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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Eh, given that everyone pays income tax (largest portion by a mile) I think most people are aware of what drag that adds onto the economy. Most people have no clue how much a storefront pays in rent.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Permitting etc. is 0.5% to 2% of development costs, which is itself a small subset of what rent pays for, and only for the first 5-10 years. This number would be $0 for most cups of coffee (made in paid-for buildings) and <$0.02 for pret
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
That is all baked into rent, including the developer's profit margins
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
You actually think there’s no difference between Department of Homeland Security’s federal agents and a local municipal (or sometimes even campus ) police force arresting someone? Arresting someone for a crime is obviously not a problem, a
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
That’s almost entirely for rent. IMO if we actually wanted to overhaul our economy, we could do it by just having POS’s print the portion of each bill that goes into rent. Then the culprit of COL increases would be quite clear. Especially g
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Likewise, having a standing army is dangerous. How much airtime do we want to give that topic on this here thread about current distortion of our democracy through totally distinct mechanisms? Not sure who you're arguing against on the
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
“It’s only a matter of time” -> not relevant to this conversation about what’s happening right now then, right? Then we’re in agreement.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
I’m not advocating for it, so don’t strawman me. I’m saying it has approximately nothing to do with the actual issues we face today. I.e. it’s just as relevant for me to say “this is why you don’t give governments firearms! An authoritarian
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
To add some nuance about the US’s 1st Amendment: it is not just speech against the government that is protected. It is that all speech is protected from the government. The government also is not allowed to imprison you or threaten you
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
> People forget what free speech really is though. The most important point is a contract with the government: that they hold a monopoly on the ability to censor and control speech. That any other group who threatens anyone for their spe
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
None of this is necessary to have an authoritarian government. Just some lawsuits and government inquiries. Inversely you can also have a government that collects everything and doesn’t wield it this way. The two issues are not actually t
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
What? You think these people are literally incapable of learning to work on a solar farm instead of a coal mine? Why?
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
The majority of voting Americans live in cities and have jobs, so I don't think that's right.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
We’re talking about the “fuck your feelings” crowd right?
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Why can’t you proactively source your own candidates instead of thinking they’ll come to you? Especially for self-directed learners/more independent people?
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
This is the President who redirected a hurricane with a Sharpie. We shouldn't assume they're above just making shit up.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Ah ah, I see what your original comment meant now! I parsed that completely differently :) Yes you’re right.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
And Novo (like many others) is already working on next-generation GLPs that’ll have new patent protection before Ozempic’s ends.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
GLP-1 is a class of drugs (or molecules). The first known GLP-1 was pretty much just a synthesized version of a naturally occurring compound from the Gila Monster’s venom. Semaglutide is like a 2nd generation GLP-1 and there are 3rd generat
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
The perfect plan: We're going to create rampant patronage to destroy the patronage system that we have not been able to produce any evidence of!
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Medicare fraud is conservatively in the $16 billion+ per year range[1] and a lot of it is easily detectable with data the government already has. Two things about this type of fraud though: 1. Detection would require making USG a better p
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
A lot of people think we didn’t have fractional reserve banking when we had the gold standard. Alas: we did.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Nothing says “I need to relocate my supply chain” like 24 hours of tariffs
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Nobody being open about how deterrence works? Probably because no one thought it needed to be explained.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Financial enforcement is empirically one of our most effective tools to combat organized crime. > We don't do this because of principles, because of the risk of enabling other crimes, and because it would be a bad tradeoff Really
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
Your argument is “if cartels are magically not a problem, then they’re not a problem and then this is useless?” I don’t think I understand your comment.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
No it doesn’t. Common meme around here but the hard sciences are also rife with unreproducible studies. It’s an incentives problem.
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
"IMO" means "in my opinion." You made a statement as a fact, which is why I asked for evidence. Lol. Agreed the "both sides bad" messaging was a huge factor here. But that's exactly why we should talk abou
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
And when these websites are back up? What then?
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by llamaimperative 2y ago
I didn’t say there isn’t malice.

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