JAlexoid

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by JAlexoid 3y ago
IMF provides loans and expects them to be repaid, having rules on government spending attached to the loans is... reasonable. Not to mention, that IMF loans are typically bailouts of governments that overspent. Same goes with the EU bailout
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US does have assembly lines... You may underestimate the number of trains and rail cars that US needs. Just servicing NYC metro and commuter area would easily make a few assembly lines profitable.
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Tunnels - sure, that's a challenge. But stations - that's a cost. Stations are connected to the surface by multiple shafts, or are already exposed.
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I'm not saying that wealthy donors don't get anything. Wealthy donors don't own the museum, just because they provided funding to the museum. Just as wealthy donors to medical research don't get to own the results of the
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Em... I mean the American coal towns of just over 100 years ago paint a very different story. That's when you have government give exclusive power to use resources to individuals and provide firepower to them. Remove all limitations of
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AnCap ideology is flaky at best. Effectively there's little difference between different anarchist utopias. In all cases it's explicitly community driven, because no claim on on property can withstand disagreement with the local c
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> The global population growth rate is going to stall Did you bother reading the part of "do not want a state at all"... this includes "no government" at all. The irrational part is that enforcing something using gove
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It's not. Ancapistan is basically a small scale absolute monarchy.
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Nothing of that kind is going to happen. There's just no support for that.
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When a wealthy person gives a museum much money and get a seat on the board of trustees - does that also mean that they "bought the museum"?
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Relative to less dense global cities - yes, it's poor. In American terms - it's probably one of the better ones.
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Roads aren't the only expense, just like you said.
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Those are not suburban. You're equating rural areas, with suburban. And no, it's not about mega-cities. Detroit is not a mega city.
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There's a world of difference between having to use a car every day of the week to do literally anything (as the case with multiple suburban areas) and using it for it's intended purpose of hauling things. Having a lunatic on the
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Have you seen pictures of Atlanta from 1930ies and now? There are two major interstates cutting thought the city. TWO!
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> Rhetoric surrounding "banning cars" Which I never engaged in. Banning cars is nonsense and is counter productive. > The global population growth rate is going to stall If we give every person a car to drive every day, toda
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I mean... You don't even need to impose new taxes. Just having people in suburbia actually pay the actual costs of maintenance of the existing infrastructure, would make them rethink their decisions.
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Suburban sprawl is literally a result of policy, not just "what people want". Most people would love to live in a gigantic castle in the Loire valley with a helicopter taking them to the office - should we subsidize that as well?
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That's fine and dandy, but that will still produce the core problem - increased traffic... which would make your 30min commute, a 2 hour commute. And "build more roads" has been proven to not ease traffic at all. Meanwhile, e
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They take up a lot of space and require a lot more energy to move around. Even if we get 100% electric vehicles with all clean power generation - it's still a massive toll on the environment. A car isn't a helicopter, they require
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Suburban sprawl is both ecologically and financially unsustainable, with city dwellers subsidizing suburban living.
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No one is asking you to live there or not have a vehicle. What makes it a problem is the financially unsustainable suburban sprawl(single family zoning laws or covenants with the same effect) and people's expectations of car owners bei
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NYC is one of the safest places in the US... and even with fairly poor mass transit system - it's still is incredibly good by American standards. I moved from NYC an hour north, to be more isolated than the "impersonal big cities&
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I don't know... Possibly because your life circumstances made it that? But hey! Talented people doing their best to break out of poverty is clearly a novel idea to you.
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> I'm speaking as someone just coming out of a long and painful job hunt. Sounds like you're speaking like someone that feels slighted by bad hiring, lashing out at groups that have nothing to do with you. I switched jobs twice
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That's where ROI comes in. Should I have spent my full income for 3 months on an IDE, vs spending an extra 2 hours with the free tools? It's not a hypothetical, that was the reality of my life in 2004. I had a lot of extra time, c
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When you literally don't have $20 in your account. Then you can spend 100 hours and it's still worth it.
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Methodology in online advertising exists solely to placate the marketing managers and give them nice graphs. That doesn't negate the fact that targeted advertising is drastically more cost effective for smaller companies. It's dra
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Yeah... Location tracking is available via other methods, so your argument on that issue is a little moot. There are different levels of impact, but generally all EU governments consider the government to be "competent at safeguarding
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They do, but a lot of original sins comes from failed public policy. Like support for dairy industry came before the dairy industry got enough money to lobby... and sustain itself through lobbying. Same goes with HFCS, and many others. It&#

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