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I think the idea from the beginning was to issue equity that diluted the current owners, but that was later revised to taxes on profit and payroll. The concept isn't radically diff…

If anything the Nordic model and social democracy has failed not because it turned into communism, but because it only takes one government to undermine the system and privatize ev…

> After controlling the major companies in Sweden, they would have of course continued with the non-public companies, because the main goal of Löntagarfonder was to create equal sa…

It wasn't necessarily stupid. But probably ahead of its time. Today, when it is probably too late to do anything, a lot of people are talking about the risks with automation and ne…

Because coupons might be useful to sell overstock or introduce new products. And even if you wanted to you would either have to convince all your customers to change their habits o…

I don't find that to be an apt analogy. Tax avoidance is more like abusing coupons. Someone else is effectively paying your share, but the company can't shut it down because custom…

Well, with lump sum taxation you pay taxes primarily based on the value of your property. So the more 'modest' your house is the less tax you pay. Of course the house, or the land …

The food market is more expensive if there are multiple vendors and the customer don't shop around. The price gouging doesn't come from multiple companies, but from the free pricin…

In a regulated market you just, in theory, take the closest taxi because you have no choice. But if there are five companies covering the same area, each company is going to have l…

I am disagreeing with the parents point (or not really because they were talking about doing it as a hobby, which is great). Yes, you can do design prototype revision A, B and C, t…

That is still, as you say, a hobby though. The future of hardware design is decreasing the difference between prototype and production. Similar to what containers have done for sof…

There is no mystery why taxis are expensive in Sweden. Deregulation legalizes price gouging, meaning few people will ride independent taxis or look a new companies. That doesn't ju…

It is unlikely to happen. Software makes it easier to reconfigure things. It will almost always make sense to rent time on a better machines. Few people run their own public facing…

I get what you mean. I definitely wouldn't say Shenzhen is a modern city as such, despite the skyscrapers and greenery. That is part of the charm though. It is, or used to be, an o…

> The US didn’t make special economic areas, they just arose organically. True enough. I just don't think Shenzhen is special enough as an economic zone to make a difference in the…

There are obviously differences. The point I am trying to make is that there is no one answer. It is not like the flaw happened to be that the US has 5% too high corporate tax and …