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> there is moral equivalence in stealing from your neighbor vs stealing from a billionaire They are the same. You said it yourself: STEALING
I read this as a shortcut phrasing, not meant to be literal. Doing something that negatively impacts their stock price could be categorized as "stealing" from a billionaire. Is that really stealing? Purposely infringing on a company's trademarks/copyrights/marketing/etc (I don't mean pirating movies/books/etc) to gain publicity/get started could be called stealing from that company. But I don't consider that immoral…
> Doing something that negatively impacts their stock price could be categorized as "stealing" from a billionaire. Is that really stealing?
No. There isn't much of a grey area around stealing.
> not meant to be literal
What's amusing when people try to reframe stealing as "liberating", or "getting paid", meaning they know it's dishonorable.
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Music is a commodity. There's already more music available to let my playlist run for years without repeats. Plus it's never been easier for folk to create, and publish, new music. With endless supply comes diminishing unit value. So, not to be brutal, but playing music is not an especially valuable thing, and so people really don't need to pay much for it. Ditto for writing books, making ceramics, pretty much anythi…
No it's not. A commodity would mean that people are indifferent to the music of Metallica vs Taylor Swift vs your brother in law's blues band. They aren't. So it's not a commodity. Because that's what commodity means. You could let your playlist run for years, but you don't and nobody else does either because repetition and familiarity and quality are things people care about musically. Playing music well in a way th…
I don't know a term for that other than commodity, but sure, it's not the strict definition in economics. Please suggest an alternative word if you know it.
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https://www.admissions.caltech.edu/why-caltech/student-life/...
The people writing the rules always have an unfair advantage. They can include literally anything they come up with and often, with enough time and rewriting, make it sound fair and equitable. How do you propose addressing that? You can't be on the rules-making groups of every institution you participate in.
Great, practical advice. I do think however that by 2030, UBI will be the norm in many wealthy countries, and thus more people will be able to pursue their passions rather than having to sell their soul as dayjobbers to make money for corporations and rich people.
Elizabeth Gilbert has a good take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g7ARarFNnw
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The people writing the rules always have an unfair advantage. They can include literally anything they come up with and often, with enough time and rewriting, make it sound fair and equitable. How do you propose addressing that? You can't be on the rules-making groups of every institution you participate in.
Honor is independent of the rules. (Honor isn't about fairness or equity, either. It's its own thing.)
Tell me what standard of conduct do you ascribe to if fairness or equity aren't included? It sounds like you have an unrealistically strict definition of honor if those aren't included.
FWIW the open source scene (at least in the US) can often have very similar dynamics. I believe it was Ashley Williams who put it best by saying that in the Rust community (where I am), one's influence is determined by one's free time. I've noticed over time that in certain areas it can very much be those with the least experience on a subject (but the most free time) who wield the most influence.
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Grimes's dad was a former banker working on "the business side of biotech". That's two very solid incomes. And then she was with Devon Welsh, a singer/songwriter whose father was an actor. And most famously has been the partner of Elon Musk. She's had probably a larger share of carefree living than most. However, success is never just one thing. Because there are plenty of people with the same or greater level of sup…
> And then she was with Devon Welsh, a singer/songwriter whose father was an actor. And most famously has been the partner of Elon Musk. She's had probably a larger share of carefree living than most. No doubt she's had a good life, but Devon Welsh was himself basically a nobody when they dated, and she was already extremely successful as an artist by the time she became Elon's partner. It's just strange of the autho…
Failure wouldn't even be a blip on her radar at any point in her life. I really can't see at any point in her life where something had to work in order for her to survive.
Which is the case for a lot of people. They have to do things that are lower risk because losing that bet means you're simply fucked. You can take the 1 in 1 million chance you become a successful recording artist or you can take the 100 in 1 chance you get a job to sustain yourself. If your survival is the thing that is at stake, the smart play is to take the job. If you'd survive no matter what, you not only take the 1 in a million shot, you take it as often as you can.
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I read this as a shortcut phrasing, not meant to be literal. Doing something that negatively impacts their stock price could be categorized as "stealing" from a billionaire. Is that really stealing? Purposely infringing on a company's trademarks/copyrights/marketing/etc (I don't mean pirating movies/books/etc) to gain publicity/get started could be called stealing from that company. But I don't consider that immoral…
San Francisco amply shows the results of justifying stealing from "The Man". > Doing something that negatively impacts their stock price could be categorized as "stealing" from a billionaire. Is that really stealing? No. There isn't much of a grey area around stealing. > not meant to be literal What's amusing when people try to reframe stealing as "liberating", or "getting paid", meaning they know it's dishonorable.
Such is the case when I'm talking about subjects I have practical experience in but little formal knowledge of.