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by x220 8y ago
>mandatory willingness This is the most Orwellian term I've heard all week. I think a better word for this is "slavery".
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by x220 8y ago
>MGTOW don’t merely “check out of the idea of a romantic relationship” If you discovered a minefield in your backyard, would you merely avoid it or would you also tell others to avoid the minefield and naturally get angry at whoever set
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by x220 8y ago
This sort of thing always comes up when I talk to my friends about marriage. I tell them that I'll never get married because of the divorce statistics, and they tell me that only dumb foolish people get divorced. I tell them "how
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by x220 8y ago
>utility black hole What's your definition of utility?
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by x220 8y ago
When you can't attack the idea, just attack the person.
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by x220 8y ago
>Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. I'm gonna need some help figuring
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by x220 8y ago
That's because the rich use up infrastructure and protection (they have more stuff worth stealing) more than they would if they were poor. The poor also get a pass because they can't easily pay regular tax rates and we want to lif
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by x220 8y ago
Why not $0? If they want their kids to be rich, they should teach their children to get rich, not just be rich.
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by x220 8y ago
>How much should [bm]illionaires be allowed to leave to their children? As much as they fucking want. The rationale for taxation is the idea that you owe your government money by using up public resources (such as national defense, publi
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by x220 8y ago
Hey do you mind if I kill you and take your organs? Is that a bad thing?
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by x220 8y ago
>all get brought up constantly and are quickly met with "that's not real socialism".
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by x220 8y ago
>Tax evasion is evil morally because every dollar they don't pay, others have to pay You mean the government makes others pay (unless the government just wants to go into debt, as it usually does). >give back to the society that
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by x220 8y ago
I want the state to specify restrictions on how companies can use the data transmitted in private messages on social networks.
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by x220 8y ago
Can you name some successful interoperable protocols used by social networks that allow for meaningful innovation and updates? All I can think of is Agora* (which no one uses) and IRC (which hasn't added nontrivial features in a very,
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by x220 8y ago
The state already unofficially manages, manipulates, and spies on communication.
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by x220 8y ago
>Capitalism, according to all these men, is about frictionless, seamless engorgement. I could not care less about the opinions of thirty-something techies about political ideologies. At a time when capitalism seems more attacked in the W
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by x220 8y ago
Would trust-busting do any good? The main reason no practical alternatives to Facebook exist is the network effect. The main reason that competitors to Google don't do well is that people will just use the search engine that returns th
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by x220 8y ago
>Also it includes cheese One of the best international treaties I've heard of
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by x220 8y ago
So the implication here is that if Google bad, Google company, DuckDuckGo company, then DuckDuckDuckGo bad too?
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by x220 8y ago
Such as?
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by x220 8y ago
Actually I'm sorry for my tone up there when I clarified what I wrote. My first comment had a bad structure that was easy to misread.
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by x220 8y ago
>Google and Amazon ..., Apple and Amazon Those are outliers and are not useful to talk about when discussing the economy as a whole.
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by x220 8y ago
>"take the selfishness out of a corporation" You literally did not read my comment. Please read it again. ... I said I prefer a selfish corporation managing this instead of the incompetent US government.
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by x220 8y ago
>It's dropping like a rock because having a child is either unaffordable or too much pain in the ass to deal with Why is it that everyone leaves the invention of the birth control pill out of this conversation? It is likely more sig
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by x220 8y ago
If the company is forced to provide it, it's a subsidy. If they provide it contractually, it's an employment benefit.
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by x220 8y ago
>It's not sustainable for a company that doesn't intend to stay in business for more than a generation So 95% of corporations?
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by x220 8y ago
For most of my childhood I was raised by a single father. Maybe people on the street don't come out and say it, but many of them definitely think that a father can't provide everything a mother can and is in some way imperfect whe
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by x220 8y ago
>run it through taxes and the government I would rather take the selfishness of a corporation instead of the apathy and incompetence of a US government bureaucracy.
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by x220 8y ago
If you work with the Chinese government to carry out or abide by censorship practices, you are oppressing people. You have the choice to not comply.
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by x220 8y ago
It is not a medical dysfunction. "Not wanting to have children" is not a medical disorder, it's a preference. It's not necessary to use birth control if you don't want to have kids. You could instead just not have s

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