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by aww_dang 5y ago
The profit incentive remains. The ends to which they apply those profits are up to the individual entrepreneurs. There's nothing wrong in my view with worker owned businesses, as long as it is a voluntary arrangement. From where I stan
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TV-B-Gone(en.wikipedia.org)
35 points by aww_dang 5y ago|10 comments
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by aww_dang 5y ago
I couldn't find any details on the actual device or how it works?
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Property rights are a fundamental cornerstone of society. Rejecting them is incoherent. Infringing on another person's property is synonymous with coercion. Perhaps next you'll venture that self-defense is a bourgeois construct? A
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by aww_dang 5y ago
An easy hypothetical would be someone who is incredibly wealthy and near the end of their years. Inheritance and death taxes may reduce their incentives to contribute to the economy. Someone who is an experience job creator might choose lei
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Individuals are not the collective. Not only is it inaccurate as a generalization, but it personifies the collective. A nation state is an abstract concept. Politicians and leaders act. Individuals may agree or disagree. Abstractions have n
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Wikipedia has always felt like a walled garden for certain topics. The crowd sourcing is a nice window dressing for an end product which can be highly partisan where it matters. That said, I think you would do well to distinguish between th
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Maybe try asking more pointed questions?
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Businesses don't create value by overcompensating employees. Without the profit incentive for the entrepreneur there is no business. The consumer's problems are not solved, no jobs are provided and no value is created. In some cas
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Observing the status quo isn't the same as rationalizing it. Many things exist in the world today which are unjust. Some are even common. If it is possible for taxation to be egregious, then at some point there must be a boundary which
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by aww_dang 5y ago
>Tell me, why would a person whose accomplishments are ~99.99999% based on the work and accomplishments of others be allowed to monopolize it as if they were truly responsible for everything? Wealth is the incentive for the wealth creati
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by aww_dang 5y ago
>First, no one can regulate your collection of rain water. "Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail — for Collecting Rainwater on His Property" https://regproject.org/news/oregon-man-sentenced-30-days-jai..
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Fact check: "Media did nothing wrong"
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How big would a $1T platinum coin be?(qz.com)
1 points by aww_dang 5y ago|0 comments
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What If the US Defaults Next Week?(cryptoeconomy.substack.com)
2 points by aww_dang 5y ago|2 comments
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Clearly it wouldn't be practical to mint platinum coins at the current price. Instead, they would profit from the difference as they debase the dollar. Therefore the total obligations become important in the calculation. The weight of
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Yes, this is the obvious part of the charade. I do disagree with one key part of your analysis. >...backed with just one worthless platinum coin. Platinum is a precious metal and far from worthless. Let us pretend there are people involv
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Yes, that much is obvious. Please understand that I was posing a hypothetical.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
The trillion dollar platinum coin has been proposed on other occasions, but never minted. Last I checked, platinum was trading at around 30-31 dollars a gram, roughly half that of gold. The presumption is that the coin will be 1 troy ounce
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Eastport, Maine Tidal Project – Trapping the Moon(newengland.com)
1 points by aww_dang 5y ago|0 comments
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Lawyers are paid in both scenarios.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Uniregistry is transferring all of their customers to Godaddy. This might have something to do with the migration.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
For many ideologues, wealth is evidence of crime.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Most of these large corporations are large because of government interventions. Articles of incorporation are a legal concept granted by the state. The investment landscape is distorted by gov. interventions in the market. Access to investm
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by aww_dang 5y ago
It might be easier said than done, but at some point you have to stop indulging your addiction if you want to stop indulging your addiction.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
"Boy who cried wolf maligns skeptics of wolf attacks as flat-earthers" "When will they trust the science?", the twelve-year-old shepherd boy asks
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Another drastic emergency rationalizing further government largess. Take a few steps back from the minutiae of the arguments for catastrophic warming. Leave that to the side if you can. Is there anything more hysterical than an appeal to ap
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by aww_dang 5y ago
The premise of this discussion nicely encapsulates the problems with the cryptosphere, especially the advocates and maxis. The idea that you can't discuss technical issues because they might be political is the height of CC absurdity.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Attempting to debunk critiques because they have political implications is political in itself. If the opposing view is political, then the proposition is political. Dismissing it out of hand because it is 'political' becomes nons
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by aww_dang 5y ago
That's the best part. If you don't like it, you don't have to participate. If you want to copy an NFT's image and use it as your wallpaper without paying, you can still do that. On the other hand, if you voluntarily woul

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