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@mmjukic Reproduction

I mean, it's a good question. Why hasn't human civilization naturally developed into a brutal aristocracy of the highly moral and high-IQ? Why don't we have a global "130 IQ high-trust Anglo" paradise already? What mysterious force obviously overcomes and beats intelligence?

@agentsmart @FredLambert Name calling. Very impressive analysis.

@NicSD6 @FredLambert Calm down Satan.

These guys are working very hard to justify being complete assholes.

@mindyourbusines @JaelandoTweets @FredLambert Printing money is also a big problem true. We never said excessive empathy is the only problem. Problem is, its also Democrats who are the primarily money printers.. The covid fiasco was both parties to some extent. Bunch of idiots.

@NicSD6 @JaelandoTweets @FredLambert Sure, sure… “excessive empathy prevents us from balancing our budget due to entitlements, etc” Loaning money to students is the main cause of the government not having control in printing money…let’s blame immigration and students bc of excessive empathy.

@mindyourbusines @JaelandoTweets @FredLambert Thanks for proving my point.

@NicSD6 @JaelandoTweets @FredLambert How the world works at any kind of sophisticated level🤔

@comment_ish @RuckerCulpepper @JustinWolfers Its not besides the point. The "power" framed in a negative way by the OP, is actually the power to allocate power effectively, as proven by their ability to collect capital via prior acts. A very relevant point.

@RuckerCulpepper @JustinWolfers What you are saying is orthogonal to the original poster's point. No question that good capital allocation helps society. It is besides the point.

Economists call this diminishing marginal utility. The first dollars change your life. The billionth doesn't. So the argument stops being about consumption and starts being about power.

@JustinWolfers Its about allocating capital. Some people are good at employing capital for productive purposes. They get more of it as a result. Those who are poor at allocating capital, get less of it. Thus, we get pretty good capital allocation. Its a feature not a bug.

@mindyourbusines @JaelandoTweets @FredLambert Perfect example of the left. They have no real substantive arguments, just name calling/labeling. Because none of their ideas actually work, and/or they don't really understand how the world works at any kind of sophisticated level.

@JaelandoTweets @NicSD6 @FredLambert Replies to Ultra Verified MAGAs are ignored 🤡

@LeContempIateur Rubbish. Most of cold office spaces is due to bad HVAC design. Also your picture shows men radiating more heat, not necessarily that they prefer colder temps.

Les femmes ont davantage tendance à avoir froid que les hommes, non pas parce qu’elles seraient « trop sensibles », mais parce que la température ambiante de référence a été initialement définie en fonction du niveau de confort des hommes. Pendant des décennies, les normes de confort thermique utilisées dans de nombreux bureaux ont été établies à partir d’un modèle standard représentant un homme d’environ 40 ans pesant 70 kg. Le problème, c’est que les femmes ont en moyenne moins de masse musculaire, un métabolisme différent et une production de chaleur corporelle plus faible. Résultat : une température jugée parfaitement confortable par beaucoup d’hommes peut être perçue comme trop froide par de nombreuses femmes. Certaines études suggèrent même que la température idéale pour les femmes pourrait être plusieurs degrés plus élevée que celle retenue dans de nombreux espaces de travail. C’est un détail auquel la plupart des gens ne pensent jamais, mais il montre à quel point certains standards que nous considérons comme universels ont en réalité été conçus à partir d’un profil humain très spécifique.

'Overlook facts" - Which facts are those? That there really is a $38T deficit driven largely by entitlements? Or that there really are 20+M illegal foreign nationals without our border, many of which are collecting public benefits? Not to mention those brought in under chain migration also on the public dole.

@NicSD6 @FredLambert no reason to do so. They are not serious thinkers because we've already seen how willing they are to overlook facts. If I hear the term "suicidal empathy," I'm not earnestly discussing anything with that person

@prettysweetkix @FredLambert If you don't understand the other sides argument, you are not really wrestling with the issues.

