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by wfo 9y ago
When people vote for president, they vote for a bundle of positions on thousands of issues. Every person who has voted for a president has voted against their own policy positions, often hundreds or thousands of their own policy positions.
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by wfo 9y ago
Every time a monopoly arises, that is the market telling you the most efficient way to produce the good is with a single centrally planned organization, and that competition is not possible or effective. A monopoly is the market's way
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by wfo 9y ago
Your points have all been soundly refuted elsewhere in the thread as they should, but >You don't see anybody trying to legalize murder, do you? Actually, you do. Many Republican state congresses are trying to make it legal to murder
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by wfo 9y ago
They cover these issues, yes, but always with a specific purpose and intent. Let's consider a case study, this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/upshot/bernie-sanders-wen... They covered a
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by wfo 9y ago
The public interest is not handwaving, it is the entire purpose of govermnent. Under your definition laws banning slavery for example are "public interest handwaving".
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It is a tough place to move. Especially as a tech person. People there think that the explosion of tech money and tech people from outside is ruining their city and their culture. They are right. By default, as a tech immigrant (or even tec
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by wfo 9y ago
>it's crazy how enormous the pro-Trump population on HN actually is and how blissfully Silicon Valley pretends they don't exist) >Yeah it's really fucked up. We need a new discussion forum format, that isn't so eas
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by wfo 9y ago
>But as far as I can tell, there is nothing about newspapers that makes them a natural monopoly. Why should anyone regulate combinations in that area? Very, very few regulations are designed with the sole purpose of dealing with natural
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by wfo 9y ago
>a boss only has power over you so far as you're being paid to act on behalf of the company This is obviously untrue. You can be fired for any reason, anytime. Whether what you're doing is at work or not. Your boss can see you
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by wfo 9y ago
This is giving in to surveillance: allowing it to define what you are allowed to say and do. It is also not feasible. Sure, you can stop doing that, but there are millions of other 'tells' that you will give up through your action
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by wfo 9y ago
The poignant part of the headline here is "sell it to your boss". I think we have already lost the battle over data mining. It is happening, and will continue to happen and it seems to me there is really nothing we can do short of
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Nice discussion, but the central call to action -- challenging technically ignorant authoritarian extremists in the legislature like McConnell and Feinstein to do something horrible, trusting that they truly won't do it at the end of t
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Sure, here is the most regularly referenced study: http://wws.princeton.edu/faculty-research/research/item/test...
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by wfo 9y ago
Indeed; I have seen the "you are dumb and I am smart, you are a fourth grader" 'argument' before, though it's never been applied towards me until this point -- consider yourself a pioneer in that regard. I am honore
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>What are our local, state, and federal governments made up of, then - the same organizations that don't close loopholes and set tax code properly to serve the greater interest? Are these organizations not made of people? Yes, they
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by wfo 9y ago
>But that is not the freedom of choice I am talking about. That is a fake choice since it is too difficult, requiring you to change your entire life. What I am talking about is the simple choice of free market: choosing who to give your
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by wfo 9y ago
2 -- since when is "might makes right" == liberty? I find this position odd especially considering the build and gym habits of most tech Libertarians I have met. Shouldn't, for it to be true liberty, one of those people own t
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A culture of expectations that businesses behave ethically and do not bribe their governments. Campaign finance reform. Powerful government regulators that actually scare companies. A department of justice, for example, that observes this a
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by wfo 9y ago
You have a huge amount of choice in your taxes; you can vote, run for office, and advocate for political positions. You have zero choice in your economic situation (if you are 99% of people) since most financial choices are made for you by
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by wfo 9y ago
If we decide corporations have no obligation to be moral or decent, they naturally will behave as we expect. If we expect and demand (and punish the absence of) more, we can get more. Corporations are made up of people, and people are fully
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On the strong form, certainly and provably not. Studies have been funded to find any correlation between the will of the populace and policy that is enacted. There is zero correlation. On the semi-weak form, obviously not. Voter suppression
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Because freedom has failed them. Or, at least, "freedom" as defined implicitly by the author to mean "only a specifically enumerated list of negative freedoms that primarily benefit the wealthy" and "the ability to
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by wfo 9y ago
You are quite right to point this out so explicitly. It is something we all have to deal with -- the way that wealth and power and privilege insulate people from having to care about anything other than their own excess and immunize people
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>I doubt those views are as popular and supported among the Time's readership as you may think. Well yes, stating the the Times' readership is far removed from American popular opinion since the Times is by and for elites and e
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It is the closest healthcare system in the developed world to free market capitalism since every other country has socialized medicine; a system much more free-market than ours would create an untenable hellscape for the vast majority of th
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No they are the very definition of free-market capitalism. They are property, and property rights are the entire basis of capitalism. In particular, private ownership over the means of production (which is the definition of capitalism) requ
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Or you can view it as a high-profile step in an ongoing employer power creep. When you work for a company, how much of your life does that company own? Do you have any rights as a private citizen at all if you have an employer? Can they tel
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If you glance at the people who write their op-eds, which range from hyperconservative to moderately conservative, you will see they have no intention of presenting a wide range of popularly supported views and have not for a long time, the
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The moral answer is obviously no, given the context in which we live. That the moral and legal answers are completely opposite of each other is telling. Imagine a natural disaster happens, and the strong hoard more water and food and shelte
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by wfo 9y ago
I think the pathology of worship of competition and the credentialing system -- insisting you must be the best on a test that you are explicitly told means nothing is a mental disorder developed due to being raised in certain cultural con

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