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The only solution is a market for resources. How would you implement a market for resources within a firm, though?

I disagree. It's just another housing bubble. That should be bleeding obvious from looking at the article's FRED chart. Scarcity was not suspended from 2007-2012 when the previous …

I wonder what it sold for, besides the trinkets mentioned at the end. If they had hodled they could clear maybe a trillion on the open market today (which consists of sovereign sta…

"At some point in this series of lectures, I will slip in 1 fact that is completely false. Take care!"

So you're saying that people should not be allowed to build log cabins because they don't contribute to your definition of acceptable housing stock? What if someone would prefer to…

I find your views so illogical that I can only conclude that you're trolling.

I'm gonna name my band an 18 TB string of random characters, interspersed with an "idea" that you can't even put into text! Take THAT, Unicode!

Now we're talkin'!

Dude, it's a cabin. It's made out of logs. You should at least be able to opt-out. If you're concerned about resale value then you can pursue a NACHI seal of approval. You should b…

Then why can't you build a perfectly fine cabin on your own rural property without government inspectors coming around and micromanaging. US/Canadian automobiles are also needlessl…

Do they really? You can just build a factory in your back yard and pursue the American Dream? Or do they still effectively have zoning laws?

There is zero technical reason why housing can't be cheap as hell in this day and age. It's all due to government restrictions. And I'm not talking about shanty towns either - that…

Regulations such as zoning are enormous social experiments. Experiments should have control groups! Where are the control group cities? Why do experimental social regulations have …

Dude, 4GB of RAM? Sure, it's fine for the software I write. But what about normal people?

Okay, buddy, we have this thing called the Internet now. It's a magical place where you can be anonymous and say whatever the fuck you want. The cat has left the bag. All restricti…

The slope is slippery because, given enough time, lawyers are always be able to form a causal effect chain from human action A to undesirable outcome B.

I keep hearing this a lot, but how do "we as a society" have a "conversation" about something, exactly? Twitter?

What if you live in a closed bartering community of abstract economic business entities and everything is a cost basis for something else?

Perhaps there is a way to pay for these things besides taxes? Unthinkable!

I'm a fan of some, but it's a subjective thing, isn't it? Don't you think that maybe perhaps some of the "auction prices" and "appraisals" are a bit more "objective"? Can nobody on…

Technically everything is a cost, though, right?

Art sales and donations are used for money laundering and tax evasion. That's why the quality of art has no relation to its price anymore. Modern art streamlined this business (sin…

So the income tax is essentially a ~30% transaction fee. Imagine a world without that deadweight loss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss#Deadweight_los...

Society wouldn't function if people weren't willing to bend the rules.

In 20 years desktop users will look back at Windows 11 as "the good old days"