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GDP is a good measure of how the wealthy are doing, not so much your average citizen.

The best solution is communism. But you won't hear an economist say so ;)

What democracy? Citizen interests haven't mattered for a looong time.

The parent comment was fine, it just sounds like you're upset about what they said rather than how they said it.

Great, now make it so tracking my delivery driver doesn't freeze my phone and force me to restart.

Did you read the article? The author is concerned about spyware.

He was smart in the sense he knew how to best exploit his engineers and take credit for their work.

None of it would be possible without academia though. Industry just applies academic research.

Life today is better if you're already established, i.e. have a well paying job, own a home, etc.

Being young in todays world is exponentially harder than it was, say, 40 years ago. Many young people have given up on the idea of home ownership. I'm 26 and I've had friends laugh in my face when I suggested owning instead of renting. It's simply unattainable unless you're in a lucrative field. I'm in Canada for reference (our home price to income ratio is one of the worst in the world).

In Canada, $80/hr. Aiming for $90 for my next contract starting next month. Or to move to the US and make way more, apparently.

> The whole ‘fair share’ of taxes argument presumes that the aggrieved group would pay less if others paid more.

I don't think it does presume that. I can want another group to pay their fair share of taxes without necessarily wanting my own taxes lowered.

This is my favourite genre and I think the photos are quite nice.

Not sure where you got this "manipulation is negative persuasion" definition. You can most certainly manipulate people without intending harm. For example, I could manipulate you into buying a bagel instead of a croissant, just to see if I could manipulate you into doing so. No harm is intended, but it's still manipulation.

In a similar vein, people using scientific facts in non-scientific conversations. The amount of times I've heard "well the SCIENCE tells us..." in a moral debate is mind boggling.

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