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Since the government has tried as vigorously as possible to make it expensive and legally risky to employ people, there is really no mystery here.

We don't know that, because the government is controlling the price.

Many people worship at the altar of the state. To them, since Uber evades some regulation, it must be the work of the devil. It probably involves some filthy lucre as well.

Eminently logical. The question is what right does the government have to penalize a person for drinking soda, and the answer is "none whatsoever."

Why do "we" want that?

He sounds about as qualified to opine on economics as I am to give my theory about black hole physics.

If it was necessary in the short term to meet debt service payments, then I would agree with you, but it is not.

Preventing the government from going into additional debt is approximately the opposite of a default.

What a terrifying mentality.

Safari should blank any page for the Amazon video player to "avoid customer confusion" about what works well with Apple products.

If publishers start to really notice ad blockers, they are just going to proxy everything through their web servers.

I admire your optimism.

I guess it'll smell just like SF then.

Wouldn't insurance be a better response?

I don't care about the money, but it's annoying that he wasted my time and some of my credibility (because I recommended the app to some of my friends).

Race based office hours are unethical.

Just what the economy needs: additional legal risk and associated expense for employing people.

How about an Apple TV that doesn't need to be rebooted every couple of weeks to keep working?

What about personal transportation devices powered by bio-waste scraped off the sidewalk?

Indeed they do, and they are right to do so.

It's not the same because the restrictions aren't in effect at the start of the program until the tame call is made.

In reality, governments enjoy low accountability compared to private companies that must compete for business. That is why failed government programs hardly ever get replaced.

You find government owned transit better in this regard?

Chimps eat other monkeys alive, sometimes even humans, so no particular need to be sentimental about it.

Yay taxi cartel!

It is hard to imagine a less ethical or moral action than preventing a terminally ill person from trying drugs that offer some hope.

Since the government tries as vigorously as possible to make it risky and expensive to hire the inexperienced and low skilled, the fact that more of them are unemployed should be no surprise.

No, it wouldn't. What would be a good idea is charging the market price for water and seeing what uses make sense.

Booting out Moldbug makes sense as long as we boot out any avowed communists or Marxists as well. Those philosophies led directly to the deaths of tens of millions in the past century, so any reasonable person should find them highly offensive.

Absolutely the only thing that needs to be done in California is allowing water markets to function. We do not need to be reading Dune except for entertainment.