readyman

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by readyman 2y ago
Public funds are ostensibly managed by democracy for the benefit of all of society, while so-called "private" funds are literally managed by dictatorship for the benefit of the dictator. I wouldn't consent to these rules, bu
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by readyman 2y ago
My point is that they are wrong about which parts of their good parenting are causing the good outcome, which is important because if I'm right then we should understand the problem more as a failure of society than a failure of parent
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by readyman 2y ago
You obviously didn't grow up poor, because if you did you'd realize how impossible that is to do when you are. Your parents are working 2 or 3 jobs and won't be home until you're almost asleep so you have to take the bus
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by readyman 2y ago
And it's a problem that predominates literally every other aspect of one's life, and one's children's lives. Discussing it as though it's just one little exception is not just out of touch; it's practically ins
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by readyman 2y ago
GDP is not a meaningful measurement unless you somehow believe in nonsense trickle-down economics of the most extreme degree.
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by readyman 2y ago
> This is the result of my international teaching of my daughter about how we interact with devices. No. It's the result of you having time to spend with her instead of working 2 or 3 back-breaking jobs like many parents have to, a
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by readyman 2y ago
They are all dictatorships, meaning that can change by the day.
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by readyman 2y ago
Yeah, when the workplace is run like a despotic dictatorship, politics are exactly what the workplace needs.
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by readyman 2y ago
For AI scientist, the data is not in and it's all financial speculation so a different conversation. For surgeons, yes. The American medial industry is uniquely exploitative so invests a tremendous amount of capital in backing up its c
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by readyman 2y ago
Also nonsense, but irrelevant regardless. By exactly your logic, technology has always increasingly displaced demand for labor. This isn't new at all. So-called "reskilling" is always outsourced to the responsibility of labor
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by readyman 2y ago
Nonsense. Capital simply regulates labor competition to be low. Whether it's by increasing migration of cheap labor, policing worker organizing, company towns, regressive taxes, or many other strategies. There was one single period in
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by readyman 2y ago
Yeah, capital accumulation is an inherent quality of capitalism, and accumulated capital then controls the state making so-called regulation impossible. It's only a matter of time.
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by readyman 2y ago
OK that is just nonsense
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by readyman 2y ago
Your first point conflicts with your second. Maybe work on that. It is very well understood across all relevant metrics that younger people are less economically secure than their parents. Coupled with extreme and growing wealth inequality,
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by readyman 2y ago
I spend at least one evening every week serving as an elected official in a political organization. I don't know who you're talking to. I made an argument. If you disagree, make one yourself. When democracy works, that's how.
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by readyman 2y ago
Both Photoshop and Word are industry standards. For Photoshop, one can't just swap it out, and if you think one can then that only shows you are not even a novice user, much less a professional who needs it for work.
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by readyman 2y ago
No, the northern states need to raise their mortgages so the southern states can keep their salaries low!
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by readyman 2y ago
The article was written by the writer then edited and titled by the bosses at Bloomberg.
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by readyman 2y ago
Any windows user that doesn't need Photoshop or Word and has a load of regular spare time to troubleshoot rabdom problems.
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by readyman 2y ago
Exactly right. Refreshing to see someone in this thread knows their history.
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by readyman 2y ago
Labor Notes is pro workers . It's a very well-established and highly respected publication that advocates for strong unions (controlled by workers) over weak unions (controlled by bureaucrats).
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by readyman 2y ago
It won't matter because we don't have a democracy. It would just result in even less people voting because there are no better options.
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by readyman 2y ago
"the war years" is not "the end of WWII to the early 1970s"
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by readyman 2y ago
Great counter-example to what is absolutely the culprit: wealth inequality. However, the ruling class and those who accept their legitimacy will never accept this explanation.
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by readyman 2y ago
> there was unity that things were bad and we were all going to fix them. Correction: Working people were organized so the capitalist class had to do what the workers told them to do.
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by readyman 2y ago
Feudalist societies were not organized by wealth but rather by roles that people were essentially born into. These roles were not achieved but rather understood as basically granted by god. Just as kings had divine rights, people had god-
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by readyman 2y ago
It is simply a fact that wealth inequality is worse than it has ever been many times over. Those at the bottom know this first hand. They dont need media to tell them.
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by readyman 2y ago
Your platitudes do nothing to make up for the fact that wealth inequality is worse than it has ever been many times over. The cruel and unusual experience of such exploitation and social contortions faced by those at the bottom will always
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by readyman 2y ago
Don't assess teacher quality. Eliminate poverty by eliminating capitalism, a system that literally depends on it.
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by readyman 2y ago
The sick idea that profit is the onlyway to motivate humans is historically idiotic. It is an outcome of pathetic efforts to legitimate capitalism, a system of exploitation.

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