notdrunkatall

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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
In any given economic system at any given time, there is a finite level of wealth to be shared by everyone participating in that system. (note: by 'wealth,' I mean things, not currency.) When people work, they produce things (and
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
I'm not suggesting the necessity of small-scale experimentation solely for the purpose of convincing the public that this is a good idea, I'm also suggesting it for the purpose of convincing myself that this is a good idea. As I
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Precisely. If it is a workable system, the experiment will be a success, a community will have benefited, and you will have your political ammunition to have it scaled up. If it is a failure, well, it would be much preferable to know this
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
You're right about the second statement, and quite wrong about the first. Poverty is tied to race because race is tied to subculture. Work ethic is no more a racial quality than is the propensity to dance like a fool (edit: by this, I
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Where is it? A quick google search for 'newark basic income' yields nothing.
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Three quarters work, and one quarter do not. What's the unemployment rate in the USA now? If you include those who've 'given up' looking for work or whatever, I think it's around 12%. Yeah, let's fork out a
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
You see that? That right there - that's tantamount to reliance on a half-measure, and people aren't going to buy those weak arguments. If you want to make basic income a political possibility, you need data. This is something wh
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
I'm generally against the notion of a basic income, as I believe that if you remove the incentive to work to survive, vast swaths of people will simply choose not to do anything, but I am certainly not against the idea of trying it in
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
>The beuatiful thing would be that this would give the Federal Reserve a real control over the economy. Though such a system would certainly give the FED more control over the economy, I don't know how beautiful that would be.
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
There is no legislation forcing Wal-Mart et al to accept returns.
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
I love that story.
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
The question is: why the difference?
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
>I switched from beer (ale) to cider and find I have no morning after 'bowel' effects. I started having these problems about a year ago for no apparent reason. I'm going to have to give this a try, thanks!
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
HGH? Human Growth Hormone? Just curious, what benefit does this provide?
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
The difference is in the number of entities which own it and what they can do with it. AT&T, Verizon et al can't unilaterally decide that you're a terrorist and arrest you, but the government can. The government should be the
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
>what did companies do before there was Google? They didn't.
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
I found keypass four or five years ago, and I've been using it since. It's a great little tool, glad to see that people are still working on it.
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
I am sick of political correctness in all of its forms. The truth is the truth, and if you're offended by it, the problem isn't how I said it, the problem is that you need to get over yourself. As for Christmas, I don't give
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
From your link: >A November 1996 article in the New England Journal of Medicine found no difference in death rates, hospitalization rates or self-reported symptoms between Persian Gulf veterans and non-Persian Gulf veterans. This article
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
I was in the Army for a few years and recently got out. The Army is considered to be the service which is the least concerned with its service members. That said, the Army most certainly DOES have regard for its enlisted. When things like
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
How does this affect the average consumer?
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Although actively lethal seems like a bit of a stretch, I agree with the rest of your post. It seems that Bucky Fuller's greatest accomplishment was the geodesic dome, and even that was a result of his popularization of the dome, rath
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Go back to reddit.
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
I generally agree with your implied point: that government subsidization of education leads to price inflation in that sector, but these are private schools, where government subsidies do not (to my knowledge) apply.
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Thanks! Out of curiosity, what's the technical explanation?
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Supply and demand, supply and demand, supply and demand. I wish more people understood this most basic law of economics. If the supply of people who are both willing and able to handle the position of university President is low, wages (whi
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Why, when I click on this bloomberg link, does my browser (Chrome) not go to the page, but instead download a single 83kb file named 'download'?
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Zecco started out with free trades. Then it was free trades if you had $10k. Then it was 25 free trades per month if you had $25k. Then they were bought by Tradeking.
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
I'm skeptical that I share a significant interest in specific products with even my closest friends.
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by notdrunkatall 13y ago
Damn, I had the idea to do something like this a couple of weeks ago. Figures.

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