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by reflexive 10y ago
Subsidizing people who aren't contributing to society seems the only humane option. I think humane is the key word here. We are human, after all. It's human that you would take someone in to your home and feed and care for the
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by reflexive 10y ago
Well, you may be on to something with this idea. I believe that with the exception of humans, all eusocial species have specialized reproductive castes, while the workers are sterile. Certainly some humans are willing to give up their own r
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by reflexive 10y ago
If that's the case, then your specialized economic role in society is purely as a professional breeder. Other people would need to see that you are contributing your fair share by raising your own family, and be willing to supply you w
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by reflexive 10y ago
I agree the language you were responding to was unnecessarily emotionally charged ("tragedy", "addiction", suffering children). It's possible to advocate a radical position (near-complete elimination of refined suga
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by reflexive 10y ago
With such a strong, unequivocal, (strident?) statement, I'm honestly curious how you expect people to respond. I would guess, the first time a person comes across this type of statement, they would simply dismiss it. After hearing si
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by reflexive 10y ago
It's much harder to fuck up a salad or a grain/rice/nut thing I suggest that the ideas of salad and grain have become normalized in our culture, and have taken a sheen of healthfulness beyond their nutritional efficacy. Som
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by reflexive 10y ago
That makes sense, as offering a "vegetarian" menu is certainly cheaper and easier than actual high-quality balanced nutrition. It always amuses me to see "vegetarian" used as a Pavlovian trigger to subconsciously suggest
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by reflexive 10y ago
Last time I was at a hospital and wanted to buy a snack from the cafeteria, nearly all the options were loaded with sugar (coke, ice cream, etc). I'd say that non-sugary options are being subject to "hospital menu policy restricti
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by reflexive 10y ago
Studies indicating fat contributes to heart disease have been discredited because the effect actually comes from excess sugar intake. http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullart...
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by reflexive 10y ago
the case for food restrictions would be a lot stronger if my consumption of soda at a hospital caused sugar to be injected There's no proposal here to restrict consumption. It's the hospital's choice what they want to sell
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by reflexive 10y ago
It would be great if they provided quality non-vegetarian food as well.
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by reflexive 10y ago
Meat eating diets(especially red meat) show increased risk of heart disease in so many studies it's a definite fact. You have a rather naive definition of "fact" my friend.
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by reflexive 10y ago
introduced entire cafeterias that only serve fresh vegetarian dishes Except that humans didn't evolve to eat a vegetarian diet and it isn't healthy for us.
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by reflexive 10y ago
Which is why smoking in hospitals is OK?
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by reflexive 10y ago
"It is not impossible to imagine society so conscious of its power that it could allow itself the noblest luxury available to it, – that of letting its malefactors go unpunished. ‘What do I care about my parasites’, it could say, ‘let
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by reflexive 10y ago
I get far more enjoyment out of working to fix actual problems for actual people I'm with you - the catch is, how do you know what are the actual important problems, except by how people allocate money? We could each list a thousand
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by reflexive 10y ago
reflect on how trivially chance could intervene and turn you into a net negative. All of us are a net negative some of the time. The question is, how many can be net negatives all of the time? 10x? 100x? One person supporting the entire r
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by reflexive 10y ago
I'm not arguing against Universal Basic Income - provided that, in practice, the proportion of people who elect to work for money remains relatively high. I am arguing against the idea that we don't need money to create incentiv
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by reflexive 10y ago
Everyone could be happier doing something else. The main point is: if you want other people to maintain the apartment building where you live, drive you around on the bus, grow your food and deliver it to the supermarket - you need to be pr
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by reflexive 10y ago
The reason those jobs haven't been automated is because automating a job is an expensive and difficult process, not out of charity for the people doing those jobs. I've often thought about how meaningful my own work is, in the sen
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by reflexive 10y ago
Imagine if you could work on startup ideas and software projects simply because you were passionate about solving a problem or creating something, and not because of the money. I've been in this position, and I've concluded: if
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by reflexive 10y ago
Almost by definition, there are aspects of work that you don't like. The trick is to find meaning in your work so that you have the strength to complete it. The post seems to be suggesting that we should just eliminate all of the &quot
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by reflexive 10y ago
It never made sense to me that "contribution to society" would be measured by money earned Think of it this way. I am willing to give you money, if you make a significant positive contribution to my life. I am willing to partici
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by reflexive 10y ago
the value of work drops below the level at which a human can subsist on it I agree with this analysis; the question becomes: how do we value a person's contribution to society, if not by someone's willingness to pay their wages?
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by reflexive 10y ago
Article has many holes in reasoning. The measurable trends of the past half-century, and the plausible projections for the next half-century, are just too empirically grounded to dismiss as dismal science or ideological hokum As NN Taleb
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by reflexive 10y ago
if you made that proposition to a fast food worker that he could do meaningful work instead of smelling like fried stuff all the time and always be worried about working enough hours for a crappy boss and no future, or to a janitor that he
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by reflexive 10y ago
I'm sorry but you are missing a huge part of what GNU is about. No, I don't think I am. GNU supports building businesses on free software. That's why the GPL does not say "free for noncommercial use only" like man
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by reflexive 10y ago
This is especially valuable if you can develop a specialized skill to sell as a "product" over and over... I suppose I've found that a "can/will do anything" attitude is much better suited to employment/co
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by reflexive 10y ago
Based on the Emacs site, that would be the kind of person who's interested in `'electric-quote-mode' for using curved quotes as you type.'
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by reflexive 10y ago
That's like the old joke, how can you tell if somebody is vegan? It's in their Twitter profile.

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