yossarian1408

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by yossarian1408 2y ago
Reminiscent of that quote from the Gulag Archipelago. "Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any bett
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by yossarian1408 3y ago
I reckon the burden of proof lies with those making the accusations! How can the claims be disputed when their evidence isn't even put forward in the first place?
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by yossarian1408 3y ago
Brilliant article. It's concerning seeing the attack on free speech happening under the guise of combatting hate/misinformation. As if we can trust the citizenry with the power of electing its government, but not with forming its
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by yossarian1408 3y ago
People who commit crimes are not entitled to the same rights as everybody else nor ought they to be
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by yossarian1408 3y ago
Relevant context. Singer has a lot of clout because people read some of his stuff in a first year philosophy class. For those who didn't get the memo that the man is a crazy misanthrope, him taking the idea of infanticide seriously is
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by yossarian1408 3y ago
1. SpaceX and Tesla do not publish news 2. If by "easy loans" you mean competing for contracts with the likes of BlueOrigin, Raytheon and Boeing, you ought to drop the word 'easy' 3. If the goal is getting back at the in
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by yossarian1408 3y ago
Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla are not newspapers/publishers. The reason for labelling news organisations' government affiliations is for the viewer/reader to understand that there may or may not be bias, and where the funding is
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by yossarian1408 4y ago
A flawed ideal maybe, but you can't say it's a scam.
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by yossarian1408 4y ago
Mobile phones an essential service?
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by yossarian1408 4y ago
The petrodollar might be valuable to the US, it certainly isn't doing the world any favours.
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by yossarian1408 4y ago
100% this. I wonder if people consider the carbon footprint of maintaining petrodollar hegemony. But they will lose that hegemony. It happened to the denarii, it will happen to the dollar. The question is - what would be best suited to repl
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by yossarian1408 4y ago
It's not even that. There are different drivers of inflation, it could be spurred by supply shocks, increased demand, greater supply of money, uncompetitive markets arising from government capture, etc., the economy is so complex that
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by yossarian1408 4y ago
Sounds less like capitalism breaking down and more like a regulatory issue.. could fractional reserve banking exist in a competitive banking sector w/o a central bank?
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by yossarian1408 4y ago
You are referring to the US dollar correct?
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
Anybody is more than welcome to build their own garden, but if you own the garden you also get to decide if it has walls around it or not.
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
If your country has a central bank, I promise you the crash is going to be inflationary.
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
Similarly, I've begun tactical combat and firearms training. The most essential part of a society is it's stability, and the government's ability to exert power in the name of this stability. It would be counterintuitive to s
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
Mate they'll go after your gold before they go after your land.
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
It's not their propaganda operation, it's ours.
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
> If you plan to hold crypto long term No, if crypto becomes the dominant medium of exchange. In this way it would be determined by factors of supply and demand same as money has always been for thousands of years. The dollar is more sus
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
It's not like that at all. Aluminium is a commodity good - it holds value regardless of other people's valuations and expectations. Cryptocurrency is entirely dependent on other people agreeing that it is valuable, and that means
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
The more of your own wealth tied up in a crypto asset, the more you have an interest in ensuring no manipulation occurs. An exact inverse to the speaker's thesis. Crypto is underrated for it's incentive solutions from a praxeologi
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
...can you completely discount that rising energy prices may be due to inflationary monetary policy? A higher money supply means more competition for less resources, and if the ultimate resource in nearly every supply chain is energy than i
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
So construct a government where individuals are not secured or compromised their liberty depending on the outcome of an election. You speak of the popular will being corrupted by an external power, but the tyranny of the majority is enough
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
Well when you take into account GST, income tax their employees pay, corporate tax, payroll tax, import&export duties (and every business up and down the supply chain has the exact same tax burden), there is not a lot left over for the
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
The name of the game is positive-sum. Amazon can be a behemoth and also face competition in the labour market and others. It isn't Amazon or Mom&Pop, in a fair market there's space for both surely.
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
Hegelian dialectics
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
Your third option is likely to only reinforce the sociopolitical conditions that lead to corporatism and starvation in the first place.
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
It helps that a minimum wage and absurd regulation conspire to eliminate a good size of firms that would otherwise be competing in a fair labour market. And let's not get started on the taxes that small and medium sized businesses have
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by yossarian1408 5y ago
A decade of destabilisation in both countries could have been the straw that broke the camel's back, sure. Argentina was already out of the rich-countries-club by the time the 70's had come around, and the bloody military coup you

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