littletimmy

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by littletimmy 12y ago
Yes people don't want to sacrifice their time to account for the failed policies that led to a housing shortage. What a shocker.
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by littletimmy 12y ago
I am not saying start building projects on Bishops Avenue. I'm saying tax the people who hoard properties so that the money can be used to provide cheaper housing for people who need it.
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by littletimmy 12y ago
A good partial solution to London's housing problem is to tax the thousands of empty houses being used as investments. For example, there's a road in London called Bishops Avenue. The Saudi royal family owns about 1/3 of the
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by littletimmy 12y ago
The problem with what you're saying is that the people who "do not draw a clear line between work and play" are not nearly as romantically satisfied with their work as you claim. Do you not see how this "passion for work
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by littletimmy 12y ago
That's one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it is that the tech sector is one of the most profitable sectors in the US economy that rakes in millions per developer . The salaries are high because they should be: the c
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by littletimmy 12y ago
The problem with that argument is that Whatsapp is not worth $19 billion. It is worth $19 billion to facebook. A significant difference.
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by littletimmy 12y ago
Then let them feel secure. Let's tax only the super-rich. Perhaps a wealth tax on billionaires.
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by littletimmy 12y ago
While that may be true, there is no denying that Yau is a pretty divisive figure. He seems as interested in building his image in China and making the Chinese nation proud, than he is in doing real math. I can see why this attitude would ru
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by littletimmy 12y ago
Raise the salary.
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by littletimmy 12y ago
The issue here is slightly different. As the law works, there is absolutely a lot wrong with lying, cheating, stealing and killing if you are poor or black. White billionare? Nope. You can literally rape your toddler daughter and go free be
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by littletimmy 12y ago
"Your kindness, integrity, and desire to make the world a better place..." That insipid disgusting phrase. "To make the world a better place." It is so devoid of meaning and so emblematic of the meanest circle jerk in si
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by littletimmy 12y ago
The gap between billionaires and the average software engineer is so large that it makes any such "confrontation" meaningless.
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by littletimmy 12y ago
What school accepts people for a second bachelors? I have been seriously thinking of doing that but I thought most schools didn't accept people for a second bachelors.
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by littletimmy 12y ago
One of my biggest complaints against the tech industry is its rampant credentialism. Limiting capital to just the top few schools in the country is plain terrible business strategy because there is absolutely no evidence that going to a top
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by littletimmy 12y ago
I'd like to take issue with your "freedom of press" statement. The press is certainly Not free in the US. We have a propagandist press that serves to deceive (Fox News), serve special interests (CNBC) or generally toes the es
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by littletimmy 12y ago
Why are you convinced that your perspective is The perspective?
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by littletimmy 12y ago
To look at this from the perspective of animal owners: animals are not "pets" to them, they're family. To deny them bringing a dog in an airplane is like denying them bringing a baby in a airplane. That argument cannot be ran
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by littletimmy 12y ago
I feel it is not true that there just cannot be another system. For a long time, there was such a system: homesteading. You could head out into an unclaimed area of land, stake out a piece, and live off it. It is quite recent that ALL land
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by littletimmy 12y ago
I know exactly what you mean. But that's the system we live in, isn't it? One must sell one's time And one's soul to survive. What's the way out?
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by littletimmy 12y ago
The banks too profited handsomely from TARP, thereby creating a huge moral hazard. The government gave the banks money, which they used to make profits, AND then returned money to the government. Let that sink in for a second, the banks sun
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by littletimmy 12y ago
That's what the earlier post is getting at. There is a lot of wealth skew towards the top... so of course there are a lot more millionaires. It is the common man who didn't see any benefit from TARP.