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Why would it ever be ok? It's dehumanization of non-americans at its worst.

> No, it's vastly easier for Chinese to learn English (or French or German) because they're generally phonetically-spelled languages.

Interesting of you to make that claim as english spelling is usually a nightmare to learn (as is French spelling to a minor extent). Sometimes people really are learning it word by word. It seems easier for you because you're already familiar with it.

> And the payoff is much higher: learning Chinese only lets you communicate with Chinese/Taiwanese people. Learning English lets you communicate with a huge proportion of the world who also learns English as a second language, simply because it's the current lingua franca.

Well, seeing as there are well over a billion of chinese people I'd think twice about using the word "only". Also there are many who speak it as a second language as well.

Do you really think learning chinese won't be economically helpful in the coming decades?

Also, what makes you think learning a different language is just "learning different ways to say a word"? This only makes you seem uninformed on the subject. Do you speak more than one language?

Do you have any sources for that?

Not a real option for some of us.

Ooops, my bad.

Why is your first instinct to think he will get worse?

Sure, but I mean, "Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you"? I'm not sure how that helps at all.

> For people with the lowest wage striving to make the ends mee the problem is of course lack of knowledge, time to acquire it, and time to get out of this local minima.

Also lack of opportunities for many.

This should be titled "how not to write". It's terribly vague.

Most of us brazilians see ourselves as western... It's not a question of being a member of a club, it's how most of us define most of our heritage, so somebody denying that seems at best very awkward and at worst very offensive.

> Would the downvoters care to explain why? It's not a surprise :-) but hearing why would be....enlightening. Thanks.

Your comment has a condescending tone towards the people you claim to like. As if they're some king of exotic animal that you are so priviledged to watch in their natural habitat, and shame on these crazy western people who are oh so racist! There's plenty of tourists like that here in Brazil, and it rubs plenty of us off in the wrong way.

> Western is just some huge bucket now that doesn't really have meaning.

I sincerely think it just means "northern european" to some people.

So? Isn't Italy western?

Only on that site? Most comments on this thread are quite cringey as well to my ears...

Is ethics an impractical subject?

Thank you for this! I'd forgot the name of the talk, and I spent some days looking for it, with no success...

It's only moving fast when they're breaking someone else's business model, not their own one.

Why do you think historians don't study the context of a particular topic? They certainly don't pick and choose quotes.

I think it should be at least heavily taxed and wouldn't be very much opposed to it not actually passing down.

Then people should save money they made from their works and pass it to their children. I've never heard of someone continuing to work after their death to provide for their children, which is what the current copyright system basically amounts to.

Didn't they start it all by playing atari games?

What good would destroying a pyramid do in regards for self-preservation?

Wind energy in the south, solar in the northeast - both closer to major population centers.

No, because there was a system (the Tychonic system IIRC) where the sun orbits the earth and the planets orbit the sun. It seems to have been popular at the time also.

That's a pretty big "if".

Neither can human population. At some point everyone would have houses.

Why should we look at it that way?

>To live a life free of consequences?

To live a fulfilling life without the constant fear of not being able to adequately provide for yourself or your offspring?

>And who pays?

Since it'd be us, collectively, as a society who would benefit it'd make sense for us, collectively, as a society to pay.

It is if you think not every moment in the last millenium was pleasant for everyone.