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by aianus 1y ago
The whole idea doesn't make any sense. One person's "living wage" (the one with 7 children) is another person's luxurious lifestyle (the one in a DINK marriage)
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by aianus 1y ago
Pretty sure a majority of regular people don't want to go to work and would be happy to see their jobs automated away provided their material quality of life didn't go down.
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by aianus 1y ago
Is there a drug I can take to gain weight?
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by aianus 1y ago
Meta buys back stock all the time, in practice they do the opposite of diluting shareholders. You're right that they don't need to do this.
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by aianus 1y ago
If I suggest putting your net worth on black at roulette and it lands on black, does that make my advice right? Khan forced the employees and investors to continue working and gambling on a company they might not have wanted to continue wor
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by aianus 1y ago
Rents in China are dirt cheap and hardly increase if you’re rational about your housing instead of chasing status and face.
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by aianus 1y ago
Why not tax primary residences too? Why should housing hoarders pay no tax when someone who invests in a productive business or hoards mostly useless shiny metals has to pay capital gains tax?
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by aianus 1y ago
Plasticky and creaky, at least for the BYDs that UberX drivers use in Mexico. They do have a lot of space / leg room. I don’t see any reason to buy one over a Tesla except for saving money.
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by aianus 1y ago
(Half your assets at the time of divorce plus child support and alimony) can easily be more than (all of your assets at the time of your wedding)
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by aianus 1y ago
It's classist that I have to work every day and the owners of capital do not, so what? There is nothing morally wrong with hiring someone to do labor for you.
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by aianus 1y ago
HELOC and never pay it off until you die
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by aianus 1y ago
Qatar sells natural gas not oil
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by aianus 1y ago
One of humans' needs is for status which is by definition zero sum. Same with mating. If anything those two are probably the most important needs so it's not possible to build such a system.
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by aianus 1y ago
My parents and grandparents grew up in communism and they had to work full time jobs (and help bring in the harvest in the fall) with a side of hours standing in queues to buy meat. Meanwhile modern capitalism will allow me to work as littl
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by aianus 1y ago
This just means you'll be working with people that had no other option. Massive red flag.
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by aianus 1y ago
Teslas are great cars. I've only been in BYDs in Mexican Ubers and I would not buy one, it felt cheap and plasticky and creaked.
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by aianus 1y ago
I had to go in person to verify my documents to drive for Uber
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by aianus 1y ago
You can easily measure the capacity to think and solve problems with paper-and-pencil exams every week or two not hours of daily busywork.
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by aianus 1y ago
Interns make $75k+ in tech in the US. It's definitely not unpaid. In fact my school would not give course credit for internships if they were unpaid.
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by aianus 1y ago
No, it's quite easy to make $1mm in a rich country and move to a poorer country and chill if you so desire.
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by aianus 1y ago
That's like asking why would anyone buy a Mercedes when they can take the bus for $2. US healthcare is extremely high quality and timely if you can pay for it unlike the crap "free" Canadian "healthcare" I used to
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by aianus 1y ago
People who don't work today have more political capital than workers because they have the free time to vote and attend primaries and protests and town hall meetings and things like that.
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by aianus 1y ago
Standardized test accommodations as well, maybe?
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by aianus 1y ago
September 2024
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by aianus 1y ago
Who else would verify the user passports if not the customer support staff? Who verifies (and photocopies! in Asia and Europe) your passport at a hotel or car rental office?
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by aianus 1y ago
Similar to goblin mode in dating you should 100% be yourself but only if you already have money and don't particularly need a given job. This works best when you already have a job. You want the shitty PHB megacorps to reject you so
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by aianus 1y ago
You can pay the BNPL with a credit card to take advantage of both interest-free periods and get credit card points. There is really no reason not to use BNPL, even if you can pay cash.
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by aianus 1y ago
Turning the climate control on ahead of time, especially when the car is parked outside. Easily worth $10k extra to me over 10y of ownership.
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by aianus 1y ago
If that were true then they would also dispute every first-line human review. I don't think the average first-line human customer service rep is any better than AI even today.
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by aianus 1y ago
Isn’t college admission there based solely on a single standardized test? If so it makes sense that a super-genius could ace it despite dropping out of high school.

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