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by shantly 7y ago
"Deserve" and "should" hasn't got shit to do with it. Are we going to start policing sales and contracts corporations make to ensure the value they deliver "deserves" the compensation they're receivin
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by shantly 7y ago
> The only reason labor unions are legal is that certain unions have outsized political clout That assertion, at least, sits somewhere between tautology ("sufficiently-powerful interest group is the only reason sufficiently-powerful
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by shantly 7y ago
I daily chafe under the yoke of a government that restricts my right to sell myself into slavery. And they enforce that onerous infringement of my rights, ultimately, by threat of violence! Which clearly makes government the slavers, actual
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by shantly 7y ago
Cool cool. We can have our government stop recognizing the existence of corporations at the same time we outlaw unions. Deal?
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by shantly 7y ago
Opening up the full contribution level for all employees and the self-employed, and simply mandating minimums of employer contribution (to keep them from withdrawing their contributions with this change and not simply adding it on to em
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by shantly 7y ago
My point is basically that at minimum 50% of the taxes foregone to support the 401k system[SEE EDIT] is going to people who definitely would have had an awesome—not just OK, not good, awesome —retirement no matter what. Not the poor or
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by shantly 7y ago
The total contribution limit is ~$56k/yr. $19k is the limit on what you , the employee (or LLC owner or partnership member) can contribute, which is exactly what I'm talking about—most of the money has to come from your employer
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, it was a bit tongue-in-cheek. Though in fact at this point I have put many thousands of hours, over decades, into trying to control useless (and it's usually useless) rumination, with only moderate success. So yeah, definitely
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by shantly 7y ago
The way 401k retirement accounts are set up in the US, you can't get anywhere near the contribution limit on your own, you have to have huge amounts of employer contribution, beyond simple matching, even. It's like (cough) it&#x
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by shantly 7y ago
The collection of so much personal data makes possible all sorts of abuses that are otherwise infeasible. The difference between corporations collecting & keeping massive amounts of data on the population of a state, and the same state&
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by shantly 7y ago
There was a Golden Age when Google would actually return results for interesting small sites on a regular basis. This was before they declared defeat in the Great Webspam War and (apparently) just upranked major sites and downranked minor o
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by shantly 7y ago
Companies are creations of the state. We should do with them what we think most valuable and likely to create the best environment. This may, and probably does, include permitting them a wide variety of liberties and privileges. > > d
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by shantly 7y ago
Oh, yeah, definitely that should also be illegal. If you want to train an ML model you should have to pay directly for that data, not in connection with any other service or product. The current system means every successful monopolist is
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by shantly 7y ago
> There is nothing illegal about what is going on now, and nothing which should be illegal about what is going on. In this context, "regulating" simply means making a behavior we didn't see coming illegal. When we don&#x27
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by shantly 7y ago
Internet service used to include basic services like email and newsgroups. Still "paid", but effectively bundled, and a tiny part of the total cost.
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by shantly 7y ago
What Facebook and Google and Twitter and Amazon and American Express and so on collect and do with their data is not remotely necessary to operating their services and businesses, except to the extent that they make money by spying on peo
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by shantly 7y ago
I find this kind of defeatism entirely baffling . Regulating corporations is hard so we shouldn't try? This is a lot less complicated than many sorts of regulation we attempt. Just give up on all of it, it's pointless? Where&#x27
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by shantly 7y ago
Cool. Can't sell it, can't leverage it against users (e.g. use it to select which products to try to sell them). If you're doing that on any significant scale it's gonna leave a hell of a trail and enough people will be
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by shantly 7y ago
And companies started dropping that when it became very important to their business model that they maximize the amount of data they can collect about a user. 3rd party clients for my service? Unacceptable, can't spy on the user as m
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by shantly 7y ago
You don't need to make IP logging illegal to make collecting user info that's not absolutely necessary to a transaction illegal, and to make selling or using any necessarily-collected data for anything other than e.g. auditing o
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by shantly 7y ago
Oh yeah, I strongly agree those need to be stopped to. We keep hand wringing over all these leaks and such and "oh gee how to we improve security?", when the clear solution is to not allow it in the first place . That way a leak
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by shantly 7y ago
Sure, and those old sorts of forums still exist (well, the ones that didn't get eaten by Reddit and Facebook—OK, so I guess they kinda don't) but if you want the Web as it exists for most people to go back to standards and compe
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by shantly 7y ago
Making it illegal so no legitimate business can do it without incredible risk of being sued/charged out of existence seems quite feasible.
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by shantly 7y ago
If we want a (return to the) boom in open-source and paid standards-based solutions, we gotta ban collecting & monetizing user info. Monetized user info & related advertising paying for "free" walled services are keeping t
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by shantly 7y ago
About 95% of the value of a degree for me has just been not ever having to explain why I don't have one. Maybe 99%.
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by shantly 7y ago
Home food prep takes a lot of time, quite a bit of skill, and a ton of knowledge, for the whole process, not just the cooking itself, especially if you want the supposed health benefits and savings it grants. 1) Shopping. What's a go
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by shantly 7y ago
> Most of what programmers do is a lot of navigation and text manipulation correct? Possibly I'm a terrible programmer, but most of what I do is thinking and looking shit up. Entering or modifying code, and navigating non-linearly w
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by shantly 7y ago
> Does it count if you lie awake in bed for an hour unable to sleep because of rumination? Because in that case, I'm sure plenty of people do it at some point. Heh, shit, if that counts I "meditate" for an hour or more a c
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by shantly 7y ago
And for unfathomable (haha, well, is it really though?) reason retirement accounts are set up to mostly benefit people with very high wages whose employers (gotta have an employer, too, or arrange things so you're your own employer—man
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by shantly 7y ago
Ew, you weren’t kidding. I haven’t seen anything like these elsewhere, luckily. They’re really off-putting.

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