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$40,000 for every man, woman and child was printed for corona stimulus. $13 trillion total. If you're wondering why all this inflation happened, it's pretty simple cause and effect.
And Biden's still trying to give away more in student loan forgiveness and has still paused payments.
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I am curious about that statement. Feeding chickens store bought food that is. I grew up with chickens being the garbage disposal. They will eat anything and everything. They are the cheapest animal to raise for food. (Except maybe cattle on the old west when you could parasite off the public land.) The argument against backyard chickens would be health considerations i'd say, not cost. Curious.
Eggs are very, very cheap. Building materials and time are not. Obviously the upkeep costs for laying hens is super low, but it's the startup cost that turns most people off the idea. Eggs are about $3/dozen where I am. You have to eat a _lot_ of eggs before it's actually a net positive endeavor, probably many, many years worth. My parents have a coup on their hobby farm which my dad built on the weekends. It looks g…
So realistically the difference is that I get fresh eggs every day, I never run out, and they are fun.
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Do you consider plants to be living things?
Yes but it’s a fuzzy term, what I meant was more in the “animal” realm of living. Just to give an example, I (and I think most humans) feel negatively about deforestation or destruction of plant life because it is destroying or profaning something beautiful. It’s like burning art. Same with the chickens. I’m not sure I consider factory farming immoral, and I definitely don’t consider killing animals for food immoral.…
Lydon Johnson had an answer (via George Will): In 1966, the price of eggs rose to a level that President Lyndon Johnson judged, God knows how, was too high. There were two culprits – supply and demand – and Johnson’s agriculture secretary told him there was not much that could be done. LBJ, however, was a can-do fellow who directed the US surgeon general to dampen demand by warning the nation about the hazards of cho…
Wait until you find out why bread and starch is at the bottom of the food pyramid… which is still, to this day, being taught in schools.
This hasn't been true for 18 years.
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As an athlete who eats like a highschool linebacker (in Colorado), I've been watching eggs prices climb up $0.50 each week for a dozen, then jump $3 in one week. Now there's none on the shelves at all.
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My wife has a cottage baking business and would buy 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. Already high, a few months back in cost about $45 for the box. Just last week it was $110. She doesn't recall but it fairly certain the box was between $20-30 before inflation hit. However she said they had chicken legs that were .49/lb which is a great price but hard to reconcile with the narrative that avian flu is the ca…
> 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. [...] Just last week it was $110. Might I suggest buying eggs from a normal grocery store or other alternative source? That's $7.33 per dozen and unless you have some very unusual situation, a dozen eggs can be had for less than half that price at a grocery store.
https://abc7.com/egg-prices-in-california-avian-flu-bird-cag...
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Do you consider plants to be living things?
Yes but it’s a fuzzy term, what I meant was more in the “animal” realm of living. Just to give an example, I (and I think most humans) feel negatively about deforestation or destruction of plant life because it is destroying or profaning something beautiful. It’s like burning art. Same with the chickens. I’m not sure I consider factory farming immoral, and I definitely don’t consider killing animals for food immoral.…
This is a highly interesting standpoint-- would you consider it morally problematic to kill more intelligent animals for food, like dogs?
What about human children (younger than a year? younger than 6?).
Is there a line for you somewhere? Where approximately and why?
This is drastically different from myself and most meateaters I know which concede moral problems with killing animals for food in general but ignore them in favor of enjoyment of food, so I'm very curious about how your framework looks like.
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Write an app for people to submit receipts and open publish the data. Maybe some ocr/ml stuff to help.
Question is how you get people who aren’t seeing large price increases to join such an app. It’s easy to imagine a world where only the people above the mean in inflation search something like that out, giving off a false impression of numbers being cooked by institutions that use more complete methods.
Doesn't have to be much if a value add. Just something.
My wife has a cottage baking business and would buy 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. Already high, a few months back in cost about $45 for the box. Just last week it was $110. She doesn't recall but it fairly certain the box was between $20-30 before inflation hit. However she said they had chicken legs that were .49/lb which is a great price but hard to reconcile with the narrative that avian flu is the ca…
That's insane. I can get 2 dozen organic eggs for $6.50 at my regular local Costco. She's paying more than double that at a business center.
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Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist Coke gave millions to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation - both directly and through front groups like the American Beverage Association. T…
I personally remember when Soda taxes were being proposed in Philadelphia. I did and do see soda as a luxury, so it sounded reasonable enough to me compared to alternatives A lot of otherwise reasonable people that I had known at the time told me that I shouldn't be racist by voicing my support for these policies I asked them to explain, but they would not, (do your own research, etc.) so I never really got a hold of…
at the least, tax at sales tends to be regressive, affecting poor people more than not poor, which maybe you could claim is racist. but pa constitution doesnt allow anything but flat taxes, so unfortunately theres basically no progressive taxing here. sin taxes in general i find somewhat troubling, sure its a luxury but why is this luxury deserve more tax than that.