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by mason240 9y ago
And it's down.
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by mason240 9y ago
Exactly. Farming is a very capital intensive business, I'm not even sure why this very note worthy. I work for a small financial company that lends money to farmers on an annual basis for seed and chemicals. Even small crop farms typic
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by mason240 9y ago
>Those who don't want to learn should be given enough for basic subsistence. Everyone should be be given that through UBI (universal basic income).
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by mason240 9y ago
>The US has mild and flat cities What cities are those?
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by mason240 9y ago
Interesting, thanks.
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by mason240 9y ago
The cost of keeping on demand toddler haulers, who each have their own configuration and create huge messes, would be very labor intensive.
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by mason240 9y ago
The value of scrap metal is so high I'm guessing the recovery will pay for itself.
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by mason240 9y ago
Nope, they put it into a very dense area. And again, their stated goal is to keep the amount of fares collected lower than their operating costs.
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by mason240 9y ago
The implied argument here is that suburban living is subsided by others, while urban living is not. This simply not true. Just as one example, the light rail lines in my metro does not even make enough in fares to cover operating expenses (
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by mason240 9y ago
Make you a deal: you can live in the type of community you want, and I will live in the type I want, and we won't try to block eachother's pursuit of happiness. Then we don't need to conduct a poll to determine what lifestyle
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by mason240 9y ago
I would definitely prefer a longer commute coming from my single family home with a yard over being forced to use public transport and live in an apartment, and it's a preference shared by a large percentage of people.
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by mason240 9y ago
Not possible. The poor pay very little in taxes (the bottom 40% pay less than 5% of income taxes collected), and the rich pay most of them (the top 5% pay 55% of income taxes collected).
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by mason240 9y ago
That's not Telsa's fault at all though.
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by mason240 9y ago
That would require a massive, coordinated conspiracy by a large group of landowners, and would be very expensive to carry out and would suffer from a free-rider issue of funding it. It's just not within the realm of possibility.
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by mason240 9y ago
Model A is probably out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_A_(1927%E2%80%9331)
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by mason240 9y ago
It's an easy way to ascertain what group is the dominant political power.
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by mason240 9y ago
I believe the ACA itself was a poison pill that would make the system so inefficient to drive it to collapse and bring about single payer. The failure of Republicans to implement an alternative has pretty much guaranteed it.
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by mason240 9y ago
Mass transit is so heavily subsidized that if had to carry it's full economic costs, it would be unaffordable. The light rail lines in my state (MN) don't even make enough from fares to cover their day-to-day operating costs, much
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by mason240 9y ago
Yes, just like we can live by subsistence farming with manual labor, living in huts. It can be done, but most of us want to progress.
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by mason240 9y ago
And that's why electric cars will the death of anti-car sentiment.
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by mason240 9y ago
Electric self driving cars.
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by mason240 9y ago
I can't wait for electric SDCs. They will be the final nail in the coffin of anti-folks.
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by mason240 9y ago
You're replying to a comment where I made clear that I want you to be able to make your own lifestyle preferences.
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by mason240 9y ago
They have right to choose to limit their standard of living, as you have done, and move to an urban core and be completely dependent on transit for transportation. Only one of us wants to "change this substantially."
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by mason240 9y ago
>I think we can change this substantially.
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by mason240 9y ago
You're free to live how you choose, but don't force others to live how you see fit.
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by mason240 9y ago
> a pretty horse that could sprint but died when it saw its shadow Sounds more like an Arabian horse. Famously skittish but fast.
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by mason240 9y ago
The history of public institutions has shown otherwise.
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by mason240 9y ago
And if you want to see examples of how government run healthcare (or anything else) can fail, just look at the history of atrocities of public psychiatric hospitals.
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by mason240 9y ago
For me it means being very conscious of organizing and structuring my life. My keys hang in the same place by the door every time. I keep my work laptop in the same place everyday when I come. I keep my bike stuff (helmet, bottles, gloves)

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