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by kiba 1y ago
There are taxes on things which generally don't have this kind of effect on supply such as land, because land is an inelastic supply because it cannot be destroyed. However if the tax is too high then it would cause land abandonment.
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by kiba 1y ago
Taxes on income or capital inherently reduce income and capital. Ditto for sale taxes, which reduces transaction volume. This is bad for the economy and ultimately reduce our tax base. About the only thing that doesn't happen is for no
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by kiba 1y ago
People who are on a healthy weight just don't have motivational issue. I have a good friend that eats garbage and she knows and wants to change that. She's still not gaining weight. A properly calibrated body will just do what it&
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by kiba 1y ago
Semaglutide is an absolute game changer drug, but it doesn't save you from poor nutrition. I found that I can work on building a healthy diet independent of semaglutide doing its thing, regardless of how much weight I lost. I bet peopl
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by kiba 1y ago
You're talking about emotions. Rationalization is the end process of abusing your intelligence to serve your faulty emotions, rather than understanding and interacting with your emotions so that it serves you rather than the other way
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by kiba 1y ago
You talked as if eating less and moving more is easy. Like, that's like the primary challenge of public health intervention. If it was so easy, people would do it and we wouldn't be talking about it.
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by kiba 1y ago
I am substantially happier that I moved into the big city because I built social connections and I don't want to live with my parents anymore. Driving down there is insane and I wish there was decent transportation option. I can use el
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by kiba 1y ago
Or you could just invest the difference in your stock portfolio and institute a land value tax instead. Stock are more a lot more liquid than real estate and less risky as well. Whereas the value of a home is pretty much stuck in the proper
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by kiba 1y ago
I don't believe that 'profit' are the domain of business people anymore than astronomy is about telescope. You need business skills to run a non-profit as much as you need to run a "for-profit" business or any organ
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by kiba 1y ago
We are already suffering today. The housing crisis is connected to our car oriented lifestyle and unsafe street. It's not about sacrificing for the future, it's about seeing a better way to live our life.
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by kiba 1y ago
To be honest, adding the word "pagan" just seem needlessly divisive. When I read about the past, nobody is going out of their way to point out that it's Pagan.
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by kiba 1y ago
It's becoming a hard bargain from a governmental point of view as well.
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by kiba 1y ago
More than that. They tried to gaslight people after people found out the changes Bambu Lab was making.
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by kiba 1y ago
We could use the black hole to power our civilization due to how efficient it is for generating power.
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by kiba 1y ago
Luxuries are cheap and getting cheaper. Basic necessities like housing are increasingly expensive. That's where most of the inequality is being felt by people. That's why we're in this predicament.
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by kiba 1y ago
I experienced this phenomena on my electric scooter. I could always scoot faster than someone walking but ultimately it makes little difference because I just spent more time for the crossing signal to turn green. So they end up catching up
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by kiba 1y ago
The wealthy aren't exactly hoarding the money under their bed. They buy treasuries and bonds so the money get used elsewhere in the economy to do something. The federal government's credit card is funded by the saving of the rich,
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by kiba 1y ago
You don't need to be an athlete to experience physiological gains in health. Your health improves almost immediately no matter what exercise you start doing.
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by kiba 1y ago
You're right that there's no way of knowing, but there's no need to make up something from thin air and believe that somehow is true.
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by kiba 1y ago
Exercise done today improve health and well being. I would not consider that a waste.
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by kiba 1y ago
Death from aging maybe. But as we saw, the next most dangerous things are each other and the systems that push toward people to death. Psychological health and well being are going to be key to resolving the problem of peaceful coexistence
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by kiba 1y ago
People are different. For example, my fear of death is in the from existential dread. It's an occasional thing. We should probably try harder to make people healthier in general. Much of the frailty of the elderly can be avoided with r
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by kiba 2y ago
It is rather lazy that people 'prefer' patriotic history and 'disciplined workforce'. I see no evidence of this. I do gather that some parents are rather sanctimonious and scandalized about their children learning anythi
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by kiba 2y ago
It's also true that people are also economically illiterate. I don't think I am economically literate. I have only taken one semester of macroeconomic in high school.
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by kiba 2y ago
I wasn't thinking about subscription but one time payment for a download.
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by kiba 2y ago
It doesn't need to be proprietary or have an advantage. It just need someone willing to pay for it and a mechanism for doing so. However, the default assumption is that all open source software is free to download and use. Of course, t
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by kiba 2y ago
It is a political issue due to how the government in Hong Kong chooses how to fund itself. It is not a land shortage issue.
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by kiba 2y ago
They're just confirming what is known to be true. The caveat is that different bodies appeals to different groups of the opposite sex. My takeaway is: choose what you like instead of chasing what others want or what you think is desira
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by kiba 2y ago
I am not sure why you think thousand of representatives are inherently difficult to manage.
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by kiba 2y ago
If it were that simple can you give some good examples? Hong Kong has little regulation and crazy high prices, Tokyo is expensive for people on local salaries even if it looks cheap to us (and having structures depreciate to zero value ove

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