derekjdanserl

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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
>So? So much for humanity benefitting from technology. Instead of our workdays becoming fewer and shorter, a tiny number of people who don’t work at all will become richer while our lives become more alienated from our labor. This is the
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Tornado shelters are not exactly a novel idea.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
As I said, a “free-market” solution isn’t even an option.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
My entire argument is based on the fact that a free-market healthcare system is not even an option. Frankly, a free-market economy of any sort is a utopian fantasy. Healthcare is just a useful case study of the problems.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
That’s right. But the employer-dependent health insurance arrangement in the U.S. was implemented as an alternative to the various political dynamics that regulate most countries’ healthcare systems and it has successfully done so. The prob
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Whether it’s hospitals, hosipital owners, doctors, or other healthcare industry benefactors, someone is making a killing beyond just the insurance companies. Ballooning administration is not only a cause but a symptom, which is why free mar
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Especially since no amount of technology has lessened the amount that most of us (especially those doing these jobs being complained about) still have to work to earn a living.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
See: Owning huge amounts of land is uniquely antisocial . The point here is to maintain a society and some things must come first, namely material things which paintings are not. Of course, art history shows us time and time again the vita
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Anyone know if Nouveau can operate in integrated-only mode? And if so how can that be confirmed? The only reason I use Nvidia drivers is to use integrated-only graphics mode.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
marginalized?
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
The only construction project Google ever did in my city was use ancient (loud as hell) equipment to rip these big grooves down mile after mile of perfectly good neighborhood streets in all of our poor communities to cheaply install their
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
This just isn’t true. Every social species found in the wild relies on brutal social regulating behaviors that maintain social conditions necessary for group survival.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
“Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.” —John Stuart Mill, 1848 There is always work to be done to reproduce society, but if reproducing society doesn’t
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
“Will make them millionaires” should be replaced with “will afford them a home in a city with decent paying jobs.” For all intents and purposes, they are interchangeable and that’s the problem. This article makes me sick.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Investing in what?
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Keep criticizing them but what do you expect them to be doing instead? Dropping pennies into a 401K after giving half their paycheck to their landlord and the other half to student loans? In the absence of hope, people gamble because the gl
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Additionally, the status quo can’t sustain itself either. The current restlessness has a few (I only mean a few) notable similarities to the social context which led to WW1. A lingering ruling class who has outstayed their welcome and an al
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Great point! So simple, but as someone who has never worked on this side of things I never thought about it. How would legal limitations on data collection, like GDPR, influence the ratio? None? Only an insignificant degree? Or enough to ac
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Are you trying to suggest that a registered non-profit charity organization is an equivalent to a panhandler?
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Very well said. Same age here and I could not agree more. I don’t like traffic, but for that we need a base level of public transportation infrastructure, not this WFH nightmare dystopia.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
The ultimate result is never profit. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to...
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
This is a pretty good defense. Well done.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Honestly stunned. Thanks for sharing.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
What do you think a “regime” is? FYI, it’s nothing but a scare term and capitalism absolutely has its regimes. As Noam Chomsky is famous for reminding us, the American government is the worlds largest terrorist organization.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
The same recategorization could be applied to any death that ostensibly “communism did.” Why don’t we call American slavery “capitalist slavery?” It was far more capitalist than any of the deaths people try to attribute to communism are com
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Means testing has never been a positive thing for poor people. I don’t believe you can have capitalism without rampant global warming. We should already understand these dystopian proposals are just asking for failure.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
So, means testing?
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Of course, we are subservient to and dependent on an economic system which both incentivizes and enforces this type of behavior.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
These people are not politically “left” in any way, shape, or form. They are just decadent. The political left is responsible for my father’s retirement pension, his father’s freedom to spend his evenings to complete a correspondence electr
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
It is not a mere coincidence that discussing Marx’s Capital is never the point. They are approximately equivalent in their influence on humanity, but only one of them offers a critique of the immediate situation.

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