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by dlp211 5y ago
SS payments are now also paid from treasury reserves, so collected general taxes do in fact pay for (part of) SS. Also, there is no reason that the cap on SS tax collection shouldn't be lifted.
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Ok, yes, the US spends a lot on the military, but the vast majority of taxes goes towards social programs (specifically SS and healthcare programs) and the current administration and majority of Democrats are trying to spend more on common
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> Taxes are much better Only for the upper-middle class and rich. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-19/wait-c...
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1. Elon Musk only cares about the money in his pocket despite whatever persona he puts on for the public. That's it, that explains everything.
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I'd guess less than once a day. There is also a huge gulf between assault/resisting arrest and attempted murder.
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> Does Section 230 still cover them if they're picking and choosing what they're going to carry? Section 230 does not prohibit imperfect moderation. In fact, Section 230 exists for mostly this reason, so that platforms can mode
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And how many of the people effected by that are unvaccinated? You are simply re-stating what I said, as vaccines rates went up AND hospitalizations went down, mitigations were removed. Then the Delta variant hit and has been an absolute dis
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> Vaccines' downsides were definitely overplayed because they were trying to push vaccines. We paused the use of the J&J vaccine over the blood clot issue that turned out to be a common side effect of many drugs and it was at a
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Or, the information that he had at the time was that masks didn't work. And it turned out that that information was wrong and that when information that it was wrong became available, then we changed the guidance. I mean seriously, thi
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Let's be clear, mitigations were being removed when vaccination rates were increasing and hospital rates were decreasing. It's only because a significant enough portion of the country has decided that not getting vaccinated is mor
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Amazon still pays better than a lot of companies. If you are choosing between Google and Amazon, yea, it's pretty much an easy decision, if you are choosing between some mid-sized B2B tech company and Amazon, not so easy a decision any
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Which company imploded because of empathy?
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Fun fact, most people aren't lazy lay-abouts trying to con employers into handouts.
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Considering that there is already at least 1 restaurant that serves lab-grown chicken, it is only a matter of time.
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> Why do we always have to make people's choices for them? They're grown adults capable of making their own decisions and their own mistakes. If they want to ignore the science and the credibility of the FDA process, they shoul
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Yes, it's called empathy and humanity.
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The demand for debt is higher than the private sector can supply.
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> Not sure how we got from 600B to 160B. Also, isn't that closer to 6TN versus 7TN over a decade? They probably are using nominal dollars and the gaps per year are expected to increase at a rate similar to, or greater than, collecte
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But why only calculus? Why the focus on a single subject? This is a very limited view of intelligence.
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I don't think that was the statement made, just that strong government is correlated with strong economies. Strong economies/governments are a necessary, but not sufficient requirement for those other things.
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Your kid playing videogames 12 hours a day has no impact on my life. You giving me Covid does. These situations are not the same and the complete lack of nuance on when government authority is good and needed, and when it is bad and harmful
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Leadership, accountability, management, planning large scale operations, cross-team coordination, team building, dealing with bureaucracy and large organizations, dealing with rapidly shifting priorities, etc. There are so many marketable s
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I actually wouldn't be surprised to find that most labor markets are bi-modal (but certainly not all). Which is why I used median wage and not average wage, because the median is very likely to grab the common tradespersons compensatio
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The problem with this is the same as assuming that every developer is earning a GAFAM salary. It just isn't applicable to the average employee in the given profession. I'm also extremely skeptical that yearly profit potential is i
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Sorry, but without some sort of source, I am skeptical, but also acknowledge that different markets and economies will reward labor in different ways. So when it comes to the US this is a common talking point on the English speaking interne
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If you do a 4 year stint in the infantry and don't come away with some sort of leadership experience, the problem isn't your lack of experience, it's you didn't take advantage of the opportunities presented to you.
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Yes, because it's impossible to ever change careers or apply your work ethic to gaining new skills. The idea that you don't have marketable skills having been in the military is also the biggest piece of bunk I've ever heard
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Ok, so let's not use inflated Numbers for the trades either. According to the BLS, the median Software Developer makes $110k. The median carpenter makes $34k. There are also nearly 5x the number of Developer jobs then carpenters. It&#x
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"Fuck you, pay me." -Mike Monteiro (among others)
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But that wasn't the claim I was addressing: > Actual average people are making significantly less today than they were in 2008. This is simply not true. Median household income is greater today than any time in American history in

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