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by jjoonathan 3y ago
TWCW cites 40% labor-share-of-value-add (vs 70% typical) as the macro figure and gives the hukou system as one example of policy that achieves this outcome.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
"EV Demand (Growth) is Slowing" is like "Boat goes slower with 100mph headwind." It's true but not because of the boat, it's because interest rates are up and the auto sector is notoriously interest rate sensit
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
I'm reading "Trade Wars are Class Wars" by Klein and Pettis. The thesis is in the title and his case is convincing. American elites have every reason to give Xi a standing ovation: his oppression of the Chinese worker has p
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
I won't argue with bizzare, but it's common in version notation. If it wasn't already common, it would probably become common shortly after the first time a big respectable company hit the "oops what comes after 9"
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
We should always have several competing licensing bodies. 1 licensing body: never considers the cost of gatekeeping, only the self-benefit. 2 licensing bodies: they are forced to weigh the cost of gatekeeping against the self-benefit, but y
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
40 years ago, but yes. If we hadn't stopped building 40 years ago the USA wouldn't be 1/5 nuclear, we'd be 5/5 nuclear.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
The artist is their customer, not you. If Ticketmaster didn't gouge you, give most of the gouging proceeds to the artist, and take the flak like a lightning-rod, they would quickly be replaced by a service that did.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
"Likely cognitive bias" is not a conclusion, it's an invitation to do more research. The catch is that the amount of research you can do is extremely limited compared to what would be needed to verify the facts you hear, so y
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
> Is land tax really more propaganda resistent? Yes. Capital interests have spent the last 50 years laying minefields around the concepts of socialism. "Socialism is when more taxes," "socialism is when unions stop your em
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Ehh, but ownership is important for converting savings into investments and forcing investors to make decisions with skin in the game. Let's not throw those capitalism babies out with the class-conflict bathwater. It's better to f
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Right, but if we let "rich people want to be paid for being rich" stop us then we can't accomplish anything because that will never change :)
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
You sell the lease if you want to move. As for imprevements, we already deal with pricing and depreciating them for tax reasons. The new leaseholder would have to compensate the old leaseholder. This process will be imperfect, but the imper
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Has someone written up a comparison of LVT vs Rolling Leases (i.e. perpetual land ownership is replaced by 30-40 year leases)? Rolling leases just seem to have more good flexibility and less bad flexibility. By "good flexibility"
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Yes, but on Earth you have the option of being a bastard who pushes your problems onto other systems. On Mars you have no choice but to develop closed circular systems. It's harder to engineer but harder to sin, too. I have high hopes
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
> I don't have much hope for Mars, considering we can't even take care of this planet The hard part of taking care of this planet is that every inch is covered with intricate and interconnected systems already. Almost anything
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
The title. Replace "control over supply and demand" with elasticity.
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When was the last time you used bank reserves to purchase anything? Even the stuffiest traditional finance systems have layers.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
It looks like SpaceX says 5 years for passive deorbit in their FCC filing. If a satellite were pulverized, I would expect the small pieces to have higher A/m and deorbit even faster. https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceX
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Imagine a Pepsi-sponsored replacement of the Kardashev scale: how big is the biggest Pepsi logo? Size of a person / building / city /continent / planet / galaxy / universe. Has consumerism truly run its course
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
What fraction of machine time is currently spent pumping wafers down to molecular-beam vacuum? What fraction of machine mass is dedicated to holding that vacuum? Vibration isolation would also be much easier. Not sure if these are enough to
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Why are you trying to handwave away the biggest part of compensation? Yes, losses happened, no this does not make the amount small. Not on an absolute scale and not compared to salary. Lol.
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
tf? Unrealized gains don't count? Then why don't you give me your unrealized gains?
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
> British elites don't want to be elite so much as they cannot easily get used to the norms Like working and coping with (comparatively) low income? Most people have to work and cope. If you don't have to work and cope, tha
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Sure, but it feels like we're missing the forest for the trees. The big class distinction is owning assets for a living instead of working for a living. If you plug in a more precise definition of "assets" and "living&qu
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
I see "less oversight is One True Way to encourage competition" more as a conservative talking point than as a good faith anti-monopoly proposal. As a tactic, deregulation seems to be very good at reinforcing the social order (it
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
I'd be happy to fuck up this badly and get fired for $12M. In fact, I'd do it for $11M! https://www1.salary.com/John-Riccitiello-Salary-Bonus-Stock-...
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
If competition is what's supposed to protect us from rentier nobility, we ought to police anticompetitive practices with more vigor than a frozen snail.
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Yep. Crooks have been hiding behind charity since forever. It didn't invalidate charity then and it doesn't now.
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The money that you spent fighting could have been spent on other activities that also tend towards infinity. At higher rates. Without a huge initial setback. Of course, you only control your own choices not your competitors/opponents&#
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by jjoonathan 3y ago
Angell famously published a book with a similar thesis in 1909, right before WWI. He was right about industrialized war being highly destructive and unprofitable, but he was wrong to think that this would stop the belligerents. [1] https:&

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