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by opo 1y ago
>...in a libertarian state I don't think any organization that considers themselves to be libertarian has ever called Texas a "libertarian state". For example: >...Texas’ institutions and policies continue to bear some
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by opo 1y ago
>The bombs didn't cause Japan to surrender. According to Togo they did: >...Meanwhile in the afternoon of August 8, before the entry of the Soviet Union into the war or the bombing of Nagasaki, the emperor met with Foreign Minist
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by opo 1y ago
Your link says this: >...Military historian Gian Gentile disputed this counterfactual, stating that testimony from Japanese leaders in USSBS interrogations supported the likelihood of Japan continuing the war beyond November and December
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by opo 1y ago
For those unaware, the original essay "I, Pencil" was written by Leonard Read: https://fee.org/ebooks/i-pencil/
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by opo 1y ago
Yes, they had no chance of winning and it should have been obvious long before Okinawa. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean they were ready to surrender.
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by opo 1y ago
>..I rarely if ever hear them say that "we had to use nuclear bombs because we didn't want the USSR to invade Japan before they surrendered". People rarely say that because there is little evidence for it - it was the USA
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by opo 1y ago
The Soviets could never have done a large invasion of Japan. They had a few ships that the USA had given them as part of Project Hula, but that is nothing compared to what would be needed for a full scale invasion of Japan. In comparison,
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by opo 1y ago
I find it is important to be skeptical of people's descriptions of what they were supposedly thinking years earlier. Much better is to find contemporaneous accounts. For example: >...my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my b
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by opo 1y ago
>Basically, in 1919, Henry Ford sought to reinvest the Ford Motor Company’s profits into raising employee wages I don't actually see any reference in the wikipedia article that Ford was saying he wanted to use the dividend money to
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by opo 1y ago
I have always thought the lesson here is to be careful when insulting those with a great deal of power over you. Pope Urban VIII was originally a patron and supporter of Galileo: >...Indeed, although Galileo states in the preface of his
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by opo 1y ago
>The thing we’d be giving up is 2% of our economic output… That 2% was for a payout of just $1,000 a month and the participants knew it was temporary. A more generous payout that was permanent might lead to a higher percentage. >...a
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by opo 1y ago
>...2% sounds like a good trade to me. What exactly is the trade here? In a trade, both sides are supposed to be better off. As the link says: >...But if it’s confirmed that basic income discourages work and provides little long-term
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by opo 1y ago
> Acting like this is UBI's fault is kind of weird. As Noah Smith wrote: >...Now, increased leisure time isn’t zero benefit — obviously it’s nice to be able to sit around and do nothing and live off of government cash for a littl
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by opo 1y ago
>The report shows nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot project began kept at it despite receiving basic income. 1/4 of the people stopped working?? That is a huge effect, particularly since it was a
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by opo 1y ago
I would disagree with your characterization of the two approaches to increasing taxes but like you said this is a forum comment. >...Of the two, I think only the second offers any real hope of deficit reduction. The middle and lower clas
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by opo 1y ago
>The faction that currently runs the Democratic party is the centrist, deficit-reducing, foreign-intervention-when-necessary party of Reagan/Bush. How are you defining "deficit-reducing"? >Over the four years of Preside
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by opo 1y ago
If it ships from Amazon, you can still run the risk that you get a counterfeit item since Amazon will co-mingle the inventory. Safer to only buy from the seller and is shipped by the seller.
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by opo 1y ago
The 79 oil crisis and rationing was caused by the disruption of oil from the Iran, but the US suffered much more from the disruption of the oil from Iran than other countries that also relied on this oil. It would be wrong to ignore the rol
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by opo 1y ago
As your wikipedia link states: >...While online articles in the 21st century have claimed that Mansa Musa was the richest person of all time,[91] historians such as Hadrien Collet have argued that Musa's wealth is impossible to calc
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by opo 1y ago
You bring up some interesting ideas, though I wonder about this: >Europe has 3X the population density (and subsequent urbanization) as the US. Are you sure about that? >...The population density in Europe is 34 per Km² (87 people per
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by opo 1y ago
> The only meaningful way to get the money circulating back through the economy is taxation. Scrooge McDuck is a fictional character. Rich people don't have all their money hoarded in a pool of gold coins - excess money is invested
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by opo 1y ago
>This is why John Stewart Mill and Adam Smith advocated for steeply progressive taxes beyond a floor. That is not correct. >...Smith's first maxim of taxation, from Wealth of Nations, is that the "subjects of every state oug
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by opo 1y ago
>Henry Ford famously wanted his workers to be able to afford his cars. Amazing how that bit of PR is still being quoted over 100 years later. In reality, Ford had huge turnover problems with his workers - one estimate is over 370% annu
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by opo 1y ago
>Too many well-intentioned organizations wind up milquetoast tax-exempt hedge funds aimed primarily at self-preservation because the received wisdom is that they should focus on building endowments and keep their withdrawal rates below 4
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by opo 1y ago
In most places home rooftop solar systems are heavily subsidized by everyone else. Also, in almost all cases, the home installation doesn’t have enough battery power to actually last through inclement weather and so is free riding on the re
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by opo 1y ago
>"Pass laws quickly" is, depending on who you ask, either not the right thing you want to optimize for, or the exact opposite of what you want. Opinions on the filibuster are often also time dependent. If the person's pre
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by opo 1y ago
There hasn't been that much inflation. >The construction of the Interstate Highway System cost approximately $114 billion (equivalent to $618 billion in 2023). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_Sy
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by opo 2y ago
>I remember how Jimmy Carter had to sell the family farm because it was viewed as a potential conflict of interest ... Are you sure you remember that? Jimmy Carter put his farm in a blind trust, he didn't sell it. https:/&#x2
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by opo 2y ago
> implemented the new all-volunteer military The USA switched to a volunteer force 3 years before Carter was elected. What he did do, was re-establish draft registration. Not something one should brag about.
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by opo 2y ago
>...All western nations used to have far higher top marginal rates for income and inheritance taxes. Far less loopholes, and yet here we are. When western nations had far higher top marginal rates for income there were far MORE loopholes

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