incentive structure set up
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Yes and those are wrong as well. One can not try to peddle "non-voluntary" as something exclusively directly violently coerced and ignore all the in-direct aspects of coercion set up by the same system. This does not constitute a
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If so, it seems to me to be a perversion of solidarity to be loyal to blatant injustice.
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Loyalty rather.
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Same in Sweden with Postnord.
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> That's pretty much where we are today. What on earth makes you think that?
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What if the right brain is liberal and the left brain is democratic socialist? Certainly passes the uniformity test.
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Not combined with state vouchers and for-profit schools.
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> Meanwhile, in countries like Sweden, there is a lot of privatization in the rail and transit industry The important thing is that there's hardly any of a dozen privatized large sectors that have actually improved at all, there a
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Once again, the privatization to form "Postnord" has been an utter failure and is a source of constant ridicule here in Sweden due to its newfound unreliability.
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> Places like Sweden have school competition via vouchers This system is also unique in the world and the results since its institution have been woeful. Massive increase in segregation, inflation in grades, bankruptcies where the pupils
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I have zero idea what the point of your post is except calling my reply "Marxist" then linking to right-wing blog posts to prove something? It's still controversial even if you label the other side as Marxist.
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What I called ahistorical was the massive omission of how little changed in practice for the former slaves. In fact, it's important to establish how much the cost of labour even went up after all the manipulative methods to ensnare for
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That's outrageously ahistorical. The former slaves weren't suddenly "free" and unexploited in the US after the civil war. In many aspects they were still enslaved through various direct and indirect means. If you're
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Well, I certainly hope they are, but I doubt that they are as institutionalized as you seem to suggest. I also think that using "Marxism" for a democratic movement and ideas is done to intentionally associate them with the authori
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As I've said in another comment in this thread; each system is defined by the incentive structure it sets up. The Stalinist structure is set up to be ripe for corruption, abuse of power, etc. That is what it will be rightly remembered
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> On the other hand, capitalism can only really function in a world where all transactions are bilaterally voluntary That condition has not been true at any time in the history of Capitalism. Since that's only possible if the two
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I think your reply proves my point that it's not really about democracy at all. It's just about a fervent defense of the current undemocratic and unjust private property relations. What do you expect to find in constitutions writt
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Multiple time you omitted or avoided to respond to the obvious fact that what you call "Marxist" (which you use to evoke a negative red-scare emotion) is in fact Democratic Socialism - the attempt to extend democracy - not a S
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It doesn't matter if there's a historical precedent. Each system is defined by the incentives it sets up. The incentives set up by capitalism are clearly instrumental to the vast expansion of slavery.
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Identifying a problem and offering a solution is very different things. The latter might not fit the scope of the book. Another reason is that if one doesn't offer a comprehensive solution, but rather a shallow one, too many people wil
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> So I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with me about? That you're trying to spin a narrative where the US Republicans are not considerably more to the right than even the right-wing parties of Europe. AKK was even consi
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> There was then a sharp decline in her popularity following gaffes and electoral defeats for the Christian Democrats in several elections. As of February 2020, she is one of the least popular German politicians It's even on wikiped
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To determine where the US parties are through their manifestos seems flawed since they are so candidate-platform centric. > Now she’s polling at 45% in a head-to-head with Macron. This is still a bullshit cherry-picked figure. The villag
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You suddenly forget that there are successful examples in pretty much all of west-Europe?
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This i such a paperthin take on the Swedish housing market that I'm starting to assume that you're intentionally manipulative. I can even remember explaining this to you once. The government made sure that there was enough supply

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