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by Aunche 4y ago
>Here [1] is a graph of inflation. We've had increasingly accelerating inflation, especially since 1971 [2]. That's the end of Bretton Woods, or the date that the USD became completely unbacked by anything - enabling the freedo
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Despite being downvoted, you're largely correct. John Deere's primary customer base are mega-farms who don't really mind treating tractors as a service. This does screw over smaller farmers though who are already struggling t
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Thiel is entitled to a lot of criticism, but this is dumbest possible criticism. If Thiel took his money out of SVB, then he didn't receive a bailout. That's 100% consistent with libertarianism. But then he's a hypocrite beca
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> Probably some 50% of the economy is pure bullshit that nobody asked for, just keeping each other busy. You mean that 50% of the economy is bullshit that you think nobody should ask for. You and I may agree that developer at an online
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The only two actual big players you mentioned there are SAP and ASML, and those were successful prior to the EU. Everything else you listed confirms that while the talent definitely exists in the EU, it's just being squandered.
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This is only tracking revenue. The numbers are meaningless without expenses. I'm sure they make a sizable profit margin, but conflating revenue with profit is sensationalism.
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Life was objectively better than it was during the 2019 than during the great recession. If anything is gaslighting, it's denying that reality. That period of time is also when teen suicides started dramatically increasing. Many peop
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Colleges may have been cheaper 50 years ago, but it was also roughly half as common to go to college. It was especially uncommon for women and POC to enroll. Overall, the government is subsidizing colleges more, but the subsidy is spread th
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In theory, this could be deflationary, but there are a few reasons this probably wouldn't be effective. - It usually takes at least a year before tax changes are proposed before they take effect - They are always accompanied by spendin
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> Again, egg farmers are not going to suddenly just kill all of their chickens and switch to building datacenters because we only implemented price controls on necessities like food. Nixon's price controls went fine, as but one exam
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>Most of it goes to the lie that is the premise that interest rates are really the optimal way to control inflation There are only 3 ways to decrease inflation: - Interest rates - Price controls. This tends to have a lot of harmful side
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Here is the "analysis" in question: https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/02... It never actually explains what exactly a "profit-price spiral" is. Even if company prof
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> Tragedy of the commons is a problem cartels face, That's my point. If RealPage were creating a cartel, they would be creating themselves problems without any upside. They aren't receiving the rent. They're receiving mone
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> Price fixing ensures higher rent for the whole cartel (which is comprised of their customers) Price fixing ensures higher profits for the entire market, not just the cartels. Those outside the cartel equally benefit from the price fixi
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If you take the plaintiff's allegations at face value, of course the defendant is going to sound guilty. The reason why I'm skeptical is because "cartel as a service" doesn't make any sense as a business model. Real
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The biggest beneficiary of cartels are competitors that are outside the cartel. For example, OPEC enabled fracking to be profitable. To hurt fracking, they loosened their price fixing. If RealPage were price fixing rather than simply facili
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by Aunche 4y ago
It sounds like you're projecting your own beliefs onto teenage girls. Even if they cared about income inequality or climate change as much as you think they do, that's still the fault of social media. It's counterproductive t
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Even within the US, there is a negative correlation between income and fertility rate. Poor families just make things work. I tutored a student who lived with 7 siblings in a NYC apartment. https://www.statista.com/statistic
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How can they get paid 50% less when share prices drop by 35%? Can't get past the paywall.
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>It's a little convoluted but they basically operate mainly on proof of work. It's mainly leveraging cartel power rather than proof of work. Even if you have a lot of experience acting in non-union productions, you're stil
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I think that using allowing students to AI to write school essays is like allowing students athletes to use a hoverboard when they're told to run a mile. It's the act of running that's the point, not the end result of running
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Most people have a fundamental misunderstanding of how lobbying works. Lobbying money is used to pay the actual lobbyists to gather evidence, prepare presentations, and draft legislation proposals. Only a small percentage of lobbying money
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>Help me understand, it sounds like you're saying that "when the poor people agree with the rich people, everyone gets what they want and democracy is proved to be healthy, nevermind that when they disagree, the rich people get
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Democracy is working as intended. Voters prioritize how well politicians virtue signal about wedge issues, then short-term economic stimulus (e.g. bragging about jobs created by unnecessary tax incentives), then meaningful policy, and only
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>Restricting your employment options to a small, say cyclable area around where you live can be extremely limiting for your employment opportunities You're missing the forest for the trees. If you live in a mid-sized city in the Net
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> Creators have been squeezed dry with less and less revenue Actually, I think Youtube is highly underrated in this regard. The reason so many creators complain about Youtube is because they're the only social media platform that pa
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> NYT fired editors and journalists over that This isn't quite what the article says. It mentions Howell Raines, but he seemed to have been ousted due to staff discontent as well as a plagiarism scandal [1]. The article also mention
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by Aunche 4y ago
Or maybe a newspaper that was known to peddle Iraq War propaganda shouldn't be treated as the source of truth when it comes to known about America's enemies. I'm not saying that it's wrong in this instance, but it's
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Yes. As the article states, the vast majority of them are suspected corrupt officials or scammers, but of course, you're being downvoted for suggesting that China is anything else but a Orwellian nightmare. Ironically, there is a lot s
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Your link compares is talking about emissions of their investments, which doesn't make sense to include as part of their CO2 footprint. If the ownership of these companies somehow were magically distributed in a "better" way,

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