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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
This is not true. You're completely pulling this out of your ass. Your job isn't paying less and outputting more because video games exist. When cars were introduced pay didn't suddenly stop tracking productivity.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
The top 10% of taxes should go up radically. They've been MUCH higher in the past.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
I'll say it again because apparently no one's listening. We're working more and getting paid less for that work. This isn't because of the standard of living. Standard of living can still increase while pay tracks produc
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
You're working more and getting paid less than people did, 10, 20, 30 years ago... meanwhile the wealth gap has increased dramatically. Where do you think it's going? It's not hyperbole whatsoever.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
This is false. I do not understand how so many people are coming in here peddling this theory with 0 sources. It doesn't even follow basic logic. You're positing that we're spending more while also earning less? Where's
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
This is not true. I'm talking about worker productivity within the US. Hour for hour we're outputting more and getting paid less. Before overseas labor you weren't less productive because you had to make your own clothes or s
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
child labor still exists, literally kids operating sewing and mining machines
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Walter You can go on and on, but you're talking about an illusion. You are literally working more and getting paid less than previous generations. It's objective data. People had cars and televisions. Your cellphone doesn't c
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Ouch, that's kind of like the lottery. Sorry you worked your ass off waiting for retirement, here's some cancer.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
The thing is... you can have the choice. Sometimes you need the choice, things can go south for any of us. The choice can also free you to take risks... it makes it easier to start a business, it makes it easier to fail. I've been lite
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Why give free school to everyone, libraries? Clearly a rich person doesn't need those either? Public services should be public. There's extreme social value in equal access and you reduce an extreme amount of bureaucracy and debat
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Having nearly unlimited free garbage removal is probably more than a problem than people realize. UBI means you can actually evaluate the system you live in and determine what's necessary (and then pay more for it). At the moment it&#x
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Right not a bad point, but I was making the comparison to demonstrate Amazon's scale within ecommerce... not to compare the volume of sales across all commerce. I personally think the distinction matters, but maybe I'm wrong.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Ah there it is. That makes a lot more sense... honestly at their scale I don't think they should be able to do this, aggregate or not. They're about 50% of all online sales in the US, where compared to brick-and-mortar, Walmart ge
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
>Before the Journal’s report came out, Amazon had told Congress that it doesn’t access sales data to help guide the launch of its own products. This is insanely hard to believe. Amazon just started selling batteries and other random good
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Maciej Cegłowski is a generally clever and entertaining guy. Check out his (mostly unrelated) blog too... it's very well written. https://idlewords.com/
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Oh wow that's even better than analytics referrer spam.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Yeah you have to assume that if a user can input anything, someone will use it to spam. Text, photos, video, audio... literally any form of user input.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Right, they can send millions at very little cost... and in some places throughout the world a single successful scam could be equivalent to the average annual income.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
What drives me crazy is that this will happen even if the email with the invite never hits your inbox and goes straight to spam. Outright insane to not patch that ASAP.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
They have not fixed it. I wish I could turn off the feature entirely, but I still occasionally get Russian spam events on my calendar. They also try to notify me at ~3am (fortunately I turn notifications completely off at night). The emails
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
A mix of politics, bureaucracy, and cost. For example, there was a fatal derailment back in 2017 in the US, and an automated safety system that may have prevented it was delayed. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Also... wouldn't the bandwidth of streaming back all that video be pretty obvious? Seems like it would take a lot of resources for data they probably already have anyway.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Yes making mass-emailing too easy is a footgun. It's incredibly easy to get blocked by common email providers entirely if you make a simple omission or mistake. Third party senders do a fair amount of work to ensure deliveability is ma
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
There's not a cheap off the shelf solution because most companies offering comparable mass-email services spend a significant amount of resources to fight spam and care about deliverability rates. Nice to have the option available, but
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
the operative word here is "valid"
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Diversity in suburbs is a very recent development. Look at the historical demographics of the suburb you probably live in. It's great that it's changing but suburbs are not a product of seeking to preserve diversity.
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Yes. It's very normal to not have any business within a 30 minute walk (or more), and even if you did want to walk there... it's also normal for there to be kilometers of roads without sidewalks. They just don't bother. Often
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
It's weird in our context but there's followable logic there. Being absurdly protective of the person who did the work is at least erring on the side of protection. It's not impossible to imagine a world where the internet co
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by aahhahahaaa 6y ago
Well of course, who can afford the rent? It's not like a little four-employee computer repair shop can show up and fill the space.

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