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Not in the way you indicate, especially since there is already a dedicated word for slavery. To the best of my knowledge, robota still refers to work (as in one's job) or labour in…

> An old Slavic word robota (slavery is a good translation)... This is unequivocally false. I speak both Czech ans Slovak, with the word robota being Czech in origin. Robota either…

> There is a huge bias against women as can be seen by statistics of women in C-level positions, or on board seats, or as founders. The presence of a statistical disparity does not…

> We're never going to agree with everyone else's choices. We need to agree that they're entitled to those choices. I agree with the sentiment that everyone is entitled to do as th…

No, no, believe us, we're tracking and spying on you for your own good. Trust us.

Instead of dictating an arbitrary and likely unrealistic featureset via government force, we can all vote with our wallets and not buy phones that aren't repairable. Clearly, the d…

> The issue isn't "identify", nor "trust". It's effort. This is merely shifting the goalpost in the game of censorship. How is >"The adult voting public cannot be trusted to _inves…

>So why don't managers and administrators work to produce things? They seem capable of labor, and they're paid extra, but they work less. Why? Management and administration is a sk…

Incentives make it easier to care as there is a payoff of some form for doing so. Compulsion eliminates choice and has an attached penalty for not complying. It doesn't make it eas…

Why is it wrong to say explicitly offensive things and why should someone be legally punished for it? Who gets to decide what is and isn't offensive and to what degree?

That may be so, but this idea does absolutely nothing to help someone get out of poverty. If you were born to financially illiterate parents and grow up poor or end up poor as a re…

>The bigger lesson: Humans don't desire consumerist society. How exactly is this the case? By all metrics, humans love consumerism and it, or rather capitalism, allow us to enjoy a…