Nick Nicholas’ answer to Has Quora ever hired people to ask questions on a particular topic?

Posted 14 hours ago

One of Upwork’s Enterprise clients urgently needs a Talented Writer.

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This role requires 10-20 hours per week, all remote.

Responsibilities:
Write interesting and thoughtful questions in an assigned field that many people may be interested in knowing the answer to. These questions are intended to be answered by writers on Quora with knowledge of these topics

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Bachelors degree, or working toward one
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* Must be based/located in the US

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Thank you and Happy Working !

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I wonder if putting this up will get me in trouble. Then again, it’s not like a certain company in Mountain View is particularly coy about putting ads up on Upwork. (Clients on Upwork in fact are normally quite secretive about who they are.)

Thank you, and Happy Working!

(They left out “we’re excited to announce…”)

Originally Answered:

Why is the “N-word” held to such a high standard in comparison to other swear words?

Because societal taboos have changed in the West. Formerly, prurience was taboo and racism was commonplace. Now, prurience is commonplace and racism is taboo.

And that is not a value judgement. It’s just an observation. Just because something was a taboo doesn’t mean it was a bad thing. And just because something is a taboo doesn’t mean it is a good thing.

But then again, I share the modern rather than the older set of moral values. So I would say that.