run4yourlives

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by run4yourlives 13y ago
>So why should I want to subsidize single mothers? You aren't subsidizing anything. You are allowing the mother to raise their child with more options available to them. At the very least, it increases the chances of the child's success
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
>One set of people are taxed to pay for things, another set of people get the benefit Ah, no. ALL people pay for things. How that payment occurs is a product of a progressive tax system in most cases, but there is no requirement that su
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Check wikipedia for Negative Income Tax schemes, which are extremely similar and were experimented with in the US under Nixon in the 70's. This is also interesting: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-new-approach-to-...
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Unless you have a citation that says otherwise, anything I've seen seems to suggest that there is little difference in the high percentage of mentally ill/substance abusers between chronic/non-chronic homeless.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
There is no redistribution. Everyone is entitled to the same benefit, just like they are entitled to fire protection. Over a certain amount of income earned however, the benefit becomes negligible.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
>Distributing money indiscriminately devalues work and effort. This is a poor understanding of the concept. The idea behind a Basic Income Guarantee is that it is received equally by every citizen in the country. It's an idea linked to
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
While I like the idea of a Basic Income, and have actually come to support it heartily, (if you don't, take a look at some of the economists who have, and why they do) you are being naive to think that "self-inflicted cases" are somehow any
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I'm sure you can acquire a taste for drinking lemon juice as well, but I see no need to. :-) My life isn't missing anything by having a nice martini or port while everyone else has a Glenfiddick.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Personally, I can't stand dark liquors. There is no enjoyment in scotch, whiskey or cognac for me, no matter how wonderful the particular brand is. (My father was in fine dining... I've tried them all) Burning my mouth and throat with a sub
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
As a nighthawk myself, the thing about morning people that I've come to realize in my 38 years is that they are 100% right. Life is much, much better with an extra hour or two of time before the day than an extra hour or two after the d
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
give each other an idea of how much we're all making, well, I trust them enough not to lie You shouldn't, because they will. Pride is a horrible thing.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
One of the main issues I see with this is that people lie. They lie so much, that almost everyone in HR completely discounts employee based salary data. Instead, if they need to understand what a market rate is for a salary, they ask emplo
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Re: your first point. In English, the first noun is almost always the actor of the verb, with subsequent nouns being acted upon. This isn't true for other languages though. (I'm sure someone will come up with an exception to that rule but f
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
The only reason that sentence is "obvious" to many people is because we have a reference to a famous band from Liverpool that got its start in the late 50's/early 60's that is already embedded in our brain's library of facts. Removed from t
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
It is that easy, and also that difficult. Two bicycle mechanics in a small town game us the airplane, but there were a lot of smart people that tried to do just that before them and failed. It's easy because we only talk about the ones that
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Sorry, you seem to be under the mistaken impression that I'm here to do something for you. Excuse me, my shareholders are calling me.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Your attitude is both ignorant and defeatist. Let's keep in mind here that you were the one that introduced a "good/bad" evaluation into the discussion with your comparison of people against each other. I made no such comparison. I'm not
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Sorry, you'll need to speak up. I can't hear you over next quarter's share price hitting the floor.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I don't think you understand the concept of wealth and income from an economics perspective. When person B has $10,000 he is wealthier than person A. If person B spends $10,000 he is losing wealth . Depending on how he spends his 10,000,
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Sure, they are. I'm not sure how that translates into an argument either for or against high income correlating to high wealth. We're all using the same variables for time.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
but also higher wealth increases the ability to have a higher income. This I don't quite agree with. Overall it makes sense but it is not as direct a correlation. Wealth gives you leverage, but only by the weakest of factors can it give y
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
I think overall it is rather highly correlated, yes. In fact, I'd submit that the number one predictor of having a high net worth would be to also have (or have had) a high income. The easiest formula to build wealth is to have positive res
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
There's a correlation in the truest sense between income and wealth - your chances of creating wealth increase with the level of your income. This doesn't mean that having a high income means you are wealthy, as you suggest, but that they a
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Just to add: Income to wealth correlation though is a matter of one being used to create another. The level of one's income has an impact on how easy it is to create wealth. Aside from that though, the two should never be conflated. Many pe
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
There's not much suggesting that there is only one Great Filter. After all, we haven't met anyone else yet, so the likelihood of another filter being in our future is just as real as it is if there was one in our past. Call it the "two nept
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
You were sufficiently unaware of the ways in which abusers try to control victims that you failed to understand the purpose of the sign. I'm perfectly aware, I just don't agree that it is a valid measure, and in addition I feel this parti
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Since you are being blunt, I'll respond in kind. I think you are too emotionally invested in this topic to see my point and thus have a rational discussion about it. I appreciate your experiences and never intended to insult you. However I
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Yeah, think of the PR fallout of using cartoonish characters, toys and fucking playgrounds to advertise directly to kids. McDonald's would never do that.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
Because after all, all kids can read.
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by run4yourlives 13y ago
You were already living is such fear of the power of your abuser that I doubt this ad would help much. As it stands, there is nothing to tell the child that the abuser isn't seeing exactly what they are. I hear what you are saying and sympa

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