Jabanga

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by Jabanga 9y ago
>Amazon actively and vigorously sought to make sure it stayed within the previously-established exceptions to the requirement to collect a sales tax for quite a long time, Source?
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>It's absurd how much our country is going to profit models that consist of nothing more than "make the same revenue, and externalize the costs onto society." Uber is not externalising costs to society. It is providing emp
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Thanks for providing your perspective. Articles relating to powerful parties who reject established political mores (e.g. prohibitions on unlicensed business activity, redistributive taxation) illicit a lot of demagogic reactions and attemp
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One could argue not all laws are moral and that following immoral laws is emphasising your own interests over those of humanity. If abiding by the law was people's only priority, there would be no widespread usage of public key cryptog
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Higher atmospheric CO2 levels allow plants to survive in lower precipitation environments. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130708103521.h...
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This is fantastic.
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Why?
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Windows was also much more usable than what was common before it, ubiquity aside. The Office productivity suite was also very good for the time, and represented a major advancement in the state of the art. It's easy to take what Micros
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Windows contributed to global productively enormously.
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>Marx was very careful to dismiss this All he did was misdefine the term. Like I said, he promulgated economic quackery, with just enough articulation and elaboration to give the superficial appearance of credibility. The man was a polit
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>As far as I know, it is not usually stipulated the products which the employee produces Commission based contracts pay per product/service outputted, while hourly contracts pay per hour worked. Working on commission is arguably les
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>Nobody, not even Marx, is claiming this. You're quoting me out of context. Marx claimed: lv = lw + p With lv being labour value, lw being labour wage, and p being profit. He alleged that the capitalist is expropriating the p from t
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>No, Marx considered profit made from the value added to commodities by labour, this profit arising from purchasing of labour-power, to be exploitation. That is what I was implying. I was making the point that the non-labouring beneficia
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>Agents may be allowed to accommodate locally only within certain limits, giving an appearance of free will, but still being within planned parameters and thus producing a controlled outcome. I haven't seen any evidence that this is
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The traditional mother's role is compensated. They have their expenses, like heating, electricity, shelter and groceries, paid for by the breadwinner. They are of course not compensated for what they provide their children, but the sam
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People work fewer hours but the aggregate demand for labour per capita has increased substantially, meaning the average person earns far more per day than people in the past, working fewer hours per day. If people chose to work more hours,
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>People in the past worked longer hours,with less vacations, didn't have longer education or retirement etc. So they've worked less. The per capita aggregate demand for labour has massively increased since 200 years ago. If you
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Those sectors of the economy that receive tax dollars, most prominent among them the public sector.
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>There's plenty of wealth, that goal is already achieved. Good policy is a matter of directing it toward the determinants of happiness. This reminds me of this quote: "It is only in the backward countries of the world that incr
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The Economic Policy Institute is heavily funded by labour unions who dominate the tax money receiving sector of the economy, and thus benefit from the public discrediting of economic theories that endorse the free market.
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Industries that lose jobs due to automation cause job growth in more slowly automating industries: http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/10/24/13327014/productivit... This has been the pattern for over
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>as long as you allow for small actors to freely re-accommodate to their local environment conditions. In other words as long as you don't try to plan their activity. What you're describing is how more free market oriented econ
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Your comment brings me joy. Society would benefit from inventing better ways of communicating the properties of large social/economic systems, so that this misconception - that top down economic planning, through cookie cutter mandates
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Yes they all support some degree of leftist policy. Some support more leftism than others.
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You're misreading the article if you think he's trying to create justifications for the economic order. What he's doing is arguing that the rewards of those at the top are a byproduct of a defect in competitive processes that
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Forced income redistribution is leftist. Someone promoting taxing people to pay for other people's tuition is indeed promoting a leftist policy.
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I think the left is winning. A biological man recently won a woman's weightlifting contest. That would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. For 50 years the left has been saying they're losing, while every decade has a larger share
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It's volatile alright, but that's not the same thing as being able to push the market down with a retail-sized trade, let alone push it down a staggering 10%. And just because the market dropped 8%, doesn't mean the drop can
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Ether dropped from $20 to $6 post-DAO-hack.
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>As soon as you actually try and sell your coins into the market, you see that you've eaten through the order book and driven the whole market down 10 percent. With There is no way you could push down the market 10 percent today. Ma

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