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by GAN_Game 4y ago
Zuckerberg went to Phillips Exeter, a high school which costs at least $47,000 a year. Zuckerberg bought Instagram from Kevin Systrom who went to Middlesex high school, which costs at least $55,000 a year. At this point it becomes a parlor
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
If you have thousands working and creating wealth, and then a handful of heirs not working, and siphoning off expropriated surplus labor time of those who do work, then the heirs have a pretty good deal going for themselves. A couple percen
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> Honestly a big part of why I quit my last job was too many unproductive/unreliable coworkers. Unproductive? Then you must really be exercised about the heirs who own the majority of stock, who can and often do siphon off the crea
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
Your refutation to this is he was born in 1959? That refutes what part? Was he politically involved during the Vietnam War, atound Vietnam issues? Yes. Enough so that the Times wrote an article about that specific nine years ago https:&
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> That even that inconsistent Bin Laden story Worth noting that both the White House and the New York Times walked back inconsistent claims they made in the days after bin Laden's death. So the White House and Times were self-admit
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
In an interview with the Guardian he said, as you quote "Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true". You take this statement he made and translate it to "his claim that the U
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> his claim that the US never killed Osama bin Laden You give a link but it is nowhere in that link. I watched an interview where Hersh talked about how the US killed bin Laden. Hersh has always said this. Hersh did do reporting that c
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> tried to deny the US killed bin Laden If he denied the US killed bin Laden he would be unreliable. He never denied the US killed bin Laden. You saying he said that is what is unreliable. He said that some of the White House and Penta
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> a Osama Bin Laden death truther The "mainstream" "establishment" position on the death of Osama Bin Laden is that Bin Laden was living in the middle of Abbottabad, which is the Pakistani equivalent of the town of We
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> The idea that workers there are somehow this abused underclass is ridiculous The heirs who own the majority of most of the FAANG stock created none of the wealth, did none of the work. These rich kids of Instagram never worked, never
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> But to me personally: I am grown up enough to not care how many Porsches my neighbor has. How does this matter? When something I made is sold at a company, used raw materials are rebought, but then left over is the wealth I created. A
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> Isn’t income equality (government interventions in some aspects aside) a mere reflection of people’s contribution to a economy and their ability to negotiate? So, are you assuming/applying everyone more or less has the same contr
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> Julian Assange is possibly a criminal. He certainly intervened in the 2016 election, allegedly with Russian help, to damage the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. One of the main things Assange revealed, which has not been disputed, is how
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> Deciding that one's life is all about luck is a miserable way to live. It means one has no agency, no choice, no way to make one's life better. Because it's all luck, that means there is no point in trying. The outcome o
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
The census bureau disagrees - income inequality is increasing, not decreasing https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizat...
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. Because SWE's report to engineering managers, who report to other layers of management who report to the
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> the fact is, that over six decades later, the US has done nothing of the sort Bay of Pigs invasion? Cuban missile crisis blockade? I could go on...
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by GAN_Game 4y ago
> Or try being a neighboring country, like Taiwan The US does not recognize Taiwan as a country > Cuba have zero worries of any invasion Because the US already invaded Cuba and occupies Guantanamo Bay there, despite the Cuban governme