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A one sentence assertion with no evidence or explanation that casually dismisses a 10 paragraph essay that is well reasoned.

Typical hn. Typical.

It's not economic. People have been poor for hundreds and thousands and millions of years, and yet they still had children.

" Many of these startups tend to produce services that are superficially useful at best or actively harmful at worst. We don't need them."

says the commenter on Hacker news, without a single ounce of irony.

It's crazy how little the borders change after WW2 compared to all the rest of history.

Makes me wonder how long this period of peace will last.

Yes. Jordan Peterson is proving a framework that connects the seemingly disparate philosophies of religion and of the modern scientific.

What part of that is renting

Oh are we listing arbitrary inventions or historical events to prove our points?

People are selfish and greedy:

Subprime mortgage crisis

Enron

George Soros shorting the British pound

The entire Mongolian expansion and their culture of rape and pillaging

* Small time Nazi officers stealing Jewish people's wedding rings

* Too big to fail

* Literally any employment contract where people are laid less than market value.

* Thieves exist.

* Murderers exist

* Corruption exists

* Swindlers exist

I guess that acknowledging human nature is edgy now. Well, fuck it. I must be edgy then.

Marx's labels are so outdated it doesn't make sense to use them in our modern economy.

It's funny to me that you are using words like proletariat and bourgeois, words used to describe class differences in an agrarian basee society/economy, to describe modern america, which is as opposite as you can get from an agrarian society.

The social Dynamics of the modern anerican situation have changed so much from when Marx was alive his labels no longer accurately apply.

This is an even more childish comment. You think you can change how human nature fundamentally works? How naive.

People are selfish and greedy. They always have been. They always will be.

Any solution to a problem that relies on building "a new kind of social momentum" are ignorant at best and actively harmful at worst.

Ah, so it makes sense as long as we assume the words being used don't mean what they actually mean. Ok.

/s

Fat is fat, sugar is a carb. They are different macro nutrients, so I don't know why you think low fat and high sugar is an oxymoron.

Maybe you can stop being an incomprehensible dick.

The comment you are angry at is directly related to yours and provides a valid counter example.

The conquest of Gaul is one of the best history books I've ever read, even with it's inherent bias and self promotion.

There's taking risk, and then there is taking risk with a solid understanding of what the risks are and how to mitigate them.

Two entirely different things.

Not sure why you are being downvoted.

Yes, you can buy upvotes on Reddit. It's about 5 bucks for a couple hundred, often more than enough to get to the front page of mid sized subreddit.

Lol only in California would this be suggested.

Why not just repeal the stupid housing laws you have now instead of adding more complexity to the situation?

Freedom of speech applies to all americans and it's disgusting that 1) this article posits freedom of speech is only for white people, 2) they are labeling Kanye as "white" like it's a bad thing to be white, and 3) that they think all black people must support one ideology and they are not allowed to think for themselves.

This is a super racist article.

Yeah, in all of human history violence has been the go to solution:

Problem: I'm hungry

Solution: let's kill this mammoth and eat it (violence)

Problem: there's not enough food

Soloution: the neighboring country has food let's invade and take theirs (violence)

Problem: I want to be king but I'm 2nd in line for succession

Solution: assisinate the king and take his place (violence)

Problem: over population in a region

Solution: invade the neighboring region, kill them, and settle their land (violence)

Problem: can't get laid in the normal way

Solution: rape (violence)

Problem: I'm being raped

Solution: kick him in the nuts and bite his dick off (violence)

Problem: too many of (minority ethnic group) in our country

Solution: genocide (violence)

Problem: want to free the slaves, but the southern states don't want to:

Solution: civil war (violence)

I can go on.

Problem: there is a genocidal tyrant taking over Europe (Hitler)

Solution: world war 2 ( violence)

Problem: there is a man talking about peace and making the peasants uppity:

Solution: crucify him and make an example (violence)

Problem: the Muslims have conquered the holy lands

Solution: the crusades (violence)

Problem: the king is taking too much of our money through taxes

Solution: revolution and #1776, baby (violence)

Seriously if you think violence is not the defacto solution throughout history you are wrong.

Are you serious?

The Marines literally make you say "kill" during combat training.

The phrase for firing a machine gun is "die mother fucker die mother fucker die mother fucker release" (release the trigger to prevent over heating of the barrel)

Every time we went on a platoon run the diddies are about murdering our enemies.

I honestly don't believe you were in the military, or you seem to have forgotten what it was really like. Or maybe you were in the air Force, but definitely not the Marine corps.

Source: I got out after 2 deployments in the Marine corps as a Sergeant.

Fucking dickwads in this thread who can't understand that violence has solved more problems in human history than any other solution.

Its like, "oh, I live in a peaceful society, therefore all other societies in the history of humanity should have known better" when they don't realize that america is very violent, has always been violent, and has more capacity for violence than any other society in the history of the planet. Don't you realize that your "peace" is literally maintained by the us' overwhelming threat of force?

Goddamn it's threads like this that really makes the ignorance of the hacker news community stand out to me in all aspects outside of tech.

Source: been commenting here since 2008 and also deployed twice and got out as a sergeant in the US Marine Corps and have literally made the decision on who lived/died on the battle space.

Or just attach a lock that needs a combo (ex: 3,7,15) instead of a key to open it, then tell her the combination after she gets it and the risk of theft is zero.

The problem specifically says they are communicating using the internet, so why not?

"Hey, I sent you a box. It's locked with a combo lock. Call me when you get it: I want to be talking to you when you see the surprise! I'll tell you the combo on the phone!"

All the people in this thread that think most people get a degree for knowledge, instead of the truth that a degree is just a piece of paper that tells employers "I am a normal member of the middle class and I can do basic stuff so please hire me".

I honestly don't care if people cheat.

I think you have drunk too much of the anti-republican and anti corporate koolaide.

They are not the entirety of the problem and it's weird that you think they are.

A counter example is Texas: majority Republican and a very strong and growing economy.

Just installed it, played until level 14, then uninstalled because of the ads: they break the experience and destroy the relaxing effect.

Probably not your fault since you sold it, but just fyi that their are too many ads.

Women were likely taken for slave labor. The fertile ones as sex slaves, the older ones for physical labor.

"Old women" as we think of them today (65+) didn't really exist back then because life spans weren't as long as they are today for a number of reasons. Most "older" women taken would have been 50-60 years old and perfectly able to work as laborers.

Human history is pretty brutal.

So go clean the beaches in your spare time instead of telling the only person cleaning the ocean at scale that they're doing it wrong. At least they're doing something!

It's ridiculous that you assume cooking is a burden for her.

I host family meals regularly and really enjoy cooking for everyone, plus it provides an opportunity for everyone to get together.

Maybe stop looking at everything with such a negative filter.

This is an ad for the elite dating sites. It's on bloomberg, for Christ sake. Their target market is elites.

Jeez.

Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with less than $1000 cash in the accounts, and you think being forced to miss a week's pay with no notice isn't bad financially.