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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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ticapnews said:
It's not jealousy. I don't care that they have money. I care that they're psychopaths whose only concern is getting more money, even at the expense of everyone else.
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I gotcha. I misread the original post.

Yea, the way people just look to add to their pile, everything else be damned is a major problem.
 
For most of us The Box would present a moral dilemma. The premise is simple:
Press a button and you'll receive a life-changing amount of money. Not fabulous wealth, but enough to make a difference. You won't have to worry about poverty ever again. You and your family will always have food and shelter. In the film version, a financially strapped couple is offered a million dollars. The cost is that when you push the button someone, somewhere in the world, will die. Just some random person. Could you press the button?

These psychopaths would be like...if I keep killing people do I get even more money?
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St. Clown said:
Could I choose a Russian president instead of a random person?
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What's to stop Putin's family from pushing the button on the box ensuring that the "random person" was the one who pushed the button on Vlad?

Unless you're asking "live comfortably for the rest of your life by killing a rando; or $10k in Kohls Cash for Putin?"

I mean, if that's the case, I'm shopping at Kohls for months.
 
A college hockey message board isn't really fertile ground for a quandary like The Box. Let's go to a trailer park in rural West Virginia where the life expectancy is in the 50's and ask a single mother of three who is working 70 hours at two minimum wage jobs and was just told her rent is increasing $500/month next week so she and her three kids will be homeless.

Push the button and some rando dies but your kids will have a roof over their heads, food in their stomachs and be living a decent life in the suburbs next month. Or do the noble thing and let your children watch you work yourself into an early grave while they struggle to survive.
 
ticapnews said:
A college hockey message board isn't really fertile ground for a quandary like The Box. Let's go to a trailer park in rural West Virginia where the life expectancy is in the 50's and ask a single mother of three who is working 70 hours at two minimum wage jobs and was just told her rent is increasing $500/month next week so she and her three kids will be homeless.

Push the button and some rando dies but your kids will have a roof over their heads, food in their stomachs and be living a decent life in the suburbs next month. Or do the noble thing and let your children watch you work yourself into an early grave while they struggle to survive.
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Agreed. I know what decision I'd make and it would take me all of .1 seconds to do it. But my life is very different from the lives of those in your example and I'm less interested in judging that person.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I'd push the putin button for a bad cup of coffee
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We say that, but if Putin dies tomorrow is there a better option who will fill the power vacuum? Do we want chaotic 90s Russia back? Putin has exposed his military and its strategies as weak, corrupt, and outdated, even if some of its more modern equipment and tactics can do damage. His blunder in Ukraine got the Nordics to fully embrace NATO, and after all his time in power Russia's economy and even their very ability to continue to wage this war is still far too dependent on the success of one industry.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Southwest Airlines is canceling so many flights, the DOT already announced investigation
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The point-to-point style system Southwest uses (versus hub and spoke style by most other airlines) is apparently more prone to big issues when something like weather disrupts things and causes delays. A larger weather system like the one just experienced through much of the US can really cause havoc in that kind of system I guess. I feel like they had a similar problem another time in the last year or two when tons of flights were cancelled across the country but Southwest represented a disproportionate number of them.
 
Elmo is now "liking" posts by transphobic accounts. Libs of Tik Tok (the main one responsible for passing around lies about childrens hospitals) being the one that has gone viral. I give it a day before he changes Twitter sop you can't see other people's "likes" and "retweets" in response.
 
Proud2baLaker said:
The point-to-point style system Southwest uses (versus hub and spoke style by most other airlines) is apparently more prone to big issues when something like weather disrupts things and causes delays. A larger weather system like the one just experienced through much of the US can really cause havoc in that kind of system I guess. I feel like they had a similar problem another time in the last year or two when tons of flights were cancelled across the country but Southwest represented a disproportionate number of them.
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I guess their crew staffing software was held together with rubber band and feelings. So with the weather they have to call people to roster them and it's a 4 hour time on hold.
 
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