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by whitemary 3y ago
Maybe, but capitalist rule of law makes hypothesis difficult to test. Rule of law has probably been most influential under capitalist authoritarianism like Nazi Germany.
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by whitemary 3y ago
> The board should be responsible. You don't get to make $200m a year and just brush hundreds of lives off as a whoops. I don't think you understand how capitalism works.
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by whitemary 3y ago
The better predictor would be the parents' wealth.
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by whitemary 3y ago
> This decision is unethical to full-time employees seeing the tidy profit they made. Profit itself is unethical.
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by whitemary 3y ago
> legislating for the hell of it Correction: legislating for the rich Laws that favor very wealthy people pass through congress like a faint breeze on a daily basis (when congress is in session).
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by whitemary 3y ago
> It's not even a political issue. Just a matter of decency and fairness. That's precisely what they want you to keep believing. The truth is every single aspect of every employee/employer relationship is political, and
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by whitemary 3y ago
I think the technical term is pixel f*cking . Personally, I could care less about a venture capital firm's brand identity, but I absolutely sympathize with wanting to make a technical improvement as seamless as possible, and respectfu
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by whitemary 3y ago
I almost wrote a response, but then I kept reading. Frankly, your comment needs A LOT of citations, and good luck finding them.
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by whitemary 3y ago
Communism and private property are not at odds. Communism and private capital are.
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by whitemary 3y ago
Pinching myself as I witness actual Marxist analysis on HN of all places.
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by whitemary 3y ago
That is fair, sorry. I'm just saying the boss is in charge at the end of the day. Regardless of any observations or knowledge contradictory to their practices, they ultimately retain all the power. Productivity (of something...) is ost
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by whitemary 3y ago
The "boots on the necks of workers" metaphor has been used over many generations as a reflection of the hostility that working people endure in the capitalist workplace. Complaining about the metaphor itself being "hostile&q
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by whitemary 3y ago
In the real world, owners simply don't care about your enlightening idea. Why would they? And what are you gonna do about it when they don't?
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by whitemary 3y ago
It's almost like every company is its own little authoritarian regime. Hmmmmm, maybe Karl Marx was onto something...
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by whitemary 3y ago
Capitalism is predicated on profit. I don't know what system you're talking about.
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by whitemary 3y ago
It's not
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by whitemary 3y ago
The "free market" is so good at problem solving! I hope the entrepreneur who thought of this made a tremendous profit!
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by whitemary 3y ago
But I was always assured the US has the greatest healthcare system in the universe because it's privately profited from!
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by whitemary 3y ago
The spirit of the sweatshop is alive in India!
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by whitemary 3y ago
How does "presence" translate to "installing state officials"?
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by whitemary 3y ago
My poor sweet summer child...
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by whitemary 3y ago
Installing state officials in South America is historically a US tactic, not a Chinese tactic.
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by whitemary 3y ago
> Some healthy standards & protocols that actually leave users in power would start to cleanup the toxic waste dump operating-regime these products are in now. Like many vague complaints ostensibly concerning technology, this is a
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by whitemary 3y ago
> If we can do it for compliance officers, why not for CEOs? CEOs are hired to be the public face of the company. The board who hires the CEO doesn't want the face of their company being a criminal, and in the U.S. corporate board
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by whitemary 3y ago
> Every team I've worked on that has switched from Kanban to Scrum has slowed down and never regained the previous velocity. As an engineer on a team using scrum, this is my favorite part.
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by whitemary 3y ago
Bob Dylan is a meaningless comparison, and an injustice to the wonderful Connie Converse.
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by whitemary 3y ago
Great question! I don't have a certain answer, but I will say this again: debased.
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by whitemary 3y ago
It is not wrong to say the fed wants to increase unemployment. The fact is the fed doesn't have any other ideas so they want to do this one. Maybe they would prefer not to, but who cares? They are going to do it anyway because they don
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by whitemary 3y ago
> Feminists were not disparaging motherhood or unpaid work like if it was above them to do it. Were? When are we talking about? This sounds like Lasch, in the 90s or maybe 80s, comparing 3rd wave feminism to 2nd wave feminism. However,
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by whitemary 3y ago
Because financialized/late-stage capitalism makes long-term investments like nuclear power generation financially infeasible, while funneling subsidies to "green energy" solar/wind industries is extremely profitable in t

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