zarathustreal

Because “trying” to be different and actually being different are not the same thing

The counter-examples are so obvious it makes me feel that pointing them out wouldn’t actually help you understand reality

Not giving everyone equal % is exploitation?

Interesting, by that logic every participant in the economy should also be required to bail out any startup that fails otherwise we’re exploiting the founders! They’re taking all the risk and we’re getting all the benefit of the services and goods they create!

Do you think “work” means literally “manual labor”?

Zawinski’s Law in action

You’re significantly worse off assuming your government is adversarial than cooperative, regardless of what reality may be, and the majority of us know that. It’s why the chaos psyops aren’t working. We’re not happy with our government but apes together strong

These dismissals based on the source rather than the material are getting really annoying. We’re supposed to be intellectuals here, we can do better than that.

(Ad-hominem is not a counter-example btw)

You’ve never heard it before because explicitly signaling “I know basic set theory” is kind of cringy

Is the implication that they are in fact the same thing or that you don’t like Elon?

Internet points demand obscure references these days. My system prompt has its own area code

Suppose you've managed to get a job as an editor at Communications of the ACM. As "Editor, Communications of the ACM" what do you think your job is?

This may explain the phenomenon but it certainly doesn’t excuse it - just because something is natural doesn’t mean it’s smart or morally correct