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> I "slimmed" down my collection from 1TB+ to 200GB by deleting all the more "common" stuff I could easily find on Spotify only to realise that the versions I had (the original, pu…

On re-reading the parent comment above yours, I see they were referring to criticizing things done by private companies that are technically lawful, so that's my bad for not seeing…

...Yes? It seems like the head of a private company should be able to decide how to spend money based on whatever reasoning they want, within the limits of the law. Are you suggest…

That's a good point about transactions. But are stock purchases included in the velocity calculation? From what I can find [1,2], money velocity is a ratio of nominal GDP to (eithe…

> Money in band account that is not used is just a number. As Fed puts more money into the economy, the velocity of money decreases as the money is used less. https://fred.stlouisf…

> Mainstream actually educated economists are right, not people hyperventilating about money printing. This statement is so vague, I don't know what it means. Are you implying that…

> So how do you explain everything that happened on the wealth inequality front from the 1970s up to the financial crisis of 2009? Of course there's never a single thing that expla…

Thanks for the response. I won't respond to every point because (1) that would be long and (2) I don't disagree with everything. > Human evolution and mutation is slow. By looking …

>Many of today's health epidemics are linked to a lack of fat and an excess of carbohydrates. I'm genuinely curious as to what you're getting at. When you say "excess of carbohydra…

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but don't options contracts introduce risk? I've never run a business -- what risk are you incurring by having the cash sitting in a bank? If the pl…

This just seems like a complicated way to go about budgeting correctly. Save money when you have excess from increased revenues, and use that to cover yourself when revenues decrea…

I don't think it's that simple. Of course the Gamestop situation is a unique one, but speculation is the entire point of the stock market. You can justify (and lower) the risk you …

> Yep, it's really great that markets can create speculation that are not tied at all to the fundamentals of a security. That doesn't create bubbles, volatility, or open the door f…

How was the volume of GME enough to cause this problem? Today was around 60 million. Aren't they usually executing billions of trades across the market every day?

Can you describe what it would look like to "own" land in your view? Are you suggesting people should be able to buy land in a community and then sit on it forever without contribu…

It's the latter. From the article: "Other states are high or low for various reasons: the outliers Maryland and Virginia, for example, both have dramatically higher Federal spendin…

Can you define what a "platform" is? And do you think there is a legal distinction between the two? If this is regarding section 230, around which this dichotomy always seems to su…

Can you elaborate on how a "monopoly corporation" is like a branch of government? I don't understand your analogy, or what is special about a monopoly versus any other corporation …

What does limited liability have to do with a corporation being owned by one person? I assume this poster is questioning the "giant corporation" part. Maybe you meant to say "any c…

By what objective metric(s) do you determine that a particular website has become an internet "public square"?