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by kartan 11y ago
This is another step towards "the citizens are evil companies and governments are good" philosophy. There is no moral nor economic reasons to go that way (btw is the other way around). Only greed and stupidity can explain the curr
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by kartan 11y ago
When the article talks about Piketty it says that he makes "sweeping neo-Marxist claims". While at the same time tries to justify Professor Goodhart bold statements telling us that he uses "large assumptions". Awful arti
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by kartan 11y ago
A [paywall] warning will have been polite. :(
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by kartan 11y ago
Because adding more engineers will make the development slower ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month ).
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by kartan 11y ago
> Someone's gonna do it anyways? You can apply this reasoning to justify for absolutely anything that you want to do. And it is false. > On a separate note, we should be free to pursue scientific and engineering knowledge without
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by kartan 11y ago
> To flip this around And that is to flip it a lot. The talk was about direct help to commit crimes against humanity. Your examples don't apply at all. I think that helping dictatorial regimes to commit crimes should be itself a cri
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by kartan 11y ago
I totally agree. Prudent governments don't allow banks to lend huge amounts of money to dubious states that are in a bubble. Prudent states don't ask poor people to pay private debt that was made public by corrupt governments. As
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by kartan 11y ago
Have you read the article before posting?