@neoliberal_hack @the_transit_guy @cafreiman Weird. You vote for communists and fascists who are very much intransigently oppose them.
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Rigo Valenz
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Surge pricing opponents when they learn about happy hours and matinee discounts
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@auraaunt @RetroXGalaxy @lockerroomla @FearedBuck There is a system set up in which if the police get called, the dude is going to jail by default and that psycho is being left there with her kid.
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@RetroXGalaxy @lockerroomla @FearedBuck God forbid there is a system set up to help women more than men in domestic abuse because men are 95% of the abusers. Cringe take
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@runaway_vol Capitalists never answered the question of who wants all the coastal real estate when its 10m under water due to greed.
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communists never answered the question of who gets the coastal real estate
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@elmachuca A lot of them actually were insane. Two of my friends hid under their bed from COVID for a year and a half and then split to Austin as soon as they got their experimental big pharma shots because California still wouldn't let them do anything.
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I love Austin, but I honestly question anyone’s sanity that moved to Austin from California
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@esjesjesj Nah, right wing ideology ultimately boils down to submission to authority
They will support whatever comes out the mouth of their leader, that's it
The rest is grift
Literally a death cult, no exaggeration
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The entire ideology of the right revolves around whether it affects their own money and this is painfully clear in everything they say
onion person@CantEverDie
it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish
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@neoliberal_hack @the_transit_guy @cafreiman I guess. It's weird that people who oppose free markets in every regard would for some reason be weird massive fans of dynamic pricing though. I bet it's really just because it seems technocratic and they think they can use it to manipulate behaviors the way they'd like to.
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@neoliberal_hack @the_transit_guy @cafreiman Also, you're like a fucking democrat bro. Worried about the "nanny state". I want social security abolished because I don't give a shit about people's stupidity and laziness.
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@neoliberal_hack @the_transit_guy @cafreiman Ok. I didn't suggest that the nanny state was going to do anything. calm down. I merely suggested that any business that tries this should be bankrupted by its customers. What likely will happen is brokies who fund their lives with credit cards will just pay the prices though.
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@neoliberal_hack @the_transit_guy @cafreiman Sure whatever. People currently spend no brainpower keeping track of which of the 1000s of shops they may entire might try to dynamically price them, thinking they know what their willingness to pay is. And the information asymmetry suggests it will likely be one sided.
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@AlexRigoV @the_transit_guy @cafreiman You don’t *have* to pay more, you can decline to purchase from places that have policies you don’t like, and other places that want your business will tailor their policies to attract you.
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@neoliberal_hack @the_transit_guy @cafreiman Obviously it will be very obnoxious when planning to stop by the store on the way home to get that chicken you saw in the weekly flyer for whatever price only to show up at the store and find out it's currently surging or worse, that you have to pay more because you're affluent.
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@the_transit_guy @cafreiman Why does a sale being pre determined or spur of the moment make it more or less good?
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@BlatantlyDumb @B3nL1pman @dugmartsch @cafreiman I don't know. I can tell you that if I am forbidden from getting the weekly sale price on chicken because I'm not poor enough, I'll no longer be shopping at that store.
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@AlexRigoV @B3nL1pman @dugmartsch @cafreiman what about discounts for low-income consumers (this is literally the exact same thing)
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Surge pricing is good—if a store is running low on ice cream (for example), it can conserve the supply by instantly raising the price and reserve the remainder for those who value it the most (plus, the store can quickly lower prices if a product isn’t selling).
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Walmart is rolling out digital price tags at all of its stores. At the same time, the corporate giant just secured a patent for "dynamically and automatically updating item prices.” Plus another patent for using machine learning to predict demand and recommend prices.
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@cafreiman Dynamic pricing based on willingness to pay will not be punished. Retards currently up to their eyeballs in credit card debt will continue to finance burritos at any price; frugal, but affluent consumers will be stuck with not option but to be extracted from.
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If your criticism of dynamic pricing is that customers will dislike unpredictable prices, then presumably the market will punish businesses that use it and so the alleged problem will resolve itself.
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@B3nL1pman @dugmartsch @cafreiman Forbidding people from getting deals because they’re “high income “ is not going to rub people the same way as a discount.
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@dugmartsch @cafreiman Should we get rid of senior discounts or those for military and first responders?
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@idobadtakes This is true but only because most people who work in “big law” are fucking monkeys with no actual marketable skills or talent . So if you’re at least a bit smarter than the average retard, big law associates are no better than you
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A common misconception among people who have never done a real, actually hard job like surgical residency or Big Law. You are more capable than you can comprehend
llillillulu@llillillulu
@mannecharico @signulll @michaelmiraflor its impossible for someone to do real deep thinking work from 9am to 3am and not be autistic. she clearly isnt autistic with that tiktok tripod setup everywhere shes async sending emails back and forth to other PMs or people actually doing the work (notice her "reactions")
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@KeithMcC04 @forcade_mi39238 @jimiuorio Well it is relevant actually dumbass, because they continued to act like every person had the same risk and that the risk was 3% rather than 0.3%. Hence the meaning of the original post.
