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I will never understand people's innate desire to pull the ladder up behind them after they've achieved a comfortable life. Then again I've never strived for comfort, just the rare…

Isn't having a satisfying life subjective?

Wasn't homosexuality still considered a disease in the DSM-III?

The privileged beneficiaries of capitalism are the people that hire the population of HN to make them money. As for how to make things more fair, a good start would be to allow bad…

Considering the shift in the Overton window the last 50 years in the USA, radically center is right wing.

So figure out when market manipulators are going to act? You'd have to be colluding along side them to know this.

This data that the tech Giants hold close to their chest belongs to the people and should be released for competitors to use in their products. I envision companies competing on UX…

It's so sad that undoing horrible laws and ineffective prohibitions must come down to dollars and cents, rather than the innate freedom we all should have. Land of the fee, home of…

Governments in capitalist societies are committees of the rich. The system is working as intended.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columb...

You can go above and beyond during designated work hours. To allow work outside of these hours is a race to the bottom in a rat race to see who can no-life it the hardest for the l…

"I like to bring up black death in discussions when people complain that our current time is "difficult"." IMO, we can do so much more with the technological advances we've made. W…

When the people have nothing left to lose, they will make the right choice and strike. The key is to give the working class the slightest bit of hope to cling onto. People will acc…

And so the truth is laid bare. Capital > humanity This is why people is not free to move where they can find the most benefit, but capital is. Priorities.

Cassettes seem very durable compared to CDs and vinyl.

Maybe the erosion of the safety net and the great disconnect between productivity increases and increases in wages? People who were not independently wealthy are not able to afford…

How important is this privilege if I can maliciously control how you vote? Now imagine the good we can do with real electoral reform (Democrats idea of repealing citizens United is…

Would you support a equitable society free of hierarchy (and then free of these leaders that must be villans)?

> > The most jarring incentive reportedly comes out of Chicago, which, under state law, could redirect between 50 and 100 percent of the income taxes incurred by Amazon employees r…

Reform the electoral system to achieve the representation we all deserve. The electoral system we use now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo Alternatives: https://www.you…

Internalize profits, externalize costs.

> I suspect it happens a lot less than in North America, because there is a mandatory payment of 600 Euro per passenger if you get to the departure gate but are denied boarding to …

T_D went to voat already back when I still used it (I gave up because they refused to add the ability to mute users), they couldn't handle it for even a week.

If you educate the poor and disadvantaged, they will demand equality. If the disadvantaged were to be competitive, then it's harder for those at the top to hold onto what they have…

You need a permit for a public assembly for most places in the USA. Granted there are a lot of differences between the two countries, but this could happen here.