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by prottog 4y ago
To a reasonable degree, yes, but recent governments around the world have made it their number one priority; see the responses to Covid, where preventing one more death from Covid seemingly was worth whatever the cost may be. Maybe it'
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by prottog 4y ago
And so the safety state ever expands. Why do so many people think that the role of government is to promote "safety" at so great a cost?
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by prottog 4y ago
Exactly. There will less total joy in the system because they aren't around.
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by prottog 4y ago
> Not maxing out our current petri dish should not be controversial. It should be controversial if it means that the middle class of the developed world have to lower their standards of living, and the global poor will never get the chan
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by prottog 4y ago
You have to have more people in poor countries before they can even have a chance to develop into first-world standards of living. We can't declare poverty to be solved after all poor people have died off.
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by prottog 4y ago
Politics in the Lucky Country are really mind-boggling sometimes.
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by prottog 4y ago
Great, now Debian is going to be on the export control list...
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by prottog 4y ago
We're in the golden age of the wise elites in government protecting people from themselves, so pick your poison, I guess.
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by prottog 4y ago
It's better for the people who are alive who otherwise wouldn't be. There will be a higher sum total of people who live, laugh, love.
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by prottog 4y ago
Degrowth will absolutely remove more enjoyable life-years from the planet than even maintaining the status quo, let alone achieving technological progress that will allow carbon-free 2000MW per person. The latter is certainly preferable to
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by prottog 4y ago
Very quickly off the top of my head, we've had the savings and loan crisis of the 80-90s, Black Wednesday in '92, the Great Financial Crisis, and the European sovereign debt crisis. I don't think the world can handle any more
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by prottog 4y ago
> instead of driving to Costco for gas in a giant SUV and living in the suburbs, you change your way of life. The most urban dweller who hasn't seen the inside of an automobile in 20 years will find his way of life changed dramatica
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by prottog 4y ago
> It was caused by a stock market crash known as Black Tuesday Mainstream economists contend that government intervention (the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act) turned an ordinary recession into the Great Depression.
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by prottog 4y ago
The same tuition prices that has the full faith and credit of the federal government behind it driving it up?
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by prottog 4y ago
The absurdity of the name aside, this is unconscionable on the part of the employers, and it's likely that most employees in this kind of circumstance can tell their employers to stuff it without any adverse consequence. One thing wort
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by prottog 4y ago
The post should be amended to reflect the full title: "An extremely opinionated guide on making friends for people who are exactly like me"
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by prottog 4y ago
It's an unfalsifiable statement, so it needs to be examined with caution.
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by prottog 4y ago
> how dare the plebs stay home to avoid dying Covid mortality rates for those in the working age are meh. More people died of accidents than everyone under the age of 55 from Covid. > so we can continue in the lavish lifestyles to whi
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by prottog 4y ago
> That's enough to push me to look for other places to stash my money Yep, you take your $100B and invest it in the US capital markets. Does nothing for Sweden's economy other than make it comparatively less competitive.
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by prottog 4y ago
> a bunch of market distortions that are made invisible to American borrowers Anyone who has taken a five-minute look at the real estate market in any major US city can see those market distortions plain as day.
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by prottog 4y ago
> a billion+ humans as inept drones under the iron grip of a tyrant Drones, no, but it's very instructive to look at what the elites of China do. Many who achieve success in China spend significant resources to have a foot out the d
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by prottog 4y ago
This is why any system of government that relies on an unbroken chain of good leaders, as opposed to limited government with systemic safeguards, is bound to fail, and often times sooner rather than later.
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by prottog 4y ago
> In Hawaii, public access to beaches and shorelines is required by law, but exceptions were made for Lanai Resorts at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Emergency measures resulting in unintended consequences, who would've though
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by prottog 4y ago
To Germany's credit, they are the second biggest receiver of international immigrants, only behind the US which take in almost a full fifth of all. But between Germans and Americans, the net gainer was the US for the past 30 years[0],
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by prottog 4y ago
I don't know about "hate", but one of the foundational ideas of the US, at least from what I can make of it, is that more control should be relegated to the lower levels of government (to the states or the people), and the hi
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by prottog 4y ago
> Western water use and water rights are broken. They can't be fixed as long as they are massive welfare projects. Absolutely! There is a government-imposed ceiling on the price of water in the West, way below what the market would
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by prottog 4y ago
I promise I'm not downvoting you despite our disagreements -- I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. I'm not disputing that other countries are more egalitarian than the US, and it's more comfortable to be poor in cou
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by prottog 4y ago
You're absolutely right about everything you said, but for me the crux of it comes down to: > If I had to choose between more money and a less livable environment, or less money and a more livable environment I'd choose the lat
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm glad that you were able to improve your life, and I agree with you that the availability of modern luxuries are difficult to reconcile with a healthy, happy life. But I posit that you are able to enjoy a car-less life due to the ex
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by prottog 4y ago
Technically drug use (at least of the kind commonly done by this demographic) is a crime ;-) but of course I agree that criminal laws aren't always logical or moral. I'm given to understand that harm reduction clinics and secular

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