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by clavalle 9y ago
The USSR tried basic income? News to me. Doesn't Switzerland have high productivity and wealth? Does it matter that people are just working part time there or is that a Really Good Thing (do we all need to be working 40+ hours?)
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by clavalle 9y ago
We already use the government to support everyone to some degree. The government already wields enormous power. In what ways would UBI be different?
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by clavalle 9y ago
Great questions poorly framed. 1) Because, right now, there is a huge market distortion that is difficult to see because we've been living with it since we've invented agriculture and specialization -- people must earn money to li
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by clavalle 9y ago
I don't think we should be creating menial jobs just to take up people's time because we think they are untalented. If people want to live on the bare minimum and hunt and fish with the rest of their time, more power to them. The
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by clavalle 9y ago
Sure. Call it a hypothesis. But many people are trying to shut down the experiments before they happen.
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Because living a basic existence isn't very attractive to the vast majority of people. Spending your days in recreation isn't very fun when you don't have a lot of money to spend.
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The burden of proof would be on me to prove that people will engage in transactions that will better their financial position? Strange. Seems like almost a given to me. How many well-off people that have their basic necessities covered ju
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Such as?
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by clavalle 9y ago
UBI isn't meant to be a full replacement for an individual's economic activity. It is /basic/, which is to say, it will cover the basic necessities. The whole article is based on the assumption that once basic necessiti
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by clavalle 9y ago
I am solidly liberal and Left-leaning and most of my friends are extremely liberal and Left-Leaning, too (though, admittedly not extreme left). I don't know a single person who sees any communist state as a utopia or anything approach
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by clavalle 9y ago
Is corruption of local players a problem you've encountered?
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by clavalle 9y ago
I'd really like to see some more in-depth reporting on this. I think it is very plausible that the Red Cross didn't bribe the right people or underestimated the depth of bribes it would take to get anything done. By the time they
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by clavalle 9y ago
GRRM is a slow GOT writer. He pumps out other projects.
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by clavalle 9y ago
I really hope Stephenson writes a sequel. He left it open for one but he tends to do that.
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Or some sort of proton or neutron beam.
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An unfortunate corollary is that slightly different general ideas are very difficult to get people to listen to because they feel like they already know it and it is not much new or the difference is negligible. This might be true of any p
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by clavalle 9y ago
If the US didn't act massively and immediately to any strikes to our close allies, our alliances would be rendered meaningless. There would not be time for public debate. The US would respond within minutes of a move like that.
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by clavalle 9y ago
But it only works when that 'greed' (I prefer 'self-interest') is directed toward creating value. Greed can be a good motivator but greed can be destructive to the market, too. See: Rent Seeking, Predatory Pricing, Prot
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by clavalle 9y ago
Thinking about what cities should lay out the red carpet, if I were a city official in, say, St. Louis or Detroit, I'd be putting together an incentive plan worth billions. Amazon could turn around an entire mid-size city.
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by clavalle 9y ago
Are unions affecting Amazon?
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by clavalle 9y ago
Capture of the machine of the justice system by the wealthy is one of the most impactful and persistent market distortions in human history. If people cannot bring the power of government to enforce appropriate costs against players with mo
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by clavalle 9y ago
I think the point is that the potential risk starting so high is keeping people from seeking proper justice.
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by clavalle 9y ago
Damore at one point mentioned in passing IQ as also having statistical truths that are taboo to talk about. I took that as a dog whistle reference to 'The Bell Curve' since that is the most famous treatise for that view and a supp
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by clavalle 9y ago
>- Don't be afraid to just try things. You're in the middle of a solo and don't know where to go? Jump up the neck and hope you land on something that sounds good. I think Jimi Hendrix said something like 'You're
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by clavalle 9y ago
I'd love to see the original research just out of curiosity. But it seems to me that even if externally generated electromagnetic energy did have an effect, by the time you had some behavior you could observe, it would be like trying
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by clavalle 9y ago
But you can't apply the statistics backward. Say you have a population of 10,000. You can come to some meaningful statistical conclusions about that group. If you consciously pick 100 individuals from that original population you also
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by clavalle 9y ago
Well, the current research only shows weak tendencies that admit to wide variation. It shows what /is/ and /has been/ not what /could be/. One thing that really bothered me about the memo is how Damore kept re
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by clavalle 9y ago
It's strange to me that people don't recognize the disconnect within the memo itself: Basically, it starts off by saying 'Statistics of the general population don't have anything to say about individuals.' Then turn
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by clavalle 9y ago
I don't think anyone is saying anything different from 50-50 is immoral but that anything different (in this case vastly different) than 50-50 deserves some attention. I don't think announcing a policy of hiring 50% women is neces
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by clavalle 9y ago
No, but he has an agenda that he's promoting with this opinion piece, which, as someone who disagrees with him, has some pretty obvious holes which I point out.

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