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by iammisc 5y ago
> Yikes, now we're just on to blind speculation. Not at all. More educated people tend to be more anxious and more depressed. https://www.originsrecovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/H... The f
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by iammisc 5y ago
Catholics are called to provide charity even to non-christians, so there is no fundamental reason to only provide for our own community. However, welfare and taxation is not charity and you do not grow in virtue through taxation. Welfare is
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by iammisc 5y ago
Is my vote not the say? If I am a christian and I don't want my money going towards abortion, then I'm going to vote for candidates who support that. That anyone should argue that I should not have that say is frankly scary. And y
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Thankfully, we don’t need to be beholden to history. That was kind of the point of my comment. I think my snark went over your head.
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by iammisc 5y ago
'Major depressive disorder' is just situational depression applied to every situation. Common mistake. Many psychiatrists and psychologists make the same mistake. Many psychiatrists, by virtue of their education, are part of a cla
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by iammisc 5y ago
Community, shared culture, shared religion. Exercise happens when you do those three things.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Well if I contribute 0.000001% or whatever to the federal budget, then I'd say I contribute 0.000001% to whatever welfare payment anyone receives. Money may be fungible, but when you pool money and decide to spend it, everyone from who
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by iammisc 5y ago
sorry I should have said 'sales tax', a consumption tax.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Housing? grocery? childcare? that aspect seems unclear to me. All of them would, because with extra money, there would be more demand for these goods and services, but the supply of the good itself hasn't increased. Thus, companie
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by iammisc 5y ago
> At what point, if ever, do Americans acknowledge the horrific fiscal situation the Baby Boomer generation bequeathed to us and accept that painful & deep spending cuts must be made, instead of piling more spending atop expenditures
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by iammisc 5y ago
There are several states without sales tax. Do they have better outcomes for poor people? (I have no idea... genuinely curious). EDIT: s/income/sales
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Look at how much control and spying employers place on low wage workers compared to high wage workers. Has it occurred to you that this is because low wage employees might actually commit more thefts and such? I mean... I've been
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by iammisc 5y ago
It's not that money from government is less worthy. It's that money from government came from my wallet, thus I am entitled to an opinion. If you didn't take my money, I would have no interest in sharing my opinion with how o
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by iammisc 5y ago
That's because America is defined by its cultural pluralism. When you have cultural pluralism, welfare does not work as well, because you are now taking money from members of one culture and giving it to another, and the cultures may b
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by iammisc 5y ago
Children are not expensive for most poor people, I don't understand how you can claim that. Most poor people have stronger family networks, because a lot of poor people are immigrants, with stronger communities than most 'American
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by iammisc 5y ago
Can I ask why, when you were a proponent of UBI, you thought this scenario would not happen? Most of UBI's detractors paint exactly this scenario as an argument against UBI, so you must have had a reason. Out of curiosity... what was i
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by iammisc 5y ago
Except if UBI is $10, then cost of living will increase $10. This is an impossibly recursive feedback loop. UBI's effects on the COL is ultimately a turing complete equation, and thus suffers from an inability to analyze when exactly s
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by iammisc 5y ago
People claim others are buying property and keeping it vacant, but this does not seem immediately clear to me. If this were the case, there ought to be multiple vacant properties, but I don't see many. Why am I being downvoted? Can som
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by iammisc 5y ago
With women, birth control is the other obvious problem. My wife took birth control for a day or two in her twenties before we married, had the symptom, and threw the pills away. It's very sad. Women's sex drives are as strong as m
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by iammisc 5y ago
> I mean, women were basically property at one point, with changing degrees of freedom. You might not get out of the house much, depending. Can we please stop just repeating cliches that are not even obviously true? While certain countri
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by iammisc 5y ago
Depression is relative. Today on social media, people come away with the false conclusion that they are meant to feel euphoric most of the time. I don't believe in 'feeling happy', yet every magazine promises me i'll be
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by iammisc 5y ago
I am a straight man, so have no experience with other men obviously, but this is fascinating. How can it be that so many of us are on antidepressants? Something is surely wrong as you've said right? There may also be selection effects
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by iammisc 5y ago
https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/health/how-to-... ^ has information on why 'normal' isn't a good range for everyone.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words. It was an horrific experience, I had thoughts of jumping off of any bridge I crossed / walking into SF traffic, but in those moments, I'd feel the angels hold me back.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Any company that calls me a 'family' is a hard no from me. I already have a family. Don't need another one.
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by iammisc 5y ago
I'm not a history major, but I'm pretty sure the entire concept of parental leave is completely alien to all of history. Historically, the majority of people were unemployed and worked for themselves on their own farm / craft
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by iammisc 5y ago
> If a child is not properly socialized by the age of four, good luck after that. Women are just naturally better at doing that. I respectfully disagree. Men are better at socializing children. Children without fathers have lower levels
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Maybe mothers should get leave right after birth and father's should get it as the kids get older to teach them more things? Absolutely agree. My toddler is much more difficult than my newborn, and much more likely to behave with
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by iammisc 5y ago
In this thread, I notice a lot of comments talking about how men who don't take six months off (or don't see the point) lack 'love', want to leave mom 'exhausted', not wanting a 'healthy family life',
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by iammisc 5y ago
> religion & culture can be orthogonal to varying degrees I fundamentally disagree and I think this is where a lot of Westerners get hung up on dealing with other countries. There are non-religious cultural practices for sure, but th

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