keenboy

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by keenboy 3y ago
You're not looking back far enough historically.
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by keenboy 3y ago
We've fallen prey to the philosophy that being at home with kids isn't adding value to society. You should be out making some big corporation wealthy!
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by keenboy 4y ago
I think the answer to this is to adopt Land Value Taxes. This would naturally incentivize property improvement and dis-incentivize people from owning large swaths of unproductive land. Communities would grow upward before they grow outward.
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by keenboy 4y ago
Isn’t it possible that incredibly advanced beings exist somewhere? And if so, what if they colonized earth long ago? Wouldn’t we call them “gods”?
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by keenboy 4y ago
It'd be fantastic if we could persuade some local governments to try this and work out the bugs. If it went well, it could be adopted by more and more locales.
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by keenboy 4y ago
Can I say what I hope/wish were on the horizon? 1. Approval voting becoming widely adopted. This would go a long way toward mitigating the hyper polarization in politics in America (and likely elsewhere as well). Electing politicians w
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by keenboy 4y ago
If you believe in the idea of wealth redistribution, there’s no better way than to come up with expensive products/services to sell to rich people who will gladly hand their money over voluntarily. There should be more of this.
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by keenboy 4y ago
Investors don’t make people wealthy. Investors want more back than they put in. Serving lots of customers makes people wealthy.
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by keenboy 5y ago
That’s not what rent-seeking means https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentSeeking.html
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by keenboy 5y ago
These are very legitimate points. In my uneducated opinion, allowing other app stores to compete with Apple's would reduce the power of incumbents and allow Apple to compete on a level playing field. If another app store is better at f
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by keenboy 6y ago
We probably shouldn't take "for life" any more literally than we do the "four hour workweek". It represents an idea. You might not want your boots to last forever and may in fact decide to replace them after 6 years
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by keenboy 8y ago
One other important consideration... By stating that we're sick of experts the author implies that we don't trust them. It's important to recognize that there are two sides to trust. 1) are they competent 2) do they have inte
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by keenboy 9y ago
Is there anything like this available now in the US? I've wanted this for years! Right now I've cobbled together a version of this using direct deposit to several accounts, auto-transfers every week, etc. but I'd really like