knuththetruth

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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>The act of painting is largely orthogonal to the act of persuading an oligarch that your painting is valuable. Which is more an indictment of the Capitalist system than anything else.
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They price match anything sold directly by Amazon and you can get some pretty good open box deals if you know what you want (e.g. people buy and immediately return MacBooks all the time)
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The problem with this logic is that things like insurance companies are making decisions that bankrupt and even kill people every day, for their own profit. That’s the reality of privatized healthcare. I empathize with the people who would
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Which only shows that opinion on these issues is malleable and not ideologically-fixed, as many would like to portray them. Understanding your constituency and being successfully persuasive is a fundamental part of any politics.
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>Labor disputes are handled through state and federal labor relations boards. ...which are toothless, especially in Republican-controlled states.
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59% of people support Medicare for All and 75% a public option. When phrased as "Medicare-for-some," support among GOP voters is 64%. It’s a corporate-controlled media narrative that these things are unpopular. http://w
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Laws designed to protect workers are pretty rarely enforced, or only through costly legal proceedings that most working class people can’t afford.
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>Blaming “the rich” when voting turnout is so low and election participation is low is a non starter for me. A big part of the Republican electoral strategy is disenfranchising working-class voters through any number of tactics, especial
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This is a strange take when the wealthy actively conspire through bought-and-sold politicians to discredit, undermine, and destroy labor organization, the only thing in history with a proven track record of winning concessions for workers(i
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There’s already tons of people on Medicare and Medicaid in red states and there hasn’t been an armed insurrection. I think that working class people in these regions wouldn’t be adverse to Medicare being expanded to include them. I’m sure t
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Or we could just have universal healthcare with government-set price controls, just like Japan does. The ultimate in price transparency. Everyone is healthier, lives longer, and it’s far cheaper.
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Citbank offers disposable credit card numbers for your account: https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...
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It would be great to have improved zoning, but switching to Japanese-style zoning in the US doesn’t solve the problem of US housing being an investment vehicle for Global Capital. In Japan, land itself keeps its (high) value, but still most
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I dunno about this specific issue, but the DSA are probably among the most active proponents for labor rights issues and could definitely connect you with other people working to combat this. I’d hit up the local chapter.
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>How did that naturally become the standard. It didn’t. People fought and died for this and many other protections, engaged in massive disruptions of their workplaces and society at large. If history and the developing world are at all e
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No it wouldn’t, you just also implement nation-wide, government-controlled price setting like they have in Japan, as well as debt-forgiveness for doctors. They have 120 million people and it is works fine. Cheaper, everyone is healthier and
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Perhaps the risk isn’t that technology will actually take over white collar jobs, but that managers will use minimally viable examples of technology to layoff massive numbers of people for short-term gains. Of course when the companies then
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It’s good to remember these kinds of corrupt disasters whenever someone says we can’t afford to pay for things like universal healthcare and free public universities in the US.
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>I simply can't understand how a city so socially minded accepts such a wealth gap. Because “social-mindedness” without at least some opposition to Capitalism is meaningless given the scale of problem that Capitalism creates when th
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Northrup Investigating White Supremacist Employee with Security Clearance
1 points by knuththetruth 8y ago|2 comments
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It’s not what’s so special about the American workforce, but what’s so special about American Capital. And the answer to that is that standing behind their demands is a massive, belligerent, military empire, with a long history of toppling
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Because by the 1970s, Capital was a fully globalized force whose political projects exceeded the power of individual nation state’s ability to resist them. Only transnational labor solidarity has comparable power, which is something that Ca
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The destruction of unions and other forms of organized labor. Without any strong, organized resistance to Capital owners, they were free to redirect more and more of the profits from productivity gains to themselves. The resulting disparity
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I would go so far as to say that only 1 in 10 people are really even prepared to acknowledge/grapple with the existence of sociopaths, let alone spot them. Most social systems/relationships are designed around levels of implicit t
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Animation Workers Set to Receive $170M Payout from Wage-Theft Lawsuit(cartoonbrew.com)
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Industrial agriculture, if not all meat consumption, following climate-change induced ecosystems collapse. Possibly also as a result of advancement of research into animal sentience.
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And perhaps the most important difference from the American economy: Housing is viewed as a disposable commodity, with an approximately 30 year shelf-life and depreciating value. Land in Japan does hold its value, but (at least post-bubble)
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Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Travel Ban(nytimes.com)
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If you’re not on mobile, it takes for me like 4 times as long to load a page. And there’s all kinds of dark UI patterns to prevent things like linking away from the site or even searching the site.
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Well, that explains it! Bought and paid for...

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