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by gottorf 2y ago
> Where are crimes more likely to occur, a city with 10,000 or 1 million? A city of 10,000 may very well have a higher rate of crime. In terms of your analogy, consider my lawn man, who only takes cash for his services. I know he's
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by gottorf 2y ago
> you must learn to put your focus and attention on the most important thing: the other actor. Famously, Sir Ian McKellen had an emotional breakdown while filming The Hobbit due to extended stretches of talking not to other actors, but a
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> Singapore is not really typical of anything anywhere Not to mention, it's about the only extant example of a benevolent dictatorship.
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I get your point about misclassifying de facto employees as contractors, and also wanting as a society to avoid a race to the bottom in this type of stuff, but the fact remains that the delivery workers are voluntarily choosing to work with
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> Inequality was lesser in the past. Way less. I'm struggling to understand this one. Are you talking about the times of the cavemen, when I suppose everyone was equally materially poor? And yet you had other kinds of inequality bac
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> The idea that private owners of land/capital are somehow immune to the corruption that makes government so scary is complete nonsense. Neither private nor public owners are immune to corruption, but private owners don't opera
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> Jeff Bezos founded Amazon 30 years ago and is now worth more than $200 billion Computing someone's net worth by multiplying the number of shares he holds by the last-traded price of that share yields a theoretical number that&#x27
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A person with no skills wouldn't be able to support themselves regardless of the number of kids. And I suppose that's ultimately the problem: through a combination of technological advances, which automate much unskilled labor, an
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Which part's not true, that inequality was lesser in the past, or that social pathology is more today?
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> Attempts to completely eliminate risk leads to miserable lives and societies. Covid response in certain jurisdictions was a great example of this. "If it saves even one more life, it's worth it!"
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Of course, it's also a real thing that the home builders' and contractors' association lobbies to make every pool be legally required to be enclosed by a fence, which naturally needs to be built by a licensed professional.
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> I can imagine a world without private land ownership that still grants people rights to privacy and autonomy in their home I dare say that you don't have to imagine, and there are past and current examples of societies that are cl
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> I recognize that there are social and economic advantages to allowing people some exclusive rights of access to some land. I recognize that there are advantages to allowing some people some limited rights of monopoly when they make imp
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> Drug abuse and mental illness are much more prevalent in those worst off economically. Poverty (in developed countries) is almost always a result of inequality If the first half of your statement is true, then why do the billions of pe
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> throw a rock and you'll hit a Cafe Landwer Are those new to the area? I don't live there anymore, but I spent a decade in Greater Boston and have never heard of this.
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> that means Great Man theory is dead > must place blame or praise on the person somewhere as, at least, a myth of society I think there is value to that kind of myth, but I find that the Great Man theory has a lot of power (more than
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by gottorf 2y ago
To paraphrase, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all those others that have been tried from time to time.
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> the Kowloon Walled City Where would the people who lived in Kowloon Walled City have lived instead, had it not existed? That's the question. Four drafty walls and a roof that sometimes leaks is better than none. > building code
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> Which currencies appreciated significantly against USD in this period? Very few did. A quick snapshot is the Dollar Index, which is a basket of six "major" currencies (pound sterling, yen, Euro, Swiss franc, Canadian dollar,
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US monetary policy didn't exist in a vacuum! The dollar did lose value relative to actual things you can buy, like groceries and houses, but did not lose value relative to other currencies because other countries were also printing mon
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> Prices are determined by comparables. When home owners sell, and can push prices higher, it pushes all possible future prices for all properties nearby higher simultaneously. Prices are determined by supply and demand. What you're
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by gottorf 2y ago
The OP addressed it: > result in untold deaths and exposure, or money lost that could have been spent on healthcare, education, or healthy foods This type of policy often get so entrenched precised because its benefits are visible and wi
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> Don’t have “end goals”. > Instead, have a direction, or preferably more than one. Strive to make progress in those directions and celebrate your progress. I like putting the same concept in these terms: most things in life are a pro
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> maybe it just does have to be that way I think going from nothing to something will always be that difficult.
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> an imaginary world where tenants rights were at the top and they couldn't just be removed from a home at the whim of the landlord On the contrary, strong tenants' rights are correlated with higher rents and worse availability
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> building more housing will never solve the problem. It only seems that way because in many popular metros around the country, demand has far outstripped supply for decades. The problem is "solved" in areas that aren't as
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> taxing land Absolutely. One can only dream of a future where LVT covers almost all of a nation's tax needs... > A bit of rent control wouldnt hurt either > The average economist's salary is, of course, dependent upon th
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NYPD hasn't been stopping and frisking in a while.
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> that example picture looked pretty brutal Thankfully, TFA: there was "no visual impairment", and "over the subsequent days, the worker reported resolution of conjunctivitis without respiratory symptoms, and household con
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> It's going to take something significant to get me off Bookworm. Do you have experience using "Debian LTS"? It might have gotten me to stick to Bullseye for a little while longer, but I don't know much about it, and

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