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by oatmeal1 4y ago
> I wonder if inequality increases caused by printing trillions of dollars during COVID are anything to do with this inflation? Could it be that making the rich endless more wealthy and increasing asset prices is bad for society? Making
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First, because margins are razor-thin as it is. Second, because it's a mature market and penetration pricing is not profitable.
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Or, tell every store he's coming and everyone will tidy up! You don't even need to send the CEO to any store! /halfsarcasm
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> Sure, fixing the problem is great, but if the CEO needs to personally witness the issue for it to get fixed, then there must be thousands of other issues not being fixed. If they have a good CEO, they will realize there is an issue wit
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> The goal is increased throughput/economic activity. They've still chosen an incredibly stupid solution if that is their goal. Building more highway is the least efficient means of improving transit throughput.
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Funny enough, the cost overruns for the Big Dig weren't even the main problem. The main problem was that the solution of adding more roads to solve traffic issues was already known not to work because of induced demand. Traffic engine
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Market forces would have correctly restricted the number of people living in inefficient places to live. Rural communities are massively more expensive to create infrastructure for. Instead we have locked ourselves into supporting an abno
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Exactly. People in this thread are perfectly happy to throw unknown heaps of other people's money at the problem until it is solved. And it's not like the government has a track record of efficiently spending money in the first
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It isn't by definition a problem that there are holes in coverage. People in the US live hugely far apart from each other because the government has paved far more roads than they should have. Bringing broadband to people in rural ar
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https://archive.ph/PsXCO
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https://archive.ph/P8mHk
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Isn't NFL Sunday Ticket coming to YT TV?
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> For one, they are lazy as hell How do you know they are lazy and don't just have an excessive # of crimes to handle?
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> It seems to me that changing over-regulation is nearly impossible, as it requires making suicidally unpopular arguments: “we shouldn’t weigh the risks”, “we should care less about safety”, “don’t think of the children”, etc. The argume
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I'm guessing he has the contacts to be ahead on things like this. "Lucky" to have worked at Paypal to get him where he is.