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is it not true that you're better off poor now than rich 100 years ago? maybe the statement alone is reductive, but most of "these" articles give justification via examples, too.

I believe the word you're looking for is technocrats.

I encourage you to ignore the IRS, then. Or, hey, even the FCC.

A valid contract requires consideration. It also requires an understanding, by both parties, of the terms of the contract so, no you couldn't _force_ someone into _slavery_ if they…

I should have said I think you are operating under false assumptions, are making invalid comparisons, and are therefore drawing unwarranted conclusions. I think you might be confus…

> in the same way that "safe" Rust is a usable (if difficult to get used to) subset of "unsafe" Rust Where did you get this idea that "safe" Rust is a subset of "unsafe" Rust? Your…

or Keith Jarrett playing Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues?

Have you ever run a business?

Government is not "industry". That word usually means "private sector". If you receive low wages in the private sector, it might be an indication that you're not providing much val…

The Liberty Fund doesn't engage in political advocacy. They primarily (re)publish literature important to classical liberalism and the moral case for liberty (and history and law, …

Insider trading is not fraud. If someone is merely trading based on insider knowledge (that is, they aren't also being fraudulent about it), there is no deception. A person ought t…

Are you joking?

It wasn't clear what "accessed the profile" meant. I guess it's talking about the travel logs from 2 paragraphs above?

There were no threats. Stop making stuff up. The comments were about "digging up dirt". Sleazy as that is, it doesn't even require personal contact.

There was no mention of blackmail. There was no mention of revealing the location of children. There was no mention of "rifling" through the location metadata of another female jou…

Rulers can certainly provide rules and conventions. But that is not the only, or best, place they can come from. Rules are usually emergent, and these kinds of rules are better sui…

Anarchy => no rulers not Anarchy => no rules

Luckily, no one trotted out that argument. Even if they had trotted it out, making wimpy appeals to the claimant's "privilege" has no bearing on whether the statement "poor people …

Complaining about "privilege" is limp-wristed ad hominem intended to silence viewpoints you don't like, as evidenced by your refusal to take seriously zo1's points ("You should be …

Here's the announcement from Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening...

Obama doesn't care about contradictions. He's just saying whatever he knows will get him support from credulous fools. That's how it always works. Politicians don't care about you.…

A single dimension of political ideology is ridiculous.

In principle, the more people and companies avoid taxes the better: less revenue for states to use as collateral for their various wars and illegal projects. In practice, Luxembour…