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by daenz 4y ago
Walk me through it. Year 1, I own 10,000 shares at $0.1 each. I'm taxed 25% of $1000, or $250. Year 2, my super smart investment pays off and I own 10,000 shares at $100 each. I'm taxed 25% of an "income" of $999,000, or
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by daenz 4y ago
>Its stock price collapsed by more than 35 percent Wednesday, erasing more than $50 billion in value in a single day. For people who want to be able to tax unrealized gains like stock, what is the plan for these kinds of events? Would st
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by daenz 4y ago
"Society" is not some autonomous external being that is free to do how it pleases. It is composed of individuals making decisions. If the decisions of the individuals are coerced, then the society's aggregate behavior is coer
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Thanks for sharing and sorry to hear about that. I can relate a little to the migraines. I had some blinding migraines come on quickly a few years ago, but then leave just as quickly. The pain was so intense I could barely think straight du
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I said "first hand" experience intentionally, and the reason is because the content that you're reading is going to be biased towards the people writing it. Just like anyone who is recollecting a bad situation and outcome, th
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I thought one of the big benefits of UBI was that it does away with all other social programs? Are you saying that is no longer the case?
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Then it seems like a very bad idea to put the security of your home, food, and livelihood entirely on the whims of the government to such a degree.
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How did you get such access to first hand knowledge of multiple peoples experiences at different places of worship?
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Since we can ask you anything: If you're comfortable with sharing, what about your disability makes it difficult to do a tech job?
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How many places of worship have you visited and asked?
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We may be hosting my partner's aunt or grandmother soon, since they will likely have nobody closer to look after them. Did I pass your "is a good person" test?
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>First, taxation-based disability support is "spirit of charity" at scale. I invite you to not pay your taxes and watch what happens.
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Good thing healthcare professionals have malpractice insurance?
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>You’re dreaming about a time that never existed, or where it did exist was completely incapable of scaling and weathering economic downturns. You can leave off "it never existed" if you immediately acknowledge that it did exis
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>except the countless hours my parents have spent helping her. Wouldn't you be happy if more people were like your parents? If there were "expensive doctors" who felt in their hearts the need to help your aunt, free of cha
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Charitable programs in places of worship existed long before government programs. These are communities of people giving their time, money, and resources, and are actually invested in the people they are helping. If you don't believe t
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>And the reason this is dysfunctional is because the government doesn't go far enough in extending benefits. If there was more budget allocated to these benefits then we wouldn't have this problem. This pov is exactly what I wa
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It's amazing how many people see this happening, acknowledge it is wrong and severely dysfunctional, and then turn around and claim that everything will be better when the government runs everything in the economy.
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"Now you must vote for anyone who doesn't threaten to cut your benefits, regardless of their other positions" seems pretty powerful to me.
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I'm not asking about the extreme mischaracterization of my position of "literally anything." I'm asking what safeguards are in place to keep UBI, as we know the term, from evolving into UBI-asterisk, with conditions on t
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by daenz 4y ago
>I think one of the greatest features of UBI is that it gets rid of all of that by design. But you can't guarantee that "by design", only "by name." As we know with politics, the name of a program is not tightly
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by daenz 4y ago
Not quite. I'm concerned that they would offer UBI, and then add conditions later. It's pedantic to think that officials would care that this is "not technically UBI anymore." It would be called UBI, but you would be req
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by daenz 4y ago
If UBI could logically evolve into non-universal basic income, that should be a concern, because if people are dependent on that money, they can't really oppose the change.
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Would this eventually happen with UBI?
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Start your own company
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by daenz 4y ago
I'd echo the 48 laws of power. It gives a good insight into the common power games. A sibling comment had a bad experience with it, I was fine with it, but YMMV
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by daenz 4y ago
>A week later, I received a few ambiguous and regretful messages from her, which escalated to a phone call in which she sought guidance on her next date The author needs to spend time identifying how people use tactics to assert and obta
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And "how much money can I make off of telling others about it"
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They'll use whatever words increase their revenue in the A/B tests unfortunately.
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by daenz 4y ago
Except that story doesn't exist. People felt the need to record the other story (the one you repurposed) instead, and for good reason.

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