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Comment · 5 years ago
That doesnt explain any of that.
Comment · 5 years ago
Im old enough to remember that people thinking NSA/CIA is watching everyone's internet activity were universally considered deranged schizophrenics.

Whatever fears we have about privacy always turn out to be grossly optimistic underestimates. The next step is, of course, that these emergency measures will remain in place forever.

Comment · 5 years ago
It was their friend obviously.
Comment · 5 years ago
>Australians have chosen

Have they?

Comment · 5 years ago
Unless there are stated penalizations for violations, rules mean nothing.
Comment · 5 years ago
Interesting. So 50 years ago, with labour efficiency and productivity being a small fraction of what it is today, single-family houses were easily built and bought by people.

Today its somehow an unreachable goal that people cant obtain. Why? I dont want to live in a pod or communal flat with 20 people. How are people not revolting over the direction western economies are taking?

Comment · 5 years ago
Interesting, thanks. I never expected to agree with Moldbug.
Comment · 5 years ago
This wouldnt be even legally possible in vast majority of western countries. Americans are weird.
Comment · 5 years ago
Just go to r/politics, they loved intelligence agencies a lot for fighting against the so-called russian collusion.
Comment · 5 years ago
Wait, so how does he expect to fight capitalism, if all he'd be allowed to do was always logged and observed bank wire transfers? Thats rather shortsighted.
Comment · 5 years ago
That's because you know you cannot compete. Ironically, this kind of crab-in-the-bucket egalitarianism is a form of selfish self-interest on your part.
Comment · 5 years ago
It is justice. Every murderer should be executed by the state IMO.

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