moorhosj

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by moorhosj 8y ago
Chicago has pretty good public transit. Not Europe/Asia good, but solid. It is different for living and visiting because it is entirely built around getting people into the downtown area (hub and spoke). This makes it harder to go from
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Visiting a city is far different from living and working in a city. To which big US cities are you referring?
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Nobody said it was unsustainable. The point is that if you have to borrow almost 4% of your GDP to generate growth of only 3% of GDP, your underlying economy is not performing strongly enough to support itself. That we can’t escape deficit-
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==Assuming we only pay 2% interest on that debt== Where does this come from? the 10-year bond rate was closer to 3% for most of 2018 [1]. ==So that's a 4x ROI correct== You can't calculate ROI with an I. In this case, that is the
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==Don't be ridiculous, you understand what I wrote.== What you wrote was hyperbole based completely on political bias. I responded in-kind. ==And this isn't what people target when they talk about a "90%" (or whatever nu
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When you look at the numbers you will see that it isn't so simple and other factors clearly come into play (social security disability is likely one factor). For example, Georgia is the second youngest state with only 9.6% of the popul
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==half the country views wealth as a sin.== But I thought they were all atheists, which is it? ==absurd new tax schemes.== As opposed to the old scheme of cutting taxes for the richest among us and telling the rest it will trickle down to t
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The concept that the government is a bully makes me laugh (and also sad). What a warped worldview.
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Meanwhile, the laborforce participation of 63% remains lower than 2014. I remember a time, when there was a different president, that this number was constantly referenced as evidence of a poor recovery. If the labor market is so robust why
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If the deficit is 3.8% of GDP [1] and growth is only 2.9% [2] during a supposed economic "boom", something is wrong. [1] https://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/federal_deficit_percent_gdp [2] https://www.reute
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Maybe. Fortnite is addictive in it's own, less self-obsessed way. Not sure which is healthier.
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I view them as individuals who are falling prey to the same negative effects that social media has on the broader population.
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I think what you are describing IS the addiction.
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==How many of these "social media bad" articles are we really going to get from the news industry?== How many dieting articles are written by the news industry? ==If these journalists are right and social media is so bad, why are
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==The current state of social media is a symptom; it's a mirror. == This is true, but its worth acknowledging that these apps are purposefully built to be addictive [1]. Things like endless scroll, pull to refresh, like buttons, gamifi
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They already are subsidized in plenty of places (sports stadiums and public parks for example). It raises a fundamental question about the government's role and it's goals. We tend focus on maximizing productivity and other countr
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==We NEED low skilled labor. Bioshock proved this years ago. == Would we stop importing this labor from other (poorer) countries? I imagine only people with a SSN would get the UBI benefits. Immigrants would still come here to do low-skille
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by moorhosj 8y ago
The report came out in August of 2016, so the data must be from before then. The next question would be, what has happened to Uber ridership levels over that same timeframe? According to this article [1], combined Uber and Lyft ridership in
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by moorhosj 8y ago
You are getting lots of comments, but the most obvious reason is that the act of driving on a road degrades it much faster than walking on a sidewalk. Thus, it needs to be repaired more frequently. Increase the number of cars and the freque
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== is part of the reason reliability of the network is often under question. == The poor reliability is then used as a reason to limit future investment in passenger lines.
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Under UBI, the people with low skills would have the means to upgrade those skills.
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Or, we could view them as “happiness activities”. In labor economics it is called leisure and the goal of people is to optimize between income and leisure. I know lots of employed people who spend their days “staring out the window losing t
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Is it possible the private sector (free market) is not as infallible as I was lead to believe?
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That article is clearly biased as it calls the topic a “scam” with no evidence (and includes basically zero data citations). This argument is nothing new and it still doesn’t make sense. Of course we want to measure how people are doing bef
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You forgot to mention how France has a significantly lower poverty rate than the US.
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==Commuting is considered one of the _most_ negative parts of a person's day== I think depends on the method of commuting. I do a combination of walking and train each day and it is one of the best parts of my day. I get exercise and f
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Now we see those cities starting to price in the negative externalities of these businesses. The congestion pricing in NYC is directly tied to the rise in ride sharing. This could change the economics even (especially?) in the profitable ci
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Lots of claims in this comment I'd love to see backed up. ==Working at home saves you daycare.== Is this true? Most people I know who work remotely don't have enough free time to also watch their kid, they are doing their job. It
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So they will move to places with even less economic activity?
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Why would people move out of cities? Wouldn’t the majority of people entering a city (and being taxed) be coming from outside the city?

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