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Alan Goddard(bull moose)

@gotemgoddard

University of Alabama 2020 ΦΚΣ

Katılım Ocak 2014
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)
Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@HeroicLife @MarshallsFolly @merlinscapital Its obviously more nuanced than “boomers” but its not coincidence that that particular gen was the biggest generation and thus had the most political influence and staying power. They don’t get all the blame, but they haven’t done for their kids what their parents did for them
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David Veksler ₿🔑👌
David Veksler ₿🔑👌@HeroicLife·
Every generation votes for policies that benefit them — that's not a boomer trait, it's how democratic incentives work. Gen X homeowners in Austin are blocking density right now. Millennial NIMBYs in Portland killed housing projects last year. The moment you own an asset, your voting incentives flip. That's not a moral failing unique to one birth cohort — it's the predictable output of a system where existing homeowners have concentrated interests and future residents don't vote in local elections because they don't live there yet. "They benefited" is also just describing how asset ownership works. Nobody sells their house at a loss out of generational solidarity. The question is whether the policies that inflated those assets should continue — and that's a fight happening right now in city councils and state legislatures, where the median age of the people blocking zoning reform is getting younger every cycle. Blaming a generation feels satisfying but it's strategically useless. Boomers aren't going to un-vote. The policies are the actionable target, and the people blocking reform today aren't all 75.
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)
Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@fitty_d Because your elected representatives are failing to enforce the laws designed to prevent monopolization, on purpose, because they are largely being financed by monopolies to look the other way
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Why do they teach us in high school that monopolies are bad but like.. everything is getting more monopolized every day
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@markyzaguirre I think the atmosphere of the late gilded age was far different than today. writing was on the wall politically, anti trust was coming down the barrel fast and philanthropy was a logical way to rehabilitate their image to the public. Billionaires today aren’t feeling the pressure
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Mark R. Yzaguirre
Mark R. Yzaguirre@markyzaguirre·
Stanford University, Rice University, and Vanderbilt University are named after Gilded Age captains of industry (I prefer that term over robber barons) who decided to do some good intellectual things with their wealth. Why haven’t today’s billionaires done much in that regard?
Charlotte Alter@CharlotteAlter

During the last Gilded Age, the robber barons saw a cultural value to founding universities, museums, concert halls, foundations. Many enduring institutions were founded by the ultra-rich of the 1890 who felt a sense of noblesse oblige that was also socially rewarded. Not anymore. These people see little social value to founding anything that doesn’t make a profit.

