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by tchaffee 3y ago
> AI that can replace humans at most tasks within a couple years of R&D hasn’t happened before. We've seen absolutely massive automation in manufacturing, and as you noted even in farming. And no massive unemployment as a result
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The tax differences aren't that big, and they come with other nationalized services in addition to healthcare. Per capita healthcare costs in countries with nationalized healthcare can be 50% less than in the US. So you're getting
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> long-term disability insurance policy It eventually runs out. Medical bankruptcy is pretty widespread in the US.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
> long term disability plans It eventually runs out. Medical bankruptcy is pretty widespread in the US.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
> long-term injury insurance It eventually runs out. The US healthcare system can eventually bankrupt you no matter how careful you are, if your health problems are serious enough.
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> They're fairly competitive compared to the rest of the world. That's accurate. But what surprises me is how much in demand software engineers are globally and how little they get paid in most countries. It doesn't make a
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by tchaffee 3y ago
I was using this article for my source [1] which says: "By the end of the new contract, full-time UPS delivery drivers will make an average of $49 per hour, which works out to nearly $102,000 per year, assuming a 40-hour workweek, 52 w
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Sorry, but you gave no evidence that the average talented person would be handcuffed to a specific company as soon as they start a family. And you especially gave no evidence that they would "lose that cover". That was your origin
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This is easy to demonstrate as false. The US Revolution and many others that followed put far more power into the hands of the average person. And unionized workers earn more almost everywhere you go. Union leaders probably do take more tha
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by tchaffee 3y ago
> Past results are not an indicator of future performance. Sure, but we can't predict the future, so it's the best model we have. > Today, both sexes work long hours just to afford a tiny apartment, they have to switch jobs
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Yes, we mostly agree. The part I disagree with is humans being obsolete. We don't manually weave cloth anymore. Which is why we can afford far more clothing than folks 100 years ago. The jobs are there. That most of the profit from tha
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by tchaffee 3y ago
I already mentioned the problem of masssive wealth gaps indirectly. Us workers need to organize to recapture the profit that used to be shared with us. UPS workers just negotiated $170,000 TC. I think that's enough to live a nice life,
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by tchaffee 3y ago
That's is indeed where the US system fails. Overall though I think the risk reward ratio favors the US for young healthy engineers. Save up enough to retire at 45 and then get yourself to a country with good nationalized healthcare.
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Is your claim that a Facebook engineer would have trouble finding a different job with high compensation and great healthcare? That's a bold and hard to believe claim.
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The one case where your argument fails is very serious illnesses where you can't continue to work. In the US you will end up with worse care. And let's hope the NHS problems are temporary. When I worked in London and the US ten ye
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Your reasoning seems logical at first glance so I can understand why you would come to your conclusions. History shows you to be wrong. It doesn't take a high IQ to use a machine to hugely increase your productivity. And in some cases
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by tchaffee 3y ago
I agree you need to consider total compensation. It's still not even close though. The company pays half the cost of excellent healthcare and the remaining payment is very affordable. Maybe in the case of a very serious long term illne
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Well no one can predict the future but what's your reasoning that such an important technology partner to such massive companies will all of a sudden stop innovating and become less significant?
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by tchaffee 3y ago
No the British news accurately reports on how bad it has become after over a decade of politicians defunding it. It's sad. When I left London a decade ago I had no reason to ever use my private insurance. NHS was excellent. Now I still
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Compared to the US. Dan Abramov who works for Facebook and is one of the primary engineers of the hugely popular React framework makes less than one of my junior engineers.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
> At no point in the history of human civilization has growth been static. This is a bold and hard to believe claim. Weren't the Dark Ages in fact a reversal? Can you provide a source for your claim?
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Except it already has. Car emissions regulations are a good example. Not just regulations on manufacturers either. Look at London's ultra low emissions zones quickly pushing folks to go electric.
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The revolutions or sometimes evolutions resulting in democrat nations with regulated market based economies are what allowed the rapid pace of innovating you are praising. Those revolutions were radical social changes.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Agreed - all good points. As far as comparing now to before the French Revolution though I hear an awful lot of folks threatening civil war these days in the US. I would never have predicted Jan 6th a decade ago. I kind of think the warning
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The parent claim is that polarization is so bad right now because of social media and the digital media. If the press is more tame now, wouldn't that result is in less polarization?
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What were the incentives in the past and what are they now?
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That's a fair point. However I think blaming media lacks evidence. If media were a primary cause rather than simply reporting on underlying frustration then I would expect even more revolutions as media becomes more widespread. That di
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The claim was newspapers and radio. While the printing press may have played a role I don't think it's an accurate characterization to say the Revolutionary War was caused by newspapers fueling outrage. The causation is actually m
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Can you answer the question about the carbon footprint of manufacturing plant based foods? The study on corn ethanol looks so-so, however it's only one study and has a lot of disclaimers about possible problems in methodology. They cla
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by tchaffee 3y ago
The French Revolution? USA Revolutionary War?

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