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by jewayne 2y ago
I always ask myself, "What was a government service necessary in order to obtain this money?" Since there are no capital gains without all manners of law enforcement, the answer is yes here. A capital gain is not a tax on the orig
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by jewayne 2y ago
The US financial system discourages mature companies from making the kinds of investments necessary to stay relevant indefinitely. Maybe in a Jack-Welch-free world Sears would have become Amazon, but in our world a mature company has to max
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by jewayne 2y ago
I think the idea is that you were expecting something sweet, but got something sour, and it's now up to you to make the best of the sourness. Is English your second language?
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by jewayne 2y ago
Yeah, there really should be something akin to human mortality risks available, but for cars. Human mortality is always divided up by age, and various car risks should also be divided up by model year.
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by jewayne 2y ago
Hydrogen, in practice, is almost always made from natural gas, because that's the cheapest way to make it. Whenever you hear somebody say "hydrogen vehicle", think "highly-refined natural gas vehicle".
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by jewayne 2y ago
Is that what you signed on your driver's license?
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by jewayne 2y ago
I mean, even having your biological age somehow suspended at age 30 is a monkey's paw-type wish, especially if all the people you love age normally. Your spouse turning into an old husk of their former self before your eyes, as your ch
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by jewayne 2y ago
I think most people have that thought, but few act on it. And unfortunately, death is not the only harm that can come from harm's way. Stray bullets can find spines and genitals about as easily as they can find hearts.
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by jewayne 2y ago
Even if that is true, the actual you is just as assuredly dead.
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by jewayne 2y ago
I mean, there are plenty of things that are worse than death. I myself have an informal "anti-bucket list" -- things I want to make sure I die without doing / have happen to me. It's a LOOONG list. Alzheimer's. Para
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by jewayne 2y ago
> they were deployed in early (post WWII) suburbs to entice urban people to move to a suburbs No, the streetcar suburbs were ALL pre-war. Pre-WWI, mostly. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb ) And
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by jewayne 2y ago
The question isn't about mathematics, it's about psychology and politics. In the second scenario, when do I get/spend my UBI money?
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by jewayne 2y ago
You're confusing Universal Income with Guaranteed Income. And again, Guaranteed Income is just another form of "benefits earmarked for the politically powerless."
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by jewayne 2y ago
The reason UBI exists as an idea is that means-tested programs are inherently politically vulnerable. Another name for means-tested benefits would be "benefits ear-marked for the politically powerless".
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by jewayne 2y ago
1. Why are assuming that UBI would be paid for by individual income taxes? 2. Yes, no matter what, the richest people are going to receive so little benefit relative to their wealth/income that they won't support it. The same is t
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by jewayne 2y ago
When you really peel back the layers, you'll find that voters' instincts are that any means-tested program should come with a hefty punishment for using it. While they aren't exactly against helping, they definitely think the
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by jewayne 2y ago
> In light of this study, it seems to me that a cash-support system that wants to encourage work should have a starting region with a negative effective phase-out rate: "for every $1 you make up to $X, you get $0.25 more from UBI&#
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by jewayne 2y ago
> Personally, I'm a big fan of the "for every $2 you make, you get $1 less from UBI/Welfare" That's..that's not UBI, at all. UBI is universal . If there are any means tests whatsoever , that's not U
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by jewayne 2y ago
I think Americans hear that Canada has a single-payer health insurance system, and just make assumptions based upon the kinds of people that advocate single-payer here in the US. But the truth is that the US has had single-payer system my e
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by jewayne 2y ago
I mean, you're right, in that it hasn't.
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by jewayne 2y ago
As the article addresses, Canada doesn't exactly roll out the red carpet for Americans wishing to move north. If there is a flood of Americans, they will necessarily mostly be illegal immigrants.
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by jewayne 2y ago
Or maybe it's easy to just drop out of teaching? Versus a more specialized profession, like dentistry? Also, you'll notice that the highest suicide professions are also the most physically dangerous. It stands to reason that suici
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by jewayne 2y ago
> and I now work as a teacher with "10x personal satisfaction". I don't know what country you're speaking from, but here in the US teaching seems to have an extremely low job satisfaction rate.
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by jewayne 2y ago
Or maybe it's about the horrible crimes against humanity committed by the Sacklers?
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by jewayne 2y ago
This. They all benefit from the lack of price consistency/transparency. Nothing in our system has a single price - why charge what the market will bear, when you can charge the individual as much as they can personally bear, and make 3
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by jewayne 2y ago
I think the root cause is transparent for all to see. Humans need their bodies. And profit-maximizing entities of multiple kinds have figured this out, and bought politicians to prevent laws from reining them in. That's all.
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by jewayne 2y ago
No, the big difference is higher prices for the same services. All the things you listed are just distractions that the industry and its water-carriers use.
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by jewayne 2y ago
> currently we pay 2x what a normal developed country would pay for the level of service provided, because there is a thick layer of paperwork, with insurance companies going back-and-forth with medical providers to debate and negotiate
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by jewayne 2y ago
The subheading is either deeply ignorant or actively misleading -- "End of the line for endless boosters?". No, it's not the end of the line for endless boosters. Humans do not retain lifetime immunity to many kinds of viruse
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by jewayne 3y ago
Your mom milks babies for their blood. Now, don't go and make this a division issue by disagreeing with me.

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