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The fashion industry has high-turnover and does the same thing with various roles. Companies that are located outside of NYC and LA and don't want to pay competitively can't really…

>presently life in western society Let’s be clear, this “kill the poor” precarity is mostly an American problem (maybe to a lesser extent in the UK and Canada). There are huge swat…

>Some countries may have more welfare but I don't think anyone in America is trying to claim otherwise Actually, this is the party line of the right-wing in the US. It's not more, …

It only works when you're talking massive, government-backed support for basic scientific and technological research. The tech industry likes to lean on this narrative, but the rea…

Well, then wish Swedish-style social democracy for us all, but maybe where the Marxists get to win out in the 70s.

>Sure, I'm playing the devil's advocate here, but in the end it's also really hard to define what is 'good spending' on tax dollars. Most social services in developed European coun…

I think one of few good outcomes of monopolistic tech companies, like Amazon, is the degree to which they expose the lie that is American free market Capitalist ideology. There’s n…

More or less, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War EDIT: Sorry about...history, I guess?

The British tried a similar narrative with the War of 1812, and we in America are still alive and kicking. I hope the same for Taiwan and their independence.

Be critical and unsupportive of American businesses that work with the CCP. Cite explicitly their human rights record and policy on Taiwan. Don't swallow narratives about the vague…

I understand that you’re just using analogies, but since psychopathy appears to biologically instantiated and heritable, I’m not sure they’re very useful. More concretely, it’s a n…

>The authoritative tone of your comments bothers me. What are they based on? A moderately extensive reading of the popular and professional literature on psychopaths. I know this i…

It’s touched on obliquely, but psychopaths are impulsive and in constant need of stimulation, which, because of their diminished emotional responses, they largely derive from anti-…

>Do you think it’s something that people suspect about you? Or do you think people’s perceptions are so off that they wouldn’t really know what psychopathy looks like? >No. Psychop…

It’s of course totally beyond imagining that execs would plan such a leak to avoid further disclosure and sway favor to their side. Especially when they just lost to employee organ…

India?

Yes, they would need to organize, but what’s happening at Google is a nascent form of this kind of struggle. Before there were ever such things as unions, workers banned together a…

How are unions a centralized decision-making process relative to companies that are ran like dictatorships by unelected executives? If anything, labor organization decentralizes de…

I’m not sure that ethics aren’t valued on an individual-level by tech employees, so much as they’re denied opportunities to coordinate and express them. Google, because of historic…

I hope that between this and the defeat of Project Maven, Google employees are waking up to how much power they have when act collectively. Hopefully, more formal labor organizatio…

Perhaps in a free, highly competitive market. But that doesn’t seem true in a state-controlled market like Chinese IT, where collaboration with the government is required. The CCP …

How would this work? It seems more likely that Google’s collaboration could allow them access to technology that they will copy and iterate upon. This is what Japan did and they no…

It’s odd that you’re willing to so vehemently question sourced reporting, while simultaneously postulating, without any evidence, that a very narrow, favorable to Google scenario i…

Fact 5: The Chinese Government, which Google will collaborate with to operate in China, has upwards of two million Uighurs and Muslim minorities in what the UN calls a “massive int…