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I would need to argue that representative democracy was a fun idea but we never managed to get it to work the way we want. To few candidates get to many votes then turn out to not really represent any of them. They have their own agenda, their own ideas and they don t really know [ ]
A job interview is just work. It works just like any other job. You, the applicant and the interviewer have a task. As you are not used to working with them how well you do this task depends on the best person in the team which should be you. The components are as follows: There [ ]
The collapse is coming! we read every year the year round. It simply isn t true, it is just a story being told. The entire financial circus is disconnected from anything physical. Therefore it can not collapse. The only things that can collapse are wages, ability to buy food and ability to rent or buy housing. [ ]
I much enjoyed this bit for his creative look at the topic. Trying to understand something while sitting back and observing the world produces very different insights from actively designing a system. How_I_Used_EVE_Online_to_Predict_the_Great_Recession By Ramin Shokrizade. Complete List of Ramin Shokrizade s Public Papers
To start by poorly quoting Jack Ma: I always look where the money ends up To sort out government finances we should start by simply looking at that: Whereto all of the monies goes? Usury laws have of course long been abolished in the cleptocratic corporate theocracies of the world. Most important: Rent/mortgage and Energy. [ ]
In programming languages there is something called a scope. If we are to develop a system to organize our world we could use that. It would be a single world government but it would barely have any functionality. Inside its scope there would be separate entities that would be highly similar. Their usefulness would extend [ ]
For an ideology embracing the infinite growth neolib did a great job destroying everything that produces growth. This with the notable exception of things that take less than 3 months. For growth on the longer term 1) we need more not less trained people, we need people to have free time to ponder innovation, we [ ]
RE: How Technology is Compromising the Human Condition (How Technology Is Turning Us Into Zombies) This happens every time. When reading and writing was introduced kids stopped looking to the elderly for wisdom and the elderly stopped looking to provide it. When enough reading and writing was done people gave up on language design, language [ ]
What would happen to the modern world if we had not to work for money? Work doing what we love? In short, if we did not need the money to buy our goods? As would acquire our goods? Which could be an exchange instrument? While the result depends on how you implement it we lack [ ]
https://www.reddit.com/r/education/comments/3rweuz/the_case_against_free_college/ Making college free without solving other issues like how we push all children into college without a thought about the degree they choose or whether they are really capable of college-level work, or how tuition and textbook costs keeps raising at incredible rates while classes are cut is not going to be feasible. Is…