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by quacked 4y ago
I don't like the Four Day Work Week because most of the people who are allowed to experiment with it are working on bullshit. I'm not a big Graeber fan, but I emphatically agree with his idea that the majority of actual hours work
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by quacked 4y ago
Yeah the difficulty isn't even thinking of a good idea, it's reconstructing the enormous legal barriers, government contracts, and relationships with private capital that the existing tech companies have cemented over decades.
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More specifically the Dutch do not have multiple different multi-million strong underclasses with specific histories of dominated adversity. If you restrict the count of 333 million down to people who more closely match the financial and so
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by quacked 4y ago
The prices of goods in the reach of the bulk of potential consumers always conveniently remains enough that they have to work their whole lives to buy those goods. There's no real reason that for most people in the US a loaf of bread c
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I'm so annoyed, I'd been excited to order a brand new collection of all of Dahl's works and now I've got to go find used collections, which are going to get snapped up or thrown away by capitulating librarians and bookst
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by quacked 4y ago
If you want to send me an email I'd love to give you some starter suggestions for becoming a listener.
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The people who've done this don't love Dahl, they just love chastising and controlling other people. Corporate HR writ large.
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by quacked 4y ago
I don't know that I agree that "the primary cause of homelessness is the tendency to spew bullshit", I but I definitely don't agree with the implication of the assertion "homeless people are just people like you and
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> Almost made me feel like I was the bad guy in the situation. Many people who choose to live outside square-lawed society rely on people remaining docile and sticking to principle in order to prey on them, or at least to live a lifestyl
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by quacked 4y ago
That's a good point. I've also thought of a structure where there's a news organization that's just openly biased, the prime directive is listed on the front page, and each news article is explicitly edited to explain ho
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by quacked 4y ago
I never watch or read any news, I'm just sick of them reporting on things that have full unedited videos without posting the full unedited video. One example is the Floyd case. The full bodycam video was available for almost half of a
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by quacked 4y ago
I worked for a company developing clinical research software. I was already annoyed that it was following contemporary design trends with headers, hidden menus, box overlays, big buttons. I wanted clean, professional, functional design. I h
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by quacked 4y ago
This was a very well-written response to the parent commenter and to my own attitude to which the parent commenter was responding. > The middle-class lifestyle as we have come to know it basically requires you be in the top 10% of income
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by quacked 4y ago
My personal feeling is that current currency system is fatally flawed and set up deliberately to not be stable. The plan for continuing market gains is to import consumers, import low-wage labor, and continue to consolidate production into
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by quacked 4y ago
I'm glad to hear you say that. There are a lot of people out there who are kind of thinking the same thing. The only thing I really worry about is that if the time does come and we really need to use our paltry reserves of food, land,
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by quacked 4y ago
I agree with you and your parent commenter. > Today? The people are held poor so that they can't afford to strike, much less openly revolt, and nickeled-and-dimed by the credit industry. I think it's less that they're held
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by quacked 4y ago
You are bang on. The question comes down to whether or not you can produce something in exchange for fuel, textiles, shelter, food, medicine, law, and the protection of violent men. If you can't, you have to rely on stashed currency. I
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by quacked 4y ago
There is no pragmatic alternative. A debt-backed financial system will always fail to adequately provide for unproductive populations (children, elderly, disabled, insane). In fact, every financial system will fail to adequately provide for
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by quacked 4y ago
Honestly, I'm kind of drawing my own conclusions about the financial system based on what I've read. I'm also almost embarrassed to reveal my reading list, as it reveals me as a dilettante, with an undergraduate-sophomore und
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by quacked 4y ago
When I was young, I assumed the 401k had been around forever. But it was introduced in 1978! We're nearing the end of the 50-year period that the guys who invented it would really need to get staggeringly rich off of the concept, and n
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by quacked 4y ago
Makes perfect sense to me. That actually sounds like a good time.
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If I were given unlimited money, I wouldn't go to Office, but I would go to Home. Remote work allows me to spend more time in the place that I actually care about. Easy choice. Many people point out that this makes team cohesion harder
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That could be true for some of the stone-built cathedrals, but a lot of buildings tourists like aren't particularly difficult to build or maintain, they're just not done due to cost. These buildings could also be imitated or &quot
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by quacked 4y ago
I agree with your second paragraph. Do you have any idea how one might convince a city to build dense neighborhoods that are nice to be in? The only projects I see get green-lit are either warehouse stores, warehouse apartments, or road-wid
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Automoderator was on me for posting too quickly last night. No, I'm saying that the fact that new styles are always criticized is not implicit proof that all styles eventually become accepted. I will clarify that by "flocking&quot
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I like to take explore the living areas of most Euro cities I've been to--Paris, Glasgow, Rome, Florence, etc. I spent a semester abroad in Paris about ten years ago and spent most of my time in one of the recently-built satellite town
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> People always complain about the contemporary building style This is always mentioned, and it's just not true. If it were true that people always "quickly adjust and forget there was a problem" then those all-concrete fr
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I get upset that people pay thousands of dollars to go abroad to look at nice, dense towns with pretty buildings and then come back to the US and say "anyone who wants to live in a nice town like the one I just visited needs to get out
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There is of course no accounting for taste. My most recent comment that wasn't this was similar denouncement of the most contemporary UI design trend--I just can't stand flat, rectangular black-grey-beige minimalism, especially w
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I think it's so funny how almost all new housing is incredibly ugly. You could convert a lot of NIMBYs to MIMBYs (Maybe In My Back Yard) if developers picked a style to build other than "box with cheap siding that juts right up to

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