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Tesla sells more electric cars in the US than every other combined
I was thinking of world sales. Sales are up in Europe for all EVs except Tesla, which is down significantly
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That's an extremely complex economic change, I wouldn't be so certain we know exactly what would happen. Taxing the rich can have unintended consequences. First you have to change the tax code so they actually get taxed and can't dodge it, those rules alone would be difficult to write effectively and would likely mean changing other parts of our tax code that impact everyone. If the rich do get taxed enough to cover…
I'm not actually talking about ubi here: it's subsidizing labor for some class of essential jobs.
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I was thinking of world sales. Sales are up in Europe for all EVs except Tesla, which is down significantly
are they vandalizing and setting teslas on fire in Europe the way they are in the US
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We should be striving to build a world where people don't have to feel forced into meaningless jobs, not a system that encourages it. If meaningless jobs are important because its the only way people can make money to pay for all the shit we think we need to pay for, or because they haven't yet been offered the time and freedom to find their own sense of purpose, let's focus on fixing the root cause(s) there.
> _heimdall: We should be striving to build a world where people don't have to feel forced into meaningless jobs, not a system that encourages it. > If meaningless jobs are important because its the only way people can make money to pay for all the shit we think we need to pay for, or because they haven't yet been offered the time and freedom to find their own sense of purpose, let's focus on fixing the root cause(s)…
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This is drawing a line between "us" (tax paying citizens + the government) and "them" (people on benefits). I don't think it's that simple. I imagine just like with existing benefits, the majority of people wouldn't feel great about being on UBI doing nothing, and they would pursue something that gives them a better social standing, a better sense of purpose, a good challenge, whatever motivates an individual. It's w…
Dude...I mean this in the nicest way possible and only say it cause I think it's important for everyone to understand: People work for money. If a job has no pay, you can't expect it to get done. We need people to actually run hospitals, produce food, construct shelter/infrastructure, provide childcare/education, etc.
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That's an extremely complex economic change, I wouldn't be so certain we know exactly what would happen. Taxing the rich can have unintended consequences. First you have to change the tax code so they actually get taxed and can't dodge it, those rules alone would be difficult to write effectively and would likely mean changing other parts of our tax code that impact everyone. If the rich do get taxed enough to cover…
But the idea of not changing the tax code because it might affect others, continuing to let the rich pay 0 taxes, is foolish. There's an obvious wealth gap that's increasing and the people up top are getting even less oversight as we speak. As you say in your post, you don't know what the effects will be because it's not simple. But I see no compelling reason to continue with the oligarchy
My point was that we can change taxes to a system that we think will work better today, but we can't claim to know what the actual results will be years from now.
The claim made earlier in the chains was that taxing the rich to subsidize wages would lower labor costs and lower prices. I don't think we can ever know well enough how a broad reaching change will land, and claiming to know prices will go down isn't reasonable.
Surprised that Claude (the app, not model) not only has done well for so long, but has somewhat consistently clinched the top spot in coding, all without a feature that is considered somewhat of a basic feature for most consumer-facing AI apps.
How much % it’s significant compared to say openai or google? Because if I’m paying 20$ I want other things too not just coding. And if the moat for coding compared to other vendors is not significant, it doesn’t make any difference tbh
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You pay for them, on top of UBI. No UBI proposal I'm aware of proposes UBI replaces salaries or is high enough to satisfy everyone. The "B" is for basic . Most people are not satisfied with earning a basic salary.
I was very surprised during the pandemic response to see how many people were happy to take government checks plus unemployment rather than working. I know a few people with small businesses in various manufacturing industries. They all had a really hard time finding enough people to work while stimulus checks were going out. People wouldn't make quite as much, but they were happy to stay home and have the basics for…
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In this case you aren't being called a nazi because of your ancestry. You're being called a nazi for supporting the car brand of a nazi. It does make sense. A lot of people who definitely were not intending to be nazies are driving swasticars, because they didn't know about how nazi the car company owner was. But here we are. You definitely know now. What you do now matters.
That is absolute bonkers. I hope you’re having fun, because that kind of logic won’t lead you anywhere where people get paid to reason.
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It's in a small circle of those that do. Blame the internet archive for starting this trend: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
Sorry to intrude with something unrelated. But YC closed the earlier discussion. Saw your comment about Kannel WAP of few months back and wanted to ask if do you know of any WAP Push full service provider still in operation.