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my idea is that TED internal email service is defective, so when you review one of my translations, or i pick your translation for review, please contact me on the email addresses below, as i will not be able to write to you otherwise. pinterkr O freemail.hu or if you prefer gmail: pinterkr O gmail.com . thanks.

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• A reply on Conversation: Employer's 'Codes of Conduct' are violations of my civil rights

  16 hours ago: yes, i claim that. if an employer is so deeply religious that he does not want to work with atheists, it is perfectly fine. if an employer is so atheist and anti-religious that he does not want to work with religious people, it is also fine.
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  A reply on Conversation: Employer's 'Codes of Conduct' are violations of my civil rights

  1 day ago: "There can be no clause in an employment agreement that makes religious preference a consideration in dismissal or denying employment"
  
  you see, that is a problem. that goes against the freedom of contract, and thus immoral. in any reasonable free society, employers can fire employees without giving a even a hint of a reason. if i feel uncomfortable with my employer controlling my private life, i leave. if i'm okay with it, i don't want the state or you to interfere.

• A reply on Conversation: What are some realistic and creative ways to reduce wealth inequality?

  1 day ago: "Your potato model shows you do not understand the complexities of an economy."
  
  it can also show that you don't understand the argument.

• A reply on Conversation: What are some realistic and creative ways to reduce wealth inequality?

  1 day ago: "If you claim something would be good you need evidence that it has been successful."
  
  before i make something, i need to try it? well, let me just say, it does not take a degree in engineering to see why this does not work.
  
  i understand the free market. i have studied it. i have read 12 books on it, and listened to over 50 ours of audio lectures. and it pretty much covered all the falsehoods you put on the table about it. arguing them is less entertaining, more like routine. an entire bookstore could be filled with the works that explain how regulations and the "welfare state" cause the problems you list.

• A reply on Conversation: What are some realistic and creative ways to reduce wealth inequality?

  1 day ago: there is unfairness, but it does not come from inequality. it comes from nature. if nature would not give us any unfairness, and we had inequality, it would be perfectly fair. it would be a result of work.
  
  in a real world, inequality comes from two sources, the randomness of nature is compounded with work and effort.
  
  that said, it does not logically follow that we need to counter natural unfairness. it is a choice, and it needs further consideration if it is a good idea or not. but it is certainly a bad idea to force that decision on others against their will.

• A reply on Conversation: What are some realistic and creative ways to reduce wealth inequality?

  1 day ago: you moved the goalpost midgame, which is a known fallacy, and a dishonest method in a debate.
  
  what difference does it make from what? fyi it is from gapminder.org
  
  i don't have to show that the free market exists. my point is that it is good, therefore we should implement it. if it existed, we would not have to implement it, would we? duh.

• A reply on Conversation: What are some realistic and creative ways to reduce wealth inequality?

  1 day ago: i don't think we have to make it fairer. i don't know if it is better or not, i don't even know if we can measure if it is. but even if it would be better, i think we should focus on making life better in general and not fairer.

• A reply on Conversation: What are some realistic and creative ways to reduce wealth inequality?

  1 day ago: yeah, and the nonexistence of women's suffrage in 1900 is a proof that it never worked ... jeez. heard of a term "progress"?
  
  my numbers does not apply? those were actual real data.
  
  please tell me how statement A, "taxes were a few percent" and statement B, "taxes existed" contradict each other? formal logic? no?
  
  what i support is rather irrelevant. what is relevant is my actual point. it is either true or false.

• A reply on Conversation: What are some realistic and creative ways to reduce wealth inequality?

  1 day ago: here is that part: "if intelligent was mostly genetic. And intelligence is required to do well in business.
  Then you could argue that the whole world we have created is unfair."
  
  we did not create genes. genes are natural. god given, if you will. so we did not create this unfairness. we got this, and have to live with it. we have to make the maximum out of it.
  
  i don't buy any of these studies. c'mon, money does not make you happy, get real. but even if it was true, it still would not make sense to redistribute it. worthless things are worthless even if redistributed.

• A reply on Conversation: What are some realistic and creative ways to reduce wealth inequality?

  1 day ago: how come then, that not the potato farmers, but for example software developers have higher living standards? you certainly can't eat a software, they should die in hunger. but it is not what happens. what happens is that people receive according to their contribution. if you help more people to be a little more satisfied, you get more in return. this is how a modern market economy works.
  
  good harvests and other natural phenomena are outside of the realm of fairness. one man gets sick, another does not. one man is smart, the other is not. one man is strong, the other is not. one man has an idea, the other does not. we can't level the playfield. all we can do is to gain knowledge and technology and build capital to combat the hardships nature puts on us. technology, knowledge and capital grows in freedom.