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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@2CynicAl65 Might as well go to the full 100%. Elected positions were never intended for making politicians rich. You don’t lose talent because the most talented people don’t go into politics in the first place, and you kill greed as a political motivation
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)
Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@MaineHippo83 @captgouda24 Oversimplified. Inflation is just the buying power of currency decreasing. Its not a direct measure of econ output or growth, its just associated with growth because its a byproduct of debt issued via money printing to encourage more risky investment backed by future tax earnings
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MaineHippo83
MaineHippo83@MaineHippo83·
@captgouda24 Absolutely this is econ 101 stuff. Growing economies have inflation. It means people are making more it means there are more people it's natural shrinking economies have no inflation or deflation. We don't just create inflation for the fun of it it's a byproduct of good economy
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@plasticolicious @cremieuxrecueil Yeah, especially when you consider that technological advances should enable better efficiency in administration. The cost of food didn’t rise un proportionally with the invent of the tractor, it increased yield and allowed supply to keep up with demand. HC IT is a black swan
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Plasticolicious, MD💈
Plasticolicious, MD💈@plasticolicious·
@cremieuxrecueil I guess what I’m saying is you can’t separate IT costs from admin costs, they can easily be grouped. Sure there may be nuance of how we label things, but the “non-medical” costs have increased too much. More importantly, there are clearly ways to lower these costs.
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@FBallAnalysisYT If you rode it out and grinded him he wasnt that bad. I spent hours walking around caves looking for him and eventually beat the final 4 with him in diamond
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@KommonOrigin @BarneyFlames Perhaps not an existential threat, that remains to be seen. But rising sea levels, more volatile flood and drought conditions, the shifting of ocean currents like the gulf stream could have massive impacts to our living conditions. Its not a minimal impact
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ӄommon Enemy 🔮
ӄommon Enemy 🔮@KommonOrigin·
Humans have minimal impact. The impact from solar cycles, ice ages and natural disasters such as volcanic events, floods, fires, generational earthquakes and landslides, have far more impact. Our environmental impact is not an existential threat to our continued existence. Unless you want to include pollutants and nuclear weapons as "environmental impact".
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@KommonOrigin @BarneyFlames Under the pretext of future human existence. To suggest humans have no impact on climate is a level of naivety i didn’t think possible. Its not about nature, nature will be fine. Its about whether or not we are able to cope with the conditions we create for ourselves
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ӄommon Enemy 🔮
ӄommon Enemy 🔮@KommonOrigin·
@gotemgoddard @BarneyFlames "Effects of climate change" are relevant under what circumstance? The climate has always "changed". The driver of that change is numerous and varied.
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@YahooSports The same thing would happen if you put a boxer in mma. If you made the flag players put on pads and play tackle they would probably die. The outcome is not shocking
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Yahoo Sports
Yahoo Sports@YahooSports·
Team USA, a roster of pro flag football players, just beat two teams of NFL pros by a combined score of 82-27 😳
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@KommonOrigin @BarneyFlames The correlation is irrelevant to this conversation. You are minimizing the potential effects of climate change by suggesting its as simple as ‘more plants will grow’ which is either disingenuous or outright cognitive dissonance
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)
Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@EricSpracklen Theres a decent chance this trend corrects itself as the boomer generation ages out and dies off. Its not entirely surprizing the biggest generation with the biggest voting bloc has stayed relatively loyal to the representatives they have known most of their adult lives
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Hyperion
Hyperion@theHyperion7·
@forallcurious All that ACID RAIN brought on GLOBAL WARMING which CLIMATE CHANGED into an ICE AGE!?!? Stupid child Greta didn’t warn us properly, this her fault! We gotta eat LAB GROWN VACCINE MEAT before it’s too late so we can pretend to change events that will happen with or without us!!!!
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All day Astronomy
All day Astronomy@forallcurious·
🚨: Earth is tilting toward its next ice age in 10,000 years, new research reveals
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)
Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@Reikikind @brew56200 @Handre Your mistake is thinking big corpos need regulation to get competition out of the market, they don’t. It was not regulation that allowed the gilded age to take place, in fact, quite the opposite
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Reikikind
Reikikind@Reikikind·
@brew56200 @Handre Big corporations who don't want competitors and get them out of the market via government regulations approve your message. You're also a person who block new homes, because zoning regulations are more important to you than housing.
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Handre
Handre@Handre·
What poeople think regulations do: - Protect consumers from greedy corporations - Ensure product safety and quality - Level the playing field for small business - Prevent market failures and exploitation What regulations actually do: - Create massive compliance costs that only big corporations can afford - Establish regulatory capture where industries write their own rules - Strangle innovation and entrepreneurship in red tape - Build permanent bureaucratic empires that expand regardless of results You're not getting consumer protection. You're getting a cartelization mechanism that happens to sound compassionate.
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@Damsa_Jr @Handre Plenty of cases where the free market is not equipped to address issues in the best interest of the consumer. A lot of regulation is a direct attempt to correct failures of the free market, thats why you rarely see regulation that predicates the industry it oversees. inevitable
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Digital Merchant | qupay 📱
@Handre The free market should be allowed to regulate itself and governments should at best enforce judgement or compliance
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@Handre Obvious oversimplification. The free market is not well suited to address all issues in the peoples best interest. Conflicts of interest exist everywhere. Most regulations were put in place precisely to address issues created by not having them in the first place.
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Alan Goddard(bull moose)@gotemgoddard·
@HedgeDirty Depends on perspective. Industrial base may be important for national security, but automation is inherently and increasingly fragile.
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