cowuser666

I heard resentment towards remote workers based on their perceived effect on rents when vacationing in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica recently.

Biological necessities for life != institutions that a majority of people participate in within most historical/cultural contexts.

There have always been adults who never paired off into romantic partnerships. Not so with breathing.

Seems like you're making assumptions about the way the causation flows here.

Funny, it comes off as tongue in cheek and charming to me. To each their own I suppose!

this is inherent to fractional reserve banks and maturity transformation. any bank would be vulnerable if there's a bank run. this is a basic thing to understand before making claims on this issue imho.

It clarifies the point he's making. It's not the point itself.

I hate newsletters. I don't want them in my inbox. I want them in my RSS feed where they belong. Thankfully substack has feeds.

So then what's the problem?

Counterpoint: yes?

what's the connection between having an office in a quasi-hemi-fascist state and layoffs?

Based on how this gets operationalized in argumentation, 99% of people would not. Being confronted with Singer led me to reject ethics, not to become more ethical.

Worldviews don't win points for being expensive and industrious. But my point, had you seen past your mood affiliation, was that explaining the origin of a phenomenon doesn't tell you its value.

I'm saying you're not engaging with the substance of his point.

If I were to say, "America had a negative impact in geopolitics when it invaded Iraq," it's like you responded with "I'm sorry, but that just seems anti-American."

This treats arguments like opaque tokens where we know in advance which are good and bad, and need to make sure we have lots of good and few bad. But actually arguments have content and to know whether they are good or bad, we have to engage with them.