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Trump is being pulled in too many different directions to the point where nothing coherent is going to emerge from his strategies (or lack of). You can't promise Wall Street/Corpor…

Because how could the Democrats be certain that the Republicans wouldn't just use the same accounting trick again the next time that they wanted to pass tax cuts via reconciliation…

Perhaps OP can clarify, because I too read that as a snarky dig. Perhaps that wasn't their intention, but it felt off. The only place I saw a "subtle suggestion" for a donation was…

We are at the tail end of a 50 year bull run powered by declining interest rates. Maybe ZIRP is the new normal and private industry R&D investment stays high, but I don't think we …

> Is that not what we have already. Do you really think your vote matters? At least in the current setup, they are required to maintain and fund a vast propaganda apparatus, lobbyi…

> I’m all for fairness. For example I think we should weight votes, where everyone gets one vote for each dollar of taxes they pay. You are joking right? Honest, question, what lif…

These organizations consist of political appointees and civil servants. It is customary to replace all of the political appointees. Civil servants however have a lot of job protect…

That is not what they did: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/ Passing laws to make it harder to vote, and easier to challenge a persons voter registration …

This is a link I stumbled on earlier today: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

And a similar rule that at least one person will defend Russia, regardless of how truthful the accusations are. And in this particular case, NK troops fighting in a land war in Eur…

Have you tried making a "todo SPA" of your own with the help of these AI tools? I think it is useful for folks to take a step back and try working on something simpler/easier as an…

> Yes, sure, but this applies to UBI as well. It does not. THE primary difference between UBI and unemployment is that UBI does not disappear once you are unemployed. So in my hypo…

If UBI is revenue neutral, whether by increasing taxes or cutting other programs or some combination of both, then it would not increase inflation. You should brush up on your macr…

Look up welfare trap. Many benefit programs are implemented such that they go away the second you start working. This means if I am getting $X per week in welfare but I get an empl…

Maybe just hire a data engineer or two to start. They could potentially deal with the pain points and make life easier for your team. A lot of data engineering these days involves …

> but i know nothing of electrical engineering or robotics. A few words of advice from someone who has been dabbling for a decade or so, but never really managed more than some hal…

I think a major feature of a UBI/NIT would be to make it entirely location independent. There are tons of areas in our country that are economically depressed, largely due to a lac…

I think anyone who has thought deeply about the topic recognizes that NIT is probably the only practical implementation (if you search this thread it gets mentioned a lot). There a…

But in practice, the funds are going to have to come from somewhere. Most likely from taxes. So assuming it comes from income taxes, and assuming those income taxes are progressive…

Negative income tax (NIT) solves this. At this point, when anyone says UBI, I just substitute NIT in my head. It is really the only practical implementation of a UBI scheme. Furthe…

Do we really need academic studies on this topic? When Republicans cut taxes on the rich, it is not like they are making sure they have academic consensus on their side. We know we…

- At a macro level, if a program is "paid for" i.e. revenue neutral, it does not result in inflation (at least in aggregate). - UBI/Negative Income Tax (NIT) is not a handout to li…

There are plenty of good answers here. There just really isn't anything out there that is remotely close to SWE in terms of comfort, pay, and accessibility. For the last decade or …

The capitalist system keeps you poor by design. And you feed the system by purchasing the mass produced garbage. Sure, it is nice to afford stuff when poor, but we don't need to li…

Bitcoin isn't replacing any of them, so it's a moot point. If someone wants to buy real estate using bitcoin they are still probably going to use a realtor (or at the very least a …