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by luffapi 5y ago
The wealthy pay far less in taxes in proportion to their wealth than everyone else. Long term capital gains is only 10%. The wealthy are only wealthy because the non-wealthy people who vastly outnumber the wealthy, allow them to keep their
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by luffapi 5y ago
> Who do you think is financing the profligate lifestyle we live, compared to our true earnings? Globalized labor and environmental exploitation, of which the wealthy are gaining the most.
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by luffapi 5y ago
He was trying to get a job done and Musk was interfering for attention. His response was warranted.
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by luffapi 5y ago
No one should ever put up with being treated like this at work. Please contact an employment attorney if you are and start planning your exit and documenting your experiences. You don’t have to suffer abuse in the workplace just because a
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by luffapi 5y ago
Elon wasn’t helping anyone, he was clamoring for attention. He then made viscous and immature smears against someone actually helping. It’s incredible that someone would defend Musk on this.
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by luffapi 5y ago
It wasn’t funny to call a guy trying to rescue trapped children a “pedo”. That was very public bullying. He says a lot of stupid and hostile stuff. I’m surprised people found his public persona incongruent with the reports of abuse.
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by luffapi 5y ago
I’ve heard multiple early Facebook employees brag about stalking users, checking out who is looking at who’s pictures… having a really good laugh about it. I couldn’t believe it but it was absolutely happening at FB in the early days and it
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by luffapi 5y ago
Stealing sovereignty from one person is too much. Oppressing 700k is a crime against humanity.
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by luffapi 5y ago
Their choice was to fight the oppressive regimes where they lived, not become the oppressive regime for other people. Of course not all Jewish people are Zionist so there were other options aside from colonizing Palestine.
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by luffapi 5y ago
> The other option I see is to posit that in modern democracies the principle of self-determination is unnecessary. For geographically dispersed people? Yes, sovereignty is impossible and undesirable as you’d have to take it from the l
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by luffapi 5y ago
I don’t think a new state can ethically be created without a democratic choice to do so by the existing population of a region. I think a humanitarian route would be to lobby for open immigration in existing democracies. For instance, I thi
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by luffapi 5y ago
The estimate is around 700k people, of which a minority was Jewish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palesti... Just because it wasn’t a dense urban area, it doesn’t mean it was “unoccupied”.
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by luffapi 5y ago
> Your position seems to be that an attempt by such a group to concentrate geographically somewhere in order to exercise the right to self-determination is fundamentally illegitimate because any such attempt is "colonialism".
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by luffapi 5y ago
Those territories weren’t “unoccupied” though. They were occupied and not consulted in the formation of Israel. It really is the root of the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Balfour_Declarati...
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by luffapi 5y ago
A colony is the establishment of a new state on or in territory occupied by someone else. This is as textbook a case of colonialism as there is. > And even if it is "the definition of colonialism", what does it have to do wi
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by luffapi 5y ago
The Balfour Declaration is the foundation of Israel, of course it should be the main point of any discussion of the region.
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by luffapi 5y ago
> create a homeland for the Jewish people This is clearly colonialism by definition. It’s the entire story because there is no justification for oppressing and colonizing others, even if the people doing it also face discrimination. It
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by luffapi 5y ago
The Balfour Declaration was a request from a banker so powerful that he could order the British government to create a new colony. It has nothing to do with anti-semitism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declara
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by luffapi 5y ago
The Balfour Declaration was well before WWII. Israel was always a colonization project.
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by luffapi 5y ago
So what’s your suggestion for ending US support of Israel? We can start by recognizing that under no context was what has been done by the US and Israel in the Middle East (and beyond) ever acceptable.
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by luffapi 5y ago
> Meanwhile the new guard views Israel as an apartheid state, which isn’t great for Israel. It’s great for everyone else though. As a US citizen, I’m tired of funding and being morally culpable for Israel’s terrorism and apartheid stat
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by luffapi 5y ago
How does Google interview for product development skill? That’s seriously lacking in that organization, definitely the worst of the FANGs. The arrogance displayed in your comment isn’t backed up by the ultra-low quality of product being pro
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by luffapi 5y ago
If it was fact based they would have provided those facts. They didn’t. It’s also highly irrational to suggest the government is paying people to sit at home, since they are not. The comment was correctly flagged dead for being flamebait.
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by luffapi 5y ago
> Iirc, by far the greatest %-age net worth growth in 2020 was among the bottom 50%: greater than the growth in the top 10% or top 1%. That’s not true at all. By far most gains were captured by the wealthy: https://www.cnbc.
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by luffapi 5y ago
It’s neither rational nor fact based. The government isn’t “paying people to sit at home” it’s providing the bare semblance of a social safety net (kind of, not really) in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic. Hopefully these changes bec
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by luffapi 5y ago
It shouldn’t be, but just be aware that you’re asking people to put themselves in harms way. I’d rather grin and bear a jerk customer than get shot by one waiting outside after my shift because I personally had to kick them out. I totally a
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by luffapi 5y ago
The answer to any labor shortage is to pay more. Either take the profits currently captured by the owner and use them for salaries or raise prices and do the same. No consumer should ever be responsible for an entrepreneur’s failing busines
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by luffapi 5y ago
While this is absolutely true, it would also make the job very stressful (and potentially dangerous) if front-line staff, or any staff really, has to eject people on a regular basis. I definitely wouldn’t want to do it, the people who you’d
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by luffapi 5y ago
> The point I was trying to make was that it's not possible to be an ideologue when your head is in a cloud of math and code; and when you look up, you're the one with your fingers in running the system that runs the platforms
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by luffapi 5y ago
There exists a left and a right on the southbound axis as well. For instance, authoritarian left is communism while libertarian left is anarchism. Authoritarian right is fascism and libertarian right is unregulated free market capitalism. I

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