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by aoeusnth1 9y ago
Is it wrong to reward good behavior with higher social status? I think not.
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by aoeusnth1 9y ago
Ew, ok, but you get a lot more consumer surplus in the meantime and carbon taxes are much more palatable when costs are lower. This isn't a good reason to not invest in efficiency.
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by aoeusnth1 9y ago
Thanks! When I learned this piece, I listened to that recording on repeat. Michaelangeli is simply amazing.
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by aoeusnth1 9y ago
Agreed, but reading sheet music is a very small part of playing piano proficiently (say, at the 97th percentile). Once you get past knowing the notes in a piece, there's the much more difficult task of being able to manipulate the for
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
I value freedom of movement - but not only through car accessibility. I value being able to walk / bike / take a bus safely and within a reasonable distance from my destination. The modern American suburb is terribly designed from
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
You say "anti-car" like it's a bad thing.
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
Safer for drivers - maybe. Safer for pedestrians? No.
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
How about: success is log-normally distributed, with individual factors, environmental and random factors all ~multiplying together. If you select the most successful people, they are likely to be both talented AND lucky.
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
Couldn't they just pay to offset the performance cost of their application? I doubt the cost would be much compared to the development difference.
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
Sure, it will increase the value of land, which will increase rents. But part of the rent was also the value of the improvements, which will not cost any more and should have the same ROI as before. Especially in the US, land is cheap and
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
Wait what? How exactly would these people be OK in the current system? Why would it be worse?
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
In reply to ommonuist's claim that there is "no such thing as the Ukrainian genocide", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor . There's clearly some doublethink going on trying to justify the m
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
Rents must be tied to drops in pricing in the long run. If rents don't drop with the price of houses, investors would swoop in to buy the high ROI housing, and existing renters would make home purchasing a higher priority as opposed t
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
For your last point, I would also add that the sale of such a income stream is a private consentual business relationship. Neither the seller or the buyer is being exploited. I feel like communists like the author simply don't unders
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
The original article is naively expanding the definition to include simply "owning things which are worth money/time", i.e. the time value of money is somehow rent-seeking corruption.
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
Why not both? And are the scare quotes suggesting that intelligence isn't heritable?
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
Absolutely - and UBI would free people who want to work from having to find dead-end jobs. They would have the financial freedom to pursue education, volunteering or educational unpaid internships.
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
It's not just a way to deal with massive job replacement (by machines)... it's also a sensible policy to remove the poverty traps of unemployment benefits, welfare, food stamps, etc. These policies all create an incentive to avoi
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by aoeusnth1 10y ago
I'm not against subsidizing solar as it is politically expedient, but a more direct and cost-efficient way to help the environment would be to tax carbon emissions and let the market figure out how to save the world.
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by aoeusnth1 11y ago
Just adjust income tax to compensate. Penalizing carbon production is a simple incentive-compatible way to have society receive compensation for the actual damage of people's actions.
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by aoeusnth1 11y ago
I don't see why people think this will be a winner-take-all market. The marginal cost for Uber or Lyft is nearly zero, so competition should drive the cost to zero. Lyft and Uber are both past the network-effect barriers to entry, so
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by aoeusnth1 11y ago
I feel like YouTube data should be enough for doing this.
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by aoeusnth1 11y ago
Why should we believe Andrew?
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by aoeusnth1 11y ago
Totally agreed with you. Just look at anything David Cameron says for incontrovertible evidence of your last paragraph.