philosophty

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by philosophty 1y ago
1. I didn't move any targets and your impression is clearly not at all sincere. 2. That is not my claim at all, since you're dropping half of the claim. I think we're done here.
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by philosophty 1y ago
You're the one judging a cancer patient's response to their diagnoses. I'm the one pointing out how wrong that is. So yes, it's about you personally and your actions. Not just you of course. We are all flawed. I thin
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by philosophty 1y ago
Let's not imagine scenarios that may or may not have anything to do with reality. Answer this question: what evidence would you accept to show that major American tech companies are using skilled immigration to drive down their labor c
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by philosophty 1y ago
You reread the link? He had the privilege of giving away a fortune, to causes he cares about, largely thanks to Steve Jobs. He's never worried about money and has millions in the bank and multiple houses, thanks to Steve Jobs. Some peo
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by philosophty 1y ago
There's a lot more to fairly criticize about this. Mostly the system that allows it but also him for taking advantage of it. And yet it's basic human instinct to do what's possible to survive. I admit that I would have done t
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by philosophty 1y ago
Many poor people could make it into the middle class by learning to do skilled jobs if given the opportunity. The number of opportunities is significantly reduced when companies have the easier and cheaper alternative of hiring non-American
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by philosophty 1y ago
Major corporations are hiring them because they're cheaper not because there aren't well educated Americans available. There are more than 60 million college educated Americans. That's 50% more than the entire population of C
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by philosophty 1y ago
It's very obvious that people, seeming you as well, take some delight in the idea that Steve Jobs killed himself with arrogance. That is morally repugnant. He was a pancreatic cancer patient coping with his diagnoses the best he could
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by philosophty 1y ago
Steve Jobs's entire job for thirty years was recruiting, listening, and working with experts in various fields. He never would have succeeded without being able to accept that other people knew more than him in certain areas. He worked
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by philosophty 1y ago
Funny how you applaud yourself for being correct but make no actual arguments. What are you claiming? That immigrants do not actually remit significant percentage of their income? That all or most remitted money comes back to America? That
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by philosophty 1y ago
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that slave labor is most represented in the industry that generated nearly all of America’s economic growth during the 18th and 19th century. Is the argument you're making, which is ridiculous
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by philosophty 1y ago
Your suggestion that these are "right wing" ideas when Bernie Sanders says the same thing and for the same reasons. You might accuse him of being "zero sum" but you can't accuse him of being right wing.
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by philosophty 1y ago
Poor Americans are the most in need of the opportunity tech jobs provide. That's how they can become non-poor Americans. Poor Americans are also the most vulnerable to unskilled immigration making them even poorer than they already
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by philosophty 1y ago
1. Immigrants send to their home countries very significant amounts of their income, so it's always going to be net-negative in that sense. 2. Those companies that hired 1 million skilled workers could have hired 1 million Americans, g
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by philosophty 1y ago
I've never met anyone that argued for open borders that wasn't capable of isolating themselves from the negative effects. Like say, a tenured professor like Bryan Caplan. Open borders might be net-positive but would very predicta
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by philosophty 1y ago
Your arguments are so convincing you don't even need to make them and there's no chance you're the one that's refusing to acknowledge reality. Okay...
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by philosophty 1y ago
Your argument is that all games are non-zero sum and supply and demand don't apply for some magical reason? Seems like I'm making the sound economic argument and you're just casting aspersions.
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by philosophty 1y ago
The way many people like yourself seem to have been completely fooled by major corporations wanting cheaper labor to exploit (through both legal, semi-legal, and illegal immigration) will be studied for generations. Their favorite trick (wh
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by philosophty 1y ago
Some games (founding companies) are non-zero sum. Some (like employing Americans vs non-Americans) are zero sum. You're just hand-waiving away reality, which is a very non-programmer thing to do.
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by philosophty 1y ago
You're arguing that Americans have no more right to success in America than non-Americans. I don't think many Americans will agree with you. And neither will most people from any other country agree about their own country's
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by philosophty 1y ago
Even ChatGPT is making the same point I am "it’s widely believed by medical experts that Steve Jobs might have had a better chance See the keyword "might" in there? No one knows if he could have been saved, not even his own
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by philosophty 1y ago
"And it wasn't a lack of courage it was a misguided belief that he knew more than his doctors." You don't know anything about human psychology if you think searching for alternatives means he thought he was smarter tha
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by philosophty 1y ago
Steve Wozniak's world-touring adventure wasn't as an English teacher. He toured the world as a technology celebrity. Steve Jobs corralling him into starting a company made him an engineering hero, technology celebrity, and rich be
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by philosophty 1y ago
Steve Jobs brought a hell of a lot more to the table than just raw ambition. I just meant to contrast the level of ambition between the two. Wozniak was extremely unambitious and Jobs pushed him into starting a company, with great difficult
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by philosophty 1y ago
On the contrary, I know all about that. Wozniak's company was self-funded with his Apple money (thanks Steve Jobs). It was innovative but not terribly so and was a complete failure as a business.
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by philosophty 1y ago
Jobs was a fanatical asshole, and Woz knew he was making a deal with the devil. You clearly know nothing about the history of these two. Or, maybe even more likely, you want this to be true so you can feel better about your life being rel
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by philosophty 1y ago
"He said he had a curable cancer and he should have taken the treatment." He never uttered this sentence. You're making it up (lying). Supposedly, he did say "I didn't want my body to be opened...I didn't wa
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by philosophty 1y ago
It's morally repugnant to blame someone for their own death from cancer like this. People do it all the time with Steve Jobs as if it's okay because he could be a jerk at times. It's absolutely not a fact that his cancer co
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by philosophty 1y ago
Steve Jobs is the reason Wozniak could give away tens of millions and still have $10M and multiple houses. Otherwise he would have been a good engineer and lived a nice quiet life, but nothing like the world-touring adventure he got. Stev
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by philosophty 1y ago
"What he describes is essentially the downfall of every single great Empire that has ever existed..." Even accounting for hyperbole this is just not at all historically accurate. Military conquest and failures, economic decay, s

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