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Our workforce is more educated now than at any point in history. This means we'll have more and more people competing for jobs they are overqualified for. From a job seeker perspec…

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Chasing profits didn't cause slavery to end, it was the abolitionists who were standing up for human rights. Historically massive social change doesn't come from the top down like …

Location: Chicago, IL, USA Remote: Yes, 5 years of remote experience Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, NextJs, React, Javascript, Tailwind, Node, Postgre Résumé/CV:…

Worth noting that while affirmative action has been banned, we still have proxies for race (aka legacy admissions) which overwhelmingly favor rich and white students. And given the…

I'm mostly referring to the cases where the teenager or child was killed by the police for no reason at all. There's no movie involved, but the execution happens nonetheless https:…

The luxury and call to arms fails to reach all ears considering out government routinely does the same thing to teenagers in the states, but because they are poor and black, it's l…

It's worth asking what made issues surrounding climate change so unpopular in the first place. Advocates and activists are working against decades of misinformation from oil execs.…

I've personally seen the race problem in multiple large scale socialist orgs, but feel free to ignore the criticism.

There is truth to the matter, but it's also because class conscious groups fail to recognize that they perpetuate the same racism, sexism, etc... that the elites do. Coincidentally…

Given the stark racial inequality we have today due to compounding wealth from centuries of colonialism and slavery, it seems diversity is the bare minimum we could do to address s…

Worth noting both Adam Smith and Marx agreed that landlords were parasites.

Slight anecdote on test scores. In H.S. a friend and I both scored the same on a college admissions exam. A few months later after studying my score went up a couple points while h…

You make a weak case for representative democracies while ignoring the police killing part. Where does that fit in?

If a foreign country had a rogue police force that killed citizens and then passed a law criminalizing the recording of the police we'd easily call them a dictatorship.

Wouldn't you rather have a healthy dose of skepticism and pessimism surrounding new inventions? Even if the negativity is off base, it's far more preferable to a world where everyo…

Yeah, I guess the bigger point being missed (by the article and most of the comments) is that there is a whole generation of people having sex but not having kids due to concerns f…

Kinda funny that sex is equivalent to reproduction in this piece.

Try to support your local news service first if possible.

Any search engine with a profit motive is inevitably doomed as one value overtakes the other. To have a search engine that works means having one where scaling endlessly in pursuit…

The public's interest is a weak argument. I can say it's not in the public's interest to have someone who lost the popular vote in office at all, but that is only my opinion and do…

Is there just a different set of free speech rules for the rich and powerful? If I incited violence on the platform, I doubt Elon or Dorsey would be letting me come back after a ba…

As a country that strips away voting rights from felons, it's arguable that we still don't have a democracy until all citizens are guaranteed the right to vote.