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by leshow 3y ago
Even if you're just narrowly looking at prices, a community run ISP will be cheaper even if it has a monopoly. Therefore the claim there is "nothing special" about them is untrue. The difference is one is run to maximize prof
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by leshow 3y ago
> Municipal fiber is not special due to the ISP being municipal government. Sorry but that's not true, it is special because it can do things a large profit-maximizing ISP can't. It can give free internet to schools and librari
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by leshow 3y ago
That is a very interesting name for a programming project lol. The Jacobins were a revolutionary political club during the French Revolution in the 1790's. It's also the name of a magazine at https://jacobin.com
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by leshow 3y ago
I don't think you understand how diverse different schools of thought are in economics. To build on your example, it would be like asking "is abortion wrong?" to a group of religious fundamentalists. Ask a post-Keynesian what
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by leshow 3y ago
> They study in a field which has a high likelihood of loan repayment, or study at a less expensive school. What you're saying here is that only rich people get to go for degrees which don't have a guaranteed return on investme
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by leshow 3y ago
I think it goes without saying that if you don't include any voices of dissent, you get a remarkably consistent answer. That is still a bias.
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by leshow 3y ago
If you actually read the rest of my comment, I acknowledge mainstream (that is to say, neoclassical) economists don't like price controls, which is almost exactly what the wiki page says.
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by leshow 3y ago
The example you selected with insulin does not support your argument. Of course, anyone can do a google search and find some opinion pieces confirming their world view, that doesn't make it true. The post article in particular just loo
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by leshow 3y ago
I'd wager econlib is cherry picking https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-library-of-economics-and-... Mainstream economists have thought very different things at different times. The current mainstream orthodoxy is large
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by leshow 3y ago
There is an answer that "just" requires the political will: instead of doing public K-12, do public K-16.
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by leshow 3y ago
Almost everything you have said here is untrue. Pharma companies still make profits in other countries, they just make much more profit in the US. Much of medical research is in fact funded by the government to begin with. By removing the f
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by leshow 3y ago
You're missing another driver of the growth in tuition though: many colleges are only superficially "not for profit" and in reality are being run as profit maximizing institutions.
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by leshow 3y ago
I think the more likely scenario is you entrench a two tiered system of justice where now "poor people" are just at the mercy of an AI that replicates existing outcomes. Instead of trying to slap a technical fix onto that problem,
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by leshow 3y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taki... AI will take some jobs, but there is another risk. It's far more likely that they "de-skill" a certain aspect of work so it
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by leshow 3y ago
I've seen no evidence that "humanity" is going to be improved. I've seen lots of evidence of the gradual enshittification of everything and a few people getting really rich.
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by leshow 3y ago
By this logic nobody can ever be underpaid lol
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by leshow 3y ago
That is an epic level of reach.
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by leshow 3y ago
> The obvious fix for Ontario and BC to make housing more affordable is to allow people to build more where people want to live by relaxing zoning requirements. The market has proven totally unable to solve the housing crisis and your so
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by leshow 3y ago
> The qualities of the founders are the best predictor of how a startup will do. And startups are in turn the most important source of growth in mature economies. Ah yes, "growth" in our economy is all because of a select few o
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by leshow 4y ago
And realize that as workers become more productive, wages will not increase. More wealth will be created per unit of time, but that wealth will likely not be realized by the average worker.
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by leshow 4y ago
lmao
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by leshow 4y ago
> A doctor can put an entire patient's medical history in the prompt, a lawyer an entire case history, etc. you don't see a real problem there?
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by leshow 4y ago
Perhaps, but the alternative to a CDO is just no CDO, right? Even if the CDO has marginal effectiveness, it seems better than not having one at all. Similarly, an ethics team over no ethics team seems preferable. A single individual on a te
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by leshow 4y ago
I'm not sure what you think inflation is, but it is just the prices of certain key items going up: food, housing, transportation are the main ones. Corporations decide to set their prices higher, and you have a price inflation. We know
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by leshow 4y ago
That's just not true. Costs may be lower (in some cases) if the thing produced is digital, but you absolutely need capital. Knowledge workers are still workers at the end of the day. You have nothing to live off of but your own labor,
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by leshow 4y ago
Unemployment is at record low levels, that's not indicative of a recession.
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by leshow 4y ago
And this wage suppression was direct collusion, corporations have such an oligopoly now they hardly need to explicitly collude, both on wages or prices. A company raises the price for something, and it's called 'price leadership&#
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by leshow 4y ago
> Being able to anonymously transfer value should be a fundamental right Why? That doesn't seem like that would produce good outcomes. It's not a 'fundamental right' to transfer unlimited amounts of money with no over
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by leshow 4y ago
This is just a recipe for chiefs that are good are juking stats or playing PR. You can't just fire the person at the top, the institution needs to change.
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by leshow 4y ago
If you don't think there is any correlation between the material conditions of people and crime I don't know what to tell you. You're basically subscribing to essentialism. There are plenty of cranks with ivy league degrees

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