arcimpulse

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by arcimpulse 2y ago
Very difficult to run these days. Since 2018, federal courts have ground away many of the legal routes needed to run a successful class action suit against a national or multinational corporation.
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by arcimpulse 2y ago
Regardless of whether or not one personally enjoys the work one is doing, if one really is contributing to society, one should get fairly compensated for it. Additional requirements not common in the private sector, such as rigorous drug te
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by arcimpulse 2y ago
It would be trivial (and vastly more equitable) to quantize trade times.
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by arcimpulse 2y ago
In most cases this isn't accurate. The author (or, more commonly, their agent) submits the book to several publishers, who either accept or reject or refer for edits. Unless you're in the top percentile of published authors, there
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by arcimpulse 2y ago
It's equally tiresome to pretend everything one doesn't like is communism, when communism has been operationally dead for decades.
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by arcimpulse 2y ago
In practice, almost no author gets to choose how the fruits of their labor are distributed. Their rights are gobbled up immediately by one of the big publishers, who then dispose of their captive intellectual property as they see fit.
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by arcimpulse 2y ago
"Japan doesn't have walkable cities" is not a logical conclusion one can draw from the grandparent.
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by arcimpulse 2y ago
I'm afraid you're the one that's confused. Profit is defined economically as revenue minus expenses, and so the grandfather post's first sentence is correct. What grandfather is suggesting is something like an ESOP, co-o
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by arcimpulse 2y ago
They do actually have relationships with these institutions, and are in some cases likely stuck between friendly relations with their funding source xor showing solidarity with their readers, authors, and editors. https://placesj