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by amrocha 2y ago
I didn’t say that they’re voting for a candidate and would never change their mind either.
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by amrocha 2y ago
The issue is that you think people are voting for policies. I don’t think that’s true anymore, and maybe it never was true.
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by amrocha 2y ago
Deceptive advertising! haha
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by amrocha 2y ago
That can be said about pretty much anything though. Don’t drink shampoo!
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by amrocha 2y ago
>Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended? I know you meant this as a rhetorical question but honestly, the answer should be yes. And if the city is too dangerous for kids to live in it now, then fix that. Likewis
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by amrocha 2y ago
I see, by “MMT” you mean quantitative easing. Not really the same thing.
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by amrocha 2y ago
Can you give an example of countries listening to MMT economists?
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by amrocha 2y ago
Economics isn’t a science though. There’s no scientific rigour to any central banks actions.
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by amrocha 2y ago
The comment was about needing a car in the cities, so that’s not really relevant
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by amrocha 2y ago
Kyoto has a lot of buses, so maybe that’s where it was. I’ve found that they’re usually on time and not too crowded, but maybe you had a different experience.
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by amrocha 2y ago
I’ve personally never felt like I needed a car in fukuoka, osaka, or kyoto. What places did you have a bad experience at?
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by amrocha 2y ago
I really don’t think you can argue that buying a car for groceries is cheaper than getting them delivered every once in a while. Even just in terms of gas and taxes it’s already more expensive.
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by amrocha 2y ago
Sounds like cars should be slowed down in your city, and public transport should be expanded
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by amrocha 2y ago
I’ll take the option without landlords personally
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by amrocha 2y ago
All of that is only possible because of network effects, and a nationalized JR built most of that network. And honestly, I think you’re overstating the degree of choice you have as a rider. Different lines carved out their corners and compa
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by amrocha 2y ago
This is putting the cart before the horses. These wealthy countries haven’t even stopped burning fossil fuels. Let’s focus on that first.
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by amrocha 2y ago
Can you name a single web framework with wide adoption that was released in the last 6 months? I expect you to delete your comment if you can’t.
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by amrocha 2y ago
To be fair I don’t know how often elderly care workers are going to 6 different locations in a single day, but it’s hard to imagine it’s a very common thing. If there’s a large condo with lots of residents wouldn’t it be more efficient to h
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by amrocha 2y ago
This edge case that you came up with warrants a car, but is that really the reality of most cars parking in any given community? And honestly, it’s questionable whether it warrants a car too. In Tokyo it would be perfectly fine to do those
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by amrocha 2y ago
Well, there’s a lot of people in this thread not content with the status quo. The whole urbanism movement of the past decade is evidence of that I think. Moreover, even if a community is happy with free parking and expensive housing within
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by amrocha 2y ago
Donald’s book The High Cost of Free Parking is about this! Really great read, highly recommended. Rest in peace.
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by amrocha 2y ago
I’m not sure where you live, but I’ve never had to install anything to access the features you described, going back over a decade. All of that has been solved by the web at this point.
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by amrocha 2y ago
I don’t see how this is a net positive for programmers, and for people in general. It’s hard to fathom why anyone worked on this.
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by amrocha 2y ago
That’s not what I said at all! There’s no failure being hidden, public deficits are a normal feature of fiat currencies.
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by amrocha 2y ago
The value of a currency has nothing to do with how that country’s economy is doing. It’s mostly a factor of international trade. That has nothing to do with debt ratios.
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by amrocha 2y ago
I’ll be clearer. The failure mode that you’re talking about, where debt ratios are so high that a country isn’t able to service its debt, is economically speaking impossible. This isn’t “too big to fail”, it’s the system working as intended
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by amrocha 2y ago
Of course that’s not what I’m arguing, please don’t straw man me. The constraint on public spending is the amount of real resources that can be utilized. Productive utilization of resources is not inflationary. For example, if you have 10%
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by amrocha 2y ago
No, you didn’t explain how Japan is different. Because in fact it’s not. The key point is that a government that issues debt in its own currency can always service that debt, and this is NOT inflationary. Zimbabwe’s inflation happened becau
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by amrocha 2y ago
There is no failing for a country with a sovereign currency. Fish can’t drown in the sea. A country is not a business.
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by amrocha 2y ago
Money creation is necessary in a healthy economy. It makes all of us richer when the government spends money on infrastructure.

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