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Made me chuckle, well done

Development of land increases living space …

More lucrative apartment prices ensure more profitable development …

That is quite a pitifully narrow worldview

Perhaps external egg laying evolved afterwards

Hey, if they’re willing to pay that much for it; charging any less is charity

what they said is likely misleading. punitive damages can come substantively in differing forms and guises

Fry cooks also produce surplus value

Seems obvious that was a joke

I would say finance when operating at its best, recognises and enables value opportunities.

When those value opportunities are mutualistic (I.e. financing a new venture) its doing its job in a way that benefits us all.

The problem is that much of modern finance generates value through extraction rather than a mutualistic gain.

For example a private equity firm displacing a union contract; or squeezing suppliers; or jacking up drug prices.

Hey man, this is just a person’s fun and imaginative side project. Is there a reason you’re offering such serious and negative critical commentary on this?

Learn the difference between ‘monopoly’ and other aspects of the antitrust laws in general (like ‘tying’) perhaps, before commenting

ITT:

1) Non-lawyers experiencing the Dunning-Kruger effect 2) People not realising that Supreme Court appeals are 99% about the written submissions, with the oral hearing barely relevant to the final decision at all.

???

Dunning-Kruger effect, exemplified in this thread

Mandatory rent holidays.

He cited a source, he cited the court documents...

Look up transfer pricing

Look up transfer pricing

Irrelevant ads in this situation, sounds like they are less annoying than invasive ads

Lol, you can ‘confidently assure’ huh?

Clicking that link, turns out I’ve had all of those personalisation features switched off for nearly a year.

Don’t be so confident that your ranking/personalisation products are universally appreciated

TRUE! Except this is the US government acting in the interests of the US government, you see?

That was a municipal police call-out.

That said, slashing the municipal police isn’t a terrible idea

> This eventually negates the UBI benefits

Perhaps partially. But you have no evidence to support your implicit assertion that it happens totally, or that your argument defeats UBI on the merits

Gee save us the free market lecture friend. What he said doesn’t exclude any of the options you’ve brought up.

Also I note you’ve raised carrot strategies when stick strategies exist also.

Saidit.net is pre-2015 reddit, with some minor tweaks. Might take off

Pure dice roll & has a trivial strategy for perfect play

Tying all reporting of facts to a need to push virtuous political narratives is braindead.

By the way, Taibbi is doing fine, financially. So I hardly think this is a grudge article.

No one objects to people being paid to make software.

What if people were paid through public grants, or paid well through the welfare state; instead of through the legal scarcity provided by intellectual property?

? Just because there is nothing between two numbers does not mean the two numbers are equivalent. What nonsense is this

OTOH staying in their home districts means they may be more attentive to the needs of their home districts, and less likely to be swayed by pressure from the corridors of washington

It depends on the jurisdiction. e.g. Such a thing would not be copyrightable under Australian law. That could be a way around it.