Depends on the college and the administration really.
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One reason I would guess is the massive fortune that is made off pharmaceutical sales.
If someone takes their life early, that is potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars saved by the family that otherwise would have went to big pharma.
This uniformity comes from the fundamental nature of the alphabet which is a uniform system of symbols. Later on, the printing press vastly increased this element of uniformity by its precise mechanical design (as compared to the variance of writing by hand). The linear fragmented uniformity of the printing press was the precursor of the assembly line.
Tribal, traditionally not literate(ish) cultures whose primary method of communication is/was the spoken word are more apt to use haggling and/or bartering.
Inherited instincts and emotions.
What exactly do you mean by US companies? Corporations like Apple and Google are not sovereign to any nation, they are super-sovereign, hence their ability to do what you are saying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
I would agree that GDP is not really a measure of useful economic activity. But if that is so, the question begs, what practical use is the metric of GDP in the first place?
Stifling free speech, in any case, is always just like putting a band-aid on an infected boil which only serves to make the problem fester even more.
>Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
-Dr. King, Letter From a Birmingham Jail
Your existence is dependent on ancestral inheritance (instincts, emotions, genetics etc) and your identity is dependent upon the relative social interactions with others. We are naturally, subconsciously affected by the way others in our environment act. Our minds are a codependent network, affected by all of the thoughts and actions of those who came before us.
You are currently using a language that you did not independently invent, for example, and so many of your thoughts are constrained to the limitations of that language.
>B) or are they merely cogs in some vast social machine, constrainted to operate in their private lives and businesses according to the arbitrary dictates of some self-appointed group of sermonizing moralists?
There are many subconscious social constraints, much of which evolved to enable the survival of the species, but it is possible to break free of them, especially when those constraints end up being contrary to survival.
False dichotomy.
This is actually a phenomenon which, according to Karl Polayni's Aristotle Discovers the Economy, roughly began in Greece shortly after the inventions of the alphabet and coinage which helped lay the framework for a more global economic system.
Traditionally tribal or "uncivilized" economies produced goods and services primarily for the local consumption of the clan, community, or family.
But soon after, production for consumption shifted to production for exchange as such societies became less "tribal" and more "civilized" via increasing literacy and "the market system".
With this phenomenon began the shift from the tribal values of family and community over the individual to civilized societies' value of the individual over the community.
Aristotle warned that this dynamic would destroy the autonomy and connectedness of the family and community and create a dangerous dependence on foreign goods.
Neither. I'd prefer one smart enough to understand the demographic economic paradox and successfully raise the standard of living so that the problem of overpopulation solves itself naturally.
In my estimation, the "whole human mind" or "soul" of a person is not annihilated when someone dies. Our minds are an amorphous network constantly in intercourse with and dependent upon eachother.
When a loved one dies, all of the love they gave and words they said exist in some form or another within us, within our hearts and minds which we then pass on to others in turn.
Picture a field full of one type of flowers. If that one type of flowers grows old but never dies, soon enough there is no room for newer or better flowers to grow and evolve.
So as old minds pass away, new minds are born which draw upon the old minds' knowledge but also build upon that knowledge with newer and better ideas.
Alan Watts - Acceptance of Death
Life and death are part of the same simultaneous process. For a living thing to grow, it must die at the same time. Death is life's change agent.
"Controlled death of cells is as much a part of embryonal development as is cell proliferation and differentiation."
The concept of a nation-state depends upon closed-source sovereignty. Anonymous money could be coming from anyone or any foreign nation-state, thus usurping and subverting the sovereignty nation state.
However, this is a problem that already exists because it is easy enough for a foreign entity to use a third party shell to do this (i.e. AIPAC).
The candidate who would be most likely to make sure they keep their jobs and are not prosecuted for fraud.
>Goldman, the company, is not allowed to contribute to candidates. What OpenSecrets means when it says that is Goldman employees contributed.
This is a null distinction. "Goldman Sachs" is not a person, it is a brand name: words on a piece of paper or on the front of a building. Though I understand how this could be confusing as the law (once again, words on paper) says that articles of incorporation (words on paper) are literally people.
When someone says "Goldman" they are of course referring to the persons who work or invest together under the banner name "Goldman Sachs". Like when someone says "the US did x" they are of course referring to citizens, and not the flag.
Just because you don't recognize them doesn't mean they're not there.
Sometimes when you're "behind enemy lines" or consciously trapped in extreme group think, being tactful means being subtle, delicate, or unnoticeable.
Edit: immediately after posting this it occurred to me how terrible if not impossible this would be with the spaghetti code that is the tax and compliance legal code. So that would ideally have to be reformed, or rewritten and consolidated which is quite a big proposition
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