thelasthuman

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by thelasthuman 7y ago
I will never understand people's innate desire to pull the ladder up behind them after they've achieved a comfortable life. Then again I've never strived for comfort, just the rarest thing of all... equality.
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by thelasthuman 7y ago
Isn't having a satisfying life subjective?
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by thelasthuman 7y ago
Wasn't homosexuality still considered a disease in the DSM-III?
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by thelasthuman 7y ago
The privileged beneficiaries of capitalism are the people that hire the population of HN to make them money. As for how to make things more fair, a good start would be to allow bad actors (the well connected good ole boys) in the economy to
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by thelasthuman 7y ago
Considering the shift in the Overton window the last 50 years in the USA, radically center is right wing.
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by thelasthuman 7y ago
So figure out when market manipulators are going to act? You'd have to be colluding along side them to know this.
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by thelasthuman 7y ago
This data that the tech Giants hold close to their chest belongs to the people and should be released for competitors to use in their products. I envision companies competing on UX/privacy/ect while all using the same data set. Pe
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by thelasthuman 7y ago
It's so sad that undoing horrible laws and ineffective prohibitions must come down to dollars and cents, rather than the innate freedom we all should have. Land of the fee, home of the slave.
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by thelasthuman 7y ago
Governments in capitalist societies are committees of the rich. The system is working as intended.
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by thelasthuman 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columb...
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
"I like to bring up black death in discussions when people complain that our current time is "difficult"." IMO, we can do so much more with the technological advances we've made. We have used technology to tame natu
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
When the people have nothing left to lose, they will make the right choice and strike. The key is to give the working class the slightest bit of hope to cling onto. People will accept lots of abuse if they think there is still a chance of m
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
And so the truth is laid bare. Capital > humanity This is why people is not free to move where they can find the most benefit, but capital is. Priorities.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Cassettes seem very durable compared to CDs and vinyl.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Maybe the erosion of the safety net and the great disconnect between productivity increases and increases in wages? People who were not independently wealthy are not able to afford to do anything with their time that doesn't earn them
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
How important is this privilege if I can maliciously control how you vote? Now imagine the good we can do with real electoral reform (Democrats idea of repealing citizens United is a meager start, but weak lip service to real reform) What w
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Would you support a equitable society free of hierarchy (and then free of these leaders that must be villans)?
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
> > The most jarring incentive reportedly comes out of Chicago, which, under state law, could redirect between 50 and 100 percent of the income taxes incurred by Amazon employees right back to Amazon Stealing the worker's surplus
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Reform the electoral system to achieve the representation we all deserve. The electoral system we use now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo Alternatives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIi
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Internalize profits, externalize costs.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
> I suspect it happens a lot less than in North America, because there is a mandatory payment of 600 Euro per passenger if you get to the departure gate but are denied boarding to the plane Is there anything that keeps the fine increasin
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
T_D went to voat already back when I still used it (I gave up because they refused to add the ability to mute users), they couldn't handle it for even a week.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
If you educate the poor and disadvantaged, they will demand equality. If the disadvantaged were to be competitive, then it's harder for those at the top to hold onto what they have. This is undesirable for those whose position in socie
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
You need a permit for a public assembly for most places in the USA. Granted there are a lot of differences between the two countries, but this could happen here.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
For something supposedly so good on it's own, religion really does try it's best to target vulnerable people. Naive children, desperate people, people who have lost someone, people sick with addiction (referencing the submitting
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Capital is free to move where it gets the most benefit, why aren't people this free as well?
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
Simple priorities. We value these money games we play with each other more than people. This is why capital is free to go where it may find the most benefit to it, but human beings are not. Priorities.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
I would like to know more, can you elaborate?
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
UBI is an attempt to save capitalism from itself. That's why you see 1%ers like Elon musk advocate for it.
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by thelasthuman 8y ago
While I appreciate where you are coming from, I disagree. No one should live in poverty, job or not. But it does show how far we are from getting there when people can't even agree that people with jobs shouldn't be living in pove

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