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Small business is just a propaganda tool. The idea has some allure, maybe because it reminds Americans of their priomordial beginning as settlers, homesteaders, yeomans, craftsmen …

We all agree about what taxes are. Some just attach more libertarian sensibilities/fears/paranoia to that word.

My mistake. I thought you were upper-middle class.

You can also use proper nouns, you dorks.

Your dream has two outcomes: 1. You get outcompeted by other companies that look out for Number One, namely the bottom line 2. You get surrounded by an entourage of corporate sycop…

High-performers (read: well-payed workers) like to complain about the nefarious corrupting influence of unions but seldom consider the case that the high-performers (read: upper-mi…

Yes, for shame! When will America get to hear the side of the employer? Mabye the executive of Amazon could be allowed to post a little column in paper like the Washington Post. Ma…

The meaning is pretty straightforward to interpret. Vampires suck blood.

Not really euphemism. More of an Orwellian term.

Some people are privileged enough to be able to get jobs where they don’t need collective bargaining to get decently fair compensation and decent working conditions.

> ethics Debatable.

Do you have a lot of experience with multiple EU countries?[1] Or are you just using “outsized influence” to extrapolate that non-English speaking countries can be neatly categoriz…

That’s not the case where I live in the small non-American West. We’ve all seen the American TV show/films where some Mega Loser has failed to move out the year they become eightee…

Westerners are from Saturn, Orientals are from Pluto: Rapsey’s five definitive sociological facts™

I think Spotify insist on using 10% of my drive. I can’t configure it as far as I know (any more). The only solution that I know of is `rm -rf `.

> I don’t think most people going to 3rd-tier college to study humanities are doing it out of some abstract love of education. Well, the fact that they are third-tier already tells…

You can’t use teacher as a synonym for researcher, they’re two completely different things.

> In many other countries, top academics and researchers are at large public universities. But that’s not even terribly relevant to the average student. An undergraduate won’t bene…

How is this an example of an efficient market when one of the outcomes is to simply get a “name-brand degree”?[1] Ideally it should just be about the other alternative, namely what…

That’s the stupidest theory I’ve heard this week. This is a forum hosted by a startup accelator where programmers and founders (as well as other professionals) gather. It’s not exa…

That governments act more in the benefit of business owners than workers was observed by Adam Smith and is still true today. Further that’s a sociological fact and not a “conspirac…