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>Blacklisted search terms on a prototype of the search engine include “human rights” If there was any remaining debate about Google being something like a “good company,” I hope th…

>dystopia assertion without any text elaboration I think 3000+ dead US citizens, whose deaths were dismissed as “inflated numbers” by a mendacious reality TV star at the head of a …

The Dig is like EconTalk for leftists. Even if you’re not onboard with the ideology, the intelligence, researched depth, and interest of the host Daniel Denvir is matched by little…

For anyone interested in a more thorough and well-introduced volume on Japanese literature, I’d recommend this two-volume work: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-columbia-anthology…

Exactly. Whether it’s H1B abuse or tying work to healthcare, employers don’t want to compete for labor. When the Chamber of Commerce supports a socialized healthcare system, I’ll b…

Why don’t you spend a little more time thinking critically about the real options faced by the working poor in a society with vast inequality and decades of flat wage growth?

That he subverted democracy by threatening the Seattle city council as they attempted to address their homelessness crisis makes me skeptical of this effort. I doubt we can do much…

In Japan, most housing is also a depreciating asset and isn’t used as an investment vehicle for global Capital. You need zoning changes AND this depreciation/disincentive to invest…

They sure seem to have no problem materializing into the pockets of execs though...

>Evolution only selected for those of us who manage to reproduce individually and societally, not for those who tend to live to a ripe old age with a minimum of misery. Once humans…

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Respectfully, I think you might be conflating your own class perspective with those of these workers. Most people in low-wage jobs aren’t giving much thought to whether they enjoy …

At the point when you recognize this and then choose to proceed apace, you become a “mustache twirling villain.” YouTube crossed that threshold a long, long time ago.

> Many grocery store chains are unionized and the jobs are still loathed. Unions aren't about undoing alienation under Capitalism, they're about making Capitalism survivable for la…

We’re in the middle of the best economy and wages still aren’t rising. Monopoly, monopsony, and free market extremism have crushed them for all but the very few. https://www.epi.or…

And? If Amazon bought a company with poor working conditions, ripe for unionization, it’s their problem. They’re the bosses now. Maybe the workers hoped things would get better abs…

It’s not pure speculation- it’s the worker’s side of the story. You can’t discredit their experience because the other side behaved in such a brazenly stupid fashion that they’re p…

If they can’t do basic, physical security correctly, it kind of calls into question their broader approach? For example, I imagine it’s much easier to socially engineer yourself in…