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Passive shareholders bought the shares at IPO. IPOs are the reason why we have these large public companies. Passive shareholders deserve the profits.

yes. Capitalism is the best system. Even in communist china, only after transitioning to market capitalism they got tech companies producing prosperity. We also allow forming other…

Woow so if airbnb sees this thread they may ban me ha?

i wrote the review after receiving an email from airbnb: "You can leave a review for your host even though the trip was cancelled"

They actually requested a review after cancelling this stay due to cash deposit issue. Whole thing is bizarre.

I recently had a bad airbnb experience. During check in the host requested a cash deposit. this wasn't explained in the listing or prior to arrival. i couldn't check in and went el…

I lost one of my ears in a high fever episode when i was a child. I guess what you wrote means i shouldn't get my hopes up for these kind of treatments :(

I seriously think declaring something "far-right dog whistle" is a leftist dog whistle, signaling good progressives should oppose that something. After saying this, usually no seri…

Who said Bodily autonomy is bad? They are just explaining the consequences of it in human species. Access to women's body obviously important for men (sex, kids etc.). Why is this …

If I make an invention that provides $1000 value to 100 million people, the work i put in is worth $100B. It doesn't matter if i did that in a day or decade.

donation page reads: "Your support will allow us to: - Provide emergency humanitarian relief for Uyghur refugees - Interview concentration camp survivors and help tell their story …

"take more than you give" is not an accurate description. free exchange is a positive sum game.

there is also a hip-hop version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZobf0MiWpE

So they are a sub-group of whites. they have distinct culture and also some distinct genetic make up (look for Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Panel) If this sub group has more privilege,…

It shouldn't be surprising. It's established that IQ correlates with less sex. especially in west.

If a group has "fewer resources and more stresses" "when growing up", we should try to address that directly. This doesn't mean universities doesn't present equal opportunity. The …

If it was all socioeconomics, you could see that in the data. You would control for parent's income and/or education, and you would see disparity disappear. I don't know what is th…

Google for example has large offices in Europe. Like in London or Warsaw. They pay significantly less there and find no difficulty hiring people. What i don't understand is why Goo…

Don't know about Hollywood but NBA is both. Meritocracy selecting privileged genes.

Being white has advantages, that's true. Being black can also have advantages (affirmative action). But no one uses "black privilege". Because everyone is aware that most of the bl…