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Re: This is a teenager

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Post by bjt »

bsimpson wrote: post #158
throwway120385 wrote: post #45

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It would also help if more people that are doing marginal work could receive a wage that they felt secure with. Money is one of the biggest stressors for couples and families.

I don't understand how to practically make this work. There's a strong case to be made that a minimum wage helps people whose value approaches the minimum while hurting people above or below (e.g. $12 and $18 wages in an unlimited market both round to $15 with a minimum, while someone who only produces $7 of value is no longer employable). Similarly with cash infusions - giving people more money is inflationary. Nobo…

I don't think it works if we're narrowly focused just on wages, but I don't know why that has to be the only focus. If we as a society want to support people having a baseline quality of life, then let's pay for it together rather than pushing it all on employers.

I don't think we put enough money behind it today, but the Earned Income Tax Credit is designed to do this while minimizing the disincentives for people to work. https://www.cbpp.org/research/policy-basics-the-earned-incom...

Re: This is a teenager

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twelvechairs wrote: post #22

The animation is dominating the narrarive rather than assisting it. I (as many I assume) just want to skim the information and find myself stuck waiting for things to load or pathfinding algorithms to work. People keep flipping side to side needlessly also. Sometimes I'd just prefer flat 2d diagrams.

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Re: This is a teenager

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Post by dionidium »

moralestapia wrote: post #64
rlt wrote: post #48

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> Granted the last 20 years has been pretty awful, with 9/11, various wars, and other things. Those are awful things, but I suspect they don’t affect kids in the same way that poverty and violence does.

(as others have said countless times) Poverty fucks people up like no other thing, sometimes for life.

It actually seems like it's the behaviors of other poor people, which those in poverty cannot escape, that "fucks people up." It's not privation. It's proximity to violence and abuse (both of which are highly correlated with -- note: not demonstrated to be caused by -- poverty).

Re: This is a teenager

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Post by 10xDev »

renewiltord wrote: post #164

It's hard to take the Western world seriously. There was a guy on Reddit who lamented how so many Americans live in their cars, unlike Indians or Chinese. The 15th percentile in India puts one at 10k INR / year apparently and this constant woe and gloom in the US does not have a counterpart. It would seem that some degree of thriving requires striving. The median person here has an iPhone - a luxury device. Here, the…

Top comment: "I volunteer in a local school."

Bottom comment: "Get a grip!"

Two kinds of people...

Re: This is a teenager

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Post by qwery »

ein0p wrote: post #136

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What's your concrete proposal? Restrict the web to material featuring a concrete proposals? Establish concentration camps to re-educate those who would publish material lacking in concrete proposals?

(Am I missing the irony or something?)

Re: This is a teenager

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Post by underlogic »

eptcyka wrote: post #133
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #115

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> If you actually take the percentage, it's like 30-50% more likely to have the worse outcome the worse your adverse background gets. I realize that this is a taboo subject, but how much of that is nature and how much is nurture? Low IQ is associated with worse life outcomes, and it's not exactly a problem you can fix by throwing money and resources at it.

Better environments produce a population with a higher IQ.

Maybe but you can't teach a Labrador algebra no matter how many treats you feed it. These are aggregate effects of low IQ genetic traits as they play out over generations in our capitalist society. The trauma is a consequence of poverty and bad parenting which is because of low IQ. And don't call me racist. Ask why there was no IQ test line up amongst all that visualized data
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