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Coal

mercredi 1 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Reports of the death of coal are anticipation of its wished-for demise.

Underpaid garment workers

mercredi 1 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Just 4% of What Australians Spend on Clothing Goes to Garment Workers.

This unfair division of the funds is quite standard. I think it occurs because the businesses have more clout than those workers.

Affluent society of the Ju/'hoansi

mercredi 1 novembre 2017 à 01:00

In the original affluent society of the Ju/‘hoansi, social equality is maintained by condemning those who look might come to think of themselves as above the rest.

If we develop robots that can do almost all the work we want done, maybe we will all be able to work only 15 hours a week. But if we want that society to be stable, we will need to adopt customs that effectively discourage anyone from trying to be above the rest. In other words, the post-scarcity society is the opposite of plutocracy.

I disagree with the use of the word "civilization" to describe hunter-gatherers. The word refers to living in cities.

Nestle's "certification"

mercredi 1 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Nestle is looking for a "certification" of its water-bottling from an organization it helped to set up.

Votes against dooH niboR

mercredi 1 novembre 2017 à 01:00

20 Republicans voted against the dooH niboR budget, but that wasn't quite enough to stop it — that needed three more.