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balthasar··on How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?
> "you cant fight the system"

but we can die trying : ).

balthasar··on How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?
What they are going to create a new class? Move up to the next one? Class mobility is a fallacy that was invented to support the hierarchy. Its not an alternative system in any sense.
balthasar··on How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?
I find it extremely boring to fetishize the immaterial and neurotic divisions of the bourgeois.
balthasar··on How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?
Its very difficult to convince people who are immersed in a certain way of living and a certain social order that there exists alternatives.
balthasar··on How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?
He speaking metaphorically. It makes little difference if the situation is contrived by a cabal versus many actors acting independently.
balthasar··on Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
It does seem silly to start a health insurance company when it will only be a couple of years before we nationalize health care.
balthasar··on [dead]
Americans are slowly becoming more radical as a reaction to economic pressures. With each side's policies alien to the other, compromise becomes impossible. Eventually one side will have to win out and then things will get very interesting.
balthasar··on The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
A third party is not necessary. Both of the current U.S. political parties are very easily co-opted.
balthasar··on The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
Considering the U.S. government was just shutdown over a purge of immigrants I'm not sure what more proof you need.
balthasar··on The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
Americans are slowly becoming more radical as a reaction to economic pressures. With each side's policies alien to the other, compromise becomes impossible. Eventually one side will have to win out and then things will get very interesting.
balthasar··on The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking
The entertainment industry has always had pop culture icons making more than skilled-professionals. Are you getting social media confused with companies who innovate just because they both use computers?
balthasar··on Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance
He is pointing out the arbitrary nature of the algorithm the workings of which was determined through research. The psuedo code is obviously not the point. The reader would have to either be ignorant of the discussion to make this mistake or intent on blurring the discussion.
balthasar··on Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent
What you are describing is a problem in all representative democracies.
balthasar··on Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent
Every democracy has varying levels of efficacy. The government there may be authoritarian but its not a dictatorship.
balthasar··on Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent
Venezuela is a democracy.
balthasar··on Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent
A very small percentage of venezuela's economy is controlled by government.
balthasar··on Ecuador says it has granted nationality to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
And right back to where he started. Its contingent on the UK to decide Assange's fate and their is no indication that they have changed their mind.
balthasar··on North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map
This is so clever and effective that I guarantee it will never gain traction.
balthasar··on What it’s like to be on the board of a Fortune 500 company
Why do you keep giving CEOs barrels of money?
balthasar··on Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco
Yr right. Rent control doesn't make sense in a bull or bear market. Only when the market is stable.
balthasar··on Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away
its just sensationalist nonsense.
balthasar··on Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away
yr right they are a very stable and egalitarian power house.
balthasar··on Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away
they are truly disgusting.
balthasar··on Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away
nice
balthasar··on Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away
Its crazy that one of the most dysfunctional third world countries borders the most powerful and prosperous. Weird huh?
balthasar··on Inequality in nature and society
Sorry for the confusion. I wasn't agreeing with "government intervention leads to wealth concentration" I was stating that people who bring this up do not believe it is a given that "extreme wealth inequality is inevitable in a globalizing world unless effective wealth-equalizing institutions are installed on a global scale". Cutcss was implying this is universally agreed upon but I've seen many people believe the opposite.
balthasar··on Inequality in nature and society
I have seen it argued that government intervention leads to wealth concentration, that in a free market competition is supposed counteract this.
balthasar··on Extreme event attribution is an expanding subfield of climate science
What is the climate change industry?
balthasar··on World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year
His wealth came from siphoning off profits from his employees and charging exorbitant prices for his products. The monopoly microsoft held was used to strangle smaller companies out of the market. None of these actions were directly targeted at me but the world is much larger than you or I.
balthasar··on World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year
Looks to be half. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/09/trump-spent-about-half-of-wh...
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