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Exactly, it does change. You pick your mom, therefore no dilemma. The 20 year old just stands in line with the 30, 40, 50 and 60 year olds.

Seems to me that there are several forces at work. First as younger folks don't learn about the role of tipping, legit tips decrease (the percentage o...

Not necessarily. If I see lightning, I can develop a belief that lightning is caused by my ancestors being angry, in the complete absence of experienc...

Definitely. Ecology values diversity and native species. Economics values wealth creation. Psychology values psychological "norms".

These so called "dilemmas" aren't really dilemmas. Scarcity guarantees that someone will go without. That isn't a tragedy (to be avoided), it a realit...

So is your issue inflation, the concept of tipping or computerized auto tipping?

Uummm... there's no such thing as a "true" tax rate, including paper gains on investments.

Uummm... how do you communicate what others call "racism"?

Well if he's got billions in income, he's theoretically paying income tax.

It would be devastating for society (meaning the economy), not because of a lack of workers, but because of a lack of customers, long before they woul...

Uummm... where do the loan repayments come from?

Looks like his mom had a rough delivery...

Sure, humans CAN say that, though there is no objective (only inter-subjective) evidence of it.

Well since the majority of sexual relations are NOT a commodity, the latter.

Got your point. Thanks for explaining since it is an uncommon take on the wording that I wouldn't have guessed if you hadn't explained it. What's your...

Exactly. Gods cannot be separated from human narratives, since gods exist inter-subjectively, not objectively. Identically to the way that countries, ...

Uummm... never useful, eh? Becsuse racism and sexism don't exist?

I agree that "racist" more accurately describes situations or rules than people.

Exactly. When it comes to human opinions, being certain is about as meaningful as the amount of effort it takes to say "oops" when what one is certain...

Instead picking syntactical nits why don't you verbalize your take on the problem and your proposed solutions?

Well the term "absolute" is relative, as it is compared to a reference standard. The question is: who gets to decide what is the standard? Thus the qu...

If you mean poverty, I'm against it, of course but haven't figured out how to eliminate (as no one else has). If you mean the recent explosion of home...

The ability to attribute a reproducible observation to culture vs genetics (innate) for armchair observers, such as ourselves (as nonprofessionals in ...

Oh I am not wedded to particular labels, I'm mostly drawing conceptual distinctions that delineate true differences in technological achievements as w...

Not so much. Using words in the description of a subject is using the absolute definitions of those words.

Don't be coy, please expound for us these other, ahem, factors.

Well 538 has him running ahead in the primary polls and primaries pull the most rabid voters.

What's the confusion? These are well understood and accepted concepts (this thread notwithstanding). To label something as "tall" is a relative descri...

True AI is machine learning such that the computer advances it's programming without a human programmer. Simulated AI is clever human programming made...

Currently there is no true AI, there is simulated AI. However, even simulated AI can replace numerous workers in middle management and low level creat...

Your comment, while true, can only be verified through analysis of climate, not weather.

As to legalization or at least decriminalization (which I prefer), a good balance is to prosecute for the crime of pandering, but not for prostitution

Well sexual relations are in demand and thus can act as a commodity. Trading in that commodity can thus constitute a business. Referring to the busine...

Not so much. Hurricanes, floods and wildfires are a normal part of earth's climate, thus observing a single episode tells the homeowner nothing about ...

What citizens notice and the News broadcasts comment on is weather, not climate. Climate is measured by scientists, not felt in your back yard. Of cou...

There are lots of smart women attached to dumb men. You have heard of the attractiveness of "bad boys", right?

It is my understanding that in a closed universe that the Big Bang is preceded by the Big Implosion

That is an internally consistent, though unpopular view. Let me guess, no one in your family has been a victim of fraud, right?

The thing that makes the Gamestop issue news is that it is an example of Man Bites Dog. No one notices if the headline is: insider elite hedge fund ma...

I agree with your assessment of corporations. Governments in the US have taken a huge hit since the Reagan tax cuts of the 80's, so you are wrong ther...

Interesting. I mean it's interesting that when replying to my post about updating initial discriminatory practices (based on group knowledge) when upd...

Rather than call those who have died as "the dead" think of them as the non existent. Basically in the last 13 billion years you were nonexistent, but...

It is psychologically difficult for most to justify paying today for something that will be needed "in the future". Pair that with leaders who can't/w...

It is a false assumption to refer to the response in the singular. As we all know the previous administration didn't take the lead (I am stipulating t...

You are referring to favoring one race vs favoring a different one and calling that positive and negative. I agree with you that in the moment both ar...

Should fraud be illegal? It's often only speech after all.

Lots here, (though almost none of it addressed by my post). Sure, many substitute skin pigmentation for race and base discrimination on it, that is (s...

Children!! My guess is there is a lot of commonality here. Firstly, everyone discriminates. The alternative would be to operate in human interactions ...

What is missing is the subjective part of the human interaction. Not dissimilar how watching a movie that features an actor is not the same as interac...

Sounds like a mod felt it was "hate speech" whereas I agree that it seems to be based on ignorance as you mention.