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> SS is paid for by higher wages, which happens when there are less workers, not more

SS is paid for by wages in aggregate, not on average.

Either of more workers paying into social security or an increase in average wages (assuming that the increases are below the threshold at which income taxes fund SS) will increase the amount of funds available for SS.

Would you make a similar argument that allowing the police to track location of all citizens 24/7 is just making the process of having officers follow people around more efficient?

How do you know that we’re not less secure?

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if our systems are on average far less secure simply because so much more is online now, to speak nothing of increases in the complexity of and opportunities for errors and misconfigurations in today’s systems.

Wouldn't increasing your labor costs by 400% outweigh whatever benefit you gain in reducing reported injury rates?

> investing in this means something else can't be invested in

Eh, maybe - often that "something else" is capital sitting on its hands or investing in things that serve to protect its own interests.

You’re probably being downvoted because of how you started your comment, directing the person above to not “act like” there aren’t slums elsewhere, despite that being not at all relevant to their comment.

I think it’s that they’re often of lower quality and less durable.

How big does a neighborhood need to be / how many should it have?

The neighborhoods in SF as most people think of them are larger than the areas that many suburb residents tend to think of as defining their neighborhoods.

Ah OK, gotcha - I misinterpreted your comment as meaning things are fine in the Tenderloin.

That's not exactly a high bar

> By definition, the market rate should involve zero shortage.

Labor supply isn't perfectly elastic - there are only so many people who are capable of doing a particular job, and it takes time to train more.

On top of that, of the pool of folks who could get trained up, some of them wouldn't be interested in the work at any rate of pay!

The person you’re replying to is asking about the source of the values, not their units.

Biased in what way?

Prevention doesn’t imply anything about its means.

Why are you asking this? This seems fairly out of left field.

Maybe, that would depend on whether you or your employer is initiating the transaction. It would cost ETH to execute though, yes.

That’s a great move and I applaud you and also I wonder whether LG would start disabling TVs unable to get their requests through if they noticed a critical mass of them doing that.

“We noticed you’re using an ad-blocker” ...

It's very much a mixed bag.

The "unlimited" thing became popular in California in part as an attempt on behalf of companies to avoid having to issue payouts for accrued time off to employees leaving their organizations.

I'd suggest simply being very up front and specific in interviewing and negotiations about how much time you plan to take and see what kind of reactions you get.

Yeah, I’ve only read part of that book but it’s quite good. There’s also a long PBS documentary based on it that came out in the ‘90s (maybe ‘95?) available on YouTube.

Because the goal is as much to collect the location data as it is the tax.

It’s possible that the person you’re replying to has been shopping at Costco for that amount of time.

I won’t argue your overall point but I will point out that the “sweeping and wiping down tables” are the easiest parts of that job and a small fraction of the labor that is done.

It might increase fares, although I'm wondering if that effect might be mitigated somewhat as drivers simply move hours worked whatever the cap is to some competing platform like Lyft.

My hope is that we'll eventually get to the point where we'll be able stand up a decentralized alternative that will allow us to cut out the Uber middleman.

How does this relate to the comment that you're replying to?

For what it's worth, there are many areas in the U.S. where the infrastructure would reasonably allow for this and it's more a question of whether the parents would allow it. Even where this isn't possible, it's very common for schools to offer buses from extremely near to their homes to the school, which is a process that as you have pointed out, parents do not necessarily need to be involved in.

Your argument would be stronger if you proposed an alternate definition rather than just saying “you’re wrong, that’s not what it means anymore!”

Was he actually doing nothing?

> in a higher-interest environment you certainly could

Maybe, maybe not - it's possible for interest rates to be high and inflation to be even higher (stagflation).

1 year CD rates are currently about .65% in the US - well below inflation even if you’re talking Core CPI only.

Well, unless there are technological improvements in processing speed that allow for future decryption, right?

Food for thought though, for sure.