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by noelherrick 3y ago
Something I've been chewing on is legitimacy by process vs. outcome (means vs. end). We have far too long said if the means are done fairly (Musk bought Twitter legitimately, Zuck founded and unilaterally controls Facebook mostly legal
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by noelherrick 3y ago
"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich." - Anon. I first began to encounter this when I as an idealistic teenager looked into why poverty/hunger still existed when we had e
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by noelherrick 3y ago
If you really think that, then shouldn't you abolish economics? If a system doesn't value humans, and in fact in its history has proven it will turn babies into profit (lookin' at you Nestle), it's anti-human and as a hu
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by noelherrick 3y ago
Sales/VAT are regressive, so if by politics you mean "not hosing the already hosed (the poor)", and by most economists you mean folks from the Austrian school of economics, then sure.
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by noelherrick 4y ago
Google is profitable. They are not losing money, and they are in no danger of becoming unprofitable because of payroll. If we lived in world where folks measured things in a normal light, Google would not have frozen hiring, rescinded offer
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by noelherrick 4y ago
I find this comment strange since TFA talks about investment from the US government. I guess if by supply and demand, you mean the government demands clean energy and then the market supplies it, that could work, but this decade has been al
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by noelherrick 4y ago
We are talking past each other: I'm saying there are lots of ways that the wealthy avoid taxes, such as borrowing against equities for expenses ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/buy-borrow-die-how-rich-america... ). Tr
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by noelherrick 4y ago
The American Medical Association restricts med student slots. You could say it’s government but it’s regulatory capture rather than government regulation. Remove Citizen’s United, close the revolving door, and fund congressional research of
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by noelherrick 4y ago
Having a single payer healthcare system would increase taxes but could decrease overall costs by 50% (since US pays 2x what other equivalent countries pay). Beyond that, we have an issue where corporations and high-net worth individuals ar
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by noelherrick 4y ago
I chose my words carefully (though clearly not my spelling): - CEOs/wealthy folks are more likely to be psychopaths vs. the average population ( https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/the-science-behind-why-so-ma
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by noelherrick 4y ago
Pretty sure that was just racism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#United_States
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by noelherrick 4y ago
If in your city, cars are faster than public transportation, I would say that's most likely due to poor implementation of it. In my experience in NYC, London, Tokyo, Bangkok, even the Bay Area (TBF, haven't visited in years), metr
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by noelherrick 4y ago
If you've only traveled in the US, you think public transportation is for poor people. I haven't used all US metros, but even NYC is pretty shabby in comparison to London or Tokyo. Most folks probably also haven't lived in a
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by noelherrick 4y ago
The solution to this is known by everyone, including those who will fain ignorance. Implement universal healthcare (including mental health), regulate guns (insurance, registration, training, buybacks, red flag laws) including banning weapo
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by noelherrick 4y ago
While they will absolutely backstab each other given an opportunity (see the VCs who caused a bank run that primarily affected other VCs), they do seem pretty chummy. Davos is quite literally the summit of the elites.
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by noelherrick 4y ago
OP is clearly distressed and you replied with with what comes out as “it’s your fault and you deserve this.” It costs nothing to refrain from replying and only the smallest amount of effort to provide some solidarity with your fellow human.
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by noelherrick 4y ago
Mmm, SQL Server and, to a lesser extent, C# would like to have a word.
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by noelherrick 4y ago
Unions that are run like a business eventually become a business. Unions need to be democratically-controlled, where regular workers can propose new contract terms and vote on them, as well as voting to call a strike.
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by noelherrick 4y ago
Densely-quartered urban dwellers eating like sparsely-populated pastoralists is not sustainable. A theory behind the sanctification of cows in India is because a cow kept for its meat feeds far fewer people than one kept for its milk. The s
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by noelherrick 4y ago
This is an excellent point, and one that I hadn't thought of. I've seen dive computer failure but never erroneous readings.
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by noelherrick 4y ago
Dive computers don't keep you alive during the dive, they keep you alive afterwards :P But seriously, if a dive computer fails, you go off your buddy's computer or scrub the dive and go with a maximum surface interval. At worst, t
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by noelherrick 4y ago
So Americans were the tallest until McDonalds arrived? (est. 1940)
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by noelherrick 4y ago
No, that’s called state-controlled capitalism. Change board of directors to senators and you have all the same problems of free market capitalism. Industrial democracy, where workers own and control the company, backed by a robust welfare s
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by noelherrick 4y ago
Socialism would absolutely not require selfless people-it would simple require that workers control and own the companies they work in, and the knowledge that fixing other people’s problems makes everyone’s life better. Less theft, violence
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by noelherrick 4y ago
If a hospital were worked owned and controlled, they’re not gonna bribe their Tory buddies to shutdown public medical services because most people aren’t that ridiculously selfish and no one individual gets wealthy. And if it’s a private ho
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by noelherrick 4y ago
These types of analysis start out the basic proposition that systems are designed for a specific goal from the start and that we should judge them based on those goals. Our justice systems have emergent properties that have arisen after man
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by noelherrick 4y ago
The alternative for many is worse - many roommates, incredibly long commute, or homelessness. Remember that Googler who lived in his car? ( https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-tru... )
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by noelherrick 4y ago
Industrialization, constitutional democracy, science, regulation, and unions have raised standards of living for the majority of people. You forget history if you don't remember things like the Battle of Blair Mountain (first aerial bo
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by noelherrick 4y ago
My jaw literally dropped. I cannot believe this level of corruption. Goodness gracious.
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by noelherrick 4y ago
If you can, find a new job. No company that thinks this is a good way to measure employee performance is worth staying at. Find a company that understands deliverables and deadlines and not about panopticon surveillance.

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