Message from @NativeInterface

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2018-08-07 12:24:03 UTC  

I am aware that it might be necessary to create other problems in order to reach that, but I am not interested in that atm. Just if there is any way to reach the relationship between worker and employer that I mentioned.

2018-08-07 12:27:50 UTC  

A related problem is how long should an employer be aloud to "force" a worker to work. As long as there are more people without a job the employers are going to reduce wages so workers will have to work longer (assuming no regulations are in place) in order to afford to live (the minimum wage debate).

2018-08-07 12:39:25 UTC  

attempting to remove extremes is always going to be a receipy for deseaster

2018-08-07 12:41:36 UTC  

life is constantly in flux and the amount of force required to maintain an strict status quo is usually frowned upon. it is better to make a society in which all people in it have the power to pull the pendulum back in their direction

2018-08-07 12:42:24 UTC  

this way when things start to get too close to one extreme or the other, the opposite side will be able to galvanize and pull things back towards them

2018-08-07 12:43:59 UTC  

thus things will fluctuate around the desired balance point, and most of the time be within some acceptable deviation for most people in the system.

2018-08-07 17:13:04 UTC  

I concur

2018-08-07 17:13:22 UTC  

Generational Pendulums

2018-08-07 17:13:30 UTC  

One for every issue no matter how minor

2018-08-07 17:13:46 UTC  

Sometimes they sync up

2018-08-07 17:13:59 UTC  

Sometimes the gay bot stops me from speaking

2018-08-07 17:16:09 UTC  

lmaoi

2018-08-07 18:14:05 UTC  

so when mao has pendulum hitler should be able to pull it back, so that everyone can commit genocide their own way

2018-08-07 18:14:27 UTC  

everyone wins

2018-08-07 18:14:45 UTC  

actually, both of them are socialist

2018-08-07 18:15:40 UTC  

yeah but nazis were anti communists, right?

2018-08-07 18:16:09 UTC  

true... although on what issues idk

2018-08-07 18:16:33 UTC  

fighting over who gets to genocide the jews perhaps

2018-08-07 18:16:58 UTC  

The Oakland Raiders are anti Pittsburgh Steelers, and vice versa.

2018-08-07 18:17:03 UTC  

They're not both anti-football.

2018-08-07 18:17:04 UTC  

its kind of my point that both sides are similar, but they are still opponents, so you could end up with a pendulum swinging between two flavors of insanity

2018-08-07 18:17:36 UTC  

but both are authoritarian and socialist, and the extreme of both. and, more importantly, tried to keep the pendulum on their side

2018-08-07 18:17:48 UTC  

the pendulum wasn't swinging

2018-08-07 18:18:01 UTC  

well consider the democrats and republicans pendulum

2018-08-07 18:18:12 UTC  

this is what happens when you want to stop the pendulum from swinging.

2018-08-07 18:18:23 UTC  

fucking bot gonna take your damn balls

2018-08-07 18:18:46 UTC  

seriously

2018-08-07 18:19:00 UTC  

"?? <#463068752725016579> is in slowmode. You will be able to post there again in 0.1 second, alright?" like really?!

2018-08-07 18:19:14 UTC  

@JDM_WAAAT can you turn off censorship bot?

2018-08-07 18:20:00 UTC  

it's not a censorship bot, don't bother me with this shit.

2018-08-07 18:20:19 UTC  

Type what you want to say in one message. It's not complicated.

2018-08-07 18:29:11 UTC  

@NativeInterface correct me if i'm wrong, but free market capitalism is basically based on this idea. If a company gets too greedy, competition will spring up to pull the pendulum back, preventing monopoly. Thus, things will ebb and flow back and forth, hopefully, the theory is, near a happy center.

2018-08-07 18:30:35 UTC  

i guess you could look at it that way, but i don't. a pendulum only moves in two directions so it represents a dichotomy, so i wouldn't use that metaphor.

2018-08-07 18:31:15 UTC  

but i get that you're arguing for the ebb and flow part of the pendulum, so i see what you're saying.

2018-08-07 18:32:24 UTC  

i just think false dichotomies and middle ground fallacies is the reason the u.s. is shit

2018-08-07 18:33:05 UTC  

it depends on the context of the pendulum i guess

2018-08-07 18:35:25 UTC  

the happy center of republicrats foreign politics of ponies and rainbows

2018-08-07 18:35:39 UTC  

does a pendulum only move in 2 directions?

2018-08-07 18:36:20 UTC  

i was thinking of a grandfather clock i guess

2018-08-07 18:38:23 UTC  

a pendulum is a weight at the end of a string fixed to a point. if left to swing, at least here on earth, it will slowly move around in a circle. Each time it swings back and forth, it is never quite hitting the same spot as before as the earth rotates under it.

2018-08-07 18:39:55 UTC  

i guess each democratic and republican president are less democratic and republican than the previous one. i don't know if political parties have any principles anymore.