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by surement 4y ago
Just because you don't know how to appreciate well-made things doesn't mean that they're strictly ostentatious.
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by surement 4y ago
> This is a misleading headline. The study restricts its focus to unprocessed red meat, indeed the word 'unprocessed' appears 72 times in the study. reading the headline I had zero expectation that this applied to processed mea
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by surement 4y ago
As a capitalist I would still say it's recommended reading. That said, if you're only reading that and not Hayek/Friedman/Sowell then you're doing yourself a disservice but that's your problem.
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by surement 4y ago
wow so still not a price-setting monopoly
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by surement 4y ago
with no competition?
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by surement 4y ago
that's not the case
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by surement 4y ago
> Then they raise prices literally has never happened, it's just a dumb myth that makes no sense, for people who think that e.g. buses don't compete with passenger trains
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by surement 4y ago
what the hell does "anticompetitive" mean? driving competitors out of business is exactly what competition is; and there are still very many competitors to Walmart!
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by surement 4y ago
no, what happened is they had a product that was better than waiting 45 minutes for a cab you had no idea was on the way or not; and other companies came up with similarly good products like Lyft and Didi and are very much competing with Ub
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by surement 4y ago
How is it anticompetitive? Charging lower prices means making less profit. If Uber somehow lost money to drive out competitors (an insane strategy), then the capital of any bankrupted taxi company could be bought up for cheaper than the com
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by surement 4y ago
I'm also against a 2% inflation target.
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by surement 4y ago
not everyone wants to actively invest their money, "spend/invest your money or lose it" is a pretty shitty attitude
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by surement 4y ago
it's moving away from being one of the worst examples of central planning and bureaucracy
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by surement 4y ago
> she has a Masters in French I think people have different definitions of what "educated" means. The average social studies grad has zero grasp of basic economic concepts, but a lot of them feel confident comparing economic ph
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by surement 4y ago
> Why does the US need to stick to a 2% inflation rate? Because high inflation means the money in your bank account becomes worthless at an exponential pace.
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by surement 4y ago
unfortunate that you're getting downvoted for explaining comparative advantage; none of these "we could face unfair competition from other countries" comments seem to understand this basic concept
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by surement 4y ago
Japan has way more brutal prisons, but you can also leave your bicycle unlocked outside of your office building all day and reasonably expect it to still be there when you go home.
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by surement 4y ago
> Someone - let alone a private corporation - telling you where you are allowed to live, what you are allowed to eat, and what you will do with your labor every day - is not comparable to living as a free man even if you still need to wo
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by surement 4y ago
> Prison obviously isn't intended to be a service for the convicted individual so it doesn't make any sense to charge them. People are in prison because of their own antisocial behavior, and you think that others should bear th
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by surement 4y ago
> I’m much more concerned about mental health and access to short term housing You should be more concerned about general restrictions on housing construction. Mental health is not magically better in Japan and yet we don't see this
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by surement 4y ago
not an expert but could be that you're eating too much sugar before fasting, or entering ketogenesis (it goes away if that's the case)
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by surement 4y ago
the book Command and Control by Eric Schlosser highlights many closer calls than this and is very good reading, if a bit disconcerting
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by surement 4y ago
the chain reaction you get this way is more like Chernobyl than a nuclear explosion
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by surement 4y ago
> Yes, poverty is still high but sanctions are still oppressive. Which sanctions exactly? Surely a communist country doesn't need free trade, that's a capitalist concept and Marx was against it. > They have higher literacy r
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by surement 4y ago
Getting high and poisoning yourself are not the same thing. Psychedelic mushrooms are not weak versions of toxic ones.
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by surement 4y ago
> and are satisfied with the safety profile of not putting your hand near it lest it become part of the dish that's not different from regular cooking, your home oven might not get that hot but lots of cooking implements do
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by surement 4y ago
> you might be a little disconnected from reality you might be projecting > yes, now they can pay a little less from their wage.. oh wait, they got fired nah, there are plenty of "working class" people who are working
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by surement 4y ago
> This level of efficiency used to belong to the US. I really hope US can revolutionize its manufacturing for this century. The US consistently increases its manufacturing output through improved automation. US workers are also significa
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by surement 4y ago
> you don't have to be a union activist to recognize that exporting american manufacturing jobs has been disastrous for our domestic working class You do though. The reality is that "exporting" these jobs means cheaper pro
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by surement 4y ago
You can already have "regular" people as software engineers if you follow basic concepts like the SOLID principles. Unfortunately many engineers are incredibly smart and they don't see the difference between writing spaghetti

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