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by Aunche 1y ago
Like I said, I wasn't talking about random B2B startups, and you're going to hit retire age someday. I don't understand what you're arguing against. If we lived in a place that is hostile to "private equity", t
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Sure you could voluntarily sell your business at less than its market worth to help a younger dentist, but someone else with the same net worth could donate the same amount of money to help the young dentist as well. Why is the expectatio
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In common parlance, "private equity acquisitions" refer to B2C companies rather than B2B companies where there was never of stigma of financialization to begin with. It's possible you're right as I'm also speaking b
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> Then a PE company came in and offered a ton of money which was an offer he couldn’t resist. He is going to retire sooner or later and what then? There is a cultural paradox where it's socially unacceptable to profit too much from
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Part of it is that Americans consume a lot more healthcare than other countries. They take more medication. They take more cutting edge medication (e.g. it's rare GLP-1 agonists to be used for weight loss outside the US). They see more
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Usually when a company sells to private equity, it is because the business is suffering from financial hardship or the current owner is unable to continue to run the business and cannot find a successor, so selling to private equity would b
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Getting the Western world to agree to South Africa style sanctions towards Israel to their response to an attack is another level of unrealism over ending America's military and intelligence partnership. Even if that occurred, Israel i
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This is incorrect. In 1992, the PLO had little military presence and were exiled abroad. The West Bank was governed by Israel. The Oslo Accords allowed the PLO to return and govern their people, including the establishment and expansion of
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What are you talking about? The Camp David Accords and Israel–Jordan Peace Treaty were resounding successes. The Oslo Accords achieved mixed results but was still a major improvement. If there is a lesson to be learned, it is that requiring
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The Biden administration brokered and pressured Israel into a ceasefire that asymmetrically disfavored them. Israel exchanged 30 Hamas militants per Israeli hostage. The ceasefire outlined a permanent resolution to the conflict, including I
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> I am prepared to accept aspects of social media are bad. Clearly identify why and how and perhaps we can make progress addressing each thing. Companies intentionally design social media to be as addictive as possible, which should be e
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Just because a politician does the most virtue signaling towards the left doesn't mean that they'll produce the most progressive results. Bernie has a very poor track record of coalition building. He was getting into fights with M
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I see. It's wild to me that people would be that trusting of LLMs.
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Gallerists always act like having a professional framer is given, but maybe their typical clientele are rich enough to just treat that as a mandatory tax. I framed my art with a diy LevelFrames kit for 10x cheaper which took less than an ho
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I still don't understand understand. Aren't the risks the exact same for any external facing API? Maybe my imagined use case for MCP servers is different from others.
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It doesn't really have to cost that much. You're mostly paying real estate and a professional waiting for business. Framing material, UV glass, and acid free paper are quite cheap. Anti-glare Tru Vue museum glass costs maybe a cou
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> In other countries what goes as 'lobbying' in US would be mostly classified as blatant corruption of the politics. Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. Every democratic country has professional lobbyist
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> Telling the poor/weak to use the tools designed for rich/powerful is just obscuring the reality. Lobbying is not a tool designed for the rich/powerful. It is literally just communicating with to politicians your interest
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Lobbying isn't used to exacerbate the social divide. It's used to achieve incremental policy wins and prevent incremental policy losses for the clients of the lobbyists. This is what the general public needs to do as well if they
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> Where? > I'm not sure your statement can be read any other way than "I don't like perspectives that disagree with my primed and preconceived beliefs" You could have read the second half of the comment which expla
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You made a lot of loaded assumptions, the most objectively wrong one being that I was conservative. "I'd likely be progressive if American progressivism wasn't so economically illiterate (as opposed to say Piketty)" mean
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> If you asked a US economist whether they thought zero interest rate policy (2008-2022) was a good idea, they'd think you were talking about a communist society with a desperate government trying to manufacture growth. I think you
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You assume that I'm conservative, but I'm not. I'm a Democrat who is growing increasingly concerned about their voting base demanding populism. AOC, Sanders, Warren are progressives. I don't consider establishment Democr
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> I am confused about why the CEO of a company that consists primarily of low wage earners deserves a lower compensation for that reason alone If you're looking for an economic reason, there isn't any. Politics in the US has al
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My point is that it is a useless metric about income inequality. Starbucks can restructure to a franchise model and immediately reduce worker-CEO pay. Like I said, any other form of taxation would be a less economically distortionary way to
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I'd likely be progressive if American progressivism wasn't so economically illiterate (as opposed to say Piketty). The vindictive themes make me think that it's motivated more by envy than a genuine desire to improve society.
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"might add a negative value" can be said about anyone. Many high profile engineers at SpaceX who revolutionized the industry have given high praise to Musk that is significantly more specific than what you'd expect from merel
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Why should you expect her to have the same opinions about Musk and Bezos as you? Do you think that everyone who likes them have nothing of value to contribute?
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> The odds of the human species successful navigation of this extinction - at a civilization level - event is almost zero. In that case, you should have no problem accepting this deal. I'll give you $10 right now. In exchange, you&#
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> No longer do you have to carefully study laws and regulations, you just have to make sure one guy likes you! American civic understanding has gone through the floor. People already think that corporate quid pro quo is the default, so f

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