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by knuththetruth 9y ago
I think the answer is obviously some kind of labor organization, akin to the various creative "guilds" that already dominate the entertainment industry. Everyone else who works in entertainment already figured out that the execs w
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For whatever reason, he was able to inspire and retain talented people. He probably was just as awful, but something else offset that, which Bruner demonstrably lacked.
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Notoriously criminal company killing pedestrians with robo-cars to make money for themselves != Space exploration by volunteer scientists and service members
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I read elsewhere that the UK is now planning to raid Cambridge Analytica office/servers in light of this report and that Facebook was also somehow in house with them?
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Yeah, same. Not sure if it’s the mods or what.
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>It reminds me in some ways of net neutrality: yes, fast lanes and slow lanes have real downsides. But there's vast capex required to build the infrastructure we need. How should that be paid for? Defending credit card fees by criti
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Let’s please honor the man and not link to her wretchedness. Steven Hawking hated Thatcher and regretted never having the chance to run over her toes[0] [0] “Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind,” page 91.
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Because to the kind of people who leap to the defense of businesses like Airbnb and slag off rent control, this is just an abstraction. They don’t know or care about the poor people who these policies helped, and think they’ll find some mea
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>I agree that perhaps we shouldn’t blow people up overseas, but at least while we are at it, why not make the best decisions to avoid killing the wrong people? I think you have to begin a little further back in the logic train than that
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/06/the-dar...
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Yes, because history. There are no historical examples where wealth was held by the few and social mobility increased broadly. Only when resources are more evenly distributed among social classes has that ever happened.
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>I'm arguing for the same thing you are. But income inequality isn't itself a problem if their is mobility between the income groups I'm not sure how you can't be arguing the same thing I am. The income inequality is
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No, I think I do. And so do a number of Silicon Valley "luminaries": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
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>And an increasing share of wages going to the top income brackets isn't in itself cause for concern, only if the members of the top income brackets are largely static does it matter (since it means income is going to a small group
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Good point!
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>But I don't think it's fair to blame capitalism in an environment where there's only a handful of entrenched players. This is literally the endpoint of Capitalism without regulation to prevent monopolies and a floor of pu
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I guess it depends on your definition of “most people.” I grew up poor and around poor people. No one thought wages were determined by supply and demand. It was always about what the boss could get away with.
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Supreme Court Ruling Means Immigrants Could Continue to Be Detained Indefinitely(npr.org)
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