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This is firstly not a response to the value extraction issue. Secondly, you don’t need to explain this here. Rather read up better, because this theory requires a fair market which…

The dangerous ideology is that giving money and power to corporations is any better than the government. The government in a free democracy is ultimately controlled by the people, …

I honestly don’t understand how you believe this to be a reasonable response. It does sound like a bad faith argument, an attempt at ad hominem. When an entity operates in an area …

Pandering to the corporations is just a race to the bottom. There was recently a real and respectable attempt to address this with a global minimum tax of 15% but that has been sta…

> I like how discussion of taxes turned everyone into a fierce defender of profit maximization. Nothing about adding back to the community, paying decent wages, etc. You are fundam…

The worst part is that local competitors can’t use structuring like this to evade/avoid taxes, so eventually they go out of business.

A very cursory investigation suggests the Iran war has cost the US approximately 100 billion dollars. About half in hardware and half in increased costs for citizens. These costs a…

Such professional therapy should probably be administered privately and during the course of a regular workday.

Railing against virtue signalling of some people is the preferred virtue signalling for some other people.

What kind of response is this? Why haven’t you fixed healthcare or all the potholes in your town?

I agree Iran must be hard to negotiate with but they haven’t even tried. Obama’s nuclear deal took years of work and involved multiple countries. When Vance didn’t get his way in a…

They simply want chaos. This distracts from their corruption and authoritarian actions, it enables grift and market manipulation, it worsens conditions in other western countries w…

Trump did not get where he is through negotiations or business success. In fact his business success was very limited until he got to political power. He got where he is by being o…

Do you usually start negotiations by publicly deriding your counterparty and state absurd demands?

> But every good deed gets harshly punished Can you name some of the instances you’re thinking of?

Two people see an opportunity to make money. One of them recognizes the venture would harm the people involved and decides not to. The other either does not see the harm (so not a …

I don’t see it as making fun of the situation per se, rather the people responsible for it.

If you look closely enough, everything is government supported. However farming is explicitly government subsidised everywhere.

It seemed like it was the past, but it might become so again. Europe will never trust the US for defence again, which means it has to build up all defence capabilities internally. …

This much is true, like most things coming from Trump this move mainly benefited Russia and China while actively harming US interests.

I have used an iPhone for 8 years and a macbook for 2 years. Every year the experience gets worse, like on schedule. This theory might explain what is happening!

It seems to me that is exactly what could be enabled by this law. It is forbidding the destruction of last year’s winter coats.

You might be interested to learn that both of those statements are very wrong.

In that case he would just approve wind farms that fuck with people he dislikes. It seems to me this is very much intentional to keep oil demand up and prices high.

Nothing would please our enemies more than people not being able to talk to each other. This decline of trust is not accidental.