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> Over 40% of white students at Harvard are side-door admissions (legacy, donors, children of faculty, etc.). I'm sure it's over 40%. It wouldn't surprise me if it's 70. There are …

There's a certain rhetorical device being employed here where a hopeless situation is being presented, followed by an intimation that, if workers fight for it, things can be differ…

> But to get there, office workers must organize, and take the goals and power of the Office into account. It does not want to be flexible, and it cares little for efficiency. If t…

This. The other issue with peak oil is that people have been predicting it since 2005 (if not earlier) and the general picture has been, and still is: * we don't fully know when oi…

Unfortunately, people like us who respond to that sort of thing like a normal human (as opposed to a brainwashed corporate drone who lives in terror of the master's displeasure) te…

Because they're not. One bad professional turn, health problem, or lawsuit and they are thrown out like garbage. They're detested by both sides. The regular poor proletarians see t…

The good news is that some of this is publication bias, not a devolution of public mental health. Before about 1960, the lower classes had almost no chance of getting their words i…

Although I think "impostor syndrome" is vague and over-diagnosed, it's a natural reaction to a diseased society such as ours. Capitalism tells you you can be anything you want to b…

Everything you're saying about the Soviet health system is true of capitalism's health system now. The difference is that, in the US, we go into debt for our mediocre care. The mai…

We can't be sure about alternate timelines, but it's a strong possibility that, had the USSR been left in peace, it would have achieved an even greater prosperity by now. The USSR …

Right. We didn't actually "win" the Cold War. As soon as "communism" (though it was never actually achieved) was perceived as defeated, the capitalists no longer had to justify the…

This is a ridiculous take. Veterinary medicine is not some capitalist utopia. Most vets are miserable and, unlike doctors, most of them don't even make any money for their sufferin…

The fact that private equity firms aren't being bombed for the shit they're pulling now--i.e., the way they're moving into the housing market--is an embarrassment to us as a people…

Which leads to antibiotics being over prescribed because parents don’t want to leave the doctors office without something to do afterwards. You're not wrong, but sometimes this is …

What you're saying isn't wrong, but there are obvious solutions in front of us. We implement a universal basic income (indexed to inflation, so it absorbs any inflation it causes) …

Part of the problem is that the way we conceptualize money leads us to treat it as if it's a real thing, as opposed to an accounting system the state creates for various purposes, …

Something I've learned is that most people are only really good (that is, good enough to contribute notably and distinguish themselves) at one thing. A few of us are good at two th…

I'm 39 and disabled in addition to being politically exposed (that is, a bunch of people whom I've never met know me by my real name and, for reasons so silly it is not worth getti…

The historical tendency is for the elite to use violence to preserve what they have, in which case it usually becomes necessary to fight back. However, if their will and morale can…

The corporate system is running the world off a cliff. The standard of living is falling all over the world and, in much of it, has been for decades. Global warming threatens to de…

So, you would prefer the job be done with a maximum of bloodshed?