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by dlp211 5y ago
This has not been my experience at all. I've job hopped every 2 years to promote in transition and take on significantly more compensation. I'm about 18 months into my current role and I'm looking for the exit. Why? Because m
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You can't just return your ballot in any envelope, you'd have to have access to excess return envelopes which is a tall task. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by adding marks invalidating the ballot. If you fill out a ballot
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That's an hour long video, could you provide a TL;DW?
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It's not that simple. There was a multi-million dollar (I believe it was $18MM) coordinated campaign against Sweeny in 2017 that failed. It wasn't about offering voters a choice, they've had choices in the past.
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Why use your own money when you can use other people's money? Apple, MSFT, Google, etc. All these companies have massive piles of cash on hand yet continue to finance operations. Irrespective of that, I agree that even if Zillow fails
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You cited one program built quickly in an emergency. If you take something far more stable and longer running, say SNAP, only about 1.5% is established as fraud.
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> Money from the government might not be less worthy but it does come at the cost of someone else. This is partially true at best. Spending does not equal revenue, and it doesn't need to. The best way to think about government taxat
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1. Labor participation rates have been expected to decline and has been forecasted for quite a while now. 2. The pandemic acted as a forcing function on those who could retire or were close to retiring into retiring. 3. The pandemic has for
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But you don't. You get a vote. That is the point of representative democracy.
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Kinda, yes. You can have a opinion that is classist/racist without being a classist/racist. This is one of the points of systemic racism/classism. You have this opinion because it's been informed via the zeitgeist of Ame
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Because it tries to rationalize or equivocate government debt with household debt. They are not the same for a whole bunch of reasons. But lets go with this equivocation for a moment. It ignores an incredibly significant part of the equatio
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It that causation held, then the opposite would also hold, that is, removing the UI subsidies would have a large effect on the employment participation rates. That turns out to not be the case: https://www.cnbc.com/2021&#x2F
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> It's that money from government came from my wallet Did it though? Government spending != spending your wallet money. Because money is fungible, I can easily make the case that all of your tax dollars went to whatever you value in
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Maybe not racism, just classism.
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That was a fine position to have prior to say 2000 when we didn't have a lot of good data and ways to analyze it. We now have data and incredible analysis tools, that outcome is not representative of what actually happens.
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Yes, the power of anecdote over data. The vast, vast majority of people who receive these benefits use them as intended. I know that it's virtually impossible to get people to stop letting their day-to-day interactions inform their pos
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Worst, we spend so much time trying to prevent fraud, the programs don't reach their full potential to benefit the most amount of people that need it and are qualified to receive it.
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There is no proof that credits incentivize poor people to have kids and plenty of proof that credits help poor. working, middle, and upper-middle class people afford the children that they do have or want. It's the welfare queen mythos
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Because the credits come no where near close enough to cover the actual expenses of having kids and this constant means testing makes programs harder and more expensive to enforce, and very few people are having kids to get credits and the
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There is so much to unpack about your biases in that first sentence.
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This is a common mistake and doesn't account for sequence risk. While it is true that the long run, inflation adjusted, DRIP average is about 7%, over the short run, those returns are not guaranteed and a few bad years can break your r
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This is not really true. There are plenty of people that are retired with ~$1MM in assets and thus, are not part of the rat race. But they live a frugal life if they continue to live in America.
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Could, but they don't. Someone with $1.2MM has enough that they could sustain a lifestyle that ~$36k/yr* could afford them. Someone with a NW of $20MM has enough that they could sustain a lifestyle of $600k/yr. Those lifestyl
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Except this isn't really true. While it is true that the AMA lobbied to reduce positions in the early 2000's due to an projected surplus, once it became apparent that there was actually a shortage, the AMA reversed its position an
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I think this is their biggest challenge. I also think that companies like Ford, Toyota, etc. have centuries of combined experience of supply chain management and relationships that they can leverage. I also think that if these large compani
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It's almost like markets can remain irrational for extended periods of time.
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By 2026 the F-150 Lightning will be the #1 selling EV in America. That is a bet I am absolutely willing to make.
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But they won't, and I don't know why anyone thinks that they will.
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You say this as the Ford F-150 Lighting is about to drop and there is a waiting list for the Ford Mach-E. I think the market is vastly underestimating the large incumbents ability to pivot into this sector and lower costs by leveraging thei
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The Ford F-150 Lightning is about to drop. VW group is making massive investments in EVs. BMWs vision is to be the premier green automaker by 2030. Don't act like these companies are still sitting on their hands. In < 5 years from n

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