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by knuththetruth 8y ago
I’m not sure that Silicon Valley thinks politics don’t exist, so much as it’s that elites (VCs, big corporation CEOs) spend a lot of time/money defining for labor what is and is not political (e.g. their class position as labor relativ
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Whatever the case, as someone inside Google, I’d urge you to resist this effort like many of your colleagues did with Project Maven. Helping the Chinese government consolidate power by censoring information and silencing dissidents (among w
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That was a big part of it, but there were also several other coordinated, internal campaigns. Here’s a good account by one of the Googlers involved: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military...
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>The Korean War ended up benefitting South Korea in the sense that they didn’t up like North Korea This is an incorrect understanding of Korean history. US anti-communist policy played no small part in creating North Korea in the first p
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Whether or not people at Google have different opinions is largely irrelevant, unless they’re going to engage in coordinated labor action like they did with the drone program. Google, despite all its townhalls and Q&As, is not a democra
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There are cows now within an industrialized agricultural context that we know to be a significant contribution to climate change. Would bison in this context produce the same outcome? It’s hard to say, but the two circumstances of their exi
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Because for most of their history, they weren’t accompanied by the massive carbon and methane emissions of their human counterparts’ industrialization? Seems self-evident.
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They were feeding grazing animals, but without all the massive externalities associated with industrial agriculture, from antibiotic resistance to its impact on climate change. If you’re also of an ethical mindset similar to someone like Pe
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Oh, they’re entirely to blame and I’m just as angry as anyone for them furthering this broken system. But their choice of doing so was guided by right-wing ideology. The Democratic Party is a center-right party. You might not be able to sin
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...implementing a healthcare policy cooked up by conservative think tanks in the 1990s. The rest of the developed world shows that anything short of national healthcare system is an expensive mistake.
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Strong for whom? The tiny sliver of oligarchs who are vacuuming up all of the wealth? This seems like a pretty shitty outcome for everyone else.
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What percentage of countries are as wealthy as the United States, while at the same time having the majority of their population living at this level of tenuousness?
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Laughable, huh? >Files we obtained, mainly through the US Freedom of Information Act, show that between 1911 and 2017, more than 800 feature films received support from the US Government’s Department of Defence (DoD), a significantly hig
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Many of the “cultural exports” are, however, essentially propaganda to glorify the power and righteousness of the American empire. History has proven that this “soft power” approach to be incredibly effective. After all, we still study and
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>paying good wages and benefits to these people Absurdity of this proposal aside, most food service workers in these cafeterias are contractors who are not paid well and receive shitty, if any, benefits.
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Inside Google’s Shadow Workforce(bloomberg.com)
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They won’t open that remote office though because then the execs at these companies wouldn’t have teams that they “manage.” H1bs were a solution to the problem of having a cheaper, more locked down labor force without correspondingly making
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It will discredit nearly every H1b in industries (like tech) where workers switch jobs often and are more competitively compensated. That’s what the system is intended to curb.
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>Wrong. I specifically linked to data showing government healthcare spending, not private healthcare spending ...that they pay in the context of a privatized healthcare system, largely to cover the disabled, elderly, and chronically unwe
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The US spends a disproportionate amount on healthcare because its system is privatized. Healthcare is cheaper relative to the degree of nationalization, as your own data shows. Switzerland and Germany are closed to the American model (altho
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Giving in to China, U.S. Airlines Drop Taiwan (in Name at Least)(nytimes.com)
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You said: “Do you have any reason to believe that higher taxes and spending will lead to better outcomes, or higher net societal welfare?” ...And the historical example of Western European social democracies like France, Germany, and the Sc
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>Do you have any reason to believe that higher taxes and spending will lead to better outcomes, or higher net societal welfare? Not the parent, but how about all of Western Europe? As much as economics wants to tout itself as a science,
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Yeah, this is some Orwell-level doublespeak framing of the externalities of Capitalism. Since the logic of the system does not permit individuals to present the damage done to them in material terms that describe the reality of their own ex
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And a huge dollop of VC money to make sure everything still stays within the network of existing Capital Owners, no matter how “disruptive” these businesses position themselves as
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While this arguably might be true of some sectors (like the auto industry), the same cannot be said for unions like those of service workers, teachers, and those organized by the IWW. And this narrative of course absolves business interests
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>That extends to the leadership of the company. It seems structureless, or "democratic" organizations can only work if the will/resolve/capacity of the lowest common denominator is good enough, and there's a larg
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The Chapo Trap House guys make a 100k per month with their podcast. https://www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse
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The two things are not opposed to each other. The Fight for 15 movement has been successful in many places by explicitly invoking the true legacy of a “minimum wage,” socialized healthcare is more popular than ever under the banner of “Medi
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The wage suppression and funneling of profits back up to the executive level already demonstrates that companies aren't really interested in keeping or attracting talent. Large corporations have succeeded at crushing working-class unio

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