omegaworks

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by omegaworks 4y ago
Crypto itself, or at least the bubble, was an unintended byproduct of low interest rates and lax securities enforcement. The low interest environment is intended to spurn the monied rich into investing in productive businesses, but "in
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>usually because shelters tend to be drug- and alcohol-free Shelters are rife with abuse and have no place for you to store your belongings. >for reasons like not accepting pets or not housing couples of opposite gender together. You
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>California is a magnet for substance abuse casualties The data[1] shows that over 70% of all of SF's unhoused people became homeless while living in San Francisco. What we're dealing with is a housing crisis. Every $100 increa
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by omegaworks 4y ago
It's no surprise that many former colonies are on this list. Many were subjected to economic retribution from attempting to establish their sovereignty in a hostile global trade environment. Many colonizers imposed enormous debts on co
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>Some see the plus at the end of LGBTQIA+ to signify support and acceptance of those who live with HIV. https://www.bustle.com/p/what-does-the-plus-in-lgbtqia-mean-... Though I'll admit the contentiousness of t
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The labeling is awkward, that's what I intended to highlight. "Non-normative relationships" or "non-procreative relationships" would have been a great alternative. >There are plenty of cultures (even in the US!)
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Ah. I missed that on the first read. The visualizations lump them all together.
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The plus signifies support and acceptance of those who live with HIV.
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Kinda weird that author categorized the incest joke "Howard: I lost my virginity to my cousin Jeanie" under LGBTQ censorship. When she mentioned the justification: "China has encouraged straight couples to marry and raise two
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No amount of 1913 dollars could buy you an iPhone.
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We need to abolish the Senate or at least make it as irrelevant as the House of Lords.
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It's true that economic policy is structured such that Congress has effective control over the non-monetary levers. The problem is that Congress is functionally ineffective at responding to popular demand, intentionally. The Senate is
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The polar vortex is a symptom of the weakening of the jetstream, thought to be occurring because of warming-driven melting of the arctic ice cap. Human-driven melting.
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It's not really ridiculous when the federal government controls the power to issue currency. Any infrastructure improvement that occurs at the local level needs to be paid for by either tax or debt. Taxes take money out of a local econ
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The country attempted to move forward on infrastructure, but the bill died in an anti-democratic institution dominated by right-wing austerity hawks (the US Senate).
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We're at one million dead in the US. China has five times our population and has 5,217 deaths. Covid-zero is not perfect, but it has been effective.
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Maybe people are more important than cars in China.
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We could forgive the school debt of existing doctors and pay the entire cost (with appropriate cost controls) of medical school for new doctors.
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Congratulations, you will eventually own a house and car. I'm sure you paid quite a handsome price on that house to ensure the people formerly living in it could live off the proceeds for the rest of their lives. What will your peers o
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by omegaworks 4y ago
If student spending inflates the economy to the point where there is significant impact on the dollar, what you are saying is we NEED this generation debt-burdened so the rest of us can live decently. If that is true we never really had a f
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by omegaworks 4y ago
The decision to put the debt of student loan borrowers on the shoulders of taxpayers is entirely political. The government can simply write off the student debt, with no impact on taxpayers. It has the power to do so. It may choose not to
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by omegaworks 4y ago
They are not, though. You wrote your comment as though every proposal is necessarily a tax on everyone that does not have student loans. This is an entirely made up claim. A hypothetical strawman useful to only those that seek to victimize
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> Then, tax 100% of the distribution for people without student loan balances. No one is proposing this.
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>The reality is that rewarding bad behavior and punishing good behavior You are confusing a societal failure with a moral one: we have failed as a society by forcing those that pursue higher education to bear the entire cost of that ed
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>Loan forgiveness does nothing for future generations of students. Loan forgiveness unlocks the spending potential of an entire generation. People have been holding off on buying their first home or having their first child because of th
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>Simply move back to your own country and start fixing problems. Spoken with the confidence (and arrogance?) of someone that's not aware of how rich countries help to create the problems that cause young people to flee their homelan
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So you would rather your children continue to suffer the burden of a system that forces people into limited opportunities simply because you had to? So much for making the world a better place. The course that you took in life failed to tea
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So you would rather your neighbors be poor?
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> The United States should be offering permanent residency to practically everyone. FTFY
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>The point is to build an open monetary system A structurally impossible goal when it is deflationary in nature.

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