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by alexb_ 1y ago
The difference is that land is not produced by anybody and taxing it comes with zero negative effects - it can't dampen production to raise costs, as usual with taxation, because land was produced by nobody. That differs from taxing we
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by alexb_ 1y ago
This is complete nonsense. You could say this for literally any law. Yes, we have laws that exist to control people's behavior. We have systems which exist to control people's behavior. This is intended and completely necessary to
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by alexb_ 1y ago
Typically, in order to be employed at a college, you have to be smart and aware of the world. This qualification disqualifies basically all conservatives.
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by alexb_ 2y ago
I know you're asking "why not outsource ALL manufacturing and agriculture if someone else can do it cheaper" in jest, or as a rhetorical device, but basically every single economist on earth will say "Yes, we should do t
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by alexb_ 2y ago
The entire reason there was a famine was due to absentee landlords who demanded absolutely everything but the bare minimum from farmers for the "right" to work on "their" land.
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by alexb_ 2y ago
Have we tried just taxing land?
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by alexb_ 2y ago
This stuff is not for consumers. It's for the military. That's why they cost so much and put so much emphasis on features that seemingly don't have any purpose (a bar code scanner and modularity but bad specs? auth readers bu
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by alexb_ 2y ago
Inventory tracking. This is a piece of military equipment, and a lot of that stuff is tracked with bar codes.
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by alexb_ 2y ago
There's a much simpler explanation, which is that there are racist Canadians.
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by alexb_ 2y ago
That's exactly right. Land is not a commodity, in fact it is the absolute furthest thing from a commodity. Plots of land are different, and command different valuations based on location. It is not produced by anyone and has an unchang
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by alexb_ 2y ago
> Capital is not defined by non fungibility. Correct. It's defined as wealth in the course of exchange, coming from labor. Whose labor created land? Nobody's. > Land is not "monopolistic" by nature Completely false
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by alexb_ 2y ago
Capitalism has nothing to do with this, because land is not capital. Land, as a non-fungible asset, is monopolistic by nature. There is no free market involved because competition cannot exist. Furthermore, because you must occupy some
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by alexb_ 2y ago
Wait, so they raised $1,900,000 and spent $1,800,000 on the domain? https://x.com/AviSchiffmann/status/1818289810647191685 Maybe interest rates could still go higher
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by alexb_ 2y ago
I'm excited to see how this ends up like the rabbit r1, completely crashing and burning. This is going to be a trainwreck, there is no chance that the on-board AI works well and even if it did exactly zero people want this.... How out
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by alexb_ 2y ago
Well this is a massive game changer lol I don't care about this anymore
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by alexb_ 2y ago
A ton of people in the comments are talking about Google Slides. Does nobody use PowerPoint anymore? What advantages does Google Slides have over good old fashioned PPT?
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by alexb_ 2y ago
No, land rights (NOT property rights, you should be entitled to all of the value you produce) should be determined by a market system. I'm fine with her keeping that multi-million dollar plot of land for herself, but only if she actual
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by alexb_ 2y ago
The house was not worth $5,000,000. Let's be super generous and assume that's $500,000 worth of house. The land itself, the location, that's worth $4,500,000. Why should a $4,500,000 plot of land be kept out of production wit
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by alexb_ 2y ago
If we eliminated all other methods of taxation, what do you think would happen to rents? Would they increase, decrease, or stay the same? How do you think this affects the amount collected through a Land Value Tax?
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by alexb_ 2y ago
> I think GP's point stands that rolling back LVT would be highly desired by big landowners (who could then return to do-nothing land appreciation for their profits rather than be required to actually _do something_ with the land to
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by alexb_ 2y ago
Wait, you can stop taking it and you STILL lose 1/3rd of the weight on average? This drug really is a miracle.
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by alexb_ 2y ago
Yes, this is how medicine usually works
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by alexb_ 2y ago
So how long is it until we start putting this in the water?
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by alexb_ 2y ago
I've seen multiple NFL games be stopped in the middle because of one person flying a drone. They take this stuff extremely seriously - I wouldn't be surprised if the entire concert was put on hold until the drone was stopped. The
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by alexb_ 2y ago
> 2) alas we gave up bistability for speed, so the image doesn't stay when you turn it off Huh????? I feel cheated after reading this. Only using power for screen changes is half the point of e-ink!
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by alexb_ 2y ago
Land value tax fixes this
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by alexb_ 2y ago
Do the custom controller connectors introduce any amount of input lag? Would love to try and make one of these for Melee tournaments if it doesn't.
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by alexb_ 2y ago
You're thinking of Diet Coke. Aspartame absolutely does have a taste, but it has also been studied an absolutely insane amount over literal decades and nobody can ever actually pin down a negative health effect from it.
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by alexb_ 2y ago
Diet Coke absolutely tastes different, but Coke and Coke Zero taste exactly the same - I doubt you would get a reliable result if you did a blind test.

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