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by nemo44x 2y ago
Isn’t this good? We’ve literally told teenagers to not use drugs or have sex for decades and it’s obviously working. The consequences are far higher today or at least more well understood and the messaging is getting through. We’ve trained
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by nemo44x 2y ago
So you want to live in a world where someone thinks they can get what they want by creating an incident serious and dramatic enough to garner media attention and that will wake people up? That’s not how you get things done. In fact I’d say
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A person should be murdered because you can’t use someone’s creative work for 100 years?
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You will spend less money just paying taxes than donating money are writing off your top end. For instance if I have $100 and the government wants 40% of it then I could give them $40. Or I could donate, lets say $15 and now I owe 40% on $8
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by nemo44x 2y ago
> Being generous is voting for healthcare and social welfare programmes for all, regardless of income. There are various methods of rationing healthcare. I'm not sure choosing the government to arbitrate rationing is any more "
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You don’t have to tip. Nothing will happen to you if you don’t. Some people don’t or tip very little. Many tip well above expectations. Most people don’t mind the practice. But it’s not just tipping at a restaurant. We tip our garbage men,
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by nemo44x 2y ago
Probably both. But it’s literally built into the social fabric. Like the politeness of Americans when it comes to well wishing.
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The biggest declines in literacy are among older adults. So did older Americans forget how to read? Of course not. America has imported an unbelievable amount of human capital including a lot of middle and older aged people that were never
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by nemo44x 2y ago
Americans are extremely generous and charitable by many metrics like this. [1] Not to mention soft generosity like tipping culture. [1] https://www.axios.com/2022/03/09/america-charitable-giving-s...
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by nemo44x 2y ago
It’s literally the world’s oldest existing democracy and has the world’s most dynamic economy and diverse population and isn’t at civil war. What isn’t cohesive or globally competitive about that? Americans are also among the most generous
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by nemo44x 2y ago
I enjoyed the DINK life for some time but eventually we decided to start a family and my only regret in life is we didn't start it sooner and have more kids. In the end all the fancy restaurants, nights out, fancy vacations with first
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by nemo44x 2y ago
One of the best examples of bad policy and misplaced incentives is how the Affordable Care Act limits the amount of profit as a percentage of premiums that health insurance companies are allowed to make. Sounds great, right? If they make to
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by nemo44x 2y ago
Thomas Pynchon has as well but I guess he’s not as famous. But certainly extremely successful. I respect him because a theme of Gravity’s Rainbow is the observation that capitalism will absorb anything that is useful and you can’t fight it
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I was thinking about that earlier - I'm not sure they could find 12 jurors to convict the guy.
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A few luxury brands and a well preserved history and culture that is nice for tourism. Lots of high value human capital if only they could truly unlock it and allow it to thrive. Today's Europe is just milking what it can as it continu
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by nemo44x 2y ago
I’m saying copyright in perpetuity enforced by the government with the threat of fines or prison for stealing a copyright holders property. From there the market can take over as it’s now free to operate without fears of piracy etc.
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The government exists to protect the property of its citizens. You can’t have a reliable market without the threat of violence (prison, fines, etc) and judiciary from an authority and government is suitable for that purpose. It’s their main
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by nemo44x 2y ago
Sounds like they need a futures market. This allows producers to sell their crop to traders earlier so they don’t have to wait for final export. In addition more law and order to protect those markets from the mills that are skimming.
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I disagree entirely in that I believe government shouldn’t determine this but rather the market. The rights to an intellectual property should be transferable/sold in perpetuity and at some point the work will become less and less valu
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by nemo44x 2y ago
Just doing a quick search of auction prices for his work it looks like it can be had by fairly regular people. Mostly looks in the range of a few thousand euros for an oil on canvas landscape. Go get one!
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> What makes a bad art piece anyway? Whatever the people who buy art and are influential say is bad. In general, very wealthy people and the dealers in their orbit determine which art is worthy and which art and artists will be forgotten
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by nemo44x 2y ago
The firehouse will allow the scolds and hall monitors to more easily hunt down the blasphemers and wrong thinkers.
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Can anyone explain how InfoWars was sued and found guilty of free speech? There must be much more I’m not getting but although Jones sounds like an asshole I don’t think that’s illegal. Why can’t someone sell an opinion that a tragedy didn’
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by nemo44x 2y ago
Grubhub has fallen so far it's amazing. They (and Seamless who is the same thing in different regions) had such a big start but had their model disrupted. And while they were being disrupted they were trying to turn a profit as a publi
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What I love about this is that it has a defined mission and an expiration date. Everything should have this. Instead once they accomplish their original mission their only goal is to survive and the best way to do that is to grow and manage
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Their whole angle was that they could undercut everyone by betting that enough people are willing to travel miserably if they can save a few dollars. But the bigger airlines were able to adopt this in part and Spirit is now broke. But at le
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by nemo44x 2y ago
I think good social media companies promote freedom of expression. Twitter claimed to be the “free speech wing of the free speech party” and then departed from that until Musk bought it. Similarly, Rogan invites a variety of people and is m
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I mean Trump is pretty old so even if he’s somehow a dictator (he’s not, he’s just a demagogue that’s very disagreeable - 2 traits that often lead to success if used well) he won’t around that long, lol.
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Hopefully this regime is doing a fantastic job and the electorate votes to give them more power. But that’s doubtful. They will likely make mistakes that will be easily critiqued and balance will be sought. Always this way.
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The opposition party gained power after his previous reign and the electorate decided to give it back to him. It will be ok. The Constitution is quite strong.

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