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Exactly, the main problem these people are having is not a mystery - it's that they don't have housing. There are often addiction or mental health issues, but anyone who has experi…

How is that a better solution for the environment than using the windmills to power homes?

You rightly acknowledge that it's a difference in scale not in kind.

I find it useful to point out the faulty core of a person's argument when they're making a bad point that will hurt people, so that others who come across it don't give it undue de…

>[Being paid less is actually better for workers] I don't think people find this argument very convincing

They put child prisoners in cages owned by for-profit prison companies

The critical point is that the US has never cared about any other country in the world. Every foreign policy decision is based on what is advantageous to the US at the time. For ex…

In the US, that is how hard it is to get a government benefit like unemployment or food stamps, but public schools are one exception. There have been several states that have passe…

I agree with you that the employers exploiting the workers is the core problem. My disagreement is that you can't blame undocumented immigrants for taking the job, they're just try…

Because they have no incentive to? Not sure what that question has to do with my response. I'll try making my point in a different way. You seem to have some kind of resentment for…

>When such people get their papers, green cards, and work in USA for some time, their opinion on illegal immigrants, who skip the whole process (and sometimes even get praised for …

>There is not a single democratic govt in the ME sans Israel The millions of Palestinians unable to vote for the government that controls their movement, trade, and lives in genera…

That they've eradicated coronavirus in Wuhan? The photos are pretty self-evident. If there was a government cover-up and people were still getting sick then we wouldn't see people …

It seems to be an article from a book written by an academic. There's a page of citations at the end that you may have missed.

If only history had any examples of unfair laws...

If a corporation is going to transplant workers to a plantation in an unsafe place, then the corporation has responsibility for keeping the workers safe. A big element of their cas…

What I disagreed with was when you said centralized control is always worse, not a command economy. I asked for any evidence you have for that claim and you don't seem to have any.…

Exactly. If the publishers could, they would make libraries buy five copies for every one they lend out. People need to stop letting the publishers' PR teams convince them that the…

You think that half of governments have more control over their economy than China? You keep bringing up China not being a command economy today. I never said they were, just that …

Compared to most countries in the world today, would you say the Chinese government exercises relatively more or less control over their economy?

>"Food insecurity" is nowhere near the same thing as going to another city to stand in line for potatoes and onions. What's the difference? Millions of people in the US have to lin…

Food insecurity is not specific to communist countries, it's a massive problem in capitalist countries today. The US is the richest country in the world and 37 million people exper…

Do you think it's necessary for a novel to take a strong position on the Cold War? Propaganda from an enemy state is not a way to get a clear picture of what a place was like.

If you think these numbers are anything other than the tip of the iceberg you're incredibly naive. Consider how many victims of police violence have the means to make a complaint t…