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by rsj_hn 5y ago
OK, fair enough, Dang!
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It means no one has to trade with you if they don't like what you have to offer in return. If you consider that "bound", then OK, but that language doesn't illuminate, it hides. It is a painful slap in the face when the
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes!
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Burden of Proof (2006)(thecrimson.com)
2 points by rsj_hn 5y ago|0 comments
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Yes, I agree that the tax burden is heavy in Sweden. I'm pointing out that with a 25% VAT and a top bracket of $60K, that burden is not nearly as progressive as, say, the U.S., where brackets go from 10% for $10K to 37% for 523K (af
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> thats why youre taxed into oblivion after a certain point. Fun Fact: The nordic countries have a fairly flat tax rate (flatter than the U.S.) as well a 25% VAT and a low (20%) corporate tax rate. Most people don't realize this and
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Money is fungible, whether held in highly liquid market assets or cash. As long as the government pulls in consumption (e.g. flows) that would not be transacted absent its intervention, it is creating money. Please write more clearly a
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> No discussion in the article about where this money came from. The reason why there is no discussion of it is that it's a category error. Money is not used up when spent, but is immediately available to the seller who can use it a
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yeah, when most people talk about vacant homes, they don't understand that almost all of those homes are just between tenants. They are not actually being left vacant.
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The dollar holdings that were seized were used by Venezuela for purpose of purchasing imports and also funds squirreled away by various government officials. My assumption is that it was the latter that was the main motivation as the U.S. i
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Vacant housing is only a problem in constrained areas. The vast majority of the U.S. is not constrained. Your summer cabin in Montana isn't depriving anyone of a home, because it isn't driving up prices. Your unoccupied condo in M
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Why does it sound wrong? Just off the top of my head (not an exhaustive list), Venezuela was ordered to pay $1.6 Billion to compensate Exxon in 2007[1] (and that doesn't include Conoco-Phillips or other oil and gas companies). Of cours
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it was just a typo
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> Wouldn't stealing all the foreign assets of Venezuela by US and UK also affect the Venezuela economy? There are a number of things wrong with this statement. 1. Timing is off. The U.S. didn't freeze Venezuelan assets until 20
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
We don't live in such a society, except in the fevered dreams of those who are allergic to crime data.
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The Forest People(stoneageherbalist.substack.com)
56 points by rsj_hn 5y ago|22 comments
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societies that believe "don't talk to the police" and "snitches get stitches" are going to have most murders go unsolved. Eventually that leads to vigilante justice and private mafias offering protection, while law
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
In different parts of the world, there are different evolutionary paths, but I think it's wrong to start with the assumption of class and think the class of owners appears before the thing they own. It is rather the opposite -- some me
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No, I really don't think it's predictive . It's interesting social commentary on a world that no longer exists. It's interesting historical commentary on some specific events in England, but not "mankind".
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> Marx was a social scientist, much of his structural analysis of capitalism still plays out accurately today. None of his structuralist analysis has played out accurately. Indeed it was discredited long before the Soviet Union collapsed
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> Private mass transit has been tried many times before. Read up on the damage it did to places like Santiago, Chile. In Sweden, it's been privatized for quite a while (since the 1990s) with substantial cost savings and service impr
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Is there motive behind this comment other than to smear "the green movement" with a wall of text inherently hard to argue against in its massive entirety? This is a strange way of saying "Yes, you make a lot of good poin
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That's a very low bar in exchange for Africa continuing to fall farther behind the rest of the world - e.g. during the same period child mortality in the EU fell be a factor of three and in the entire world it declined by a factor of 2
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> While I disagree with your conclusion due to the measurable increases in human development through our aid From 1960 to 2020, real GDP per capita in subsaharan Africa has grown by 0.6% per annum. https://fred.stlouisfed.org&
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I like this notion of not chasing after huge growth, cutting costs, and still being profitable. This path leads to variety, which is crucial to a healthy internet ecosystem.
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Basically because once you get past recycling scrap metals you start consuming many more resources than you save, which forces municipal governments to subsidize the recycling operations, which becomes so expensive it threatens local budget
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Start a family. Have kids. Maintain relationships with family members.
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I was told by my doctor I was, about a year before covid hit. Now I take vitamin D and C supplements and try to spend more time outside. My guess is that a lot of indoor computer workers are going to be deficient, but it's something yo
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I think you should revisit the history of US (and Western more generally, but the US is the ringleader) NGO and development activity in Africa. I think a case can be made that it has done more harm than good, and I say this knowing full wel
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Climate and environmental concern were dismissed and attacked for decades. Part of the reason is that the "green" movement has a long history of promoting de-industrialization and generally opposing human flourishing, using &

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