Living in a society that is just before the total breaking point is not something I would like to be in. I like that I am able to leave my door unlocked when I walk the dogs. And that we have universal medical and drug coverage. And that if someone's having a domestic dispute, nobody in the neighborhood has to worry about dodging bullets when things get really nasty between them.

I call them "Bougon en Gros" - but people outside Quebec who haven't seen "Les Bougon" won't get it.

The problem with that theory is that productivity gains have meant that we don't need twice as many people to produce twice as many goods.

Not true. Adjusted for inflation, the poor are less well-off than they were 30 years ago.

Did he file assault charges? Not discriminating means nobody gets a free pass for common assault.

SJWs see society as "us-vs-them." That will always end up badly. This lawsuit (Ellen Pao) was the same sort of shakedown her husband used to do, complaining about being discriminated against because he was black.

Well, if reddit fires her as CEO, she can always try DICE. :-(

There is no law that says a corporation has to maximize shareholder value, and I'm getting sick and tired of people quoting this myth to justify wrongful behavior.

Unfortunately, some people don't willingly do the right thing - that's why we have jails for thieves and rapists, for example.

It wasn't too hard to know they were the same business - plenty of stock at future shop had best buy shipping labels on them.

Every once in a while, future shop would drop the price on something, so you could go to best buy and get it at that price minus a few percent by bringing the ad.

Surprisingly, considering all the crazy "experiments" we tried as kids, nobody ever got hurt. Though there were some pretty close calls.

Or maybe the behavior in question stops because it's wrong and people are being held accountable? The Ellen Pao lawsuit isn't going to have a permanent detrimental effect because she was found to be in the wrong, and was trying to squeeze money from a bogus lawsuit, same as her husband had done several times before he left his long-time boyfriend to marry her. $16 million would solve some of his legal problems related to securities fraud.

Or maybe she figured it was a good way to get an offer of a settlement to just go away. Who knows?

Given that 95% of all civil lawsuits filed never proceed to trial, one outlier case isn't going to change anything.

And yet we continue to address inequality and we have fixed some of the worst cases. Why give up?

There's no need for any "central authority." Just that within a business, equal work should be paid equally.

So you're now in favor of unions so workers can get paid whatever they can get? Works for me :-)

Please don't conflate political correctness with discrimination. They're not the same.

Gasoline and vaseline.

We made flame throwers when I was a kid - the old vacuum cleaners could be reversed and used, along with the included spray accessory, to do things like wash cars. We filled the spray jar up with varsol and ignited it with a propane torch. Total cost? $0.00.

He's obviously stupid! Otherwise, he would have cut and run after getting the initial 1.8 million pounds.