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by kesselvon 5y ago
It's a distinction without a difference.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Companies lie to employees all the time; it's literally not illegal.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Doctors heavily rely on FDA to filter for effective drugs, they're not researchers with the skills to identify whether a drug has efficacy.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
What a terrible idea. Nobody has the knowledge base to make a real informed decision on the efficacy of a drug. Not filtering for effectiveness is to endorse fraud and blame it on consumers when it happens. The whole reason the FDA is set u
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Alcohol is normalized and regulated, doesn't stop teenagers from rebelling by getting drunk.
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by kesselvon 5y ago
U.S. divisions at this point run largely rural versus urban. Russia has the same thing - folks in Moscow live completely different lives than those in a backwoods provincial town. If anything, Russia and the U.S. are pretty similar in terms
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by kesselvon 5y ago
In most states it's illegal
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Switching to exams in person and more presentation-based exams is how you get around this. You can pay someone to write a paper, but its hard to then show mastery of that topic in a discussion with your professor. That would require profess
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by kesselvon 5y ago
The US and EU are the big end customers for Chinese goods - Western economies shipped off the pollution from manufacturing, so it's not as straightforward as "its China's fault"
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by kesselvon 5y ago
The second half of Count of Monte Cristo felt like some serious word count padding
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by kesselvon 5y ago
There are trades where you can make a small profit regularly, but on bad days you take huge losses. The huge losses outweigh all the potential profits by a large margin. Just like picking up pennies is a small gain while risking death to do
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by kesselvon 5y ago
That assumes you have the time to make up for bad market years like that. If you're retired and you see the market tank like that, its hard to fight the urge to not panic sell
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by kesselvon 5y ago
Why create an incentive to exploit teenagers for profit? Work is work, regardless of if the person being paid is 18 or 81. You're paying for output.
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by kesselvon 8y ago
Pretty sure that would be a conflict of interest
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by kesselvon 9y ago
I wouldn't say ridesharing. Young people are broke and they aren't going to buy new cars when a car payment is the equivalent of their student loans
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by kesselvon 9y ago
Roosevelt's reforms had a very clear undercurrent of 'its either this or a socialist revolution'
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by kesselvon 9y ago
Market economies are good at allocating resources, but they're also good at concentrating resources, which kills the market. And in some sectors, markets don't benefit the social fabric as a whole, hence why intervention into mark
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by kesselvon 9y ago
Single salary households existed because women were out of the labor force. Those slowly disappeared as the internal labor market grew, as you could get away with paying women less
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by kesselvon 9y ago
The workforce doesn't have to bend over, but there is an inequality in negotiations when the company threatens to ship the work to somewhere where they can pay workers a fraction, even if the quality will be shit. We don't exactly
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by kesselvon 9y ago
Turns taxi industry into a subsistence workforce. Uber drivers get screwed in the equation once you factor in all the costs and depreciation, then uber sucks up the profits and takes them out of local communities. The sharing/on-demand
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by kesselvon 9y ago
No one has ever shown that economies of scale exist in the taxi/ride-share industry.
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by kesselvon 9y ago
Sure, your uber ride is $7 dollars but the person driving that is getting screwed.
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by kesselvon 9y ago
Basically, except there's more risk involved and a shorter horizon
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by kesselvon 9y ago
"have the poor considered making more money?"
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by kesselvon 9y ago
flash market crashes.
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by kesselvon 9y ago
Trump isn't interested in actually fixing things, and I don't know what evidence has led you believe he is.
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by kesselvon 9y ago
Big 10 school I went to used out-of-state and foreign students (who paid 2-3x what in-state was) to finance finaid to less advantaged in-state students.
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by kesselvon 9y ago
first two parties to finish in the last election would be just as good
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by kesselvon 9y ago
what basis do they have to arrest you when the restaurant won't take your money?
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by kesselvon 9y ago
That's kind of implying a meritocracy actually exists.

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