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Being against things feels good, being for things creates change.
Spend your time wisely.
Gurwinder@G_S_Bhogal
An easy way to be less miserable is to switch from being anti-things-you-hate to pro-things-you-like.
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A winner is a loser who tried one more time
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@MarshallCSmith As someone who has had his kids in private school, public school, and wanted to homeschool but ended up being unable to I think Homeschooling is the better option.
Just because something isn't possible for every single person doesn't mean it isn't the superior choice.
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The “homeschooling is the only way” mentality lacks a connection to the lives of most Americans. The philosophy makes sense in a bubble, an upper middle class Christian bubble. Get outside that bubble into urban cities, single parent households and households at or below the poverty line and it all breaks down. Christian parents are right to consider what are the best options for their family, homeschooling may be it. However, we need to leave the “moral” superiority of homeschooling behind. It’s not helpful.
Anthony Bradley@drantbradley
To The “Everyone Should Homeschool” Crowd, you live in a bubble. ~Yours Truly, Reality. “According to the National Literacy Institute, 21% of U.S. adults are illiterate, while 54% have a literacy comprehension below a sixth-grade level.”
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@_Hazardous_Wolf LTV is nonsense, but this isn't a good example of why.
Marxists would have no specific issue with this.
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It's almost as if labor theory of value is complete bullshit because prices are subjective and based on whatever the market deems fair or what people are willing to pay.
RTSG@RTSG_Main
✅ FACT: The labor theory of value is CORRECT, and every critic of it relies on strawmans and falsehoods already refuted by Marx himself.
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@drydenwtbrown Step 1 is just trying to shout down all the really dumb ideas that sound nice.
Step 2 is adults talking about actual things that might help.
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You have no plan. Libertarians will never be leaders because they refuse to contemplate what is best for their people.
Erik Voorhees@ErikVoorhees
@drydenwtbrown $5,000/mo x 350m Americans = $1.75 trillion per month 3x current federal spending, just on UBI good luck finding enough people to steal that from
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@RTSG_Main Changes in productivity don't lower value. In an oversimplified sense, they lower price.
No one cares how much labor went into a product
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LIBERTARIANS DON'T UNDERSTAND MARX:
Value isn't "whatever buyers feel like paying".
The regulator remains labor time, not aggregated subjective valuations.
For example: Changes in productivity (new machinery) lower value, even if buyers still "want" the good just as much.
Destroyer of Bad Takes (Emeritus)@_Credible_Hulk
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As someone who comes from a family of teachers , 90% of you aren’t smart enough to homeschool your kids and are doing them a serious disservice
Connor Boyack 📚@cboyack
Homeschooling, in a nutshell, is refusing to outsource your child's formation to strangers with a curriculum you didn't choose.
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@michaelpatron0 I had to fight this for a client and had to give up. Amazon said the price match was $5 on a $16 item. COGS were more than $5.
I showed this but got no where.
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Amazon price matching a completely different item and suppressing my listing because their algo wears a helmet. Now I have to open a case, get past the unhelpful AI assistant and hope I can argue my way out of this. I know the exact item Amazon is matching and it's different.
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@foscaecon 'Labor produces all value but only when it is used to make something valuable...'
This isn't the win you think it is.
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The Austrian argument “a mud pie requires labor but is worthless” attacks a straw man. Marx knew perfectly well that labor must be socially necessary and produce use-value.
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@ChazakielDoremi You aren't totally wrong but this isn't that.
This is celebrating that subsidizing something bad is finally over and the companies coasting on that are dying.
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Americans have this pervasive belief that far, far too many people have it far too good without "deserving" it, so signs that their economy is in a complete freefall collapse are met with cheers. "Finally!" They say, "taken down a peg!"
Heart & Soil@heartandsoilHQ
*No more EBT for Soda or Candy* *7-Eleven begins aggressively closing stores* *Realize 7-Eleven was subsidized*
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@AkkadSecretary Inflation is skewed by the big drop in tech prices. None of which are listed.
Basically its just the housing prices that matter on your list.
Cars and college are higher than they need to be thanks to government policies.
Inflation sucks but not too bad based on this list.
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Adjusting for inflation we can see what life should be:
Average income ~$40,500
New House ~$91,300
New car ~$20,100
Average rent ~$630 per month
Harvard ~$9,800 per year
Movie ticket: ~$5.85
Gas ~$2.34
Postage stamp ~$0.70
Doesn't even account increased productivity from tech
iamyesyouareno@iamyesyouareno
They just worked harder, you know.
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@FelixAmazonCat Oh, so you want me to buy a 10ft 500 pound piece of fragile glass!?!
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Clearly its more complicated than that
(Obligatory notice: the above is sarcasm. Exaggerating common respinces on X for comedic effect)
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Why does no one ever define what vague phrases like "properly funding" actually means? 🤔
John Collins@Logically_JC
So many of our problems could be fixed by properly funding public education.
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@GMShivers They don't even know what that means.
They can't even handle a question on what to do about companies that lose money.
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@ParallelSupply They have no answer for why they would get the SLV of other people's work if a business makes most of its money on 3rd party transaction fees I've noticed.
