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Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
Where does it say porn is banned?

By your logic, any laws that restricts or controls the supply, sale, or advertisement of any kind of material or content to children is against freedom of speech.

Comment · 1 year ago
Just because it is bad for you doesn't mean it should be illegal, adults should be able to do what they please even if it hurts them.

So this is a pretty practical solution to protect the kids without infringing on adults freedom per se, because even if some adults lose access, as I said, nothing of value is lost.

Comment · 1 year ago
What is your point? Yes.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, nah, the idea that the problem with low income workers is that they're not pulling themselves by their shoestrings properly is well and thoroughly debunked.

People don't work in low income jobs because it is the easiest option, but because it is the only option often.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Wages often go over or close to the minimum anyway, due to market forces, and do so without costly bureaucracy/enforcement/taxation/distortion

Yes, when there is an shortage or competitive number of low wage workers, not when unemployment rate is approaching 5% overall and close to 20% for low income earning bracket in most places.

Comment · 1 year ago
Robots will always be cheaper, it is not a matter of if they will come, it is a matter of when. That is no reason the state should subsidise workers for big corporations by allowing them to pay such low income that workers are often eligible for social security.
Comment · 1 year ago
A fraction of it, it is called fractional reserve banking for a reason.
Comment · 1 year ago
You think the scope of what humans can do will surpass the impact of various ice ages? the various volcanism/anoxic events?

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