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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
If there is an advanced civilization with better shoes than Aasics and better food than Shiv Sagar restaurant, I'd love it if they made contact and let me buy some of their stuff. Doubly so if they also have cures for heart disease, ca
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Thanks.
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I am not permitted to enter into a "more money, less leave" contract with a willing employer.
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I'm told that people in these situations often simply don't consider leaving for mostly irrational reasons. It's been described to me as something like "it's a big scary world out there, whereas the local community
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
It's not Tata and Infosys either. Those guys are too big to avoid playing more or less by the rules. The actual people playing games like this are small time bodyshops. It'll be two cousins from Ahmedebad starting a shop in the US
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Can you tell me concretely what you'd like me to do? A meta topic was raised by others, and I became involved. What did I do above and beyond others to be singled out? If the topic was useless, shouldn't you be detaching at the pa
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Chart 1 of your own source shows the reason for that - growth has been more in benefits and less in wages. If you want to fix this, ban non-wage compensation (e.g. employer sponsored health insurance, 401k, etc).
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Corporate culture merely provides a choice. You can always quit your job if you dislike the choice offered. Legislation does target individuals; it forbids me from choosing money over time. As a person with no desire to stay home for long p
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
U6 includes people who aren't looking for work but tell the survey take that they might possibly take the right job if it were dropped in their lap. Inflation adjusted hourly compensation has done nothing but rise. https://f
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
If you believe that only enlightened bureaucrats can properly make family decisions, and parents are incapable of doing so, that may indeed be good policy. It may not surprise you that I would prefer to make my own choices.
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Most men don't deadlift much, but it isn't considered abnormal that I do so on a regular basis. Most men don't sleep with other men, but that is again not considered abnormal or socialhttp unacceptable.
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
As the CA farms going unstaffed show (or our 4.9% unemployment rate), we clearly don't have a weak labor market. If you believe welfare is "stingy", can you name a good or service that non-workers lack? (Remember, I have a se
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
According to the slate article it's normal and socially accepted. Men still don't do it much.
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Sweden tried that. They gave out 330 days of maternity + paternity leave. Women used 94% of it. So they had to make some of it "use it or lose it" for men only. Men started taking the bare minimum, so Sweden is planning to increas
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Do you have any evidence he is wrong? Most of the evidence I've seen (here are mainstream descriptions of it) suggest he is completely right about that. Currently California farmers are desperately raising wages in the hopes of finding
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
The same story happened in many fields, not just law. Historically, the marked exploiting cheap resources was so pervasive that we generally needed the government to prevent it. For example, to prevent employers from hiring cheaper negroes
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Scroll up. I didn't defend slavery on economic grounds. I argued that if someone did attempt to do so, the response to them is likely to be anti intellectual. I appreciate you supporting my case.
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Downvoting and calling someone racist is not an argument. And note there might be others who are not certain which side is correct, and might be persuaded by your arguments. I'm aware. I actually receive a consistent flow of emails o
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
I think it was clear that I was paraphrasing to show a fallacy, not attempting to suggest the parent actually believed this. Out of curiosity, if paraphrasing someone else's argument is so untactful, how come the paraphrased comment he
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
The only "charged language" (by which I assume you mean the cursing) was a direct quote from the person who's comment I was paraphrasing. Can you quote the piece of my comment that you believe is "mocking"? I think
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
The existence of secret knowledge is unfalsifiable, unless we engage in prediction contests or something like that [1]. However, we can verify that non-intellectual arguments in response to certain ideas are quite common here. Here is one e
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
From the article: Around half of the world’s slaves are held in debt bondage in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. My point is that some significant fraction of this debt bondage is not remotely comparable to what is described in the article
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
What I don't get is what about our perceptions of how slavery worked in the US might not be accurate. Except maybe in negligible ways. I mean, people were born into slavery. They could be given freedom. But they typically had no way t
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Utilitarianism defines utility as whatever people value. The hard part is interpersonal comparisons. Most arguments I can come up with are reasonably close to contemporary arguments for socialism or basic income. Do you consider those argum
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
I didn't say it wasn't evil. I said that our perceptions of how it actually worked might not be accurate.
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Django Unchained was meant to make the viewer enjoy violence against certain people. To do this, they needed to make those people as awful and unsympathetic as possible.
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
My sister chose to enter into this arrangement with crossfit. She could have done something else if she preferred. She made an informed choice that being a crossfit instructor was worthwhile. Your imagined cousin did not have this option. T
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
However there are workers now who would love to live like truly free men who are not forced to sell their time to survive. There are workers now who would love to have others provide for their needs, but not have to do anything in return?
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Suppose I were to write "slavery is economically beneficial, ...a bunch of evidence goes here...". Do you believe an intellectual discussion would result? I'd gamble at 3:1 odds that I'd be downvoted and called racist. J
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
This article is conflating debt bondage with slavery. This is a huge error. Some debt bondage, like what is described in the article, is abusive and harmful. But much of it is quite beneficial to both parties. My sister was debt bonded for

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