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A US wealth/unrealized gains tax might trigger it, because it would likely create a cascade of forced selling, with the proceeds of sales getting burned as tax revenue for entitlem…

Ditto Russia.

No, it's just game theory. When you're playing prisoner's dilemma games, and your co-player is consistently defecting, you can only play cooperate for so long. Tit for tat is the o…

Why should they? The United States honors international IP law and doesn't cheat its way into threatening domestic production of other countries like China does.

The rise of China has done a lot to destroy the neoliberal, globalist dream. Letting them cheat the globalist system (e.g. violating IP laws, human rights violations, Uyghur/Tibeta…

Cybertruck is a great case study in how people confuse form for function. In a world where technology is advancing exponentially, aesthetics increasingly offer a poor signal for pe…

That only catches the stupid criminals, which to be fair is most of them.

You're still missing the point. Not having kids yourself but still having a retirement of any kind is a privilege that only exists if most people still have kids, so that their kid…

Taxing 100% of the wealth of all the billionaires in the US would fund federal spend for about 8 months. And you only get to do that once.

The point just flew over your head. Yes, you could do this, but it's parasitic behavior that depends on your ability to extract value from the labor of other people's kids. If ever…

All money is imaginary until it becomes realized as food in your belly.

We are working less than ever, living longer in retirement, AND spending more of early life in education and training rather than working. Denmark in particular is seeing some grea…

I don't get how this isn't obvious. If you can't defend your territory without relying on another country, you are not truly sovereign. The larger union might be sovereign, but you…

There is not and never has been any place on Earth where being poor and sick doesn't suck.

Just don't eat any unless you're certain it's safe. You won't get poisoned just from touching any mushrooms. One interesting gotcha that regularly kills people, is that there are s…

This comment is an excellent example of ideology superseding real world results. Just an incredible public display of cognitive dissonance.

Yep. This is the problem I've been zeroing in on as well. Socialized retirement destroys most of the incentive to sacrifice your youth to grow and raise new people. Why sacrifice y…

Because that was how Tesla became what it is today starting with the Roadster. It's a tried and true formula of release a high end, very expensive vehicle with a lot of experimenta…

No time to watch the video. Does he at least acknowledge the groundbreaking engineering for a production vehicle with things like 48V architecture, data CAN bus, and steer by wire,…

The topic is inter corporate mudslinging, so it seems very on topic to point out that Lucid hasn't figured out how to not lose gobs of money yet. Honestly, this whole post should p…

> How would you respond? Probably like he generally does. "Prototypes are easy, production is hard. I hope Lucid manages to figure out how to get their factory productive so they d…

We don't need lightning rods, we just need to pray to Zeus.

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It is hard, but we've proven to be really fucking good at doing hard things. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-populatio...

There's no intrinsic reason why it can't be. It entirely depends on how many externalities are created as debt to the future in order to ship blueberries around the world. Internal…