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by xracy 4y ago
I think that's the point they're making...
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by xracy 4y ago
Yeah, I can't help but feel anytime a police officer stops me on the highway for 8 mph over the speed limit that they're really keeping all the crime away. That's why people stop speeding, cause they get a ticket once and aft
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by xracy 4y ago
Wow, it's nice to know that police protect and serve ducks. Would be cool if they also protected and served people, but I guess ducks are a little easier to work with.
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by xracy 4y ago
As proof of this, consider how incentivized even sports teams are to cheat in what would otherwise be a fair competition.
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by xracy 4y ago
This is not a competition for solar. If anything it's a competition for existing hydro-electric. But like, it's sus that they're not comparing it to that.
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by xracy 4y ago
Strongly disagree with this. Because it's exactly what's propping up our stock market. But the point is that billionaires take money out of circulation, whereas most of the rest of people put it into circulation. I use more of my
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by xracy 4y ago
I think the real problem that your answer hides is that in order for money to circulate, we need to pick up the most stagnant money in the economy. That would be the wealth accumulated by billionaires, rather than the money of cafe workers.
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by xracy 4y ago
This feels like a knee jerk partisan reaction couched as a call for tolerance of an otherwise less popular opinion. What is magic about week 23 that makes this so cut and dry for you?
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by xracy 4y ago
People pretend like competition is some magic thing that could crop up, and not a thing that requires constant regulation to prevent companies from engaging in anti-competitive behavior. Every company is incentivized to engage in anti-compe
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by xracy 4y ago
Yeah, I do. </s>
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by xracy 4y ago
It still sounds like we each have our own individual pod that's less efficient than if we had one common pod that can handle a bunch of people going in a common direction. Distributed systems that have to coordinate multiple moving par
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by xracy 4y ago
I think the problem with this, is that, like the original post states. It's still trying to optimize the horse and buggy. Anything that's giving you a per-person riding experience is not going to perform as well as batching a bunc
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by xracy 4y ago
Okay, but what if we could do that in a way that each person didn't take up 100 Sqft? I get it might not be exactly the same, but walking/biking/Public Transiting with headphones in for a period of time is all that and mo
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by xracy 4y ago
I think this is the wrong way to think about it. It's not about taking away people's cars, it's about making public transit so good (and building cities/neighborhoods that you don't need a car in), that you don&#x
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by xracy 4y ago
There is no way to regulate aggressive driving other than to take people off of the roads.
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by xracy 4y ago
et voila "one wealth tax didn't work", becomes "all wealth taxes don't work". But also what does "didn't work" even mean here? There's nothing about the French law that suggests it didn&#x27
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by xracy 4y ago
"wealth taxes don't work" - citation needed Also, I'm explicitly suggesting the top 10% of folks as a target for taxation.
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by xracy 4y ago
When 1% (~4M) of the country owns 32% of the wealth, you can either target them for taxes. OR you can go after the 160M people in the Middle/Upper 40% to get the 26% of the wealth... Last option, as a compromise you can go over the top
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by xracy 4y ago
I mean, the problem is that the nature of tires is to have maximum traction so you can take advantage of rolling friction. Which means that you'd have to find some magic material that could really take a beating. Also, road sweepers do
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by xracy 4y ago
Yeah... Me too. 95% if your company takes federal funding.
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by xracy 4y ago
You don't say that he 'should' do anything. But you're providing a purely hypothetical example of what someone might do with their money if they were allowed to continue making money beyond the amount of money that t
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by xracy 4y ago
ohhhhh, you're just a troll. You're literally making a point and the counterpoint to your own statement. He's both the right person for the job because he's a billionaire, and the wrong person for the job because he&#x27
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by xracy 4y ago
I'm saying it doesn't matter if Tim Cook has a cause, because he's probably not very good at helping that cause. Which is a direct response to your original point which was an absurd hypothetical about how Tim Cook should be
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by xracy 4y ago
Unfortunately, I've got some really bad news for you... There's nothing unique to ICE cars that makes particulate bad. The worst part of cars for particulate is their weight, and EVs are heavier than ICEs. So in some ways, they ar
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by xracy 4y ago
If he had such a cause, then this wouldn't be a "what if" question. woooo, I can play the what if game too: What if Billionaires gave their money to the gov't as part of taxes like the rest of us? What if the gov't
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by xracy 4y ago
Hasbro Suits: "Hear me out, if we kill the WotC goose, we'll get all the Golden eggs." I really wish they would sell WotC and that it would go private. Not everything needs to become a billion-dollar idea. Why can't we
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by xracy 4y ago
In all seriousness, it's messed up how strongly Amazon can fight this, and not have to put up until they've wasted more money than it would've cost them to just accept it in the first place.
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by xracy 4y ago
<s> Labor is way too powerful in this country. Businesses are really taking a hit from all the power that labor has. </s>
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by xracy 4y ago
Because I've been in the driver's seat of a tesla vehicle when it attempted to turn into oncoming traffic, color me skeptical. No reason for it to turn left, but started to crank the wheel left into oncoming traffic. It's dan
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by xracy 4y ago
I debated putting in the explicit reference to trains. But it's funnier if I don't.

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