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Re:Collusion Through Common Leadership – Tech No-Poach Lists... by metalliqaz on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @05:21PM (#42628377)
So perhaps one could say that human nature isn't compatible with such massive scale? Over here in capitalist paradise, it sure sucks for most people
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Re:Collusion Through Common Leadership – Tech No-Poach Lists... by mgobl on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:16PM (#42629380)
> Over here in capitalist paradise, it sure sucks for most people

Pretty sure this reflexive, luxury belief is not borne out by the data.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...

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Re:Collusion Through Common Leadership – Tech No-Poach Lists... by metalliqaz on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:45AM (#42647402)
The people who have won the game in our current system love to point to this statistic, as if "extreme poverty" is the only thing that matters.

Even if people have a roof of their own head and bread in their belly, they don't like living with anxiety about being able to pay off debt, or what would happen if they had an unexpected hospital stay. And above all, they don't like working so hard only for the value they produce to be sucked up and used to buy back stock for the benefit of billionaires.

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Re:Collusion Through Common Leadership – Tech No-Poach Lists... by zmgsabst on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:19PM (#42629409)
Compared to what?

I’d argue that the US is reverting to the average global experience precisely as its domestic market breaks down due to interventions — eg, destroying small businesses via regulation and mass importation of foreign labor.

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