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@AlexRigoV @forcade_mi39238 @jimiuorio For healthier people the risk was lower, but there was still a risk.
Even if the people that died had other conditions, that’s irrelevant, most of them would have survived those other conditions, but Covid killed them.
It’s amazing how morons like you just ignore the bodies.
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Does anyone dispute these facts…in March of 2020 there was a nationwide panic that was based on an imperial college study that suggested that covid had a 3-4% fatality rate. Policy was crafted based on that study. By May everyone knew that those estimates were over stated by about 500x. The new information would have never caused a panic…but the ball was already rolling…what did I get wrong?
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@Miia44685667 @ProbablyDrunk3 @SandyofCthulhu Be honest, what is the extent of your formal study of economics?
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@ProbablyDrunk3 @SandyofCthulhu Hell we literally have an example of this with carvana. They are raising the prices of used vehicles because they pay over bluebook value since they are being subsidized by their other business that gain from a higher valued used car market
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The bishop of my former congregation worked in for the City of Berkeley. I was his clerk. He told us that when rent control got voted in, the landlords fell into two groups. One group jacked up their rents as high as possible before the law took effect. The others left their rents as was, trying to be nice guys.
The "nice guys" then took it in the shorts. Some went bankrupt. Some just abandoned their buildings and let the city grab them for non-payment of taxes. Most followed the policy of never ever letting anyone new back into an apartment when someone moved out. The landlord end-game was if EVERYONE moved out of your complex, you could remodel the thing and then even Berkeley would let you calculate new rents.
He said he knew of several apartment buildings in which only one tenant was left, hanging on for dear life. The owner just waiting for the guy to leave. Of course no landlord had any motivation to ever repair, repaint, or refurbish anything in a rent-controlled complex.
When I moved to the East Bay I was pretty much pro-rent control. When I left, I thought it was the stupidest idea ever.
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Caleb Hammer explains why rent control doesn’t work “It’s one of those policies that sounds really good and really moral. You want to support it, landlords make less money and people pay less rent. But everywhere it’s been enacted, permitting has dropped significantly, and rents have gone up even faster for the average person, except for the few lucky ones in subsidized housing” “Units go untouched and aren’t maintained at all. I think something like 10-20% of rent controlled units in New York are empty because they can’t be brought up to standard, since it’s not worth investing in. In Massachusetts, rent control was a complete disaster and had to be repealed. In San Francisco, the moment they introduced it, permitting dropped. It just hasn’t worked”
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@KeithMcC04 @forcade_mi39238 @jimiuorio They don't actually know how many people were killed from COVID because the data are so polluted as a result of "with" and "of" distinction. Also, it was a million super fat and old people. For normal healthy people, there is no risk of dying from COVID.
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@forcade_mi39238 @jimiuorio You have to excuse me, I’m not in a cult so it’s hard for me to believe that people are stupid enough to believe that Covid didn’t kill over a million people in the United States alone.
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@Boenau But actually, the fundamental factor in severe crashes is the amount of retards on the road.
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Speed is the fundamental factor in severe crashes. That means severe crashes are preventable.
Modern safety culture leads people to misdirect their energy by complaining about something a person riding a bicycle did, rather than confronting the primary threat to life & limb.
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@earthstepper @ianmSC @markdfabela I love you pretend only the Republicans are "culture warriors" when democrats obviously instigate that bullshit.
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@ianmSC @markdfabela Well maybe, but we did kick out that fool Grey Davis and bring on Arnold. So we’re willing to vote otherwise just not for Republican culture warriors.
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The thing you have to understand about California is that outcomes literally do not matter. It does not matter how much Democrats fail here. They will get 70% of the vote in LA and 80-90% of the vote in the Bay Area forever. And that’s why it’s only going to get worse.
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
California already spent $114 million on this unfinished wildlife crossing bridge (leading nowhere)
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@svrnco Price control advocates should indeed be treated like flat earthers. And yet, it's the primary tenet of Democrat economic policy.
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MIT econ chair says rent control is terrible. His framing is milquetoast. Rent control proponents should be treated like flat earthers, climate change deniers, moon landing hoax believers. They reject science and reason to promote one of the worst policies.
Jonathan Berk@berkie1
"There is now unambiguous, solid economic evidence, not just abstract economic theory, that rent control would make the affordability problems facing [Massachusetts] worse, not better." - Jon Gruber, Chairman of the Economics Department at MIT
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