
Michael Huber
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it shouldn’t be a hot take, that’s the correct way to look at gentrification. some guy with a unicycle isn’t displacing you, but your residential & commercial landlords / investment capital / your capital-compliant municipal leaders etc are. hold those people to account!





They’re gonna be shocked when they figure out how QR codes work


Normies do not move into a 1br at 28 and say "boy I hope I can live in this 400 sq ft shitbox until I'm 50."


I'm a tenant. Tenant activists do **nothing** for people like me. The average tenant like me pays the rent on time and wants to be able to move into new units when they get a raise. Tenant activists only care about weirdos who never want to move and the most marginal tenants.



Eliminating the wage cap on Social Security taxes & capping benefits severs the link between what you pay in and what you get out, making the payroll tax more distortionary. Make SS more like an individual notional account, not a welfare program. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…


This is probably sp6r's most repeated point, but there is a real divergence of interests between marginal renters and the median renter


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Eliminating the wage cap on Social Security taxes & capping benefits severs the link between what you pay in and what you get out, making the payroll tax more distortionary. Make SS more like an individual notional account, not a welfare program. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…



In my experience Dems dramatically overestimate the political viability of this move. This is a 12.4% tax hike on top earners. Clinton managed 11.5% in his 93 budget; neither Obama or Biden came close to that. Pre-Clinton you have to go back to FDR to see a double-digit hike


this is why yimbyism can work contra those who say for-profit developers need guaranteed rent growth and appreciation in order to build, no they don't! they're real estate developers! they're sickos!




My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.


















