It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?

Re:It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it? by seanmcdirmid on Friday November 01, 2013 @09:49AM (#6653665)

> - The evidence seems to be that the bigger the government, the wider the gap between the rich and the poor. This might sound counter-intuitive, but that's the date we have.

It sounds counterintuitive because it's absolutely unabashedly false. Nordic countries, whose governments are bigger than any, have greater equality than 3rd world African countries, where government is non existent.

This is just more libercrazian BS; the data that you have is completely whack, which is probably why you didn't bother to cite it.

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Re:It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it? by sanderjd on Friday November 01, 2013 @11:48AM (#6654554)

You make a good point, but just so you know, when I see political put-down portmanteaus (politdownteaus?) like "libercrazian", "libtard", "randroid", etc., it immediately sets off my alarm bells for people who are operating on an us-vs-them instead of a reasoned-thinking basis. I doubt I'm the only one for whom a good argument seems weakened by this sort of silliness.

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Re:It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it? by seanmcdirmid on Friday November 01, 2013 @01:01PM (#6654893)

I want to distinguish between rational libertarians and the whacko ones that seem to hang out with them but throw rationality out the window. Basically, libertarian != libercrazian.

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