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Businesses are society, we are forced to spent the vast majority of our waking life under the thumb of one so we should absolutely decide how we want that life to go.

Well yes, this is a good idea, democratization of the workplace and worker co-ops generally promote better quality of life for employees and the surrounding community, less exploit…

>They're not governments, they're companies. You're right, it's important to note they are more powerful and exercise more control over the lives of their employees than many gover…

Did we even see the same movie? We're talking about the social network, right? The movie lauded nearly universally, winning and nominated for all sorts of awards (including best pi…

The problem in both cases is a capricious and whimsical ultrapowerful organization with the ability to destroy a person's life for any reason with no repercussions. In China, it's …

I think most opponents of stop and frisk disagree with you: it's both. Police routinely "predict" that black and brown people are criminals, and stop and frisk allows them to act o…

>Edit: The exception, of course, is if the behavior that is at issue is actually encouraged by a foundational belief of the group. I'm glad you added this, I agree with you in gene…

Spoken like someone who hasn't spent much time on reddit recently. Since the massive surge in white nationalist, alt-right, and other right-hate ideologies online (and particularly…

>No good-faith participant in public policy debates aims to push whole generations into debt I agree, but I don't agree that even a majority of participants in public policy debate…

Well sure, it seems dubious if you frame it chronologically like that but that's not necessarily how it happened. "The idea that the solution to the core problem of X just happens …

Technically it costs bandwidth and electricity I suppose to make information available... Not suing people for repairing or tinkering with your hardware is also a "cost" I suppose …

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... His essay here is pretty blunt about how he is opposed to democracy. He outlines how to escape democracy (he calls i…

Tech folks are incredibly smart on technical subjects. When it comes to politics, power dynamics, seeing through propaganda, empathy, we are not trained in or likely to be interest…

Interesting the authors cite unionization as an effective protection against this in the past but do not recommend it as a remedy for the future. The problem with simply passing la…

Perhaps there should, but these laws are generally toothless and unenforceable because of the power structure in a place of business: in the US employment is "at will" so even if o…

>Why not give deference to the accused to set the date and time within a 120 day window? I definitely agree with this. >Lack of teaching empathy is an education issue. I disagree h…

It's certainly possible to require that if debt collectors demand the courts help them collect their debt, that they have to provide certain pieces of evidence to the court. This i…

Why do you assume this is informing police? Imagine police see your license plate and the Palantir app shows up and says "crime risk score: 83" and then the police manufacture a re…

Well first of all, any time a private corporation does secret private proprietary unreviewable analysis on members of the public which is then used by law enforcement -- this is a …

It is most of the time not an education issue. Showing up can be hard: skip work and be fired or show up in court? Abandon your kids to make your court date? Nearly all eviction he…

>is a better choice Well sure, the philanthropic model, which is in essence allowing the wealthy to control every part of society by determining what exists (i.e. is funded), who g…

Some episodes are much stronger than others. I think the eye camera episode was good, because it humanizes the dystopia: it moves past abstract moralizing and unrealistic "how thin…