PCMcGee

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by PCMcGee 9y ago
This has already been done. It's known as Non-Aristotelian General Semantics. It's even possible to teach yourself how to speak this way. Intelligence agencies sometimes train operatives in it, because then the reports they make a
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
BS.
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
The level most people in the US live at is called "poverty". The amount of work that goes into food, transportation and clean water is incredibly small, compared to the amount of people it supports, and it could be made immensely
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
And don't overlook the fact that the society he is presenting is destroying the only place where any other society could be built, namely The Earth.
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
Stop paying retail prices for everything. In a market based economy, we need everyone shopping, every week. But, in a resource based economy, we would build things to last longer, and design things that are more efficient. The cost is not t
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
I don't begin to pretend to understand the delusions that people are citing as reasons for supporting a "work" culture. Are the people who believe this rhetoric blind to the destruction that is being caused to the Earth by bi
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
"Most of the jobs constituting valuable contributions are going to be paid" This is not the way things are. This sounds more like something a politician told you to believe. The most valuable workers in our economy are underpaid
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
"Human traits" = a deep flaw in your understanding of human behavior.
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
Fresco was unique in that all of his designs were based on testable, quantifiable evidence based assessments of reality. His designs for cities ended up looking like "utopias" because he started at the evidence based engineering l
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
Not entirely accurate, in my opinion. You should realize most issues brought up as arguments between left and right are publicized in order to substantiate a (mostly ficticious) divide between the left and right, and thereby prevent coopera
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
As most protectors of the establishment are wont to do, the author conflates lack of trust in science with lack of trust in the system used to produce medicines. Putting the profit motive ahead of concerns for safety, performing biased stu
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
Musk mentioned nearly the exact percentages of metals used in the last Tesla shareholders meeting recently.
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by PCMcGee 10y ago
Please, realise there is no "your land" island on which people live apart from the ecosytem. Personally, I feel that living on "your" land is fine, it's that market mechanism forcing the extraction of value from it