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You may find community organizing rewarding. Depending on your comfort level, you can try things like: - Volunteer work - Participating in city/town board/council meetings - Direct…

Note: Be very careful /how/ you invoke your right to counsel in the US: > And when a suspect in an interrogation told detectives to "just give me a lawyer dog," the Louisiana Supre…

> which helps technological change, which leads to a more efficient economy You made a leap of logic here. The technological innovations in finance directly contributed to a more v…

The first citation on the page[1] mentions researcher Markus Krajewski who reviewed Phoebus records and concluded "It was the explicit aim of the cartel to reduce the life span of …

That confused me too. Internet Archive has earliest at 10/17/2019[1] and the page contains a link[2] to the Sudo team security alert on 10/14/2019. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/…

That 401k isn't going to be very useful if you can't afford healthcare.

The modern drug war was designed to be a cudgel aimed at political enemies, not a public health effort. Quoth Nixon's advisor John Ehrlichman: > The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the…

I'm not talking about price lists for procedures, I'm talking about price lists for deductibles and premiums on health insurance plans. Visit healthcare.gov and navigate to your st…

Price lists and comparisons are available for health insurance plans. That hasn't stopped premiums and deductibles from rising to the point of popular furor.

Hundreds of people applied to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

Not if you've installed Linux on it to run Folding@home!

> If instead of almost 8 billion humans there were 4 billions we wouldn't be in this mess either. I'm not sure your logic follows. The US outputs roughly 13% of global CO2 emission…

To counter your anecdote, cyclist deaths have risen lately in NYC to the point of public protest: > Aster Ryan, 25, of Wingate, said “this summer has felt especially dangerous.” In…

Perfect example. The Europeans moved on the Americas before they understood disease pathology, resulting in the deaths of up to 90% of the indigenous population.

The executives are rewarded lavishly for owning the company. They should receive equally lavish punishment when that company inflicts damage.

> If the subsidy were eliminated and insurance untied to employer you would have a huge step in the direction of unleashing market forces. That's exactly how things were in the 193…

Our society is not geared towards sustainability. It rewards overproduction and overconsumption and harshly punishes those who fail to outcompete their neighbors on these terms. Gi…

> Just that was the only way to access music back then? It wasn't the only way to access music back then. You had recorded media and live music. I'm not actually from around that t…

Without advertising, these people would be forced to implement a profitable monetization strategy, or they would fail. That's how capitalism and the free market is supposed to work…

Medication, exercise, and mindfulness meditation were game changers for me. Meditation was effective because it sharpened my ability to detect when I lost focus and course-correct.…

It's surprising in light of the prevailing idea that markets enforce competition towards the lowest price. This idea forms the basis of the claim that market-driven healthcare bene…

I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that co-ops are supposedly more profitable than autocratic workplaces. Co-ops still compete in the marketplace but they distribute owners…

> In your view, what should Amazon do to not systemically oppress the working class? Convert itself into a co-op: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative#Definition_...

> Otherwise the most vulnerable among us will just get pushed further to the fringes. The most vulnerable among us? Like the homeless? Amazon suspended part of its expansion plans …

> The reality of the business world today is that employment is at-will. There's nothing stopping employers doing the things described in this article. So I offered up a way that p…