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That doesn’t have to be true.

Examples:

1) A credit of $1,000 per taxpayer.

2) Increase the standard deduction by $1,000.

And countless others.

Tax cuts benefit the rich by design, not due to some natural law.

It depends on the person, and how you manage them. It’s embarassing to realize that you’re failing to communicate so badly that you require management. But if the manager handles it well, the managee has an opportunity to prevent that embarrassment from becoming public by changing their approach.

I used to have this pretty bad. I believed that it showed that I was autistic, or lacking some kind of fundamental creative spark, or something like that. It’s gotten a lot better since I got treated for depression and anxiety. I think it was really just me shutting down ideas at a pre-conscious level. I don’t know much about how the brain works. But this is my (pseudoscientific BS) mental model of it:

1. Our ideas and memories are composed of connections between neurons.

2. “Creativity” is the expression of random, new connections between those neurons.

3. Creative expression requires focusing our attention on those new neural pathways, filling them in and adding detail.

4. Depression and anxiety caused me to focus my attention on the idea of failing to come up with something “on the spot” (and the many minor traumatic memories of failing in this way), instead of the infinite weak, undeveloped ideas that could be explored with a moment’s focused attention. It’s hard to be fun when you are having a small anxiety attack.

5. The antidepressant I’m taking has gotten me out of this rut. Whether it’s by turning off my anxiety, or helping my nascent creative neural pathways reach further by preventing the reuptake of some neurotransmitter, I don’t know.

I could still see it getting bigger - you can’t buy a bitcoin ETF yet. Not saying it’ll ever happen, but there are big pools of money out there that haven’t touched crypto yet.

Why do NFL quarterbacks get paid millions even when they lose? Because they’ll only sign in the first place if their contract gives them that right.

Same with execs. Nobody who’s any good will agree to work for a failing company unless they’re guaranteed a payoff. Why try to work on something that’s probably going to fail when there are so many growing companies out there?

BTW the same is true for other highly-sought talent like engineers. Big companies on the brink of failure will shell out if that’s what it takes. It’s not special treatment for the “rule-makers”.

Have you ever talked to a member of a racial minority about discrimination by taxis vs. Uber? Everything I’ve heard is that it’s difficult for a black man to get a cab, and easy to get an Uber.

With a centralized platform, people selling rides or lodging actually get recorded when they reject people, which makes it possible to pursue them for discrimination.