The yard sale model is an interesting thought challenge, but nothing more. It doesn't account for wealth creation that a capitalist society generates. Remember that the monetary system isn't a finite resource. If you provide goods and services you generate wealth.
Rent is just used as an example. The truth is that inflation will hit across the entire spectrum of goods and services. It's basic economics of supply and demand. Increase the money supply and people will demand more for their goods and services. Just because you happen to be altruistic doesn't mean the rest of the population is.
Ah, another one who doesn't understand why the Electoral College was created in the first place. Hint, the reason we have a democratic republic and not a pure democracy is best explained with two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
With a pure democracy, you would only need to convince the top 5 most populated cities to determine the outcome for the rest of the country. Extreme example: What if the population of the top 5 cities decided that Montana was the root of all the countries problems and we should just nuke Montana. We hold 50 elections in this country not 1. Please stop bashing the Electoral College. It is, by and large, the best way to keep the wolves at bay.
If you walk out and no one notices, what message are you really sending?
Fire me first!
For those who dislike the mRNA vaccines, this is actually a good thing. This vaccine will have to go through all the testing at the normal (slow) rate. It will be fully vetted before it's released for general public use. If there is a problem with the mRNA vaccines, it will show up in testing of the influenza variant.
Even Detroit and Chicago are safe after dark, unless you're a gang member or something. Quit spreading stupid stories.
Only if you happen to be in an affluent part of Detroit or Chicago. I sure as hell wont walk around either city's run down districts after dark. There is a reason these stories exist.
The country tends to be more dangerous than large cities, and pretty much anywhere in the US is several times (up to 20x or so) more dangerous than an equivalent place in most of the rest of the developed world.
Not sure where you get that idea from... it's completely false. Even in bear country, it is less dangerous that walking in an inner city neighborhood that you don't live in.
According to https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-12-04/these-states-have-the-worst-roads-in-americaRhode Island is third and California is in the Number 2 slot, with DC at the top of the list. Either way, the top of the list are States filled with Democrat law makers.
YMMV
This is not. That has Ants that have the extra to stash away for later. Kinda hard to do that when you have no excess.
It's called living within your means.
FTX donated $262,200 to a few of the GOP Rino's. They donated $40 Million to the Democratic campaigns. The $1 Million that Beto O'Rourke returned was a drop in the bucket. Symbolic? Yes, but will not amount to much for the $8 Billion lost to investors.
But by all means, use it to denigrate the the GOP who were, in effect, not involved with the scandal.
Assuming the Predator B model, which can achieve 60k altitude. At a cost of $ 14 million vs. AIM-9X Sidewinder at a cost of $800,000. I'd say the missile option seems to be less of an overkill than having a predator drone collide with it.
Why are we presenting the false dichotomy that the Pebble Mine and the fish can't coexist?
Considering that Fox has 3 times the viewers of CNN... it doesn't help that even the libertarians are making fun of CNN:
To be fair, the entire economy is down. Not just the tech industry. But then that is what happens when you are in a recession... or is it a non-recession... What ever you want to call it now.
How quickly we forget history. Long before we had the notion of communism or democratic socialism, the concept of a communal society has been tried and failed. Never underestimate the power of human apathy.
An example of socialism that didn't devolve into totalitarianism. https://www.theunshackled.net/...
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