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This is not true. You're completely pulling this out of your ass. Your job isn't paying less and outputting more because video games exist. When cars were introduced pay didn't sud…

The top 10% of taxes should go up radically. They've been MUCH higher in the past.

I'll say it again because apparently no one's listening. We're working more and getting paid less for that work. This isn't because of the standard of living. Standard of living ca…

You're working more and getting paid less than people did, 10, 20, 30 years ago... meanwhile the wealth gap has increased dramatically. Where do you think it's going? It's not hype…

This is false. I do not understand how so many people are coming in here peddling this theory with 0 sources. It doesn't even follow basic logic. You're positing that we're spendin…

This is not true. I'm talking about worker productivity within the US. Hour for hour we're outputting more and getting paid less. Before overseas labor you weren't less productive …

child labor still exists, literally kids operating sewing and mining machines

Walter You can go on and on, but you're talking about an illusion. You are literally working more and getting paid less than previous generations. It's objective data. People had c…

This ain't it chief. People are more productive than they were in the 50s and also have lower net worths. You can work less and have a constantly increasing quality of life. They a…

Ouch, that's kind of like the lottery. Sorry you worked your ass off waiting for retirement, here's some cancer.

The thing is... you can have the choice. Sometimes you need the choice, things can go south for any of us. The choice can also free you to take risks... it makes it easier to start…

Why give free school to everyone, libraries? Clearly a rich person doesn't need those either? Public services should be public. There's extreme social value in equal access and you…

Having nearly unlimited free garbage removal is probably more than a problem than people realize. UBI means you can actually evaluate the system you live in and determine what's ne…

Right not a bad point, but I was making the comparison to demonstrate Amazon's scale within ecommerce... not to compare the volume of sales across all commerce. I personally think …

Ah there it is. That makes a lot more sense... honestly at their scale I don't think they should be able to do this, aggregate or not. They're about 50% of all online sales in the …

>Before the Journal’s report came out, Amazon had told Congress that it doesn’t access sales data to help guide the launch of its own products. This is insanely hard to believe. Am…

Maciej Cegłowski is a generally clever and entertaining guy. Check out his (mostly unrelated) blog too... it's very well written. https://idlewords.com/

Oh wow that's even better than analytics referrer spam.

Yeah you have to assume that if a user can input anything, someone will use it to spam. Text, photos, video, audio... literally any form of user input.

Right, they can send millions at very little cost... and in some places throughout the world a single successful scam could be equivalent to the average annual income.

What drives me crazy is that this will happen even if the email with the invite never hits your inbox and goes straight to spam. Outright insane to not patch that ASAP.

They have not fixed it. I wish I could turn off the feature entirely, but I still occasionally get Russian spam events on my calendar. They also try to notify me at ~3am (fortunate…