Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate
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
Christopher Waldrop wrote: Ygret said: 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...
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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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wrote: Ygret said: 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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Marc Lachance 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...
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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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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 we're...
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Marc Lachance 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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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, hammer...
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Jason Andresen 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...
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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 throw in...
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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
wrote: dobby said: 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 commercial...
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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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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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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 I quit...
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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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CLamb wrote: What trusts are Apple and Google a part of? Read full topic
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dobby wrote: Humbabella said: 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...
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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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