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by jjk166 6mo ago
> In addition, an economic theory can only be useful if the actions that they dictate can actually be put into practice; if nobody's going to follow what the theory tells you to do, then it's of little use at all. That is not a
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Row as in rowdy
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Hence "rowdy"
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Remote working itself isn't inflationary, but transitioning from office to remote is. Remote workers can get high paying jobs in low cost of living areas and can generally job hop with less friction so salaries rise, spending that woul
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The selection of those data points is rather misleading. Debt to GDP ratio tends to spike during recession recovery. There were spikes in 2009 and 2020 due to the Great Recession and Pandemic respectively. The level was pretty flat from 200
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> But what we saw in 2020-2022 was that we hit the ceiling at 100mph. The 2020-2022 inflation spike wasn't due to following MMT based spending policies though. Slamming the brakes at 100mph may certainly have bad consequences, but d
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This doesn't come across as LLMish at all to me.
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It's despicable and dishonest to pretend they're different in a relevant way. You can hate Iran till your dying breath, but it has no bearing on the economic question.
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> To ramp up production. This makes absolutely no sense. The $25 Billion cost would be the cost of all the munitions used, the cost of the actual usage, the cost of all the maintenance, the fuel consumption, the logistics, the wages and
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> based on estimates using an operation tempo that was high So they were expecting those high tempos to continue for months? > That said, a lot of missiles were used, which, under current production rates, will take years to replenish
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North Korea routinely attacks South Korean and US assets in its area like the sinking of Cheonan. North Korea is strongly allied with its other neighbors China and Russia. Iran is not organized around an expansionist death cult. They have n
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Even if you accept that Musk is currently the best possible head of SpaceX (which in my opinion is a very strong claim), he probably won't always and forever be the best possible head of SpaceX. Musk's strength is in making bold p
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Yes. North Korea has a long history of exporting arms and missile technology to both its neighbors and further afield, including to Iran.
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Probably comparable to North Korea getting a nuclear device and the missiles to deliver it.
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So what were they requesting $200 Billion for?
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One time $10k per borrower forgiveness was estimated to cost $300 to $330 billion. Of course this cost would be distributed over time, and the economic benefits of putting substantial spending money in the pockets of younger adults would ha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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The current administration does not appear to care at all about what the next administration will do, which should terrify us. It's like a kidnapper who doesn't seem concerned with you seeing their face.
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There's not much reason to replace good functioning governments. There are some examples, although typically they are foreign-backed regime changes masquerading as revolutions.
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And how are the people who shot these politicians doing now? How about the US and Japanese governments? Clearly shooting a politician doesn't mean either that you gain their power or that the power structure they led evaporates.
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> They did it because Israel owns our government Yeah I don't really see how that is an argument that current corruption isn't too extreme. > Age limits (for Congress/Judiciary/Presidency) would be a much more targ
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I am familiar with the Reign of Terror, which gets capitalized because of it's singular uniqueness, but I am also not an 18th century French peasant, or a Frenchman at all for that matter. I doubt most of the people on this thread ar
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> I’d argue that the level of corruption we’re seeing, not just in the USA but all over the Western world, hasn’t risen to a level that warrants revolutionary action. What level of corruption would warrant revolutionary action? How muc
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> yes actual revolution would be brutal, and could/would create a much worse daily life for the non-elites. 50% of revolutions in the past 200 years have been non-violent, and the non-violent ones have a much higher success rate. Ev
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Return? We never had a reign of terror. There have been hundreds of peaceful revolutions.
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People with guns don't stand much of a chance against people with armies. Sure armies can turn on an individual, but that just means that particular individual has lost power, and that power has been transferred to whatever new individ
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Is it not obvious?
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That's how all time highs work, yes. And it didn't fall to 1980s levels, 2020 was tied for second highest all time in math and was 1 point behind second highest all time in reading.
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I mean the issue there is the intense need for a coping mechanism in the first place because our society is horribly set up for accommodating neurodivergent people's needs, and there is a general lack of really good, readily available
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The decrease from 2012 to 2020 was much less and generally not statistically significant. Further 2012 was the all time high, you'd expect some regression to the mean.

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