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by NTDF9 7y ago
Healthcare here is so f-ed up, I can't believe we don't produce more medical refugees to other countries. All this shit show makes Mexico look like an advanced country.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
You need to think a little beyond velocity of money. Velocity of money causes inflation/deflation. Printing currency reduces interest rates which indirectly causes more borrowing which indirectly causes more spending, thus increasing v
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by NTDF9 7y ago
I think you are missing the point. Wealth is almost only restricted by natural and human resources. However, getting paid in a currency is directly limited by total currency in circulation. Of the total items of wealth in the world, if more
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by NTDF9 7y ago
If only the FED actually measured this in inflation numbers.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
> In the 90s the H-1 program was made dual-intent, as in, intent to immigrate would not disqualify someone from entry, setting the stage for the present mass exploitation of H-1B workers. Do you know why this was done? Because the bureau
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by NTDF9 7y ago
> But can we stop kidding ourselves that H-1B holders seeking permanent status are innocent victims? They're exploiting a loophole (dual-intent) to immigrate where they otherwise would have a difficult time qualifying for an immigra
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by NTDF9 7y ago
I'm too young to know but I wonder if this is how global environment was during world war. Every single country is using humans as pawns.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
I think this is all posturing. They are using Trump's own tactic against him. Keep increasing stakes with more losses to be had before the next trade meeting
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Too much time at work. Too less time building relationships. You know, run of the mill relationships with friends at bars, church, local park.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
This is really unfortunate. The problem isn't law enforcement per se. The problem is selective disregard for humans under pressure. Many government organizations under current administration are deliberately hemorrhaging law enforcemen
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Isn't that a good thing? Use less real resources folks.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Yep. I was not talking about racism. I'm talking fundamentally about systemic disenfranchisement that hasn't changed even today.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
> Want to fix this? Sure, easy, just scrap the democracy and just don't ask people, send those who object, to "re-education" camps. Or scrap market economy: if all land is government-owned, it won't be an issue at all
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by NTDF9 7y ago
> I took the train once from Irvine to Los Angeles and felt I had gone back in time to 1980. This in one of the richest counties in the world (OC) Have you considered that richness is not measured correctly? Since GDP is effectively cons
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by NTDF9 7y ago
This is the exact rules for voting when women and slaves were disenfranchised. At its core, America has not changed one bit since.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Why would business formation be so difficult if the cost of production will be so low (because there is close to zero speculation?) Why would capital requirements for capital intensive businesses be so high when the equipment they are tryin
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by NTDF9 7y ago
So a world with lesser speculation? Economies that move steady in the first place so that recessions aren't these massive downturns causing so much grief?
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by NTDF9 7y ago
No. More like a FED sponsored 401k match for wages. If a company thinks it can earn more by producing more goods, it will hire more people and give them wages. The FED will match it, effectively bringing money into circulation. As company g
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by NTDF9 7y ago
I don't have any alternatives without rough edges. THat's for overpaid economists to figure out ;) However, I'm thinking more along the lines of production. So if an individual/company produces more units of something, t
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Good answer! Now imagine if there was a society where money supply did not increase because of more loans, but by something more of a function of labor. What do you think would happen to the prices of materials, labor etc? Do you think tyin
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by NTDF9 7y ago
> How does one acquire the necessary funds for larger projects when one does not personally have the funds to do so? Good point. As a thought experiment, can you answer why the larger project costs more that what an average person can al
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by NTDF9 7y ago
There is a place for debt in society. And that is: emergencies. But why the hell does debt have to be the only way of creating money is totally beyond me.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
As much as it seems so, it's not environmentally efficient. This is because the same raw materials would have to be extracted at multiple places, more people would have to work at similar factories, producing similar goods. Effectively
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by NTDF9 7y ago
How about not having a financial system based on debt and loans? No more need to have a crisis
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Something interesting to note is that these emigrants are all young people. Which means, these motherlands are left with only old people. It's a gigantic demographic disaster.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
I wonder what judges and people would think if Asians started an Asian majority/conscious university? To me this seems like a slippery slope.
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by NTDF9 7y ago
What an amazing script for a movie
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by NTDF9 7y ago
But even then, you would think lobbying inside Germany would be crazy. But it isn't. Why? Because people (rich people included) see society as something to be shared. Not something to be taken from others by hook or crook. US used to b
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by NTDF9 7y ago
> I think this is overly simplistic. There's plenty of corruption in many European countries as well, it's just in a different form. Not denying corruption doesn't exist in other countries, including EU. However, if you lo
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by NTDF9 7y ago
Why are endowments so important for Professors? They're not seeing a dime from that anyway.

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