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Tim Cook’s Message to 2019 Graduates: ‘My Generation Has Failed You’

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Post by crankylinuxuser »

hndamien wrote: post #121
crankylinuxuser wrote: post #62

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Animats may be saying thats what a capitalist system treats the downtrodden, but the actual actions are by that very capitalist system. In order to face a problem, you have to be able to talk about it. And capitalism stratifies the "work" and "cannot work" brutally. And as a killing blow, then proceeds to separate food/shelter/communications and the means to try to make oneself better. In this way, capitalism forces…

Bailing out the banks and instituting QE is not capitalism.

No true Scotsman fallacy.

Please tell us what is capitalism.

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askafriend wrote: post #140
ibeckermayer wrote: post #138

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I never questioned if they can, I questioned if they should. "It's mine and I can do whatever I want" is the moral reasoning of a (low IQ) teenager.

I was responding to @newfriend who wanted me banned for my comment. This is how free speech works. You can't come into my home and say whatever you want. I'll kick you out onto the streets, the same way Apple kicked Gab off their platform. You can say whatever you want in your own home, though.

Again I understand that they can, and in principle they have the right to ban people from their platform. My point is that they shouldn't, so you repeating that "they can" is irrelevant. A friend of mine laid this out more eloquently here: https://wissler-jensen.com/declaration

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Post by PPPPPPPPr »

NE2z2T9qi wrote: post #6

I guess I'm considered a millennial, but messages like this sound like misconceived pandering. Firstly, I don't think any generation necessarily "owes" anything to future generations. But, even if we accept the premise, I am the beneficiary of absolutely mind-boggling amounts of technological advancement, culture, progress, infrastructure, science, and on and on and on even just over the course of my own lifetime (ap…

I'm doing better than my father but I had to get buttfucked twice as hard to do it. Fuck the boomers. I can't believe you'd keep licking that boot even as they're still robbing you of retirement benefits.

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Post by PPPPPPPPr »

roenxi wrote: post #131
bumby wrote: post #117

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I think this is a false dichotomy. The only way it's true is if we assume the quality of life desired by millennials is the same as conspicuous consumption previously portrayed by Madison Avenue. To that point, I see younger generations largely rejecting this definition of 'quality of life' in favor of alternate definitions. In regards to China, I don't know if this is a point that this is the only way to do things o…

> following a previously defined template That was the interpretation I was going for. It is conspicuous - the only way we know how to rapidly increase living standards involves using fossil fuels. Solar and wind are only cost competitive at the moment after easily 30 years of pressure and research. They weren't an option to set the millenials up for success. The alternatives are very tentatively proven at this stage…

Surely this has nothing to do with the increasing wealth inequality in america. The only way we can have things is killing the environment. You know that aside from the self aggrandizing purple haired political shitstains of the future that you see organizing rallies and shit. There are other sources of information about the environment

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PPPPPPPPr wrote: post #144
roenxi wrote: post #131

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> following a previously defined template That was the interpretation I was going for. It is conspicuous - the only way we know how to rapidly increase living standards involves using fossil fuels. Solar and wind are only cost competitive at the moment after easily 30 years of pressure and research. They weren't an option to set the millenials up for success. The alternatives are very tentatively proven at this stage…

Surely this has nothing to do with the increasing wealth inequality in america. The only way we can have things is killing the environment. You know that aside from the self aggrandizing purple haired political shitstains of the future that you see organizing rallies and shit. There are other sources of information about the environment

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