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>Because they are? There are whole industries that are more or less total BS. Whatever you do for these companies you are pretty much not contributing anything worthwhile to the so…

>Land is a limited resource. Precisely why the LVT is inherently flawed and regressive, and prone to abuse and exploitation by the rich and powerful, instead of being dictated by t…

Getting rid of 1031 would be a good start. But contrary to what most people/economists falsely proclaim, land value taxes are actually a regressive, punitive tax to those who commi…

What's your suggestion to eliminate landlords from the equation, then? CCP-style regulations where there is no citizen landownership? Only the government is allowed to own land? Pr…

There are countries in which there is no IP protection, it's not the utopia you think it is.

Asset multiples will collapse if unemployment rises significantly and the labor market weakens. Surely the investor class will still come out ahead, but it's interesting they seem …

Right - and this resistance against RTO from a basis “companies are doing it just because of sunk costs” has a logical conclusion companies should increase outsourcing further.

This doesn't add up to me. The priorities of corporate executives are to please the board of directors. BoD priorities are to please shareholders/investors. Shareholders/investors …

>I think it is illuminating to consider how these debates would go very differently if employers where the ones whose budgets paid for all the hours/fuel spent in office commutes A…

So let's say they go full remote for jobs that allow it - why should they hire you, then? Why not hire someone in Vancouver for 80% of your salary, or Mexico for 60%, or Brazil for…

The entire stock market hit an all-time high during this period. Because of $3 trillion from quantitative easing.

>It's not the perfect medium because it requires living in some of the most expensive real estate markets on the planet. This applies to the entire United States if everything that…

I am not sure I find this explanation convincing. If a corporation thinks it could increase profits without RTO and after eating office real-estate losses, it'll do so. The real es…

Every job posting on their website states "Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits." https://openai.com/careers

You don't think it's a little uncalled for to wish physical harm and/or death on someone just because you disagree with their actions?

Can you point out some examples of astroturfed articles? I cannot say I find your statement convincing based on a google search of news about threads.

Why do you blame Facebook and not ElutherAI?

> The UK structures water provision as regional monopolies. This should be a hilarious joke but it's the reality. You can't change water company without living in a different regio…

Not even going to touch the bait in your statement but calling Kelly Rowland a hip-hop artist is an exceedingly bizarre statement. It would be like calling Blink 182 hair metal, or…

It’s quite literally a problem, every day.

It was explained, maybe you didn't connect the reasoning. First, there are no entities that have the amount of capital needed to keep the bond market moving besides banks. This is …

Actually, the yield curve was inverted at the time they made the purchases, compounding how strange their decision was.

Source on 1/3rd? Does that include the ~$80B of 15-30 year MBS they acquired at the same time? clearly it was not enough considering interest rates were zero at the time and the yi…

These banks made poor investment decisions and were reckles with customer funds, and are to blame for their own failure. It might be on-brand for him, and surely he acted in his ow…

>This would have been "safer", but lost them money. In a short-term sense, but the point of short-dated maturities is not to produce yield but rather provide liquidity, which allow…