@curtish5 @ianbergnet @ApoStructura I’m not advocating for UBI. I pay a +50% effective tax rate, so a lot of other people’s UBI would come out of my income. Was only clarifying how it’s intended to work.
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So I get my 25K back but also get to pay for somebody else's 25K. Sounds like sleight of hand welfare to me. I know AI and robots have already replaced hundreds of thousands of jobs and are coming for everyone's job. The transition is going to be brutal and life on the other end is going to completely different. I don't know if we're even biologically capable of living without worry. Makes me glad to be retired. I wish you youngsters good luck.
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The U.S. could literally do $20,000/y UBI today without raising taxes if there were no other forms of welfare.
If you discarded every program except military/infrastructure/law enforcement/debt repayment, the U.S. federal government would have $20,000 left per adult to spend.
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@curtish5 @ianbergnet @ApoStructura Think of it as a large standard deduction that you get even if you pay less than 25k in taxes. Lots of people pay a lot more than 25k.
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@ianbergnet @ApoStructura If everybody is working and getting the 25K aren't they just getting their own money back? "Universal" does mean everybody doesn't it?
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The Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act would generate over $6 trillion over the next decade—without raising taxes on 99.85% of American households.
This wealth tax for millionaires and billionaires could pay for universal child care, free community college, Medicare expansion, and more.
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@TheBigHurtHQ @maxtmcc Yes. Empirically, people accelerate purchase decisions in an inflationary environment. The higher the inflation, the greater this effect.
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@maxtmcc Counter: When there's high inflation, do people run out and spend their money as quickly as possible before it loses value (aside from gold and crypto investors)?
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whenever you bring this up you get people in the replies saying “but if we had deflation, that would mean everyone could just sit on their money and not spend it ever, and it would gain value all the time!” and it’s like yeah man you’re so close lmao
Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸@GaryWinslett
That you actually want about 2% inflation, not zero and certainly not deflation. Deflation is bad.
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@CzarOfLiberty @CurtisLeMay_fan @GaryWinslett US 1929-1933
Japan 1995-2013
Two examples of deflation that demonstrate the perils.
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@CurtisLeMay_fan @GaryWinslett That’s not true. People literally have to spend to live. Nobody would simply stop spending. If that were to be assumed to be true does capital accumulation cease under inflation?
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That you actually want about 2% inflation, not zero and certainly not deflation. Deflation is bad.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray
What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
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@captgouda24 There are a collection of good reasons, but one of the most intuitively satisfying is that it provides a positive incentive to reinvest wealth.
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Does anyone have a satisfactory answer as to why?
Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸@GaryWinslett
That you actually want about 2% inflation, not zero and certainly not deflation. Deflation is bad.
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@JaredC47931 @jdcmedlock @MockYuah 1.) New technology creates more efficient way of delivering same service. 2.) Workers doing it "the old way" no longer needed.
We will need fewer fast food workers for the same reason we needed fewer loom operators.
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@RealRageBadger @jdcmedlock @MockYuah Please tell me how that is the same as what we're talking about here.
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A 14 cent price increase on a $4 burger in exchange for $20 minimum wage? Good deal.
NBER@nberpubs
California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage raised restaurant prices approximately 3–4 percent. Other prices including food-at-home exhibit no differential movement, pointing to wage-driven pass-through, from @jeffreypclemens, Olivia Edwards, Jonathan Meer, and Joshua D. Nguyen nber.org/papers/w34990
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@JaredC47931 @jdcmedlock @MockYuah Wait until you hear what happened to the loom operators. Absolute labor force bloodbath.
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@jdcmedlock @MockYuah They lost up to 18,000 jobs you idiot.
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@gfodor @Aella_Girl @thegenesisbl0ck @Aella_Girl was being facetious to make a point. I’m not required to obtain consent to my face in public. Neither, is it necessary for a breastfeeding woman to obtain consent to feed her child in public.
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@Aella_Girl @thegenesisbl0ck it's presumed to be part of the social contract, and is largely accepted, that going to a place where humans will be comes with an implicit agreement to see the faces of others if you choose to use your sense of vision without any proxy like a VR headset. rare L
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No one consented to seeing your milk engorged boob. You can just put a blanket over and have some dignity.
Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺@MbarkCherguia
This woman’s receiving backlash for breastfeeding her (kind of old) child inside a restaurant on Mother’s Day, where other patrons were also trying to enjoy their Mother’s Day and meals with loved ones. What do you think? Did she deserve the backlash?
