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Very difficult to run these days. Since 2018, federal courts have ground away many of the legal routes needed to run a successful class action suit against a national or multinatio…

Regardless of whether or not one personally enjoys the work one is doing, if one really is contributing to society, one should get fairly compensated for it. Additional requirement…

It would be trivial (and vastly more equitable) to quantize trade times.

In most cases this isn't accurate. The author (or, more commonly, their agent) submits the book to several publishers, who either accept or reject or refer for edits. Unless you're…

It's equally tiresome to pretend everything one doesn't like is communism, when communism has been operationally dead for decades.

In practice, almost no author gets to choose how the fruits of their labor are distributed. Their rights are gobbled up immediately by one of the big publishers, who then dispose o…

"Japan doesn't have walkable cities" is not a logical conclusion one can draw from the grandparent.

I'm afraid you're the one that's confused. Profit is defined economically as revenue minus expenses, and so the grandfather post's first sentence is correct. What grandfather is su…

They do actually have relationships with these institutions, and are in some cases likely stuck between friendly relations with their funding source xor showing solidarity with the…