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by silexia 7y ago
It would be a far better use of everyone's time if instead of returning this to them or sending dead batteries back, we all put that energy into lobbying to permanently kill these types of industries.
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1 points by silexia 7y ago|0 comments
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by silexia 7y ago
We should all completely boycott Blizzard and never purchase games from it again. Same thing with the NBA. In the long run, we need to fight back in China itself against the dictatorship.
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by silexia 7y ago
Berkshire is one of the best run organizations in America. Most private equity that uses leverage actually destroys businesses. Just look at what happened to toys r us for example. That's extremely common. The problem is that when priv
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by silexia 7y ago
The other thing to understand though is that in a dictatorship people do not have economic freedom or the incentives to truly do the hard work necessary to build this industries. If the United States cuts off support for China and these ind
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by silexia 7y ago
US companies need to leave China and other totalitarian states. Our doing business with them just prolongs the suffering of their citizens. Or maybe we should help overthrow evil governments.
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by silexia 7y ago
The truth is that censorship is terrifyingly powerful as most people won't work around it. This is why we must be extraordinarily vigilant in defending our freedom and attacking those who would take it away or those who have taken it a
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by silexia 7y ago
I love your comment, but I think it does miss out on some important concepts. I used to think when I first started my company that I could just do every part of it far better than anyone else. I would push on my employees pretty hard and of
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by silexia 7y ago
I believe the homeless (and everyone else), should be prosecuted in full for crimes they commit. I think there are two types of homeless - those who are sane and normal but down on their luck - once they get a job and support they can be co
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by silexia 8y ago
I have run joelx.com for 12 years now and have thousands of posts. As social media sites have come and gone, this site has remained. I sometimes will copy and paste a social media post onto my site or vice versa. I think when you have all y
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by silexia 8y ago
We need to tax wealth, not income, to increase social mobility. Taxing income hurts entrepreneurs, taxing wealth pushes the idle rich to work harder.