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by wnc3141 1y ago
I think we saw that with the "vibe session" from a year or so ago. People were technically employed through door dash and other dead end jobs while overall economic agency shrank.
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by wnc3141 1y ago
I think the issue at play here is the quickly changing job descriptions, RSU's and the higher paid bunch benefiting from very unequal pay across a job category.
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by wnc3141 1y ago
It's 100% marketing. He's trying to keep AI firm stock multiples high against Google etc. and trying to gun for regulatory capture he can make it sound scary enough.
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by wnc3141 1y ago
My theory is that, with some exceptions, no one really does more than 4 hrs. of focused (the productive bit) work. The rest is clerical, administrative or unfocused. I do however hope my surgeon stays focused for longer should their service
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by wnc3141 1y ago
Ignoring some nuances, I see what you're saying-- At least in the long run. The issue is however in the short run, air BNB encourages taking existing rentals out of the market to turn into short term rentals. The effect is driving long
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by wnc3141 1y ago
I think what's at play here is the unusually palpable crowding out effects of tourism compared to any other industry. That is, when local stores get replaced by tourism shops, Landmarks etc. become more important than everyday amenitie
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by wnc3141 1y ago
I think we're come to declining marginal gains of software driven businesses when the real competitive advantage comes from real product and operations.
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by wnc3141 1y ago
any chance this was the "sonder" brand? They have weirdly invasive identity requirements.
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by wnc3141 1y ago
markets are, by and large, too competitive for the "everything" app to ever exist. Air BnB works because they have figured out managing search and and a network of "hotels". This may not translate to other services in a
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by wnc3141 1y ago
"learn to code..it's the future"
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by wnc3141 1y ago
You've noticed that the labor market is inherently a political problem. The only thing that sustains quality of pay and conditions is regulation and organization.
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by wnc3141 1y ago
atleast for general contractors - Its a fundamentally different business model. Little growth, tiny margins, low fixed costs and tremendous requirement for trust and quality assurance.
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by wnc3141 1y ago
A few more things 1) these digital (or AI) first substitutes for traditional firms almost always rely on dark patterns to hit their metrics. 2) Having many firms serve a market is always better for consumers as well instead of a single fir
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by wnc3141 1y ago
If your'e looking for ideological coherence, you will be left empty. And their followers know that. Fascism is not an elegant ideological stance.
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by wnc3141 1y ago
This will be one of the defining features of politics in the next decades I predict. I'm coming around to the belief that yes, AI will unlock productivity for some use case. I ask more productive sure, but for who? . Wages have lost t
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by wnc3141 1y ago
In the short term, I fear the most useful application of AI is as a bargaining chip in favor of upper management. That is because while AI might not be able to replace development, it makes developers compete against perceived alternative t
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by wnc3141 1y ago
^ As Promised: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA
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by wnc3141 1y ago
I would argue that the best indicator we have for the health of our democracy is the steady decline of the labor share of income (I'll attach a link here later) - as that essentially translates to "our individual and collective ab
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by wnc3141 1y ago
A big part of preserving a democracy hinges on managing the relationship between Capital and labor. Political Economist Daron Acemoglu won a Nobel Prize last year for studying the difference between democracies that manage the relationship
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by wnc3141 1y ago
If you look at Walmart and others most 3rd party sellers just duplicate their listing across platforms. E-commerce has fewer "competitors" and more carbon copies
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by wnc3141 2y ago
I looked it up. Yes, to both. https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/yip-2025/
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by wnc3141 2y ago
sidebar - will your lecture be streamed to the general public?
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by wnc3141 2y ago
There is no ideological coherence of fascism. It's about coercing a nation into elevating a chosen group/ identity of people above everyone else (a sort of anti-pluralism). -- I liken it to how arguing about the shortcomings of yo
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by wnc3141 2y ago
My cynical read is that there will eventually be complete corporate capture of these tariffs. Then firms will try to protect their carveouts that make unfair advantages. Its about their corporate supporters choosing winners and losers. Its
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by wnc3141 2y ago
Trump is pro business in the same way Putin is. It's not good to be in the Russian oil business, unless you are Putin's chosen friend.
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by wnc3141 2y ago
A big part of depletion of the Ogallala aquifer is due to domestic policy to include corn in just about anything - including fuel.
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by wnc3141 2y ago
I would bet you're probably right. You are touching on the heart of the fact that regime transition is really a intl. Relations problem.
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by wnc3141 2y ago
Unless the international community jumps on it in a multilateral fashion(a la Balkans)
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by wnc3141 2y ago
that's a really interesting question! My only $0.02 is that there isn't a coherent political apparatus to transition political power - as I imagine that the power dynamics among the secondary rank is adversarial.
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by wnc3141 2y ago
The airlines pay a certain rate when you go on call - since your'e still effectively on company time.

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