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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by throwaway8879 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:55AM (#17966654)
I'm not trying to make a point or rallying against anything. I'm simply saying that I work hard to acquire resources for myself and will never give them away. We can all make moral/ethical/humane arguments about equality and fairness but I simply don't care. If that makes me unintelligent, then I suppose that's just something I'll have to accept.
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by spython on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:28AM (#17966821)
You seem to overlook a wide range of resources - trust, admiration and friendship of others are also resources. So is a society in which people don't let each other live in poverty. The willingness of others to work with you is a resource, which you acknowledge by using a throwaway.

You don't 'give away' resources, they are transformed into other resources. Would you give up the ability to own seven cars for the knowledge that you'll never live under a bridge, no matter what? Many people would.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by bildung on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:17AM (#17966778)
Are you really working hard, or are you working in IT, in a first world country?
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by michaelmrose on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:27AM (#17966818)
Probably working more intelligently but less hard than the average person at Walmart.
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:43AM (#17966886)
Probably in finance, at a guess.
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by bacro on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:29AM (#17966825)
Wow, how bright you are sir... If everybody thought like you, we would have a wonderful world, I am sure!
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by mch82 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:11AM (#17967008)
So you choose the suboptimal box in the prisoners’ dilemma?
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by xphx on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:07PM (#17972672)
Hopefully useful nitpick: In the "prisoner's dilemma", it's the dominant strategy. It's only sub-optimal in the /iterated/ prisoner's dilemma, the ominous reason being an expectation of continuity.
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