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by Aunche 3y ago
> If people can get paid the same amount while working half as many days, most of them will work fewer days. Half of people would not be unemployed. I gave a simple thought experiment, but you're trying to escape making a trade off.
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by Aunche 3y ago
> And this isn't the only employer that exists If Walmart is bad for employing people who rely on SNAP, then wouldn't it be the same be true for any other business that does the same? > Also, paying half as many people twice
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by Aunche 3y ago
So if you don't have the skills to be worth twice the compensation, you don't deserve a job at all and it's the taxpayer's responsibility to pay for your expenses?
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If Walmart laid off all their employees and replaced them with half as many employees that were paid twice as much, you'd be subsidizing even more people's living expenses. Yet somehow Walmart would be a more ethical company becau
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My point is to make it clear that it was obviously a rhetorical speech rather than some ongoing military policy during the war. You know perfectly well what I meant by restraint.
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A major difference is that Israel instigated the first large scale attacks in the 1982 War, whereas Hamas instigated the ongoing war.
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> I am so deeply disappointed in the Biden administration here. What do you expect him to do? With or without any assistance, Israel has more than enough weapons completely annihilate Gaza. Don't forget that they likely have nuclear
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I don't think machine learning is particularly hard. It just involves a lot of brute force work and most of the time, you get a middling result that isn't particularly exciting. One of my friends had no CS background whatsoever bu
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The cost of oil production in Norway is high compared to most OPEC countries, so net production will mostly flat. They can just loosen their grip a bit. The GDP would drop for nothing.
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You mean why luxury apartments will become regular apartments? Most of the "luxury" apartments these days aren't really that special besides being newer and trendier. Of course, the truly iconic buildings will always be consi
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First of all, LVT are designed to be replacement for property taxes, which already have the problem you describe. Also, Terry isn't forced to sell to a rich person. He is a rich person. The type of people who like to live in hip neig
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Luxury apartments will depreciate into regular apartments over time. Allowing demand for luxury apartments to be pent up just means that rich people will capture more regular apartments instead.
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Monopoly power isn't mutually exclusive with monetary inflation. The competitive landscape didn't significantly change in 2021 when inflation started to rise. That firms were able to increase their profits significantly during thi
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by Aunche 3y ago
It wasn't much later. The Fed started raising interest rates in March of 2022, and inflation peaked 3 months after that. The ability of firms to "price gouge" is evidence of monetary inflation, so I'm not sure why you&#x
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by Aunche 3y ago
> Meanwhile, the Fed fecklessly raises interest rates over and over, refusing to acknowledge that it didn't work The interest rate hikes did work. The inflation rate has dropped by over 5% from it's peak [1]. Real wages rebound
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by Aunche 3y ago
Does anyone know how the WEF and Davos are supposed to actually affect real people? I haven't seen anything written about it that isn't highly politically charged.
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A better example of crabs in the plant world are trees. There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621646
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by Aunche 3y ago
You're just listing a bunch of things that you happen to disagree with using very charged language. I'm guessing that you would object to the characterization of the riots following BLM protests as an reasonable reaction to instit
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by Aunche 3y ago
I don't disagree with your first paragraph, but I don't think it contradicts the spirit of my original comment. Cheeses were invented because there was a demand for non-perishable protein. > And this isn't some new phenome
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By "go out of the way," I just mean make some sort of sacrifice when it comes to getting fresh produce (e.g. gardening or paying more for vegetables). Even when we're talking about leaving your area, you're still increas
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by Aunche 3y ago
People who value fresh produce are going to go out of the way to get it. If enough people do this, environments will adapt to that demand. NYC Chinatowns used to be quite poor and discriminated against, but they were still able to establish
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by Aunche 3y ago
> fossil fuel subsidies were $7 trillion in 2022 Nearly all of that "subsidy" is the lack of taxation of the negative externalities of fossil fuels. Even fossil fuel propaganda isn't this disingenuous with the way it frame
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I used a leaky analogy, so I'll explain more precisely what I mean. When someone tries to sell their MLM, they pretend that they want to help you get rich, but it's obvious that they just want to help themselves. I get the same vi
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I view Bitcoin the same way I view Herbalife. I don't have any issue with the product. I'm bothered by the misleading claims made by proponents to benefit themselves.
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Austerity is often times the least bad option when compared to hyperinflation and a complete withdrawal of creditors. Neither were realistic scenarios for the UK, so I agree that austerity as a ideological goal like it was in the UK doesn&#
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If small regressions in broad metrics are causing mental illness, that sounds like a social media problem to me.
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People have been citing Marx's theory of alienation for a century and a half. Conveniently, they are only started to manifest during the rise of social media. > Fast forward and we're now trying to derive purpose out of pure co
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There is still plenty of tundra in Canada and Siberia where mammoths could still live today. Megafauna survived several cycles of climate change. They went extinct during the cycle when humans arrived.
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Mammoths were an easy protein source for ancient people that were hunted into extinction. This is optimizing for short term profit.
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He doesn't even give an example of "ancient human tribes," but modern day nomads whose traditions have also developed over thousands of years. If ancient human tribes were so great at avoiding tragedy of the commons, I would

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