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by panglott 12y ago
California is known for having the toughest regulations in this area. Kentucky had a limited emissions inspection regime from 1999-2005, when it was killed by the Republican governor. The only current inspection requirement I know of is if
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by panglott 12y ago
No, thank YOU for the clarification. ;) I see your point, this is a hard question. Automation here is making production a function of capital rather than a function of labor. Certainly legacy property rights would be with the idea that the
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by panglott 12y ago
I work, I watch TV, I play with my kid and help him with homework, I make some edits to Wikipedia, I study stuff online, &c. &c. When I was between jobs recently I did more of all of those things—except TV. I don't know many pe
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by panglott 12y ago
Note that this comment was in response to an article about automation causing a fall in the labor share of the economy.
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I'm thinking guaranteed minimum income. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income The article is ambiguous, bringing up the idea as Milton Friedman's support for a negative income tax (which II
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by panglott 12y ago
'Jeremy Rifkin, author of “The Third Industrial Revolution,” said a basic income would enable people to volunteer their time in areas like elder care, child care, culture and the environment.' This seems like the most important se
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by panglott 12y ago
Whether there will always be new jobs is impossible to predict. There may be, or not. Guaranteed basic income doesn't necessarily give money to everybody: only at the lowest levels of income, where people already have the lowest levels
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Thanks, I've long wished there was a well-informed contemporary reappraisal of Henry George. There were a few municipalities in the U.S. that went to land value taxation in the late 19th century, but their economic history is not espec
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by panglott 12y ago
It seems that he's mostly considering the value of the idea of economic rents in terms of how well they explain corporate profits as a means of testing the idea of economic rents themselves. However, the core idea of economic rents com
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by panglott 12y ago
The right to travel is a very ancient right, from a time when people only walked, rode horses, or used draft animals to travel. The introduction of mechanical vehicles in the late 19th century changed things. Especially, motor vehicles are
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No question, if robot cars will obey speed limits and not blow through red lights. The biggest safety improvements will come from convincing motorists/passengers that it's OK to travel just a bit slower.
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What does "it works" mean? Most of the criticisms quoted are that inflation targeting is providing insufficient stimulus. But is this a problem of inflation targeting per se or inflation targets that are too low (i.e., 2% or lower
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by panglott 12y ago
If the analogy is billions to millions, BB = Billion * Billion
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Etymylogically, "million" derives via French from Italian "milione", the augmentative of "mille", thus a thousand thousand (MM). In British English "billion" originally meant "a million million&q
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Monocultures are easier to mechanize/automate.