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by marnett 9y ago
I think how the term is used is different, as you mention, in the US and UK. I'm trying to prevent Americans from assuming social class and income brackets are linked. Most Americans just assume, likely due to class brackets being used
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by marnett 9y ago
Social class PSA: Lower, middle, upper-middle, upper class, etc do not map (as much as news media tries) to income levels. Middle class does not identify a level of income. To identify income levels use quintiles instead. Middle class is a
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City ambulances don't service counties. If the county outside the city has less available ambulances but high demand then wait times go up.
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let me just call up the director of CIA and ask how frequently they use facial recognition technology to identify drone-strike targets in crowds. Institutions have a long life. All the data collected today, too, will have an extremely long
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by marnett 9y ago
As far as our success is concerned, I am aligned entirely with you. I think radical change is necessary to slow down the self-destructive capitalist machine that is the U.S. Unfortunately so many people have been influenced by McCarthyian p
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by marnett 9y ago
Can't tell if sarcastic or not..
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The financialization of commodities is exactly why everyone you listed is in the situation they are in. How does Bitcoin's financialization actually help anyone you listed?
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> Monopolies and cartels are also busted I think you mean 'were also busted.' Trust busting in America happened under Roosevelt, 110 years ago. The FTC does not actively prevent cartels or monopolies today. > They distort ma
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by marnett 9y ago
So they might have to go work for Goldman Sachs for a few years after graduating from Wharton, but that's not too big a burden in order to avoid bankruptcy.
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The mechanisms that affect newly minted, publicly exposed figures (celebrities, athletes, and lottery winners) is largely predatory investors and money managers. Predators are a lot more successful at taking advantage of poorly educated ath
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by marnett 9y ago
> Now we're finding that, with newer tools, we don't have to spend as many people in factories. actually, at least in the US, we found out that we could take massive amounts of manufacturing jobs and move it somewhere else, wit
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The Chicago School of Economics.
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capitalists, at least in America, were very effective at destroying unions (known as union busting) and pro-worker political movements starting back in the 1940s.
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what is the percentage of high net-worth individuals who earned their wealth vs. inherited it?
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21st century Japan is most certainly in "The West."
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Please, tell us all how you really feel about the poor. Do you think it's the curse of a bad mother when she is no-fault evicted and they live in the streets for a stint of time? sounds like you want the caste system and the untouchabl
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by marnett 9y ago
yes it is class and wealth. how could you even begin to think otherwise? do you truly think everyone who is rich is just 'smarter' than all other humans? if so, what particular mechanisms exist for some truly idiotic child born wi
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by marnett 9y ago
What? Reducing the influence of wealth in a country is not the same as 1) having the state own all property or 2) a state ran for workers There are numerous ways to reduce that influence without flipping the entirety of our capitalist econo
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by marnett 9y ago
Agreed. I was just add some clarification.
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The phrase human nature invokes thoughts of an unstoppable, universal force; a truism of homo sapiens. And perhaps if I was brought up within the appropriate environments, and with unparalleled amounts of power potential, I too would, in a
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by marnett 9y ago
I think the thought exercise from GP is to imagine what would have happened if he was in an ethnic minority as opposed to being caucasian.
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by marnett 9y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say this is 'human nature.' There were plenty of civilizations whose nature was very intertwined with nature. Perhaps more appropriate phrasing is western nature; and it was western nature that killed t
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by marnett 9y ago
I never quite thought I'd be linking this here, but in Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto[1] he wrote, amongst many other things (plenty certainly to be found controversial), that there exists an intrinsic need for humans to undergo a &#x2
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It was a settlement, there is no precedent.
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It is not non-sense or meaningless though, and thinking that is dangerous. It is corporate propaganda and it is outrageously effective at shaping thought both internally and externally (internally being, perhaps, the most important portion)
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I'm sure some could care less about Constitutional rights for those who are undocumented, but ICE most certainly is targeting activists for immigration reform, aka those protesting government policies.[1] "First they came for the
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You'd still want vulnerabilities on the device in order to have access to encrypted messaging. While this type of attack would not be used on all citizens, investigative journalist and activists would certainly be citizens of interest.
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I think you mean zk-SNARK
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And I agree that for your father, while it was a sacrifice, it was not a crises. However, it is more than a major inconvenience if one 1) does not own a car, 2) was born within the city of discussion, 3) has literally no free time or free c
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by marnett 9y ago
I have seen your comments on many threads here on HN. I just wanted to say I always come away more enlightened about difficulties and nuances of the housing crisis after each additional read. Thank you.

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