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Given that life quality is quite high in the Nordics and they are happiest countries on earth I'm not so sure it's a bad system.

Why not take money from payroll and give directly to retirees like they do in the Nordics.

Here's real world ranges of various EV's in just about any weather: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzv...

He is a far-right, pro-russia, anti-vax troll. We shouldn't.

I have the same theory. Only competive advantage Toyota has right now is thin margins through massive scale (and thus relatively cheap prices) and reliability. First point is not y…

But would you ever invest in an idea that could be easily copied?

Just cache all images in apple's servers (even if the user doesn't open the mail) by default and tracking is useless.

If productivity stays the same, then all we can ever do is to shift wealth around. That is all there is to it. So the important questions are: does UBI increase or decrease product…

What happens when consumers learn that they might have ended in a high price segment? Can they trust any seller to give them a good price anymore? You have to start comparing every…

Whatever his motivations may be, we couldn't possibly allow any one person to decide over our finite resources. So, how to stop that from happening? Should there be a some kind of …

How could that be? Suppose Musk controlled all the resources in the world. What motivation would he have to allocate them fairly?

Every time I have to glue together pieces of SQL at runtime I have to agree. It seems crazy to me that there is no "native" way to query relational DB's (yes, there are some SQL fa…

Debt is new currency. If everyone is buying their cars with credit, soon nobody can afford to buy with cash. Around here even if you have decent wage right now, but not a stable jo…

I was making software for Nokia phones when the first iPhone came out. As an outsider, it seemed to me that they realised iPhones were going to be the future, went full panic-mode …

This is outside of Helsinki but student benefit is 460e per month and I know many who can live without taking on debt or working part time. Also If you manage to buy a (small) cond…

What if it turns out that having more equal society and less of these demeaning jobs is better for everyone, including the productive people?

Well, there is limited amount of resources. So when someone buys a big house, someone else must have a smaller house.

Except you can just barely live on student benefit. Either you take debt or work, so I don't think the two can be compared. For me I was bumping on the limits while on receiving st…

Not entirely related to the original point, but I believe in the case of scenario 0 vs 1 market benefits by having more rational actors. That is, if you're not dirt poor, you're ab…

Few reasons come to mind: The way capitalism is designed is that not everyone can have a job. So you pay the poor not to starve and come loot your house. Also, I believe, there was…

But surely, on average, you end up paying one way or the other? That money has to come somewhere, right? Either you end up paying by buying the advertised products or paying the si…

There is no such thing as free money. If you're not creating more work (or more productive work) then it is simply taking from someone and giving to someone else. However, the poin…

Look at Scandinavia. Generous welfare, not exactly known for high crime.

But one could say that he does not own the "means of production" but instead it is owned by community, which has democratic control (for example a fork might become more popular). …

In Scandinavia everyone is already guaranteed a certain amount of income by law. If you can't get it by working, then it is provided by welfare. I don't see UBI being any different…