Re:Billionaires Build
by ablekh on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:20PM
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Be careful with labels / generalizations like "stupid legal system" and "inequitable laws". What you, some people and some companies might see as such, a whole bunch of other people and other companies might see as exactly the opposite. The world is not black and white. And it's all about perspectives ...
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> The world is not black and white.
But it is N and N^N
How is this relevant to the subject? Is this your counterargument to the core of what I wrote above?
I would agree with you about the "be careful" part. A wise quote is "If you want to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh or they'll kill you”.
I believe in perspective too, and agree that perspective matters.
But I also believe their is a common perspective (very hard to get at, that is the journey of scientists), and so at some point when you have enough data you can say "well there really is a black and white here".
Fair enough. I'm glad that we seem to be largely on the same page on the subject, then. As for the "common perspective", I usually refer to that as consensus and, indeed, it is very hard - in some cases, I would say, excruciatingly hard - to achieve. Unfortunately, such is life ...
Consensus is a good word. Something for me to chew on. Thanks