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by snidane 6y ago
Milton Friedman also proposed Land Value Tax as the least worst tax. Only the second least worst was this negative income tax. Both mentioned in this short clip [3:33 mins] "Milton Friedman talks about property taxes". https:&#x2
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by snidane 6y ago
Which is also unsustainable in the current form because it is a ponzi scheme that works only when each next generation has more children than the previous one.
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Basically you can divide the economy amd businesses into 1. infrastructure and platforms (justice, roads, utilites, networks) - where privatisation results in disaster 99% of times 2. "typical businesses" - privatisation generally
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There is one such debate on youtube. https://youtu.be/cUTLCDBONok
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Great question. This is THE show stopper for UBI as presented by any proponent today. The only way to implement it is by stopping the runaway rent inflation by implementing a counter-force to rent price increases. One such technique is batt
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3) they forget to curb the asset price inflation in real estate and land values. The basic fact that UBI proponents have been warning about. Real estate is just a hidden land value price. Look at Japan where the price od buildings are close
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MMT measures inflation by standard inflation measures such as consumer price index. Real Estate and land prices are not included. Look this way if you want to see where the newly printed money end up. Btw inflation is intentionally underrep
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Or: People are interested in possible hypotheses and explanations of phenomena and would love if the somebody could either provide more evidence or refute them. Definitely more interesting than the mainstream "We don't really know
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He builds a lot on top of Robert Schoch's Sphinx erosion controversy. Ie that the egyptian sphinx must be much older than currently estimated because of geological findings of erosion around it is water based, not wind based. These &qu
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Dismissing a hypothesis just on the basis of sticking to the baseline works in 99% cases. Then there are the 1% Galileos and Keplers which get dismissed too because their argument is not heard out. And yes in such limiting circumstances you
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Anti-gradualist explanation of history is an alternative and more likely explanation. Gradualism means a version of history in which civilisation progresses gradually from less to more civilised over time. The opposite is a history in which
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I'd posit this quantitative approach is harmful not only to one's personal life - turning yourself into a robot, forgetting that life is more akin to a dance than a project with a budget and a deadline. Something that you do to en
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Goods with enough supply: no inflation even in case of UBI or printed money. This can be observed in present day measures of inflation which are based on cheap goods oversupplied by China Goods with not enough supply: massive inflation in c
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by snidane 6y ago
People always choose to measure the easy thing to measure instead of trying to measure the important, but often difficult, thing to measure. For example I often see people obsessed about tracking time spent on something instead of measuring
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Fullscreen in Firefox doesn't integrate well in i3 window manager and that's why I use Chromium instead.
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My problem with Zettelkasten is the granularity of notes which are supposed to be a single short concept only. I can't remember hundreds of notes I wrote in the past so that I can connect them when I write a new one. I actually prefer
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If you want to preserve colors: jq . -C | less -R
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You can always simplify your IT and require everyone to use only a small subset of Linux images which were preapproved by your security team. And you can make those to be only deb or rpm based Linux distributions. The only problem with thes
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You can have competition among landlords but you can't provide the key ingredient of which there is fixed supply - land. No more land + people moving in = price only goes up. > The flat I just started renting a few months ago was pr
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First, some monopolies are monopolies forever - network and utility monopolies. Second, you still have to deal with aggregate monopolies - ie when one societal class has monopoly pricing power over another. You cannot break up these as they
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Competitive markets will probably be fine. There seems to be enough automation in manufacturing businesses driving the prices down. How do you deal with monopoly businesses? What prevents them from rising prices to pocket sudden excess of U
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It seems like a good funding model for basic research to leverage the size of monopoly companies like those mentioned. In the monopoly position they are no longer concerned about competition so don't need to worry about their position
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You can't extract more rent if you charge maximum of what your customer can afford. If landlords raised rents collectively then people would simply sprawl out to suburbs. City rent is an aggregate monopoly - there is not enough supply
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This of the converse - Capitalism: the the weird case in the history of Feudalism. Feudalism seems to be a natural order. Look at corporations - they are all feudal hierarchies internally. So what is capitalism among the natural order of fe
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You were sold a lie. You don't own land today if you buy it. Consider what the government would do if a huge oil deposit was found under your house.
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Look. You only seem to want to make it complicated. If your military is too expensive and not covered by LVT, just go ahead and add a specific tax to fund your military. If you can justify that it'll protect everybody then people will
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Military is actually a great example for LVT. If you mean defence part of it. Invading other countries is likely profitable for select groups so who else should pay for it if it gets approved. But let's focus on defence. It's not
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It might have not been directly funded by landlords but it might have been approved for publishing with the same motives as opposed to the other studies which came to opposite conclusions.
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> Another way to think about it: if landlords have the market power to raise rents, why wouldn't they just do it now, rather than wait until an LVT is passed? Exactly. Because they hold monopoly pricing power over tenants they could

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