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The Labor movement. Social democratic policies enacted out of a fear of communism.
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Gab has certainly carved out a niche for some of the worst speech on the internet, including at the very least the announcement of terrorist activity (see Tree of Life, New Zealand massacres) if not the wholesale coordination of it. I don&#
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This is such a weird argument to me. The vast, vast majority of historical figures do not show up on currency or monuments. That doesn't mean they've been "erased" from history, it just means we don't celebrate and
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I'm sorry, I hope my comment didn't come across as flippant about how the majority of churches treat women, LGBTQ+ people, and others. I'm pretty firmly in the unbeliever category myself and left out of disgust with all the e
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I grew up very conservative and very evangelical and left as an adult because I couldn't honestly hold the basic beliefs in an honest way. I was also really angry about a bunch of things: the prevalence of narcissism among preachers, a
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This. The level of discourse in mainstream news is gobsmacking in its simplicity. This recent "capitalism v socialism" debate revolves around a limited set of widely accepted aphorisms, happily tossed back and forth like handfuls
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Are you sure about that?
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The underlying assumption in all of this is that quality education should remain scarce, in which case it must be doled out based on broadly applicable metrics that end up being arbitrary in practice. If education and opportunity were abund
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It all hinges on what you mean by "success." Is it profitability + growth? Burning through employees like jet fuel can work pretty well. If you want a humane answer, you might have to reframe the question.
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Genuine question: is there a clean, higher-level abstraction at which a ban like this could be implemented?
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In the UK, the definition of a monopoly is >25% market share.
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Social media. Search.
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I've always been curious if a variation on a the cooperative model might work. I'm imagining something like a "stakeholder-owned media cooperative" where producers (journalists, editors, etc) would share some kind of own
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These do not have to be mutually exclusive accounts. There does not have to be a secret cabal of shadowy deep state operatives pushing a unified message, there just needs to be a propensity for the rich and well-connected (by definition a s
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The new rules are essentially 'be respectful' and "there's a time a place" and 'politely accept no as an answer' and 'no one owes you shit'. They aren't complicated rules. This should be
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I agree with the author's aims, but for the average person the difference between a hardware and software switch is likely immaterial. To the uninitiated, there's not a great reason to trust that Alexa's "mute" butt
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Chinese Workers Are Trying to Bake Fair Labor Practices into Software(motherboard.vice.com)
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Not sure where you're writing from, but there's some muddying of the term in the US. While libertarianism outside the US has roots in anarchist anti-authoritarianism, in the US, right-wing libertarianism has a bit of a reputation
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This smacks a little too much of "both-sidesism." The substantive difference between the two is that Warren will hire a cabinet of seasoned policy specialists who have the bandwidth to write accurate distinctions into law, while t
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Worth noting the author’s fellowship at the Manhattan Institute. This is essentially paid content from a very well-funded outfit with pretty clear ideological objectives.
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Is the "zero woo" disclaimer really necessary?
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I don't think this is embarrassing at all. After the initial purge, I couldn't believe how much it changed my purchasing habits. I now have a very simple rubric that prevents me from buying things I don't need. Tidying Up rea
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Cool idea! It also seems like these brands understand some kind of reckoning is coming and are trying to get out ahead of it. I'm not opposed to the idea of reusable containers, but this model seems to come with a lot of brand lock-in.
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Lots of factors, but I suspect at root it's just a matter of political will. Does a high enough proportion of all cities want bike bridges and do they have a responsive and resourced enough government to build them? I live in Boston, w
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This seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of the definition of profit.
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This is a good clarification to my shoddy wording. Thanks
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I think you have an idealized view market forces. Offshoring was a way to break the back of unions in the US by seeking out unorganized, cheap labor overseas. The power dynamic remains the same, the people who owned capital wanted more prof
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If you look at union membership rates, that's when they begin to falter. Countries with strong social democratic safety nets usually have high union membership (in the range of ~80%.) Working class power was built on militant labor mov
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As a millennial, the idea of paying your way through college on $3.05/hr is mind blowing
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> This is so stupid. A population will recover from this in a single generation, because the second you stop releasing sterile males, the remaining males (no matter how few) can repopulate the species. Or perhaps it's prudent and by

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