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by wfo 9y ago
Well yes, a union is organized democratically so you can vote on what you support if you're part of one. The problems you identify are central to all of democracy: what if you lose the vote? Then positions you don't support will b
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by wfo 9y ago
Actually small businesses (while they vary widely and many of them can be good) can be home to the worst kind of abuse. Small business owners can be absolutely monstrous tyrants to their employees. Have you ever met a waitress at a restaura
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by wfo 9y ago
If they are smart, they should: right now they have a lot of power in the workplace because there is demand for them. This is a problem tech business owners have identified: programmers have too much power on the job relative to their bosse
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by wfo 9y ago
The Jungle is a piece of historical fiction that was accurate while remaining fictional, was of course designed to make a point (as all meaningful writing is) and captures an era and expresses in a clear way the inevitable plight of non-wea
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by wfo 9y ago
Libertarian economics is the most radical extremist free market economics that has ever been imagined and has never been implemented and never will be implemented. Every modern and nearly every recent historical society has been a mixed eco
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by wfo 9y ago
I think you're describing small-l libertarianism which is a very vague and general theory with many, many offshoots that are so opposed to each other they are unrecognizable as coming from the same ideology (libertarian socialists, the
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by wfo 9y ago
>see the paragraph following that quote about how some borrowers will win and some will lose. So, no change? https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/business/dealbook/race-st... Centralized credit sco
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by wfo 9y ago
Or just delete all 3 from the earth, physically destroy all of their data storage media and let people make loans the way they always have for millennia, without three unaccountable private behemoths stealing and hording private data on eve
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by wfo 9y ago
Indeed, in fact the FBI is absolutely the last organization we should trust with any oversight over anything of this sort. They have a history of infiltrating as well as explicitly murdering and plotting for the death of leading figures in
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by wfo 9y ago
Yes that's correct, any right that you can waive essentially does not exist in a capitalist economic system -- if you can waive it, the poor will inevitably be forced to waive it. However it's encouraging when compared to the situ
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by wfo 9y ago
Indeed: here we see that the 'efficiency' of the market or its ability to solve problems as an organic optimzation machine is a myth. The market is a collection of many dictatorial kings of fiefdoms called small and large business
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by wfo 9y ago
By active and loud anti-corporate voices do you mean the pro-corporate liberal party, the pro-corporate conservative party, the corporate-owned TV media or the pro-corporate mainstream newspapers? There are anti corporate voices like e.g. C
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by wfo 9y ago
I agree, ignoring the serious problem that is a tiny number of private monopolies owning all of our communication infrastructure (boy, 1996 me hopes those oligarchs don't choose to compromise the privacy or rights of their customers, s
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by wfo 9y ago
And since the only ostensibly pro-consumer voice with any power (the FCC) is acting in the interest of major industry players right now, we should give the major industry players complete control forever, even if a pro-consumer administrati
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by wfo 9y ago
If you think Trump winning had anything to do with safe spaces or whatever gamergate alt-right concerns the 18-34 tech male demographic cares about instead of blatant abject failures of the Democratic party (nominating a horrible candidate
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by wfo 9y ago
>A safe space is a safe free from criticism. Conservatives don't want or need safe spaces. They need spaces free from literal violence and from social violence (calls to firing, disruption of free assemblies, ostrichsization, etc.).
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by wfo 9y ago
Remember, studies like this are not opinion pieces about whether or not it should be legal. It's a substance that it has been illegal to study for decades, it's unsurprising there may be previously unknown health risks and it&#x27
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by wfo 9y ago
The smugness comes from the American left party moving right to try and capture some "center" that does not exist except in the professional and donor class. The "left wing" party busting unions 60 years ago would be unt
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by wfo 9y ago
>We're still sorry for having given you a case of Acute Thatcherism, America I've never heard a European apologize for this and didn't realize how much I wanted to until I did; thank you, we hope to one day recover. And I
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by wfo 9y ago
A simple "yes" would suffice. All you have to do is admit that diversity is good and you'll get your diversity of ideology there for free. All you have to do is admit that creating safe spaces can be good or necessary, and yo
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by wfo 9y ago
The fact that you whine about anyone disagreeing with you being some bogeyman you call "the Left" (which does not exist of course) is telling; instead, you should consider your discussion partners as people instead of the enemy, p
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by wfo 9y ago
No, the critiques (at least that I've seen here) are ridiculous; HN is generally conservative STEM majors who have never studied anything seriously outside their tiny box of CS/engineering and possibly math/physics and think
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by wfo 9y ago
>No disrespect to anyone, but can an average career teacher understand the nuances of securities law? Yes they can, that's exactly the position I outlined. After a week of doing nothing but learning about securities law every teache
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by wfo 9y ago
These things can be (and are) explained. Trials that contain complex technical violations tend to take longer, sure. Judges, expert witnesses, lawyers all spend a huge amount of time learning about/explaining these issues. It's es
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by wfo 9y ago
You're right the US has a huge incarceration rate, but jury trials have nothing to do with this, since in the US trials functionally do not exist. I don't remember the numbers exactly (and they are changing and they differ by stat
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by wfo 9y ago
Yes, now white supremacists trying to make sure brown people die in the ocean using patreon funds are conservative journalists. Won't anyone think of free speech? Next he'll ban patreon crowdfunding the creation of snuff films, wh
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by wfo 9y ago
I think you misunderstand fundamentally, GP is saying that no matter the position of the current government there are absolute inalienable rights which is a common position to take (outlined in the founding of the US, for example) and that
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For some the vote was simply an expression of their hatred for centrist/liberal/media elites and pundit class who look down on them. If you look at polls, lots of Trump supporters voted for him because of political correctness. If
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by wfo 9y ago
To be fair, the entire political spectrum in America is far right of anything in any other developed country. And so I agree with you, not all right-leaning people are unreasonable, take the US Democratic party, who I am to the left of but
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by wfo 9y ago
Yes, life is horrifying for people on minimum wage. Why not make life better for people out of prison rather than exploit people in prison and then hold them up by comparison to the free but brutally impoverished ones and say "look how

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