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by minikites 5y ago
>Many Americans believe they are happy and yet are spiritually devoid. They know deep down that the reward they're getting for their effort is break-even most of the time. The more aware can see this reflected as stagnant wages. Exa
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by minikites 5y ago
>trust in establishment institutions are at record lows Yes, because one political party in particular has spent 40+ years working very hard to destroy trust in public institutions (you only mentioned private companies, but it's tru
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by minikites 5y ago
I think this is a well informed take on the issue, unlike so many of the other negative comments here that inadvertently prove the need for media literacy classes.
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by minikites 5y ago
How much bias is already being created by the status quo curriculum? Are you positive this change would make the situation worse?
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by minikites 5y ago
I'm surprised to see such negative reactions to this effort. Information and media literacy is sorely lacking in the present day USA and we could be doing much more to educate future generations on topics like this to help them make se
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by minikites 5y ago
>Pretty sure quality of life is up by pretty much every measure for "low wage workers" both locally and globally. Wages are stagnant and certainly haven't kept pace with productivity. They can buy more TVs because electron
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by minikites 5y ago
>progress to benefit the vast majority of us who do make it So what level of sacrifice should be required of those that don't make it? Going back to the AIDS example, government involvement was delayed because of bigotry, because it
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by minikites 5y ago
>And yet in reality, somehow the world moved towards a much better place despite those things. It's not "somehow", you're glossing over the very real losses and very avoidable tragedies (fed by bigotry and fear) that
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by minikites 5y ago
>I do think living with such a negativity bias is very disempowering - and not to mention not fun. I don't mean to be stupid and blindly optimistic (I manage risk for a living among other things) but like I said, living with certain
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by minikites 5y ago
>Sure, it's possible that THIS is the high point and it'll all go down-hill from here, but that's like being a broken clock - if you think every thing will kill you, you will eventually be right. It's not about presen
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by minikites 5y ago
Our society is not structured in a way to value or measure this, our society is optimized for wealth generation and extraction. If a human activity can't be bought or sold, we don't value or measure it. For example, stay-at-home p
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by minikites 5y ago
That's not the typical framing I see, it's usually "government regulations strangling private sector innovation" with the implication that there are no benefits.
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by minikites 5y ago
>(barring regulation that forces compromises to product efficacy) Can you really not think of any benefits of regulation to correct for pervasive market failures?
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by minikites 5y ago
So we should involve no humans at all? I think many people are clamoring for something instead of the status quo of nothing.
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by minikites 5y ago
There are plenty of arguments and issues with the politics and moderation of Facebook, but TikTok is more simple than Facebook, and it appeals at that level in the same way Instagram does.
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by minikites 5y ago
>If employers can change compensation at will without employee consent then the employee agreement is truly meaningless and simply a tool for the employer to wield against the employee. Welcome to the last 40+ years of corporate economic
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by minikites 5y ago
Finding cheaper labor elsewhere further concentrates wealth. The only way to spread out the wealth would be to mandate the same salary across regions.
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by minikites 5y ago
Good point. I remember a science demonstration where lighting a balloon filled with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen caused a much more violent eruption compared to a balloon of pure hydrogen.
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by minikites 5y ago
>the next Bezos/Musk via climate change technology We have the technology and expertise now, we just choose not to use it.
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by minikites 5y ago
>If you create a large pile of government giveaway money but keep energy cheap Why would we keep energy cheap? The economics of that also needs to change. I agree that we should also raise carbon-intensive energy prices, and do our best
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by minikites 5y ago
>Of course you can, to varying degrees. The farther from cities and the more resourceful you are, the more separate you can get. Separating yourself physically from other people doesn't make you any less of a member of society, you&
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by minikites 5y ago
>In many cases, people are not willing to do the theoretically/physically best/most energy efficient solution because it’s much, much cheaper to not. This is why we need to change the economics of the situation. If we raise tax
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by minikites 5y ago
>1/3 of emissions come China which has an autocratic leadership accountable neither to its people or the global community. China is doing proportionally more to combat climate change than we are. >70% of emissions come from energ
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by minikites 5y ago
We gave up on the space program after Challenger. We gave up on nuclear power after Chernobyl. We decided that we couldn't solve big problems as a society. Instead, we put that effort into generating wealth for a privileged few, priori
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by minikites 5y ago
>And most of the time, when something does blow up, there wasn’t a clear or unambiguous difference between the thing that blew up, and all the things everyone was screaming about that did not. History is not a linear function of progress
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by minikites 5y ago
Cephalopods are quite intelligent too, there's plenty of intelligence in non-mammals.
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by minikites 5y ago
>Compulsory getting a government-sanctioned liquid into my body is a completely different topic. "My body my choice" exactly. My part of space-time. But you can't "choose" to be separate from society, that's
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by minikites 5y ago
I think it's reasonable to place more of the blame on people who choose not to help (refusing the vaccine) instead of the people who don't have the means to help (unable to get a vaccine).
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by minikites 5y ago
>if we let the virus spread unchecked in the poorer countries It's spreading unchecked now in the USA because people are refusing the vaccine. The scenario you describe is absolutely going to happen, but it won't be because of
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by minikites 5y ago
It's clear that a large portion of the USA will never get vaccinated, so we should be sending our vaccines to people who want them instead of letting them go to waste here.

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