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Joe Effex 🕙

Joe Effex 🕙

@jofx

Influencer • slacktivist • social justice ∩ money ∩ behaviour • Commonizing Sense™ • prone to Dunning–Kruger effect • listening • progressing, I think • he/they

"Livable" Oakville, ON, Canada Katılım Mart 2008
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@shawngorham @ExpertBrad Why do you think it's a waste of your time while other folk from other walks of life are motivated to both vote and engage in protest (it's not a binary case of just one or the other)? I think one's right to some advantage is another's obligation to absorb some disadvantage? ✌️
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Shawn Gorham
Shawn Gorham@shawngorham·
Regardless of Politics... I cannot imagine choosing to spend my time on the corner protesting "No Kings" What a waste of time, it changes nothing
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@danielfoch @pmarca I think who just finds what work is remarkable. ✌️ "like any period of ... financial uncertainty ... led many, primarily women and gender-oppressed people, to pursue sex work ... What made this period unique ... specifically the boom in virtual sex work" workers.org/2023/03/70026/
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca·
AI employment doomerism is rooted in the socialist fallacy of lump of labor. It is wrong now for the same reason it’s always been wrong. More people really should try to learn about this. The AI will teach you about it if you ask! (Hinton is a socialist. youtube.com/shorts/R-b8RR6…)
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Stephen Pimentel@StephenPiment

It’s easy to dunk on Geoffrey Hinton for his 2016 declaration that it was “completely obvious” that radiologists would have no jobs within 5 years, while in fact, the number of radiologists has grown. But this prediction was more than a simple mistake. It’s a synedoche for the entire discourse of AI timelines and doom.

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@ShaneWenzel Hi Shane. What about higher wages? I think some time ago a young — and un-fragmented — workforce had more power to threaten disrupting profits and rents? Employers were compelled to indirectly fight landlords and banks by raising wages? Do we want wageworkers to own today? ✌️
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Shane Wenzel
Shane Wenzel@ShaneWenzel·
The idea that housing prices simply need to come down to fix affordability misses the bigger picture. If you actually want homes people can afford, you have to look at the full cost stack, not just the final price. What about lowering personal taxes so families can qualify for homes in the first place? What about rethinking Net Zero mandates that add significant upfront cost without improving affordability? What about shrinking the layers of government that slow everything down? What about cutting red tape that delays projects and drives up prices? And yes, what about every level of government taking a hard look at the fees they add to each home? You cannot regulate your way to affordability while adding cost at every step. If we are serious about solving this, we need to stop pretending price is the problem and start fixing what is driving it.
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Joe Effex 🕙@jofx·
@shawngorham I think that everyone is different if in ways also the same, and that only Tiger Woods knows why he drives; even if he told us why, we'd only know it's what he said. So why he drives does not matter; what matters is whether anyone, including he, is in danger if he's driving. ✌️
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Shawn Gorham
Shawn Gorham@shawngorham·
Why does Tiger Woods even drive? I would need a net worth FAR lower than his to NEVER drive again Buy a sprinter van, hire a driver I think hiring a driver would be one of my first expenses if I was rich
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@TheHenday @David_Moscrop I think some years ago a young — and un-fragmented — workforce had much union power to threaten disrupting profits and rents. Aside from new state institutions supporting growth of human capital, employers were compelled to indirectly fight landlords and banks by raising wages.
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Joe Effex 🕙@jofx·
@TheHenday @David_Moscrop I think the only limit to sovereign money supply is inflation. As a population of consumers and producers grows, more money must be made or someone goes without. If more money inflates prices, private ownership must broaden, or the state must own more for folk to access freely.
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@TheHenday @David_Moscrop Hi Anthony. I think countries like Canada cannot run out of their money and that we here can run out of access to capital if all the capital is owned and controlled privately by far too few people? ✌️
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Joe Effex 🕙@jofx·
@kbessey I think that, unlike animals, tenants who have housing options can typically rehome themselves, if with some extra money. Words matter. ✌️
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Keaton Bessey
Keaton Bessey@kbessey·
Rent’s don’t need to be rising for builders to make a profit. The end product needs to have a market value cost less than the cost to acquire the land and build. Rents need to be predicable over a certain period of time, and permit/development times must be within that predictability period. If I buy land or a building and have to: - wait 10 years - pay tens of thousands of dollars to the existing residents to rehome them - pay hundreds of thousands in planning costs I tend to only build into a very supply constrained market with rising rents and no end in sight.
Alex Jacquez@AlexSJacquez

The the core problem: private developers build most of our housing, and they only build when they can make a profit. Profits depend on rising rents, not just more permits. When rents flatten, building stops. Full stop.

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@danielfoch I think that some years ago a young — and un-fragmented — workforce had much union power to threaten disrupting profits and rents. Aside from new public institutions that supported the growth of human capital, employers were compelled to indirectly fight landlords and banks. ✌️
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Daniel Foch
Daniel Foch@danielfoch·
Canada's new home price cut (up to 13%) isn't just for buyers; it's to make projects viable for builders and boost the economy. This policy, along with buyer borrowing power vs. interest rate hikes, may not be enough to significantly stimulate the market.
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Joe Effex 🕙@jofx·
@MikeFellman I think if we were to tax capital income and dividends at the same rate as the levy on wagework, we'd need to at least consider renaming the entire econopolitical system? ✌️
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Mike Fellman
Mike Fellman@MikeFellman·
Corporate taxes should be zero and we should just tax the owners of corporations by taxing cap gains and dividends as ordinary income. But if we must have corp taxes, they should be flat. The size of a corporation tells you little about the wealth of the underlying owners.
Katie Porter@katieporterca

California corporations pay a flat tax rate — meaning our small businesses pay the same rate as the state’s most profitable companies. That makes no sense. As Governor, I’ll lower costs for Californians and put thousands back in your pocket by having the most profitable corporations pay a little bit more in their most profitable years.

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Joe Effex 🕙@jofx·
@sweatystartup Hi Nick. I think there's something missing from your story here— What type and amount of force do you recommend that men use in this case? ✌️
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Joe Effex 🕙@jofx·
@JohnPasalis I think that every policy choice makes an ideal world for someone or some group? ✌️
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John Pasalis
John Pasalis@JohnPasalis·
In an ideal world, our governments would not be handing out massive tax breaks to the same speculators that fueled Toronto's pre-construction condo bubble But the reality is, even with massive tax breaks, the speculators are going to sit on the sidelines for a while
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@ludwikmoneyweb @ubi_works Hi Ludwik. I hear you. Evidently communism fails. And as it relates to capitalism at least plenty of years ago, a young un-fragmented workforce had much union power to threaten disrupting profits and rents, so employers were indirectly compelled to fight landlords and banks? ✌️
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UBI Works 🇨🇦@ubi_works·
If you can barely afford rent, you certainly aren't thinking about starting a business or family. Wonder why Canada's entrepreneurship and birthrates are plummeting.
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@StephenPunwasi There's never been a better time to start a cement company or whatever and lobby for a bridge from Toronto to Niagara on the Lake in conjunction with the Destination Niagara plan. Or better yet— a tunnel under Lake Ontario. 📰 Lake Pontchartrain Causeway en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Pont…
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@shawngorham Why do you think all the different painters don't all get together and set the same price for their labor instead of bidding down their pay? ✌️
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Shawn Gorham@shawngorham·
Many seem to think Mexican labor is cheap labor The Korean painters underbid the Mexican painters every single time
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