Political favoritism or concessions due to competitive pressure across regions/countries/etc is not the same as empathy. So no, not at all the same. Also, there's no evidence that any of those things will destroy our society the way trillions in debt (entitlements/empathy) or 20+M foreign nationals will (empathy for the 3rd world, etc).

@NicSD6 @FredLambert Does that excess of empathy apply to banks, car companies, corporations or individuals that have secured government funding, bailouts, grants, contracts for millions and billions of dollars bc they have made poor financial choices?

@rezmeram @FredLambert Colonialism didn't win because of empathy of the natives. They were overwhelmed by force and tech.

@NicSD6 @FredLambert exactly that's how colonialism won, the locals needed to crush the invaders

No, there argument is that modern society has an excess of empathy, such that in the long term, it will destroy our society (e.g. suicidal empathy). e.g. excessive empathy prevents us from balancing our budget due to entitlements, etc. It prevents us from closing our border, it prevents us from only loaning money to students who will have high paying careers, it enables us to pay off student debt via public money because we feel bad for adults who voluntarily made poor financial decisions, etc, etc, etc.

@NicSD6 Indeed. My whole point is that they have none. They are trying to justify being assholes who can't put themselves in other people's shoes because it doesn't serve their own narrowminded view of the world.

@BruceBartlett Because everyone knowns the universities and media lean right. 🤡

In case it's not obvious why the Overton Window drifts rightward, it's because the wealthy have a disproportionate influence. In the long-run, they control content in the institutions that determine policy--universities, the media, think tanks etc. and ultimately government.

The natural drift of the Overton Window is to the right, which means a bias in favor of right-wing policies. We need a strong left to pull the window back to the center. Therefore, if you favor centrist policies you should support the left.

@KeithELaughlin @tedfrank His point is the deficit makes it self evident that collectively, we are receiving more than we pay, so the "average" is from gov to citizens.

@tedfrank What is your source for the claim that the average American receives more from the government than they pay in? The average American receives nothing from defense spending, Social Security, Medicare or interest on the debt. Where are they getting these federal dollars?

This is nonsense. The average American receives more from the government than they pay in (which is why our deficit and debt are in the trillions), and average undocumented immigrants are below average in economic contributions—yet Caro says they’re fiscally positive. This is why no one intellectually honest trusts Cato studies.

@jess_ann_pin Competition between females sets the rules of the game. Not like in the past where society limited female access. Now they have to compete with each other

Jesus. We really need to spread awareness about this kind of stuff. We do not owe men consequence-free holes for them to jizz in at expense to our health, happiness, and fine ass figures. Men need to ejaculate responsibly in a goddamn condom unless safely outside the fertile window.

@mindyisser Maybe for 2nd or 3rd kids... The first one at 33 might not happen

it’s true that women can’t wait forever to have children but there’s an extreme right wing and bizarre fear mongering campaign happening now that isn’t based in reality. 33 years old is a perfectly normal age to get pregnant!

@ElectrekCo It can't drive itself so who cares

Rivian R2 Performance just earned a 105 MPGe combined EPA rating, identical to the Tesla Model Y Performance, despite weighing nearly 800 pounds more with a far boxier body. It also beats Tesla on range at 330 miles versus 306, which is not the matchup most people expected from a more utilitarian SUV.

@DanteJeffe14617 @FischerKing64 There was no intentional shift to any particular form of capitalism. International competition, primarily, and increasing cost of cradle to grave type benefit packages, drove the changes. Welcome.... to the real world.

@FischerKing64 Yea this claim by right wingers is totally bullshit. The shift to requiring college degrees is a product of Milton Freeman and the shift from stakeholder capitalism (where people worked at a job for life) to shareholder capitalism (where companies would fire you to max profits).

He’s not going to respond to my thread on Duke Power prior to the 1970 ruling because this was the most cut and dry case ever. He’s depending on you not knowing the facts. x.com/DanteJeffe1461…