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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
I don't take it as a personal attack, I've wondered the same. It is definitely like a grand theory. I have a couple therapists I'm talking to.
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What Happened to Me(wilsoniumite.com)
3 points by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago|3 comments
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
I have a better response now. The ability to take leisure is still conditioned on labor. To take time off, you have to save up. To save up, you have to work. Labor is distorting the real value of leisure if the production of that leisure ne
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Millions of Lifetimes(wilsoniumite.com)
4 points by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
I have a new version that uses US and Finnish consumption data to model the mechanisms effects. https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/14/labor-pressures-causing-...
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
I've changed it a bit, but yeah that's true, sorry.
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
That's fair, they seem similar at first glance. The difference is that we are asking the economy to create jobs even when it doesn't "want" to. It still will, the lump of labor fallacy is indeed a fallacy, but that doesn
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
That's true, I think the real problem is a liiiiittle more nuanced than just the great stagnation. But that's the graph people know. The issue can be read out in more detail from other graphs too, I'm working on an updated pi
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
I agree, and in some sense I argue this at the end, but I didn't want to make the piece even longer. In fact if you look at the economics of this policy over the long term it leaks capital through rents, so it doesn't actually wor
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
Perhaps, but this is actually a both a somewhat novel framing of the problem and of the solution. If academic economists agree with this theory and subsequently get behind it, it could be like climate change. Except this change isn't a
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
That's a very sad outlook. This problem is hard because it's hard to spot, but the fix is actually surprisingly easy (at least in the short term). The scale is on the order of climate change. If the academic base of economists wer
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Labor Is a Market Distortion, we need VAT and UBI(wilsoniumite.com)
17 points by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago|32 comments
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The Tick-Tock AI Development Cycle(wilsoniumite.com)
2 points by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
The rich spend close to none of their wealth, but they do still, in absolute dollars, spend more than the poor per individual. This means the VAT collects more from the spending of a rich person than of someone that is poor. The full constr
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
This is true, but we also have monetary policy which for the longest time we have thought of as and tried to make apolitical. I would argue this is almost just monetary policy, and that's why I set this up as something that a central b
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
It's priced in, yeah. As I said in the comment and in the post, VAT on its own is not nice. The paper also states: > Nevertheless, any VAT increases, including VAT base broadening measures that impact the poor, should be accompanied
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
I know my tone was harsh, but that's mainly because I'm tired of people thinking I'm taking a side. Using VAT to fund this means that it isn't a tax on capital or on labor, that's why it's more neutral than all
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by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago
VAT is regressive when you consider wealth yes, but as I wrote in the piece it's both counterbalanced by the UBI, and indeed there are mechanisms by which VAT is actually progressive. This OECD paper goes into more detail [1]. The shor
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We Need VAT and UBI(wilsoniumite.com)
34 points by Wilsoniumite 4mo ago|67 comments
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Does using LLMs make me dumber?(wilsoniumite.com)
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Systems are Everything, Software is Systems(wilsoniumite.com)
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Cooperating in a Conversation(wilsoniumite.com)
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In Defense of Rediscovery(wilsoniumite.com)
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This Spillway Failed on Purpose [video](youtube.com)
14 points by Wilsoniumite 6mo ago|1 comments
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You shouldn't write library style code (probably)(wilsoniumite.com)
3 points by Wilsoniumite 6mo ago|0 comments
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My Homelab(wilsoniumite.com)
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Things I learned building a model validation library(wilsoniumite.com)
3 points by Wilsoniumite 6mo ago|0 comments
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We do need to get money moving differently(wilsoniumite.com)
3 points by Wilsoniumite 7mo ago|1 comments
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Why the Economy Hasn't Crashed yet [video](youtube.com)
3 points by Wilsoniumite 8mo ago|1 comments
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Can humans make AI any better? [video](youtube.com)
4 points by Wilsoniumite 8mo ago|0 comments

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