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$1440/yr seems hardly worth the effort for he hassle and cost of moving every year. Compounding rent increase over years makes it substantial. I suppose you don't have kids though,…

Much simpler would be to raise property taxes to a reasonable level and redistribute that via a citizens' dividend /UBI. That gives you free market efficiency with no rent-seeking …

If you live in your house instead of paying transaction costs to sell, lower property value just means lower property taxes and a more prosocial working class neighbors.

You are conflating home ownership with house ownership. You can buy a condo and pay someone to maintain it for you, just as your apartment landlord can hire unreliable managers tra…

It works if the leader is a birthright aristocrat leader who has no need to justify his position, but still wants to be good. The ancient wisdom didn't account for the politicking …

Airbnb doesn't replace cheapo hotels. It replaces expensive hotels. People go to airbnbs because hotels are too expensive for them.

It is more likely that IH knows the rental market price and you don't. 5% growth per year is totally normal in desirable areas . It's lower than real estate appreciation.

If you had surplus housing, Airbnb would not exist because there is no point.

Chinese speculators reduce growth by keeping property vacant. Airbnb doesn't affect growth. House prices are not growth, and they generate the tax revenue that you say helps get th…

You are describing young, single people, not long-term renters.

You left out the #1 reason: so you can suss out their spending power and level of need so you can charge value-based pricing instead of cost-based pricing. Nothing you wrote is rel…

Companies can fund art directly (and many do, such as Google/YouTube), instead of wastefully routing it through government. Government can provide UBI and healthcare to the whole p…

Building a successful business requires taking responsibility for all the boring details. Complaining that it is someone else's fault wastes precious time and hurts morale.

It's not arbitrary. The only two choices that work are the real center of gravity, and the observer's position with the real center of gravity orbiting the observer and everything …

Floating point error is far far smaller than measurement error and missing data.

Do you have hundreds of different memorized sets along this route now?

And they were mostly all plagiarized from other sources.

I find that the community college grada are better professionals than the kids who jumped into uni because they didn't know anything and grasped at straws. It's an expensive but re…

Baby boomers didn't cut school funding. Gen X did.

Why is it better for taxpayers to pay off their loans now instead of waiting to see if they retire penniless?

What college did you go to? Public or private? In state or out? Community or state? What was your major field of study in college? Why would you be homeless if your parents have a …

Usually, the people owed the debt is not the people who the loan was spent on. You aren't playing dirty back at them, you are just making someone else the victim of the monetary lo…

How is that possible since the force on a test particle on the surface of the napkin is 0?

Better to use accurate language like "5 more moments" or "time to wrap up" or "one last ride", to avoid messing up your child's budding sense of chronology and numeracy.

Your first paragraph contradicts your second paragraph.