maxmamis

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by maxmamis 5y ago
it’s only “radical” from the narrow perspective of the last few hundred years of western capitalism. > Say he was a high-ranking professional or a successful entrepreneur and he used the capital he earned to buy a building - what's
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by maxmamis 5y ago
> Your example doesn’t really make sense - someone living paycheck to paycheck would default on a mortgage even if they got one. It’s for those people that renting makes the most sense. you just made my point for me — there is a class of
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by maxmamis 5y ago
I never said it was “free money,” i said it was exploitation. just because it takes some effort to extract money from me doesn’t make it justifiable. In other words, here’s the world’s smallest violin for my landlord’s “potential eviction e
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by maxmamis 5y ago
> If being a landlord is so easy, why wouldn't everyone do it? maybe just sit and think about this one for a minute? the answer is that they don't have the capital, which is why it's a relationship of exploitation. by virt
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by maxmamis 5y ago
> Repairs, insurance, inspections, et cetera rents in the city where I live are up 11% in the past year. did the cost of repairs and inspections increase by that much? > Also staging, advertising, pursuing delinquencies ah, so I'
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by maxmamis 5y ago
that work is done by maintenance workers — unless the landlord is personally out performing all the repairs, in which case they deserve to be compensated for their labor like anyone else. as mentioned below, the maintenance workers mysterio
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by maxmamis 5y ago
hmmm, i live in a similarly sized building with a live-in super. he's not the one receiving a third of my monthly income. where is the rest going?
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by maxmamis 5y ago
why do you think it is one?
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by maxmamis 5y ago
> I am hardcore free market fundamentalist, but profit motive should not come anywhere near healthcare. > Government intervention in healthcare won't fix healthcare. Instead, it will give you Obamacare. Fix the cultural values, a
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by maxmamis 5y ago
“peaceful empire” is a total oxymoron. the concept of empire is predicated on the subjugation of other countries and people. and please, citation very much needed on the assertion that China is more warlike than the US.
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by maxmamis 5y ago
> You know, the US does do peacekeeping, and does at times invade for actual humanitarian reasons. yes, I too am very smart and unquestioningly parrot my rulers' propaganda lines.
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by maxmamis 5y ago
> the US is the most peaceful empire in the history of mankind. i want some of whatever the hell it is you're smoking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
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by maxmamis 5y ago
another way to rephrase that is "if you choose not to work, you will stay in prison for longer." sounds pretty coercive to me!
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by maxmamis 5y ago
> The root of the problem is if there is injustice in sentencing or coercive work conditions. Not the work itself. lol what? they're in a cage guarded by men with guns. what about that could possibly be anything other than "coe
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by maxmamis 5y ago
and what risk is that? if the company goes under, they need to get a job like everyone else. the only “risk” is that they no longer get to be the big boss. cry me a river. meanwhile they get to reap (in this case) 100% of the rewards from e
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by maxmamis 5y ago
never said anything about rights. but it sounds like came in with an attitude of condescension, disrespect, and antagonism. i don't see why you'd expect them to respond with good will
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by maxmamis 5y ago
maybe if you walk into a community and immediately disrespect their rules you shouldn't expect a particularly warm welcome
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by maxmamis 5y ago
> Political note: calls for nationalisation, in American politics, is a gift to the other side. Perhaps you should rephrase this as "calls for nationalization run counter to my own free-market ideology" rather than a) assuming
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by maxmamis 5y ago
nobody generally feels like an economic parasite.
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by maxmamis 5y ago
i was responding to the parent’s description of people having “lost their ambition.” not everyone needs ambition, and ambition can be destructive. what you’re describing sounds like psychosis which is entirely different
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by maxmamis 5y ago
doesn't sound like their "minds were ruined", but rather that they have different priorities than you and that you're narrowminded and judgemental.
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by maxmamis 5y ago
> I’ve been considering starting a software coop to build open source versions of these middleman gig work services for a while. Would anyone on here be interested in joining one? i’ve been idly considering the same thing for a while now
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by maxmamis 6y ago
Congrats on entirely missing the point, which is that the workers created that wealth in the first place and should not have to “buy in” (read: purchase equity from capitalist owners) to receive the reward that is rightfully theirs
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by maxmamis 6y ago
thanks!
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by maxmamis 6y ago
Can you point to where/when this happened for their native code? As far as I can tell, that's still licensed under 2-clause BSD ( https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/blob/master/LICEN... )
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by maxmamis 6y ago
Incentives. FB behaves like this because it's profitable for them to do so. Do you expect this sort of behavior is somehow not profitable for other companies of their scale?
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by maxmamis 6y ago
> Anyone with even a vague understanding of music can write a song on the same level as a pop song. Ok, why don’t you prove it by writing a hit pop song? Come back to this thread when you have your gold record, I’ll wait
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by maxmamis 6y ago
"Might makes right" certainly implies a moral stance.
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by maxmamis 6y ago
You're literally justifying genocide.
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Make a McConnelling video(mcconnelling.org)
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