musage

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   by musage 9y ago

   What makes the GDP "better" than any other "objective" measurement then? Why not take number of citizens multiplied with how many corners their furniture has in total? There is no easy metric for societal goodness, lik
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   by musage 9y ago

   Capitalism only works in optimizing those things it measures in the first place. Progress of society does not even enter into it, at all. If 300 million people had nothing and screamed in pain all day, and one person had it it all and mul
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   by musage 9y ago

   Since that was a rephrasing of Schmidt's > If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. let's apply your "rebuttal" to that then, too: He mean
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   by musage 9y ago

   > Every news agency's owners and advertisers influence what they publish. That answers whether they think it's ethical. However, they weren't asked.
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   by musage 9y ago

   Not inherently, except when it just destroys information. Let's say a couch is really light but made from good material, and has a design and colors I find very pretty, and it comes at a fair price, too. I might just call it "awes