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by wfo 10y ago
Applying free market principles to government run services that should be government run like health care, schools -- where profit and efficiency are not goals is neoliberal. This is another case of people discussing articles they didn&#x27
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Profit motive above all else is literally the prototypical example of an ideology, just not one that most people would publicly espouse.
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Of course it is an explicit ideology that many associate themselves with (though not by name, since it's become something of a slur because it's so obviously religious about the "free market" and hated because of this).
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Yes, it lets hobbyists and amateurs connect with each other. It doesn't help a well-respected cultural tradition of art continue and give it the tools it needs to continue to exist. And plenty of people like it. The whole point of art
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Removing the minimum wage is so extreme it's barely even under consideration anywhere outside libertarian-only econ conferences. And it always has been. Your positions (the few that have not already been enacted, because of how far rig
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So you list a number of hyper-extremist radical points, many of which even HAVE happened (vouchers and charter schools are everywhere, immigration is open to wealthy foreigners, unions have been devastated and barely exist, gun control bare
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Broadcast television can and has been catering to minority tastes for many, many years as we all know. It just can't bankroll itself by doing this, so it requires public funds or regulations to prop it up. But sometimes making room for
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And so we are to take your definition of "good" and "shit" as gospel -- obviously, we want more movies that you think are good and less movies that you think are shit. Would you like to take the position of cultural czar
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I think 'fault' is wholly irrelevant here. If we try to understand the position of the French ministers, etc, we observe changes which are destroying their culture. They are fighting to preserve it. The fact that the destruction w
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It is not ironic at all it is factual and even obviously the case in any capitalist society (the policies, at least, there is no evidence of any xenophobia in the scope of the article or discussion here).
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Right, you can make excuses and quibble and apologize for his hateful demagoguery as much as you like (his quote of course as we all remember suggests most immigrants are rapists and murderers and criminals, but concedes that it's poss
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by wfo 10y ago
An entrenched-monopoly dominating an industry primarily controlled by network effects isn't really a free market either, free markets don't exist outside of college econ textbooks. We all agree to use the same company for infrastr
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It's not about who we do and do not like. Civil cases have a very, very low standard of proof (not really proof at all - 50% + 1 means you just need to hint suggestively that a thing happened and collect your cash) and can be brought f
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by wfo 10y ago
More's to the point. Let's say I apply for a job early in my career and a hiring manager doesn't give it to me. Then later in life I'm a billionaire and I want revenge. It becomes known publicly that I want to destroy hi
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Usually people bring civil suits in order to get justice for some wrong that has been done to them, not to get paid for being an instrument in the revenge fantasy of a billionaire. I think the jury certainly has a vested interest in knowing
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by wfo 10y ago
Well of course a compassionate society would provide basic needs for everyone, but while we sit around holding hands praying for utopia to come to America overnight in the form of the end of free-market capitalist extremism let's do wh
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by wfo 10y ago
Why should we deny people the right to sell themselves into slavery? It's their life, after all. Perhaps in a generation or two our society will degrade to the point that, to the poor, slavery looks like a pretty attractive option. For
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I think there are a number of things going on here: I think much of what the article is dancing around the entire time is that most philosophers/philosophy departments do not think this other philosophy is good/worth teaching. Phi
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An angry conservative who worked at Facebook was shocked and horrified when he was instructed to remove the breitbart 'story' about how Obama is actually a secret Muslim terrorist from Benghazi and is throwing a hissy fit all over
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Or rather passing along all responsibilities to the private sector, and when something bad happens, throwing up their hands and saying "sorry, doing the right thing just isn't economically feasible, we all have to make cuts, that&
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That assumption comes from experience, by which I mean in my experience almost every single time I have seen the word 'privilege' used it is used as a weapon to turn a discussion from a thoughtful, respectful one to hateful scream
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From my experience what you are describing is exactly psychology, which is a STEM field. And humanities disciplines are quite dissimilar as are STEM disciplines. Philosophy is generally fairly rigorous and difficult, communication is often
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Why are you so obsessed with his personal life? Are you hoping you can neatly fit his life experiences into a box you call 'privilege' and then dismiss everything he has to say without argument? That sort of behavior is mostly fro
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People are generally good. But some people aren't. Incidentally, those are the people who tend to accumulate wealth and power. There are certainly people in this world who would sit on top a mountain of food that will spoil if not eate
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Actually, that's not quite the case. Every society has a law like "no murder -- except sometimes, when you can". And a law like "no stealing -- except sometimes, when you can". And sometimes trying not to cause pain
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It's your job to make sure the needy and poor and sick and hungry are taken care of. The government is you, what it does is your responsibility. Paying taxes, shrugging your shoulders, and saying "not my problem anymore" is n
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Much like it's hard to give much credit to sentences that use common nouns at all; we would be better off without them, they only lead to generalizations. In fact, I should take it all back, for I find in the process of communicating l
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No, what he's saying is "your metrics are measuring the wrong things and so it does not matter what numbers pop out of them; they are completely meaningless when it comes to answering the question which is actually important"
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If you call people stating facts and accurately describing the trade deal "tinfoil hat conspiracies" then you are arguing in bad faith and should stop. Even if you believe such a ridiculous thing the cheap insults and incendiary l
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If you ever gave an answer that would pass in a midterm examination in public as a politician, it would be complete disaster and nobody would understand what you are talking about and you would embarrass yourself. One of the most difficult

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