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GDP is a good measure of how the wealthy are doing, not so much your average citizen.

The best solution is communism. But you won't hear an economist say so ;)

What democracy? Citizen interests haven't mattered for a looong time.

The parent comment was fine, it just sounds like you're upset about what they said rather than how they said it.

Great, now make it so tracking my delivery driver doesn't freeze my phone and force me to restart.

Did you read the article? The author is concerned about spyware.

He was smart in the sense he knew how to best exploit his engineers and take credit for their work.

None of it would be possible without academia though. Industry just applies academic research.

Life today is better if you're already established, i.e. have a well paying job, own a home, etc. Being young in todays world is exponentially harder than it was, say, 40 years ago…

In Canada, $80/hr. Aiming for $90 for my next contract starting next month. Or to move to the US and make way more, apparently.

> The whole ‘fair share’ of taxes argument presumes that the aggrieved group would pay less if others paid more. I don't think it does presume that. I can want another group to pay…

This is my favourite genre and I think the photos are quite nice.

Not sure where you got this "manipulation is negative persuasion" definition. You can most certainly manipulate people without intending harm. For example, I could manipulate you i…

In a similar vein, people using scientific facts in non-scientific conversations. The amount of times I've heard "well the SCIENCE tells us..." in a moral debate is mind boggling.

*Abundant for some

The fact you're tipping 10% for bad service shows the guilt trip is working

I can't imagine a situation in which someone dies because I used the term China virus. Also the CCP definitely cares. Negative PR for a country which is a major exporter is a bad t…

That's true, however I do think the meat-only anecdote came from a good place. Him and his daughter had been suffering from clinical depression and a host of other problems for dec…

He wasn't "pushing an agenda". He was telling people about how a diet he went on helped him and his daughter. He explicitly stated multiple times that he wasn't a doctor and that h…

Sure but people understand the basic transaction (give money -> get milk). If on the other hand they gave you free milk but tracked your milk usage without telling you, I'd argue t…

A lot of people aren't aware of the data collection. In those cases I think calling it stealing is fair.

Beats continuing to bailout the corporations instead of the people.

Started learning music 2 weeks ago, this will be very useful thanks

Ah yes the old "the majority of people are wrong, MY ideas are correct, why doesn't the government just implement all of MY ideas as they're obviously correct" argument.

Are you seriously equating misgendering someone with killing them?