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What the article largely says is that there isn't really a housing crisis if people make more money and pay more rent. Is it realistic to pay hundreds of dollars per month in rent …

But that has little to do with this. You are paying market rate in an area with a lot of high paying jobs where housing is expensive because it is valuable. Of course everyone woul…

I don't see the argument. Bad effect from things that are relatively non-addictive (at least physically) suggest that things that are addictive needs to be even more controlled. If…

How to define a culture is of course a much longer discussion, so I have to defer to my earlier comments. Is the "Smash Bros" or YouTube communities significant enough to be rememb…

That isn't really how the Swedish tax system works. A lot of that is paying yourself in one form or another. The problem in Sweden is that if you for example you get $500k from you…

I have heard the argument before, that things were always bad, but that isn't the point. The difference isn't that things aren't better, but that they aren't getting better. The re…

Youth cultures that become catalysts are expressive. They are pushing what you can do. Whether that is making music, doing drugs, skateboarding or being gay. Because when you activ…

Honestly I don't think there is much to be seen. Young people are playing the hand they have been dealt, it just isn't a very good one.

Yeah, I must say that I have never really understood that idea. In times of increased productivity it seem like you would want to tax the machines, the markets and the networks. No…

Before the new VAT rules Amazon had a deal over VAT with Luxembourg, similar to the deal with Ireland on income tax. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-3701_en.htm

Maybe at one point. Today it is all borrowed against the future in the form of private debt, a propped up property market, sold off companies, and tax breaks. Of course people acce…