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by ookdatnog 9y ago
The economy of a nation produces a certain amount of wealth, and that wealth needs to be distributed in a way that is as efficient and fair as possible (for some notion of fair). Capitalism attempts to distribute the wealth produced by the
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I like the free market and I think letting the free market do its thing is a good default solution to a wide range of problems. I don't have faith that the free market will solve any problem well if we just wait long enough though. N
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I don't think that's accurate. Microsoft has a role in the development and maintenance of Haskell because they currently employ Simon P. Jones, one of the big driving forces behind Haskell, as a researcher. However, new versions o
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Indefinitely? So if the police digs up an old encrypted disc from your attic, and you legitimately forgot the password, you can be put away for the rest of your life?
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The hardest problem of our time is the seemingly unstoppable rise in inequality, and I think the painful truth is that no one has workable solutions to this problem. The establishment probably understands the problem but has no solutions, s
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> Yes, we do want to preserve the culture - not white culture but American culture. I respect that that's how you think about it, and maybe that's even how Trump thinks about it; but I don't think you can credibly make suc
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I won't respond to the specific example of the coal industry; I'm not advocating for keeping the coal industry alive artificially. My claim is that it's not always bad policy to do so. So in a more general sense, why not simp
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I fully agree. There are many factors involved in this decision: how many jobs are at stake? how beneficial is the technology we're holding back for the population at large? how environmentally damaging is the old industry? how many ne
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I don't think it's by default bad if the government artificially keeps a dying sector alive for a while to soften the blow to the families who depend on that sector for income. If government intervention can prevent a lot of peopl
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The public at large will never be swayed to use less convenient alternatives for ethical reasons. But even so, if a small, dedicated group of people are convinced, they can keep the ethical alternative just alive enough that it remains a so
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> So if we have to do something bad to ensure a steady supply of oil at a reasonable price, sure. I can accept that. aka robbing from the poor and giving to the rich
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He may very well be vain (I haven't really picked that up myself, but I heard several people independently form that opinion, so that's plausible), but I don't think that's mutually exclusive with pure intentions.
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> Perhaps we think that we are standing up for those ideals? Perhaps we believe that the Constitution actually does set up a government and grant it certain powers, and that it's perfectly constitutional for that government to use t
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If I recall correctly, Snowden didn't even have concrete plans to escape from Hong Kong after revealing his identity. Wikileaks sent someone to get him to Russia. He just assumed he'd get caught. If this is true, I find your theor
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I'm sure we can all appreciate how hard it can be to diagnose an issue in a piece of modern technology like a car or a piece of software. A doctor's job is diagnosing (often very vaguely described) problems in a living body, a str
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I agree that altrustic acts are prompted by the expected emotional reward that is built into us. In that sense, altruism is selfish. I disagree that this idea of "selfish altruism" means that altruism is not to be respected, that