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by ahoy 5y ago
The amount you pay is set by the people who get it.
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by ahoy 6y ago
The difference is, of course, doctors provide healthcare services and landlords provide middleman-who-makes-housing-more-expensive services.
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by ahoy 6y ago
This is an opinion piece in bloomberg, a pro-business, pro-wealthy publication. Is there any surprise that they dislike rent controls?
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by ahoy 6y ago
I don't see how the distinction matters to the individual consumer. It's interesting as an insight into how the credit scoring system is organized i guess
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by ahoy 6y ago
in spirit perhaps, in practice not so much
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by ahoy 6y ago
They're talking about the upward wealth siphon, not the pandemic.
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by ahoy 6y ago
There are lots of those types of comments. Did you read?
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by ahoy 6y ago
This means very little while the republicans control the senate, I imagine.
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by ahoy 6y ago
I never suggested dismantling all systems of social cohesion and accountability. I said too much of the power that maintains social order is vested in a single place.
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by ahoy 6y ago
The police in america generally have too much responsibility and consume too many of our resources. When you combine that with the privileged status that comes with law enforcement you get a real mess. The problem is, as in so many cases, f
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by ahoy 6y ago
NYC has a similar issue of e-bikes (really electric scooters capable of roughly 45kmph/25mph) in bike lanes. It's annoying as a cyclist, but it's still much preferable to having to share space with automobiles.
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by ahoy 6y ago
I see these all the time in the more affluent areas of brooklyn. Two wheels, kids on the back. https://cdn.shoplightspeed.com/shops/611178/files/23705435/y...
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by ahoy 6y ago
Right, because LA is built for cars not people.
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by ahoy 6y ago
Reintroduction and protection of large predators has diffuse benefits and concentrated damages. It affects the average rancher orders of magnitude more (and importantly, more negatively) than it affects the average non-rancher. So you have
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by ahoy 6y ago
You realize that's $24k/yr right
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by ahoy 6y ago
If there were no landlords prices would drop further still!
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by ahoy 6y ago
There's no reason that we couldn't allow workers to be the beneficiaries of automation.
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by ahoy 6y ago
I don't think "this is fine because capitalism privileges capitalists by design" is the rebuttal you think it is.
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by ahoy 6y ago
"The real problem is that lebron james is a hypocrite" ok man
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by ahoy 6y ago
cancel culture, as its commonly understood ("woke" scolds running well-meaning people out of public life) largely doesn't exist. There are a few high profile cases of it happening to actual sexual predators, otherwise it&#x27
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by ahoy 6y ago
This is a larger problem with software archival. I suspect a lot of the media created during the fledgeling decades of the "digital" era will simply vanish.
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by ahoy 6y ago
Some amount of degrowth seems necessary. Would you quality of life suffer badly if you just bought a little bit less stuff?
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by ahoy 6y ago
The very companies that cause that cause the negative externalities hire lobbyists and buy politicians to write the tax code.
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by ahoy 6y ago
> So either there's something wrong with my analysis its that one
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175 points by ahoy 6y ago|169 comments
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by ahoy 6y ago
You greatly overestimate how many americans have pension plans and underestimate how rich the richest americans are
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by ahoy 6y ago
I like them b/c my main project requires me to support IE11, which doesn't get the niceties of modern CSS. If it weren't for that, I'd avoid them.
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by ahoy 6y ago
Did you pass through many major cities? In suburban and rural america, you can absolutely leave a bicycle unlocked and expect it to be there when you return.
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by ahoy 7y ago
"Why aren't those employees fairly compensated and protected?" I think we all know why.
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by ahoy 7y ago
the first rule of negotiation is to set your initial ask high

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