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by prottog 4y ago
Corporations were never greedy until the last few years, I take it?
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by prottog 4y ago
Starbucks doesn't franchise, at least in the US. Though you will find "licensed" stores in airports and such.
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by prottog 4y ago
> inflation would not double but those peoples buying power would I mean, inflation wouldn't double as a result of giving the bottom 25% additional money, but unless there was a matching increase in the supply of goods and service
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by prottog 4y ago
> They want enrichment. They want activity. They want meaningful stimulation. > Writing is work. Acting is work. Making video games is work. Helping old people get around is work. All true, but keep in mind that value is created when
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by prottog 4y ago
> (ignoring the consequences of doing so) There it is!
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by prottog 4y ago
> so they had a debt jubilee everytime a king has died From this I can gather that Sumerian kings on average didn't live very long. ;-)
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by prottog 4y ago
Yes, if lack of funding is the primary cause, then the federal government should be quite effective indeed, considering how much money it receives and spends.
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by prottog 4y ago
Imagine if we just had a land value tax to replace all other taxes. Can't dodge that particular tax, unless someone is able to hide a piece of land from being seen. > I reckon we could fund universal basic income just from whitening
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by prottog 4y ago
If said policy change is a radical departure from status quo that allowed humanity to flourish since the start of the Industrial Revolution, then quite accurate indeed. People can't just bandy about phrases like "abolish fossil fu
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by prottog 4y ago
Not as many as cheap energy from fossil fuels are lifting the global poor out of poverty.
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by prottog 4y ago
And who will follow the number of excess lives that were enabled by the deployment of cheap (and yes, dirty) fossil fuel energy among the global poor? These decisions aren't made in a vacuum. We must weigh the costs and the benefits.
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by prottog 4y ago
Mass property seizure and capital reallocation, i.e. a revolution on a global scale, will inevitably lead to the deaths of millions and a setback on living standards for the rest, i.e. degrowth; which will accomplish the objective of fewer
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by prottog 4y ago
Not the GP, but sure, if the people making those wrong predictions are advocating for policy changes that will impoverish so many people.
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by prottog 4y ago
Strange to compare the random results of a spinning wheel three feet wide in an air-conditioned room to a planetwide system, isn't it?
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by prottog 4y ago
> the competing tensions in some sort of balance This is such a crucial aspect to stability through the ages. Any system of government that depends on an unbroken succession of angels is bound to fail sooner rather than later, and much s
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by prottog 4y ago
They can always find something to blame. It doesn't answer the question.
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by prottog 4y ago
What happened to antitrust enforcement, anyway?
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by prottog 4y ago
San Quentin being a state-run prison, that would be who exactly, the governor of California?
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by prottog 4y ago
Deutsche Bank comes to mind.
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by prottog 4y ago
A country road. A tree.
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by prottog 4y ago
Be that as it may, I would like to continue at least this part of American exceptionalism. There is still plenty of room in this country for young families to own their own homes.
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by prottog 4y ago
You're quite right, people don't pay $50 for a haircut here, but it scales a little less than the cost of living does. I pay $35 inclusive of tip. For what it's worth, the cost of living here is a little over half of that in
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by prottog 4y ago
> Honestly, it looks like in a year or two, the Government will make money off of this because as soon as interest rates come down the securities will go back to book value. Government will get back the number of dollars equal to the par
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by prottog 4y ago
> How were you harmed specifically? That's like asking how you were specifically harmed as a result of there being one more CO2-spewing pickup truck in the world. Bad things amortized over millions of people are still bad, even if t
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by prottog 4y ago
Yes, the same ACLU whose deputy director publicly stated that stopping certain books and ideas from circulating is "100% a hill I will die on".
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by prottog 4y ago
I don't know how accurate this data is, but this website[0] breaks the US average down to single percentiles, and has detailed data for many metro areas, as well. [0]: https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-inco
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by prottog 4y ago
I don't see a problem with that, as long as those who may be earning minimum wage at any given time have the opportunity to improve their lot. I see no reason why the lowest incomes would result in median lifestyles.
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by prottog 4y ago
> but you could take lots of retail or clerical jobs, advance through hard work and support a family on those wages. Those are the days that are super gone Only in certain places, and only mostly due to crazy policies that made housing r
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by prottog 4y ago
I didn't know this about the GTI, but it is my pet peeve with EVs. Tesla thought they'd do the "huge iPad in the middle" thing and every other manufacturer copycatted it.
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by prottog 4y ago
Diseconomies of scale also exist and are very real, and I theorize that many organizations try to overcome it by applying political pressures on smaller peers.

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