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by supplied_demand 1y ago
The broken windows fallacy isn’t about government spending. The parable never mentions governments or taxes, you have added that piece. Voluntary economic transactions don’t have a positive ROI by virtue of being voluntary. People and compa
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== If we believed all of these claims, then it would be impossible to cut the scope of government spending== What is the goal of cutting government spending? Most would say it is to balance the Federal budget. The controlling party is plann
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== it's around that fast in the US as well== Do you have a source for this claim, because I found this: ==Individual income tax return filing is the most time-consuming element of the tax system, with the average taxpayer spending 13 h
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==microplastic and ocean plastic. Neither of that is related to disposable plastic going to the landfill.== I think the "known problem" is the consumption of too many products made out of plastic or with plastic packaging which le
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==You can be absolutist about personal moral choices, but writing this reply used precious resources that are destroying the planet, on a device that almost certainly also contributed to pollution and human misery.== Fortunately, I live in
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==it's not most people's personal choices that determine if plastic ends up in the ocean- it's either incompetence or downright deliberately deceptive actions by someone else-== It is your personal choice to consume goods pac
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== What experience can adult men (25+) go through that is enough to build a lasting friendship?== Maybe fatherhood. I’ve had some of that experience with friends I’ve made through my kid’s preschool. This week I read an article about a loca
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Meta and Anduril defense startup partner on VR/AR project intended for U.S. Army(cnbc.com)
4 points by supplied_demand 1y ago|0 comments
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==most experts agree this is a likely hypothesis== Oddly, I find the lab leak discussion proves the exact opposite point. No truth has been found in the matter, hence even your use of words like "most experts", "likely",
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
At the same time, the most densely populated large cities are also among the most expensive.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
What is the goal of this comment? Who was wrong? What were they wrong about? What percentage of crypto acquisitions involve Web3? Coinbase was in the Summer 2012 batch. 13 years ago seems like a good sign that they weren’t as ignorant as yo
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
Isn’t abandoning kids suffering actual abuse today because there may be fake abuse in the future just another form of slippery slope?
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
The people who go on about “woke” are the most performative victims of all. Invoking the word “woke” for things they don’t like is a form of that performative victimization.
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Were these one-year contracts?
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==There’s like five Trump republicans on HN== Neither true nor relevant to the comment. The comment was about the propensity to demand more from one side than the other. In this case, you put the onus on Democrats to positively interpret a
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==It's similar to how liberals downplay how much reshoring of industry will result from the Trump administration's tariffs.== I haven't seen a coherent explanation or estimate of impact made by the administration. If a strate
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==1. People will stop working if they don't need to and won't need to in future. This is obvious to anyone who has met people.== You are arguing against a proposal nobody is making. In this study, €1,200/month isn't real
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by supplied_demand 2y ago
==40.1% of US taxpayers on the low end of income distribution pay no income tax== According to 2022 IRS data, average deductions for those who itemized totaled $43,686 in tax year 2022 [0]. The 2022 bottom two quintiles of income were under
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by supplied_demand 2y ago
==A more expensive program requires more tax revenue to administer, revenue that could be used on anything else.== More complexity is what makes programs more expensive to administer, not size. You are suggesting adding significant complexi
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by supplied_demand 2y ago
==So what is the negative impact on society?== Don't these scores sort of suggest a negative impact? We've been leaning further and further into charter schools in the US and I don't see where education is thriving. If there
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by supplied_demand 2y ago
I'm not sure I follow your comment. It's possible that AI will change the idea of who can be productive, just as the internet has changed the idea of who can be productive (people with limited mobility, for example).
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==Since then the American public has seen it as a nice little bonus they get for living past 65 and has started stealing from younger generations in the form of sovereign debt in order to maintain that instead of treating it like the insura
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by supplied_demand 2y ago
==Japan has now fewer productive workers per elderly person than most developed countries.== Maybe, over the long run, we could change the expectation that elderly people can't be productive. Perhaps eliminating 20% of the workweek wil
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by supplied_demand 2y ago
I've had the feeling for a while that the real tension is between "personal/individual freedom" and "corporate/business freedom." It feels like the more left-leaning states have more of a focus on the free
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by supplied_demand 2y ago
==Some bigger US cities have a city income tax== The vast majority do not.
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by supplied_demand 2y ago
It isn't about where you live or work, it is about the cost of providing services. When homes are farther apart, the infrastructure is physically more spread out. This creates higher costs to build and (especially) maintain roads, elec
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States Ranked by Personal Freedom (2023)(freedominthe50states.org)
2 points by supplied_demand 2y ago|3 comments
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A report from the premier libertarian think-tank in the US, the Cato Institute. They rank Nevada at #1 and Texas at #50 for personal freedom. Interestingly, 7 of the top 10 are blue states or swing states and 9 of the bottom 10 are red stat
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by supplied_demand 2y ago
==Have you ever built a cedar strip canoe, or are you making wooden spoons== No, I haven't built a cedar strip canoe (nice flex), but I do have the room in my 2.5 car garage if I wanted to. Partly because we only need one car in the ci
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by supplied_demand 2y ago
Family homes in the best suburbs are also very expensive, even after being subsidize by the broader tax base. There are lots of places to live in cities that aren't the "city center" just like there are types of family homes

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