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Free markets are the worst basis for an economy, except for all the others.
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The spectacular performance of the US economy, 1800 to the present, relative to countries with varying levels of socialism. The poor performance of socialist industries in the US. The failure of any socialist/communal agricultural system to produce enough food to feed itself. (Even the Soviets gave up on collective farms.)
http://histsociety.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-were-tariffs-pol...
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The spectacular performance of the US economy, 1800 to the present, relative to countries with varying levels of socialism. The poor performance of socialist industries in the US. The failure of any socialist/communal agricultural system to produce enough food to feed itself. (Even the Soviets gave up on collective farms.)
Was the market in 19th century America truly free? http://histsociety.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-were-tariffs-pol...
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Was the market in 19th century America truly free? http://histsociety.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-were-tariffs-pol...
Was it a perfect free market? Nope. Nothing human is perfect. But it was a workable approximation of one.
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I know lots of bootcamp grads who got their first job at large and mid sized companies (100+). You should go look up the companies that grads from places like hack reactor go to. There are many big names in there (and grads that I know personally, that have gone to work for places like Uber, Airbnb, and LinkedIn).
I have a friend who's a Hack Reactor alum. There is simply no comparison between the rigor of their program and what the majority of bootcamps require. HR is incredibly selective in who they pick; they behave like an elite school in that regard. Their cohorts would likely be successful as self taught devs anyway, so HR knows they can push them hard. Most bootcamps focus on commerce first; if you can pay, you can atte…
What I am instead saying is that I strongly oppose barriers to entry, that a union would implement, to keep out the highly qualified people from the top places like hack reactor.
It would not be possible for people like that to succeed if unions started throwing up barriers to entry, regardless of how good the bootcampers are.
And this applies to top tier self taught programmers too.
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Was it a perfect free market? Nope. Nothing human is perfect. But it was a workable approximation of one.
This isn’t a moral judgment. But a market propped up with strong tariffs is by definition not a free market. The American economy you’re lauding was a mixed economy.
Your claim that it must be perfect to be considered a free market is argumentative, not substantive.
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Please read this recent news about a lawsuit brought by a shareholder against the board. [1] There's more than one man named in that. > And it really is non of your or my business that any of that happened. I strongly disagree. If we have to criticize or call for action only when we're personally impacted, we wouldn't have civilized society. Google paid "hush money" to not reveal what happened. Also, more than 20000…
Number of people doing something does not strengthen any argument. I can point to 100s of things that the masses do that are completely wrong. So the fact that 20k Google employees did anything does not mean they were right. A civilized society does not have people getting outraged and storming out of work every time they feel offended, or don't agree with the actions of others. Even more so when those people simply…
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This isn’t a moral judgment. But a market propped up with strong tariffs is by definition not a free market. The American economy you’re lauding was a mixed economy.
You can't make water 100% pure, either. That doesn't mean you're not drinking water. Your claim that it must be perfect to be considered a free market is argumentative, not substantive.
What’s your definition of free market, then?
[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/ha-joon-...
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Funny how people only ever use "entitled" to describe labor demanding better treatment from management, but never to describe management demanding that labor do more for less.
> Funny how people only ever use "entitled" to describe labor demanding better treatment from management, but never to describe management demanding that labor do more for less. “Entitled” is a term used by elites to describe their lessers seeking to be above their rightful station. It's only ever used to punch down. Other terms are used for the already powerful seeking to retain power including some that reflect the…
With that in mind, I think the word may have a general-purpose use to describe people grabbing for things the speaker things they should not have.
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Google has never, as far as I know, required that work email systems be used for performance of job duties only. They certainly want work usage to be primary, and in some countries and circumstances they claim more rights to intellectual property created using work systems that they otherwise wouldn't claim, but they do allow incidental personal use. In my experience working there in the past (before these cultural i…
And I’ve never worked for Google or Alphabet. The company has nothing to do with it, this is about a supposed moral issue that should (I hope) apply to every company, not just them.