I believe the argument is just ”my job can be performed from home”. It’s not about entitlement, it is about making ones life easier without additional downside to your employer. You might disagree with the no downside…
This was a very pleasant read. The part about crossing the chasm really resonated with me. It’s something you try once In a while and always you get pulled back to the side you started on.
This is just hateful. The same point could have been made without kicking someone who is down.
Some (myself included) reject the premise that the designer and benefactor of the agreement has the right to define the usage of ’thing’. We are talking about intangibles here (often described by the politically and…
This is not the forum for clever one liners in response to engaging and earnest responses. Please add to the discussion instead of devolving it.
I strongly disagree that QE policies and central banking are socialist. In fact, I would argue that QE, as it has been enacted since its inception after the collapse of Japan’s credit bubble, is closer to the opposite…
Are you suggesting we accept human misery and injustice as necessary evils? Or are you advocating for change as these problems are endemic to modern manufacturing?
Giving people more money (i.e tie wages to increase in productivity) is demand side economics. Supply side economics is increasing the amount of available goods regardless of demand. The lagging wages are mitigated by…
It is interesting that you think that Piketty, who has studied growth extensively, has not considered the positive sum aspects of the economy. If you read his books you will see him talk about it in excruciating detail.
It is an example of how to think outside the constraints of scarcity when dealing with immaterial ”property”. But if you are looking for individual artists there’s Patreon. I’m sure people can think of reasons why…
Good question. I think I can best answer this by example: People get paid to develop Blender. Blender even has an in house film studio, with paid artists. The software and artwork is made available for free. No…
Lack of scarcity is the unique selling point of the digital. I think future generations will look back at the madness of manufacturing scarcity because society refused to adapt to abundance.
I don’t know what anecdote you are referring to, I did not mention one. I did not even make a statement of agreement or disagreement with the original comment. I just pointed out that I did not see a logical…
I’m in agreement here.
I would argue that I’m neither infantilizing women nor blaming every outcome on society. I never mentioned a cabal of men. It seems you are reading in many themes that are not present in my comment. I believe that norms…
I do not necessarily agree with the original post’s statement but this response seems confused to me. Few female applicants to trade schools is consistent with the original statement. If it is societally unacceptable…
I'm really curious how a managerial hierarchy of 40 works in practice. If a manager is responsible for a headcount of 2 then GE would have 2^40 = ~1 trillion employees. Since this is obviously not possible then what…
Any system that wants to identify a pattern will have false positives and negatives. In this case we can’t accurately identify cases where a user has legitimate cause for refund without false positives letting through a…
I'm very curious about the ethics of early retirement. Forgone consumption seems like a reasonable justification. But surely there is a limit? If I retire by early and through compounding interest amass a fortune that…
Sorry, I misunderstood you. Were you convinced with that defence? In any case, he must understand that his usage of the word is inflammatory and will be perceived as mainly racially contingent. As long as he is aware…
You mean that he asserted that his use of the n-word only had behavioural and socioeconomic implications and not racial? He might honestly intend it that way but I feel like he is very misguided. He could use the n-word…
I subscribe to a descriptive rather then a prescriptive view of language. It is "reasonable" to use a term if the usage conforms to how the term is understood by the people using it. In Sowell's case he uses the term to…
Perhaps but lets remember why it is rightfully separated from other more controversial slurs. Call me a redneck and I would mostly be confused as I am not a 1. uneducated, 2. rural, 3. from the American south, 4. poor.…
I'm assuming you are being facetious in order to highlight an alleged absurdity of the suggestion. Though in reality the suggestion seems quite sensible to me. Where I am, we've been under the effect of a pretty steep…
It erodes social cohesion. When I went to elementary school in Sweden I shared a classroom with both a child that came to our country has a refugee and another whose parent sat in parliament. Different social classes…
I believe the argument is just ”my job can be performed from home”. It’s not about entitlement, it is about making ones life easier without additional downside to your employer. You might disagree with the no downside…
This was a very pleasant read. The part about crossing the chasm really resonated with me. It’s something you try once In a while and always you get pulled back to the side you started on.
This is just hateful. The same point could have been made without kicking someone who is down.
Some (myself included) reject the premise that the designer and benefactor of the agreement has the right to define the usage of ’thing’. We are talking about intangibles here (often described by the politically and…
This is not the forum for clever one liners in response to engaging and earnest responses. Please add to the discussion instead of devolving it.
I strongly disagree that QE policies and central banking are socialist. In fact, I would argue that QE, as it has been enacted since its inception after the collapse of Japan’s credit bubble, is closer to the opposite…
Are you suggesting we accept human misery and injustice as necessary evils? Or are you advocating for change as these problems are endemic to modern manufacturing?
Giving people more money (i.e tie wages to increase in productivity) is demand side economics. Supply side economics is increasing the amount of available goods regardless of demand. The lagging wages are mitigated by…
It is interesting that you think that Piketty, who has studied growth extensively, has not considered the positive sum aspects of the economy. If you read his books you will see him talk about it in excruciating detail.
It is an example of how to think outside the constraints of scarcity when dealing with immaterial ”property”. But if you are looking for individual artists there’s Patreon. I’m sure people can think of reasons why…
Good question. I think I can best answer this by example: People get paid to develop Blender. Blender even has an in house film studio, with paid artists. The software and artwork is made available for free. No…
Lack of scarcity is the unique selling point of the digital. I think future generations will look back at the madness of manufacturing scarcity because society refused to adapt to abundance.
I don’t know what anecdote you are referring to, I did not mention one. I did not even make a statement of agreement or disagreement with the original comment. I just pointed out that I did not see a logical…
I’m in agreement here.
I would argue that I’m neither infantilizing women nor blaming every outcome on society. I never mentioned a cabal of men. It seems you are reading in many themes that are not present in my comment. I believe that norms…
I do not necessarily agree with the original post’s statement but this response seems confused to me. Few female applicants to trade schools is consistent with the original statement. If it is societally unacceptable…
I'm really curious how a managerial hierarchy of 40 works in practice. If a manager is responsible for a headcount of 2 then GE would have 2^40 = ~1 trillion employees. Since this is obviously not possible then what…
Any system that wants to identify a pattern will have false positives and negatives. In this case we can’t accurately identify cases where a user has legitimate cause for refund without false positives letting through a…
I'm very curious about the ethics of early retirement. Forgone consumption seems like a reasonable justification. But surely there is a limit? If I retire by early and through compounding interest amass a fortune that…
Sorry, I misunderstood you. Were you convinced with that defence? In any case, he must understand that his usage of the word is inflammatory and will be perceived as mainly racially contingent. As long as he is aware…
You mean that he asserted that his use of the n-word only had behavioural and socioeconomic implications and not racial? He might honestly intend it that way but I feel like he is very misguided. He could use the n-word…
I subscribe to a descriptive rather then a prescriptive view of language. It is "reasonable" to use a term if the usage conforms to how the term is understood by the people using it. In Sowell's case he uses the term to…
Perhaps but lets remember why it is rightfully separated from other more controversial slurs. Call me a redneck and I would mostly be confused as I am not a 1. uneducated, 2. rural, 3. from the American south, 4. poor.…
I'm assuming you are being facetious in order to highlight an alleged absurdity of the suggestion. Though in reality the suggestion seems quite sensible to me. Where I am, we've been under the effect of a pretty steep…
It erodes social cohesion. When I went to elementary school in Sweden I shared a classroom with both a child that came to our country has a refugee and another whose parent sat in parliament. Different social classes…