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by jlawson 8y ago
Canada had a pro-business conservative government up until a few years ago. I don't have the numbers to say if any inequality curve was flattened or not, but if something did happen it seems very unlikely it was a result of policy. Den
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I had the exact same thought but I didn't want to muddle my main point with it. The immediate alternative that came to my mind is trucking. I have a relative who pivoted from factory work into trucking and working with heavy machinery
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I'm pretty sure the images are scaled differently (note the sizes of the bones, which should be the same). The sedentary person isn't just sedentary, they look to be morbidly obese. That image is zoomed out, but the actual size of
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Your story seems to indicate that studying hard and focusing on the future are necessary but not sufficient conditions to enter the middle class. I think the formula is that you need all three: -Relatively consistent work ethic -Decent deci
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It is healthy to have a proportional sense of gratefulness for the good things you have. Even if someone else has more. When you live an easier life than 99% of humans, that's worth being grateful for. Interestingly given the context o
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Is be interested in specific examples of these 'several countries'.
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I thought it was because capital has been building up since WW2 without any giant destructive events to reduce it. Kind of like how things had been just before WW1. This is a central part of Piketty's case in Capital in the Twenty-Fir
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You can't work/belong to in most media companies, any major film/TV company, any major tech company, almost any university, many law societies and groups, many medical organizations. If you're discovered, you'll be
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I think it is worth looking for the rational (that is to say, non-moralistic) cause. The fact the gays are pressured to act straight across in nearly every society in such similar and intense ways indicates that there's likely a common
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Are there possible legal consequences to acknowledging such a report, though? Maybe it's not just psychological, but a CYA move.
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Not necessary. The economy isn't a zero-sum game. There is more wealth to go around now than in 1978.
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>they’ll probably be forced to steal to survive after release Given the welfare system and what I've seen of crime stats, my impression is that crimes that could be described as "stealing to survive" are nearly non-existen
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>What exactly is your point here? I thought it was obvious: Every individual organism in the natural ecological system, often has a strong incentive to screw over the others. This is inherent in a universe where there is a limited amount
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"there's hardly anything natural about a system where every individual is incentivized to screw over others." Watch a nature documentary some time. One with predators, or diseases, or parasites.
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The goal isn't just to have a "veggie burger bleed", it's to replicate the experience of eating meat. Perhaps they have failed so far (according to your taste test), but the goal is valid. If someone can find a way to ma
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And that they'll do things like spend their last penny to get the latest iPhone, or on buy $400 sneakers. Or if they inherit 50k, immediately go to Vegas and lose it all. These are all real examples I've known personally. The peop
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A monarch's subjects don't choose to become subjects and they typically can't leave. Workers can choose from many different employers, or become self employed.