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by bernawil 9y ago
> Rising prices (not high prices) are great for people holding houses as investments This is right. Part of the problem is that we don't refer to this by what it is: Inflation in housing prices. The thing about housing is that you c
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by bernawil 10y ago
Come on, I think it was clear that by "jobs locals don't want anyway" OP was talking about low wage-low status jobs filled by immigrants instead, that would otherwise offer higher and higher salaries until the supply curve me
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by bernawil 10y ago
>For the economy as a whole, abstracting away imports and exports, we can only eat what we sow. Exactly. And "we" after all is another abstraction. And "I" can eat what "you" sowed. If corporations have reco
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by bernawil 10y ago
>That means a small number of people employed making the cars benefit But those small number of people who benefit plus the whole of people in their supply chain, people that also drive demand for whatever the other people paying more fo
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by bernawil 10y ago
>In equilibrium, people get paid according to their productivity But where and when has there ever been this magical equilibrium? In the real world people get paid whatever they can get away with, and some people can get away with more t
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by bernawil 10y ago
>not jobs that these people actually want anyway ... for the offered salary. The way I see it, "inorganically" adding to the labor supply hinders the natural price discovery of the market.
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by bernawil 10y ago
>. No one makes the connection between the lower costs for things and globalization. I think they do. I'm pretty sure most people know all the implications MADE IN CHINA carry. They see they are getting 1 unit of benefit for 2 units
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by bernawil 10y ago
I wonder if what good we see in capitalism is just the period of it when there's plenty of low hanging fruit for everbody. What I mean is, we could praise a system where any guy can buy a cheap house, renovate it and call it his own. N
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by bernawil 10y ago
>The current muslim countries actually have a lot of Roman influence Like what? All I can think of is anti-roman influence. It's very hard to settle that in a short answer but I think Islam is almost the opossite of hellenism and &q
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by bernawil 10y ago
>like Britain Yes it did. Two times the British garrisons took matters into their own hands and hailed their own Augustus. The last time, they haieled Constantin III who went to Gaul to fight barbarians and then bargained recognition fro
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by bernawil 10y ago
Yes it did. Romanization was a real thing. Much more so in the last centuries when both Galo-romans and Egyptians where christians. Even after the city of Rome was no longer relevant in the empire other provinces still produced staunch Roma
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by bernawil 10y ago
They were not overexposed militarily. After conquering and integrating the whole mediterranean basin they only had two rivaling neighbors: Germanic peoples at the north and the parthians-sassanid-persians in the east. In times of integrity
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by bernawil 10y ago
Yeah, same argument raises every time is time to discuss minimum wage. Fact is, labor is not 100% of the cost. If UBI makes HALF of the worforce quit -which is not very likely- salaries wouldn't go up 100%. So it's not a 1:1 ratio
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by bernawil 11y ago
Comments like those really reinforce to me the notion that Americans really do have it easy. A Chilean from a subpar city like Valparaiso could make maybe like 4$/hr, with similar hollidays as in the US. Would never be able to pay 500$
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by bernawil 11y ago
1. It's the same for traditional ballots, "Fiscales" and the table president prevent it. They go one ballot at a time checking if the vote has to be voided for failing with the protocol and adding the votes. Now they just hav
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by bernawil 11y ago
These article refers to 2 vulnerabilities showed. 1. The ssl certificates for the transmission of vote counts where leaked. 2. PAPER ballots, which have an rfid chip to HELP the automatic vote counting could be used to duplicate a PAPER bal
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by bernawil 11y ago
There're some big oversimplifications there. 1. It's not illegal to "challenge" goverment statistics, everybody does it: private agencies do it, provincial goverments challenge the federeal goverment's stats, etc. S
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by bernawil 11y ago
Argentine here. Both economies are pretty similar. Both are pretty diverse in their composition but not in their contribution, so you have the fact that primary activities (farming, oil, etc.) are the great contributor to the tax base and b
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by bernawil 12y ago
I think this is true for marginal zones (low quality soil) where there shouldn't be soy but that's the only crop that will make a profit. Part of the problem is the insane taxation. With the costs of growing other crops I guess it
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by bernawil 12y ago
Third world countries are also mechanized. All of South America grows soybeans. It's Round Up all over. I'm from Argentina and can assure you that since early 00's soybean export taxes have paid at least one-third of the gov.
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by bernawil 13y ago
Modern urban poverty as in Brazil is really rarely a matter of lack of resources. The poor in Brazil suffer from a poor organization rather than material poverty; people in favelas suffer the daily violence and rampant drug trade, but they
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by bernawil 13y ago
> So you actually think that intentionally killing civilians to win a war is morally okay? I just don't hold that view. Even if the civilian deaths attributed to the A-bomb where less than that of a supposed land invasion?. WW2 saw