los_angeles

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by los_angeles 8y ago
No one is celebrating child labor. But the question is how that compares to what these kids would be doing otherwise (ie, starving, dying of preventable disease, etc). If the overall trend is to bring prosperity and increased standards of l
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by los_angeles 8y ago
Yes there are all sorts of evils associated with capitalism, such as the concentration of wealth and environmental destruction we're seeing. The optimistic narrative that I adopt hopes/assumes that we'll somehow become more s
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by los_angeles 8y ago
It is a big claim. It's probably the biggest, most important claim of the millennium. And it is really, really good for hundreds of millions (maybe billions). These two are pretty good start points. [1] [2] In short, globalization co
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by los_angeles 8y ago
Yes, the consumer brand (HSBC in this one for example) is printed and advertised heavily on the money: https://www.leftovercurrency.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/...
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by los_angeles 8y ago
Actual quote from the source article, literally by Michael Scott: >Pure Flix films managing partner Michael Scott told AAP in Chiang Rai, “I see this as a major Hollywood film with A-list stars”.
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by los_angeles 8y ago
Basically buying stuff made in poor countries. This (more than literally anything else) has made a staggering improvement in the lives of hundreds of millions of people over the last few decades.
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by los_angeles 8y ago
So it was $3M paid for by a rich guy? Was he going to donate the money to charity if he didn't spend it on this?
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by los_angeles 8y ago
I read he died in a flash flood. Might not have been a mistake so much as an unexpected turn of events in a dangerous, dynamic environment.
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by los_angeles 8y ago
Well, sure, but the people having 8 kids in Sudan probably aren't checking the comments on HN for family planning advice. So they are probably (well, not probably)... they ARE going to have more kids whether you like it or not. The que
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by los_angeles 8y ago
But a lower percentage are in poverty every year.
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by los_angeles 8y ago
>Yet who shows up for the 3.1 million children who die of malnutrition every year? Bill Gates and tens of thousands of aid workers globally. The Chinese Communist Party and businessmen who outsource labor from the overfed first world to
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by los_angeles 8y ago
In Hong Kong paper money is designed and issued by private banks. Works fine.
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by los_angeles 8y ago
>>When they prize their own intelligence, they have false confidence about areas they have zero expertise in, purely because they feel they can figure it out. I wonder how this squares with the Dunning-Kruger effect. Are domain-stupid
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by los_angeles 8y ago
Which makes complete sense. He is the most powerful individual in a country of 300+ million people. If he needs a certain thing to keep him operating at peak efficiency and focus, he gets that thing. Period. Unless it violates national secu