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by marnett 8y ago
Financing wars has always been lucrative, and remains lucrative to this day.
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unfortunately most staff are incentivized enough by a continued salary. the managers could just flee and the lowly laborers would have no idea how to do what needs to be done.
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My comment was specifically pointing out that measuring inequality should not be based on how much one could potentially consume, but (obviously) the extreme power they derive from their wealth. GP did a good job at explaining how wealth ca
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You began by comparing Bill Gates to us as consumers, but ended comparing him to an institution, of which he is. His personal wealth is managed by a private investment company, and his impacts on the economy are matched only by others of eq
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brilliant perspective. thank you for sharing.
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Please discuss which points are biased and how so. Dismissing a long form, fact-specific write up on some of the positive impacts of Chinese investments in Africa as propaganda and adding nothing to the conversation seems to me as lazy-mans
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Perhaps he realizes that politically fail is impossible in the US? Not defending the guy, and I would much prefer HSR, but at this point acknowledging that automobiles rule and must be a part of the solution is worth trying.
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I said that We The People want to see something more meaningful. This would include political policy covering relatively standard democratic ideals: (to keep it extremely simple) health and education. I am aware our public dollars go toward
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Sure we can all acknowledge those are all deeply complex and intertwined facts about the U.S. and its military strategy and spending. Foreign policy, both diplomatic and militaristic, are also not democratic - I think some people just want
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it all depends on one's perspective. the US has done awful things to its citizens, they just aren't as amplified by our propaganda mills as the wrong doings of our political enemies.
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Ensuring that the poor and impoverished (those who go into service in the U.S.) rebrand their identity to 'patriotic troop' is a very crucial function of military training and propaganda.
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The US government could build out infrastructure if it desired. We did in the past and we could today. It doesn't meet the profit margins that the MIC can.
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The U.S. federal government used unchecked eminent domain power when building out interstate system infrastructure. So this is not really applicable.
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plenty were personally enriched. the personal financials checked out from all angles.
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remarkable last sentence. love the parallels.
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Financially it also means they have strict quotas on the required wealth of a specific portion of the incoming class, no? They must have a certain number of the incoming freshman class be from families making more than $150,000 a year in or
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Cockpit doors are also thicker steel now as well
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Well Coca Cola doesn’t make any money on Dasani or Smart Water if you slip on by!
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most shops and private facilities have motion activated video to reduce storage volumes. There is a massive variance in how good they are at actually turning on and recording given some movement. perhaps some city-owned CCTV cams are always
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this is hilarious. thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for sharing this. For those who haven't read and/or watched DFW in any capacity, you really should. His thoughts on modern western society are just so fascinating and multi-faceted. His perspective is one of great depres
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It's discriminatory against the poor, not the homeless
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I wrote a really long winded response about some of my favorite authors and their corresponding favorite books. Each tackle different cross-sections of thought. All of them have had an everlasting impact in how they completely eliminate my
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Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Dostoyevsky, Ursula Le Guin, David Foster Wallace (I could truly go on forever, but I think these authors are phenomenal, with themes and meta-themes different from one another). I think if you watch an interview with D
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by marnett 8y ago
I'd say a deeper more complex and connected understanding of the world. Truly phenomenal authors were masters of framing so many things I thought of strictly in objective terms in a more subjective light. You begin to realize how the w
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Many would say globalized, unfettered capitalism.
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All of em
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This sentiment is as old as civilization
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That is so far from the point that joke was making. I recommend you listen again. Not only does he not "thumb his nose" at PTSD, he says if we used language that better communicates meaning, such as shell shock instead of 4 letter
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seems oddly convenient given all the free money drying up from fed rate hikes

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