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by xracy 5y ago
This article would have you believe the CDC is scheming. But if you read most other Libertarian literature, they will also have you believe that the government is incompetent. So which is it? Is the CDC successfully conspiring to hide tons
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by xracy 5y ago
If you want something to be written by scientists for scientists, you have to make it inaccessible to non-scientists. Otherwise people are going to take it as the gospel truth. And honestly, they should put up major guard rails on any artic
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by xracy 5y ago
Then that should be the title of the article... If you want to be taken seriously for future studies, don't write a clickbait title off of a sample size of 1... The article as written is making strong claims about a population it doesn
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by xracy 5y ago
That's what a monopoly is... They've entirely cornered the market for a good...
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by xracy 5y ago
I love how libertarians simultaneously paint government organizations as successfully scheming to pull the wool over our eyes, and completely inept. In this instance, I would be surprised if Hanlon's razor weren't enough to explai
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by xracy 5y ago
"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money." - Attributed as Cree Indian Proverb.
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by xracy 5y ago
OR Get rid of superfluous school administration jobs. There's a lot of useless or superfluous middle management in colleges. But you're not going to get rid of them because they make the hiring decisions. 1. I don't know an
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by xracy 5y ago
In spite of stating my point, you're still missing it. Nothing Software Engineers are selling to farmers is necessary to do farming. I don't even have to go back that far to make this case. You don't need tractors with GPS
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by xracy 5y ago
Alright, you give me 70k. I can give you back 70k, or you can take the tax write-off for the loss... which one would you rather have? And if the answer is that you'd rather have the tax write-off I would love to take out a personal loa
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by xracy 5y ago
You didn't answer the question about the responsibility of colleges for selling this to children... Also, you're presupposing that all liberal arts degrees are bad, and I would contest that as a person who went to a liberal arts c
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by xracy 5y ago
I love this fake anecdote about someone who paid 2-300k for an underwater basketweaving degree, as if it's representative of most people who went to college. Also, where's the responsibility to colleges for selling these degrees t
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by xracy 5y ago
> Because farmers depend heavily on software engineers to create and maintain highly complex software for their automated GPS navigated tractors. Yes, farmers need Software engineers to make complex GPS software, which is why we didn&#
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by xracy 5y ago
https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/culinary-institute-o... I liked the part where you made up the numbers you could've looked up. Average loan for CIA is 7k/yr = 28k per 4 years. Yes, you can absolutely
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by xracy 5y ago
So then... The correct way to do this would be to say legally the people who borrowed from you owe you nothing now. Debt gets erased, lenders get nothing. Everybody wins except the irresponsible lenders. I'm fine with this. But uhh, fe
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by xracy 5y ago
Pretty sure the colleges have already been paid. This would go to the people who can't pay off the mountain of debt they were given while they were still children.
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by xracy 5y ago
I don't think anyone has suggested this is a solution to the rising cost of education. That's a separate problem. I'd love to hear your proposal for fixing it. This is a proposal to fix the mountain of debt that's preven
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by xracy 5y ago
Every person with a bullshit degree that I know had their parents pay their entire way in college. There are plenty of necessary degrees that don't provide enough compensation to pay off the loans of people who take them. We don't
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by xracy 5y ago
Okay, then propose something better that will fix tuition costs. It's really easy to say "that'll never work", and really difficult to actually fix problems. If you want to make a contribution to internet forums, propose
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by xracy 5y ago
Here's the thing I love about these arguments, they choose the most BS degrees instead of arguing from a stronger case of actually societally helpful degrees that people get and still can't pay off loans with. If you want me to
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by xracy 5y ago
Huh, That's a sunk-cost fallacy if I've ever seen one. But also, I love it when people's response to debt forgiveness is "I suffered, so other people should have to suffer too." I guess it's time to start takin
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by xracy 5y ago
Prove the causal link that lowering the risk of student loans (by forgiving student loan debt) drives more people to take them out. You're also missing the illegal behavior on the part of the for-profit institutions. That's what w
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by xracy 5y ago
"In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber makes the case that a sizable chunk of the labour economy is essentially people performing useless work." I would treat a bullshit job as any job/living that requires you to do usele
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by xracy 5y ago
Did you read the article?
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by xracy 6y ago
1. I don't think you understand the word "censorship". OP of the comment doesn't have the power for it, and Greenwald certainly wasn't censored if everyone is able to read his opinions spearately 2. You don't k
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by xracy 7y ago
"According to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, if low-wage workers have more money in their pockets, they will have more money to spend, potentially expanding the number of consumers who can afford to eat out."
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by xracy 9y ago
Yeah, except that the quality of tech jobs is such that it does the opposite of those things. This person is not describing gentrification, in fact, they're describing being avidly opposed to the opposite of gentrification.
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by xracy 9y ago
They could've been, but they weren't. I wasn't calling it "explicitly racist", I was calling it "vaguely racist" because, while we all new what they were implying, They didn't come out and say it. Erg
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by xracy 9y ago
Yeah, You'll notice I called what you said racist, specifically because your statement didn't tie what you were saying to income, but instead to "demographics".
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by xracy 9y ago
This is the definition of "vaguely racist": "increased crime... and possible demographic shifts that marginalize your culture" Don't want none of them other demographics moving here to increase the crime, and margin
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by xracy 10y ago
It makes me indescribably euphoric to imagine Twitler seeing this everytime he logs in.

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