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by bhupy 6y ago
I mean, when a corporation is unable to collect enough money to continue operating, it goes out of business. When a government program is unable to collect enough money to continue operating, we increase its budget. SoftBank is a good examp
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by bhupy 6y ago
The race aspect changes which part of the Constitution the ACLU thinks is being violated: namely the Fourteenth Amendment (with the disparate impact philosophy). If that’s what they win on, then it isn’t somehow the end of residency-restric
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by bhupy 6y ago
Yes?
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> Taxes are not handouts Taxes fund welfare/entitlements, which are literally handouts. Your beef is with the mechanism by which the welfare is funded. > Ultra rich people can change tax laws to benefit them so that they can thro
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by bhupy 6y ago
It's the primary source. The point of information is what Assange said while being interviewed by Hannity on Fox News.
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by bhupy 6y ago
Right, what limiting principle makes government restricted areas like Area 51 or even Federal/State/Local legislature floors not violate the “fundamental right to travel” and “speech of any kind”, that also renders resident-restri
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by bhupy 6y ago
Again, I’m just playing by your rules — look up the top 10 school districts in the Pittsburgh metro area, and look up housing on Zillow and Redfin, it’s really not hard to find decent housing under $250,000. > Not a lot of young people l
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Why not use the same (weak) moderation mechanisms everyone else has? Not like you can avoid politics on your regular feed. Because people don't typically use Facebook at work? It's a recreational tool. The issue is that for F
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by bhupy 6y ago
I don't think I've ever seen someone so confidently attempt to refute data via personal anecdote, so bravo for that. The median home is not always "crap, run down with a crappy school district". Yes, there exists a quali
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by bhupy 6y ago
Sure, we have seen "anomalous" years for median earners from time to time, but it's important to remember that over time real median income has still been increasing as a function of the business cycle — I.e. the first deriva
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You literally said: "America is a lot more poor than these statistics let on when compared to the rest of the first world ." (emphasis mine) That is demonstrably false.
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Yup, and there's a good breakdown here of the salary one must earn to be able to afford the median home: https://www.hsh.com/finance/mortgage/salary-home-buying-25-c... There are a lot of options for everyone
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by bhupy 6y ago
"US satisfaction" surveys don't do a good job of telling us how people feel about their economic well-being, because it is also a survey of social issues, foreign policy, etc. It's a survey of how Americans feel about th
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by bhupy 6y ago
> The second link has the same 2010 chart, where is the more recent data? I'll have to find some more recent data — but the state of the world hasn't dramatically deteriorated since 2010. In fact, the opposite has happened: we&
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by bhupy 6y ago
Oh you’re not talking about the FRED data, which examines real median personal income over time (which has been constantly increasing). You’re talking about why the BEA data doesn’t line up with the US Census Bureau data for 2019. That’s pr
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by bhupy 6y ago
Hence why I recommend reading the second source, which does the work for you: https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-ric... > If more people are dying by drugs, OxyContin and big Macs does that mea
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U.S. Coal and Renewable Energy Consumption(eia.gov)
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Maryland has among the highest HDI’s in the Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... . It’s not dissimilar from that of Germany (0.935 vs 0.939), and it’s higher than that of most other OEC
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by bhupy 6y ago
You don’t have to read 44 pages, it’s on Table 6.5, under the consumption for the lowest quintile. The second source does that work for you by simply summarizing the primary source. Average life expectancy is lower for the same reason that
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by bhupy 6y ago
The difference between 88 and 90 isn’t important here. This is directly in response to your claim that “Generally everyone in the US views the US negatively right now.” Perhaps that’s true in late 2020 amidst a once-in-generation pandemic a
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by bhupy 6y ago
It’s Gallup: https://news.gallup.com/poll/284285/new-high-americans-satis... Anyway, it sounds like you’ve really made up your mind here, and no amount of data appears to be sufficient to reverse the dogma.
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by bhupy 6y ago
These numbers are pre-COVID. Obviously things are bad now, there’s a global pandemic. Pre-COVID, personal satisfaction in the US was at all time highs, so these numbers shouldn’t be all that surprising to anyone outside the HN bubble...
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by bhupy 6y ago
Consumption is a proxy for access to resources, and is downstream of all transfers, which is why the World Bank uses it as the preferred metric for wellbeing. The second website just summarizes the first paper, which is primary source. For
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The linked FRED data is median data.
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It's actually exactly the opposite: based on the World Bank's preferred indicator for well-being (consumption), the bottom 20% in the US do better than the middle class in most OECD countries. https://www.nber.org/
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Real median individual income is the highest it's ever been: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
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It's PPP adjusted disposable income after all taxes and transfers, so that includes Social Security, welfare, etc. It's debatable if this is able to adequately capture all forms of non-cash transfers (like food stamps). To get aro
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by bhupy 6y ago
But what if it's a state/local library? Whatever article/amendment of the US Constitution proscribes restriction to local parks on the basis of residency would ostensibly also proscribe any public government institution from
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by bhupy 6y ago
That's not the question, though — we're talking about what the theoretical bounds of the Constitution are. The ACLU appears to be arguing that a local government restricting access to some municipal/public property on the bas
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by bhupy 6y ago
The same part of the constitution that the ACLU thinks makes public parks for residents-only illegal.

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