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It doesn't matter how many they make they do not instantaneously sell the moment they are produced, other people have to ship them, advertise them, sell them, ship them again. That's not your labor. And it doesn't change the 10% margin on the total lot.
Mr. NG 🇵🇸@The_mrNG
@GMShivers You're assuming the worker makes only 1 chair per hour
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@BlackLabelAdvsr Wow!
Its like you think things agencies specialize in are good and things they don't are bad.
How do you make your money again?
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Welcome to Amazon Twitter, bro!
Here’s a quick cheat sheet:
Private Label good.
Jungle Scout/Smart Scout good.
Coupons good.
PPC from Day 1 good.
Lifestyle photos good.
Wholesale bad.
Retail Arbitrage bad.
Helium 10 bad.
DIY photography bad.
Also, using lenders to fuel your growth good.
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@anomsiiwa @AuronMacintyre Who are you and how do you know this about me?
😂
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@AuronMacintyre Everyone thinks they are an undiscovered novelist until they get a three day weekend and spend fourteen hours on TikTok.
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It’s very simple
UBI disconnects the economic cycle from human concern
It creates a closed techno-commercial feedback loop that ignores the needs of humans
People ignoring or downplaying this consequence haven’t grasped its implications
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
Overheard in Silicon Valley: "UBI is for farm animals."
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@AbeChomali Amazon would have to be chasing out bad sellers though.
If all that is left is cut rate garbage being sold that won't be a positive for anyone.
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Fewer sellers are great for both shoppers and for businesses that run their operations professionally.
- Prices are more stable. (Better for sellers)
- Innovation is rewarded better when knockoffs take longer to happen. (Better for sellers)
- Fewer low quality products (better for buyers)
- Fewer identical knockoff products filling SERPs (better for buyers)
- At some point ad costs may go down as irrational players exit and the remaining sellers focus on profit (the opposite can also happen if consolidation results in mostly sellers with deep pockets)
“Very few sellers” results in a stake selection and is terrible for everyone.
“Cleaning up a cluttered market” is a good thing.
I don’t have any data to support this, but I might suggest that a 20-30% reduction in sellers could result in a much better experience for buyers and sellers, with more sales for Amazon as well.
Sean Frank@Seanfrank
I’ve done over $100,000,000 in Amazon sales. I do 8 figures a quarter. It is very hard to sell on Amazon and make money. This chart shows a 100,000 decline in active sellers in 12 months. Imagine if Meta lost 1/6 advertisers? Revenue would be destroyed right? But Amazon is such a perfect market, that these sellers can churn and nothing happens. Amazon is still a top 3 opportunity in Ecom to make money. But the platform is working against you. Every other seller is working against you. The system is working against you. Being good at Amazon is a life hack. But the barrier is higher than ever. My guess? Before 2028 we lose another 250k sellers. Sales volume will stay flat. Means bigger slices for those that can make it.
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@Molson_Hart While I get it, I also just struggle to care what low information myopic people think.
Trump is terrible at this point. Literally the opposite of why he was elected.
But people bitched about him then too.
Most governments suck and run by scum bags 💁
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Was playing sports with some guys and our time on the court was over.
I said we should get off and let next people play even though their full team wasn’t there.
I’m overseas.
Someone said unprompted:
“A fair American? What is this?”
“Why aren’t you like your president?”
Whether you think it is fair or not, whether you think it was just joke, people are increasingly thinking like this and our perception in the world is definitely in decline.
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@FroppyRBX @Molson_Hart Sure. I don't really care about gambling per se.
I just find the idea of banning everything a minority of people abuse to be too much paternalism.
Especially when it negatively impacts potentially valuable tools, like prediction markets.
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@ParallelSupply @Molson_Hart It was working really well when this shit was banned to begin with
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Just ban it all.
It does nothing but make a few people rich while destroying the lives of the poor young kids who don’t get a good enough education to resist it.
At best it’s an unproductive distraction.
At worst, it’s toxic bankruptcy-inducing antisocial behavior.
Ban it.
Rahm Emanuel@RahmEmanuel
Let’s bet on America — not against it. I’m proposing a 10% fee on prediction markets and online gambling to fund an American Innovation Fund—investing in AI, quantum computing, fusion energy, life sciences, and national security tech. President Xi is investing in the future, whereas President Trump’s cuts in NIH and NSF is defaulting on America’s preeminence. That’s not how you win. Let’s fund cures, build new energy resources, lead in defense technologies and quantum tech. Stop falling further behind, start investing in winning again. That’s the American way. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@YPersisted @Molson_Hart I'm not a fan but the idea does make sense.
Taxation reduces use of something bad, subsidies increase use of something good.
Bad policy IMHO but I understand why it is recommended
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@Molson_Hart The gambling aside, I’ve never understood taxing one thing to fund something completely unrelated. It makes no sense.
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@michaelpatron0 You could test a focus on top converting keywords. Most likely to be profitable, most likely to support TaCOS.
Poor converting keywords are mostly just incremental sales and might even harm rank a bit.
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Boycott data. More profit for sure, will prob look for ways to scale back PPC to open up margin and ROI.
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