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by hacknat 7y ago
Why do you think work in and of itself is important? Being useful to your community is absolutely important, but our definition of that utility is absurdly narrow in this market economy. In fact, sometimes what we value and what is useful a
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by hacknat 7y ago
Totally, but now play the same scenario in your head if all the social workers or teachers disappeared tomorrow. Uber would be a societal inconvenience, but losing all of our teachers would be a catastrophe.
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by hacknat 7y ago
If you ever have worked at a failed startup than you had a “bullshit” job. Bullshit jobs aren’t all bad, they are necessary hypotheses in the productivity market. The problem with them comes when institutions invert their competency hierar
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by hacknat 7y ago
Most companies operate within a market, but don’t, themselves, operate like a market (internally). Have you really not heard any duck and cover stories from corporate America? It absolutely is easy for incompetent people to remain employed.
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by hacknat 7y ago
Not at all, a lot of the work being done is probably having a minimal or, even negative, impact upon the overall economy. Labor productivity is low, because the Pareto distribution of productivity across individuals is at historically stagg
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by hacknat 7y ago
Also it is a total lie and a very narrow definition of utility. Arguably, we’ve actually under priced some of the most important labor in our society (caregivers, teachers, social workers, etc), and over priced some of the dumbest (sorry, b
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by hacknat 7y ago
Not technically one book, right?
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by hacknat 7y ago
You shouldn’t cite encyclopedias to begin with. I remember learning this in 6th grade, do they not still teach this? Research 101.
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by hacknat 7y ago
Or the third option, you do the hard work of digging into the data yourself to see what it actually says, rather than reiterating what the bureaucracy tells you it means.
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by hacknat 7y ago
CPI isn’t being measure properly. What if all of these numbers that you cite have been games by a bureaucracy desperate not to advertise its failures? Everytime I dig into a government stat I end up finding out how badly it misses the mark.
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by hacknat 7y ago
This is a problem in almost every academic field right now. Peoples’ lack of sophistication with understanding the mathematical/philosophical constraints of their tools is incredibly scary. For example, people throw around the low labo
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by hacknat 7y ago
The first word of your response belies its incorrectness. While you may end up being right, the situation is anything but “simple”. There are plenty of Monopolies that were taken down by innovation in the last 20 years. Monopolies are not a
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by hacknat 7y ago
If big is the problem than maybe we should break these monopolies up.
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by hacknat 7y ago
That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that their effective tax, as a percentage of their wealth is, much lower than everyone else. Progressives think that a progressive income tax is progressive, because they view taxation through the lens
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by hacknat 7y ago
Most of the extreme wealth generated in our society is not generated via income. Most of it is generated through property (land, stocks, insurance products, etc). Yang actually addresses this fact. The elite of the world are so effectively
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by hacknat 7y ago
What do you even mean? The average income in this country is ~45k. If that is what he was proposing than maybe we’d have an issue, I guess, but I doubt it. Everyone is so sure that people on UBI would stop working, and there is no evidence
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by hacknat 7y ago
I agree with you that VAT by itself is regressive, but coupled with UBI it is not even close. Relative to their wealth, Rich people, effectively, do not even pay income tax. The bulk of income tax is paid by the middle class. Does that seem
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by hacknat 7y ago
Labor productivity is a very simple calculation. It’s real GDP divided by total labor hours. Do you see the problem already? Let’s leave aside for a second that even the creator of GDP thought that, as a top level economic metric, it was us
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by hacknat 7y ago
The degradation of rule of law in the West, as well as the concurrent backlash against Globalization. Read some Roman history, we are probably headed for some social disasters in the next century.
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by hacknat 7y ago
This article is badly reasoned. Here are some bad statistical sleight of hands it engages in: 1. He claims “Prime age” (25-54) participation is at an all time high. It is, but overall labor force participation is at a 40 year low. 2. Median
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by hacknat 7y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but lets be wise to the dangers that can present themselves in this situation, and then lets make sure to legislate against them (seriously).
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by hacknat 7y ago
Certainly a couple, by themselves, is the 2nd worst choice for raising a child other than a single parent, by themselves. Children need to be raised by lots of caring adults. However monogamy does provide a sort of back-stop safety protec
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by hacknat 7y ago
I do think that monogamy should be considered "ideal" in some sense (especially for raising children), but I do think we need to understand that not everyone's upbringing, which forms their (surprise, surprise) attachment sty
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by hacknat 7y ago
To you. Peoples' politics are, definitionally, subjective.
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by hacknat 7y ago
Why do you need to swear in the commit history? And if you do, why not write something more clever. Also, saying, “fuck” and referencing sex are not the same thing, ask any harassment attorney. The law isn’t some mystery, these Code of Cond
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by hacknat 7y ago
My guess is that your living with a lot of guilt about something important in your life. You need to go to therapy and talk to someone about this conception of yourself. Viewing yourself as a failure and acknowledging failure are two very
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The Importance of Equality in Romantic Relationships(psychologytoday.com)
1 points by hacknat 7y ago|0 comments
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by hacknat 7y ago
I would add the sync package to this list. Maybe not the same extreme, but if you force yourself to use channels you’ll end up writing more maintainable code.
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by hacknat 7y ago
I posted this not to advocate for Communism at all (I have a nice job in tech, and I don't want to to be subject to the reprisals that so marked the Communist take over of the Russian economy). However, the analysis is spot on.
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Valdimir Lenin on Late Stage Capitalism(marxists.org)
12 points by hacknat 7y ago|2 comments

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