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I'd like to see numbers here. There are huge industries that have been built around entertainment and recreation forever: sports, hunting, movies, television, books, music, etc. I …

What you're probably referring to with 1973 is probably something like the increasingly lopsided share of income on the top of society. To put some exact numbers to your intuition …

For some interesting context on "Amazon's dominance", in 2017 they managed a total marketshare of 4% of retail. Surprisingly even if we restrict it to e-commerce only, they 'only' …

It's very easy to agree with what you say, but something that I think is difficult to answer is breaking it down into real numbers. How much do you think somebody should be paid fo…

I could not care less about downvotes, but I enjoy discussion. And I certainly think people would like to disagree with me, but it seems none are really able or willing to form coh…

I sometimes think our views might be to 'current-centric' when considering a post automation era. In my mind one of the most distinguishing features of the labor world today is the…

A reasonable litmus test for monopoly is whether they would fail if they started exploiting their customers. Time Warner and Comcast pass this test. They refuse to compete and then…

I think many people tend to grossly overestimate the profit levels of large companies. Let's take Amazon since they're arguably the reason for the failure here and a company I thin…

I believe his point with 'hostile' is to choose nations where they would be both likely and able to say 'no' should the host nation of an individual request sensitive information o…

I do not think there's very much diversity of bias in today's publications. It mostly breaks down into a very binary partisan split. You have 'liberal outlets' that mostly sound id…

Thanks for the article. Let's look over this since I see it rather differently. The article states, "there are hundreds if not thousands of contract soldiers in Syria whom the Russ…

There's a difference between news and editorial that has been increasingly lost. To give an exaggerated example: ---- - Air strikes in the US killed 15 targets in Mideastland. Repr…

You're putting your head in the sand here. Independent restaurants in the US are dying. This is not based on anecdotal evidence, but national data. And your entire hypothesis that …

This is an interesting conversation to have as I used to feel very similarly, until getting to experience a nation where there are really no rules or regulations on food at all. It…

It's 'controversial' only in the sense that most people don't understand this. Many people seem to think that the only reason companies aren't giving great salaries to people, and …

Let's talk about terminology now. First is households. A household in the US is a bit more than 2.5 people. You can go ahead and bump up your costs to $41k a year on transport alon…

There seem to be a couple of major similarities between software development and other jobs with bimodal incomes: - You do a job that is, in many cases, a company itself. Lawyers, …

Let's think about money for a minute. Money itself of course has no meaning. But we apply meaning to it. It essentially works as a proxy for the value we assign to labor and materi…

Of course you're right, but the review process is connected to the journal. PLoS journals are very accepting and so they end up being seen as a repository for publications that cou…

Source on people eat out more when there are health inspections? I've lived and traveled to many countries where there are no meaningful food inspections whatsoever, and your state…

They just engaged in an action that substantially increases their monopoly over access to user information, which is their golden goose. And this action is going to result in some …

Can somebody explain the exact process for free access that people would propose? Most options seem to come with significant and foreseeable 'unforeseen consequences.' For instance…

Without defending the current system of publication, many things that are government funded are not free. For instance, our ironically named freeways. And nearly all government off…