But people post these links and one-sided, biased, hysterical links hourly and I can't share my thoughts on it? It's just an echo chamber in here? How does the article above relate to anything hackernews purportedly informs on? Honest question, not meant to enflame.
Your first sentence is posted as if you're stating a proven fact, but it is a personal/shared opinion based on your digestion of one-sided perspectives on the situation.
you arent answering the question: why are these links allowed, which are blatentky political, but any political comments that dont toe the line are removed? that is literally an echo chamber…
The rules are the same for any HN user: you're welcome to make your substantive points thoughtfully, in keeping with the site guidelines. You're not welcome to post flamebait, regardless of what side you're on or how wrong other people are or you feel they are.
The other side feels the same way that you do, just with the partisan bit flipped. For example, around the same time you posted your comment, someone else posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142843.
this is false in practice and you know it. flagging powers lie almost entirely in the hands of leftist users. the reality of this website is anything that is right-leaning is immediately flagged and beaten down and removed by you. meanwhile, links like this pop up constantly without receiving the same treatment. you known that this website is effectively a leftist filter bubble and you do nothing to address it because paulg is a leftist who is detached from reality.
The important thing is that Marc Andreessen still gets 2% of all funds under management regardless of what happens, and his accumulation of material wealth is our priority
Your job as a technologist is to try to get into his good graces
can't wait for this to be flagged again, like all the other posts about how the autocrats of Silicon Valley are destroying the infrastructure that made them rich.
MAGA dudes would like America to be “Great Again” but would like you not to Google what the top marginal tax rate was in the pre-civil rights era they are taking us back to (hint: it was 90%)
They said it perfectly. The top marginal rate was 90%. The effective rate was much lower, but it effectively capped cash salaries, largely for executives.
the slaves probably helped a little but even with all the slaves in the world, a country that is corrupt and uninspired couldnt achieve half of what we have. the american work ethic is recognized by the whole world even today.
Agreed. If it was just stolen land and slave labor that propelled America to a global superpower, then why didn't it work out for India? Or Africa? Both of those places LOVE slavery and both murdered their way into existence (Africa still does) but yet they are not wonderful, advanced countries that embrace the rights of people.
It was prosperous, the original American dream is not the American dream people think of when they hear that today. Hollywood has sold a lie to everyone for almost a century.
The prosperity was inherent in the real American Dream which was based in Faith, Freedom, Self-sufficiency, Independence, Ownership, and No taxation without representation.
Today you don't have any of these in most respects because they have been withheld by the previous generation (boomers), who clings to power as they die of old age.
Lets do a short recap on the taxes for an average person:
Federal 21.7
State 7.5-10
Medicare 2.9
Social Security 15.3 (you count employer side too because its money they can't pay you suppressing wages).
Sales Tax ~10
Property 1% of the value of what you own
Inheritance (50% above 1m)
Aggregate: 59.9% of everything you can make, and this isn't counting the triple dip on fuel taxes.
Then there is half of what you inherit, and 1% of the value of what you already own every year.
To put this in perspective, the boston tea party increase that sparked our history in 1776 was over a tax rate of 25%. The boot on neck, has been clever in withholding education and disrupting communication.
Parasites are the reason we are doing so poorly today, and why people can't find sufficient recompense to support life goals such as raising children. In 8 years, the birthrate will fall below the death rate.
Few people seem to realize that the reason we have certain systems today is because of scaling laws. Other systems didn't scale as the population grew over time.
People say we're going back to feudalism, not realizing what that means. Feudalism doesn't scale above a few million people. We have billions.
The natural progression is, if we fall back to feudalism, the difference in the scaling laws will cause sufficient deaths until we are within the operating range of that small minority. Assuming conflict doesn't destroy the environment (as those using Mutually Assured Destruction would rightfully use during such existential threats of conflict).
What you have follows the same general plotline of Fallout where corporations induce a resource war for profit and control after Reclamation Day.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 96.8 ms ] threada more useful question is why they posts keep getting flagged off the site.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, you'll see what I mean. Note this, for example:
"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The other side feels the same way that you do, just with the partisan bit flipped. For example, around the same time you posted your comment, someone else posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142843.
Your job as a technologist is to try to get into his good graces
A huge amount of Americas wealth pre-civil war was built on Slavery and the associated industries.
Oh and stealing all the land.
The prosperity was inherent in the real American Dream which was based in Faith, Freedom, Self-sufficiency, Independence, Ownership, and No taxation without representation.
Today you don't have any of these in most respects because they have been withheld by the previous generation (boomers), who clings to power as they die of old age.
Lets do a short recap on the taxes for an average person: Federal 21.7 State 7.5-10 Medicare 2.9 Social Security 15.3 (you count employer side too because its money they can't pay you suppressing wages). Sales Tax ~10 Property 1% of the value of what you own Inheritance (50% above 1m)
Aggregate: 59.9% of everything you can make, and this isn't counting the triple dip on fuel taxes.
Then there is half of what you inherit, and 1% of the value of what you already own every year.
To put this in perspective, the boston tea party increase that sparked our history in 1776 was over a tax rate of 25%. The boot on neck, has been clever in withholding education and disrupting communication.
Parasites are the reason we are doing so poorly today, and why people can't find sufficient recompense to support life goals such as raising children. In 8 years, the birthrate will fall below the death rate.
Nit: this is disingenuous. If an employer didn’t have to pay that part of the tax, they wouldn’t pass it on to you. They’d pocket it.
Why are you interested in me personally?
Granted undocumented people already lives that life. No the reset of the 99% will get to enjoy that living standard.
People say we're going back to feudalism, not realizing what that means. Feudalism doesn't scale above a few million people. We have billions.
The natural progression is, if we fall back to feudalism, the difference in the scaling laws will cause sufficient deaths until we are within the operating range of that small minority. Assuming conflict doesn't destroy the environment (as those using Mutually Assured Destruction would rightfully use during such existential threats of conflict).
What you have follows the same general plotline of Fallout where corporations induce a resource war for profit and control after Reclamation Day.
It will be interesting to see where science and technology research go when they're not dominated by one country and ideology.
Is this normal now for the respected magazine like this (they have a paper version!) to shit on its readers in such a way?
Some ddemographics in the US have never seen so much proserity:
Warren Buffett sounds warning to Washington as Berkshire reports record profit https://www.reuters.com/business/warren-buffett-says-us-shou...