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by omonra 11y ago
I'll try to explain. People call it socialism because a starting salary of 70k is likely to be uneconomic. Ie the cost of the employee is set above their value to the company. This is done at the expense of other stakeholders (ie manag
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Yeah, yeah - stereotypes are all false. And twisted!
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The word nigger still has pretty heavy connotations in our society so I don't think it would be ok. As you said yourself - context matters. Likewise, I'm not aware of asians being discriminated in our modern day. That's reall
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by omonra 11y ago
I did not see it - but I read the Wiki article about his controversies. All of them appear to be no more than play on words, there is never any ill will or desire to humiliate anybody. The reason these particular jokes get noticed is becaus
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by omonra 11y ago
Thanks for the links. The more I read from this guy, the more I like him. It's sort of a fine balance - we can't have everybody on tv making fun of gypsies and mexicans. On the other hand it feels too sterile when nobody can say w
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by omonra 11y ago
I'm happy to see Amazon not give a toss about non-issues that keep SJWs up at night. Not that I watch the show or care for Clarkson.
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To be fair, Amazon doesn't appear to be making any money to dodge taxes on :)
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My guess is that it ultimately does boil down to either having a performance-based pay or equal pay. Ie I don't believe that tech companies pay gap is (mostly) a result of anything but differing contributions by the given individuals.
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by omonra 11y ago
They enter and remain the country illegally, thus they are illegal. Illegality stems from their physical presence in the country. If you don't like the laws that restrict who can come and work in your country, you are welcome to elect
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I think people tend to care about these things when one nation is subjugated by another, more powerful one, which tends to exert its dominance. Hence the 'weaker' nation feels deprived of its history when its proudest moments are
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by omonra 11y ago
Imagine if all the great Scottish scientists were referred to as 'the English'. That might piss some people off.
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I think it may be the preferred nomenclature in the Muslim world since all the people who were conquered are now Muslim - so they should have an easier time accepting the fact of being Islamicized as that's their culture now (whereas b
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by omonra 11y ago
Was anybody but Arabs involved in the conquest of the early 7th century? Ie I'm sure other people took on Islam afterwards but he was talking about a specific point in history. We don't call the Spanish conquest of the Americas a
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by omonra 11y ago
Yes and? To me that's a 'knowledge premium'. Garages expect men to be more knowledgeable about car repair and less likely to be intimidated about going for another quote. Likewise if I go to the market to buy veggies, a less
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by omonra 11y ago
This. I frequently try to explain this to my mother. She's had a major house rebuilding project over the course of last year, which caused frequent interactions with various builders / contractors. Whenever someone would try to bi
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by omonra 11y ago
And there are people who are born to rich parents - that's life. People differ in intelligence, looks, ambition - anything really. My point is that disparity in income (let's say in the same organization) is mostly to do with valu
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by omonra 11y ago
Sorry, this is nonsense. It's fair in a world where all people are equal. Since people are unequal this is the opposite of fair.
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I guess he leaves the good bits for the book :)
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Thanks. Re the Bernie Sanders quote, it's actually not true ( http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/apr/... ). For start it omits taxes and wealth transfers - and secondly it measure
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by omonra 11y ago
I find the article lacking. Author makes a bunch of controversial yet unsupported statements. Even if they're true (something he doesn't really bother proving), the logical links from one to the next are missing. Ie I can't e
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by omonra 11y ago
You say imperialist like it's a bad thing.
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by omonra 11y ago
Sure - I know a guy who retired from trading in mid 40s and is now a math teacher because he likes that. But if our society relied on people working because they chose to (as opposed to needed to) we probably wouldn't have one. That&#x
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by omonra 11y ago
What % of jobs do you think people would do even if they didn't need the money?
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by omonra 11y ago
I'm talking about things that led to the financial catastrophe: Low productivity Entitlement system Patronage system etc These may be nice things to have but they simply don't have the money to pay for them. The austerity they&#x
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by omonra 11y ago
I think you're talking about a topic different from what the article is about. Nobody is disputing the right of the Greek people to default. What's discussed is whether Greeks have a moral claim to demand debt repudiation. On a re
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by omonra 11y ago
I guess what Germany went though can be described as complete change of the system (similar to Russia post revolution). Greeks merely elected a different government while keeping the system intact. If they were taken over by the Troika who
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by omonra 11y ago
Did you even read the article?
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So the entire point of the article is that the price ratio of one coffee pod to the cost of the machine is much greater than the cost of printer cartridge to the printer itself? Hence consumers don't balk at paying for the consumable p
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by omonra 11y ago
You are describing the return to investors. But what stops the management of these hospitals from paying themselves extremely well (check out who are the top paid people in a random hospital) or spending money on other perks?
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by omonra 11y ago
I'm curious - why would Australians learn Mandarin (if not for exogenous reasons - such as family relations or business opportunities)?

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