goty2

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by goty2 9y ago
I think the idea from the beginning was to issue equity that diluted the current owners, but that was later revised to taxes on profit and payroll. The concept isn't radically different from a pension fund. But of course the purpose wa
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by goty2 9y ago
If anything the Nordic model and social democracy has failed not because it turned into communism, but because it only takes one government to undermine the system and privatize everything. Sweden today is liberal to the extent that it is r
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by goty2 9y ago
> After controlling the major companies in Sweden, they would have of course continued with the non-public companies, because the main goal of Löntagarfonder was to create equal salaries between high profit companies and low profit compa
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by goty2 9y ago
It wasn't necessarily stupid. But probably ahead of its time. Today, when it is probably too late to do anything, a lot of people are talking about the risks with automation and need for basic income. And that is essentially what it wa
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by goty2 9y ago
Because coupons might be useful to sell overstock or introduce new products. And even if you wanted to you would either have to convince all your customers to change their habits or convince the other businesses not to also not use them. It
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by goty2 9y ago
I don't find that to be an apt analogy. Tax avoidance is more like abusing coupons. Someone else is effectively paying your share, but the company can't shut it down because customer would complain or it could hurt the business ov
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by goty2 9y ago
Well, with lump sum taxation you pay taxes primarily based on the value of your property. So the more 'modest' your house is the less tax you pay. Of course the house, or the land more likely, was still worth $4.5 million USD when
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by goty2 9y ago
The food market is more expensive if there are multiple vendors and the customer don't shop around. The price gouging doesn't come from multiple companies, but from the free pricing. Some independent taxis in Sweden charge 10x as
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by goty2 9y ago
In a regulated market you just, in theory, take the closest taxi because you have no choice. But if there are five companies covering the same area, each company is going to have less coverage or need more cars. Each company is going to hav
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by goty2 9y ago
I am disagreeing with the parents point (or not really because they were talking about doing it as a hobby, which is great). Yes, you can do design prototype revision A, B and C, then do production prototype A, B and C, and finally producti
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by goty2 9y ago
That is still, as you say, a hobby though. The future of hardware design is decreasing the difference between prototype and production. Similar to what containers have done for software. 3d printed parts and PCBs can be done in as little as
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by goty2 9y ago
There is no mystery why taxis are expensive in Sweden. Deregulation legalizes price gouging, meaning few people will ride independent taxis or look a new companies. That doesn't just limit competition, but also puts more taxis on the r
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by goty2 9y ago
It is unlikely to happen. Software makes it easier to reconfigure things. It will almost always make sense to rent time on a better machines. Few people run their own public facing arm servers at home, because you can rent better performing
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by goty2 9y ago
I get what you mean. I definitely wouldn't say Shenzhen is a modern city as such, despite the skyscrapers and greenery. That is part of the charm though. It is, or used to be, an order of magnitude cheaper to live in SZ than HK. There
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by goty2 9y ago
> The US didn’t make special economic areas, they just arose organically. True enough. I just don't think Shenzhen is special enough as an economic zone to make a difference in the US. Somewhere like Nevada is probably ahead of Shen
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by goty2 9y ago
There are obviously differences. The point I am trying to make is that there is no one answer. It is not like the flaw happened to be that the US has 5% too high corporate tax and if you lower that somewhere will become Shenzhen. Shenzhen i