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> Putin is the head of a "virtual mafia state" And what was Russia the year before Putin became head of it? It's not like corruption came in with Putin. Most Russians I know think …

> You'd have two classes of citizens: the workers and those who are effectively parasites off the workers You already have that, it's called workers, and the heirs who don't work a…

>lower income households cant afford to pay extra for top-notch service...several people will e-mail, or tweet, or come into the comments to say theyd be happy to pay 25 percent mo…

> The conspiracy buffs are too busy howling in protest at the thought that their government could uncover how long they spent on the phone with their dear aunt. Let me break this t…

> But capitalism works based not just on what you can produce, but what you can withhold. It's a "tragedy of the commons" problem: if anyone can hit a "clone chair" button for zero…

A century and a half ago, Karl Marx said the only force outside of nature which could create value was labor. This was not a new concept, but in line with what economists before su…

Absolutely. Several years ago I was at a company and we were hiring for a position. One guy came in, who was maybe in his mid-50s. His technical skills were excellent, he could ans…

First world problems...right now the US is arming Syrian rebels so more Syrians can get blown to bits. You're surprised that the culture perpetrating atrocities around the world li…

> It is little surprise then that Western liberals no longer breed above replacement rates. Denigrating motherhood is not the way for a people to last the aeons of time. I believe …

I'm an American, and my e-mails, text messages, phone calls, and I guess even this post I am making right now is being eavesdropped on by the NSA. Snowden informed me of this. The …

> you can't train people to be stars Just like you can't train people to be star athletes. Except you can. Star athletes get free college tuition. Star college athletes get sent to…

During the twentieth century, US economists promoting the values of those controlling production talked about how production was fundamentally controlled by laws of supply and dema…

> Economists don't like protectionist unions. He who pays the piper calls the tune.

> Relying on Neumanns Behemoth, which depicted modern capitalism as Nazisms main basis, they argued that the revitalization of German democracy depended on a socialist overhaul of …

> In a 2001 story, the New York Times reported that there were 23,068 reported pickpocketing incidents in the city in 1990, amounting to nearly $10 million in losses. Five years la…

> what professionalism means. It's less about the neckties and watercooler politics he imagines and more about treating your peers with basic respect and human dignity What planet …

> [Sarah Lacy] said the BART strike exacerbated what she sees as a philosophical divide in the Bay Area. People in the tech industry feel like life is a meritocracy. You work reall…

If technically Poland was under Soviet occupation, then technically Italy was under US occupation. There's much more of a case for Italy being a US satellite state than Poland bein…

Yes. One must remember that pre-colonization India, say, the Mughal empire, included not only India, but modern Pakistan and Bangladesh of course. Not a central point, but an impor…

Yes, a VC is looking to unshackle the middle class, thank you! Someone is looking out for the US middle class, Scott Kupor, managing partner Andreessen Horowitz apparently. Barf. W…

Obviously there is very little rational analysis or response on HN to this article or the issues it covers. It's obvious from the wording of the replies of those who are more sympa…

This piece is so awful, no wonder it's a Wall Street Journal op-ed...the WSJ is a good paper, but its editorial page was always screwy, even before Rupert Murdoch bought the Journa…

The whole essay is rife with upper class Panglossian obliviousness. Right before he talks about economic inequality he says "When I graduated from college in 1986, there were essen…

"This trend is one of the main causes of the increase in economic inequality in the US since the mid twentieth century. The person who would in 1950 have been the general manager o…

"The shift is occurring so quickly, and the potential costs are so high, that some fear rural China is once again the site of radical social engineering." Yesterday Detroit announc…