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keenboy

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    Comment #36633840

    You're not looking back far enough historically.

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    Comment #36633833

    We've fallen prey to the philosophy that being at home with kids isn't adding value to society. You should be out making some big corporation wealthy!

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    Comment #35397532

    I think the answer to this is to adopt Land Value Taxes. This would naturally incentivize property improvement and dis-incentivize people from owning large swaths of unproductive l…

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    Comment #33689887

    Isn’t it possible that incredibly advanced beings exist somewhere? And if so, what if they colonized earth long ago? Wouldn’t we call them “gods”?

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    Comment #32646411

    It'd be fantastic if we could persuade some local governments to try this and work out the bugs. If it went well, it could be adopted by more and more locales.

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    Comment #32383031

    Can I say what I hope/wish were on the horizon? 1. Approval voting becoming widely adopted. This would go a long way toward mitigating the hyper polarization in politics in America…

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    Comment #31845173

    If you believe in the idea of wealth redistribution, there’s no better way than to come up with expensive products/services to sell to rich people who will gladly hand their money …

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    Comment #31845148

    Investors don’t make people wealthy. Investors want more back than they put in. Serving lots of customers makes people wealthy.

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    Comment #30674541

    That’s not what rent-seeking means https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentSeeking.html

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    Comment #26999719

    These are very legitimate points. In my uneducated opinion, allowing other app stores to compete with Apple's would reduce the power of incumbents and allow Apple to compete on a l…

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    Comment #25829980

    We probably shouldn't take "for life" any more literally than we do the "four hour workweek". It represents an idea. You might not want your boots to last forever and may in fact d…

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    Comment #17318172

    One other important consideration... By stating that we're sick of experts the author implies that we don't trust them. It's important to recognize that there are two sides to trus…

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    Comment #14265824

    Is there anything like this available now in the US? I've wanted this for years! Right now I've cobbled together a version of this using direct deposit to several accounts, auto-tr…