ClHans

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by ClHans 14y ago
Ah, yes, the brutal regimes of modern-day Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and others in Northern Europe! where people aren't routinely bankrupted by medical debt, and don't enter adult life or the adult workforce straddled by terrible student loan
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by ClHans 14y ago
Again, is the food comment--a very small part of what I said--the only thing you're quibbling with? If I could retract that one small part of my original comment, what would you have to say about the rest? Anything good?
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by ClHans 14y ago
Is that your only quibble? This was above the fold on a ddg search: http://www.christianpost.com/news/1-in-4-u-s-children-at-ris... Aaand... "gluttony rather than hunger seems to be the predominant problem of the poor." - citation desper
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by ClHans 14y ago
Of course we do. There's a substantial and growing body of social science research that indicates that inequality leads to a whole host of social ills--see Wilkinson and Pickett. There's also an intuited sense that when so very many people
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by ClHans 14y ago
Good luck. That looks like a terrible idea, but good luck all the same. Please share whatever lessons you learn in marketing and promoting, of course--I know we could always use another perspective on that side of the challenge.
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by ClHans 14y ago
I'm wary of anyone who uses terms like "state-coerced" - it suggests that the author has bought into an ideology that is decidedly not reality-based. Too often, phrases like that run in packs with ideas like "taxation is theft" (it isn't,
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by ClHans 14y ago
We used to have real pensions from companies, too. It used to be that, by working for a company, part of your benefit was that they'd pay four your retirement. Of course, this is bad for the bottom line, so they cut that.
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by ClHans 14y ago
Of course, the social safety net isn't generous. I'm not sure why you think that. Social security pays out enough to keep _some_ old people from abject poverty. For some unfathomable reason, you think that reintroducing that kind of suff
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by ClHans 14y ago
No less an extremist as Thomas Jefferson supported the estate tax, and we still have it for many good reasons. This article talks about it better than I could: http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2010/10/estate_tax_...
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by ClHans 14y ago
> This Is What A Computer Scientist Looks Like" is exactly the wrong way to "empower". It's a photo. Fine, don't put yourself on the list. How others feel empowered and make community is not your call.
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by ClHans 14y ago
I note that he claims to have 29 sites, but hasn't listed them. A simple list of the 29 super-duper money-making sites...that shouldn't be so hard to provide...
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by ClHans 14y ago
My "privilege" rhetoric? What exactly are you trying to say?
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by ClHans 14y ago
I'd upvote you a thousand times if I could. You've just modeled the kind of humility and maturity that can actually make the world a better place. Thank you for this..it hasn't gone unnoticed.
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by ClHans 14y ago
Cultural marxism? Is that an attempt to discredit someone just by tossing out a scary-sounding label? What if we haven't been programmed to fear Marxism, and "cultural marxism" just makes you sound like an ignant fool? In other, politer wo
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by ClHans 14y ago
Have you asked the women involved if they think it's patronizing? Or is it just something you think?
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by ClHans 14y ago
I'm sorry, maybe you can explain it like I'm five. What does the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the public or private sector have to do with a centrally-planned economy? Or, let me be charitable (because I think I know what you were g
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by ClHans 14y ago
I didn't say anything about a Soviet-style centrally-planned economy, either. ... Hey, I discovered a great site the other day: http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman
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by ClHans 14y ago
Ah, but maybe he's not overlooking, for one example, the broadband monopoly or (essentially non-competitive) duopoly that exists in contemporary American society. Compare what we've got with countries where the government owns the physical
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by ClHans 14y ago
"Generally government is poor at picking winners, and inefficient" [citation needed] "Often the government people end up on the side of workers in the field rather than the public that they're meant to be serving." [citation needed] Oh, it
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by ClHans 14y ago
Dear HNers, Gender bias is a touchy subject in these tech blogs and the responses to this (yet another) article are, predictably, dismissive. It was one person's fault, there's no widespread gender bias, the instructor should have things d
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by ClHans 14y ago
I think you mean: There has never been less hyperbole in a headline, in all the history of the world.
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by ClHans 14y ago
You, as an individual, may not care. Unfortunately, historical evidence and social science evidence suggests that (bearing in mind that you as an individual may not care) when income inequality grows too great, other parts of society begin
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by ClHans 15y ago
Whether rich people use roads, public education, or food safety is beside the point. (And, frankly speaking, I'd venture to guess that rich people do use roads more, because poor people are more likely to ride the bus or walk.) They pay mo
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by ClHans 15y ago
Actually, that's a rather severe simplification of "what taxes are," but for the sake of discussion, let's roll with it. (or roll it out..and shape it in a pan, and fill it with apples, and bake it..yum!) Do I personally want free pie, whi
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by ClHans 15y ago
I assume someone downvoted me for the typo (sorry! the name is supposed to be Wilkinson), and not because they find it uncomfortable when science supports ideas that run counter to their own. Here's another good resource, this time from St
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by ClHans 15y ago
You don't need to suspect it. You can read the social science literature and have some confidence that hard-working researchers have confirmed your suspicion. Here's a good place to start: Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction by Wilke
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by ClHans 15y ago
Downvoted for what? For pointing out that all taxes redistribute wealth, and with this redistributed wealth we buy roads, food safety, police and fire, public education, a largely functioning justice system, and in fact the safety and secu
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by ClHans 15y ago
One quick aside: all taxes redistribute wealth, and the consequences of doing so are well-known and positive. There's simply nothing wrong with the "redistribution of wealth" as you seem to suggest. Now, onto the larger point. We care be
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by ClHans 15y ago
... Free him, and he'll remain a slave ... reminds me a bit about the way we're (mostly) taught life ought to go in the U.S.. go to school, work hard, get a good job (working for someone else).. get a car (now you have a car payment..now
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by ClHans 15y ago
Perhaps the positive consequence could be the simple matter of having done something because it is right. Perhaps he could look back on that period of time and reflect that, rather than watch it happen, he took action. Even if it accomplis

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