Paradox was a word chosen by the journalist for clicks.

Not knowing enough is not the same as being wrong. They are different things.

You’re angry at journalism, not social science.

Notably Buenos Aires has one of the largest Jewish populations in the world.

That’s reductive. I’m no economist but it goes like this: there are models that predicts the effects of certain industry changes. The invention of certain technologies at a certain time had effects that didn’t match the prediction and they don’t know why. Someday somebody will figure it out and the model will be better. In the mean time, the model continues to work just fine with other stuff.

Yes but it’s really only boomers who still have cable and use them.

Gen Z is gravitating towards analog. It’s the boomers who are addicted.

People who buy luxury are often very poor with finances.

Food is of a very high quality in Argentina and most people cook for themselves with only some occasional restaurant visits.

Argentines are wildly unstable and switch between left and right like a grandfather clock.

Unless you’re an expert on child development and education, then you’re not qualified.

The author is obviously not a fan of valve. The bias comes through in their word choice

It’s not even the bribes. These people can be in situations where they have control over other peoples’ property. Bankruptcy is very often due to bad luck like a layoff of medical condition, but is also widely caused by a lack of financial maturity. I agree that bad credit should not disqualify most people from most jobs, but then again, do you really want someone working at a bank that is shit with their own money? Some positions need a higher level of scrutiny.

I can’t imagine that it survives a court challenge, though.

And to compound what happened to them, they were shunned by society at the end of the war as if they were spoiled goods. It took 50 years or so for the public to understand the depth of what happened to them and to begin showing compassion. The statues exist in part to commemorate what happened to the women, and in part as a sign of remorse for how they were treated by their own communities afterwards.

I don’t get why the hell people appear to be progressive one moment and then become regressive the next.

Starbucks is a great example of how a company that has generated decades of goodwill can quickly squander it due to greed.

6 years minus a day. But that’s still better than 8 years.

According to doctrine.

Literally any Catholic who criticizes the Pope is a hypocrite because the Pope is meant to be God’s representative/mouthpiece on Earth.

I am with you. I don’t believe in what the Pope stands for but also recognize that he is not only the head of state of a foreign government, but the mouthpiece of a significant part of human tradition. This really is like the “fake news” arguments from Trump’s first campaign, i.e., “I don’t agree with what they say so I will attack them personally.”

Remember that the president can only serve two terms. A VP becoming president is considered to have a full term if they work two years and 1 day. So there’s your metric of when you would want this to happen.