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by bequanna 3y ago
Right, but isn't the ignorance of actual human character shortcomings a huge reason why communism can't ever work, even on paper? People are inherently self-interested. I would argue that any proposal for an economic system or gov
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by bequanna 3y ago
European socialism isn't bad. But how does it work when you have such varied cultures like the US? Outside of some existential threat like war, it doesn't seem at all possible for everyone in the US to start rowing in the same dir
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by bequanna 3y ago
One explanation I've found pretty accurate: When the young start to become educated (late teens, early 20's) they face the realization that they will be entering the world on the bottom of the economic totem pole. There are two pr
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by bequanna 4y ago
Could you expand on that?
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by bequanna 4y ago
Fewer people are dying globally due to climate change net decreasing extreme cold events. This is an unpopular fact to state for obvious reasons.
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by bequanna 4y ago
The people who buy and rent properties. They ultimately pay the price for artificially increased material/labor costs.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Ah, so effectively this is just another tax on the poor and middle classes.
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by bequanna 4y ago
This isn’t surprising. Mentioning facts like that would violate the narrative.
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by bequanna 4y ago
> Assuming those are all members paying $205 a year, that's about $29 million a year. It's easy to imagine a scenario where that number doubles to a future 300,000 riders, which would net about $61.5 million. That's a lot
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by bequanna 4y ago
Quite the leap. I’m not sure why the original comment even mentions this person is trans. How is that relevant to the situation other than to trigger the “victim” alarm in some people’s minds? Also, how presumptuous of you to assume I’m cis
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by bequanna 4y ago
> The real problem right now is a lack of a social safety net Is that the real problem here? Unemployment in the United States is incredibly low and those who want to find good work for good pay are able to.
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by bequanna 4y ago
I was thinking this same thing. Please be cautious and avoid sending money.
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by bequanna 4y ago
I don’t think retribution is the main goal. The point is to keep demonstrated antisocial people who cause significant disruption and harm in our society in a place where they can’t hurt us.
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by bequanna 4y ago
By which metric? Broadly, the biggest pushes have been to limit exposure of highly-sexualized content to those 18+.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Is that how it works? I thought it was the other way around: states/municipalities made their budgets and spread the property tax liability around according to the property value in proportion to the sum total value of all property. So
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by bequanna 4y ago
The point I think the parent is trying to make is that there are now many people who see all of human behavior as some sort of construct vs. innate behaviors that exist all over the animal kingdom. In fact, very few behaviors are specific t
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by bequanna 4y ago
Can you continue that thought? I don’t follow you.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Overly strong employment isn't necessarily ideal. We could have official 0% unemployment by just paying people to stay home. Labor shortages and unchecked wage growth supports inflation.
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by bequanna 4y ago
IMO the Fed is trying very hard to regain credibility after the overblown stimulus and terribly delayed response to the resulting inflation. These are two very public failures. Everyone is expecting a quick pivot which is why I think that i
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by bequanna 4y ago
Good, but asset values are still near historical high valuations. The Fed plan isn't to just tame inflation but reduce employment to slow wage increases, reverse asset gains with "higher for longer", and restore credibility.
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by bequanna 4y ago
With the current unskilled labor shortage driving wage increases which pushes inflation up, this seems to be arriving just in the time.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Only a small group of people are responsible for the majority of crimes. The same people keep committing armed robbery, shootings, carjacking, etc. until they are physically stopped from doing so. Keeping criminals in jail so that they cann
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by bequanna 4y ago
This is exact same attitude that has gotten SF into this mess.
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by bequanna 4y ago
In the US, this is very common in the higher education Social Sciences. It is necessary to align with the professor’s (usually left) slant to secure the best marks. This is common knowledge for students in the US.
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by bequanna 4y ago
That isn’t how debt works. They could sell the debt that they currently hold, sure. The response would likely be a short term rise in interest rates followed by the Fed simply intervening and purchasing Treasurys.
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by bequanna 4y ago
What are you on about? "Trailer park" and "mobile home park" are interchangeable terms and refer to the exact same thing in the US.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Jesus Boat? I haven't heard of this. Is it some replica or an actual artifact?
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by bequanna 4y ago
Also, very few new trailer parks are approved by local municipalities making them increasingly scarce.
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by bequanna 4y ago
The Japanese were brutal, determined fighters. Many of them willing to fight it out to the last man. Imagine you’re Truman or a General who has watched countless Allied and Japanese die in the war. How exactly would you get an enemy like th
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by bequanna 4y ago
> The growing wealth inequality leads to all sorts of other dysfunction including increased crime, worsening services, etc. as the govt cannot raise enough taxes. Hold up. I don’t think the people of San Francisco grew weary of increasin

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