We popularly treat money like wish fulfillment, when we need it to be fundamentally useful for everyone. The record shows you can’t have it both ways. You can’t have the most important system split between doing stupid thoughtless greedy shit, and our basic needs. Our fancy personal dreams, in practice, often run…

Meh, I thought it helped me see how ignorant I was about a lot of those “green” things. Biomass is not green and is treated as such, so what else are we getting fucked around with, etc. Money is firmly at the core once again, and I shouldn’t have been surprised. People just worship money, and they can’t seem to…

Maybe you could, I dunno, regulate those companies and force them to provide protective barriers and other modifications to vehicles. That took me less than a minute to think of. But what of the profitability, and how it’ll be more difficult to operate the business (/sarcasm). Things can be better if that’s the…

I quit smoking, but the catalyst was to quit drinking by myself (great choice for me) as a New Year’s resolution. Smoking lost something from that, and then I decided I would switch to a vape because I thought it would allow me to be more physically active. The vape was good for a while, except for when I went out to…

What are you trying to be, the alt-left? Pretty sure we don’t need that...

Is it though? If political parties meant half as much as people seem to believe they do at times, they wouldn’t allow just anyone to run. The Republicans shouldn’t have allowed Trump to run under them, and the Democrats shouldn’t have allowed this one, etc.

Not for 40 bucks...

I hope the Democratic National Committee are directly profiting off this bear, because it would be like splitting the atom of comedy.

You’re asking the wrong question. The right question is: does anybody (society) need EA to get where it is anyway? EA sucks. It’s eating up competition, and tries to be the only game in town when it can, such as with Madden. EA introduces kids to gambling in all of its major titles, etc.

Also, the employees are paid…

And worse, they try to rewrite the rulebook so that no one can start a new game, or at least unless they get to keep everything and leverage it against every new participant.

You’re also being obtuse. I’m mostly concerned about abuse/suffering. Sex is great, but there are countless decent ways to get your rocks off, it doesn’t need to be everywhere all the time. This is about problematic sexual attitudes in the workplace, etc. You can’t argue that it’s not problematic because it’s clear…

You’re being obtuse. The context is “any relationship between coworkers where there’s a power imbalance”. I do think those are always wrong in some way. Power imbalances are not necessarily wrong outside of specific context.

I didn’t say that we should ban all workplace relationships. I only suggested that we ban certain workplace relationships with high potential for abuse.

The operative distinction is life experience. I was specifically talking about high school, but those styles of relationships always carry significant potential for abuse. I don’t see how you could begin to argue against their potential for abuse.

I didn’t necessarily say that there shouldn’t be workplace…

A lot of stuff... Also, all power imbalances can be in favor of a woman.

I never said that power imbalances were wrong, just that they should be considered inappropriate/harmful in certain relationships. We should protect against abuse in society.

I didn’t say that anyone was smarter. I said that the teacher has intellectual advantages (theory vs. practice), and institutional advantages. I feel that a teacher should let a student flourish in their own way, especially a young student with limited real-world experience. If the student is allowed to live their…

Yes, I’m saying that it is unarguably wrong on certain levels. I’m not saying that those types of relationships are always the worst thing in the world, but that they’re always wrong in some way.

I didn’t mean that these relationships are grievously disruptive or inappropriate to everybody, just that they are to some…

This thread needs some dissenting opinions to the dissenting opinions...

The high school teacher was wrong not only because there was an institutional power disparity, but also because there was an intellectual power disparity. It’s not up for interpretation. Also, you seem to imply that if people are married with kids…

We’re talking about different things: what is vs. what should be, and it can be argued that this country was founded on the ideals of what should be (if you want to put history over contemporary reality). Our system is a progression towards what should be, or not worth much. It’s baseless to say that individual…

This is a baseless assertion. Also, our system is not a set standard and is constantly being tweaked. Things are different from state to state, etc. The only thing that any system depends on is to do what keeps the system optimized and healthy, while maximizing its intended purpose (which in this case is to support…

The only thing that is “part and parcel” with the basic functioning of a proper society, is that people work damn-near exclusively for the good of that society. Our system allows us to rampantly cannibalize ourselves, and you think that’s necessary? To say that John Fuckhead #256 needs 15 million, or worse: that…