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by scoofy 5mo ago
I mean, I find myself saying this all the time. It explains so, so much about American culture. We're transitioning from an honor culture to a "don't be a sucker" culture. The example I always point to is golf. I'm
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by scoofy 5mo ago
The success of the YIMBY movement is basically like watching this power shift happen in real time.
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It's very obviously not the total number of people that matters. It's the difference in the number of people being funded and doing the funding. The math is fairly straightforward: # of Boomers - Greatest Gen > Millennials -
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No... we are specifically transferring it from the young. This is happening across the west. Once birth control was created, we kicked off a ticking time bomb of a crisis by not actually changing our social safety nets, with fewer young peo
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I actually think an land value tax is our best option, it's just that a land value tax still allows for housing as investment. To make housing not an investment you need to eliminate returns from housing altogether. Yes, obviously I
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The point is when you have cartel-like behavior from homeowners in a democracy, then you aren't "exempting housing from the laws of supply and demand." No, these homeowners know exactly what they are doing and they're i
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by scoofy 5mo ago
Your logic misses the point. To make housing a non-investment, we need to tax the investment returns on houses. This mean taxing capital gains on all houses, not just 2nd and 3rd homes.
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If we wanted to do this, it would be trivial to introduce a 100% capital gains tax on the sale of real estate. Instead, we give people an exemption for their real estate capital gains, so they can buy a bigger house without paying taxes a
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by scoofy 5mo ago
China’s greatest geopolitical weakness is lack of access to petroleum. That’s why they are going so hard on renewables. We just get the benefits for free.
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You don’t like honesty? Effectively everything in life is a balance of uncertainty. Surgeries can do more harm than good. Drugs have varying efficacy. Investments are uncertain. Careers can disappear. Nobody can tell you the future, but nea
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by scoofy 5mo ago
>By extension all you're doing is moving the crazy or drug addicted people into prisons. Prisons? What, no. You don't got to prison for falling asleep in a bar. You just get asked to leave. That's all I'm suggesting f
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by scoofy 5mo ago
I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm just a fairly boring nerd who studied philosophy in college and grad school.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
> Why? What if we just didn't remove the benches, or we installed more? The solution you immediately reached for was to kick the homeless person off the bench while saying it was their duty not to block the bench and that if they we
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by scoofy 6mo ago
>That's why I felt angry reading your comments. I figured that's what you really wanted. I'm sitting here arguing for improving outcomes for everyone and you think I'm trying to make people angry??? What? Yes, I thi
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by scoofy 6mo ago
People neglect their duty all the time. That doesn't make it okay, and it doesn't mean we should find it acceptable. Again, this is about creating a better society for everyone. If we operate a transportation system that is inef
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I do think we have a duty to help them.
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>whatever a "categorical imperative" might be or represent If you do not understand the concept of a categorical imperative, I would strongly suggest studying some ethical philosophy. There are folks that have spent lifetimes t
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Do we need a war on drugs? I don’t think so. We just need a war on people making services unpleasant. Asking someone to leave a subway platform because they are not using the public transportation system for transportation is not a war on d
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Why do some people litter when they are steps away from a garbage can? Why do some people play their phones at high volume on public transit? Anti-social behavior comes in all shapes and sizes. There is a distinction between pro- and anti-s
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Firstly, I agree with you. I just don't think it's a contest, and I don't think "ranking something as worse" means the other thing should be considered permissible.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
You seem to think need trumps all duty to your fellow citizen. I do not. By suggesting need trumps everything, you are demonstrating why the benches have disappeared. If we live in a would where we accept that we allow some folks to disrupt
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I’m saying sleeping on a bench that is meant for transit users to wait for a train is, indeed, anti-social. This is fairly trivial to demonstrate using a categorical imperative. If everyone used the transit system to sleep in, then that tra
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Capitalism as unbridled greed is a bad meme. Sweden is a capitalist country . Germany is a capitalist country . In the US, we are moving from a high-trust society to a low-trust society, which is why the effects of capitalism are moving f
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Wikipedia is useful because of the citations. We don’t teach philosophy in school, so people don’t have an actual conception of what truth even means.
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Again, the main issue is that these things can cause problems with nobody is in the car. It shouldn't even be a debate. Emergency services should have a key that unlocks them and allows them to be commandeered. Everyone inside is being
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by scoofy 6mo ago
A “call for help” button is customer service. The ability to say “this is the police, drop everything and attend to this car” button would be helpful.
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The difference is blocking emergency vehicles in predictable, high traffic areas that can be intentionally avoided vs randomly blocking an entire road because you couldn’t handle a weird event. People actually think hard about these problem
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The issue here is that a lot of the concerns about AV's are orthogonal to the standard metrics of concern. I'm a strong transit alternatives advocate, but even I recognize that a firetruck or ambulance being blocked by an AV has t
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I just am always in awe of successful business owners who don't leverage their success into a business loan to buy the building or one nearby. I grew up in Austin, and there are a few businesses that have no business still sitting on t
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by scoofy 6mo ago
The advent of parallel treatment of different workers in a shop the late 1970's is one of the main reasons we saw union membership start declining. Two-tiered bargaining structures started to show up as soon as there were difficult eco

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