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by clavalle 11y ago
National HR department?
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by clavalle 11y ago
I tend to agree with you when it comes to Guaranteed Minimum Income. Reverse taxation is a bit more murky. And I absolutely think a solid welfare program is possible -- we are within a stone's throw of that as things stand now we&#x2
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by clavalle 11y ago
Guaranteed minimum income, reverse taxation, or merely a solid welfare program that provides solid housing, food, and medical care -- basically anything that someone would die or be in pain without...these are all possible solutions. I&#x27
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by clavalle 11y ago
Perhaps if we expand the meaning of Keyensian "Government investment in infrastructure" to include human infrastructure and provide stimulus, or at least a stable platform, for the actual nodes of demand (the people) we can get ba
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Or lack of demand for services in their area. I wonder how they are clustered geographically.
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by clavalle 11y ago
> How do you suggest that you legalize all drugs and then keep people on those drugs from harming others? It depends on what you mean by that. If you mean they harm others by going on a drug fueled rampage, there isn't much we can d
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by clavalle 11y ago
That's good news for those of us that hope we find life outside of Earth. Inhospitable, once again, is shown not to mean lifeless.
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In a word? Control.
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by clavalle 11y ago
The magic cloud. Good thing it is made of fairy dust rather than commodity servers and network equipment or Dell and Cisco might be around forever providing those things.
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The TPP was supposed to be the lever that pushed governments that have comparatively weaker worker and environmental protections to higher standards. We won't know until we read it in a month, but it sounds like corporations were ove
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by clavalle 11y ago
It's easy, from a conceptual standpoint: Make sure everyone has enough to eat, a place to live, and access to healthcare etc. Basically, make sure no one is in a position where they have to bargain away something of value in exchange
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by clavalle 11y ago
I don't think post scarcity is a precondition of post poverty. The more economically advanced nations need to reach income and worker/environmental protection parity with less economically advanced nations. I'd prefer that be
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by clavalle 11y ago
That's one half of it. The other half is making sure that people can bargain from a position of power rather than getting stuck in a spiral of exploitative transactions.
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"the Redditor mentality" I don't think this actually exists. There are 'meme-storms' -- Libertarianism, getting riled up about finding some 'criminal' them getting riled up about the people getting riled u
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by clavalle 11y ago
I've seen these kinds of things up close (investigations and eventual prosecutions of exploitative companies in the health care sector) and I can absolutely tell you I am not pleased. But I also don't see the alternative. I don&#
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by clavalle 11y ago
I used to be Libertarian, too, until I realized one very important thing: a pure market approach does not take into account exploitation. It assumes that exploitation can be handled within the same system that spawned it -- the market -- a
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by clavalle 11y ago
I buy information from the government all of the time. It is cheap and very high quality -- authoritative, in fact.
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by clavalle 11y ago
I'm pretty sure they mean 'cheaper' as in 'lower total cost including that incurred by the government' not just 'the end consumer pays less'. It is strange that you seem to believe the free market is the
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by clavalle 11y ago
Because innovation cannot exist outside a purely market driven system?
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Perhaps not more, but faster and perhaps more thoroughly in order to change the player's risk assessment. By the time these companies are called out they amass huge war chests and tie these things up in the courts for years while enric
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by clavalle 11y ago
I find it interesting that many economists tend to ignore the limits of their own theories. For example, the dogma that markets tend toward efficiency. This is true -- as long as certain axioms are not violated. But they seem to forget abo
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by clavalle 11y ago
We have two groups -- entrepreneurs with money and entrepreneurs without money. They are part of an overall group -- entrepreneurs. Picture them as bacteria in a petri dish. The article simply says that entrepreneurs with money tend to surv
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by clavalle 11y ago
Everything you said is true but missing the point. $5000 is a wad of cash that many, many people don't have access to. Living on savings while building and selling a product is not an option for many more. Money just doesn't allow
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by clavalle 11y ago
Money is a tool, sure, but it is the Universal Tool. It can be applied toward nearly every problem in business. Can people still mess up and misuse the tool? Sure. It success a better bet if you have access the Universal Tool? Most def
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by clavalle 11y ago
Hold on, why is there no market for sub $25m valued companies? How did the SEC kill that market?
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You seem to think that by 'wealth' they mean access to millions of dollars. Even 'sustain comfort' and have a little something leftover levels of wealth is not available to a sizable percentage of people in the US.
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This seems like common sense -- those that have some sort of solid safety net tend to be able to stick to their search for a business model that works longer than someone that doesn't. Obvious. There are examples of people that take
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>I say this because when you say "...and you can't educate high performing kids in public school." you are without any doubt completely and totally wrong. You're going to find exceptions if you take any statement as a
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I honestly think that is a 'treat the symptom' analysis. We need to think about why there are poor performers to begin with and it has very little to do with the few hundred dollars per student a school might lose because of not h
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> this approach unfairly favors the middle and upper classes who have the time to do this. Yes, that's the argument against it. And it is even worse than you might guess because they don't do just regular classroom stuff. The

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