No, I've been a bit lazy about that, if I'm honest. And I usually am. But you'd start from city centers and push out to where you can put cheap parking, which you'd combine with solar farms of course. I don't envision eliminating cars from everywhere ever and I also don't expect it would make sense to do all at once. I guess I'll have to go looking for papers on this soon. It's so tedious when you don't have institutional access...

Nope. Google it.

For all the reasons you posted, yes. But it just doesn't pencil out. There just aren't enough wealthy to fund a true Universal Basic Income. If you completely cleaned out the corporate executive class, and I mean down to zero, it would make a nice Christmas bonus for the working class. Not great, just nice. Add in the poor and non-working and you'd never really see it. We've done the math.

It has worked on an experimental basis when you apply it to a very small slice of the population for a short time. But these experiments have never looked at the impacts on the overall economy for a large program.

Also pulpwood and oils for biofuels, insecticides and other uses.

The right solution is vehicles on rails, which solve the steering, tire dust, and tire inefficiency problems. All of the attempts to make cars make sense in this age are wasted effort. Cars make sense for some situations, but not the one we're in now where we have way too many of them for our own good.

"You could outlaw those payday loan companies and it would not make any of the people who do business with them less poor."

Yes, that's one way to paraphrase what I wrote.

Some of us want everyone to have what they need more than we want some people to have more than they can use, and see anything else as not only heartless and sociopathic, but literally insane.

"To date, the net effect of "disruptive" businesses has been an overall increase in prosperity and opportunity."

I reject your framing. The effect of modern capitalism is destruction of our life support system for temporary profit and it is predicated upon the murders of millions.

If they only cared about small government, yes, they would. That is, if they were actually conservatives. But what they mostly want is for people they don't like to suffer. What is logical or provides for the most people at the lowest cost is irrelevant to them.

Slavery still works, and it's still going on.

For example in the US the 13th amendment explicitly protects slavery as punishment for a crime. And we do still have prison labor. A few states have outlawed it.

California just voted not to outlaw it, so we are now WILLFULLY a slave state.

Your assessment of companies' real value would be spot on if stock markets didn't exist, or even if they implemented some kind of systems for slowing trade, didn't allow HFT and so on. But we don't live in that world, and things are still worth what someone is willing to pay for them, so I'm reality their actual value is fluid.

I would like to live in the world you described, but we don't.

Are these plantations just for essential oils?

Seems like you could grow them on more marginal land. Eucs grow well practically everywhere warm.

"You can argue that fewer people in another country are employed by this company now, but is that really the concern?"

It's not the company's concern, it's not the CEO's concern, it's not our government's concern. We don't allow economic refugees even when our actions directly destroy their economy, let alone this.

It does make it disingenuous to claim that headcount was not reduced, but everyone expects to be lied to, so...

Statistically nobody is buying guns in specific colors for legally beneficial reasons, or in fact any reason but cosmetic, unless they are black guns which they want to be harder to see at night, or camo guns, similar. I bet there's more people buying them in neon colors in the hopes that they will be confused with toys than anyone buying them in bright colors so that they can be seen. Your best bet in court is that everyone is confused about what happened, and your lawyer can convince the court or jury that you did what you were supposed to.

What I notice about Costco eggs is that the shells are fragile but the membranes are strong, so they are virtually impossible to open one-handed. In fact, they are damned hard to crack properly at all, and even if they seem to have cracked right, they still often crumble into a big mess when you try to open them.

Anyone out there know enough about chickens to know why this is happening? Are the membranes the same as ever but they're just not giving them enough calcium?