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by kmonsen 4y ago
Can you be specific here? Which taxes has Biden raised (not proposed to raise)?
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I’m not talking about rubbing the country like a household, still there are considerable reasons to do some accounting. 1. Even the most spend willing economists agree there is some limit to debt that is sustainable. It’s just way higher th
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Not sure what you mean here. In the U.S. there has been considerable debate, vaccines are free, safe and available same day. Finally we have given up on almost all safety measures as long as the healthcare system can handle the load. Can yo
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Right, so the theory is that in good times you put on the brakes so there is something in the tank you can spend during bad times. Spending can take many forms, but the traditional ones are lower interest rates and tax cuts. The issue is th
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by kmonsen 4y ago
But then surely it doesn't matter. To short everything you have to hope it gets worse, but not nuclear war worse. Like just so bad that you can earn a ton of money, but not so bad that the money is useless. Or so bad that the fed decid
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Mostly we spent it on tax cuts for the rich instead. You don't cut taxes in good times, that more than offset the minor rate hikes.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
That’s the problem, in bad times you pour money into the market either directly or with interest rates. Then I’m good times the opposite is supposed to happen. But this time the good times never arrived and now we are trying to fix it in th
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Oh I’m not saying the feed is not causing inflation at all. I think the primary driver is supply side, but clearly there is more going on. And that I’m not so sure anymore if federal banks are net positive.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I honestly think that’s not the main reason we have inflation now. Since every country in the world is seeing similar inflation I would think it’s supply side and not something any central bank can fight. I’ve always been Keynesian, but it
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by kmonsen 4y ago
The problem is of course we don’t know how long bull or bear market will last. If I was a betting man I would short everything I guess, but I’m not. I’m also sure there are others with way more knowledge on when it’s going to turn around.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I still wear masks when I go to a store for a quick visit. It's entirely optional though and the mix is 50/50. I find this normal.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
I have worked in three FAANG's and that was not true in any of those once you reach a certain level. This is somewhere between 4/5. The reason is that at that point the employee is considered mostly independent and can be expected
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by kmonsen 4y ago
But the output is depending on how much you put it, it’s actually progressive. Just less so than taxation in general.
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by kmonsen 4y ago
Isn’t it the same all over U.S.? Even here in the Bay Area I only need to wear a mask on public transport. Everything else is optional.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Yeah I think this is very true. There are no large conspiracies, just people falling for stupid low hanging fruit all the time. I am sad to say it is also on the left side. I think it is unlikely that there is a pee tape or that it happened
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Yes agree with the current voting system it will not make too much difference. Need proportional representation. I think the problem is not that the parties are too strong, but that are too weak to strong interest groups.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
The US badly need more than two political parties.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I have a different take on why it is different (seen from my point of view, of course it is possible that God actually exists and walked on water). People are brought up with religion as a really core of their identity, and it is really har
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I could have written that whole comment you make, except I have only one dream I can remember from my whole life and it is a nightmare. Have not had it for at least 10+ years. I mean how do you do a dream log when you wake up and it is just
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by kmonsen 5y ago
What I am saying is that liberal has nothing to do with left-wing or right-wing, conservative or progressive. The first line of wikipedia for liberalism is: "Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the ind
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I don't see how there can be a functioning democracy without freedom of speech (with very few limitations) and equal treatment under the law. What I find really scary is that since left-wing has become to mean the same as liberal, a la
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by kmonsen 5y ago
First part I agree with. The second part, maybe I guess? But that is, if ever, decades away so we can worry about that when it becomes a realistic prospect. I don't think any of the current sitting life time appointed supreme court jus
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Liberals != left wing, at least in philosophy. They don't even have to be related at all, like communism was thought of as left wing and is certainly not liberal. For some insane reason in the US left and liberal have become synonyms.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Me too. I love conspiracy theories but I don't actually believe in them. I mean sometimes I do for a little while and then I realize it is all bullshit but it is fun for a while.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Whatever efforts are happening here will be shut down by the courts unless they managed to do something about the first amendment. I am not saying these efforts are good or bad, just that they are (I guess in my opinion) extremely unlikely
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Really, what are the attempts to make hate speech illegal in the U.S.? That would come up against the first amendment really quick. New constitutional amendments are unlikely to succeed in todays polarized political environment.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I'm like you, I feel I have it but it is so hard to communicate what happens in the brain. Talking to my wife I think people can really see images when they close their eyes. For me it is all black. I can still remember things like lay
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by kmonsen 5y ago
That is probably true, but since I can't remember them I don't know if they are visual or not.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I can't picture images at all, and don't really dream at all either. Wonder if there are any implications, I went through most of my life thinking this is normal.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I think that is different. I am not religious so I find it crazy, but if you are raised to believe in a God it is not strange to think the God can do whatever he feels like and it doesn't need historical precedent or any evidence. Huma

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