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knughit

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    Comment #11468068

    The greatest crime a capitalist can imagine is an employee getting paid the amount they are promised, in excess of that they deserve. The greatest virtue a capitalist can imagine i…

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    Comment #11468052

    Is it ironic? Europe's great modern wealth is socialist capitalism. The original canonical work on capitalism, Adam Smith's "On the Wealth of Nations" lays this out clearly.

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    Comment #11468038

    Well, it came from being the children of people who provided a good or service, and likely in large part due to illegal unfair competitive advantage.

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    Comment #11468026

    Dividends, yet. But not all stock growth is due to realized profit. Look at AMZN for example.

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    Comment #11468011

    Inflation punishes people who assets. Poor people only suffer when their nominal wages don't grow to match inflation -- but that's exactly the same as their employers lowering wage…

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    Comment #11464760

    There is no need to insert arbitrary ageism. It just makes you look immature, whatever your age.

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    Comment #11427616

    Arabs use "Sharia" like Americans use "Liberty". They just use the word because it sounds respectable, but they make it mean whatever suits their power.

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    Comment #11427578

    How is the Western rejection of Christianity coming along?

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    Comment #11427446

    Can I watch Lawrence of Arabia to start?

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    Comment #11427440

    He wasn't communist, and that nonsense worldview is why they missed the problem. He was an opportunist, like many people in all governments. He sold info to russians while others j…

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    Comment #11427423

    Similar track record to 21st century USA FBI

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    Comment #11426850

    They did. 100% share.

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    Comment #11426798

    Does z.cash prevent deanonymization via IP traffic analysis? Does it resist clusterization?

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    Comment #11419499

    What's not accurate?

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    Comment #11419494

    Finance theory disagrees with you. A dividend lets the investors choose if they want to buy more shares (from the same sellers who would sell in a buyback) or mix their current sha…

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    Comment #11416887

    Unbalanced comparisons. Basic income frees people to do private work. Government projects, to be comparable, would have to pay people for their work, as you know,and also add a pre…

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    Comment #11416876

    He history books that are full of strikebreakers and company stores beating and robbing employees?

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    Comment #11416871

    How does that compare to a capitalist killing a 1000people in one day by collapsing a building on them? (Rana Plaza)

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    Comment #11416843

    An important part of a manager's job is helping keep self-centered self-unaware primadonnas contributing productivity to the team, despite their short-sighted immature attitude. It…

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    Comment #11416689

    Interesting, because Japanese is stereotyped as a very rule-following culture. But maybe that applies to social rules, not legal rules.

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    Comment #11363323

    "Tiger Mom" had a Chinese flair, but an extreme work ethic is seen in many subcultures of cultures. In USA it is called the Protestant Work Ethic

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    Comment #11362955

    Are Korean and Chinese not like factories? I always thought they were more so than American, to the point of famously turning out people who have a bizarre ability to imitate knowl…

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    Comment #11362907

    Why can't lower class women marry lower class men? Half of Japnaese are women, right? I mean, it sucks, but it should suck in a gender balanced way.

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    Comment #11362882

    Right. In GAAP, the technical term for the difference between a business's total assets (minus liabilities) and it's valuation price is "goodwill".

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    Comment #11362842

    AirBnB pretends to be a social matching service with money just for covering expenses.