estearum

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871.
by estearum 4mo ago
Correct, and if 100% of the people who beat you are using all the same "meta" then that suggests it's not a skill variation that explains it. That makes the game extremely boring. > You should quickly pick up on what they
872.
by estearum 4mo ago
Yes, correct. Which think about what that feels like: getting semi-consistently beaten by worse players who just all "happen to have" the exact same loadout and exact same strategies and exact same everything. That's exactly
873.
by estearum 4mo ago
The vast majority of people don't fall into the category you're describing, but they nonetheless have to compete against the very few people who do, and so larger and larger proportions end up falling into the same "meta&quot
874.
by estearum 4mo ago
Which is also why chess is profoundly boring unless you're playing a casual game against a casual opponent.
875.
by estearum 4mo ago
Normal evolution yet somehow wasn't really a visible force on video games until streaming and is now the predominant force on pretty much every single online competitive game. (Unless you play with cloistered private communities)
876.
by estearum 4mo ago
Not really, because there are players at every level who watch Youtube. So at every level of skill, those players who are up to date on the latest "meta" will win. Not enough to beat the meta players at the next level up, but enou
877.
by estearum 4mo ago
Uhh if you are playing games consistently with your friends, then they are a community that you're playing with. If what GP is saying is "play with people you know personally and then you won't have to play with people you do
878.
by estearum 4mo ago
"Real friends" is also known as "a community."
879.
by estearum 4mo ago
I don't see how your comment makes sense. You're not part of any "community" but you also never play with random strangers? I only play public matches with random strangers and this is the feeling. Obviously this wouldn&
880.
by estearum 4mo ago
It's amazing the degree to which streaming/online communities around video games have destroyed the games themselves. Every update to every game launches a large scale effort to find the "meta" which is then instantly di
881.
by estearum 4mo ago
Seriously. These posts are always like: "bro I had to text plumbers and then pay them to fix problems . I had to like... work... like 4 days a month... texting plumbers. "
882.
by estearum 4mo ago
If you buy in an area with appreciating land values (i.e. most of them, given the dynamics of land and population), then you have to be a dummy to lose money owning land.
883.
by estearum 4mo ago
Huh? The same dynamic is evident in literally every single leap in productivity and local wages in human history. Surely if I'm wrong, you're willing to bet on it, correct? Easy money for you? Of course you won't because you
884.
by estearum 4mo ago
Huh? Why would I care what landlords decide to do with their time? Lol, landlords do not create rental stock. Developers do that. Property managers manage it. They should be rewarded for doing so. Instead we reward landowners for holding
885.
by estearum 5mo ago
This is the correct answer
886.
by estearum 5mo ago
No I do "run houses." I bought a house, rented it out, paid a bit for maintenance throughout, covered the entire mortgage the entire time, then sold it for 50% highly levered capital gain in ~4 years. It's not because I'
887.
by estearum 5mo ago
Uhhh... banks do not "hold money for you." You think banks pay you interest to have the privilege to... hold your money? No. They pool deposits and they lend it out, taking on the risk of doing so with the guarantee they will make
888.
by estearum 5mo ago
Just because you can lose money does not mean you are "taking on risk" in the way a bank or insurer does. If they didn't "take on that risk," the land is still right there being land. That is not true for banks or i
889.
by estearum 5mo ago
I didn't say no land ownership. I said tax the gains of land ownership. Nothing changes about who decides what gets built etc.
890.
by estearum 5mo ago
Want to make a bet on what happens to rents in South Padre Island, TX (near SpaceX's Starbase) in the next 6 months? Want to make a bet on what happens to rents in San Francisco after Anthropic's or OpenAI's rents after they
891.
by estearum 5mo ago
Pretty much no.
892.
by estearum 5mo ago
As described above, a landlord is not a developer is not a property manager. Sometimes a single individual plays multiple roles, but that does not make them the same inseparable job.
893.
by estearum 5mo ago
Correct, which you should be rewarded for as a developer. I recommend 0% tax on improvements and 100% tax on land value.
894.
by estearum 5mo ago
You tax away all the gains generated by the land value, which effectively eliminates the "landlord" component of a rental fee and directs the owner's incentives toward producing value via construction, improvements, or servic
895.
by estearum 5mo ago
Landlords do not assume risk in their role as landlords . The land is there regardless of whether anyone "takes on the risk." Landlords often take on risk in their role as property managers or developers. They should be rewar
896.
by estearum 5mo ago
They can be privately owned and have the land value (unearned value, by definition) simply taxed away. Or you can have the government own the land but do long-term (99 year) leases, like they do in Singapore.
897.
by estearum 5mo ago
Hint: property prices are set by wage levels
898.
by estearum 5mo ago
Landlords do not create apartment buildings. Developers do that. Developers should get more reward for developing things and landlords should get less. Landlords do not manage properties. Property managers do that. Property managers should
899.
by estearum 5mo ago
You lose close to zero money owning land even in down markets. That's why there are vacant lots that cost millions of dollars in every major city. Near-zero carrying cost. There's risk in owning housing and so we should make sur
900.
by estearum 5mo ago
It's worth being precise about this because it's a really important point. Most people who we call "landlords" are simultaneously a landlord and a property manager. Property management is an important and productive

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