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by ethanbond 3y ago
You don’t think “is dog conscious” is relevant to how we treat dogs?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
So if you picked up the building and put it elsewhere it'd produce the same product but different politics?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
You oughta read the book :) People were already making the same argument in the late 1800s since even then wealth appeared to be detached from land. But it turns out it's not.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
I didn't claim otherwise.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Totally. The point isn’t to make someplace a bad place to be rich, nor to prevent richness. The point is to prevent total capture of the economy by the wealthy. The fact that Singapore’s economy has grown so obscenely without the apparent
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Skyrocketing wealth, skyrocketing quality of life, and decreasing wealth inequality? It explains it as-is. It’s an economic powerhouse with almost zero drag on its markets (thus skyrocketing wealth) that also semi-effectively mitigates pr
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Do people no longer pay high prices to be near locations of high productivity?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Easiest and most fundamental way is Singapore’s model of having public ownership of nearly all land and leasing it out on 99 year leases. All wealth (which is definitionally excess productive power) ultimately accrues to land value, so this
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Cults gonna cult Looked this up and yeah, that’s insane. Their share price per user is above $1,000 while Reddit is $150, X is $80. Crazy stuff!
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by ethanbond 3y ago
I… am not following this. Novo Nordisk for example is a Danish company. I haven’t seen anyone say American pharma companies in particular need to make a ton of money. The American-specific topic is that American consumers pay a ton more for
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by ethanbond 3y ago
They almost certainly didn’t cure obesity. Food manufacturers are already scrambling to figure out how to make foods even more compelling and less satiating. Regression to the mean, and our grocery selection will suffer further.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
No it’s also ludicrously expensive to R&D a drug, even if you just count the costs of the successful program. You’d be looking at easily $50-$150MM just in clinical trial costs, not to mention the years or decades of preclinical work.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Good point to identify collaboration as the more important variable, but of course plenty of orgs figure out how to collaborate effectively while remote. In fact, almost every org that achieves moderate scale will have to figure that out.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
“Just some random employee” as in… the person tasked with maintaining security and safety of the facility?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
It’s totally reasonable to scold people for using emergency exits (especially alarmed ones) without an emergency need. It also doesn’t make you a bad person or stupid to subconsciously miss signage. But you should be okay with a bit of sc
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Mobile gambling apps should be outright illegal nationwide. The degree to which mobile app makers have hacked people's psychology to get them to spend hours doing things that are counter to the person's own goals is insane. Mixing
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Errmmm... okay. The Biden administration actually has both talked extensively and taken several concrete steps against credentialism. Effective? I personally do not know. But it's blatantly false to say no one is talking about it or at
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by ethanbond 3y ago
No, companies don’t have to require them. Agreed the loan behavior exacerbates the issue rather than mitigates it, but “the current solution is bad” doesn’t necessarily mean the same agent is able to produce a good solution. If you’re cer
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by ethanbond 3y ago
It has worked just splendidly before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_&_Co.?wprov=sfti1#Nation...
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Easy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_&_Co.?wprov=sfti1#Nation...
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by ethanbond 3y ago
And how do you propose the government try to fix credentialism? For all the talk about how useless degrees are, companies still choose to require them, especially the companies helmed by “college is a scam” zealots.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
How much could they possibly pay people to use public transit that would have anywhere near the same effect magnitude? > The US has a huge inefficiency issue, tax money is not used effectively, and a good fraction goes into carefully des
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by ethanbond 3y ago
And critically, scientific publications are incentivized likewise to publish the most outlandish claims they can possibly get away with. That same incentive affects individual scientists, who disproportionately submit the most outlandish
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Don't worry, I'm aware that people can have different moral frameworks. I'm also totally comfortable saying that if "lying in order to enrich oneself at the expense of others" is not a solid indicator of "bad p
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Wow… much insight. How about the ”context” that those investors were investing in his company which had hundreds or thousands of employees who also had stakes in its financial health? And he stole the company’s money from those stakeholde
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Dishonest ones is a good start
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Aldi, the German grocery chain infecting our High Trust Society with their Low Trust Germanicism? > It's not an anti-theft measure, just a little thing to encourage honest people to walk slightly further than normal. ... because th
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by ethanbond 3y ago
"Demand DNA test results" == "check that they have a specific tag on their collar" I didn't say they are going to, and you didn't say they wouldn't. You said they couldn't (because people "wo
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Yet obviously there are many laws that are enforced and do have disparate racial impacts... So this is just an airing of grievances.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
I don't think a single parameter like that makes it "definitely" low-trust. In Austria, people are required to deposit money to borrow a grocery cart while shopping for food. Not so anywhere I've been in the US -- ergo A

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