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by wfo 11y ago
Because you can always truck in a slew of desperate people willing to work for lower and lower wages until we descend into de facto slavery (not even being hyperbolic, that's essentially what many sweatshops are in some countries, look
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by wfo 11y ago
No, it wouldn't. Universities have plenty of money to pay living wages and not abuse their workers. It is a national disgrace that they so often choose to do so anyway. They just spend their resources on hiring more administrators to a
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by wfo 11y ago
Actually according to Marxism capital doesn't have to collude, there need not be any conspiracy, holding down the workers is the natural conclusion of capitalism.
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by wfo 11y ago
Yes, one is far stronger than the other -- one is not only polluting the air you are breathing in at the moment but also destroying the environment and leading to global catastrophe and the other is an annoyance when you walk down the stree
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by wfo 11y ago
Right, similarly you should object any time someone uses a motor vehicle in your presence. God forbid someone drives a truck and you're within 10 feet. You didn't consent to breathe in those fumes, they shouldn't have the rig
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by wfo 11y ago
Have you ever done something that's bad for your health in the long term because it feels good /now/? Like, I dunno, eating fast food, drinking soda, drinking alcohol? Stayed up too late browsing the Internet? While most of t
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by wfo 11y ago
Yup and alcoholism isn't real because some people have a glass of wine with dinner.
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by wfo 11y ago
Jurors are selected specifically out of the general population to be deferential to authority and law enforcement because of the way selection works.
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by wfo 11y ago
>As we continue to automate things, we reduce the time and effort required to manufacture the things we need. This creates an immense amount of leisure time. The first sentence has been very true as we progress with technology and the ec
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by wfo 11y ago
I agree ads are bad but the current state of the web is disgusting, it's barely recognizable as a conduit for any real information. People hail the internet as a great way to find information -- if you type anything into the google sea
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by wfo 11y ago
It was sarcasm.
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by wfo 11y ago
Or, instead of assuming malice on the part of anyone who dares to disagree with you, you could recognize that people like it because it's clever and deeply true in a way that maybe you aren't able to see.
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by wfo 11y ago
Also account for the enormous cost of healthcare which is not paid for by taxes.
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by wfo 11y ago
All of our hard work convincing people to think of longer passwords has finally convinced the populace to type 'qwertyuiop' instead of 'qwerty' when they're asked to make an account for a service they don't car
555.
by wfo 11y ago
If you aren't interpreting this in terms of US politics you are completely missing the context, so it makes sense how you could have misunderstood the essay/issues. PG lives in the US, works in the US, every word of what he says i
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by wfo 11y ago
If you pay any attention to current political discussion, e.g. the field of Republican candidates they do NOT argue in favor of inequality. They describe it as a problem just as the Democrats do. And of course that's false. The Democra
557.
by wfo 11y ago
This isn't really about red vs. blue -- the "red" side acknowledges massive wealth inequality as a genuinely bad thing as much as the blue does (recall the president most known for trust busting, and recall the 'R'
558.
by wfo 11y ago
People got riled up because he touched an issue that effects people a lot in real life, is seriously effecting our society and democracy for the worse and got it really, really laughably wrong. And as one of the hyper-rich he has a bully pu
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by wfo 11y ago
I think any treatment of boredom, scientific or not, is woefully incomplete without reference to the man who understood it better than anyone, Soren Kierkegaard. He uses it as a vehicle for discussion and engages in it at a level I haven&#x
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by wfo 11y ago
Pretty much dead on. I don't think any conservatives think of Nietzsche as a more serious Ayn Rand, rather they think of Ayn Rand as serious herself. Reading Nietzsche (or any philosopher really) without the proper context these days h
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by wfo 11y ago
Yes, every single person who disagreed with him just misinterpreted him and "lacks basic reading comprehension skills". Even people who are better writers than him. The only people in the universe who read him correctly are those
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by wfo 11y ago
Of course they would still care about the super rich. If a tiny tiny minority of the people in a society control the vast majority of the wealth (equivalent to power in a capitalist society like ours) it is ALWAYS a problem. It means you ar
563.
by wfo 11y ago
Okay, show me an experiment that verifies our intuitive notion of causation. Cause is a philosophical principle that exists like I said only in our heads and it's a question about the future. If I do this, this will happen. Science is
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by wfo 11y ago
Generally the law in the US agrees with the corporate fascists' view because it's written by them.
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by wfo 11y ago
No, prison reform is that hard. Same with FGM in Africa. The key component of these issues is that they are cultural problems. Entire cultures of people do not see them as problems at all or want them to be fixed. To fix them quickly you ne
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by wfo 11y ago
Uber did not solve a serious problem. They built a very convenient and useful app that let you call a cab. Which you could do before, but you had to talk to a real person and take a minute to give your credit card info and now you don'
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by wfo 11y ago
As far as I could tell the article was about "The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems" since that was its title i.e. how much easier a problem looks from the outside than from the inside and how it's naive and arro
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by wfo 11y ago
I think the idea of someone fabricating legal-but-indicitave online information about you so that you turn red in the police's system and then setting you up to be considered a threat in an incident where the police assume you are dang
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by wfo 11y ago
Yes but what if the other side doesn't extend you the same courtesy? What if the other side sees your thoughtfulness as weakness, your careful consideration as waffling and flip-flopping and leaps onto the opportunity to push even more
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by wfo 11y ago
Causation does not exist in science. Causation only exists in theories that reside in our head. If you want to rely on evidence, and you want the notion of causality, you're in trouble because you can't have both, see the entire h

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