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Istanbul is a big city, but is not the capital. It was the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and before that the East Roman Empire, though.
Too close to the border?
I think we've become increasingly anti-human. Everything must be monetized and transactional including basic interactions. We argue that everything has a cost instead of growing the pie. To be human is to be connected in our shared humanity. Instead we build walls or worse, fail by default design to build 'connections' between us and prefer to insulate and isolate ourselves in socio-economic psychological safety.
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"Everyone gotta have ID because what if there is voter fraud"...even if it eliminates the right to vote for some people. how does having an ID eliminate the right to vote? "Everyone gotta carry REAL ID because what if some people are illegal"...even if the delay in getting REAL ID causes legal people to lose their jobs. how about fixing the delay then? these seem non-problems to me. at least they are non-problems her…
You are absolutely not required to get an ID or passport at the age of 16. You can walk on the streets without carrying ID, unlike many European countries. Because of the driving culture in the USA not driving / having a DL means you need to take other steps to get an ID. But the law does not require you to have an ID. In general I do like the idea of having to prove ID when voting / for work, however I am weary of t…
i got my first personal ID i think at 16, but since i was traveling a lot i also had a passport and decided that i didn't need to bother with having a personal ID too. the personal ID displays my home address, while the passport doesn't. a tiny win for my privacy whenever i need to show an ID.
even without an ID here everyone needs to have their address registered for tax purposes (because you pay taxes where you live) so the government already has that information. the ID doesn't give them any data they don't already have.
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> Similarly, capitalism would seem to include regulatory capture and other purchased legislation as a form of business capital. That seems to equate our current system as the only thing that qualifies as capitalism. Slavery or the abolition of slavery both seem happy to coexist in our definition of capitalist societies. We are happy to talk about ownership of the means of production without including the ownership of…
Capitalism is not uniform condition of a society, and private capital exists in societies that we wouldn't describe as capitalist. My point is that embracing "capitalism" creates a tendency to approach problems in terms of private capital, similar to how programming in an object oriented language causes a tendency to decompose problems into objects. > The same presumably applies to the existence or non existence of i…
> private capital exists in societies that we wouldn’t describe as capitalist
Capitalism at its core is an outgrowth of respect for private property which creates incentives for further investment. A Neolithic hunter is going to invest time into better tools if he’s not worried about those tools being taken from them. As such, an inner city ghetto isn’t capitalist if people expect their stuff to be stolen regularly.
That’s the essential ground truth of capitalism, the minutiae isn’t nearly as important as the incentives. Civil asset forfeiture is directly anti capitalist in ways that changing specific IP laws isn’t.
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I think you missed the part where I say: "The only place this "Everyone gotta do XYZ" trope doesn't apply" This means that the only place where the denial of rights is not applied systematically is in gun rights. Another way to read it is: Every other right is treated worse than gun rights. And that is unfair to any unbiased observer.
Gun ownership rights are constantly being attacked, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Freedom of speech is also constantly under attack, as is press. Religion is constantly under attack too. Freedom of assembly is almost non-existent. Any government redress is fine as long as it can be ignored. That's just the first two amendments.
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Because the rest of the US sends them to California. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
I know I'll only get downvoted by more californians, but can't resist the relevant southpark link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsrBlKpbBS8
The TL;DR here is that California has a housing crisis, which caused homelessness, which caused people to look into a bus stop design which doesn’t serve as a proper shelter. Here’s a data-driven argument that homelessness is a problem with lack of homes, more so than mental health or drugs or whatever else: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-... Fixing housing will have a lot of great downst…
i bet homelessness arises from more reasons than a housing crisis, with drug addiction and mental illnesses examples.
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So unbridled Capitalism?
Capitalism doesn’t inherently mean companies get to alter the laws to favor themselves or government should decide winners and losers with bailouts. That’s a function of the political system involved. This is something else. In some ways it’s closest too feudalism where the rule of law is subservient to various powerful entities and limited competition exists parallel to various monopolies. Though obviously it’s very…