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by moorhosj 8y ago
You still haven't proven that immigration is the cause of this particular wage stagnation. You want to believe it is, but you haven't given evidence. Is there proof that non-immigrants even want to do this work? The well-known cas
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by moorhosj 8y ago
> Then the pie has not grown. You're simply advocating throwing more people on an already broken system. I'm not sure where you get this idea, but the growth of US GDP is evidence that the pie has grown. The reality is that cor
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by moorhosj 8y ago
I'm not sure why we would accept that assumption. Isn't it just as likely that one scooter rider is one less bus rider, train passenger or walker? In those cases, overall road congestion increases.
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==The pie hasn’t grown for four decades [1], and the middle class has been hollowed out [2]. The existing system must be fixed before more burden is placed on it.== Your first chart doesn't show a stagnant pie, looking at GDP numbers d
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Growing the pie has always helped everyone in America. Is there something that has fundamentally changed in your view to alter this trend? Are there Americans out there who want to do these types of jobs?
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Immigration is at generationally low levels, I don’t see how you could blame it for lack of wage increases. What about the stagnant minimum wage, record corporate profits or union busting; might they play a role? “American society” and “our
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by moorhosj 8y ago
What do you do before your assumed feedback loop takes hold? Wouldn’t all the new scooter riders take up a lot of that real estate on the road? How will the road operate with both autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles sharing space?
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by moorhosj 8y ago
How do you handle the increased demand without even more dedicated infrastructure for roads? How much cheaper is it than dedicated infrastructure for buses and rails which have far more capacity?
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Maybe people downvote because they think it violates the HN commenting rule below? ==Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it.==
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by moorhosj 8y ago
I don’t think that people disagreeing with you is a failure of social media. If you walk into a bar in an area where HN readers tend to live (San Fran, NYC, Seattle, Austin, Denver, Chicago) you would likely get a similar response.
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I would be interested to see how the school has changed over that time period. Specifically, the administrator to student ratio, the number of new deans or other fundraisers, and the number of new buildings erected. It seems like every scho
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by moorhosj 8y ago
I wonder what percentage of the current population would be unable to attend school under your model. If you couldn’t get a loan, you couldn’t attend or you would have currency exchange level interest rates for the poor. Other countries hav
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AMZN has reported $6.15 billion of profits over the past year. [1] AAPL has reported $185 billion of profits over the past year (30x that of AMZN). [2] AMZN has an $865 billion market cap and AAPL has a $980 billion market cap. [1] https:&
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by moorhosj 8y ago
The rub is what “more competitive” actually means. I get the feeling lots of people think it means lower taxes, but limited government also hurts a company’s ability to hire educated employees if lack of funding hurts education.
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The politicians in the US, Germany and France didn’t create the loopholes tech companies use in Ireland. The globalization of business is what allows maneuvers like the “Dutch Sandwich”. Taxation hasn’t really adjusted to this type of inter
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The flip side of this argument is that the companies are ripping the countries off by using myriad tax loopholes, because they can. I find it interesting that the companies are often portrayed as smart for doing this, but politicians are je
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Only the younger generations have access to new technology?
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The system is perfectly logical, the more you pay in over your career (based on income), the more you receive annually upon retirement. The real question is whether this is the optimal setup for broader society.
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You make very valid points about determining the actual outcome we prefer and channeling solutions to achieve them. There is some nuance. For example, a $5k tax credit might help me level the playing field today, but that $5k difference sti
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Certainly could, I just finished doing that for my kid. Which still doesn't answer the question of how it benefits society to push parents back into the workforce after birth of a child. The entire "opportunity cost" argument
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Also, maybe it’s good for the newborn to have a parent around during their most formative time.
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What is the opportunity cost of the mother going right back to work and spending no time with their newborn? Does society absorb that cost?
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==At significantly higher cost.== Significantly higher building costs, but lower land acquisition costs. Excerpt from a BuildZoom analysis: "The high cost of housing in expensive coastal metros is not driven by construction costs. It i
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by moorhosj 8y ago
Lots of people are hypocrites or just completely oblivious to the cocoons they’ve built.
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Housing can be built vertically.
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Does cynicism help solve the problem? There are also bunch of promises that Obama kept (and Trump). Focusing on some that he didn’t keep doesn’t change that. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obamet
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One of our two political parties is campaigning on a platform to reign in this type of campaign finance influence: "Democrats would use their first month in the House majority to advance sweeping changes to future campaign and ethics l
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by moorhosj 8y ago
==But a cliff is an obvious threat.== But there are also other people around and animals and high wind speeds and any number of other factors that impact safety. I bet you still follow stop lights when nobody is coming the other way. ==Beca
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That's the point, one person's "banal activity" is another person's necessary re-charge.
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==I think the prevalent assumption on HN is that every regulation can be traced back to some accident or mistake.== My experience on HN is quite the opposite, but that is besides the point. ==why do I have to keep those people alive with my

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