solonagathon

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by solonagathon 7y ago
Direct democracy does not imply that everyone participate in every decision, merely that everyone has the potential to do so, with respect to constitutive matters. Prepetory committees would iron out most details.
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by solonagathon 7y ago
Historical instances of politically soverign and stable direct democracies are exceedingly rare, and so it is difficult to say definitively that minorities would be treated better or worse than in representative democracy. In the Athenian d
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Fled the country to escape student debt(cnbc.com)
5 points by solonagathon 7y ago|1 comments
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by solonagathon 8y ago
And of course Herodotus refers to Solon as a lover of wisdom in his Histories. Considering my user name I guess I should have led with that reference.
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by solonagathon 8y ago
He did not invent the word. In the funeral oration for example Thucydides has Pericles refer to the Athenians as a philosophizing people: Philokaloumen te gar met ' euteleias kai philosophoumen aneu malakias. Plato was probably the fir
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Costs of medicare for all(jacobinmag.com)
21 points by solonagathon 8y ago|2 comments
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by solonagathon 9y ago
Life is bad but death is not preferable. No course of action is offered - not procreating may be morally preferable within this system of belief but in the main it will change nothing - humanity will not change its course. The philosopher w
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The case for not being born(newyorker.com)
2 points by solonagathon 9y ago|2 comments
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by solonagathon 9y ago
The act of voting, from an individual perspective, is objectively irrational. Since the chance of your particular vote affecting the outcome of an election is 0 your time and effort is wasted. The lesser of two (or few) evils argument only
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by solonagathon 9y ago
How would you calculate the timeframe until steady number of subscribers is achieve d?
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by solonagathon 9y ago
Actually it's the pitchforks that are an illusion. State control today makes subjects docile even when they have nothing to lose.
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by solonagathon 9y ago
Clients do get a ton of spam but there are better solutions than resorting to xenophobia. From my experience as a client, 90% of the spam proposals are copy-pasted so they could simply filter them out. They could also reduce 'connects&
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by solonagathon 9y ago
Upwork is influencing the client's decision to seek only US freelancers in some not very subtle ways, discussed in the thread. They are planting in the client's mind the need which wasn't necessarily already there (and is qu
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by solonagathon 9y ago
If you're a US based freelancer this could benefit you. As a non-US person, this has already adversely affected my job feed there. I assume this will not have a big impact on the lower end of the scale but as someone who charges a pre
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Upwork now limiting many jobs to US freelancers(community.upwork.com)
18 points by solonagathon 9y ago|13 comments
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by solonagathon 9y ago
Market theory doesn't apply. The group against which lobbying efforts are directed is often the American people - and they are not organized enough to 'enter the market's.