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by djbebs 5y ago
That's not how modern monetary theory works, but ok
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by djbebs 5y ago
What does being elected or not have to do with it? Violent mobs also have democratic legitimacy, but somehow I doubt you'll think they should have a right to harass you. And on the contrary, it is by making the situation unbearable for
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by djbebs 5y ago
Yes? I dont see why the state should be considered special. Ultimately it is supposed to work for the people, is it not? It's powers are delegated to it by the people. I dont see "only the state should have the right to harass peo
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by djbebs 5y ago
It's only a career if you make it a career. There's plenty of jobs and ways to move up in the world, if people are unwilling to make the sacrifices needed to take those opportunities that's on them and them alone.
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by djbebs 5y ago
As opposed to the state? Simply add a cost to prosecutions that fail, with it going towards the winner.
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by djbebs 5y ago
To be perfectly honest I see no reason why all the prosecutorial powers vested exclusively on the state should be exclusive to the state. There should be nothing that the executive branch does in terms of investigation and prosecution, that
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by djbebs 5y ago
There is nothing wrong with 0% inflation.
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by djbebs 5y ago
I have lived in europe all my life, and have extensive experience with both trains and other forms of public transportation in several European countries.
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by djbebs 5y ago
Trains aren't sucessful in europe. They are a massive drain of resources that survive primarily as a result of subsidies and government policy. The US ironically has a much more efficient and sustainable train network, it's just t
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by djbebs 5y ago
No, surveillance is a bad thing period. No exceptions.
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by djbebs 5y ago
Maybe put it back? As a non-nativer speaker when I read cobblers the first thing I think of cobbled roads and the people who make/maintain them. With the Shoe Cobblers it makes it clear it's talking about shoe manufacturers.
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by djbebs 5y ago
Except it is obviously true, and you can see in this very thread examples of policies that would reduce housing prices that people don't want to take. Zoning restrictions, quality requirements, bureaucracy all adds costs, and all of th
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by djbebs 5y ago
A common argument, and yet not 9ne based on empirical data. The idea that not having intellectual monopolies would reduce investment over the long term simply fails to show any evidence for it. Furthermore the arguments used for it, can als
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by djbebs 5y ago
Failure is being rewarded with free services, lower taxes and a whole bunch of other benefits, this isnt really in question here. Dollar for dollar poor people pay 1 sixth of the income taxes that high income earners pay. If that's not
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by djbebs 5y ago
Given the amount of people arguing that the rich "don't pay their fair share" when the rich are the only ones actually paying income taxes, I would say your argument has already been disproven.
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by djbebs 5y ago
The reason we don't have a meritocracy society is because failure is being rewarded. Cut the welfare, stop punishing success with higher taxes and you'll see just how much better people can be.
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by djbebs 5y ago
Do the benefits actually change though? Or does the country now have established industries and companies with the power to influence the political process in order to cement their position against new entrants via IP laws?
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by djbebs 5y ago
Government intervention is literally the reason the market is "not doing it"
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by djbebs 5y ago
Land is limited for political reasons.
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by djbebs 5y ago
See that word "unlimited"?
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by djbebs 5y ago
That second part isn't a requirement. Fire doesn't require you to spend all your money, and indeed, that's generally a bad idea...
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by djbebs 5y ago
Why are they suing this guy? I dont think that there is any dispute that the chemichals had been seized by lebanese authorities, so anything that happened to the cargo after that is their full responsibility. If a thief steals my car am I s
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by djbebs 5y ago
I read it. Its at best unhelpful and misguided and at worst actively harmful to the stated goals. Ultimately he is advocating for a political solution for what he believes is an economic problem. The issue here is that the cause of the prob
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by djbebs 5y ago
Because citizenship is supposed to be an important life changing decision with massive consequences at every level. The dilution of the meaning of citizenship is a massive tragedy.
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by djbebs 5y ago
There is a diference between reporting and propaganda
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by djbebs 5y ago
Their device, their business. People don't need to justify what they do with their things.
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by djbebs 5y ago
Why do you think it takes more than 20 minutes to transfer bitcoin?
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by djbebs 5y ago
There is nothing preventing worker cooperatives from existing today, and indeed there are plenty in business all over the world. Unfortunately you will find that they simply are not as effective as regular corporations, and hence they tend
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by djbebs 5y ago
German police have been using it to track down theft
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by djbebs 5y ago
Yeah, the article may say that, but that just means the article is wrong.

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