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Having this surveillance done by human beings rate limits the process to, in theory, focus it on actual criminals. Requiring warrants for the more invasive and persistent technique…

Every entrance to my neighborhood has a Flock camera from my local police department. Tracking the exact time I enter and leave my home is at the very least right at this line you’…

Publications must love they can now pump out an article every time someone creates a new account to place a large wager on a prediction market. Having been a semi-pro sports bettor…

People are living in entirely different cost of living realities outside of NYC and the Bay Area. Within 5 miles of me with 2 adults and 2 kids and $100, you could go to a trampoli…

Are you suggesting libertarians believe the government should not build infrastructure? I realize libertarians by nature have unique viewpoints but that feels like a bit of a misch…

Sure this seems to have worked in high-trust homogenous society with similar values and goals. They have a very high baseline of wealth given abundant natural resources that'd need…

The correlation between higher state and local taxes (beyond some reasonable baseline) and improved public service is tenuous at best in much of the US. I'm happy to concede Massac…

There's plenty of studies on this. There's unsurprisingly a modest but statistically significant migration of millionaires from high-tax to low-tax jurisdictions. https://www.asane…

Of course the number of millionaires has grown on an absolute basis given inflation and the strong stock market. To control for this look at NYC's share of the nation's millionaire…

Taxes are often used as either incentives or disincentives for certain behaviors. Examples of incentives are the Child and Dependent Care Credit and EV Tax Credits. An example of a…

The reason political discussion needs to be limited is exactly for comments like these. Low effort characterizations of mainstream politics as racist or fascist is purely inflammat…

“Radicalization” to the OP likely means swinging from vaguely left-leaning to right-leaning.

I recently discovered the local police department had installed Flock cameras at every entrance to my quiet suburban neighborhood. I now cannot come or go from my own home without …

$300k a year is rich in 99% of the world and 90%+ of the U.S. However, jobs that pay $300k vastly over-index to a few coastal major metros, where $300k a year is at the lower end o…

Do you have anything that ties together this trade with those investors? Anyone who held equities that day were up 6-7%, so many billionaires were up that much or more without touc…

Everyone is jumping to conclusions. The majority of comments on this thread are assuming this is at least someone with inside knowledge, and several are saying Trump or his adminis…

I agree with you within the scope of top tech jobs. The tech interviews process is fairly uniquely grueling because it's both very high paid (so a costly mistake to hire poorly) wh…

As I understand it the "liberal hive mind" believes the exact opposite - that some bogeyman, typically either corporations or foreign investors, prevent functional supply and deman…

Okay, let's assume we take every last dollar from every billionaire in the U.S. regardless of the legality, feasibility, or morality. We now have $5.5 trillion dollars. This would …

I don't agree with the exaggeration in the parent comment, but your one counter-example pivoted their workforce expansion to the US after openly criticizing Sweden's business envir…

The poverty line for a family of 4 in San Francisco was $149k in 2023. I live in a MCOL city with all the modern amenities and on $150k can be a comfortably upper-middle class sole…

The 4% rule is from the Trinity Study, which was based on a 15-30 year retirement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study For an indefinite time period you'd need a 3-3.5% inf…

I've charged my EV at a public charging station less than 5 times in the past year. Instead of a 5 minute stop once a week at a gas station it's 5 seconds every time I get home to …

On a personal level I feel the same strains, but all sources I’m finding have median wages rising more than median rent since 2020 and certainly since 2021. However, that would not…

My wealth rose by 100% last year, as I was saving throughout the year from near zero while matching these returns with low fee ETFs everyone has access to. I personally believe man…