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by kodyo 4y ago
Would you rather have enough health care capacity, or be called a racist by the corporate media? Tough choice if you're an oligarch.
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by kodyo 4y ago
It's getting airtime here, but there's a lot of tiptoeing around the topic of the last three years of radical interventionism.
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by kodyo 4y ago
The nonsense words that people have to invent to explain socialism are extraordinary.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Yep! You're describing trade-offs. There are consequences for making decisions in any direction, and the oligarchy that dominates a particular geographic area gets to decide which values to prioritize. It's anarchy on an internati
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by kodyo 4y ago
The last thing a bureaucracy built to solve a problem wants to do is solve the problem.
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by kodyo 4y ago
It's certainly not the fault of libertarians that none of that is happening now, and we have huge governments.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Sort of like jurisdictions in America that have legalized marijuana or declare themselves sanctuary cities in direct opposition to federal law.
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by kodyo 4y ago
I built a fence around my yard a few years ago and got more satisfaction out of looking at that physical manifestation of work every day than I was getting from my day job. Fence builders probably feel good when they do something outside of
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by kodyo 4y ago
It's none of my business when rich people waste their money. It is my business when the robbers and murderers in the government waste my money on my behalf.
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by kodyo 4y ago
You seem risk-averse, and that’s OK. But you aren’t in any position to tell other people what level of risk or action to take to maintain or improve their lives. People are free to choose and they take on the consequences of their choices,
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by kodyo 4y ago
I would have to lose 30 years of work experience, all of the skills I've learned, and my professional network. I might have done it when I was younger and didn't have any of that, but that kind of work didn't really exist bey
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by kodyo 4y ago
Comments like this are why I don't believe in democracy anymore.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Nobody's forcing anybody to deliver your teriyaki. You're paying a premium so you don't have to leave the house. Someone's freely choosing to earn some money to provide your premium service. They've decided that del
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by kodyo 4y ago
The lack of motivation isn't healthy, either.
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by kodyo 4y ago
One thing you notice if you've been in an airplane is that there's a lot of room to spread out if people want to.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Nobody was going to build these roads until the government came along. Checkmate, Libertarians.
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by kodyo 4y ago
I wish I’d had kids earlier, even if it would have been harder financially. I love these new people.
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by kodyo 4y ago
That's not true, at least not everywhere. My property taxes always go up when my property values are adjusted upwards.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Homeless encampments.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Or because he's popularized their area of expertise in ways none of them could ever do themselves. More kids will go into archaeology because of Graham Hancock than because of anything Zahi Hawass ever said.
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by kodyo 4y ago
And thirty years ago he was called a crank for suggesting what scientists acknowledge to be true now: That civilization is older than we thought.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Who else should interested people be reading who are attempting to popularize this topic?
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by kodyo 4y ago
Do academics feel like it's important to bring the normies up to speed on what they know or don't know? It seems like a good opportunity for an enterprising establishment figure to step up and explain why the Hancock idea is wrong
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by kodyo 4y ago
That's a lie that sounds smart.
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by kodyo 4y ago
He didn't claim that it was a single lost civilization that built the structures.
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by kodyo 4y ago
I'm talking about the establishment experts. They seem fantastically insecure and envious.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Are people disallowed from speculating on what's happening until somebody in academia gets grant money to research it?
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by kodyo 4y ago
OK, well, attacking the fringiest speculations doesn't do the establishment any favors. The nut of the whole thing seems to be that humans were doing sophisticated things about 8000 years earlier than academia were telling us even 10 y
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by kodyo 4y ago
What part was batshit? I mean, the evidence has only been moving toward Hancock’s theories over the last 30 years, not away from it.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Experts are fragile.

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