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by danans 2y ago
> No. Post-WWII America experienced a period of economic tailwinds that will likely never exist again. The UK didn't get bombed nearly to the extent of continental Europe, and it was a mature industrialized society - the first one i
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by danans 2y ago
> The US made similar guarantees and planed to out-grow the costs (i.e. ponzi scheme). If you're referring to Social Security in the US, it's no more a Ponzi scheme than your home mortgage payment is a Ponzi scheme. In real
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by danans 2y ago
> Generally speaking, every point of centralization is also a point where a lot of power can be acquired with relatively little resources This is why (1) shared principles and (2) credible democracy is important, to allow evolution of th
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by danans 2y ago
Sure, it's nice to have a job like that if you get paid a living wage, have a social safety net, secure housing, and no dependents. I have news for you: that job (and situation) didn't exist then, and doesn't exist now. It b
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by danans 2y ago
It's not true that it never works. Centralizing production goals, decision making, and expenditure at the Federal government is what made the industrial response to WW2 successful. Centralizing tax revenue to fund retirements for the
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by danans 2y ago
> a teacher by profession, was denied a widow’s pension so lobbied to take over the manual distribution to provide an income for herself and their baby daughter > she retired in 1892, at age 81 > So Ruth was forced to move, for th
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by danans 2y ago
It's quite telling that these discussions often end up at conclusion that we are becoming a developing (or 3rd world) country again, and not Star Trek society.
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by danans 2y ago
Not the OP, but I think you might have missed their point, which I think was: if robots take away people's jobs, how will said people afford robots.
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by danans 2y ago
> Who will buy the phones when no one is paid to produce them? The cars? The food and the clothes The headline last week was that the top 10% now accounts for 50% of consumer spending [1]. As that trend accelerates, the economy will re
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by danans 2y ago
> They seem pretty uncommon in the the US. Thinking about pulling the trigger on an all in one heat pump to replace an all in one with a condenser They are widely available. I have the GE heat pump washer+dryer combo. I know people wh
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by danans 2y ago
Assuming law-following (which I realize the current administration doesn't care about), that agency's authority doesn't apply: "These authorities discourage, and in some circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from taking
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by danans 2y ago
> Kristallnacht-like environments for Tesla owners. C'mon, Kristallnacht? I'm not seeing any moves towards rounding up Tesla owners and sending them to camps. There's no political party carrying out organized pogroms aga
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by danans 2y ago
> There are conservatives with money, and those without. The latter is louder and more visible. Importantly, one should always, as a business, be optimizing for those with dollars vs opinions The problem is the addressable market size.
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by danans 2y ago
> Of course, there is a global Tesla boycott. Is there really? In the sense of a global organized boycott spearheaded by a particular organization? I've not yet seen anything like that. It seems like instead the brand has just be
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by danans 2y ago
> If a company has stagnant growth, that means leadership has made bad decisions, and things have to change. There is a bigger picture. Developed economies across the globe are experiencing stagnant growth, and the trickle down economics
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by danans 2y ago
> I view minimalism as shorthand for “cheap” that society has foisted upon us in order to cut costs. Cheap aesthetics (in the sense of quality and thoughtfulness, not necessarily $), can be either minimalist or ornate.
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by danans 2y ago
But many other social protections - the comparatively huge ones - are ones that workers value a lot: Unemployment Insurance, Disability benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. But unfortunately many workers have taken those as a giv
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by danans 2y ago
> claimed to be a quality boutique shop Have they made that claim anytime in the last few decades? Perhaps that's the vibe behind their marketing, but you'd have to be blind to their size, sales, and market value to believe it.
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by danans 2y ago
> Feature prioritization over optimization: Engineering resources appear focused on new capabilities rather than fixing existing performance problems; People are keeping their phones longer they used to, which is obviously a problem for
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by danans 2y ago
The confidence I gained from my middle school wood and metal shop classes in the late 80s came in handy 30ish years later when I remodeled significant portions of my own house in the 2020s, from the building fabric in to the floors and fini
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by danans 2y ago
> Would it be fair to describe it as a utopian claim? In the case of water heating (and water based space heating also) it's already here in terms of technology and availability. Heat pump storage water heaters are now widely avail
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by danans 2y ago
Like any aesthetic system built around an ideal, Solarpunk might not be practically realizable for most of us, but there are ways to implement the practical parts of the ideal in your lifestyle. One of my favorite activities (which I do reg
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by danans 2y ago
> not because I have a crystal ball, but because my church is filled with Hispanics and I learned so much about how they think politically and so much of the nuanced perspectives within their community by listening to them, meanwhile th
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by danans 2y ago
> In theory I guess, but hasn’t all this gov spending essentially been hidden? No, it was all publicly debated and passed by Congress, and openly available for anyone to see. It just never served anyone's political agenda to nitpick
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by danans 2y ago
> Only about 34 per cent of schools in India have internet facilities and more than 50 per cent do not have functional computers India is an economically powerful country that has nuclear weapons, a robust manufacturing sector (including
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by danans 2y ago
> Why people in the 1st world disassemble them or throw away rather than upcycling by upgrading OS and donating to the children of the 3rd world, like OLPC used to do? It wouldn't surprise me if, with the worldwide rise of smartphon
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by danans 2y ago
> It's like Bill Gates being confused about USAID being dismantled and being willfully ignorant that the people dismantling it believe he's part of some sort of global health conspiracy along with Soros. I really find this kind
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by danans 2y ago
Gary Stevenson is one of the strongest rising voices on what the wealthy have been doing to the working and middle classes over the last decades (under parties of both sides in both the UK and the US), a trend being rapidly accelerated unde
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by danans 2y ago
> Unfortunately this will not shake support of him in his base. That will probably come when they lose Medicaid and food stamp benefits.
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by danans 2y ago
> They wanted an excuse to drop support and they got it. If they message that they are dropping support based on that personal insult , they will lose respect and credibility, and will get manipulated.

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