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Or, removing the cynicism and conspiratorial elements from your analysis: Millions of people raised on labor/union/socialist/far-left dogma that was relevant in the 1800s and 1900s…

Is it time for the AP to move away from using the label "environmentalists" for stuff like this? This isn't about some hippies saving a favored tree from getting cut down, this is …

White may be helping you, but male is harming you in any interaction with police or criminal justice system. From questioning to ticketing to arrests to prosecution to plea deals t…

No, that's absolutely not how most people want their online communities to work. Sneaky, indirect, hidden advertising is worse than regular ads or 'spam'. Regardless of if a commun…

Funny, it never occurred to me that you'd get to continue vesting while not working (I have no idea the policies at my current or former employers). I get that people respond emoti…

I appreciate that you have positive intentions, but you seem to have a faith in the government controlling assets which is unsupported by the facts of every government in recorded …

You didn't elect Bill Gates... so he shouldn't spend his money to make the world better? I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. Is there anything in my above comment…

Sadly, they probably did mean philanthropy. Many young Americans today have strongly embraced Authoritarian-Left political views and see any person who earns/saves/acquires enough …

> "In my country" > "In the US, it's very different" If I had a dollar for every time someone on HN who doesn't live in the US nonetheless weighs in as an expert on American life I…

I disagree with your claim that Biden and Clinton are "well to the right of the median US citizen". They are clearly to the left in literally every assessment - whether in the actu…

God I wish this trope would die. All the political terms - left, right, conservative, progressive, liberal, etc have definitions which vary greatly from country-to-country, over ti…

That people would suggest screen time, rather than pollution and exposure to chemicals which impact brain development seems unlikely. BPA, atrazine, PM2.5 air pollution, dozens of …

People constantly, openly make statements like "We don't need any jerks working here!" or "We don't hire jackasses" and are lauded and supported. Switching to a synonym which is ma…

This is the most depressing, dystopian desire. Taxes are necessary to fund shared infrastructure and services. They're not supposed to overtly punish success or prevent people from…

He raises prices to support higher pay, dog grooming now costs $500, none of his former customers can afford it, the company goes bankrupt and the employees are back on unemploymen…

I bounced back and forth between Denmark and the US for many years, though I've been in the US for the past 4 years now. The best way to understand Denmark from an American perspec…

I'm growing tired of this meme. Everybody in the US has insurance, that was literally a major point of contention to Obamacare - the left didn't like that the solution still used p…

Focus on being "good at your job" not at "making everything better" or whatever you're doing now. What you think of as doing extra work also ends up causing extra work for other pe…

If you fail out, it's not just your problem though. It's also the taxpayers who paid for the school that the student wasted. That remains true whether that's a Scandinavian model o…

Literally everything about this post isn't just wrong, it's like 180 degrees away from the truth. Far from 'outsized amount of hand-wringing over the fate of rural America' the tru…

Landlord -> Property taxes -> Government benefits receivers, service providers and employees The real beneficiaries are the people who gain from the increased tax revenue.

Ya, how dare some people want to use a field they had reserved ahead of time! Sometimes I wonder what bizarro world other people are living in. Every city in America has public spa…

It's fascinating to see the massive propaganda campaign ridesharing companies are launching against parking spots. You do all understand that's where the massive wave of articles a…