BANNED USER: repeated antagonism and bad behavior
Nantafiria
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Banned by: @Amadan
Nantafiria
7mo ago
'I can easily see' is the very weakest phrasing known to God and man alike. Is that all you've got?
Nantafiria
7mo ago
They don't understand that in order to get lively, creative, intellectually stimulating conversation
Who's they? How big exactly do you reckon the audience for these things is?
Nantafiria
7mo ago
Australian democracy seems to work just fine, best I can tell, in the sense that they are getting exactly the sorts of government they deserve. This isn't always very nice, but if nothing else, it is absolutely just.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
Stereotypical frat kids and the media they consume are not particularly feminist, but they still will find casual sex all kinds of awesome. The issue runs pretty deep.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
That may or may not be so, and it still means nobody is going to jail for suggesting a date.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
This is an interesting post, and a good one, but the most interesting explanation is seldom the right one. The world is often boring, and I'm betting that it is boring in this case as well: lots of men just aren't able to keep it in their pants at a whiff of power, fame, or money. So it goes.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
Then you can say that, rather than list an anecdote that doesn't look very related and leave your post at that.
Anyway.
Yeah, people lie. Lots. Oldest problem in the world. I'd appreciate if we might all be sincere as much as the next autist does, but we've got to live with the world we have. So it goes.
Okay, and?
Nantafiria
7mo ago
I’m not sure markets are made for men
Of course they are. Otherwise, men wouldn't engage in them.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
It is difficult to teach someone to know something, when his argument depends on him not knowing it.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
I'm not ignorant of it, it's just not my problem. I'm not American, and uniquely American (or Anglo, but I mostly repeat myself) issues aren't all that interesting to me.
This besides even the fact that companies engage in plenty anti-competitive behavior of their own, mind. If but a fraction of anti-union sentiment went that way, we'd have a much nicer world indeed. Instead, we get what's both good for the goose and gander. So it goes.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
You're basically asking that a low-skill worker at a company with high margins get paid more than a low-skill worker at a company with low margins, right?
That's how things do work, yes, at a macro scale. American waiters are paid more than their Cambodian colleagues not because they are more skilled, but because their employers are richer and mostly can't afford to pay Cambodian wages.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
Still no government needed there, no matter how much you insist it's OBVIOUSLY true that's how it goes.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
Lots of things that aren't 'abiding by market forces' aren't theft. Until the day we live in AnCapTopia and everything is left to the free market, that's the world we live in, and things seem to work out pretty well. The archetypical case of theft is robbery: taking something that isn't yours. A thousand employees banding together and demanding higher wages or they'll quit isn't that.*
*Yes, American law makes a mess of that principle. Too bad.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
Your feelings are an extremely poor substitute for argument and thought. Lots of things we don't consider theft cost consumers money; blessedly, consumers' purses aren't the be-all and end-all of the world, and tend to be weighed against other pressing matters.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
Yep. Asian tourists in Western nations tend to do that or stay in hotels run by people of their own nationality, because they do not want to try foreign food. There are plenty of jokes about low-class Westerners sticking out like sore thumbs and refusing to adapt to where they are, but a random Brit or German can be convinced to eat half-baked fusion food that is just familiar enough to be 'exotic' far better than most Asian people abroad can be.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
That'd be the 'both' I referred to, yeah. It is one more example of how Anglo and Germanic democracy do differ in the details.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
There are lots of things violating the market principles of spherical cow land that nobody would call stealing. It isn't helpful, and it makes stealing look better more than it makes unions look bad.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
why is PlayStation competitive against Xbox?
The answer is in large part 'because Japanese people WILL NOT EVER buy foreign products, whereas westerners do not mind buying Japanese'. PlayStation has a couple dozen million guaranteed customers, something Xbox has no way to replicate.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
We could well flip the script, and consider American management uniquely hostile to its employees in a way German and Japanese management is not. Both of these, or neither, may even be true.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
It's from the Non-Libertarian FAQ, still a good read to this very day.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
There is always a bottleneck. This isn't the early 1800s; even unskilled labour isn't that unskilled, and a mass of people quitting means a shock in training, logistics, production, and many other things. This isn't 'stealing' from anyone, and people both are and should be free to do so.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
If all the pieces fit, it is because it is very easy to fit anything into the glaringly big voids this jigsaw leaves us. 'It totally could be Joe, see, see!' isn't enough in court and it shouldn't be enough for much else, either.
Nantafiria
7mo ago
It would seem so, yeah.
You are moving the goalposts. There is an audience for the products of supposedly lively, creative, intellectually stimulating spaces. Participating in them proper is and always has been a minimal affair.
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