The thing about real estate though, is that supply is inelastic. Your one landlord cannot just turn up production and pump out a million widgets of housing. They’ll sell out, fast. And you’re back to square one.
All the sophisticated (institutional) landlords modeled and realized that with higher prices and lower occupancy rates they still make more money, and they all use ONE company to set their price on each unit.
Game theory, it’s in the interest of every landlord if prices go up a little, so the overwhelming majority will raise rent.
Fact is only so much stuff is made and only so much space exists and only so many people exist to make and build etc. Money is just an abstraction for allocating those resources. Broadly speaking the market would adjust and everything would remain the same for 95% of people. The HOPE of UBI advocates is that, after adjustments to prices, the UBI would have an impact on that last 5%.
I only ever had two lucid dreams: one as a child, where I conjured a gun to play with, and my best dream, ever in my life, as an adult where I just turned the dream into an orgy. Read about training lucid dreaming and tried but could never actually get myself to lucid dream again.
No no no, calendar is stopping, so March 1 can be a day later. We’re not jumping, we’re waiting for some time to pass before resuming counting.
Lactose curious is a thing, one of my coworkers will have dairy on special occasions and plans for the aftermath
Your post implies that government is good by default.
There’s hiding bad activity the government was elected to perform, like intelligence meddling in foreign affairs to protect the country’s interests, and there’s hiding activity to shield themselves from voter accountability, like using the apparatus to enrich other parts of government at a direct cost to its own citizens, or shield malicious actors from accountability.
They do lots of both, so why trust by default?
Had a dream the other day, with this exact scenario: woke up wet in the dream, then woke up for real totally dry. (Or did I wake up at all?)
Only when there’s enough people that it’s bordering revolution. Note how many national guard were not only deployed, but actually found themselves in gun battles (over civil rights), it was nuts by today’s norms.
PSA: the second amendment protects molotov cocktails.
The UN is toothless, don’t expect anything from the UN. General rule is people don’t move to change their leadership (Hamas in this case) until they’re literally starving and that’s what Israel is hoping happens in Gaza so they don’t need to set up and run their own puppet government long-term.
Came here to say this…
I guess that’s one way to shorten life expectancies while maximizing worker productivity…
Netflix, steam, and Spotify got me out of piracy. Companies who owned the IP just decided they all wanted to replicate what Netflix did without understanding that it was impossible for more than one company to accomplish that.
That’s literally what the return on all the other investment is for: the assumption of risk.
I guess it’s the same shift in mentality as the credit card processing machine asking for a tip for everything by default.
Like… Kernel written in scratch?
Directed or viper smart-start… Same thing but $60 a year, and can be retrofitted into some really old cars.
Problem is with the increasingly non-standardized designs, it’s just not realistic to build a module for every car that’s out there.
Nobody’s built a supercomputer powerful enough to run a python version of even Linux Lite Edition.
Fundamentally different things… Party goers were doing a thing in a place where the government expressly says it’s safe and you don’t need to go around armed. Very different from enemy combatants using hostages as shields.
Not really: for context, the civil rights movement in 50’s and 60’s was far more violent, like actually violent with military being called in across many American cities.
Don’t blame the president: WE decided to go in and kill a ton of Taliban, WE decided to spend actual trillions standing up and equipping an army that did not give enough of a fuck about anything but grifting. The ANA did not even try to slow down the Taliban when the US stopped acting as a backstop. Afghanistan never really thought of itself as a cohesive nation, we were never going to change their psyche.
I’d rather blame Bush and Obama for sinking trillions into helping their friends get rich at the cost of everyone pretending we were building a real country.