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“Humans are fundamentally selfish, communism doesn’t work, people just rationally maximize their own self interest”
Human beings:
David Shor@davidshor
We asked this to a large sample of nationally representative Americans - blue wins by a 3:1 margin!
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@Rallo00l @TrueSlazac Regardless of which button you choose, one thing is clear, people who choose the other button think they are smarter than everyone and society would be better off without them. You are right to be smug about it.
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Every time this poll goes viral, “blue” starts winning and it angers a lot of people who desperately want to see half of the human population dead to be correct in an argument
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@TrueSlazac So dying via woodchipper vs just dying meaningfully changes the question?
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@adame2kill4 Wow, asking a different question changes the answer, insightful
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@shaggysurvives Great example of social desirability bias in action
@bryan_caplan
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@LinkofSunshine @VVBellerose @TrueSlazac @Joshua4570 I thought where you were going with this was you wanted to be the only person left who understands game theory lol
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“Oh I pressed the kill myself button so now you also have to press the kill yourself button to save me from my decision 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺”
Just don’t press the god damn kill yourself button???
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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How did Republicans manage to pull this myth off for so many years after Bill Clinton was the first president in a generation to balance the budget and leave a surplus?
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Americans prefer Democrats over Republicans on the economy for the first time since 2010 — Fox News poll
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@questionableway I can explain it if you truly don’t have the theory of mind for picking red.
If everyone picks red no one will die. If some people pick blue, some people will die. As an individual button pusher, you can guarantee your life by pushing red.
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red is an unbelievably phenomenally disgustingly selfish decision and i do not have theory of mind for anyone who would choose it
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@_derekmitchell_ @YIMBYLAND First, “minimum wage violations” is not the same thing as wage theft. They redefined the definition to boost the numbers here
Second, the right side of the chart doesn’t come close to counting “all other kinds of theft”. Like it’s so dishonest its almost baffling
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@_derekmitchell_ @YIMBYLAND Here’s the thing, just because you found a chart on twitter that doesn’t make it true
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@_derekmitchell_ @YIMBYLAND This is not true. This is the 2026 version of "Blackrock owns all of the single family homes"
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@YIMBYLAND Wage theft accounts for more than all other kinds of theft combined and is almost never prosecuted
Is petty theft an issue? Yes, but focusing attention and resources on it is insane when wage theft goes unpunished despite causing more macroeconomic harm than drug cartels
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@wideofthepost half of those examples are theft, and yes those are bad. But no one applies this to private equity because thats not stealing. Thats just a thing you dont like.
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Stealing is bad never applies to crypto, or private equity, or Israeli land theft, or wall street's mass evictions in the subprime crisis aftermath, or to resources plundered in illegal foreign wars, or to concepts like time and well being, with mass imprisonment and austerity.
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@MariGO2thepolls We need the gen z boss and a mini group to work for a nuclear power plant
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Why is nuclear a gender polarized energy lol rare men w
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@LinkofSunshine 100% agree. Lethal injection is less humane, sometimes fails and is designed to make a barbaric practice seem sophisticated & humane.
We should not have a death penalty but as long as we do, firing squad is the best method
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This is fine, as someone extremely against the death penalty
Breaking911@Breaking911
BREAKING: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution -FOX
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@sebastian_trifa @captgouda24 This is so untrue that its weird to see people say it so confidently. Sure, there is plenty of evidence and research on this but it doesnt even make sense on its face.
If we raised the minimum wage to $1000/hour tomorrow, there would obviously be disemployment effects
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@captgouda24 Liberals are beyond parody. There is no evidence raising the minimum wage leads to disemployment, but liberals love making armchair arguments about why the poors should have it worse.
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I will defend wage theft. It is the evasion of government regulations. On the margin, it prevents disemployment due to minimum wage laws. At the very least, its welfare effect is unclear.
Emma Camp@emmma_camp_
@CathyReisenwitz Wage theft is also bad lol. Unlike shoplifting, I don't see anyone defending it as morally righteous!
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@NotPotBol How is that relevant? Pretty much all of the worst people in human history were liked by many. Trump is still loved by a huge number of people. Being liked doesnt make your actions more or less evil
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@reset_by_peer Every society has people getting paid to directly cause the deaths of people by denying them healthcare. This is true of every country that has universal healthcare
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You just cannot run a society where getting paid to directly cause deaths of millions of people by denying them healthcare is legal and acceptable, but calling that practice murder is not.
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
You just cannot run a society in which you treat being somewhere indirectly upstream of a legal but suboptimal system with preventable deaths as 'murder', in the very literal sense of 'it makes it understandable, even sympathetic, for someone to execute you in the street'.
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@fdr_dem This is very telling about the phrase "healthcare is a human right"
if this is true, and human rights > property rights, then by definition, government provided healthcare supersedes property rights.
Leftist can and will use this phrasing to infringe on your property rights
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one thing a neoliberal will do is scold you with their belief that private property is superior to human rights.
Neera Tanden🌻@neeratanden
Stealing is bad. No one should do it. People who think this is controversial should get offline and touch grass
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@GeauxGabrielle If we ever fix our healthcare system, it will be in spite of people like you, not because of
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Denying people healthcare THEY ARE PAYING FOR for no other reason than saving money and doing automatic denials regardless of the issue is ABSOLUTELY theft and murder.
Not debating that one.
Can we please just tell the truth@FloodingLong
@GeauxGabrielle Actually, it does mean that. You can say that denial of life saving care is morally evil, but it's not what murder is. The insurance company did not inflict the sickness onto the person. If the insurance company did not exist, the person would still be sick.
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name one reason why ioan gruffurd is a better reed than pedro pascal without saying he looks more comic accurate. just one
CHOVE@chovwenofuru
The Fantastic Four casting debate summed up perfectly
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