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by mushbino 4y ago
Economics is mostly political economy. It's based on ideology more than anything moral or actually scientific. Neoliberalism has been the dominant theory since Keynesianism. It's been an abject failure, but nobody has come up with
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by mushbino 4y ago
Japan and S Korea are currently vassal states of the US. That's what you meant right?
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by mushbino 4y ago
You can hardly throw a rock without hitting an archeological site in Meso, central, or South America.
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by mushbino 4y ago
I've been there. It's a haul to get there, but it's basically like the parking lot of a permanent hippie music festival.
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by mushbino 4y ago
Some do, some don't. Some of my relatives still wear all of the dress, have most of the customs, and live very simple lives but drive cars and use electricity. Some look exactly like you or or I but still have a lot of the cultural val
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by mushbino 4y ago
This is why the revolving door exists. Do what we want and we'll give you a high paying job afterward. There are former congressman currently making $3 million a year as lobbyists as soon as they leave office.
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by mushbino 4y ago
This is what happens in a country overtaken by corporations, unlimited campaign contributions, and profit above all else.
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by mushbino 4y ago
Very true
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by mushbino 4y ago
Do we really need the same comment in every thread about SF? Everyone knows, everyone is well aware. It contributes nothing and nobody ever wants to talk about anything productive like solutions, just the same exact complaining.
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by mushbino 4y ago
Buying? The NSA has backdoors in nearly everything through PRISM and they directly monitor internet traffic. Zero chance congress would/could put a stop to that.
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by mushbino 4y ago
There are unfortunately many companies who lobby the government to keep prison population high because they depend on cheap/free prison labor. Over 4,100 companies profit off of prison labor in the US. That's a lot of incentive.
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by mushbino 4y ago
That's exactly why the Jim Crow laws came around making almost anything illegal (if you were black). They rounded people up and put them right back on chain gangs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
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by mushbino 4y ago
Some states such as Arkansas, Georgia, and Texas pay them nothing at all and additionally, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and South Carolina allowed unpaid labor for at least some jobs.
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by mushbino 4y ago
It is, which is why it's specifically classified as such in the constitution. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the Un
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by mushbino 4y ago
Would you talk to the cows about a solution of individual responsibility or would you talk to the rancher?
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by mushbino 4y ago
Crossing guards should be armed and trained to unload on any car they think might not stop fast enough. If cops can do it without repercussions, why not them?
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by mushbino 4y ago
45,000 Americans die every year due to lack of healthcare alone. We have the lowest life expectancy and highest infant mortality rate in the developed world. Our public education systems are some of the most underperforming in the developed
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by mushbino 4y ago
100 corporations account for 71% of all emissions. US military loan admits more than Portugal and Denmark. It's not the rich people, it's their businesses
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by mushbino 4y ago
I'd rather have a vaccine than just dumping chemicals everywhere. I mean, unless it's to kill ticks. Those need to be eradicated.
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by mushbino 4y ago
People talk about the 13th amendment ending slavery, but in reality it just codified it into the constitution. Jim Crow and then the prison industrial complex followed.
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by mushbino 4y ago
They put him under house arrest and Chevron appointed their own judge in the case. It was all kinds of messed. That's just how powerful oil companies are. I mean, there's no question they've polluted to a massive degree in th
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by mushbino 4y ago
I believe they mean it's a lot of money to the company, not the plaintiffs. $10B is a lot of money to any company. You should see what Chevron has been doing to Steven Donziger for winning the $9.5B case against them for massively poll
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by mushbino 4y ago
Considering how much money they have and the size of their very highly paid legal team, I'd say that says a lot.
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by mushbino 4y ago
This writing looks like the child of a million different high paid corporate attorneys.
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by mushbino 4y ago
I know a ton of people waiting for prices to drop, but so are investors, and hedge funds, which to me means they'll never go down.
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by mushbino 4y ago
I very much appreciate the tip, I'll check that out. Thank you! It's amazing how much time and work I've put into this and more info just keeps coming up. Crazy thing for people to navigate.
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by mushbino 4y ago
You have 60 days to file (in writing by mail, in my case) once you leave your previous job, I didn't have enough time between jobs to really need it, emergency happens + a few weeks of recovery time where I'm incapable of basicall
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by mushbino 4y ago
Longer story, but the timing of the emergency and recovery period fell within an ineligibility window for COBRA. My previous insurance company wouldn't have covered it anyway. It was the worst Blue Shield plan that I didn't even k
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by mushbino 4y ago
Yeah, I tried all of that. I'll spare you the details, but things just lined up in a way that made me ineligible for COBRA, but the insurance that I had at my previous employer was absolute trash and they wouldn't have covered a s
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by mushbino 4y ago
Not just if you have money. If you have a lot of money. The majority of the country is one major accident away from being completely wiped out. It's the number one cause of bankruptcy. I had an emergency this year within a very tiny in

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