manlymuppet

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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Yes to a stronger welfare state, including untying healthcare and employment, and a UBI (more specifically a negative income tax). But I think the nightmare you imagine is not realistic. There isn't a lump of labor. We shouldn't m
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
What kind of things made you feel not good in the first four years? Just unfamiliarity, something else? Maybe we can fix the things that make workers uneasy in the first few years.
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
You're right, and I should've addressed you more directly. Job hopping is the result of competition in the labor market, and while some may find it unfulfilling, that is usually the exception, and macroeconomically speaking, more
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
You're not simply hoping that corporations do the right thing though. Rather, you're making it economically unfeasible for them to pay workers less. That's good because you don't have to rely on corporations acting moral
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
A competitive labor market doesn't automatically mean you switch jobs constantly though. You get choose which job you go to, and if you have better options available, and choose your optimal fit, that can give you more purpose, not l
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
This is the standard in the Scandinavian social democracies. They have no minimum wage laws (though unions supplement that greatly) and a competitive labor market pushes wages up. Much like housing, the best solution usually isn't go
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
ChatGPT has largely become unusable to me because of its system prompts. Perhaps it’s because I’m on the free tier, but every response in ChatGPT (compared to the raw models, which are excellent) is so effectively unhelpful and redundant. I
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Technically they are outstanding. Watching the recent I/O event though, it was frustrating how much they were copying Apple.
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Google is a great company with some of the most capable engineering talent in the world. I will never understand why they take this great resource and continually waste it on copying other companies (mostly Apple) and making such unoriginal
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Late but here goes. This is like when Trump said that foreign countries pay tariffs. Like Byron Donalds in the article you linked, he’s just wrong. Foreign countries don’t pay tariffs. Domestic producers have always paid the statutory toll,
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
From what I'm hearing, the argument you're making is that regardless of explicit policy goals, (1) and (2) implicitly further an agenda which has a similar end result to trickle-down economics, that being the "predictably and
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
My problem is not the article saying that tax cuts for the wealthy are bad. Although this moves us into normative territory, I'd actually personally agree that tax cuts for the wealthy are not we need. But my problem is that "take
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
> You know enough about it to misidentify that obvious string replacement command as an example of it. I figured the syntax was like an either-or thing, but I wasn't sure. > Saying that trickle down economics is 'an entirely
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
My point still stands though. Taxing income and consumption directly (hopefully the income/consumption of rich people) is preferable to indirect corporate taxes. In other conversation though, am I curious to know where you got your dat
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
My above comment helps with the distinction. If you missed it: """ I think supply-side economics deserves more nuance than simply thinking we need to make the tax rate arbitrarily low. The Laffer curve isn't the only thi
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
I agree. If my sentimental promises are not enough, I don't blame you haha. But I hope my pleading is evidence enough anyways. However much this means: I really am being sincere.
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
It really isn't semantics. How do you compare a criticism, with a policy? Trickle-down economics doesn't have any legislative appropriations. It's not taught in economics classes. Like saying "what's the difference
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Yeah I think that's also very inaccurate. Supply-side theory is not about indiscriminately taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich.
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Can I extend an olive branch anyways? I really believe in good faith, civil conversation, and I'd love the opportunity to make amends here. You've said you won't respond further, but seeing your passion, I think it would be g
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
You are right. I should be more forthright; I was answering elsewhere. Here's another comment I made that's relevant. """ I think supply-side economics deserves more nuance than simply thinking we need to make the t
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Sure. I think supply-side economics deserves more nuance than simply thinking we need to make the tax rate arbitrarily low. The Laffer curve isn't the only thing you should look at, since where you tax can be just as important as how m
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
By "not real" I mean it's not a real policy. They are different in that one is a policy and the other is not.
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
One is a policy. The other is not a policy. I can name you differences, but it's like comparing apples and oranges.
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
I don't know regex, but to be clear: trickle-down economics and supply-side economics are very different things. I don't blame you for conflating them since they are intentionally very confusing. One is a policy and the other is b
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
I don't know where you're looking, but if you go to the first result for trick-down economics, the Wikipedia page, within the first few lines it mentions how the term is used, and how it was created by detractors of supply-side ec
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
The thing I don't like about this is that it treats trickle-down economics as if it's something that needs to be debunked. Trickle-down economics has never been a real economic policy, and never been seriously advocated by federal
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passion" David Hume I like this quote because it's so blunt. Hume isn't saying we should give in to hedonistic excess, but he isn't shirking the impression either be
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Another thing to consider is that LLMs have become a premier source of reading for the public. If more of what you read is AI generated, how you write is going to be significantly influenced by that. One (slightly frightening) possibility i
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
The article had a more specific definition that more closely aligned with intuition. For what it's worth though--taste, aesthetic, intuition--they really boil down to one thing: feeling. Something you can't reason. Almost emotiona
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
This is so very paranoid. Consider how hurtful your accusations may be. The truth is that AI generated text is getting harder to detect, and while AI writing is still very lacking, more writing is getting the unwanted distinction of "p

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