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by burrows 6y ago
Corporate bailouts are bullshit, I agree. But even without bailouts there would still be massive inequality (which I think is fine). Cut spending and abolish the Fed.
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by burrows 6y ago
All the Freds got together and decided they want some of Bob’s stuff.
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by burrows 6y ago
> But if everyone in that town were receiving UBI, it might become viable, due to a change in the town's spending habits. The change being that everyone is now spending money earned by someone else.
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by burrows 6y ago
> While I think UBI is one of the better solutions to the poverty problem in the US, I think almost any solution to poverty will fall prey to inflation if we don't address income inequality. Please define the "poverty problem&q
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by burrows 6y ago
If no one is working, then who is being taxed to pay for the UBI?
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by burrows 6y ago
If only one country provides UBI to immigrants, that country will see a rise in immigration. At what point do taxes raised from the new residents exceed the money paid out? Or maybe you're talking about UBI to immigrants, but not actu
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by burrows 6y ago
> With 700€/Month you aren't gonna far anyway, you have enaugh for food and rent , and that's it... Contingent benefits disincentivize people from participating in the economy. People paid to do nothing... do nothing. &gt
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by burrows 6y ago
The only problem is the government infringing individual rights by shutting down companies. 1. Agents allocate their own scarce resources. 2. Agents make subjective assessments of Covid-related work risks. 3. Agents who previously preferred
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by burrows 6y ago
Life is a matter of life and death.
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by burrows 6y ago
I own and operate a flea market. I sell stall usage to merchants who sell their goods at the flea market. Am I responsible when stolen goods are sold from my stalls? I own and operate an RV park. Someone is selling illegal drugs from one o
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by burrows 6y ago
A revenue neutral tax still lets the government do new stupid things. eg, they can choose winners and losers by taxing industries at different rates. And once we have a tax, we have it forever. CO2 pollution is unique because the damage to
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by burrows 6y ago
Increasing pay is the obvious answer. Maybe the profit margin is too thin.
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by burrows 6y ago
Do they lack sufficient personnel (deshelvers, drivers) to increase delivery slots?
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by burrows 6y ago
> Then Amazon shouldn’t mix being a first party marketplace with being a third party marketplace. If this bothers people, they should stop using Amazon. Problem solved.
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by burrows 6y ago
Ok, I agree to some extent. CO2 emissions are analogous to a madman releasing a slow-acting airborne poison. The government should use its force monopoly to stop the madman. Unfortunately, any tax is another dollar toward government expans
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by burrows 6y ago
Taxes are explicit market intervention. How are they a libertarian approach?
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by burrows 6y ago
> If you let a manufacturing company fail, someone will buy the contracts from them. Will they buy the plant with its union workers and environmental liabilities? Probably not. So we're just subsidizing loser industries forever?
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by burrows 6y ago
> Part of it is regulatory. We don't want money laundering. Have to ask whether this really ought to be up to law enforcement to do, or as it is now a massive burden on the banks, which also have bad incentives. End drug prohibition
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by burrows 6y ago
The cops plant CP your servers. Help them spy on Joey Beer or they'll pursue criminal charges against you. Now what?
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by burrows 6y ago
This doesn't explain getting a fake NSA number from 411.
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by burrows 6y ago
> Or if someone who worked for 411 or a hacker changed the number for the naval base to be one they controlled. Dave could be the CEO of 411 for all I know. Agreed. A couple of ideas for better authenticating the NSA boogeyman. 1. Verify
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by burrows 6y ago
The NSA agent didn't have a "search warrant".
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by burrows 6y ago
The NSA agent's goal was to get the source code, but he lied about why he wanted it. Fair enough.
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by burrows 6y ago
You think the NSA impersonated themselves?
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by burrows 6y ago
Only works if the 411 call was MiTMd. edit I was confused and my reply is confusing. I was trying to say that a third party could have stolen the source code by MiTMing the 411 call.
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by burrows 6y ago
> You'll be happy to know we are indeed organizing! https://www.taxamazon.net/sign You believe the low income housing market is underserved. 1. Raise money (your "Tax Amazon" friends are a good start). 2.
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by burrows 6y ago
> it still makes sense to provide socialized housing and free mental health support to people who are homeless, because there is no other way they'll become "productive" again without that base. People that agree with this
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by burrows 6y ago
> Free societies enable creativity by limiting this power of the past How does the "limiting" part of this work?
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by burrows 6y ago
The idea of "everyone" owning something, ie a commons, is a contradiction. If everyone owns it, then no one owns it. Assume the thing has exactly one owner. Then "reciprocity" and "equality" are addressed by t
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by burrows 6y ago
> It infuriates me that people who work on important projects like numpy or Tor which are very widely used have trouble paying the bills and keeping a roof over their head. Donate money to projects you care about. Persuade your friends t

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