Zompist Bboard Again

I am aware of the distinction - I have had plenty of debates on theory before and am familiar with a variety of Marxist and anarchist takes.

I still think private property isn't bad, and that private vs personal personal property is a continuum rather than a binary.

I don't think billionaires should be allowed to exist, period.

I definitely don't agree with how easy it is to fire people in the US. What I meant was that the ability to fire unproductive workers is not necessarily a bad thing.

I'm starting to feel that there may not be a point in my continued participation in the thread. It feels that it has become a necessary prior that private ownership is evil, firing people is inherently wrong etc.

What with Dems winning Georgia and in Israel Yamina splitting I feel the universe is giving me an early birthday present

From most media I've seen, in the 90s and early 2000s most people got news from either papers and TV. I think NPR might have actually had less listeners per capita back then. There even used to be a big rivalry between print and TV journalists. Note that I was born in 2001, and thus either very youn...

I will die on the hill of <ɇ> not being that bad. the language which started this all: /œ.ɡe.fœ.qeɡ/ [œ.ɡeˈfœ.qeɡ] /p b t d tʃ k ɡ q/ <p b t d ť k g q> /m n ŋᶢ/ <m n ŋ~ng> /f v θ̟ ð̟ s z ʃ h/ <f v þ ð s z š h> /t̪θ ts dʒ/ <tþ ts ž~dŕ/ /r ɹ̠ʷ l/ <ŕ~r r l> /i y u/ <i y u> /ɪ ʊ~ʉ/ <ì ù~ɨ> /e ø ɔ ʏ~ɨ/ <...

I kind of need to take a break from this thread lest I spend all year arguing economics :p

but is it worse than ɇ?
(IMO yes, and also there's nothing wrong with ɇ if it is following a pattern of other characters with stroke or bar)

I think outsourcing is actually on the whole a good thing. It brings capital to third world countries. I don't think donations from co-op would ever give that kind of money. Plus there's nothing about co-ops that make them any more averse to exploitation or imperialism - rejecting these things only ...

Miďai cum len!

So Haleza Grise wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:48 pm That's the third change it's had in about 20 years.

That's a lot!
changes major details about the same language several times a year every year, with up to four or five drafts of the orthography before my current version

I know someone who does a heavily code based job as an educational testing researcher, and he is paid for each project he works on. The amount of hours he spends can vary heavily on the project. If he were paid based on hour his pay would be extremely unstable

There should be limits on work credits, e.g. a limit on the maximum number of work credits one can get, in order to keep people from working themselves to death just to get the maximum number of work credits possible. Do you think they will do that if their pay is decent? Why? They don't have to sa...

Being a professor of physics and being schoolteacher aren't remotely the same skill sets or knowledge sets. A lot of people who can't find a job in physics go to work in Wall Street because it pays really well and they already got the advanced math. Being a high school physics teacher only requires ...

Explain #3 please

#4 is plainly impossible. For instance there are far more people interested in being physics professors than there ever can be enough faculty positions for them all.

Some other things: I do not share zompist's rosy view of the 40s-70s. The economy did not, in my view, work to the benefit of enslaved prisoners in the US (US is the only Western country that allows mandatory prison labour, and said labour is still below federal minimum wage to this day). It did not...

I'm opposing it based on how it will effect me and my friends. Good intentions towards a community does not translate to good results. I do think automation will make jobs disappear. Already the employment market for my generation looks smaller than my parents'. A lot of people are responding by doi...

Then I would be very strongly opposed to your system, for the sake of myself and my friends. BTW Money already is a work credit. Plenty of research shows that people don't get much of a sense of acheivement in things they aren't intrinsically interested. And giving the best rewards to the people who...

I view that in the same way I view the argument of some right-wingers that diasbled people should separately be provided for but no one else receive welfare - you are still stigmatising, even if unintentionally, not working and disabled people will be socially resented for this.