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Bad take. Even with a decent degree, you might end up flipping burgers. Idk about your parents but mine were both teachers. From a young age, I was told that they would not be able to pay for my college. They weren’t irresponsible, they were just broke. Even if my parents were just irresponsible, why should I be saddled with lifelong debt?

Student loans are govt guaranteed, meaning they’re zero risk for the lender, meaning they’ll agree to any amount, meaning colleges have no reason not to charge higher and higher tuition. This has steadily driven up debt of graduates, crippling their ability to generate wealth. This affects their ability to start a college fund for their own kid, who will face an even higher tuition.

Your comment is clearly coming from a place of privilege with huge blind spots for how the average American experiences life. Ignorance is one thing. Willful ignorance is much worse.

I used to work in manufacturing in the auto industry. Everything is already metric in the US. People working on US made cars have the privilege of losing a 10mm socket just like the rest of the world.

Props for publicly walking back a bold claim, looking into it further, realizing you were wrong, and admitting it. You love to see it. We don’t die on hills.

…that’s also a privacy nightmare. You’re comment is just whataboutism that doesn’t actually engage with the critique.

They are overpriced and the current PC market is also overpriced.

It was a very large collection of unopened boxes that aren’t made anymore.

Isn’t that the guy that made a bezos face boat?

Except for the one successful one. We just celebrated its birthday actually.

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The optics isn’t for people who are already saying they like socialism. It’s for the people who recognize the Democrats aren’t meeting the moment but still think socialism is when taxes.

…I’m not a vegan but wow. Cattle live a whole life of horror. Pretending that eating meat is more moral than than eating plants because they suffer less is plain deliusion.

I believe that a person’s world view, ethics, moral system, etc is almost entirely molded to fit their incentives. When I was a manufacturing engineer, I was effectively automating people’s jobs. I created an elaborate narrative that not only let me off the hook, but made me the good guy. I was making the workers more productive and therefore setting the stage for them to negotiate better pay or treatment. That plant closed down 3 years later.

If everyone who punched a child in the face received $1000, people would initially be appalled by anybody who would take that money. After a while, people would start to fondly remember moments when they had been beaten or hurt. They would consider it a vital part of growing up. “Pain is what makes us strong”. People would proudly announce how many children they had punched. It would completely change the morals of everyone with the opportunity to receive the benefit.

Many people have personal evidence of this. A work friend suddenly becomes a prick when they get promoted to supervisor. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely”. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it”. In this case, A CEO feels his power in society threatened and he adopts whatever politics is needed to ensure he retains power. He isn’t doing this out of cold calculus. He will actually believe the politics because that’s what fits his incentives and makes him the good guy, actually.

If they wanted you to think his actions were against their values, they would have said “against”. The fact that it’s a company owner and CEO, means that the company values and the owner’s values are the same, whether they publicly state it or not. That’s why they’ve made such a fence-sitting PR statement. Even when they’re trying to downplay the link between the company values and the owner’s values, they don’t commit because the owner’s values are the company’s values.

Yep I love it. It’s how I keep my password manager synced between devices. It can be finicky to set up but just works without thinking after that.

He’s a fascist. Part of fascism is co-opting Marxist talking points but pinning the blame on other working class people. The reason fascism comes about is due to a worsening life for regular people, leading them to believe the current system is rigged against them. Marxism tells them there is a different way and blames capitalism. Fascism tells them there’s a different way and it’s blame other working class people. Existing capitalists, like Daniel, see the Marxists as a threat to their power and throw their support behind the fascist to maintain power.

Listen to a lot of Trump’s campaign speeches leading up to the 2016 election and it sounds like stuff from the occupy wall st movement, right up until he starts railing against Mexicans. That’s what fascism is.

In a privately owned company, the wishes of the owners are the wishes of the company. Especially with political actions, treating them as completely separate is just putting blinders on.

You’re moving the goalposts. Claiming to be against it and saying they had nothing to do with it aren’t the same thing.

“right”, “left”, and “center” are arbitrary points. They aren’t defined by Democrats, Republicans, or International politics. That’s why I prefer terms like “conservative”, “leftist”, “reactionary”, “fascist”, etc. Those are actual ideologies without arbitrary boundaries. Otherwise, you’re bound by the Overton window, which is always changing. The “centrist” Democrats are mostly conservative, unlike Republicans, who are mostly fascist.

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