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That has more to do with the cost of building than a lack of pay. When you don't account for higher education, buildings, and healthcare, Americans are significantly richer than they were in the past. The problem is that politicians do
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>when our industry is producing oligarchs like Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, it means that they are profiting from the things that tech workers produce The workers that built the foundations of these companies received stock options or RSUs o
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>Even globalization is an example. There’s nothing etched in stone that says we need to have child labor mining in Africa for rare earth minerals to make iPhones. This is a concern troll. If you really cared about child labor abroad, you
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A lot of people have had bad experience with unions. Often times, it's only people with high seniority that see the most benefit from unions. This is why the railroad unions negotiated for more pay instead of paid sick days. Pension pa
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The expensive part of coal power is the coal itself. The upfront costs for the power plant are quite low. This is the opposite of solar. It has an very high upfront cost, but for the next couple decades, you only need to pay a little for ma
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Regardless of the merits of the MLK assassination conspiracy theory, this trial definitely discredits the theory more than it helps. It's clear that it was designed to be a public spectacle. Jowers had continuously changed his story pr
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This is a wildly uninformed take. While some workers may benefit from inflation, price instability is more likely to benefit corporations and hurt consumers even more, hence why the left is meming about record corporate profits. Unemploymen
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>It feels somehow like you're paying the middle man for nothing? They also promote your content and find and auction off ads for you. Unless if you're an advertiser, you aren't paying YouTube anything. If you have a proble
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This is mainstream media being sensationalist per usual. This is what the original Coindesk article wrote. "They appeared to oscillate between dejection and defiance, at times holding their heads in their hands and clasping their hands
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Enforcing trade agreements isn't the same as censorship. Having said that, this legislation does seem like it's more about censorship than trade.
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In a healthy economy deflation isn't possible because the money supply naturally grows with the economy. This was true even when we were on the gold standard because banks will be more aggressive with lending, which effectively creates
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You'd think that they'd try to get revenge on the UK first, but fentanyl abuse isn't nearly as popular there. Why not Mexican-American war round 2? Or maybe the same gangs who could no longer profitably sell pirated media fou
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The difference is that Communism promised to distribute power to the proletariat, but that has been a complete failure with every iteration. Globalization has improved economic efficiencies and dramatically increased the standard of livin
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> one of the major promises was that free trade would liberalize the world This was wish a mix between wish-fulfillment and propaganda used to reverse the effect of Cold War propaganda. The main goals of globalization were economic and d
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Carvana definitely lost money when I sold to them. The car had a lot of minor problems that needed to be addressed if they ever wanted to sell it. When it came to reporting the quality, there were only 3 options. I chose the middle option e
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Carvana is basically a very poorly operated CarMax. You get a much better customer experience there, but you're also paying a premium for it.
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Homemaking used to be a full time job prior to WWII. For example, women were expected to sew and wash clothes by hand.
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I wonder how many people who think that everyone would be better if they worked half the hours were laughing at Elon Musk for laying off what he though was deadweight and having to rehire them.
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You frame it as if he didn't have a highly privileged background. He was the son of a coffee plantation owner.
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>the world is run by the same neoliberal ideology that says the market is always right and intervention is wrong. Did "neoliberal ideology" inspire the Soviet Union to drain the Aral sea? Did neoliberal ideology inspire Easter
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> Demonstrate this particular method (which happened to be taught at our rich-kids alma mater, but no one else had heard of). This is one of those things that often gets repeated online, but I've never seen in practice. I've ne
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That's my point?
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>just walk through Home Depot and take a look at anything “Husky" For the average person who has one or two projects every year, Husky or Harbor Freight is more than enough.
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Universal Basic Income would only work if it were truly universal, as in everyone in the world would get $2/day rather than Americans getting $40/day. The alternative is that a small in-group outsource all their real work to an
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First of all, the salt kills all the harmful bacteria. I don't know how true this is, but it's said that mammal meat is denser than poultry meat, bacteria can't grow inside of it (or at least have a lot more difficulty growin
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This is true for a lot of things like restaurants, but hiking is one of the few areas where I don't think this is the case. People don't just casually decide to summit the tallest mountain in the contiguous US. Everyone there has
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> Population levels in the western US have exploded in the last twenty years and we've developed almost no additional recreation opportunities. There are a lot of great places for hiking and camping. The problem is that everyone w
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Qatar doesn't have UBI, but I'd argue that what they haven't isn't very distinguishable from UBI. Qatari citizens are basically guaranteed a cushy government job where they are free to do whatever they want. 75% of Qatar
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There is little difference between UBI and useless college administration jobs or useless gulf nation oil administration jobs. Both jobs have high autonomy and very little accountability, so they already have the option to not do bullshit i
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> we should have a universal basic income so that useless administration will not be forced to spend 8 hours a day pretending to be useful If the problem is that some people are being paid too much to do nothing, the exact opposite solut

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