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by obrero 11y ago
> existing cab drivers that will be seeking rents from the successful upstarts It's difficult for me to imagine how warped someone's thinking can get. The people doing the work are the cab drivers who have been driving in Seat
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by obrero 11y ago
A point made by Engels in Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State is that over the past 10000 years, the economic system has been completely upended several times. 10000 years ago hunter gatherers lived in primitive communism.
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by obrero 11y ago
Just read through Businessweek and the Wall Street Journal in 1999 and 2000. Like this article - http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_44/b3653163.htm . What were the people who control capital, who control employ
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by obrero 11y ago
> butchered to satiate their hatred towards the "elite" The elite are the people at the top. Being as this head was chopped off in Dr. Guillotin's invention at the behest of the people running his country, I'd say he
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by obrero 11y ago
Eleven hours ago a story was published ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10667986 ) about how native Hawaiians don't want what is supposed to be their culturally protected landmark mountain, Mauna Kea, handed over
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by obrero 11y ago
From 1887 on, foreigners have been stealing from the Hawaiians. Now they're trying to steal Mauna Kea, and with all that money in play, broke their own laws to issue a permit. Thankfully, the Hawaiians have succeeded and have stopped
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by obrero 11y ago
You're correct, if you look at founders from Gates to Blecharczyk, this is what you'll generally find. A few exceptions have been mentioned in the thread. It's something to bear in mind. I mean, of essays written and so for
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by obrero 11y ago
> "I'm just here for the money"...it's disheartening Yaa, how awful...because my landlord accepts a share of my company CEO's "vision", as does my grocer > Widespread cynicism will kill high-tech Wha
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by obrero 11y ago
Twenty years ago, there were hundreds of Internet Service Providers, and each large (and most medium) one gave access to Usenet discussions. Then with increased monopoly and commercialization, the ISP's shut down, and Verizon and AT&am
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by obrero 11y ago
The "permission of the foreign country" is the puppet dictatorship that the US put in to rule that country. A country which is named after the puppet dictators family. It was as clear an occupation as you can have. Obviously the
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by obrero 11y ago
During the Cold War Pravda said the US's military-industrial complex existed due to America's nascent imperialism. All mainstream talking heads, commentators etc. in the US said US military bases only ringed the world because of
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by obrero 11y ago
Western involvement in the middle east is an imperialist, colonialist action, at the behest of oil companies, military contractors and Zionists. The French have been bombing the Syrians for over a month - where were the mawkish "We ar
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by obrero 11y ago
All through the last month, the French have been bombing their "former" colony, Syria, continually. Last week reports were coming about the French bombs ( http://www.france24.com/en/20151109-france-syria-stri
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by obrero 11y ago
Is Assad a fanatic who can't be reasoned with? The Europeans and US are finally starting talks with his ministers. Over the past few years they've been trying to undermine his government. They're still trying to undermine
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by obrero 11y ago
Indiscriminate killing of civilians? Like when the French opened fire on crowds marching for Syrian independence in 1945 (like the French did in Algeria and elsewhere?) Like the French bomb and kill people on Greenpeace boats?
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by obrero 11y ago
The people of France elected a government which began bombing Syrians last year, I guess some Syrians thought turn about is fair play and decided to bomb some Frenchmen. The French should just throw in the towel on the imperialism game. I
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by obrero 11y ago
> you have people out there who are really honestly creating a lot of value, and then you have people like those guys who see a big pile of money and try to scheme up a way to skim a bunch off the top, making life harder for everyone wh
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by obrero 11y ago
Are you joking? The United States is dominated by the modern trusts. In 1911 Standard Oil was broken up. In 1999 the two major Standard Oil subsidiaries - Standard Oil of New York and Standard Oil of New Jersey merged once again, into Ex
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by obrero 11y ago
There are people who work, such as the young programmers in SoMa who work 50/60/70+ hour weeks pounding out code for startups, who after rent and such don't have much savings piling up in the bank, nor much of a social life.
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by obrero 11y ago
> The Japanese were still trying to barter with the Soviets, going so far as to offer Manchuria and southern Karafuto...The Soviets snubbed the emperor's request to send his special emissary, Fumimaro Konoe, to Moscow because Tokyo&
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by obrero 11y ago
>> to get productivity growing again, labour has to become more expensive. And the only way for labour to become more expensive is for there to be a genuinely global and militant labour movement > I don't even know what that
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by obrero 11y ago
> companies who want the benefits of being public - access to capital as they need it While traditionally this is the purpose of IPO's and secondary stock issuances, if you look at corporate financing in 2015, this has become such a
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by obrero 11y ago
You mean like when the US refuses to extradite terrorists who bombed commercial airplanes, killing 73 civilians? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10471965 ). US said no to two countries extraditing countries - the on
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by obrero 11y ago
> One of the key concepts for thinking like an economist One of the key concepts for thinking like an economist is following Marshall's lead and calling yourself an economist rather than someone studying political economy. The mome
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by obrero 11y ago
> attention given to the work of Thomas Piketty, with serious questions raised about the relationship between his data, his theory and the political stance which motivates his work. Yes, you see, there are ideologically-driven economists
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by obrero 11y ago
> Theres real threats out there In 1972 the threat was the Democrats being elected president, so workers on the president's re-election committee burglarized the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate hot
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by obrero 11y ago
He's being straightforward and honest, which you label "bullshit doublespeak". I have seen many demos and such where Steve Jobs and the like talk about how they want to make the best product possible for users and so forth.
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by obrero 11y ago
If you read the New York Times articles of 1917, 1918, 1919, they talk about how the Bolshevik government would be collapsing any day now...eventually it happened seventy years later - because leaders of the communist party decided to. When
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by obrero 11y ago
> terrorist organizations never use terrorism as a last resort and seldom seize opportunities to become productive nonviolent political parties If you look at Colombia, the Colombian establishment, and US government, have never respected
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by obrero 11y ago
> racist and nationalistic undertones whenever this is brought up. Why should Americans make more money than Indians for the same work? Your idea that Indians (or perhaps Chinese) should be the only ones coming in sounds a bit racist to

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