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by visualradio 5y ago
In that case, it sounds like it would be a good idea for the federal government to use the interstate commerce clause to start dismantling the work number system? The original purpose of the interstate commerce clause was to ban state and l
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by visualradio 5y ago
"All of Europe had been what you were describing for 300 years or so. But by the time the US came along, that spirit was starting to fade. So what they did quite literally was put all their money in the US. The way JP Morgan got establ
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by visualradio 5y ago
In the United States continuous revolution is referred to as 'property tax'. The historical pattern is that advocates for the rich will try to undermine assessments to fall more heavily on buildings in poor neighborhoods and repla
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by visualradio 5y ago
Industrial development can be promoted without creating poverty by using the tax code to eliminate any after-tax speculative super profits in real estate and finance and non-industrial sectors so that investors are forced to put their money
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by visualradio 5y ago
Identity is used to automate decision making, so less energy is expended on conscious thought, so less time is spent weighing pros and cons of each alternative for every daily decision. If someone is 'dog person' they have routine
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by visualradio 5y ago
The format of the article was that of a critique. The author described how systems currently operate in a manner he viewed as deficient and then suggested ideas for improvements. When the author states "the principal function of most c
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by visualradio 5y ago
The basis of systems thinking is considering the relation of parts to the whole, and the relation of the whole to the parts. Classically it was simply referred to as 'geometry'. The author distinguishes 'corporation' fro
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by visualradio 5y ago
> A corporation that fails to provide an adequate return for their investment to its employees and customers is just as likely to fail as one that does not reward its shareholders adequately. Author distinguishes corporation from employe
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by visualradio 5y ago
How would cryptographically verified identities solve the misinformation problem? Conservative elites which believe it is necessary to fabricate some external evil to preserve social order are historically willing to engage in obscurantism
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by visualradio 5y ago
The cheapest listing I see in Iowa City is $25,000 for a vacant lot with no building. edit: This is a good indication of real estate bubble btw.
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by visualradio 5y ago
I think the bigger issue is that prices may be extremely inflated in both locations, relative to construction cost of replacing current improvements with new improvements of equal utility, due to national or global real estate credit bubble
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by visualradio 5y ago
Setting aside economics, James Madison developed an interesting categorization of systems of governance, based upon their method of obtaining civic energy, which seems rather timeless: "Spirit of Governments" https://fo
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by visualradio 5y ago
> For example, across the Rust Belt in the US, probably someone could buy a house for $10k or an entire block of homes for dirt cheap In 2021? > Maybe I'm wrong, but I would bet even if someone from a city like San Fran, LA, or N
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by visualradio 5y ago
Any state which enforces private land tenure in a non-reciprocated manner will tend towards autocracy over time. A distinguishing feature of high functioning republics is the ability to organize reliable public assessments of direct taxes o
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by visualradio 5y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/homeless-population.ht... "Where Does California’s Homeless Population Come From?" > As the data shows us, most of the homeless people you pass on the
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by visualradio 5y ago
In order to eliminate taxes on the homeless, the state and local sales tax needs to be eliminated, and permanently set to 0%. The state legislature can introduce a legislatively referred constitutional amendment to eliminate state and local
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by visualradio 5y ago
In republics without absolute rulers, individuals trust each other to maintain the state out of a sense of civic duty, and not to declare themselves king. This trust is greatly eroded by calls to eliminate direct taxes on land holders. In A
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by visualradio 5y ago
If programmers do want to wrap structs in a typedef without using the "_t" suffix, the Vulkan API appears to have settled on upper-camel case: typedef struct VkMemoryBarrier { VkStructureType sType; const
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by visualradio 5y ago
> In my part of the country there are places where this situation has persisted for fifty years, as the auction value of the property is only in the hundreds of dollars per acre At 2021 market valuations, not lower public assessments? &g
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by visualradio 5y ago
> Also the church runs alot of old folks homes, and thus persuades old people to transfer there land to the church, so in some towns, half the houses are owned by the catholic church Is the church exempt from property tax in Germany? If
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by visualradio 5y ago
> which means all the owners are not known - previous landowner died or emigrated and it waits for their descendants to claim it. It isn't possible to build anything on these lots In the U.S. there is no central registrar, deeds are
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by visualradio 5y ago
> Given the central role that C continues to play in systems software, and the difficulty of writing safe and correct C code, it remains a grand challenge to develop effective formal methods for verifying C programs. One of the reasons C
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by visualradio 5y ago
The idea that the majority homeless Californians are 'migrants' from out of state is largely upper class propaganda promoted to avoid discussion of downward mobility caused by high land prices. The problem could be solved by repea
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by visualradio 5y ago
The issue with most Better C languages is that they focus on ABI rather than API compatibility and throw away C header parsing because no one likes libc. With cross-platform standards like OpenGL, POSIX, Vulkan the API is declared in terms
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by visualradio 5y ago
We don't actually need a global minimum tax to make the corporate income tax raise more revenue. We just need to only record and recognize conveyance of deeds, titles, patents between domestic residents and domestically chartered corpo
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by visualradio 5y ago
Well there are many types of capital. Fixed capital attached to land doesn't readily flow across borders unless owners spend money to disassemble and salvage it. Financial capital isn't really capital as banks can create money on
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by visualradio 5y ago
> Naively, you would expect this to be fixed via basic economics: high demand and low supply lead to high prices, which should lead to MORE supply, which should lower prices Classical economics says only half the real estate asset price
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by visualradio 5y ago
> Imagine if businesses eventually buy -all- housing. You can tax them 10000%, they'll just pass it on to renters No, that's incorrect. For vacant, obsolete, uninhabitable, and undeveloped properties there are no tenants. There
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by visualradio 5y ago
> Screw taxing...make it illegal for any person or entity to own more than say, 2 houses. Maybe 3 Taxes are a simpler and more effective though. Ideal solution is a land tax on comparable sales price of the estate less some portion of re
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by visualradio 5y ago
It's not a great write up. It did not mention the largest problem of capitalism: the capitalization of ground rent in asset prices. It instead fixates on another explanation: human desire for riches. > Again, the problem is not rich

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