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Modeling Wealth Inequality: How the rich get richer and the poor get poorer [pdf]

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5 points·by Iefthandrule·vor 5 Jahren·0 comments

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Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
> There is going to be certain things that happen in Israel before Christ returns. There will be famines and disease and war. And the Jewish people are going to go back to their homeland. At that point Jesus Christ will come back to the earth.” He added, “Anybody, Jewish or not Jewish, that doesn’t accept Christ, in my opinion, will end up going to hell.”

It is clear why America is mocked on the national stage.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
This is refreshing to hear. For a while it seemed like Apple was clamping down on things like employees organizing and requesting remote work on Slack earlier in the pandemic.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
> To me, a commercial is something that advertises something I'm not watching and prevents me from watching what I want to. A non-skippable trailer for a movie is a commercial, for instance.

Autoplaying content is the advertising of something you were not watching (if you wanted to watch something you would have selected it) and prevents you from watching what you wanted to (again, you wanted to watch nothing, otherwise you would have selected something).
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Aka "Does anyone else think black people have it too easy and are the real racists?"

Refreshingly honest, I suppose.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Do you have any evidence from your media diet? I see recent articles over the past year that it isn't successful in diversifying.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
The point being made is that finance is far more exclusionary and racist/sexist than tech, but tech gets all the articles written about it. The onus would be on those with power to change hiring in finance, much like the big tech companies are tasked with making tech more inclusive.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
What services are you using that have no commercials? I would definitely consider Netflix auto-playing content by default a type of commercial.

I must have touched a nerve among the Netflix base
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
You don't see narratives about how everyone should get into finance. That is certainly a good ol boys club.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
It would seem best for Apple, Google, et al to collaborate on universal tracking detectors, similar to universal hidden camera detectors: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AFjGQNaqmXA

* edit - It appears that may be in the works: https://gizmodo.com/apple-lets-you-scan-for-evil-airtags-tha...
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Trump wasn't some random person though--he had a huge financial and social network before he became notorious in politics on Twitter. It does not follow that every influencer starts out as a random person at all.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
This lack of transparency, public oversight, and engagement seems to be a trend. I would love to hear how other cities have managed to steer their elected officials into community oversight. Financial influence cannot be the only option.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
What a beautiful depiction of self-exploration. It would be interesting to hear more about how you get yourself to continue digging in such a state of mind.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
This would seem like an obvious topic for rival publications to run with.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
And they are unrealistic too. As if the wealthy would ever have private islands where they engage in pedophilic behavior.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Wouldn't it make sense then to marry someone with a similar socioeconomic status? Or if divorce is skewed against men, only pursue women who make more than you?

Marriage as legal entity was created as a result of women being more or less their father's property.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Activism on these issues get stamped out by the wealthy. Look at what happened to Bernie and Occupy Wall Street.

It is not a matter of lack of passion or organization. It is a matter of corruption.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
I was not referencing the invasion of Ukraine however.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Russia has literally won wars because the opposition underestimated how much Russia was willing to engage in scorched earth tactics.
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Disaster.radio has planned for this [0]. I really like what they do.

0 - https://disaster.radio/
Iefthandrule
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
You have a point--just because Rush's music is technically sound, that does not mean it is good music.