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   by plntd 7y ago

   Imagine the employees with options worth millions a few months ago. Waiting for ipo and the wait period to cash out. Imagine the retirements, homes, vacations, goals, etc that people were dreaming of. Now all gone. It's must be like bu
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   by plntd 7y ago

   Economics has an identity crisis. It is trying to be a science when it is an art/humanity. Rather than embracing it's nature it is trying to be what it is not. It's like Christianity trying to be a science via creation scienc
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   by plntd 7y ago

   Doesn't this also explain why traditional media, politics, religion, academia, etc are all toxic? Is it that social media is toxic or that the toxic world has now adopted social media? Moral grandstanding has been around for millennia
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   by plntd 7y ago

   Virtue signaling doesn't work in business. Should yc do any business in the US which is mired in illegal wars and regime change operation all over the world? What about Saudi arabia? Should silicon valley and traditional media give up
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   by plntd 7y ago

   Yesterday we had a story about google's anti-union activities and hn was saying how evil and untrustworthy they were. Now hn is praising Google for censoring and being arbiters of truth just because they think Google is going to censor