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by bhupy 8y ago
> So society is supposed to subsidize Uber‘s continued existence? That‘s perverted and unacceptable. Of course! Why should the government provide health insurance? Doing so allows employers to shirk their responsibility to provide health
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by bhupy 8y ago
> I think it's more politically achievable and a lot more optimal than the status quo. That's not necessarily true, EITC is an existing program. "Increase EITC" requires just as much political will as "Increase t
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by bhupy 8y ago
Why is passing on the cost of transportation to the consumer considered the optimum solution? Why not instead advocate for expanding the EITC so that the government fills in the gaps caused by lower wages? At the end of the day, we as a soc
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by bhupy 8y ago
Why is passing on the cost of transportation to the consumer considered the optimum solution? Why not instead advocate for expanding the EITC so that the government fills in the gaps caused by lower wages? At the end of the day, we as a soc
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by bhupy 8y ago
This is only a problem if preventative care is expensive to begin with... In India, a visit to the doctor for a general checkup can cost anywhere between Rs. 100-1000 out of pocket, with no insurance whatsoever. For reference, this is basic
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by bhupy 8y ago
Aren't property taxes progressive? That's one of the fundamental arguments behind Georgism.
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by bhupy 8y ago
I’m not sure we have enough information to conclude that property values will never fall with increased density. It could also be that property values never went up to begin with in Tokyo, and remained at market equilibriumm, I.e. prices th
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by bhupy 8y ago
> Tokyo Do you have a source on that? Tokyo is famously known for having largely flat housing prices over the last 20 years[1]. In fact, in Japan, most houses are considered depreciating assets [2]. [1] https://marginalrevolut
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by bhupy 8y ago
Unless you're making the argument that it takes 10 years to roll out a bus system, such a policy can be written to phase in the congestion charge only when the public infrastructure is ready (NYC's congestion tax only kicks in 202
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by bhupy 8y ago
Do you have links to some of these studies? Asking as a motorcyclist...
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by bhupy 8y ago
> Other cities, cities where you can't live without a car without making massive sacrifices should not be implementing toll lanes and congestion pricing. Kicking the poors off the system so that people rich enough to justify the dai
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by bhupy 8y ago
Even regular commercial flying was an endeavor exclusively for the rich. Now it's a commodity that's affordable to most.
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Better Worlds – Optimistic Science Fiction(theverge.com)
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by bhupy 8y ago
No, you would only have to specify/rank as many choices as you want your vote to carry over. If you only like 5 candidates and hate the other 15, your vote will simply be thrown away and not counted if you don't specify any of the
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by bhupy 8y ago
It would actually be a good thing for the prices to be inflated because that would mean that the market is competitive. In a competitive market, profit margins are typically very thin, so unless the increase in labor cost is passed onto the
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by bhupy 8y ago
Are you suggesting that welfare can never work?
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by bhupy 8y ago
At the end of the day, we as a society rightly demand a minimum standard of living for everyone, and we collectively pay for that in one way or the other. Either we pay taxes to fund a welfare state, or we pay inflated prices for goods and
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by bhupy 8y ago
By that logic, any welfare is corporate welfare. Single payer healthcare paid for by taxpayers allows corporations to not provide their employees health insurance benefits. For sure, that's one way to look at it, but the rest of my com
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by bhupy 8y ago
This sounds like a welfare problem and not a wage problem. If the market drives down the cost of labor, that's good for everyone. If there exists people whose skillsets aren't sufficient to maintain some minimum standard of living
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by bhupy 8y ago
But isn't using welfare to fill in the gaps the most efficient solution? A well functioning market drives down the cost of goods and services to the minimum possible price, provided there's adequate competition. Commoditization is
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by bhupy 8y ago
> If you can't pay a basic living wage, for fair hours, in safe conditions, with necessary medical benefits, then you don't have a job to offer. Why not let the employees decide if the job is worth taking? If there exists peopl
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by bhupy 8y ago
Singapore’s public option is for poor people. We have that also, it’s called Medicaid.
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by bhupy 8y ago
Sure - in America, healthcare is far from a free market because: 1) We don’t pay our own healthcare bills, we pay for our healthcare through insurance. As a result, there isn’t a pricing system in place, much like there is for other critica
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by bhupy 8y ago
Healthcare in America is one of the least free markets in the country. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/31/17629526/m...