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by Aunche 3y ago
> I've never seen it It is indeed rare... because cities are typically allowed to arrest the people who do so. It's only in cities dominated by the idea the homeless are helpless victims who can do no wrong where you see needle
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Being allowed to camp somewhere is a privilege and not a right. The problem with designating a place where homeless people have a right to camp means that it's substantially more difficult to take action if that area becomes a breeding
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Littering is illegal, but nobody is going to conduct a DNA test to confirm whether the feces or needles next to this homeless guy's camp is really theirs. The presumption of innocence is overall a good thing, but this also means that t
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I don't mind homeless people sleeping under a bridge, but they shouldn't be allowed to camp everywhere. If you aren't even allowed to park for 3 hours in a location, why should a homeless person be allowed to camp there indef
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People who just want to live their their best lives aren't "mindless robots". One could also characterize a "mindless robot" as someone who is willing to sacrifice themselves for a cause that they see in black and w
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I don't see why exclusivity deals with the venues have anything to do with the price customers pay though. That only changes how this revenue gets distributed. The price of a good is generally going to be the intersection between suppl
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A rather low hanging fruit is smoothing out welfare cliffs so poor people don't feel stuck in an position of a local maximum of utility near the bottom. The problem is that these initiatives are very complicated, and you get more publi
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The author definitely has an agenda to push. They equate saying personal responsibility is the way out of poverty to calling poor people morons. I suspect that the author has specific policy proposals in mind but is intentionally being vagu
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From I understand, this is already the case for all these sort of incentive.
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The US government actually spends more per capita on healthcare than the UK or Japan despite it not being universal. We're terribly inefficient with its social spending because have politics is so adversarial and nobody is interested i
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> Would Bezos have made it without 200k from mum&dad ? Bezos was already the youngest Senior Vice President at DE Shaw before he started Amazon, so he wouldn't have any problem finding other investors. His mom had Bezos as a tee
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Snopes at least seems to try to not have an agenda, even if they may be ideologically biased. The rumor clinics had an expressed interest of supporting America during WWII, so I'd consider it propaganda, but that shouldn't come wi
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Contrary to popular belief, China does not give a damn about what any random particular individual reads or even writes. It's not exactly an efficient use of resources to jail everyone who says something they find objectionable on the
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> As long as demand exists for the product, cartel members make more money than regular market actors. Defectors can make even more money These two are completely contradictory statements. "Regular market actors" are the same a
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Where does it say that? If it's something on the contract, you'd think that the FTC would open with that rather than vaguely imply this this happening.
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> RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise rents and make more money. Of course they would discourage them from deviating from Real
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Everyone is rightfully outraged if Panera gets an exception to the minimum wage, but why have a separate minimum wage for fast food workers in the first place? Isn't that similarly arbitrary?
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Most banks saw their valuation drop by 90+% during the recession. Is that enough responsibility considering that banks employed millions of people, the majority of which and nothing to do with mortgages?
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Last I checked, loans with generous terms given to people were called to be cancelled because they were "exploitative." For ordinary people, it makes much more sense for aid to come from a more direct means. > That "profit
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> Unless he's trying to push real wages down, which would be quite the radical position to take. If he's not trying to push real wages down, then what's the problem? People were being hurt more by inflation than they were
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Sure, but that just makes it worse for high-salary earners (me and I suspect a lot of HN readers).
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The US has one of the most progressive tax rates of any nation. Not only do we not have a VAT, but also the top 10% pay over 70% of all income taxes. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the American government seems especia
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> That their tell for when to stop giving money asset owners is when they see evidence that it is trickling over into wages, at which point the party ends because the wrong people are getting handouts. This is just wrong. As, I pointed o
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What policy at the face of it is stupid? Intentionally suppressing wages? Because that's clearly not what the Federal Reserve is intending if you read their statement with their full context. Since they increased interest rates, inflat
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Apologies for being blunt, but this attitude is precisely why all central banks are run by unelected elite. Before you criticize monetary policy, you should at the very least read what the Fed has to say with in their entire context if you&
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Funny how inflation adjusted wage growth went from negative to positive after the Fed raised interest rates. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
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I don't read Thai, but both Google and ChatGPT translate รายได้โดยเฉลี่ยต่อเดือนต่อครัวเรือน รายจังหวัด พ.ศ. as "average monthly household income" rather than median. I find it rather difficult to believe that median incomes
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You're thinking of the mean. The median is the 50th percentile.
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By the time China became the world's manufacturer, Japan and automation had already functionally killed lower-education jobs. On the other hand, the efficiency of Chinese manufacturing has enabled more desirable and lucrative jobs in s
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What I was trying to show is that people have an arbitrary tendency to attribute responsibility to the person who last touched something ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zTiqHtAQurX35QBAs/repost-the... ). This mora

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