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Whilst it's easy, simple and populist to blame a tiny [x] group of people for all that is wrong with society, it does not have a good historical precedence: try asking any Germans you know!

More difficult is to acknowledge the huge middle-class that has been created as a result of globalisation over the last decades.


blaming rich people for the problems they create makes one a nazi. got it.


That's a slightly "luddite" interpretation. The bus conductor job-class was outmoded by technology. More jobs are created at a higher technology level. This is how society has progressed for all history.

A fantastic Mitchell and Webb comedy sketch on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ


Seconded. Don't waste life wrangling raw PDF.


Privacy concerns are for everyone, not just rich people. Please don't bring culture wars into this.


I don't think he was justifying or approving it, he was merely stating the reason.


This is absurdly wrong. The average working person's pension is heavily invested in stocks.


I think everything you typed appears to be wrong? For instance there are no laws keeping prices close to producer price. That task is done by the competitive marketplace in capitalism. In socialism/communism the price is controlled by authoritarianism, which is why those regimes are marked by mass shortages and starvation.



I'm with you, I try and use a different word whilst keeping it plausibly common, it's part of the cerebral challenge. Using an algorithmic approach is efficient but not "fun". Target is always 3.


It's not about being offended, it's about having control. The power to change words, and what that represents.


It's Bing.


DDG is Bing, they use its API to get the search results. They augment it with other sources to provide the "value added" part, but that's a tiny part. DDG doesn't want you to know that it is Bing, but Bing is what it is.


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