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In your case, it won't. You would be better off renting and investing the extra $2k in assets that are productive rather than speculative. This should be obvious, but the West as a…

You’re not underpaid but you could make more by switching companies. Some companies simply pay more than others for the same role, level, and responsibilities because they’re engin…

Who said these people aren’t working? I see a lot of people retraining, pivoting, and taking care of others. That’s work. Just because it doesn’t pay doesn’t mean it isn’t work or …

Why would you need to label someone by their ethnicity in daily life? This stuff really only comes up in two situations: 1. Forms where the person in question just fills it in them…

I’m not reducing anyone’s ethnicity because Black one ethnicity and Igbo is another.

So Blacks aren’t a “real people”? Is your actual argument that African-Americans don’t exist as a distinct ethnic group? If that’s your argument you should say so.

Let’s bring in an academic to this discussion. Someone already linked the AP guidelines, but I’ll quote an actual professor with a background in this kind of stuff. Here’s quote fr…

Black when capitalized doesn’t refer to a race. It refers to an ethnicity. It’s not a retcon to capitalize ethnicities. We’ve been capitalizing ethnicities for a while now.

Black is an overloaded term. It’s a race and an ethnicity. If you were to write about black people in Africa, it would be nonsensical to capitalize it because black doesn’t communi…

It’s common to capitalize ethnicities and Black is an ethnicity in the United States. White is considered a race. Is your issue that Black is capitalized or that white is not capit…

I’ll go back to the office when they give me my own four walls and a door.

There is an argument that this sentiment explains a lot of America’s strange choices as it relates to publicly funded everything. It certainly seems like a lot of our divestment in…

Because the alternative is to starve? You can take advantage of people when they’re in dire straits. That’s not indicative of some greater truth about the price of labor but a fact…

What jobs have natural job security? Either you’re protected by a union, a professional association, or having a rare and valuable skill set. The unions have been busted, professio…

Speak for yourself. I’m in no way concerned about remote work depressing wages. Competition has always been global.

> The government can not and should not lift people out of poverty if those people refuse to work to better themselves. At some point automation will leave us in a place where many…

Exactly. Not only should we "Give the parents choice of schools" we should make every school a good choice.

I actually discussed this very topic elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296242 I won't repeat my claims here, but I'll add that at this point, at leas…

Add ending the drug war and socialized medicine that provides for mental health services to the list. Having two parents at home is important, but having a social worker and psycho…

Getting rid of advanced classes does nothing to solve the real problem: different kids have wildly different resources/home lives and those differences often cut across racial line…

>People are different and they have different aptitudes. There is some thinking that if we don't have ALL categories/jobs/promotions with the same population proportion it is becau…

Does it say she kept her old salary? The going rate for a design director is probably a lot higher than that of an entry-level software engineer.