ihateloggingin

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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
I'm sure you don't mind 1% of the population raking in a substantial passive income, though, do you?
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
BitCoin is not anonymous. Cash is anonymous. Why don't international corporations just exchange briefcases full of $100 bills right now?
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
When someone has so lost control of himself that he can't feed himself -- even though he has the money to do so -- we put him into custody in a hospital, and hopefully rehabilitate him. That's severe mental disorder. You're
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
> selling opiates Sounds like you're just envious that the entrepreneurs across the street are more successful than you.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
Rather than pulling a sentence out of context and telling someone to "actually think about the question," try to actually address the argument.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
> seems to me to be self-evidentally economically impossible for universal BI to [be enough to live comfortably on with no drain on savings] unless we've reached that point of labor-irrelevance Why is it economically impossible? It
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
You don't need to tax actual CO2-producing activities. You just tax the production of CO2-containing fuels. The price is passed on to the buyer who produces CO2 with them. You can then offer tax credits for CO2 capturing (with the bu
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
I agree that this isn't a great article. However, Bitcoin is a radical economic ideology, and UBI is certainly not limited to HN -- it's been discussed all over the world for decades. Most people might not have heard of it, but t
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
You can't really take this guy seriously. He wouldn't say the same thing about someone making $10k in investment income, for example.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
There's a really odd logic involved here. If people did not have any motivation besides making money, they would not have any desire to _spend_ money.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
When people come over to my house, it's always a big chore to get someone to make the coffee. Usually 5 or 6 of us gang up and threaten to throw the other one out of his house. Works every time.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
The article is assuming that there's no need to create incentives to work. Indeed, that the market will not provide incentives to work, because it won't be needed.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
Silly goose, it's not your money if you owe it in taxes.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
How will forcing them to run in a hamster wheel prevent them from continuing to do so?
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
Google's capital is its social organization. If they "leave," the social organization collapses, and all of those engineers can reorganize. Thus, google leaving creates the conditions for its replacement. No worries.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
The point is to punish the undeserving poor.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
It's political suicide to suggest that a grandmother who is currently receiving $0 in basic income should instead receive more? You haven't thought this through.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
Well put.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
Sounds like an ideal situation to incentivize the solution of discomfort without creating more discomfort.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
Right. Let's starve them out. That's not social engineering!
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
Supply and demand. If the wages on offer are inadequate to secure janitorial services, they will go up.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
If there were no work left in the world for humans (and yet I was still allowed to live), I might devote my entire energies to the education of my daughter. Today, that is called idleness. But in that future world, perhaps it would not.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
Technically correct is the worst kind of correct.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
There will be a segment of the ruling class who support it because they don't want to be removed from power. There will also be the possibility of removing the ruling class from power in order to implement it.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
The 20th century also saw the introduction of labor law, working hours plummet, welfare state, etc..
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
> I can't provide examples of "elimination of an entire class of human skill and subsequent failure to move labour up the skill ladder" I can. Secretaries.
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by ihateloggingin 13y ago
You can't incentivize a turnip to bleed.
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by ihateloggingin 14y ago
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that being fired without cause is somehow illegal in the USA. In 49/50 states, it isn't. So there is no leg to stand on. Unless he was employed in Montana.
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by ihateloggingin 14y ago
What about resizing the browser window? Is that usable by most end users?