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by qntty 7y ago
When you're talking about poor people, you can't assume that people have a car. Some of the worst food deserts are in cities where you can get by without a car. Plus when you work 3 jobs and have kids, driving an extra 10 minutes
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by qntty 7y ago
The value created by employees rightfully belongs to employees and should be created on their terms. It isn't employees who are hired by managers, it's managers who are hired by employees to manage and sell the things they create.
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by qntty 7y ago
Sorry I was taught as a kid that just power is derived from the consent of the governed. Must be weird for some people.
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by qntty 7y ago
You can't get an ought from an is.
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by qntty 7y ago
There's no good reason to think like this. If you're the one doing the work, you're entitled to say collectively with your fellow employees what it should be.
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by qntty 7y ago
That would be senseless. Neither employees nor management would like that. Why do you think you should be able to tell them how to deal with each other?
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by qntty 7y ago
And Google employees do the work that keeps the company going. There's no law that says that people can't refuse to do certain kinds of work. You take a job that you expect to give you work that you find acceptable and if that exp
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by qntty 7y ago
Some people think the leaders of Google are entitled to unilaterally decide what people at Google work on, and if you resist that sense of entitlement, people call you entitled.
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by qntty 7y ago
Anyone have any advice on how to learn to use excel well? I've only ever down simple column operations before, but I've seen spreadsheets that do crazy complicated things.
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by qntty 7y ago
I don't think this is a trend. Experienced waiters have never needed to write things down.
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by qntty 7y ago
Are you saying being anxious is good or bad for this?
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by qntty 7y ago
Well a court hasn't yet declared it illegal
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by qntty 7y ago
I think the claim of people who talk about privilege is that there is a society-wide context where being white or whatever gives you privilege. It's not like America has a white police force that discriminates against black people and
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by qntty 7y ago
Race has nothing to do with falling on one side of a normal distribution. I'm not sure how you got that from what I said.
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by qntty 7y ago
> His specific anger is at the notion that members of minority groups suffer THEREFORE members of majority groups do not suffer Yeah this is where his anger comes from, but perhaps he's being a bit too sensitive. He doesn't see
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by qntty 7y ago
Right, but he seems resistant to recognizing the valid point that some people really do have it better because they're white or whatever.
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by qntty 7y ago
> This is part of why I get enraged whenever somebody on Tumblr says “People in Group X need to realize they have it really good”, or “You’re a Group X member, so stop pretending like you have real problems.” One of these is not like the
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by qntty 7y ago
Pop-psychology actually seems pretty common among hackers and founders.
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by qntty 7y ago
> And the researcher, 13-year-old Nora Keegan , has been studying the issue since she was nine years old.
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by qntty 7y ago
I think it's fair to compare socialized healthcare to fire departments or public education. The case of donating money to a fund raiser is silly though. It's hard to know how much you might be "obligated" to donate even
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by qntty 7y ago
...but they don't
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by qntty 7y ago
I do all the work that I am given. I'd say I spend about 2 - 3 hours doing real work a day. I'm at the office for 8 hours.
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by qntty 7y ago
I certainly won't disagree with you there.
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by qntty 7y ago
If distributing the wealth is the goal, the government is likely to do it much more efficiently than the free market, since the free market will never do it.
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by qntty 7y ago
Donny is just an example name like Joe Shmoe In Illinois, rich people live in Chicago ("upstate"), and tend to be more liberal, whereas rural folks downstate are conservative and less wealthy.
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by qntty 7y ago
Explain?
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by qntty 7y ago
No paywall: http://archive.is/y5cR3
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by qntty 7y ago
The article doesn't say anything about that.
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by qntty 7y ago
Indeed, sometimes I miss the old Slashdot
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by qntty 7y ago
> But you're trying to reach some kind of value judgement from this point - as if "artifical construction" means it's bad in some way. I'm not saying property is bad nor am I making a value judgement about it. I&

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