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@JonahDispatch "Broadside"?
Give me a fucking break.
The article is merely asking if it's gone too far.
Not all of us WORSHIP DOGS, but you nutters find that unacceptable, and try to dog shame us.
The shame is on you. It's fucking gotten to the point of ridiculous. Can't go ANYWHERE
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I am probably going to write about the BBC broadside against dogs and dog-ownership. But it's worth remembering that one of the oldest rules in journalism --predating social media by a century - is that dogs, anti-and pro-dog sentiment, is great for circulation or "virality."
That said, screw the BBC and their anti-dog propaganda.
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If there's anything that deserves to be crushed, it's the Hasan Piker left.
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@Colin4Tradition @FaithPundit @jardiniernormie does the catholic church consider sex between spouses to be unholy or profane?
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@RealRageBadger @FaithPundit @jardiniernormie There’s a good vs. evil distinction and a holy/sacred vs. not sacred/profane distinction. This is the latter.
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Protestant Joseph be like:
"AAAAARGH I MUST HAVE SEX SO WHAT IF MY WIFE GAVE BIRTH TO GOD HIMSELF AND GOD IS LIVING IN MY HOUSE I JUST NEED THE SEX SOOOO BAD"
Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️@JennMGreenberg
I never understood the purpose of this doctrine. Obviously Mary was a virgin when she had Jesus, but why must she remain perpetually so? Especially when the Bible talks about Jesus’s brothers. She was married to Joseph and sex within marriage is good, not sinful.
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@FaithPundit @jardiniernormie Emphasis on Christ’s holiness
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@mauresquieu @_Bohemian_Girl It works exactly the same way as it does for straight people.
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@_Bohemian_Girl I'm always curious to know how men can dislike this body and become gay, and how women can dislike the male body and become lesbians.
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@wil_da_beast630 Sadly, I get why the lady on the right stays. She has low self esteem and doesn’t think she can do better. The lady on the left is what puzzles me. She’s not attractive, but she’s slim, and can certainly do better. She’s either a true degenerate or something else is going on.
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I've been dunked on by Noah Kulwin. Yay?
Given his politics (super anti-Zionist, anti-Israel), I think he's making fun of me for feeling bad that a Jewish school has extra security.
Or he's just anti-pool noodles.
noah kulwin@nkulw
Sentience of a pool noodle
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@ChrisMartzWX Holocene was about 0.7C warmer than pre-industrial age temps (+/- 0.5C)
Currently we’re warmer than that (1C above pre-industrial baseline).
The rate of change is notable and it’s reasonable to be curious why it took 10 millennia to cool 0.7C, but only a century to warm 1C.
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What was the global average surface temperature in 7,672 B.C.?
Please give me an answer to the nearest tenth of a degree Celsius.
Show your math.
Matt@801formal_llama
@ChrisMartzWX @nudawaya Like 5 of the hottest years on record were in the last decade. Microplastics are in our balls.
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@richiepooooo @RichardHanania No, they don’t actually. People have the right to decide what they do with their own property and otherwise can f*** off.
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@RichardHanania People have a right to decide the character of their neighborhood. To suggest otherwise is profoundly immoral and stupid.
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French Laundry chef: “No one asked ME whether they could build apartments near by.”
NIMBYs are a case of the banality of evil. If you don’t think these people are the main barrier to Americans living better lives, you don’t understand our current situation.
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Democratic senators Cory Booker, Ruben Gallego and Elissa Slotkin all told Politico they wouldn’t go on Hasan Piker’s show.
But they have all been on Bill Maher’s show, who says Islam is like “the mafia”, the Muslim world has “too much in common” with ISIS, Muslims bring “desert stuff” to the west, and has also used the N word on his show.
Why the double standard? Slotkin was on Maher’s show *yesterday*
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@otarumorumotto @AlexNowrasteh He already noted that it is not his data.
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@AlexNowrasteh Bitches call out anonymity. Not everyone make their living by fabricating data and pontificating on horseshit.
You can't deal with his ideas so you call out anonymity.
Your data is shite
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We didn’t create the model, Mr. Brave Anonymous Troll (BAT). The model is the same type used by the nativist Center for Immigration Studies and Federation for American Immigration Reform, and respectable groups like CMS and Pew.
Oilfield Rando@Oilfield_Rando
I’d like to congratulate Greaseweasel and the Cato Institute for developing models even more full of shit that climate models. Never thought anyone could achieve that.
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