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Class mobility better in other countries? Please provide a source for this claim.
Vertical social mobility is pretty bad in the US. This is for 2012: https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi... This OECD chart shows how your financial outcome is practically inherited in the US and Germany: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/moving-up-the-income-... This isn't very surprising. For decades, the strongest predictor for a country having high social mobility is a strong welfare…
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
Class mobility better in other countries? Please provide a source for this claim.
Vertical social mobility is pretty bad in the US. This is for 2012: https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi... This OECD chart shows how your financial outcome is practically inherited in the US and Germany: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/moving-up-the-income-... This isn't very surprising. For decades, the strongest predictor for a country having high social mobility is a strong welfare…
> The strongest predictor for a county having high social mobility is a strong welfare program..
Citation needed.
> financed by progressive taxation of income and wealth.
Only 4 OECD countries still have a wealth tax. “Taxing wealth” hasn’t worked out very well.
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#273I do wonder if supervising devices lowers security overall.
Apple has been moving a number of the 'heavy hand' management permissions to only apply to supervised devices - for example "global http proxy" [1], which can be loaded onto a device through safari on a link to an plist on an unlocked device or through a management server (MDM), forces all http/https traffic though a proxy only applies on supervised devices.
Also Apple announced at WWDC [3] that blocking host pairing in Configurator is going away in favor of the restriction setting blocking it [2]
[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/g...
[2] allowHostPairing restriction at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/r...
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Why do you call that freedom? You can be in a good prison and live without doing anything, having good healthcare and food. But it's not freedom. Freedom is being able to do whatever you want. Some freedom might not be OK, for example freedom to kick other people or freedom to own slaves. Some freedom is good to have like freedom to shot thieves in your house.
No society is going to be able to offer freedom defined as "being able to do whatever you want". I call it freedom because I see people exercising it. What is the point of a "freedom" if you can't afford to exercise it? Are you free to send your children to play in sports if you're afraid that your child getting injured will financially ruin you? Are you free to participate in activities yourself if you're teetering…
You are free to make good decisions and bad ones.
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I can understand how you'd see that: let's go point by point. > repressive police state outside anybody's control Nah, mostly individual cops > properly evil government which is openly xenophobic No, we expect people to immigrate legally, and have less obligation to non-citizens. However, this can be countermanded with the sheer amount of military aid we provide for everyone. >one serious illness away from utter bank…
> In reality, people have safety nets, considerate bosses, savings, families, or any combination. Yeah its great have one's saving wiped out by something that we in Europe just have our shared pool of resources covers for. So you only have to deal with (sometimes lifelong) consequences of some hard illness / accident, and you can continue your life unaffected financially and not compound misery and life getting signi…
Plenty of politicians talk about it here. Currently, we have some of the best quality healthcare in the world, and it's also the most expensive. Trying to make it all single-payer would be...interesting, to say the least. It's a complex issue
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Please don't be so presumptuous. First of all, I live in Europe. Second, I literally said that I think (at least) people with lower incomes have better lives in other Western countries. I really do mean freedom in the literal legal sense, and I don't think this is an important metric.
In the literal legal sense, the US courts ruled people don’t have rights against illegal search and seizure within 100 miles of a border or international airport. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception There’s so many of these exceptions to “freedoms” in the US, namely that if you can’t afford to fight for your freedom, can you really be considered to have it? I do appreciate for the most part, however…
That is not 100 miles from an airport, but 100 miles from the actual land border. Review the relevant law and court decisions. An airport isn’t a “land border.” It’s a border, but not a “land border.”
No law or case has successfully argued 100 miles from an international airport. That is just false information.
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Interesting. Wonder if they target you for some reason? but I think some questions are just following a script, so it might seem invasive but they do this all day. My dream is if ever got rich from tech or won the lottery, is to travel full time. By plane, train, cruise ship and then buy an RV to explore more of the US. I think RVs are super cool but feel they are a bit outdated compared to modern cars. So hoping by…
> My dream is if ever got rich from tech or won the lottery, is to travel full time.....But I feel like living an alternative lifestyle would subject me to harassment at some point I quit my job and spent 2 years driving from AK to Argentina, then again to spend 3 years driving around Africa. I'm now a full-time nomad, and doing everything I can to never sit at a desk again (freelance writing, photography, published…
"I quit my job and spent 2 years driving from AK to Argentina ..."
How did you cross the Colombian jungle ?
I drove a much less ambitious route from Colorado to El Salvador and, of course, thought about continuing to go south ... but all accounts led me to believe that it was essentially impossible to drive continuously through Colombia ...
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* In the USA, you are free to deny the holocaust. In Germany and the UK, you are not. * In the USA, if you're a health insurer, you are free to reject customers you don't like. In Europe, you're not. (Those rejected customers, in turn, are free to cover their own health expenses or die - their free choice). * In the USA, you're free to buy guns. In Europe, you're not. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=no+way+to+prevent+this+…
In the UK, you are free to cross the road wherever you want (except the motorway). In the USA, in many states, you can't. Which still boggles my mind.
nice find. i simply love this small, but very deep, quality of life feature of living in the UK.
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No society is going to be able to offer freedom defined as "being able to do whatever you want". I call it freedom because I see people exercising it. What is the point of a "freedom" if you can't afford to exercise it? Are you free to send your children to play in sports if you're afraid that your child getting injured will financially ruin you? Are you free to participate in activities yourself if you're teetering…
You are free to make good decisions and bad ones.
Yes, most importantly, deciding to be born to good parents with a good family in good country in a good time period.
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It's still, at least on paper, freer than many/most other Western countries in most ways AFAIK. I agree that this is a very absurd counterexample, however.
Can you give a few examples of ways in which a US citizen is more free than I, a UK citizen, am?
I can buy a kitchen knife without ending up on a government registry.
I can own a radio or television capable of receiving broadcasts without having to pay a license and register it with the government.