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@Kimmo wrote: I have an idea how to minimise the danger, and fear of, big government... Fucking crowdsource it, dammit. These days we have the means to create direct democracy. Read full topic

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@SpunkyTWS wrote: Ygret: Contrary to what arrogant contemporaries think, people in the past were NOT stupid, and we are not more sophisticated. There was a cartoon in my high school history book...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Ygret wrote: Yeah, I've seen so many cartoons like that from prior eras. We've become so naive we think at least some of the trusts of today, companies like Apple and Google, actually care about us....

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Kimmo wrote: Ygret: We've become so naive we think at least some of the trusts of today, companies like Apple and Google, actually care about us. I'd rather not be included in that comment, having...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@fnordius wrote: Kind of like asking why large tournaments don't need referees. Imagine how the NFL would be if you only had one referee, and the team owners could choose him? If each oil well is a...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Humbabella wrote: Yes, the exact same people who are willing to lie and cheat and steal at the $20B company will be lying, cheating and stealing at the $2M company. Fortunately, since there are tons...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Kimmo wrote: I guess that goes some way to solving the problem of where we find busywork for people while others decide their future for them. All this talk is just about rearranging deckchairs until...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@fnordius wrote: I'm sorry, but it seems you are throwing in the towel way too early. You sound like a sports fan who complains that the Bears are a bunch of cheats, so you may as well not bother...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Kimmo wrote: Pff, quit! From where I'm standing, you guys advocating persisting with a fundamentally broken system aren't even starting. Time's a wasting, dammit! Just let's get our heads together,...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@jandrese wrote: Tell that to Cliven Bundy, who is angry (among other things) at the land management practices that don't let his cattle graze on the same patch of land year after year and instead...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Kimmo wrote: I'd like to see laws like, if you're worth say, more than ten billion dollars, then bang - you have to use um, mechanical computers for everything. Oh, and in another ten years we'll...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@dobby wrote: Ultra fast response....What is unfortunate is that in an imperfect world where people live by game theory rules, and those rules are how people in busness school are taught to think,...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Kimmo wrote: dobby: What is unfortunate is that in an imperfect world where people live by game theory rules Peeps need to realise what a game-changer the intertron can be. Oh, and quit the...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@silverfang1977 wrote: What's needed is more direct control of government by ordinary, everyday Americans, instead of rich lawyers and career politicians and their corporate buddies who line their...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@dobby wrote: Game theory assumes that people will work in their best interest not for the best of all unless there is a social, monetary, or other cost associated with bad behavior severe enough to...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Kimmo wrote: I went back to school in 2008, pick up my Year 12 and the first year of a biotech degree as a bonus within the year, and bailed before I started incurring a HECS debt. Most of the reason...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Humbabella wrote: The problem is that game theory doesn't actually get the best result, even for the person applying it. A rigorous attempt to play a Nash Equilibrium gets worse payouts than the...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@CLamb wrote: What trusts are Apple and Google a part of? Read full topic

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@dobby wrote: Humbabella: Game theory is useful for one thing: winning at games. Applying it to real life requires a good deal of fear and spite. Nice observation, it seems to fit well with the most...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Bearpaw wrote: He's also angry that them tyrants actually expect him to pay for grazing his cattle on public land. How the hell is he supposed to continue being an all-Amerikun sickessful small...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@disarticulate wrote: If you want regulations you have one choice:1. Regulate things. What you're rightfully addressing, is that corporations, along with governments, both employ and benefit citizens,...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@disarticulate wrote: What he means is: "Taxes include an overhead cost that I fail to calculate when I manage my money, therefore someone is trying to steal my wealth." Read full topic

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Ygret wrote: Being from the US, I'd never heard of Gough Whitlam before. Fascinating character. We could use more like him today. A lot more like him. The tactic that brought him down is being used...

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

@Kimmo wrote: Gough was tough till he hit the rough. Read full topic

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Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate

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