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EDI integration developer. this actually means i write a lot of XML parsing scripts. "Yeah, I do like X-Files. I like the ones that star David Duchovny." - Brent Spiner
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Comment · 7 years ago
You may find community organizing rewarding. Depending on your comfort level, you can try things like: - Volunteer work - Participating in city/town board/council meetings - Direct action (eg the TN chapter of the DSA replaced tail lights for free, since broken tail lights are the most common reason for minorities getting pulled over) - Canvassing for candidates, referendums, etc. - Solidarity actions (eg joining strike members on the picket line)

If you're not sure where to start, try researching local candidates that share your views and find out which organizations endorsed them.

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> which helps technological change, which leads to a more efficient economy

You made a leap of logic here. The technological innovations in finance directly contributed to a more volatile economy that crashed and inflicted massive losses on huge swaths of the global population, many of whom never recovered.

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That 401k isn't going to be very useful if you can't afford healthcare.
Comment · 7 years ago
The modern drug war was designed to be a cudgel aimed at political enemies, not a public health effort. Quoth Nixon's advisor John Ehrlichman:

> The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

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Price lists and comparisons are available for health insurance plans. That hasn't stopped premiums and deductibles from rising to the point of popular furor.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hundreds of people applied to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
Comment · 7 years ago
Not if you've installed Linux on it to run Folding@home!
Comment · 7 years ago
> If instead of almost 8 billion humans there were 4 billions we wouldn't be in this mess either.

I'm not sure your logic follows. The US outputs roughly 13% of global CO2 emissions despite having 4% of the world population.

If the ratio of population to CO2 output was scaled in this case, 7.5 billion US citizens would output 118,000 Mt of CO2 per year. Halving that (to less than 4 billion humans) would be 59,000 Mt of CO2 per year, and the current global output is 37,000 Mt per year.

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Perfect example. The Europeans moved on the Americas before they understood disease pathology, resulting in the deaths of up to 90% of the indigenous population.
Comment · 7 years ago
The executives are rewarded lavishly for owning the company. They should receive equally lavish punishment when that company inflicts damage.

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