twblalock

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by twblalock 4y ago
> If we leveled the regulatory playing field trucks wouldn't be nearly as popular. Yes they would. People aren't buying big trucks because they have no choice. Very few people would cross-shop trucks and small import vans. They
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Maybe the urbanism fight is tiring because people realize what they would have to give up in order to achieve the urbanist vision -- especially their trucks and SUVs. Selling a positive vision rather than shaming people and trying to take t
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by twblalock 4y ago
It's not the government's job to fix everything or engineer a perfect society, and personal choice and freedom matter too. This YouTuber, like many other people who favor a denser urban lifestyle, looks down on people who disagree
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by twblalock 4y ago
Plenty of people in Dodge Chargers behave the same way. Idiots are going to be idiots no matter what they drive.
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by twblalock 4y ago
This is just culture war dreck dressed up as an argument. The phrase `pathetic suburbanites` even appears in the video description. The anti-truck stuff is really a proxy for hating a lifestyle and the people who live it. It's funny to
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by twblalock 4y ago
> We take the incomes away from people who are willing to do the job but aren't licensed to drive. You can't take something away from someone if they never had it.
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by twblalock 4y ago
I also know freelance photographers who were impacted by AB5. AB5 is a stupid law that was clearly designed to target Uber, and even though lawmakers tried to pack in a bunch of exemptions, it impacted a ton of other people. Prop 22 was lar
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by twblalock 4y ago
Who is being crushed? The drivers signed up for this. They could also get other jobs or collect unemployment. The people who decide that this work is better than doing that should be respected for their choices and we shouldn't try to
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by twblalock 4y ago
This is hand-wavy and assumes that investment in business is zero-sum. It's not, because our economy works on wealth creation not wealth extraction. The existence of Uber is not preventing anyone from investing in other things.
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by twblalock 4y ago
Would you be better off if the rideshare jobs didn't exist? Is a bad gig job worse for you than no job at all? (If it is, then why are you doing it?) These are serious questions, because rideshare jobs would not exist if you were compe
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by twblalock 4y ago
Yeah now it's going to be a reliable charging network with hour-long lines to get a spot.
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Median rent in Brooklyn seems to be ~$3200 which is not a lot lower. Queens and the Bronx are a bit cheaper.
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More regulation doesn't help. More of a bad thing is still bad. Better regulation helps. We need to question why the regulators didn't see this coming.
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The problem is that when you sell shares denominated in monopoly money (e.g. shares in a private company) you have no idea if you get a fair price. There is no market to provide the signals.
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At what price? Certainly not a market price. A contrived price in a private sale is usually going to screw the seller.
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One of the nice things about being a public company is that you can give employees RSUs for a public company's stock that they can sell whenever they want, rather than options which are very limited. If they had gone public they could
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by twblalock 4y ago
Exactly. It's also unfair to say VCs and depositors should have noticed the problems when regulators didn't see them either. Banking has been a quasi-government-operated industry since 1933, and even more so since 2008, and we nee
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by twblalock 4y ago
One of the things that made it harder to convince other banks to buy SVB is the memory of 2008 when banks who bought other banks inherited all their liabilities and lawsuits. > Why isn’t Dimon buying S.V.B.? He has complained about the h
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by twblalock 4y ago
Cities don't produce wealth. People produce wealth. Many of the people who work in cities to produce wealth actually live in suburbs. For example, many of the people who drive NYC's economy live in New Jersey, Long Island, and t
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by twblalock 4y ago
The letter U in UBI means something. Social security is not universal. It's not even universal for retired people -- you have to pay into the system while you work to get the benefits when you retire. It is becoming increasingly tireso
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Housing. NYC median rent this year is $3350. That's over $40k per year. On a $100k salary, which is about $60k after federal, state, and local taxes, rent is 2/3 of the take-home pay for someone making $100k. More concretely, if y
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by twblalock 4y ago
Yeah but were you raising a family on that money? Living alone, or as a childless couple, is remarkably cheaper than having kids.
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Looking at where the money goes would make you think everything is fine. Most of it seems to be dedicated to good social outcomes. But in reality that money is being wasted and the services we get for it are a total joke.
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You can also go to prison in a number of EU countries for possession of marijuana.
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> Addiction, homelessness, and antisocial behavior are problems on the public transit of every major city Mainly in America. I never saw that kind of behavior on any transit I ever took in Europe or Asia. They simply would not tolerate i
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In quite a few places in NYC, including the subway, it actually feels like a crazy person could stab you at any moment. When people leave the city and feel an unanticipated sense of relaxation, it's because they were used to living in
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by twblalock 4y ago
> It's not any great secret either, listen to Obama talk about healthcare back in the day, and the phrase he always used was, "bend the cost curve". I would think the obvious solution would be to set up one actual single-p
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That general sentiment is unsupported by evidence and most of the time when you challenge it you get links to strongtowns.org which is a non-credible source run by a crank. People constantly say that cities "subsidize" suburbs but
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Europe also has a "« war on drugs », « war on terror », « war on crime » and so on.". Outside of a few outliers like Portugal drugs are still very illegal in Europe, and in some cases Europe is even stricter than America about thi
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This is why the debate about taxes in America is not like it is in Europe. Europeans get a lot more for their tax dollars than Americans. If you add up federal, state, local, and property taxes, the tax burden of many Americans is just as h

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