Rury

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by Rury 4y ago
Why is that? If you were forced to join against your will, as in a draft, or in some nations where it's required, doesn't seem that odd to complain about it.
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by Rury 4y ago
Think about it like this. A lot of things are financed via credit/debt. For example, you buy a house, using a mortgage, which has an interest rate. Some people might be able to finance a $500k house, at 0% interest rate for 30 years. H
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by Rury 4y ago
Right, and for some more detail, recent studies on cellular energy metabolism and epigenetics suggests that DNA damage may happen more often when you're eating or metabolizing. This is because, your cells tend to reproduce when it has
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by Rury 4y ago
Except that if food is plentiful, but not everyone has equal access to food, then it has everything to do with equality. Actually, many wars and rebellions in history have been due to some kind of inequality, whether perceived or real, when
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by Rury 4y ago
You clearly misunderstand what income is then. If you receive an income, someone had to spend money (in this case your employer). So it does in fact contribute to GDP, as your employer spent money buying your service/finished work. So
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by Rury 4y ago
Did you want that job?
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by Rury 4y ago
Again cows don't emit completely new gas into the atmosphere; all gas they emit originally came from the atmosphere. So their emissions are not in anyway a problem, as it's really just recycled atmosphere. You'd might argue t
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by Rury 4y ago
Not in the field, but evidence is strongly stacking behind the notion that lifespan is largely related to energy metabolism. [1] Larger species tend to have slower metabolisms than smaller species, but larger specimens within a species tend
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by Rury 4y ago
Exactly. Notice when someone has a stroke and a portion of their brain dies, and they go numb and can longer contort muscles somewhere in their body? Yeah, it's because a lot of your brain is used for motor control and sensory processi
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by Rury 4y ago
Unless weighting is done by business fundamentals, it still enables misallocation of capital. Many curated indexes and decisions are based on market cap, liquidity, public float, sector classification - all hardly fundamental.
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by Rury 4y ago
If all investment activity was passive investment, there would be no pricing mechanism left in the market. If everyone just equally invested in everything, there'd be no discrepancy between stocks. Complete scam businesses would given
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by Rury 4y ago
Looks like I misinterpreted your post. The parent post mentioned "money printing coming home to roost. Lots of folks say that isn’t what it is." I too seem to have encountered people saying the money printing is a non-factor, and
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by Rury 4y ago
But there wouldn't be anywhere near the same level of demand (pent up or otherwise) if there wasn't any money printing / near 0 interest. (Government spending is over budget - they were able to spend more than they have becau
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by Rury 4y ago
That was just Pritzker's proposal for the state's portion of the elementary and secondary education general fund. There are other funds to account for, as well as the federal's contribution which are past proposal and have be
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by Rury 4y ago
It's not as much as you'd think. For Illinois, lottery alone nets something like $3 billion, of which ~$700-750 million goes to funding public schools. Public schools expenditures are ~$35 Billion/year. So, less than 1/3
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by Rury 4y ago
Since March, US monetary policy has been tightening. Amount of USD in existence, is now also shrinking. This is what is making the USD stronger.
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by Rury 4y ago
Maybe to take their one-time/limited stimulus payments, and then repossess when people can no longer pay? I'm sure if they felt that they wouldn't be able to repossess, they wouldn't be nearly as incautious in extending
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by Rury 4y ago
Because Tesla is in major indexes like the NASDAQ composite, and S&P 500, as well as many major/popular funds/ETFs. Additionally, many funds are weighted by market cap (so more expensive companies get even more disproportionat
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by Rury 4y ago
Buzzwords are vague/ambiguous. They're intended to lack any precise meaning. Marketers, salesmen, and (some) customers/shareholders love buzzwords. Why? Because buzzwords allow room for one's imagination to fill in the m
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by Rury 4y ago
Habits and values go hand in hand. You make habit, what you value. If not, then you didn't value it much...
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by Rury 4y ago
Sure, import duties could help domestic businesses and potentially laborers for said businesses, but doesn't ensure domestic businesses would pay their workers a minimum wage even with increased business demand.
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by Rury 4y ago
Not if this is more about fair labor rights than fair business competition within the US. Domestically we can enforce minimum wage, foreignly we cannot. Import duties won't necessarily impact the wages of foreign laborers...
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by Rury 4y ago
They publicly state their desired course of action each year. They've historically held an economic policy of maintaining perpetual ~2% inflation over long periods of time. Inflation is higher than that now, so they're trying to b
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by Rury 4y ago
I think it's just the economy is pretty large, and large things don't turn on a dime. Additionally, they're also sort of steering blind, as no one can predict future markets with perfect accuracy, and must rely on lagging ind
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by Rury 4y ago
You can make home prices fall, by creating a shortage of dollars/credit that's worse than the shortage of houses. For hyperbole, houses wouldn't trade for hundreds of thousands of dollars, if there were only 1k dollars total
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by Rury 4y ago
That's typical of governments going through a deleveraging. Ray Dalio's "How the economic machine works in 30 minutes" video on youtube explains the situation quite well. That said though, the money obtained for this sti
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by Rury 4y ago
They don't have to sell assets to destroy money. All they have to do is let their securities mature, and not replace them with anything.
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by Rury 4y ago
>Anyway, what is an emergent phenomenon? To me, emergent phenomena is nothing other than the complexity resulting from observing a group of smaller phenomena interact from a higher-scope. And from what I can tell, building blocks of emer
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by Rury 4y ago
>UBI is widely understood to be a program that would replace all existing benefits... It could certainly be done that way. It also doesn't have to be. >Otherwise, there is no point. The practical argument being then you save mone
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by Rury 4y ago
Yeah, I've learned to be able to wake up at will too. However, it always comes at a cost. I have to kill myself in the dream, and it always involves being hit or run over by a train. But sometimes it doesn't work entirely as I end

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