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Not giving everyone equal % is exploitation?

Interesting, by that logic every participant in the economy should also be required to bail out any startup that fails otherwise we’re exploiting the founders! They’re taking all the risk and we’re getting all the benefit of the services and goods they create!


It may not be exploitation, but one can question how fair is the exchange rate of risk to reward and whether answering "free market" makes the question go away.

Well yeah? We should have really wide safety nets actually, so people can try startups and feel comfortable that they might fail. What kind of losses are you envisioning - is it just salaries?

Some have argued American bankruptcy laws is a contributing factor to how many companies get founded, more than most/all other counties in the world.

Do you think “work” means literally “manual labor”?

Work implies the creation of value: physical artifacts, services, or more generally, stuff that adds to the world. Capital gails isn't work, you're getting money without adding anything to the world.

Work means the creation of things. Clicking on stocks for your 401k is not working.

The counter-examples are so obvious it makes me feel that pointing them out wouldn’t actually help you understand reality

The counter-examples are so obvious you didn't feel the need to cite even one?

Please provide an example of how logging in to fidelity.com to see that today my net worth increased by a multiple of my annual salary constitutes "work". Define your terms so it's clear to readers.


If I spend 30 minutes this week looking at my investments, but a fund manager spends 60 hours, that’s a difference in quality and quantity not kind.

Zawinski’s Law in action


You’re significantly worse off assuming your government is adversarial than cooperative, regardless of what reality may be, and the majority of us know that. It’s why the chaos psyops aren’t working. We’re not happy with our government but apes together strong


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> what has that attitude gotten you?

I've gotten language I wrote passed into multiple state and a few federal laws. Definitey helps when I'm the only one to call my electeds on an issue.

The lazy and nihilistic aren't great for our country. But they're great if you put any work into civic engagement.


These dismissals based on the source rather than the material are getting really annoying. We’re supposed to be intellectuals here, we can do better than that.


(Ad-hominem is not a counter-example btw)


Nothing about GP's comment is ad-hominem; it's neutral, factual context. Unless you dispute the factual claims?


It's counterfactual. The think tank has nothing to do with Russia and official denounces the invasion and upholds Ukraine's territorial rights. They have simply written critically about the role NATO has played in making this conflict inevitable and the history of NATO sabotage of peace negotiations.


> The think tank has nothing to do with Russia and official denounces the invasion and upholds Ukraine's territorial rights.

GP did not claim it was associated with Russia or that it had made specific claims about the invasion.

> They have simply written critically about the role NATO has played in making this conflict inevitable and the history of NATO sabotage of peace negotiations.

That seems aligned with the original claims.


In their own words

> We categorically condemn Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and support U.S. assistance for Ukraine’s self-defense.

How is that possibly aligned with GP's blatant lies?


Literally in the same piece:

It has been suggested that QI’s approach is insufficiently critical of Russia. A cursory search of our writings and our website shows this to be false.

I wonder why would anyone suggest that, and frequently enough they have to get out of their way to write a disclaimer?

> How is that possibly aligned with GP's blatant lies?

Mate it's 2026, your gaslighting doesn't work for a few years now.


You’ve never heard it before because explicitly signaling “I know basic set theory” is kind of cringy


Is the implication that they are in fact the same thing or that you don’t like Elon?


Internet points demand obscure references these days. My system prompt has its own area code


Suppose you've managed to get a job as an editor at Communications of the ACM. As "Editor, Communications of the ACM" what do you think your job is?


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