vincent-toups

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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Obviously just use J.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Ideally they would be one and the same, but the short answers is because more even distribution of money and power in a society is a good in itself (from my point of view). And because large amounts of wealth in the hands of small individua
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I don't consider funneling money to people for whom its marginal value is small as creating wealth. If it doesn't change your life to get it, its not wealth.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I don't disagree with this, of course. Some startups do create some valuable services for people. But society would be better off if those services were owned by the people using them and the surplus value was going to more people rath
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I rather pointedly refuse to call the accumulation of capital in the hands of a small group of people "wealth". The fact that we use that notion of wealth as an index of how our societies are doing is part of the problem we have a
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
A cool idea would be to increase taxes on the very wealthy and on non-cooperatively owned businesses and use that largess to fund and tax-incentivize cooperatively owned businesses.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Others have adequately given the short form. Check out this book: https://nathanschneider.info/books/everything-for-everyone/
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Startups don't create wealth, they concentrate it. Cooperatives are a much better wealth producing arrangement but they don't make a few people very rich.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
This combined with the WeWork news is not doing anything to counter my opinion that startup culture is both practically vacuous and morally bankrupt.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Pretty obviously because the role of the state isn't to reduce harm to the exclusion of everything else. It has multiple goals which it imperfectly pursues. Just like any human institution or individual.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
There are many things which are subjective but that hardly means they are completely ungrounded from human consideration, even when it comes to the exercise of power. The (partial) subjectivity of a measurement isn't a good excuse to c
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
One reasonable principle is that laws ought to reduce harm. That is a bit glib, but so is your bald assertion that states ought to be concerned only with principle. It is neither part of our legal tradition nor even a plausible interpretati
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
You don't have to give someone power - you can have cooperatives or other forms of democratic management.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
This doesn't seem useless, but it hardly seems worth 1000x the wage of a regular worker either.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I had an HP48 throughout high school, college and grad school and I still look down on the TI people.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
For some people "unnecessary lost wealth" is just that. For the poor, it can mean dying in the street.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
"The mundane, banal aspects of life are drenched with profundity." I agree with this, but I don't think Nautilus routinely hits the mark.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
I'm in favor of outfits like Nautilus, to a degree, and I felt like their debut deporting was often interesting. But I feel like the relentless pressure to produce "stimulating" or intellectually serious material has led to a
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
There isn't one damn thing that is implicit about my metaphysics.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Sure, the genetics are not easy to fix, but we can and must fix problems like crushing poverty, shitty infrastructure that poisons kids, and lack of good public education. These are not even remotely intractable problems and its the most ri
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
While I'm sympathetic with the idea this seems like a lot of woo to me.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
This is a totally fine and ethical arrangement. What makes someone a bad person is if they see that, for whatever reason, these kinds of arrangements are inadequate to meet the needs of people (and particularly children of people) to have
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
There is a good chance you aren't being paid enough to sit at that desk all day.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
"The point of human society is to make life nicer for its humans." How do you figure this? Why not "The point of human society is to make the world more aesthetically pleasing?" Or "The point of human society is to
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
This hardly operates as a justification for human brutality towards animals. Most aspects of human society are less horrible than the natural state of affairs and an argument from nature that would should relax our standards seems highly su
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
For the masses? My family is doing fairly well for people in my generation and I've never ever briefly considered buying a car for more than 10k.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Obviously people do. But it can be enormously good for a relationship to have an external, non-personal, context for that kind of work.
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Most therapy does not lead to medical tests or procedures or anything like that. Especially if you're more or less ok. Its just some dedicated time to talk about how your feelings relate to stuff happening in your life and previous exp
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by vincent-toups 7y ago
Everyone should go to therapy. I don't think I've ever met a person who doesn't need to talk things out, from time to time, with a semi-objective, third party. Most of us were raised by imperfect people trying their best who

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