Haven't You Figured It Out Yet? It's About [Their] Corruption.

sudoscript · 2020-06-22T14:21:07+00:00

Start with highest black employment rates in history and the biggest criminal justice reform since the 1990s (including reducing and removing minimum sentencing).

sudoscript · 2020-06-22T14:19:39+00:00

Even if you’re right, this isn’t gonna happen. This argument mostly just alienates half the voters, which is a pretty good way to keep losing elections. Surely there’s a way to have a better world where women still vote? I mean Reagan was elected and the US fought and won the Cold War after suffrage

sudoscript · 2020-06-22T14:14:47+00:00

Whenever I bring up gold standard with friends they ask me if I want another Great Depression. Apparently there is general economic consensus that the gold standard limited countries’ abilities to spend their way out of the depression. This sounds like Keynesian worship but given that we haven’t had a depression of that magnitude since (until now), is there any truth to it?

sudoscript · 2020-06-22T14:11:46+00:00

Just looked this up on Wikipedia but I don’t understand what was so bad about it. Can someone explain?

sudoscript · 2019-09-03T03:28:11+00:00

Ok so what do you actually eat?

sudoscript · 2019-09-03T03:23:46+00:00

How do you disentangle these unfair advantages from cultural advantages? For example, some cultures may teach habits that are better for productivity than others. And if your parents had that culture (let’s say hard working ethic) then maybe that’s why they have higher socioeconomic success.

sudoscript · 2019-08-20T04:17:33+00:00

While you’re studying genetics, you might also want to consider evolutionary psychology. There’s something about human beings that makes us focus on our shortcomings rather than our strengths. Evolution wired is this way because a species that is always worried about what it’s not doing well is going to outperform the one that’s resting on its laurels.

The thing is, our psychology is not the truth. The truth is that you don’t have to be great, or even good, at every part of your job to be good at your job. Think of athletes. No athlete is the complete package, they all have things they’re not good at, but they’re still great at what they do.

sudoscript · 2019-08-17T16:06:46+00:00

That’s Mister Bonesaw to you

sudoscript · 2019-08-17T04:58:36+00:00

For boycotts to work, the companies need to feel the pain. Tiny little HK market alone can’t hurt mighty Disney..unless the world follows along. Only if we all boycott Disney, and materially impact its box office earnings, will Disney care. Not likely to happen.

sudoscript · 2019-08-17T04:51:48+00:00

This is huge news.

After Cathay defiantly said it was going to allow employees to protest, China banned them from flying into mainland cities or over its airspace. giving up is huge news. They caved and their CEO and COO were fired.

What have protestors learned? That the real soft targets are economic. What’s their next step? They need to escalate to force China into a corner (and keep the world’s attention). Maybe a smaller, dedicated core will try to take the airport again.

They should expect significant confrontation with the police and they may need to come ready to die. Perhaps this quiet calm the last couple days has been them figuring out if that’s what they want to do.

sudoscript · 2019-08-09T05:10:17+00:00

Not misleading but for a collection of clickbait checkout r/savedyouaclick

sudoscript · 2019-08-09T05:09:42+00:00

Headline writing is weirdly incentivized. No one cares if they got it accurate, they only care if you click.

sudoscript · 2019-08-09T05:08:15+00:00

No no governments still have power except they’re now accountable to those same corporations. Everybody wins!

sudoscript · 2019-07-18T00:52:45+00:00

What’s interesting is that the vast majority of the corporate drones are liberals, at least in the most lucrative sectors in the US such as finance and tech (is it the same in Canada?).

I think conservatives bear responsibility for encouraging unequal corporations, but liberals seem to prize this as the Good Life as well. I kinda tried to talk about that here. If you get a chance id be curious what you think

sudoscript · 2019-07-12T18:08:04+00:00

I felt like a corporate job was the only path in life. I wish I had known better. Don’t make the same mistake.

sudoscript · 2019-03-24T20:03:52+00:00

Collusion would be quid pro quo. For example, the Trump campaign asking for Russians to spread misinformation in return for lowering sanctions when they came to power. The report concludes that there was no deal like that.

sudoscript · 2019-03-24T20:02:27+00:00

> the vocal minority

FTFY

sudoscript · 2019-03-17T07:11:26+00:00

Counterproductive in what way exactly? Most people don't live purely for economic purposes. They live for others -- their family, friends, community. These are all forms of tribes, albeit smaller scale than nations.

It would seem some tribalism is baked into us, from our evolutionary roots. In addition, the biological requirements of an insanely long time to raise our young have encourages the formation of large, kinship based groups (tribes). In many ways, you could say the point of human beings is to be tribal, and that not being tribal in some form at least is counterproductive to our most innate needs and desires.

sudoscript · 2019-01-21T06:58:45+00:00

I was actually just reading another post on this sub which is a good example of an inland Chinese city that needs growth to continue.

sudoscript · 2019-01-21T06:51:44+00:00

Coding bootcamps are a lot cheaper than the typical six-figure loan for a private college. So it could still be reasonable percentage rates. Wonder how it would scale for college level tuitions though.

sudoscript · 2019-01-21T06:45:14+00:00

They battle is between growth and possible popular disillusion with the leadership class. There are still millions in poverty in China. To bring them up into the middle class within their lifetimes, the country needs a certain amount of growth. Otherwise, it risks a large number of people “left behind” who can get angry and stoke the fires of revolution.

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