but why tho?
Sweden proposes ban on ride-sharing services that make profits
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#192alright but now this time FOR REAL!!!
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#193its ur boi
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#194"Profits are evidence of the creation of social value, not deductions from the sum of the common good."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/256612/welcome-machine...
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds like forcing a service (that you might not want) down your throat, and accusing you of stealing if you refuse to pay. It would be surprisingly better to let monkeys pay for what they want to use, instead of making every monkey pay for what they won't ever use.
> That sounds like forcing a service (that you might not want) down your throat, and accusing you of stealing if you refuse to pay. You can leave if you do not like it. Or you can vote for a different system. "hey, I want to sleep in this room, but they say they don't let me until I pay, THEY FORCE ME TO PAY!!!"
That's totally different. Government vs Business. First one forces you to pay for things you don't asked for in the first place. The latter is optional, as no one has the right to force you buy their stuff/services.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about this proposal is in violation of your model of 'basic economics.'
They're trying to prevent people from earning money in exchange for a service. Let's say I have a garden, and grew a bunch of tomatoes. Should I be allowed to sell them for money, or should I only be allowed to trade them for other tomatoes?
There are lots of services out there in the universe that I am not allowed to exchange money for.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uber makes $2bn loss on $1.8bn revenue. I'm not sure who thinks that's basic economics
I'm not talking about Uber. I'm talking about allowing people to make a profit from ride-sharing.
"Profit" and "revenue" are two very different things and getting them mixed up is how you get all sorts of economic excitement that's best viewed from the distance of history.
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#199"1) Cheating on taxes is quite literally stealing from every other person in the country. That being said I think there is a lot of small scale cheating going, especially for small cash-driven businesses." I disagree. One monkey says to a group of other monkeys, "we all need to take one of the 5 bananas we individually have and place it into a central banana disbursement fund". Then, another monkey from the group ref…
One monkey says to a group of other monkeys: "We all need to take one of the 5 bananas we individually have to feed the doctor monkey, the asphalt monkey and the teacher monkey, from whom we receive services." One monkey from the group, which just came back in his car from the doctor monkey with his daughter that goes to the local monkey school: "I refuse to give up my bananas!". Remember context. Full context is imp…
I can't see my original reply, so I think something is wrong with HN.
Reality is more like:
2 out of 10 monkeys spend all their waking hours sacrificing and working so their children can have more than 1 banana and then give 15 out of the 20 bananas they earn to the group. The majority of monkeys in the group gives 0 bananas, but continue to say that the ones that do give the most aren't paying their fair share (and need to give even more). They then have many discussions on how they can force the other monkeys to give the rest of the group even more bananas, rather than putting energy into earning their own.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
We can assume the doctor monkey is paying for his kid's school, but it's possible that doctor monkey also benefits indirectly from the other monkeys' kids education as well. All the roads you drive on are toll roads? Here in Oregon none are, and when I was back East only some highways were toll roads. Surface streets are nearly all paid for through taxes AFAIK. I don't get the severe anti-tax stance some folks have.…
Thank you for your well-formulated points and civil response :) Re: roads, I agree that not all roads are toll roads. The good news is that roads are relatively inexpensive to build and maintain (for example, the federal transportation budget is only 2.3% of total yearly spending, 28 billion dollars). So, those who want to use roads, should be charged a fair price, and road companies should compete to lower costs whe…
> Re: roads, I agree that not all roads are toll roads. The good news is that roads are relatively inexpensive to build and maintain (for example, the federal transportation budget is only 2.3% of total yearly spending, 28 billion dollars).
Wow, so you have an extra half-billion or so just sitting around? ($28 billion x 0.023 = $460 million) How fortunate for you!
Beggin' your pardon, M'Lord, but the peasantry doesn't consist of multi-millionaires. And they need to use roads to live their lives in a modern, industrialized society.
So, no, you can keep your libertarian dystopia where everyone has to build their own roads, hire their own police forces, etc. Go build your own civilization, away from ours.