“The government” is comprised of the people. Society at large is okay with property ownership. The term “rent-seeking” as used by economists does not include the mere concept of owning property.

But doesn’t anyone find it the least bit...odd that women aren’t yet entitled to equal pay in America, but could soon be obligated to fight alongside the same men who currently outearn them for the same jobs?

The issue is that the people who elected Trump are dedicated to being persuaded by whatever cockamamie lie, excuse, or deflection he comes up with to exculpate himself or whatever. Even if it’s demonstrably false that Trump did or did not do XYZ, his followers will adopt whatever position validates their desire to…

Yup—no one liked arguing with grandma. Just a lot of disingenuous form arguments made for sport. 

If you’re trying to increase your own wealth without creating wealth, you’re rent-seeking. It’s behavior that seeks to make a profit without actually contributing to productivity. If I buy a shack and rent it to you, I’m not making anything, and I’m not providing the market with any good or service that wasn’t…

What’s totalitarian about my comment? Someone asked on what basis this phenomenon was called unethical, and I explained it. Regardless of whether you think the world can or can’t be judged by any given standard, clearly someone (i.e., the author of this article) seems to be doing precisely that.

“manipulating the economic environment to increase your share of existing wealth without creating any new wealth.”

I don’t think the idea here was to provide thoughtful analysis; and I seriously question the extent to which someone who writes a hacky Page 6 ripoff for an online sometimes-tabloid, is actually/sincerely/genuinely iconoclastic enough to be a legit communist if favor of the expropriation of private property.

For real Marxists, any and all rent seeking behavior is inherently unethical. This is just an article of faith that flows from the principles that underpin communism.

You know Shit is Getting Real when the Root flirts this closely with saying it may be necessary to involve law enforcement. 

By all indications, Reproductive Rights are poised to go backwards in a big way, and soon. The assault comes in the form of one TRAP law after another, and the fact is that states will keep this up until they finally get the win they need from the ever growing conservative majority on SCOTUS. The last big decision of…

Folks, with the social distancing and seclusion that’s been recommened, I think it’s time we all finally get to those crafts projects we’ve been meaning to get to, but just never seem to have the time...

I picked up a copy of Dragon Quest XI for my Switch yesterday, so, I’m good to go. They can close now.

Good luck to this asshole—to the extent that DuVernay crafted a theory of what happened based on the surrounding evidence and circumstances, she’s protected as that’s opinion; and I’d be surprised if she couldn’t corroborate with research and various sources that the statements of facts asserted throughout the film…

I still don’t understand what started the whole altercation.

It sounds like something I would need to collect a lot of in Zelda in order to upgrade my armor.

I think the issue is that they know what good/bad touch is, have a solid working understanding of boundaries and cosent... but they’ve been failed by authority figures. From the second paragraph of the article:

The most vulnerable demographic are overwhelmingly Trump voters, and I just heard on NPR this morning that in the past 30-40 days, Republican-identifying people have gone from being wary of the coronavirus to thinking it’s not that big a deal (if not a complete liberal hoax), whereas liberals and Dems have gone the…

I think it’s difficult to be very hard on a bunch of teenaged girls who are just trying to keep one another safe, and maybe don’t have the vocabulary or experience to differentiate from random social awkwardness, and genuinely “red flag” behavior—but given, one again, that it’s a bunch of girls ostenbily just trying…

Someone with Biles’ prospects pursuing a law degree would make me seriously question her judgment. It’s a a potentially life destroying amount of work, the ROI is terrible, and she’s in a better position to advocate for victims as a celebrity running a charity or a non-profit, than as an attorney—plenty of people can…