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Communist Walrus posted:Sir I will have you know that my lineage will one day produce the kwisatz haderach Not if the capitalists control the spice, son.
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PS4's only cost a hundred bucks now? Edit: It's three hundred bucks this video is bullshit!!
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puppets freak me out posted:Yeah, they were deeply troubled and desperate, and not thinking completely logically. This is what really terrifies me about being a conscious being - that I could find myself so deep into despair and mental illness that I lose most or all of my ability to think things through or discern rational thoughts from irrational thoughts to the point where I fling myself out of a window with a wife and kids left behind. I've been close-ish to that place, it's some intense bullshit.
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Jul 31, 2018 20:23
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This is why ISIS hates us.
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To help save the world, become a banker not a doctorquote:One woman started her career as a teacher, but doubted she was actually making any impact. Inspired by 80,000 Hours, she decided to work for an investment bank instead, calculating that she would have much more money to donate. quote:Medicine is another obvious profession for do-gooders. It is not one, however, on which 80,000 Hours is very keen. Rich countries have plenty of doctors, and even the best clinicians can see only one patient at a time. So the impact that a single doctor will have is minimal. Gregory Lewis, a public-health researcher, estimates that adding an additional doctor to America’s labour supply would yield health benefits equivalent to only around four lives saved. quote:A plastic surgeon who donates half of her earnings to charity will probably have much bigger social impact on the margin than an emergency-room doctor who donates none.
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Jul 31, 2018 20:51
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Jul 31, 2018 20:56
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No doctors, no teachers, only bankers.
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Jul 31, 2018 20:58
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Clearly we should employ everyone as an investment Banker to move digits back and forth and "create" wealth. Lol no actually any economist worth their salt will tell you the finance industry isn't actually generating poo poo and is for the overwhelmingly most part just one big rent seeking circus. E: why the hell did my phone auto-capitalize Banker?
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Jul 31, 2018 20:59
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I'm the rear end backwards maths that concludes investment bankers save more lives than doctors. Smh.
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Jul 31, 2018 21:00
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I'm the mysterious investment Banker donating 100% of income past what the average teacher gets.
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Jul 31, 2018 21:03
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My tablet autocapitalizes a lot of things for no discernible reason.
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Jul 31, 2018 21:11
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Outrail posted:I'm the rear end backwards maths that concludes investment bankers save more lives than doctors. Smh.
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Jul 31, 2018 21:12
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I’m glad that everyone I’ve shown that article to so far despise everything it says.
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Jul 31, 2018 21:14
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kuddles posted:The hilarious result of treating laissez-faire capitalism as if it were a religious belief that can never be questioned. Man who produces nothing of value all day makes way more money than teachers and doctors. A rational brain would think this is evidence that the system is hosed up, but since that's not an option, we have to now explain how this somehow leads to more value to humans. Richard Wolff posted:In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free pass to indulge all of its weaknesses and darker tendencies.
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Jul 31, 2018 21:16
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Imagine coming to the conclusion that bankers are more important during a doctor shortage and after bankers irreparablely tanked the economy (and are going to tank it again very soon)
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Jul 31, 2018 21:21
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kill all bankers imo
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Jul 31, 2018 21:22
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Former DILF posted:kill all bankers imo
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Jul 31, 2018 21:23
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Kill this thread tbh... (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 31, 2018 21:27
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maker posted:Kill this thread tbh... 
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Jul 31, 2018 21:28
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Capitalism is a terminal mental illness.
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maker posted:Kill this thread tbh... That’s it? Your single contribution to a 50 page thread? You gotta have more than that, right?
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Burt Sexual posted:That’s it? Your single contribution to a 50 page thread? You gotta have more than that, right? He doesn't create any content, just comes in to poo poo on the people who are. Must be an investment banker!
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Jul 31, 2018 22:12
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maker posted:Kill this thread tbh... Sorry class traitor, this thread belongs to the people.
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Jul 31, 2018 22:23
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The best part about this is the bit where they calculate the overall benefits while ignoring all the negative costs of taking a job role that perpetuates our broken social system
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Jul 31, 2018 23:11
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Elderbean posted:This is why ISIS hates us. they seem to have a point.
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Rarity posted:The best part about this is the bit where they calculate the overall benefits while ignoring all the negative costs of taking a job role that perpetuates our broken social system b-b-but if we just accept and join the system we can change it from within and we will in no way be tempted into the corruptions of our new peers
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Jul 31, 2018 23:40
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7-11s here have a sticker promo with random plastic poo poo where the hook is that you can’t buy the plastic thing directly, you have to buy other poo poo to get stamps (one stamp for about every $1.67 worth of other stuff you buy) and then turn in six stamps for the privilege of paying another $20 or so for the toy.
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Pirate Radar posted:7-11s here have a sticker promo with random plastic poo poo where the hook is that you can’t buy the plastic thing directly, you have to buy other poo poo to get stamps (one stamp for about every $1.67 worth of other stuff you buy) and then turn in six stamps for the privilege of paying another $20 or so for the toy. they stole this business model from Star Citizen
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Rutibex posted:they stole this business model from Star Citizen yeah my initial thought on that was "oh great, retail is starting to learn from how mobile games fleece people"
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"Baby, why do we have this camera crew following us through the woods?"
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kuddles posted:The hilarious result of treating laissez-faire capitalism as if it were a religious belief that can never be questioned. Man who produces nothing of value all day makes way more money than teachers and doctors. A rational brain would think this is evidence that the system is hosed up, but since that's not an option, we have to now explain how this somehow leads to more value to humans. the classical economics of adam smith et al outright reject this premise
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Perry Mason Jar posted:"H-ell! W-orld! H-ell W-orld!" isn't as catchy at baseball games. Goes nice to the tune of Daaaaaryylllll, Daaaaaryylllll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV8OReMQDs8
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Normal Brain: Hiring someone for child care is expensive. Galaxy Brain: What if my au pair paid ME???
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The Skeleton King posted:No doctors, no teachers, only bankers. If we were all bankers then there'd be no war, because all the soldiers would be bankers. We would be free from want, because we'd all be making that sweet banker money, but I guess we wouldn't be able to buy anything with it because all the factory workers and artisans would also be bankers. In conclusion I hope you have enjoyed my cover letter and thank you for considering me for the position of senior editor at The Economist. -Timmy, age 7
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GamingHyena posted:Normal Brain: Hiring someone for child care is expensive. Fully equipped basement unless you need to eat food
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jesus storms the temple and blesses the money lenders and merchants for providing so much economic value and enabling the possibility of those in their profession to do more good than the teachers and doctors and common laborers
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I took a dumb call center job in the UK after 'finishing' uni and we had a big chat during 'training' from the union rep and we all joined up with the union. A month later the union won a landslide campaign against the company that we were all contracting for that normalised wages between their employees and the contractors doing the same job. This was a massive massive win. It was that day that we discovered that all new hires since the campaign had started had a new clause inserted into the contract that specifically stated that they would not be applicable to this change. The way it was worded was incredibly ambiguous and weas designed to only apply retroactivly. This meant that all the new hires for the last 6 months didn't get the payrise, while all the people who had hung on for more than that did (horrible call center job, massive turnover - most staff lasted 6 months). When we went to the union about it they just came back that they had such a big win they really couldn't afford to rock the boat so soon.
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it baffles me that unions are able to sit on their hands and do nothing when the workers ask for something instead of the workers demand the union work according to democratic principles
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They are more or less powerless to do anything these days Like 5-7% of private sector employees in the USA are in a union nowadays?
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