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by keybored 8mo ago
> Can you accept that two parties can make an exchange that leaves them both better off? Yes. > If you can’t accept that, there’s no real point in any further discussion. There’s a lot of assumptions packed in to this statement. But y
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by keybored 8mo ago
The capitalist has more assets and commodities than just the labor commodities? So what?
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by keybored 8mo ago
> But then literally every trade between two people—trading four sheep for one cow, say—is exploitation in both directions. No. That could be a win-win. One might be a sheep farmer, the other a cattle/cow farmer. They both gain from
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by keybored 9mo ago
The reason why we are even talking about it is what they said: people with a lot, lot of resources can prey on people. What’s one individual against an industry of psychological research? But yet again we can’t do anything about it because
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by keybored 9mo ago
I think they are saying you should look at the employment relationship more generally and see that this holds across the board. It’s more like a woman breaking up with a man and someone else says “realize that all men are pigs”.
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by keybored 9mo ago
That employment is exploitation is evidenced by profits. Employment is a commodity. Any business expects to get more value out of a commodity. Not to break even. > If employment is violence, we should end it. But then almost everybody wo
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by keybored 9mo ago
> The difference is that a government can take personal liberty away from people in the most direct way. A private company can't decide to lock somebody away in prison or send them to death row. (Hopefully anyway.) So we put a highe
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by keybored 9mo ago
Building an article is easy now.
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by keybored 9mo ago
Rich people collude all the time. They buy political power with money. It’s so out in the open that I’m not going to post a whole diatribe on it. It’s news to me that what Adam Smith wrote about in that book was theoretical. Oh well.
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by keybored 9mo ago
> I'm of a similar mindset... pure/liquid democracy is literally rule by mob. Rule by people is literally rule by derogatory term for people? The “literally” seems to suggest that this is supposed to communicate more than a per
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by keybored 9mo ago
American tech bros come up with democratizing tech every five years. And then oops, now the tech has enslaved us or just made the tech bros rich at the expense of everyone else. Oops. The thing with “left wing” positions is that it depends
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by keybored 9mo ago
This is is the least senseful paragraph I’ve read this week.
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by keybored 9mo ago
> Before you get your pitchforks out.. I know it’s just modern writing style to preempt all responses. But can’t you just plainly state your business without professing your appreciation? People who waste other’s time with bullshit are a
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by keybored 9mo ago
It’s all so interesting! Have fun watching the car crash.
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by keybored 9mo ago
> The more I dive into this space the more I think that developers will still be in heavy demand—just operating in a different level of abstraction most of the time. We will need to know our CS fundamentals, experience will still matter,
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by keybored 9mo ago
There are many camps. Some programmers embrace the prompt, some use parts of it, some reject it on principle (a dying breed?), some think that non-developers are finally getting a go at it, some gloat that tech barons are making software en
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by keybored 9mo ago
> I think the larger issue is that programmers are feeling like we are losing control. At first we're like, I'll let it auto-complete but no more. Then it was, I'll let it scaffold a project but not more. Each step we are
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by keybored 9mo ago
It’s not theoretical.
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by keybored 9mo ago
It makes sense for someone who has read about D to pick up on Bright phrasing.
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by keybored 9mo ago
What I gather from your analysis and gleeful exclamation marks is that I should start rioting now rather than wait.
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by keybored 9mo ago
What is rich people collaborating called? You might claim that it is incompatible with capitalism but it’s just a fact of it. It’s easier for a small number of resourceful people (and capital gives them resources) to collaborate than for ma
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by keybored 9mo ago
More rich person organization is the anti-solution on the right. Regulation sits somewhere in the middle.
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by keybored 9mo ago
I will change my mind on this in the next month.
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by keybored 9mo ago
But I used to be a skeptic but now in the last month
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by keybored 9mo ago
“Use Rust as a compilation target” is a new bugbear now? Never even heard that suggestion before.
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by keybored 9mo ago
You know what I mean. People can find other things to do than work for a wage. I don’t get what your original objection is about when you yourself work even though you don’t have to. Some local volunteer organizations seem to only have peop
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by keybored 9mo ago
I meant like watch a movie.
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by keybored 9mo ago
You write a lot about AI. If this is in your free time why not just take a break? If you are ten times more productive, rest for at least twice as much. I don’t get it.
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by keybored 9mo ago
More AI Inevitablism Soothsaying.[1] > I shipped more code last quarter than any quarter in my career. I also felt more drained than any quarter in my career. These two facts are not unrelated. I’m gonna be generous (and try not to be pe
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by keybored 9mo ago
> Best wishes to you! I'm retired myself, but I work full time (on D). Why aren’t you smoking pot in your basement?

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