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by overton 6y ago
Authors like this frame the UBI/minimum wage debate as if we just haven't figured out the right policy mix to fix poverty or precarity -- as if it's a problem of ideas. I propose that it's in fact a question of power --
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by overton 6y ago
The lack of trust and community participation described in the article.
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by overton 6y ago
The framing of this piece itself is a symptom of the problem. Everything, including our social relationships apparently have to be "capital" that make us "productive." This amoral, economistic view of human life is wha
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by overton 6y ago
I wish Firefox would consider adopting some of Vivaldi's best UX improvements instead of fiddling with the size of the ultramegabar and dropping TV show promos into updates. Vertical tabs is the one that most comes to mind. For people
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by overton 6y ago
+1 for Pothos. They're pretty much impossible to mess up, and they're also easy to propagate from cuttings! So you can eventually turn one plant into many.
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by overton 6y ago
How about instead of fetishizing ascendance to the middle class we start building a society where working class people can live in dignity too?
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by overton 6y ago
The fact that Facebook can even make this kind of argument seriously in the public sphere is a sad commentary on the prevailing ideological environment. Everything ultimately has to come down to "economic cost" and "economic
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by overton 6y ago
I agree that all of those have much fewer obvious negative externalities, and do provide very useful services. But I can't help but think that work in general is a hostage situation for most workers: "sell your labour for less th
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by overton 6y ago
Here's another way to look at it. Is there any way to be really successful without being some kind of disingenuous sociopath or at least blithely unaware of the broader context of your success and the suffering it's built on? No,
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by overton 6y ago
He's right that exploitation isn't what distinguishes billionaires from other capitalists. There are many unsuccessful/less successful capitalists who nonetheless still exploit people. But it's impossible to become a b
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by overton 6y ago
You depend on: - millions of square kilometers of paved roads and parking garages - a long and complicated supply chain producing an difficult to maintain, expensive, and fast decaying machine which requires a non-renewable resource as fuel
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by overton 6y ago
As someone who is also on the border between "good mentally ill" and "bad mentally ill," this is a really accurate portrayal of what it's like. The feeling that you're holding it together now, just barely doin
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by overton 6y ago
> Instead of finding a singular solution to a problem we need to think about a system-wide solution, healthcare is a great example of this. There are many structural problems in healthcare and just like we did with Spotify, you need to g
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by overton 6y ago
Tech sucks for the same reason that Exxon buried their own climate science, or the tobacco industry hid their knowledge of polonium 210 in cigarettes. Capitalist corporations by and large have nothing but amoral contempt for their customer
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by overton 7y ago
People often make the nuclear war comparison but it's different. With nuclear war, we just have to hope that a couple hundred people are sane enough to not push the button. In comparison, with climate change, it seems like the vast m
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by overton 7y ago
I relate to this story personally. Wish you the best, and here are some resources that have helped me: - after many failed attempts doing CBT and mindfulness based therapy, doing psychodynamic psychotherapy with a therapist who takes relat
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by overton 8y ago
As others have said, maybe doing tricky CS-heavy coding puzzles and applying to the companies that screen for them is not the way to go. Lots of companies just need someone who knows their way around particular language and web framework.
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by overton 8y ago
+1 I'm pretty sure multiple rounds of CBT made my anxiety disorders worse. The approach attracts hyper-rationalist types who aren't willing to say anything other than "Your thinking patterns are wrong, you need to fix them.&
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by overton 8y ago
I'll fully get behind mat leave if it's taken as bonus paid vacation time that's available to everyone. Having a child is a choice, and a selfish one at that, the world being as overpopulated as it is. No problem with that.
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by overton 8y ago
Take from this what you will: If you don't have a serious mental illness, you can't even imagine the excruciating agony.
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by overton 8y ago
To the extent that it's difficult or impossible for the workers to get another job, the employer has buyer's market power (in the extreme, a monopsony). It's a well-recognized phenomenon in economics literature. https:&#x2F