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by amrocha 2y ago
Again, go read up on economics. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
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by amrocha 2y ago
I think communicating it that way is perfectly fine, the point you’re arguing is clear. Personally I disagree, because while the gain hasn’t been realized, you can act on the assumption that it can be realized at any point. There are really
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by amrocha 2y ago
I get what you’re saying, but it really comes down to just addressing the problem directly. Homelessness crisis -> provide housing for all -> not enough supply? build more -> can’t build because of zoning? fix the zoning -> etc
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by amrocha 2y ago
No, you have no idea how sovereign economies work. Taxes don’t fund government spending. Learn about economics before you complain about the number being too high.
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by amrocha 2y ago
If you have 100M in unrealized capital gains it should be no big deal to sell some of those gains to cover the tax. Just convert the shares to non voting shares if you want to keep control.
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by amrocha 2y ago
This is such a stupid argument. Is your issue that the number is too high? Why? What’s the right number? Should government spend 25% percent of GDP? Who cares. Governments shouldn’t aim for a specific number, they should spend enough to mak
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by amrocha 2y ago
Even if Elon was running the company fantastically, it’s still never gonna be as important as healthcare and education etc
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by amrocha 2y ago
The government is not funded by taxes. It controls the supply of money, it can spend as much money as it wants whenever it wants. Taking money away from billionaires just reduces their power, it doesn’t make any difference to the government
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by amrocha 2y ago
What private company in the US is building infrastructure more efficiently than the government?
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by amrocha 2y ago
Even if you took away all of Elons company he’s still the richest person in the world.
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by amrocha 2y ago
Listen mate, if you want to have discussions about economics you need to be able to reason about scenarios without resorting to metaphors and simplified models. If you can’t do that then you need to read up some more. You learned in school
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by amrocha 2y ago
Yes, the government would be better than some random billionaire at using that money
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by amrocha 2y ago
The government controls the supply of money, they don’t need anyone’s money they already have complete monetary power. Taxes don’t fund the government. All of the money the government collects via taxes is written off in a spreadsheet and d
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by amrocha 2y ago
You have what I refer to as “root cause syndrome”. It happens a lot to engineers and tech adjacent people. You see a problem and you refuse to fix it, and instead look for a root cause that should be addressed instead, that will then fix th
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by amrocha 2y ago
I joined a startup a couple years ago, and got handed a poisoned chalice. It was a project that was critical to the company, but that was not very reliable, and broke overnight very often, sometimes 3-4 days per week. I was the 4th dev on i
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by amrocha 2y ago
Think about what you’re saying here because you know you’re wrong. Confirmation bias everywhere.
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by amrocha 2y ago
Horns should be as loud inside the car as outside of it
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by amrocha 2y ago
That’s just gambling
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by amrocha 2y ago
The pokémon card is only valuable in the context of the pokémon game. Like the above comment said, a magic player doesn’t care about your pokémon card, so this isn’t a shareable asset. On the other hand, if you have a rare pokémon card and
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by amrocha 2y ago
This doesn’t make any sense to a developer. Do you have to support all assets on the chain? That has a very high barrier of entry, unless the assets are shared between games. But that’s not how art styles work, you can’t just drop a random
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by amrocha 2y ago
How is the original comment projecting, but yours isn’t?
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by amrocha 2y ago
And sometimes relationships are toxic. Yes, the dog stays with its owner, most times at a detriment to its own health.
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by amrocha 2y ago
I’m talking about CEOs too!
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by amrocha 2y ago
CEOs are workers too mate
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by amrocha 2y ago
Stop putting words in my mouth. Engage with my argument, not with the straw man you constructed in your head. Ok, I’m happy about your theorem, but there’s a reason only tall people play in the NBA. And like, are you even reading what you’r
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by amrocha 2y ago
Oh no you misunderstood, it’s not 10% more than your costs, it’s 10% more than what the cost for a person to live a dignified life should be. So this would really only take money away from people that earn way more than needed.
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by amrocha 2y ago
Well yeah, but not all governments are equal. Sure, if the USA wanted to it could do whatever it wanted to, but that’s not the case for any other country in the world. And the same people that wrote those legislation are also the ones runni
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by amrocha 2y ago
I see what you mean, but it’s not that simple. Sure, the government of a country issues a patent, but that patent is enforced by the WTO, not by the individual country. Sure, an individual country can decide to break that patent, but if the
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by amrocha 2y ago
Only if you’re in the minority that makes more than they should
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by amrocha 2y ago
Researchers aren’t the ones profiting off of price gouging. Of course they’re working for money, they live in society.

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