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Comment · 7 years ago
Kind of rich for a company which pays hardly anything (if anything T all) in taxes to ask for tax revenue.
Comment · 7 years ago
This isn't just startup culture though, it's capitalism in general. Startup culture is really just the embodiment of everything wrong with capitalism.
Comment · 7 years ago
No the rich and powerful have choices of how to act, while the poor have very little. Additionally, the rich and powerful are the ones who have structured the system in such a way that the proletariat have very little choice in the matter.
Comment · 7 years ago
All employers cave to labor action.
Comment · 8 years ago
Only very recently and many haven't even raised all the way. But I agree that it's not going to solve the problem, only a maximum income can solve that.
Comment · 8 years ago
>My guess is that while your anecdote may infuriate you, the effect of investors who don’t rent out their homes is negligible on housing prices.

No that's actually a large part of housing problems. Like a third of Manhattan real estate is empty. And Manhattan is already super dense but still has homeless people.

Comment · 8 years ago
Or until landlords are abolished like they should be.
Comment · 8 years ago
>And that doesn't count the lifetime pension, health, early retirement some of them get.

That website explicitly includes benefits, what are you talking about?

Comment · 8 years ago
What do you mean traditional car companies not taking EVERYTHING IS seriously? Volzwagen is switching all their cars to electric.
Comment · 8 years ago
I doubt they're trying to prop up a single tech journalist. If I had to speculate on intelligence agency motivations I'd speculate that they're trying to attack SuperMicro.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's also possible Bloomberg's sources are lying to them. It's not unwarranted for intelligence agencies to leak things to the press deliberately to create a story.
Comment · 8 years ago
Much of the maintenance of Britian's infrastructure is still done by the government. Rails, for example, are government maintained but we just don't get the profits anymore.
Comment · 8 years ago
So how many chances are we going to give billionaires? Three? Four? One hundred? Most people get one mistake.
Comment · 8 years ago
Isn't that more telling about the nature of "value" than the advice though?

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