monkseal

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by monkseal 9y ago
I had a friend who decided to live in his Ford Explorer in San Diego rather than pay rent.... Then he flipped his Explorer on the freeway going like 70 mph. He survived unscratched but his SUV was totaled. Fortunately for him, he was able t
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by monkseal 9y ago
What feels so deceptive about the panic around student debt is the devil is the details. I think if you drill in median student loan debt for an UNDERGRADUATE is like $12k. That's less than a car loan and we don't have a panic abo
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by monkseal 9y ago
This is absolutely true. I have spent about a year in China and when you are in those older neighborhoods it is mostly 4-5 story walk-ups. Some of these small units are worth more than a single family home is parts of the US especially if t
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by monkseal 9y ago
Listen to the latest "Fifth Column" podcast where they interview this "evil" Ajit Pai guy. I think he makes a strong case that regulating monopolies is the role of the FTC or state's attorney generals and not the FC
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by monkseal 9y ago
This letter has nothing to do with the substance of the regulations. It amounts to finger pointing about "illegal conduct". Probably the next thing, we will hear the Russians are behind all of this... Why can't the FTC regul
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by monkseal 9y ago
> 1) How many of these lazy people are there? > 2) How much economic output is wasted by employers trying to filter these lazy people out of their workforce. I am pretty lazy but I'm not lazy all the time. I don't think ther
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by monkseal 9y ago
This is why UBI will never become law. Once you start talking about taking away benefits (Social Security, Medicare, SNAP, Food Stamps, HUD Housing Subsidies), people will freak out. The backlash will be very loud. Look at the tax reform de
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by monkseal 9y ago
At its heart, UBI sounds like a good thing but it ignore basic human nature and particularly in-group and out-group conflicts. UBI in America would calcify a class system where one group of people works and another lives off their work. The