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by mikem170 5y ago
Our society used to have places for these people, like farmhand jobs, cheap poor houses in the city, etc. Perhaps it is a failure on our part that we have now have nothing better for these people then a desire to push them out of sight. It
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But the first source you quoted, the Atlantic article [0], quotes Graeber describing economies which don't depend on money or barter: > Communities of Iroquois Native Americans, for instance, stockpiled their goods in longhouses. Fe
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by mikem170 5y ago
The source I quoted agrees, saying favors, not barter. People did something before money was invented, right? Parent's raised kids, kids helped parent's when they were older, families banded together, items were traded between vil
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Not exactly the same. Money changed a lot of things, much more than just an accounting tool. The use of money drastically changed the scale in which goods and services could be traded. Before money people kept track of who owed who a favor
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Before money people traded favors. You help me butcher my cow, I help you rebuild your house (which was more work then the cow), so maybe later on your brother helps fix my plow knowing he'll eventually get something in return, and now
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I'm going to ramble a bit, interesting conversation... > Bottom up democracy is one thing, but if people can opt-out of the results of that democratic process then things can fall apart, and an inability to opt out goes against anar
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I don't think that I understand what you are saying. In my comment I meant to say that keeping software out of the wrong hands was ultimately not possible, and thought it would be better the give people more secure and more private mea
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That's true, there's a lot of exposure on the typical iPhone or Android device, lots of installed apps, lots of collected metadata. I was kind of picturing people en-masse becoming upset with this stuff, and having real/bette
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In defence of the quote, it did mention trading essential liberty for a little security. Implying a bad trade. I agree with what you say about these decisions being made as a society, and there being disagreements. I would like to point
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> You cannot have it both ways, if you're going to sell the software to awful regimes who target people like journalists, you're responsible for the outcomes. It's going to be hard to keep software out of the wrong hands.
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And that doesn't appear to include the spending of state, county, and municipal governments...
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Doesn't the church teach that we are all born sinners (original sin), meaning that nobody is perfect, but that one can confess their sins, repent, and be forgiven? Doesn't that apply to priests, also? Or do they loose their priest
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I understand. That's how it works in practice. But catholics have confession, they teach that as long as you believe and are repentant all is forgiven. Perhaps that doesn't apply to priests.
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Not all religions demand the same adherence to dogma as Catholics do. Some more, some less. This also varies across political movements, professors and celebrities in difference countries, etc.
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Maybe growing older and wiser played a part? I've seen some of my friends transform attitudes like that significantly as the years go by, weed never being involved.
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That makes sense. But it also makes sense that someone else might look at that same person you know and think to themselves "look at them, doing their own thing, they must think they are special, how arrogant!" Guessing what'
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The original paper [0] the article you quoted is based on doesn't say that the vaccine is better than natural immunity, just that it is different: > Therefore, antibody immunity acquired by natural infection or different modes of va
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On Intuit's privacy statement page [0] there is a "How We Share Your Information" section which contains the following paragraphs (amongst others): > When you connect with an Intuit Platform partner. You may be provided wi
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> Complaining about people who do follow such rules to make money is misplacing your ire. I'm not sure if I understand what you are saying. Am I not supposed to point out that the politicians who are supposed to represent the people
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> Investments flow to the most productive use of the money. Also investments propped up by regulatory capture (like zoning, which limits the supply of housing) and corporate buyouts (eliminating the competition) don't seem to be the
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Historically corporations were given a license to operate by the state, and limited liability conditional on their serving a public good. Some people currently seem to have the attitude that a corporation can be protected by the state but n
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> American should rightfully be terrified of being bankrupted by medical bills FYI: Retirement accounts are protected from medical bills in many states, even without filing bankruptcy. This varies, and the amount protected, by state. The
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> the variants are actually getting better at spreading but not killing I've heard that this is not unexpected, that it's to a viruses advantage to not kill people. That would jive with the fact that the several already endemic
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I wonder if there's any data on this from countries that did a lot of contact tracing. On the one hand, I thought it strange a year ago when some authorities based policy on the assumption that kids didn't spread it. On the other
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> The real question in my mind is the prevalence of Long COVID and other longer lasting changes. Are there any numbers on long covid in children? I would assume that those numbers are probably pretty low, also. I agree with you that covi
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David Graeber talked about stuff like this sometimes. His book Bullshit Jobs [0] is one place. He talks about the history of work in the U.S. (going back to medieval guilds, puritans, industrial revolution, consumerism, etc), amongst other
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> Just because some other variant was found to be dominant elsewhere a later point in time does not appear to suggest anything contradictory to me. That's the thing, the early variants Forster identified could have migrated in eithe
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I didn't like the beginning of that article either. I ran with it at that moment because it can take a while to dig up references and I really liked the DNA-level explanations in that one, which I've been following as much as I ca
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I agree that it is tough that there are so many unfiltered voices on this. I've been giving the most weight to dna-based evidence, and explanations from virologists, and critiques from other virologists. It is understandable that other
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So how come you didn't reply to the original parent's statement that: > Some people think it's relevant that a new coronavirus emerged next door to a lab working on new coronaviruses There's no definitive proof of thi

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