solosoyokaze

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by solosoyokaze 6y ago
No central authority has to decide which job is bullshit. I don't think people like doing these bullshit jobs, they do them to survive. Give people UBI and they'll simply quit their telemarketing, soulless middle management, ad
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by solosoyokaze 6y ago
As a huge believer in UBI, I think it should also be paired with public healthcare, public housing and ideally public food allowances. Basically all living needs covered. UBI without all of that does risk inflating the price of everything a
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by solosoyokaze 6y ago
It's not an "angle", it's a critical situation. I think these stats show why we need more male representation in general and why the situation with PoC should be first in mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by solosoyokaze 6y ago
"He's gay, that's an important voice that we don't have right now, and he's a man. There are no males on the committee" Having no males on the committee seems like the biggest issue of them all, especially cons
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by solosoyokaze 6y ago
The idea is to work less than 40 hours a week, not to spread those 40 hours into various off-hours. People are proven to be more productive when they work less than 40 hours a week, so I'm not sure why they'd take a pay cut. If an
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Explicit collusion wouldn't even be new. They've been doing it for a long time to keep salaries down: https://time.com/76655/google-apple-settle-wage-fixing-lawsu...
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It's not just an organization with the highest market share. It's an organization that has the only competing web browser and mobile platform. Apple and Google collude because it gives them 100% control over mobile and the web.
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Yes, and they have a long history of colluding, including artificially suppressing engineering salaries. https://time.com/76655/google-apple-settle-wage-fixing-lawsu...
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To me it's a pro-capitalist, pro-globalist, quasi-neo-colonialist ideology. It's meant to spread modernization through corporate capitalism [1]. I think the quintessential neo-liberal group is the Trilateral Commission [2], which
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Somewhere along the line, neo-liberalism got marketed as a left wing ideology (it's not) and has since caused all manner of confusion as to why its expressed values don't materialize out of neo-liberal policies. The answer is that
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by solosoyokaze 6y ago
> California is dominated by Democrats, but many of the people Democrats claim to care about most can’t afford to live there. > There is an old finding in political science that Americans are “symbolically conservative” but “operation
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The exchanges are becoming decentralized. Not just exchanges but other financial services, including the ability to earn interest. There are also other coins that are less traceable than BTC. It's only going to get more difficult for g
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by solosoyokaze 6y ago
Think of it this way. How many people on earth can't easily get a bank account (people under the age of 18 included)? It's a huge number that suggests massive scale in that use-case alone.
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Friends, supporters, paid work... an increasing number of sources as more and more crypto infrastructure comes online.
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> forced to transact with registered IDs. It's prohibitively expensive precisely because being forced to transact with registered IDs is going to be less and less of a requirement moving forward. With DeFi exchanges, we'll see
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This is why the DeFi work on Ethereum is exciting, so you can have exchanges and other financial services not tied to restrictive legislation.
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1. It would be prohibitively expensive for the government to track down every blockchain transaction IRL to find the identity behind the wallet (if even possible). This cost rises with adoption. 2. Different crypto currencies have different
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by solosoyokaze 6y ago
There is a ton of utility in crypto. Here's one scenario I've never seen discussed but is absolutely real: Imagine you're an abused spouse or child who needs money to escape their situation. Opening up a bank account isn&#x27
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That's why I mentioned zCash. It's a better choice for this. That being said, Bitcoin can exist without the IRS. USD cannot.
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The IRS not collecting Bitcoin is a feature, not a bug. The IRS/USD/US military are all one and the same. Bitcoin is politically and socially "cleaner" than USD and other state backed currency because it's not depen
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by solosoyokaze 6y ago
Correct, but the properties of Bitcoin are baked into the protocol and not up for policy debate. The Bitcoin Core people can't get together and cause massive inflation, wiping out everyone's savings and lowering the value of their
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And that doesn't even take into account the devastating environmental and humanitarian impact of war (which the US government is in a constant state of). The true cost of state backed dollars far exceeds that of Bitcoin.
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You have to expend resources to make progress. The alternative to Bitcoin is a bloody worldwide revolution. Most people aren't actually happy living in a world of extreme inequality where only the 0.01% have any say in how our society
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Bitcoin is leading a bloodless revolution against the financial and state oligarchs. War is devastating to the environment, we should be thankful that Bitcoin is making the world a more equitable place in a relatively eco friendly way (an