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> I don't use an adblocker because I don't like feeling like I'm taking something I'm not entitled to. ads are bad and pollute whatever space they are in. the internet would be muc…

>Immigrants from parts of the world with bad institutions will likely lower the quality of the institutions in their new countries, but only in democratic nations. The erosion of A…

Sounds like this should bring up discussion around a maximum wage/relative earnings limit.

>these societies were some of the most disturbing and violent ever They weren't the ones who committed genocide on the entire continent.

just be honest. in the BS-filled online dating world, honesty is refreshing, imo

Raising a child is not just "being alive". It requires a tremendous amount of uncompensated labor.

I guess "people that aren't rich have the right to comfortably raise a family" is an axiom that I had that I didn't really expect to have to defend.

unplanned pregnancies exist, and abortion access is spotty at best, especially for poor people

Because unless you’re an antinatalist, some people having children is socially necessary. If the next generation had no children, society would collapse. Also, many women have unpl…

Well yea, healthcare should be a right of all people and not contingent upon employment but that wasn’t really my point

Some, but not enough. Men and women should be absolutely equal in terms of economic power, they currently are not.

There’s a lot of things that are irrational to an employer, ie providing health insurance or limiting the hours their employees work. Fortunately labor laws exist and are enforced.…

I’m speaking on the level of principle, not implementation. There are a variety of ways you could implement this, but I think that is a secondary question to the basic principle th…

Women are paid less not because their jobs are worth less, but because employers can get away with paying them leas. There are values other than market value. Society needs both nu…

The problem with this kind of "gene-centered" social thinking is that the implication, almost always, is some sort of regressive or conservative politics about social problems and …

Every person under capitalism has to sell their labor in order to survive. This means that the employee and employer are not on equal footing - I cannot reasonably refuse to work a…

> Why would I want my salary to be the same as everyone else? If I am better than the next person and I am a better negotiator, why should my salary be identical to the lazy fuck t…

>If a correlation is completely explained by controlling for a third factor, that doesn't make the original correlation a lie. The implication of "black people commit more crimes" …

>blacks disproportionately commit crimes, especially violent crimes. This is a racist lie. If you control for socioeconomic factors, the difference totally vanishes.

The united states prison system is designed to systematically incarcerate and disempower black americans. It has nothing to do with "breaking laws". Incarceration is not correlated…

I agree -- I think that right wing economics falls apart under debate and scrutiny (ie, it reveals itself to be based on the interests of the wealthy and powerful and to the disadv…

>But how much of politics is economic theory? A tremendous amount. In fact, there's a pretty famous book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Critique-Political-Economy-Vo... >…