thelasthuman

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by thelasthuman 8y ago
A lot of people were manipulated and lied to by professionals with a profit motive.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
The average person is not a mortgage/real estate expert. They trusted professionals who misled them because of the profit motive. (For an example look into the reasons for the 2008 housing crash)
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
"2) Severe exogenous financial shocks " Like huge medical bills?
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Maybe he was training you for the real world, where everyone does their best to externalize costs and internalize profits? Probably not though, sorry you went through that.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
A runny yolk is divine. May you share many eggs with your loved ones.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
still way cheaper than eating out.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Yes, the only way to "win" against this social contract forced upon you is to end it with you, and have no children. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is why educated people in developed countries have far fewer children. On t
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
I always thought lawns were a old symbol of wealth, proving you don't need all your arable land to survive.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
The majority of medical related bankruptcies in the USA are from people with insurance. https://www.thebalance.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics-415...
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
It makes me depressed to have to fill out some form with information the government already has just to do my taxes. Just send me my return and I can dispute it if I don't like the result. I guess there is political pressure to make th
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
"The big risk is this: when only a few entities funnel so much societal discourse or control our communication infrastructure or process payments, those entities making arbitrary decisions about who they serve has similar impacts/
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Sounds like there is a hole in the market to cater to haters. Feel free to use my idea to become rich.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
What's stopping these people from creating a "MasterRacecard" and fulfilling their payment processing?
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Aldis is my favorite store. All other grocery stores are obsolete.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
The people should own their own data, and be able to take it with them to other services.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Maybe if real life didn't suck as bad as it does for so many stuck here, people would prefer real life interactions. I'm happy for you if you've had any amount of good-natured uplifting human interaction. This is not the cas
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Elections are supposed to be bloodless revolutions. If you can't effect change through the electoral system, then the non violent solution is to revolutionize how we vote. Relevant videos (IMO) First Past The Post Voting - https:&#x2F
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
There was a HN article posted recently about taking a long sabbatical from work (2 yearsish) that had a lot of insightful comments.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
If only all companies did this, maybe we could influence our government the same way malicious special interests do right now. There would finally be representation.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Maybe corporations don't have to be so top heavy? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm This is a short story I think may be relevant. Some commenters below seem okay with the growing inequity in society so long as people have a better quality of life compared to the past. I
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
What about the political influence this wealth grants the top .0001%? IMO there is much more happening then arguing over slices of a unsustainably growing pie.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
The beatings will continue until they are accepted as a fact of life. If humans were as free as capital to go where they can get the most benefit to me, I'd move to Denmark in a heartbeat. Truly sounds like a workers paradise, at least
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Which movie is that in?
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/FiveYearsAgoOnReddit/
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
It's hard for some people to be a portrait of themselves. It's much easier to reflect the world around you. When you're alone on Facebook it's easier to be yourself, and for some it's not a pretty picture.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
I stopped using Facebook because of their mobile site sabotage. Switched to the desktop version on my phone for a while, but at one point I stopped and thought "why am I fighting with Facebook to use it the way I want?" And just g
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
> If people lose those jobs where do they turn Crime, because there won't be a robust safety net to catch them. (In the USA at least) However, there is a robust police state to catch them when they are criminals. Priorities.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Efficient how? Finding the leader of the grand "race to the bottom" and moving the work there? Maybe the workers should be as free as capital in seeking a country that benefits them the most. Then it'd be a race to the top be
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Go out on your own and the a mountain man in some remote place and live on cheap land. Then you can take your health, security and happiness into your own hands. It will be much harder for people to extract wealth from your investments if y

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