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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
The article is about gambling in the U.S., not cigarettes in Australia. Also, these policies usually fail in getting existing users to quit, but they succeed in deterring prospective users. The idea that these policies are "not going v
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
Not a lotto fan, but, in theory, the money collected by state lotteries goes to some sort of public good (scholarships, etc.). Don't get me wrong, I still see them as destructive, but they don't operate with the same intent. These
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
Or, just make it illegal.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
I told this exact argument to a supporter of deportation policies, and they responded with this: "I don't care about higher grocery prices. I don't care about economic efficiency. I just want them gone." I don't bel
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
Your comment makes it sound like this is reasonable. It is not. This is a complete and total ripoff. Everyone knows it.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
> Salaries have outpaced inflation until recently. This is just not true.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
> I don't want money for free. I want to be able to earn it, and earn well. I want to feel like I've accomplished something. Well, if that's true then I wouldn't bother being a landlord. Being a landlord just means yo
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
This was also my experience. I've been a perfect tenant my entire life, and I was still always treated like trash by every landlord I've rented from. I don't think they make a distinction.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
You may have a more reasonable stance than most landlords, but that doesn't change the essence of the transaction. If you could get higher rent without getting punished by the market (turnover), you would do it. If you could spend less
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
You're arguing with me, but this statement... > Everybody wants to maximize their money received and minimize their money and work expended to whatever degree possible. ...is exactly in agreement with what I said above. The ideal bu
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
Isn't that what court is for?
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
I somewhat agree, but I still think the "job posting" market needs regulation. If you aren't going to shutdown offshoring and the importing of labor through the abuse of things like the H1B program, you aren't going to a
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
I actually hope such open roles are spammed. I recently saw a project that spammed online job postings with AI slop resumes. This is great since... if your posting is slop and you don't intend to hire, you should have your inbox filled
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
They all want to be, though. All business want to be big-time like Amazon, but not all of them are so lucky. I don't understand the making of excuses for small businesses as though they are somehow morally better than large businesses.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 1y ago
> This is mostly used incompetently, but occasionally used maliciously. It can also just be a good heuristic. If a person or group/org with a reputation for dishonesty tells you an "idea", it's reasonable to throw sha
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
You believe the official government unemployment numbers? That's kind of like saying you believe the official government inflation numbers.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
If people don't want things to continue to deteriorate, then the economic disenfranchisement of the American working class must be put to a stop. It's really pretty simple.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
> Not so implicit, "I will be your retribution". I don't particularly like the idea of tariffs, but it is what it is. Having to put up with policies you don't like is simply the social consequence of applying unpopula
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
> What these people don't realize is even if they make 200K a year and drive an 85K financed F-250, they are effectively in the same class as someone making 50K a year managing a Dollar General. More people making under 50K per year
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
That may be your lived experience, but it doesn't match the data.[1] The working class is shifting to Trump because his rhetoric matches what they want to see: trade restrictions, protections on domestic labor, and the return of good&#
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
> Because things can definitely get worse. Absolutely. If people don't want things to get worse, then the abuse and disenfranchisement of the American worker must end. That's kind of where we are at this point.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
> Then they’ve failed to imagine how much more difficult their life will become under excessive tariffs. Again, these workers don't have jobs. When the John Deere factory closes down in your town and moves to Mexico, tariffs sound g
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
This is quite an anti-worker comment. "They still have cereal and fast food and they're not getting shot so they're fine." LOL.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
A lot of supporters of the trade restrictions don't care. They're working people who don't own a lot of stocks and all they've seen is their jobs sent overseas. To them, it doesn't even matter if things get "wo
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
> It's true that free trade is hugely beneficial to the US economy as a whole, particularly with the USD being the reserve currency. It's true that free trade is hugely beneficial to large cap U.S. companies and their sharehold
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
This is completely true. I make less working remotely in a LCOL area than I would in the HCOL area where my office resides. The differential in COL, though, is so high that I'm saving a lot more. In other words, I'm making less bu
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
Why not at least try to pay people more? Everyone gives exactly your argument without ever trying to raise the base salary for new hires and give existing workers a boost in pay. You can't say it doesn't work until you've rai
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
U.S. government isn't perfect, therefore we should let some other government just run wild in our country. I follow your logic.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
Chinese people and Chinese media businesses are not Americans. They are not protected by the constitution.
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by bill_joy_fanboy 2y ago
The whole thing is moot when you can be banned from platforms for voicing certain speech. If platforms can do censorship, so can the government.

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